guest designer for july 2012

Stephanie Schütze

We are very excited to introduce Stephanie as our guest designer for July!!!

My name is Stephanie Schütze, a mixed media artist, scrapbooker, art journaller with a passion for drawing. I live with my 2 sweet daughters and my husband in Switzerland. I've been scrapping since 2008 and like that creative work with paper. Later it turned more and more to mixed media. There are so many possibilities for creativity and I love it! Actually I designed for the German scrapbooking magazine "scrap-art-zine" and gave mixed media and scrapbooking workshops.

Design Team Call

Hello scrappers - we are having a design team call and are interested in your applications!!  Please send a link to your blog so that we can see your creations.  We ask our designers to visit the blogs of those who play our challenges and leave them some encouragement in the comments of their entry, and also to help in choosing two entries for each challenge to feature as our faves that month. We have two challenges a month to play along with - one is a prompt challenge and the other a sketch only challenge (without prompt).

Please send applications to anne.pennington@xplornet.com by 30 June 12.

Can't wait to see who applies!!!!

15th june sketch challenge

Our challenge this time is:

Using sketch 11 – Father’s Day is celebrated in June in some countries – scrap a memory of your father or grandfather, or another male who has influenced your life greatly.

Using this sketch:

We also want to challenge you all to increase the numbers of people playing along with our challenges.  More people playing along means more fun, more friends and more inspiration!  So, if you convince a friend to play along in either of our challenges this month. tell them to let us know either in their blog posting or in a comment on this blog posting that you sent them to play along.  Your name will be entered for each referral you send for a chance to win our guest designer spot.   Yes, each referral you send is one more chance. And of course, each layout you enter in our challenges this month is one more chance at the guest DT spot.

The prize this month for the winner of our two challenges is a guest designer spot for the month of August.  We will feature your work with the team and provide links back to your blog so that visitors can get a closer look at your work.

Our design team put together some awesome layouts to inspire you:

Lindy Gillespie

Sarah Groen

Chiqui Gutierrez

Donna O'Leary

Mitra Pratt

Sandi Taloumis

Karen Wray

our guest designer Karmeleiro

You can see that most have not interpreted the sketch literally - and that is the beauty of interpreting a sketch!!!  Can't wait to see the inspiration your creation will provide us all!!!

some freaking faves for may and a winner

Wow - we had some awesome entries in this month's challenges.  It is always so hard to choose, and I thank the design team who help me with this.

1st May 2012 faves:

Celeste Vermeend

Sue Smith

 Debbie B.

15th May 2012 faves:

Lizzy Hill

Vernon

and the winner of the half dozen hand made greeting cards is:

Lizzy Hill - here is Lizzy's entry for the 1st of May challenge (which was the one she won the greeting cards with) - a very beautiful layout indeed:

and here are the hand made cards that Lizzy won!! Lol, she probably doesn't need them, as I've seen some of her lovely card creations!! Lizzy - please e-mail me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com and send me your mailing address.

1 june 2012

I'd like to thank  Monique Liedtke for being our guest designer last month. You gave us some awesome inspiration!!  This month we are welcoming Karmeleiro as our guest designer.

Our challenge this time is:

June is a popular month for weddings – how about scrapping yours?? If you have not married, scrap a photo of you as a child and how you dreamed it would be for you when you married.  If that does not suit you, then scrap your parents wedding, or someone close to you.

We also want to challenge you all to increase the numbers of people playing along with our challenges.  More people playing along means more fun, more friends and more inspiration!  So, if you convince a friend to play along in either of our challenges this month. tell them to let us know either in their blog posting or in a comment on this blog posting that you sent them to play along.  Your name will be entered for each referral you send for a chance to win our guest designer spot.   Yes, each referral you send is one more chance. And of course, each layout you enter in our challenges this month is one more chance at the guest DT spot.

The prize this month for the winner of our two challenges is a guest designer spot for the month of August.  We will feature your work with the team and provide links back to your blog so that visitors can get a closer look at your work.

Our design team put together some awesome layouts to inspire you:

Lindy Gillespie

Sarah Groen

 

Chiqui Gutierrez

Anne Pennington 

Donna O'Leary

Mitra Pratt

Sandi Taloumis

Karen Wray

our guest designer Karmeleiro

Isn't that wonderful inspiration from our team???? Can't wait to see the inspiration your creation will provide us all!!!