our freaking featured guest designer for february 2013!!!!

So excited to have Diana Fisher this month as our featured guest designer.  I met Diana when I used to play her AWESOME sketch challenge Sketchy Thursdays.  Broke my heart when she closed the blog - but I am so happy to still see her and her work around at places that I hang out.  She is a wonderful  designer, and has been a member of many prestigious design teams. I know you ladies will welcome her warmly, and be greatly inspired by her reveals here this month!

Diana Fisher

HI! I'm Diana Fisher and I am so excited to be guesting here for February. I have "known" Anne for a few years, back when I hosted Sketchy Thursdays, and I was thrilled when she asked me to play along here for February.

You may already know me from my design team spots on Pink Paislee, Imaginisce, Ormolu or Samantha Walker. I am also a blog coordinator for Scrapbook Circle and a DT member for Cocoa Daisy. You can also find me as a contributor to PaperHaus Magazine or on the Paper Issues team.

When I'm not scrapbooking I am the publisher for NextStepU Magazine — an education company that helps high school students prepare with their choices after graduation. I've been married to my husband for the past 8 years and we have a son who is six years old. My boys are often the subject for my scrapbook pages.

All of this keeps me busy and sane at the same time. I don't like to sit still and a constant stream of creativity keeps me going. You can visit my blog at http://designbydiana.blogspot.com. Thanks again to Anne for having me here!

our winning guest designer for february 2013 ...

So happy to have Karen Tarpley as a guest designer drawn from amongst our participants in our December 2012 challenge.  Please welcome Karen!!!

Karen Tarpley

My name is Karen Tarpley and I am a former teacher, turned stay at home mom and now part-time professional photographer. I picked up photography as a hobby back in the days of film and started scrapbooking to find a way to display all of my prints other than in frames. Back then, it seemed our only embellishments were stickers and diecuts! I discovered the online community of scrapbooking about 4 years ago and it has reignited my love of scrapbooking (OK, so the two princesses are partly to blame for that, too). I also picked up the hobby of photography again (but digital format now) and turned the hobby into a business a little over a year ago. When asked to scrap about my passion, I immediately knew which pictures I would use. It's not often I take my girls on our own location photo shoots, but when I do, I love the results! My girls, photography and scrapbooking - all my passions :) You can follow my crafting adventures at www.paisleypetalsblog.blogspot.com.

Keep your eyes on this blog! - We will soon announce our featured guest designer for February!!

15th january 2013 sketch challenge

We have a new sponsor for our challenges at  Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge - Scrapbook Fantasies:

Scrapbook Fantasies (www.scrapbookfantasies.com.au) is a Scrapbooking, Papercrafts and Mixed Media retailer that opened in November 2002 in Gladstone, Queensland. The well stocked store receives new stock daily, and supports a boutique style online store. The owner Alicia runs Weekly Challenges and many other competitions giving away 100’s of prizes and vouchers every year. The GALLERY hosts thousands of customer creations, and is available for viewing without login. Parcels are posted within Australia at a flat $8.50 or the actual postage rate (whichever is the lesser), or FREE for orders over $65. International parcels are posted at the actual postage rate.

Here is what Scrapbook Fantasies is offering the players of our challenges:

A ribbon pack each for winners of our two monthly challenges from Scrapbook Fantasies, each valued at over $10 plus FREE International postage – length and colours will vary from image above

I was the lucky recipient of one of these prize packs and the assortment of ribbons is deliciously lovely!!! 

Our sketch this month - one of our designers was completely stumped on this one, but then came up with a layout that she treasures:

Here are some awesome inspirational interpretations of this sketch from our design team.

Lindy Gillespie

Karmeleiro

Monique Liedtke

Mitra Pratt

Anne Pennington

Karen Wray

our winning guest designer from our November challenges Lizzy Hill

 and our featured guest designer Julie Tucker Wolek

You have until Jan 31st at 10 pm EST to post your interpretation of this challenge.
 

fave fridays 11 january 2013 ...

Found this yummy link today on the Scrapbooks and Cards Today blog - a journal booklet created by Virginia Nebel.  I had the pleasure of attending one of Virginia's classes in the fall. She is a sweetheart and wonderful designer.

I found this tutorial on the Scrapbooks and Cards Today blog, which is run by my friend Catherine Tachdjian, publisher of Scrapbooks and Cards Today magazine.  If you click on the link to the magazine, you can download full issues of her FANTASTIC magazine each quarter.

Anyway - do take a peek at all of the links - SCT's blog, SCT's magazine website, Virginia's website and the direct link to Virginia's tutorial on the SCT blog.  Awesome scrappy inspiration at all!!

only 326 more clicks on our site to make 33,333 hits and our freaking faves for december 2012 ...

... just thought I'd add that random number to the posting title for absolutely no reason ...

Anyway ... here are our favourites for December, and our winner from amongst all the entries for the opportunity to guest design in February.

1 December 2012

Karen Shady

Amy Voorthuis

15 December 2012

Lizzy Hill

Lizzy Crust

... and the random winner of the guest design spot for February is:

Paisley Petals (Karen)

and here is Karen's layout:

Karen - please e-mail me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com to receive your challenges for next month.

fave fridays 4 january 2013

Well, I've taken a visit over to Angela (Toucan Scraps) tutorial blog and I've found it to be a real treasure.  I recommend you visit at Toucan Scraps Tutorials to see for yourself.

1 january 2013 scrapbooking challenge

We have a new sponsor for our challenges at  Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge - Scrapbook Fantasies:

Scrapbook Fantasies (www.scrapbookfantasies.com.au) is a Scrapbooking, Papercrafts and Mixed Media retailer that opened in November 2002 in Gladstone, Queensland. The well stocked store receives new stock daily, and supports a boutique style online store. The owner Alicia runs Weekly Challenges and many other competitions giving away 100’s of prizes and vouchers every year. The GALLERY hosts thousands of customer creations, and is available for viewing without login. Parcels are posted within Australia at a flat $8.50 or the actual postage rate (whichever is the lesser), or FREE for orders over $65. International parcels are posted at the actual postage rate.

Here is what Scrapbook Fantasies is offering the players of our challenges:

A ribbon pack each for winners of our two monthly challenges from Scrapbook Fantasies, each valued at over $10 plus FREE International postage – length and colours will vary from image above

Woo-freaking-hoo!  I was the lucky recipient of one of these prize packs when my name was drawn at another challenge site (Once Upon a Sketch).   It was a beautiful assortment of lovely ribbons.

Our challenge this month is to scrap about:

What will be your new year's resolution this year. What do you wish you could resolve and stick to???

If you have not made a resolution for this year, scrap about your resolution from another year. Were you successful? Would you do it again??

Here are some awesome inspirational interpretations of this theme from our design team.

Leila Cassimira

Lindy Gillespie

Sarah Groen

Karmeleiro

Monique Liedtke

Mitra Pratt

Anne Pennington

our winning guest designer from our November challenges Lizzy Hill

 and our featured guest designer Julie Tucker Wolek

You have until Jan 31st at 10 pm EST to post your interpretation of this challenge.