our guest designer for may 2013

So excited that Amy Voorthuis has agreed to be our guest designer here this month.  I've enjoyed her layouts she makes for our challenges, and was hoping she'd say yes to our invitation to guest this month!  Welcome Amy - so glad to have you here!!

Amy Voorthuis

Hi my name is Amy Voorthuis and I’m 35 years young. I live in The Netherlands with the love of my life Jeroen and our handsome son Kevin (8).

I love to be creative in every way I can, seeing my job as an optician I need to be kind off creative anyways…..fixing all those glasses ;)

I’ve been scrapbooking for over 9 years now and I love it. I got introduced with scrapbooking by my aunt Ellen who lives in the sunny state Florida…..

I think she did an awesome job because I’m hooked for life.

My style is eehhmm well I like to think it’s a romantic style don’t really know how to call it.

Love to try everything “new” I like. I love to use flowers, metal art and designed chipboard pieces on my layouts. 

Scrapbooking is such a nice way to keep your (pictured) memories well organized while having a blast at the same time.

I’m so happy Anne asked me to be a guest designer for Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge  this month.

I forgot to apply for the DT Call and I was a little sad about that so this is a nice way to still be designing for all off you guys/ladies.

I hope you all like my work,

Love Amy

www.amyvoorthuis.blogspot.com

monday's mentions 22 april 2013

Monique Liedtke was a winner over at Elle's Studio - congratulations Monique!!!

technique twenty-seconds 22 April 2013

We have not had one of these tutorials for a while, and I would like to thank design team member Wilma for this wonderful one!!! This is the technique that she used for her first layout at a design team member here at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge!! Here is what Wilma has to say to us:

My challenge with my DT layout is to use some of my stash.
I bought a lot of ugly paper when I started scrapbooking.
I also can't stop buying ribbon and lace.
Sometimes in multipacks, so I have a LOT as you see here.
Why keep buying it? Just can't stop myself .

So here a way to use it:

Step 1: Grab  an ugly paper , glue it on cardboard. I always take cardboard or canvas with multi-medium.

Step 2: Cut fibers, ribbon, lace, fabric, etc and glue it on your page.
 

Step 3 : You can bend it between to let it dry straight.
 

Step 4: When it is completely dry, dab royal gesso all over your page. I use the cheap gesso for this kind of projects.
 

Step 5 : Let dry , it will look like this, beautiful texture !
 

Step 6 : Start spraying your mists. You have to use bright sprays to get a pastel look at the end. I used dylusions, but sometimes I take color wash.
 

Step 7 : Try to match it with the picture you are going to use. (don't forget there will be gesso over it, so the look becomes pastel)

 

The finished look , a matt background in pastel !
 

our challenges

You do not have to limit yourself to layouts.

For our prompt challenges - think of layouts - or cards - or art journalling or a canvas - you don't have to limit yourself to a scrapbook layout!

For our sketches:  Interpret any way you'd like - make sure the sketch is somewhat recognizable! Feel free to make a tag, a card, or to art journal - even an altered item!!

monday's mentions 15 april 2013

Wiosanka is guest designing over at Scrap Africa right now - hers was one of a previous Top 3 there. Great layout Wiosanka!!!!

Lizzy Hill was a winner over at Get Creative for their March challenge.

If you have been a winner or your work mentioned for your scrapbooking or art journalling - let us know at anne.pennington@xplornet.com.

15 April sketch challenge

Time for our 15th of the month sketch:

Interpret this any way you'd like - make sure the sketch is somewhat recognizable! Feel free to make a tag, a card, or to art journal - even an altered item!!

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

Leila Cassimira

Elisabetta Colavero (Eli)

Sarah Groen

Renee Iveson

Karmeleiro

Karmeleiro's last layout for our design team was displayed in our 1 April 2013 challenge.  She has now stepped down from our design team to pursue other exciting ventures.  We will miss her beautiful layouts and sweet, kind personality.  Thank you so very much for all your talent that you shared here with us Karmeleiro!!! We hope you will visit us and play along!!

Libeeti

Coming soon!

Monique Liedtke

Mieke Nagtegaal

Lucy Ohanyan

Anne Patterson

Anne Pennington

Mitra Pratt

Wilma

Wiosanka

Karen Wray

and our guest designer:

Keren Tamir

Our sponsor for our April 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

our freaking faves for march 2013!!!!

We had so many amazing entries for this month. The girls on the DT got together and voted, and here are the faves for this month:

March 1, 2013

Teresa Manchas

Wiosanka

Beach Gal

March 15, 2013

Amy Voorthuis

Angela (Toucan Scraps)

Astrid

Congratulations ladies - please grab our freaking faves blinkie and put it on your blog!! 

We'd love to see all our participants play along with us regularly.  We really enjoy seeing your work!!

1 April 2013 scrapbook challenge

Our 1 April challenge:

Scrap about one of your greatest current challenges, or a challenge from your past.

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

Leila Cassimira

Elisabetta Colavero (Eli)

Sarah Groen

Renee Iveson

Karmeleiro

Libeeti

Monique Liedtke

Mieke Nagtegaal

Lucy Ohanyan

Anne Patterson

Anne Pennington

Mitra Pratt

Wilma

Wiosanka

Karen Wray

and our guest designer:

Keren Tamir

Our sponsor for our April 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