Saturday, August 8, 2009

august here we come!

for the august challenges i have decided to be a greedy so and so and make them all about me and my fav people and things etc....hahahaha....drawing inspiration from lots of different sources...i hope you will enjoy the challenges girls....

challenge 1...sketch challenge...just because i LOVE sketches...i have picked two from Pagemaps for you to choose from this month....the first a 12x12 and the second a 8.5 x 11....enjoy...
challenge 2...colour challenge...my fav colours are blue, black and purple.....so have some fun with those colours please...again you can add white if you like but the three fav colours are to be dominant.....
challenge 3....criteria challenge....please use 5 cut out embellishments....
4 photos
3 stamps or rubons
2 journal blocks
1 piece of ribbon...
challenge 4....about you challenge.....for this month i want to know something you think we might think is a little wierd or crazy about you....something physical or about your personality that makes you ..you!!!
challenge 5..inspiration challenge....hhehehehe...now come on you had to expect something to do with jovi if the challenges were all about me...now didn't you???? hahahaha.... below are the pictures of two different album covers from Bon Jovi's awesome collection...."one wild night" and "lost highway"...draw inspiration from one of these and create your layout.....there are loads of shapes and colours etc to choose from so have fun with it girls.....


challenge 6......quote challenge........i was going to choose some song words for you but to me that is a very personal thing so what i am going to say is...for this challenge you must use a song title or some of the words from one of the following artists songs.... Bon Jovi (of course..hehehe). Keith Urban, Pink, Nickelback, sugarland or hannah montana just had to throw that one in too...hehehehe)....
as this now brings us back up to date with the challenges there will be a monthly prize draw for those who have 3 of these challenges done and emailed to me by the 8th of september....for those not wishing to go into the prize draw you simply have to have at least three of these done by the end of year deadline....




here we go again with more catch up fun.....so no need to rush these either...just need to be done by the end of the year deadline.....

challenge 1....inspiration challenge....draw inspiration from this photo of our "shut up and scrap" birthday cake we had at july's class to celebrate 2 years of scrapping classes together....you could use the colours or shapes or both! it is all up to you..... challenge 2.....sketch challenge....this gorgeous pagemaps sketch will be heaps of fun to do i am sure!!
challenge 3...criteria challenge....please use ribbon, brads, brackets and paint somewhere on your layout.....oh and have a circle somewhere to please.....
challenge 4...colour challenge.....use orange, green and yellow.....a little bit of black or white can be used if you need to but these three colours need to be the dominant colours used please....
challenge 5...about you challenge.... tell me or show me one of your favourite things to do when you were a child (at least under 12)......
challenge 6...quote challenge..." courage....not the absence of fear or despair, but the strength to conquer them"


June catch up!

here we go with the june challenges...yeah i know FINALLY!!!!.....these simply have to be done by the end of the year with the final deadline....no hurry here....





challenge 1......sketch.... challenge 2....colour combo....winter wonderland time please girls.....use blue, white and a third colour of your choice that you think is a winter colour....



challenge 3.....criteria challenge.....please use 5......patterned papers

4 journal blocks

3 buttons

2 stamps

1 torn edge



challenge 4... about you...design a layout that tells me something you love about winter time....

as always this challenge must have a photo of you somewhere on the layout....

challenge 5....quote .....find a quote that you like from DR suess and use it somewhere on your layout....can either be simply added as journalling or used as your title......

challenge 6....inspiration challenge....look at layout and colours of this blog and use it to inspire your layout...you might focus on the colours and the shapes.....the choice is yours....