EARLY fave friday 1 march 2013 - RUN to Scrap Friends blog for this!!

I just had to post this early, I just discovered it today.  A very cool challenge over at Scrap Friends - and that is to post your first layout ever and to tell the story.

Hurry up, there is just a little over 2 days left to post. All you have to do is photograph it, and load it on your blog - the layout is already done, silly!!

http://blog.scrapfriends.com.au/2013/01/your-first-scrapbooking-layout.html

Just going to peek at what a few friends from here have posted already. :) So much fun.

You can check mine out here.  Sad, I know.  I just did not have my heart in it, I had been taken prisoner by two friends who were scrapbookers, I joined them that day under protest.

lucky 13 ...

You still have 13 hours to upload your layout to either the 1st or 15th of February challenges - come on - you can do it!!

monday's mentions 25 feb 2013

Lizzy Hill is guesting over at Scrap Africa!!! Congratulations Lizzy - love your design that they are featuring!!

design team call

Yes - a design team call!!!!

We are having a design team call for our challenge blog. We have two challenges a month. Designers are required to send in their layouts 2 days ahead of the blog reveal, which takes place on the 1st and the 15th of the month. The first layout every month is based on a prompt, and the second on a sketch with no prompt.  Designers are also to visit each person who enters our challenges' blog and leave a comment, as well as to choose some favourites each month from amongst the participant's challenges.

Designers may also host a tutorial each month on the blog if they wish to. 

What does it take to apply for our design team???

• send us 3 of your favourite layouts from amongst those you have designed
• send us a link to your blog
• list your design team experience (experience is not necessary, so no worries if you have none, but if you have some, we want to know about it)
• have you been published? (again, not necessary, but if you've been published, we'd like to know)
• let us know why you'd like to be a designer for AFSC

How long should you commit to design for us? Six months, please. Many of our girls stay on much longer than that, and we are happy when they do. You'll find us easy going and not a bit stressful or demanding. Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge is about inspiration, capturing memories and FUN!

Send applications to anne.pennington@xplornet.com by 10th of March at 11:59 PM EST.

Can't wait to see what you send!!!

monday's mentions 18 february 2013

Monique Liedtke and her work was featured in the February issue of Scrapbook Magazine UK!! So proud of you, Monique!!

Lizzy Crust was a winner over at White with 1 for January. And a beautiful layout it was!

And while I was searching around to see which friends of ours were mentioned elsewhere I found out that I was chosen to be the guest designer for March at Kraft it Up!  What a lift to my day!

15 february 2013 sketch challenge ...

Time for our sketch challenge for the 15th of the month.  Here is our sketch for this month:

Here's what our design team provided for this theme:

Leila Cassimira

Lindy Gillespie

Sarah Groen

Karmeleiro

Monique Liedtke

Mitra Pratt

Anne Pennington

Karen Wray

  our winning guest designer from December's participants 
Karen Tarpley

 and our featured guest designer 
Diana Fisher

Our 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

monday's mentions 11 february 2013 ...

Wow Kim Price has been chosen for yet ANOTHER design team!! She was the first new DT member announced for the 123 Challenge! Congratulations Kim - they are lucky to have you!!

If you, or anyone else who designs or plays along here are mentioned somewhere for your work, please contact me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com so that we can let everyone know.  We LOVE to celebrate your successes with you!!!

our freaking favs for january 2013!!!

Time to post our faves and our winner(s) of the ribbon packs by Scrapbook Fantasies!!!

Faves for 1 january 2013

Andrea P

Keren Tamir

Jeanet

Faves for 15 january 2013

paula Flavia

julie j

esther

The winners of the ribbons from Scrapbook Fantasies!!!

1 jan 13

Her

15 jan 13

remember j

For our ribbon pack winners, please e-mail me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com with your complete mailing address, so that I can forward them to our generous sponsors at Scrapbook Fantasies!!

monday's mentions 4 february 2013

Amy Voorthuis and Billie Jean Beveridge were winners over at Once Upon a Sketch for January!! Congratulations ladies!!! We always enjoy your work over here, and lovely to see that your talent is appreciated elsewhere!

Also our designer Sarah Groen and our past designer Kim Price are returning team members at Kraft it Up!  Again - only shows good taste on the part of the management of Kraft it Up!

If you, or anyone else here has their work recognized elsewhere, please do let us know at anne.pennington@xplornet.com,  so that we can mention it in this weekly posting!

1 february 2013 scrapbook challenge ...

It is time for our freaking 1 February 2013's scrapbook challenge.Where we encourage you to scrap your PASSION!!

 Is it your husband? Your children? Your work? Your scrapbooking? Something else?  Someone else? Journal a bit about it if you like!

Here's what our design team provided for this theme:

Leila Cassimira

Lindy Gillespie

Sarah Groen

Karmeleiro

Monique Liedtke

Mitra Pratt

Anne Pennington

Karen Wray

  our winning guest designer from December's participants 
Karen Tarpley

 and our featured guest designer 
Diana Fisher

Our 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 lovely!!