another freaking scrappy challenge ...

fave fridays 2 march 2012

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Georgia Heald let me know that Sassy Scrapper, the online store she is designing for has a giveaway. You can find out more about it here on there blog!! Giveaways sure are a fave with me!!!

Georgia also has a giveaway on her blog here.

BTW - you'll see a little more of Georgia's work here soon, as she will be our guest DT here next month!!

the winner of february's prize and some freaking faves!!

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The winner of the prize offered to challenge and/or blog hop players is Vicki Wilson!!! Vicki - e-mail me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com to send me your mailing address.

The faves for February 1st challenge are:

Georgia Heald

Lizzy Hill

The faves for February 15th challenge are:

Monique Liedtke

Sandra Scott

Karen Williams

Congratulations ladies - we hope to see more of your work posted here!!!

1 march 2012 challenge

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I cannot believe that it is the start of another month. That means we have another challenge for you!!! Here is a little blog candy that a random winner from this month's challenges will receive:

Colorbok Paper Crush Scrap Pack

Here is the challenge:

March is the month where school children have a spring break in Canada. Scrap some memories of a spring break (or another school break) that you experienced. We never travelled in our family for school breaks, but I did always enjoy the time outside or reading and just relaxing.

Here is what our DT came up with:

and me :)

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hurry, hurry - not much time left!!!

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You have until the end of February to play along with our blog hop or make a layout for our Feb 1 or 15th challenges to be eligible to win our fabulous prize package:

Your first clue word is:

PASSION

Write it down, and collect a word at each of our designer's blogs. After visiting each of the blogs, collecting all 10 clue words (one at each blog and the one here), please send an e-mail to me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com in order to be eligible to win our fabulous prize!! Please put in the subject line of your e-mail "Valentine's Blog Hop".

Participation in each challenge this month will also earn you a chance for the prize !!!

So for three chances to win - play the blog, the 1st February and the 15th of February challenges!! It's worth your while. We have included special papers, embellishments, stamps, glitter, alphas, colour mist, gaffer's tape, ribbons, flowers and baker's twine - all chosen with Valentine's Day in mind!

Okay - now hop along to Lindy Gillespie's blog at http://wwwjustanotherday.blogspot.com/ to get her clue word, see what she's been up to lately and to see which designer's blog you hop along to for your next clue word!

:)

Please leave a comment here to let us know what you think of the hop, the prize, or anything to do with this challenge website. Also, please leave a comment for each of our designers on their blogs to let them know how much you appreciate their beautiful layouts!!! We'd love to see who is playing along and visit your blog too to see what you are up to! It's all about sharing and new friends!!

Some of the design team are offering prizes of their own!!!! Soooo much fun!!!

monday's mentions 27 february 2012

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Wow - Georgia Heald won the "Remember"|challenge over at Bird is the Word. Congratulations Georgia!!!

fave fridays 24 february 2012

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Wow - just take a look at these flowers:

http://www.swirlydoos.com/page.php?67

Have you been anywhere lately that you'd like to share with us in the comments?

monday's mentions 20 February 2012 ..

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Donna O'Leary made the elite Design Team for NZ Paper Chase which is the only Scrapbooking Mag in New Zealand.

Sarah Groen's work was favoured as a winner over at Once Upon a Sketch. for their February 1st challenge.

15th sketch 15 february 2012

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

And here is our challenge:

February 22nd is Baden Powell Day – Baden Powell was the founder of Boy Scouts, and his sister Agnes was the founder of Girl Guides. Scrap a memory of you in Scouting or Girl Guides (brownies, Sparks, Guides, etc.) or a memory of a group you belonged to when you were a child or teen. You may include a momento or journal a memory of what belonging meant to you.

Don't forget that if you play along with this challenge, complete our blog hop this month, or play along with our 1 February challenge by the 28th of this month, you are eligible for a chance (one chance per challenge and completed blog hop) for this FREAKING AWESOME prize:

Here is what our DT came up with:

and me :)

Our guest designer Paula Castells:

Valentine’s Blog Hop at another Freaking scrappy challenge

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Well here it is - our Valentine's blog hop at another Freaking scrappy challenge. You have until the end of February to play along to be eligible to win our fabulous prize package:

Your first clue word is:

PASSION

Write it down, and collect a word at each of our designer's blogs. After visiting each of the blogs, collecting all 10 clue words (one at each blog and the one here), please send an e-mail to me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com in order to be eligible to win our fabulous prize!! Please put in the subject line of your e-mail "Valentine's Blog Hop".

Not only that - participation in each challenge this month will earn you a chance for the prize !!! So for three chances to win - play the blog, the 1st February and the 15th of February challenges!! It's worth your while. We have included special papers, embellishments, stamps, glitter, alphas, colour mist, gaffer's tape, ribbons, flowers and baker's twine - all chosen with Valentine's Day in mind!

Okay - now hop along to Lindy Gillespie's blog at http://wwwjustanotherday.blogspot.com/ to get her clue word, see what she's been up to lately and to see which designer's blog you hop along to for your next clue word!

:)

Please leave a comment here to let us know what you think of the hop, the prize, or anything to do with this challenge website. Also, please leave a comment for each of our designers on their blogs to let them know how much you appreciate their beautiful layouts!!! We'd love to see who is playing along and visit your blog too to see what you are up to! It's all about sharing and new friends!!

Ooooo - and I just peeked - some of the design team are offering prizes of their own!!!! Soooo much fun!!!

Freaking Valentine's blog hop coming up

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We have a blog hop coming up that will open until the end of the month ... great prize. You can win chance at it by completing the hop, and by completing our challenges.

some freaking faves for january 2012 and a fun blog hop with a prize coming up!!!

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Sorry to be so late with this. My computer is flaky and have had to be on my husband's. His computer doesn't have my files and e-mail where the design team girls sent their votes to me. But, phew, now it is going up!!

We will be hosting a blog hop this month - so stay tuned. You will be eligible for a great prize by participating in the hop and by playing in February's two challenges!!!!

Our faves for January 1 challenge:

Lindy G

Mitra Pratt

Roxy Rolla

Our faves for the January 15th sketch challenge:

Sue S.

Charlotte

ScrapEls

Great work ladies - please come and play again this month - so looking forward to seeing what you can create!!!

fave fridays 3 february 2012

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I was just over at Nadia's Once Upon a Sketch and wow - you should see her latest top five from the latest challenge! Hurry over - the layouts are GORGEOUS!!

Where have you been this week? Just add the links in the comments below!!

1 march 2012 challenge

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1 february 2012 challenge

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Hard to believe we are in the second month of 2012 already!! Wow. No wonder I have the year down pat whenever I write the date out in full. I've had a month to practice it and get used to it.

Our challenge this time around is to scrap about our first love. For me - I chose my first pop star crush - as the first crush I remember (he didn't know) is in contact with me on Facebook, and my first boyfriend is as well - don't want to stir up any controversy!!! Lol. Anyway here is how I presented the challenge to the DT:

Just in time for Valentine’s Day next month – your first love – a real boy or girl, try to include a momento from that time with them, or download an image or something from that era from the internet if you wish. A pop or movie star crush can be substituted for a real live crush if you are too shy to tell us how it really was!!!

Here is what they came up with:

and me :)

Our guest designer Paula Castells:

monday's mentions 30 january 2012

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Lindy Gillespie (our design team member), Yvonne Yam and Georgia Heald were winners over at Bird is the Word for their Wonder challenge. Go on over to the challenge blog to see their work - then do yourself a favour and check out each of the winner`s blogs. These three ladies do awesome work!!

If you, or someone else who visits here, follows us, or plays along has been mentioned for their work - please let us know. Send links wherever possible!!!

fave fridays 27 jan 12

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Wow, had a note from Sheila today that she has nominated this blog for a Leibster award!! So happy she did so. Click on her name above to read what this award is. I'll be reciprocating and sending some love to some other blogs!! Sheila - come play along with us - we'd love to have you stop over and play with us regularly!!!

our freaking guest designer for february 2012

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Wow - we are pretty thrilled to have Paula Castells designing with us for February. Her work is breathtaking ...

My name is Paula Castells, 29 years, married, dentist, brazilian but currently living for a while in Germany.

I love to travel, beaches, movies, and animals - particularly cats, I'm totally in love with mine.

Manual work is part of my life. From my profession to my hobbies: apart from scrapping, I also love gardening, photography, and cooking.

I started scrapbooking in the end of 2010 and since then totally addicted (scrapaholic!)

Scrapbooking is my art and therapy, and also the best way I found to keep the photos from special moments of life.

Feel free to know more about me and my work in my blog : http://paulacastells.wordpress.com/

our new freaking design team members!!!

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So happy to be able to properly introduce our new members of our design team!!! The rest of the design team and I are so happy to be working with you girls - looking forward to having a blast!!!

Lindy Gillespie

My name is Lindy Gillespie and live in Brisbane Qld Australia.I have been scrapbooking since 2004, from the first moment i came across and bricks and mortar store i've been hooked.

Since starting scrapbooking I have been on numerous Design and Creative Teams, and been lucky enough to be published numerous times in Australian and New Zealand mags.

The current DT and Ct's i'm on at the moment are The Color Room, White with 1,Kraft It Up, Scrap The Boys and Beyond the Door Challenge.and The Color Room.

My blog is http://wwwjustanotherday.blogspot.com/

I have always been creative and over the years have done many crafts, i find inspiration from many daily events (catalogues, fashion) and like to think i inspire others to create beautiful work. I like to use the old with the new techniques when designing a layout, as the saying goes whats old is new again.

My style is ever evolving and use mainly white cardstock with lots of misting and masking and layers.

I'm thrilled to be designing at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge along with some very talented ladies and look forward to all the inspiration they can create.

Chiqui Gutierrez

Hi! I’m Chiqui Gutierrez from the tropical islands of the Philippines. I’m a Pediatrician by profession but a certified scrapaholic during my free time. I’ve been scrapping for the past 4 and half years and still very much addicted to this hobby. I’m married to Herbert, who fortunately loves to take photos. We have 2 daughters, aged 9 and 5 who are the subject of my layouts most of the time. We also love to travel so I do a lot of travel layouts too.

I’m not sure if I have a particular style but I love shabby chic layouts as well as clean and simple ones. Having two girls, my layouts tend to be girly. I love layering, hand cutting, & clustering of embellishments.

I’m so excited to be on the design team and I hope I’ll be able to inspire you as much as others have inspired me.

Feel free to visit my blog: www.chixgutierrez.blogspot.com. Happy Scrapping!

Mieke Nagtegaal

My name is Mieke Nagtegaal and I live in the middle of the Netherlands. Married to Ger and we have 2 teenagers.

I started scrapping for over 9 years now and still loving it. I love vintage, paints and mists and hooked on Distress Ink and paper!

Next to my scrapping I'm working part-time at the local hospital and taking lessons in counseling after I reached my second Reiki level.

Love to read, shop, listen to music and cook. A full life it is!

I'm so excited to be on this team I hope we can make it special for you and give you lots of inspiration.

Mitra Pratt

One afternoon when I was little, I was sitting on our back steps in the hot sun, basking. The whole summer stretched in front of me and I was enjoying the warmth of the sun and the lack of school. I remember idly trying to remember what I had done the morning before. My brain was blank. I tried to recall earlier that day and again, it was blank. Panic struck at how easily memories could slip from my brain and be gone forever.

I promised myself that I would try to remember each and every moment of every day not realizing that it was an impossible task. I did achieve remembering that one moment of panic however when the concept of time and its passage struck home.

Scrapbooking for me is like a book mark in my brain and soothes that panic. One glance at some journaling or a few photos and I’ve slipped back to that time and can enjoy the essence of the day. You can’t recall every moment of course, that is impossible and also dreary.

I tend to scrapbook photos from recent activities so my journaling is fresh but I am also enjoying jumping back in time and making pages from when I was younger. One hopes they make their pages for the next generation, but really I have no way of knowing who will be looking at them. Certainly the photos and the journaling are for my two kids, Lexi (age 11) and Luke (age 9) to enjoy, but the journey to making the page is all for me.

It’s the art of it all.

Blogging it takes it one step further and allows me to connect my art with the rest of the planet. Making pages and sharing them fulfills me in ways I never thought possible. I am overjoyed to start a new chapter in 2012 by being selected on my first design team with Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge.

sketchy thursdays is closing - :(

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I have just heard today that the ladies at Sketchy Thursdays are closing the blog. Pop on over there and wish them well, and thank them for their dedication - or if you have time to play along with the last sketch - even better. Sketch entries close at 10 tomorrow night - so hurry.

You have had a great run of this Diana, Heidi and Julie - good luck!!!

announcing our newest design team members!!!!

2012-01-16T23:22:00.000-05:00

Well, it was a tough choice, as we had some awesome entries for our new design team spots. I am so happy to announce that these ladies have agreed to be on the team!! I am also so very happy that most of our old team has agreed to stay on for more fun!!!

Chiqui Gutierrez

Lindy Gillespie

Mitra Pratt

Mieke Nagtegaal

Click on their names to see their work on their blogs! Bios and photos coming soon!

So happy to be working with you awesome ladies!!!!

15th sketch 15 january 2012

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This month's sketch is:

The challenge this time is to use the sketch and to scrap something that represents winter - children playing in snow, winter scene, whatever says winter to you! You have until the end of this month to play this and 1 January's challenge!!!

Our guest designer Nadia Cannizzo!

and me :)

I can't wait to see what you will all do with this challenge!!!!!

monday's mentions 16 january 2012

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Wow - Sarah Groen was a fave over at Sketchy Thursdays again! You go girl!!!

looking for some more design team members ...

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We are looking for some more design team members to keep us company here. Requirements are to participate in our challenges on the 1st and the 15th of the month, visit participants and leave them some love on their blogs, advertise our challenges on your blog, and send me your 1-3 choices for fave layouts from participants each challenge.

You are also welcome to let me know whenever you see that our members and participants have been mentioned elsewhere so we can feature them in monday's mentions, or to host a tutorial once a month on our blog.

Please send me a link to your blog, and let me know where you have designed. Previous design team experience is not necessary. Deadline for applications is 14th January 2012. Send applications to anne.pennington@xplornet.com . Please put Design Team Application AFSC in the subject line of your e-mail.

some freaking faves for december 2011

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We had some faves chosen by the design team this month. Actually, they were all faves of mine, but we just narrowed it down to 2 per challenge.

1 December prompt challenge:

Paula Castells

Leslie Kammerdiener

15 December sketch challenge:

Mitra Pratt

Angela

Awesome work ladies!!!!!

monday's mentions 1 january 2012

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Georgia Heald and Regina Castillo were faves over at Bird is the Word for their layouts using the word "trust".

Have you been mentioned anywhere lately??? Feel free to let me know if you are by e-mailing me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com or commenting below.

1 january 2012 prompt challenge

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Happy New Year!! A little late going up today as I've been doing a bit of running and just enjoying the day with my family at home.

Sandi says hello and is getting stronger bit by bit. She is looking forward to being able to come back and design along with us all!!

Even though this Christmas has now passed, our challenge this time is to scrap a Christmas memory from the past - a Christmas from your childhood – incorporate a photo, a momento or something or someone that represents that time for you, maybe use a photo of a gift you received !!!! If you do not celebrate Christmas – scrap a memory of another holiday that is special to you.

Our design team has done up some wonderful examples for this challenge, and I am quite thrilled at what they've done! (But then, again, their work always thrills me!!).

Our guest designer Nadia Cannizzo!

and me :)

I can't wait to see what you will all do with this challenge!!!!!

15th sketch 15 december 2011

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One of our dear designers, Sandi Taloumis sends her apologies, but she is unable to participate with us for a while. Sandi has had some surgery and will be out of commission until sometime in the new year. I sure am missing her friendly demeanour, and her AWESOME layouts. She'll be back as soon as she is able to!!

Here is our sketch for this challenge:

A very simple sketch, wide open to interpretation. We ask that there is some resemblance to the sketch in your design.

Further - scrap a favourite recipe – use a photo of the item if you can or wish to. Make sure the recipe is included on the layout!!

The design team had a great time with this one!

Our guest designer Nadia Cannizzo!

and me :)

Are you ready yet for Christmas?????

monday's mentions 12 december 2011

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Sarah Groen was a winner over at Stuck Sketches this month - congratulations Sarah!!!

Nadia Cannizzo and Patrice were faves at Sketchy Thursdays.

My friend Lee Schertzing received this amazing package of ribbon from 217 Creations a couple of weeks ago. I just had to share the photos:

announcing our latest guest designer nadia cannizzo!!!!

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Wow - I've recently met Nadia Cannizzo since she has begun playing along with this blog, and am just loving her work. I am quite thrilled that she has accepted to guest DT with us and offer all of us inspiration with her distinct style!! Here is a little more about Nadia in her own words!!

My name is Nadia Cannizzo, and I live in Sydney Australia. I was born and raised in Greece and moved to Australia when I was 11. I am a mummy to 2, much loved and much wanted little girls and I have been married to my husband for the last 12 years. I am a Primary School teacher and have been teaching for about 11 years. I have been scrapping/papercfrafting officially for just under 2 years now and in March of 2011 I started my own challenge blog called Once Upon A...Sketch. At present I am on the Design Team for an Australian online store called Handmade By Suzanne. I am SO excited to be here and THANK YOU so very much Anne for inviting me.

Here is my blog: Just My Scrapping World

Something uplifting ...

2011-12-09T11:44:00.000-05:00

I have always loved this - I think it is the same one I posted on my personal blog last year. Enjoy it ladies!! It will put a smile on your face for sure!! And no, I get no kickbacks from Scrapbook.com, lol. They don't even supply me with their gift certificates for the blog ... it is simply uplifting, especially if you love to scrap like we do!

fave fridays 9 december 2011

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My friend Lee Schertzing sent me a couple of links to share today with you all. Here are a couple of her favourite scrapbooking links this week:

How to make a 3D Pinecone (217 Creations)

Freebies to download at Jack and Cat Studio

The freebies are Christmas ephemera at a high resolution - very useful indeed and GORGEOUS!!

Thanks so much Lee!! You are a doll!!

... and speaking of 217 Creations and gorgeous - stay tuned on Monday when we post Monday's mentions and show you some photos of some GORGEOUS ribbon that they sent to Lee one day a few weeks ago. What a freaking bonanza!! You've got to see it.

Have a great weekend - never be shy to post links you like in the comments section on Fridays, or send me fave links at anne.pennington@xplornet.com - just mention fave fridays in your subject line. Even if your fave link is your own blog - post away!! We love to share here, and we'd love to see your stuff.

shining stars on the seventh - 7 december 11

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Julie Jeavon's daughter Siobhan is just as artistic and crafty as her Mom!! Here is a recent example of her work:

Loving the tags and the card!!! You have used great colours and embellishments, Siobhan. The Christmas pressies and tree ornaments are making me in the mood for Christmas!!! Awesome work - I really hope that I see more of it!! Thanks so much for sharing!

freaking faves for november 2011's challenges

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Wow - there were so many awesome entries for the challenges this month, that we had a very hard time choosing the faves. But there was only one winner of the gift certificate, and she was chosen as a lucky number blindly by my son Chris. The winner of the gift certificate was Lizzy Hill. Lizzy - e-mail me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com and I will see about having your gift certificate e-mailed to you! Lizzy had two chances to win this month, as she played along with both challenges.

Now the faves :

November 1st challenge

Cherubs

Nadia

Georgia

November 15th challenge:

Congratulations, ladies, and thank you so much for joining in on the fun with us!!! Feel free to take our fave blinkie and feature it on your blog!!

monday's mentions 5 december 2011

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Donna O'Leary has been on a roll - she was a fave at Scrapbookers Anonymous and she won a challenge at Nz Paper Chase.

Nadia Cannizzo was a fave at Sketchy Thursdays.

Were you mentioned anywhere this week? Please let us know in the comments below.

You can also let us know before Monday of any week so that we can put your name in our blog posting for monday's mentions.

1 december 2011 prompt challenge

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Wow - the 1st of December - Christmas is coming ....

Our challenge this time around is to scrap a treasured Thanksgiving memory for you, DO NOT USE THE COLOUR ORANGE anywhere in the layout. Ha ha!! If you do not celebrate Thanksgiving – how about scrapping what you are thankful for, or why not scrap a family reunion or gathering????

Here are some contributions from some members of our lovely design team - and no, that is not orange in my layout - it is a salmony pink and yellow from Sassafrass!:

Beverley Cunningham

Sarah Groen

Donna O'Leary

Karen Wray

and me :)

monday's mentions 28 november 11

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Our awesome designer Donna O'Leary has been selected for another design team!! So happy to see that others have brains out there!! We don't know which one yet, as she is not at liberty to divulge, but we sure are proud and happy for her!!!!

Have you or anyone else who hangs out here been mentioned this week? Please leave a link in the comments to lead us to the mention!!

fave fridays 25 november 11 ...

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Here is a cute little card technique.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1Zj4XY/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253D00LS67zJY_8

Have you had anything to share in your internet travels this week??

monday's mentions 21 november 11 ...

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Georgia was a winner over at Bird is the Word for her layout entitled "Together" - and what a wonderful layout it was!!!

Mieke Nagtegaal was featured in Issue 59 of Scrapbook magazine - love the layout Mieke! Congratulations!!

Have you been mentioned anywhere this week????

fave fridays 18 november 11 ...

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http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/8Ca2BA/theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg

This is not about scrapbooking, but it is about life - what else matters really but that you help others to be happy and are happy yourself ...

15 november sketch challenge

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Here is our sketch this month to play along with!!

Scrap your favourite book – you can use a scan of the cover, a picture that represents the book’s theme, you can journal why it is a favourite of yours. You have until the 30th of the month to play along!!!

Our prize to play for this month is a $25.00 gift certificate from Scrapbooking.com!!

Our guest designer Anne !!

and me :)

monday's mentions ... 14 november 2011

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Donna O'Leary was a winner of the RAK over at Carol's Paper Pantry!! You have been so lucky lately chickie!!!

Have you been mentioned anywhere this week? Let us know!!

fave fridays 11 11 11 ...

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My friend Lee Schertzing sent me the link to this website where they feature challenges and sketches from all over. You can use their website to see a lot of the challenges out there, what their requirements are and deadlines all at a glance. Looks pretty cool:

http://felineplayful.blogspot.com/

Where have you been this week????

shining stars on the seventh - 7 november 11

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This is an area for you to feature your children's scrapbooking, cardmaking or other artwork if you wish!

monday's mentions ... 7 november 2011

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Roxy Rolla was a fave last month at Scrapbookers Anonymous!! That's not all - she won a Golden Globe from From Screen 2 Scrap!! Congratulations Roxy!! Great work!! You really are rolling!

And speaking of Scrapbookers Anonymous -Yvonne Yam and Karen Wray were faves there as well last month. Karen was also the lucky winner of their random prize!!

fave fridays 4 nov 11 ...

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Here's a tutorial I ran across this week to make flowers: http://jonesdesigncompany.com/flowers/rolled-paper-flowers-tutorial/

What have you run across this week online???

some freaking faves for october 2011's challenges

2011-11-02T23:42:00.001-04:00

Wow - the DT and I have picked some awesome faves for this week, but before we tell you who they are - I want to announce the winner of our gift certificate - Karen Williams!!! Yay!! E-mail me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com Karen giving me your e-mail address so that I can arrange the gift certificate being sent to you!

Now for the winners of our faves:

30 September challenge:

Anne (our guest DT this month)

Mitra Pratt

15 October challenge:

Sue Smith

Roxy Rolla

Yay!!!! Congratulations ladies for your awesome work - we thank you so much for participating. If it was not for you all, well, we would have no reason to be here!!

1 november 2011 prompt challenge

2011-11-01T06:00:00.012-04:00

Wow - another month has passed - hard to believe!!! Time for another prompt challenge - you have until the 30th of November to play along with this challenge and the next challenge that we will post on the 15th of this month. This month's challenge is to scrap about a belief, or philosophy you have – it can be something deep or something silly. It might be a religious or other philosophy, or something as light as your theory on how you can put two socks into the washing machine and only one ever comes back to you. Take this challenge as seriously or not as you would like to!!

Our prize to play for this month is a $25.00 gift certificate from Scrapbooking.com!!

Beverley Cunningham

Sarah Groen

Mia Montalvan-Castrillo

Donna O'Leary

Sandi Taloumis

Karen Wray

Our guest designer Anne !!

and me :)

monday's mentions 31 october 2011

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Both Sarah and Cherubs are favourites at Sketchy Thursdays from last week's challenge. Always love the work those two ladies produce!!!!

Has your work been mentioned or featured anywhere recently??? Let us know in the comments below - or, let me know at anne.pennington@xplornet.com anytime you want to share your news!!

fave fridays 28 oct 11 ...

2011-10-28T06:00:00.001-04:00

Well, I joined Stumbled Upon at the suggestion of my daughter and guess what they suggested I might be interested in this morning??? Check out Leigh Ann's tutorial on hand stitching here!!! Very informative and inspiring!! Think I'll check out their suggestions more often!!

Of course, joining a website like Stumble Upon has it's own risks - some websites might record a lot of information about the websites you follow. Always read the terms and privacy policies of any area you visit on the website before joining!!

november's guest design team member

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Anne

My name is Anne and I am French. I live in a small rural village in the UK with my two children and my husband Andrew. I run my own company, teaching French to young children and adults.

I come from a very crafty family, starting with a grandmother who knitted and crocheted anything she could, including fruit bowls !!. My mum used to knit and sew most of my clothes and I have lots of embarrassing pictures to prove it! She then tried her hands at framing and quilting and she is very good at it too. My sister started knitting at a very young age and designed a whole new wardrobe for my dolls and teddies. She has since become an expert quilter and a fantastic artist.

And then, there was me !! I have, unfortunately, not inherited any sewing or knitting skills, but I have always enjoyed making cards and just messing around with crafty things. I only came across scrapbooking , a year and a bit ago, after meeting the lovely Lisa (http://scrappyfairies.blogspot.com/ ) at swimming. She and I just started chatting one day instead of watching the progress of our darling cherubs! (As you do !! ). She was the first person who showed me a mini book and pictures of some lay outs she had done. I can honestly say I had never seen any pieces of art as beautiful and meaningful as these. Lisa has since then become a good friend and remains my inspiration and role model.

I would like to describe my style as clean and simple but in reality I am a very messy scrapper and my style often reflects my personality! I love to scrap moments in time more than big events and I hope that future generations will look at my work and understand where they come from. I love pretty papers and ribbons, anything girly and lacy. I love working with masking tapes and stickers but I struggle using mists and paints.

Anne's blog can be found at hobby d'un jour!!

monday's mentions 24 october 2011 ...

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Anne was a fave at Sketchy Thursdays this week!!

Lee made it to the 4th round of Practical Scrappers' card making challenge! Please go and vote for her to make it to the finals!!!

Sarah Groen was a winner for Bird is the Word's Share challenge!!!

technique twenty-second - October 2011

2011-10-22T09:38:00.000-04:00

I have added some instructions and with photos here to a cute little spinner album I made and taught a class with a while ago using double sided paper from Basic Gray. Basically I told my students to look for natural embellishments that may be in their paper before they committed and cut the paper for use as background in their pages of the spinner album. Some papers had some nice scallopped borders that students could cut out, some had beautiful flowers or other natural lines that could be used in borders. You will find suggestions I gave them for cutting their papers and some photos of the finished album here, as well I provide some photos of the finished album below. The whole album was made with less than 10 double-sided pages and some ribbon, flowers, a few tags, inks, embossing powder, and buttons. The pdf instructions I have attached to the post on my personal blog show some of the natural embellishments I cut from the papers. As well, the next pages I included in the .pdf show some of the completed pages of the spinner album.

If you can get away with a beautiful economical project using paper wisely to make embellishments - why not do so????

fave fridays 21 oct 11 ...

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I've been having fun on the Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine blog - I was published in their current issue (Fall 2011)! A lot of the ladies from the magazine were at Scrapfest this past weekend - I spent a wonderful weekend in Oshawa Ontario Canada with girlfriends at the event. I even took a class with Becky Fleck there!!!

Where have you found inspiration on the web this week????

monday's mentions ... 17 october 11

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Lee Schertzing made it to round 3 at Practical Scrappers' card making challenge. Please click on the link to vote for her card every day this week!!!!

Also Donna O'Leary was a winner over at Scrapbookers Anonymous for their tag challenge!!!

Congratulations ladies!!!

15th sketch 15 october 2011

2011-10-15T06:00:00.063-04:00

Wow - already time for another sketch challenge! We are playing for the 25 dollar gift certificate from the scrapping bug for October's challenges. Here is our sketch:

For this game we challenge you to feature yourself in costume, or a costume that you have made or inspired, incorporate the colour purple somewhere in the layout, place a surprise somewhere in the layout . If you do not celebrate Hallowe’en where you are - scrap about dress-up – either for a formal affair, or for play!! Now - you are welcome to play along and post your layout even if you are stumped on any of these requirements - we encourage you to play along regardless!! We don't penalize - we like everyone to have some fun and play along in the spirit if they are able to!

Beverley Cunningham

Sarah Groen

Mia Montalvan-Castrillo

Donna O'Leary

Sandi Taloumis

Karen Wray

and me :)

Just link your layout to Mr. Linky below!!!

fave fridays 14 october 2011 ...

2011-10-14T06:00:00.002-04:00

I'd like to share a link to a fun and informative Canadian magazine that is offered online - Scrapbooks and Cards Today. The hard copy magazines are available at Canadian scrapbook stores free of charge - usually the stores will offer them with purchases of $25 or more until supplies run out. They also published each issue digitally on the website. You can find the magazine at: Scapbooks and Cards Today

Where have you been online this week? If you have a link to share - add it to the comments below!!!

more shake-ups

2011-10-13T20:07:00.000-04:00

Due to popular demand we will now extend the playing time for the challenge on the 1st and the 15th of the month through to the last date of the playing month. So any of October's challenges are now due by the 31st of October to be considered as a fave or as the winner of this month's prize. We hope you'll take advantage of the extra play time to play along with us!!! The more the merrier!!

freaking HUGE shake-up and change here ...

2011-10-10T18:58:00.001-04:00

I know, I know, we are creatures of habit and we all hate changes - but ...

... i have a really good reason for this assault to your senses - i am getting confused sometimes ...

It seemed like a good idea at the time when I started this blog - but because our 30th prompt challenge is, in fact a challenge for the next month, and not for the month that the 30th falls on, well, it is confusing me and some other people. It is hard to remember that you are playing for the next month`s prize along with the 15th sketch challenge of that month - so we are going to do something pretty radical here - yes, the 30th prompt challenge will now be the 1st prompt challenge ... yes, i am serious, we are going to do something that radical ...

not only are we changing the date of the prompt challenge - we are not even going to give you some time to get used to it - we will start on the 1st of November - yes, of this year ...

i`m sorry - but you will like it eventually - and I will not change the date of Christmas ... or your birthday ...

monday's mentions 10 october 11

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Yay - our awesome designer Donna O'Leary was a winner over the Little Shop of Sketches for her interpretation of one of their sketches! Way to go Donna!!

Anne was a winner at Sketches in Thyme for her work - loving what you did for their challenge Anne!! But then again, I love all your work ...

Lee Schertzing has made it to round two in the card competition at Practical Scrappers!!!

some freaking faves for 30 aug and 15 sep challenges and a winner for September's prize!!!

2011-10-09T23:02:00.001-04:00

Oh my gosh - I am so very late with this posting - my sincerest apologies to all. But I have a really good excuse for this rudeness ... I forgot. This blog is so new that I haven't got the rhythm yet. I have a new list of TO DOs for all my blog deadlines - and, well, I forgot to put this on the list. I am so very sorry!!!!

Faves for 30 August challenge were:

Theresa

Puskis

Lizzy

Faves for 15 September challenge were:

Mitra

Patrice

Sue

And the winner of our 25 dollar prize to Scrapbook.com is no other than Jennifer R. Jennifer - please contact me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com to give me your e-mail address so I can send your gift certificate to you.

shining stars on the seventh - our first!!!

2011-10-07T06:15:00.000-04:00

Angela's (Toucan Scraps) daughter TJ has been busy scrapping away and showing her stuff online. We think her work is MARVELLOUS!! Here is a layout she made of her recent birthday party with her friends!! TJ's work was recently featured on some other scrapbooking challenge blogs - she is really quite a creative young person! Thanks so much for sharing TJ's work with us Angela!!

design by T.J.

And speaking of creative, Mitralee's daughter Lexi is quite an artist herself. You can read the story of this featured piece of her work here: (please go to Mitralee's blog for the story - it is so funny!!) Lexi has an incredible talent for capturing emotion with her pencil - just a few short strokes and she has managed to capture a myriad of emotions on her faces in this piece of work. Thanks so much for sharing with us Mitralee!!!

design by Lexi

If you have a young artistic geniuis with a flair for scrapbooking, card-making, altered objects or other paper art, please send along his or her work to us to feature on the 7th of each month. We will not accept work submitted directly from children, but would love to hear from moms who hang out here on our blog regarding their children's work.

fave fridays 7 october 11

2011-10-07T06:00:00.001-04:00

I have a link to share this week. It is to Scrapfest in Oshawa Ontario this week. Lisa Furtney - owner and organizer - always puts on a wonderful crop, merchandise mall and classes at her events. Anyone near enough to participate should do so at this event, or at her spring event in April at Kitchener Ontario.

http://www.scrapfest.ca/

monday's mentions ... 3 october 2011

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I have recently subscribed to scrapbook magazine and my new issue arrived today. What a nice surprise when I turned to page 49 and saw a beautiful layout by our designer Sarah Groen!! Gorgeous layout of course - as is her usual!!

Well, after I got over that wonderful surprise, I turned the page to 70 and saw a wonderful layout Mieke Nagtegaal had made as a tribute to her wonderful Mam. Gorgeous work, Mieke!!

The good news just keeps coming. Mia Montalvan-Castrillo was the winner of ScrapFIT's button challenge this past week!!!

30th september 2011 prompt challenge - school days

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I'm excited about our newest challenge - scrap your school days – your own school days incorporating three of: a photo of you back in the day, or a momento from those years , perhaps: a song title, lyrics or album cover from that era, your favourite school subject, or a page from one of your texts, diaries or notebooks , a scan or your yearbook – whatever is representative of your school days. Maybe you could include a memory of those days in your blog posting. We'd prefer if you scrap your own school days - as we like to encourage our followers to scrap about themselves to leave a legacy for their family - but you can scrap your children's school days if you prefer. This month's prize is a $25 gift certificate to the Scrapping Bug!!! You have until the 31st of October to submit a layout to be eligible for the prize and be considered as one of our favourites!!!

Beverley Cunningham

Sarah Groen

Mia Montalvan-Castrillo

Donna O'Leary

Sandi Taloumis

Karen Wray

our guest designer Cherubs

and me :)

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fave fridays 30 september 11

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Where have you been visiting on the internet? Post a link to anything interesting to scrappers in the comments below that you have visited lately!

announcing shining stars on the seventh

2011-09-26T22:51:00.000-04:00

Angela from Toucan Scraps was kind enough to share two links in this week's monday's mentions posting of the mentions her young daughter received for her scrapping work. Her sharing of her daughter's amazing work inspired me to think that it might be a nice idea to feature work from our young people on the 7th of every month here.

So if you play along here, are a member here, or visit us - and your son or daughter like to scrapbook or paper craft (we might even consider other art if we don't get too many scrapping submissions), please share some photos of their work for us to post on the 7th of the month. First names or nicknames only for the children, please, and we will be introducing them as NAME, son or daughter of MOTHER'S FIRST NAME, and MOTHER'S BLOG ADDRESS.

We are interested only in submissions that mothers send along on behalf of their children. We are not interested in submissions directly submitted by young people for this feature.

Let's see if there is interest out there!!

monday's mentions ... 26 september 2011

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This week I want to celebrate belatedly with our designer Bev Cunningham. She was chosen as Primas Product pick for August and was also featured in the Prima BAP contest. You can see it here!!! Congratulations!!

Karen Wray was a fave at Sketchy Thursdays this past week - great layout Karen!!

Please send me an e-mail at anne.pennington@xplornet.com whenever you are mentioned so that we can celebrate it with you! Please don't be modest - as we cannot celebrate and share your happiness if we don't happen upon it on the web or hear the news from you or other scrappers. If you hear of others who hang out with us here at another Freaking scrapping challenge ... please let us know and provide a link if you can!

fave fridays 23 september 2011

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What scrapbooking techniques, gadgets or layouts have you seen this week on the internet??? Please provide us the link to the website in the comments below.

technique twenty-second - September 2011

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This month's technique twenty-second tutorial is given to us by design team member Donna O'Leary!!

Hello all, Anne asked me to share a fav technique that I use all the time. So tonight I am going to show you how I love to add Glossy Accents by Ranger to make your own dimensional embellishments.

You will Need.

A bottle of Glossy Accents
A sheet of pattern paper to cut images out of for your project
A good sharp pair of scissors.

I have used a guitar pattern paper for my project.

1) Collect all the materials that you need. A spare piece of scrap paper would also be handy.

2) Choose the images that you would like to use on your project, and cut out using your sharp scissors.

3) Place your images onto your scrap paper. Open your glossy accents, remembering not to shake the bottle as this will cause air bubbles. If your bottle is blocked use a very fine pin to unblock. If you use a thick one you will widen the tip and it will come out to quick!

4) Apply glossy accents all over your image. Then move your scrap paper with images still on, to the side where you can let it dry and not be disturbed. Glossy accents takes a while to dry. In the picture you can see that is cloudy. When it is dry it will be clear.

Once dry attach to projects.

Here's a finished project I used these guitars on.

Awesome Donna - thank you!!!!

monday's mentions ... 19 september 2011

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Hoping everyone had a great weekend!

Regina Castillo was named one of the design team members for Sketchabilities this past week!!

Marie was a fave at Sketchy Thursdays this past week!!

Congratulations ladies - please let us know in the comments below if you or someone who hangs out here was published, mentioned or won a challenge this week!!

fave fridays 16 september 2011

2011-09-17T13:15:00.000-04:00

Ooops - a little late for this week - I've been having a lot of problems with a lagging computer - maybe because I am processing too many photos at once. Anyway - I popped over to Sketchy Thursdays this week and see they have a sketch using a starburst paper. Well, you know how I feel about this design - so I will just HAVE to play along this week!! Where have you been this week ??? Share the link with us and we can visit too!

15th sketch challenge 15 september 2011 - something exotic!!

2011-09-15T06:00:00.029-04:00

Time for our sketch challenge!!! You have until 29 September 2011 at midnight to link up your layout to have a chance to win this month's prize - or to be chosen as one of our faves this month!! The prize this month is a $25.00 gift certificate to Scrapbookers.com!!!

Here is our sketch:

We are challenging you to scrap something exotic for this sketch - it can be an animal at the zoo, a dancer, a food item, a location, a photo or souvenir from a trip - how about exotic you!!! You can make a card, a layout or an altered (off the page) item. If you can't think of something exotic - just play along anyway!! Here's what our awesome design team did for this challenge:

our guest designer Cherubs

and me :)

We are looking forward to seeing your creations!!! Please leave a comment after you use Mr. Linky to link up to your post!!

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monday's mentions ... 12 september 2011

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Congratulations to all who won, were faves or whose work was mentioned this past week. Please don't be shy to add your name in the comments section if your wonderful work was noticed!!!

I saw that Ashley Van Etten and Theresa Gillman were faves at Sketchy Thursdays this past week. Our designer Sarah Groen is continuing her stint there as September's Guest Design Team member!!!

Announcing September's Guest Designer!!

2011-09-09T06:55:00.010-04:00

I am so happy to announce the first of our monthly guest designers. She's been playing along with our challenges and her unique style caught my eye. I was very surprised to hear that she has not been scrapbooking for very long! Thank you so much Cherubs for agreeing to guest design for us for September! We are honoured!

Here is a little more about her in her own words:

HI ALL! knopkiniukai

I´m a Lithuanian alien currently living in a beautiful and fascinating small island in the North Atlantic Ocean, cold ICELAND.

I´m a mother of three crazy - energetic, but loveable kids, they all keep the house colorful, loud and busy....it gives me ample opportunity to scrap everyday things.

I´m a freelance dressmaker, working with local Fashion store.

I´m coffee with the milk and cat lover.

Scrapbooking become important hobby for year and a half now. Cardmaking had been my favourite subject at the beginning, but soon scrapbooking captured my heart. So I do Love to participate in challenge blogs. I have really become addicted to sketch challenges off the desire to excel. It become a need to play with the paper every day.It helps me to learn and find something new. I like to experiment with different styles and materials. I do not have a defined style, but I like to look at the material and decide how to combine it together. I usually scrap what comes and goes with seasons and with my feelings.

I do like to add lots of things, small details to my layouts to give it texture, messy, artsy touches, machine sewing, stamping, scraps of paper and all kinds stuff. :) On the sites I have met many wonderful talented creative, funny and great people and that inspires me to create more.

I really enjoy photography and I am always thinking about how to achieve a good page to keep my memories. Scrapbooking allows me to develops my imagination, creativity, as well as has a therapeutic influence.

One day I was looking for something new and accidentally stumbled upon your blog. I thought, why not... sounds interesting and challenging and new. Here´s how I found the Another Freaking scrappy Challenge :)

I´m very exited to be a Guest Designer for September and It´s such an honor to publish my first interview here.

I want to really THANK Anne Pennington for inviting me as guest designer at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge'! Huge thanks !!!

Thank you for your warm welcome!

Have a great day,

Cherubs

If you would like to see more of my work I would be delighted to welcome you at My Blog

Cherubs tells us above that scrapbooking captured her heart - I have to say that her unique style has captured mine! Thanks Cherubs for accepting our invitation to guest design this month - you can all look forward to her first reveal for the 15th's challenge!!!!

fave fridays 9 september 2011

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Good morning!! Have you visited any interesting blogs, challenges or tutorial websites this week? Big plans for the weekend?????

You can share links or weekend plans in the comments below!!

Anne xooxxo

monday's mentions ... 5 September 2011

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Labour day - back to school tomorrow!! My kids are excited.

And I was excited to see that Lea from Scrapbookers Anonymous (and our friend and supporter here) was a fave over at Sketchy Thursdays this week!! Congrats Lea!!!

I was also excited to hear that design team member Donna O'Leary was a winner at Challenge me Happy!!

If you or one of our friends here has been mentioned anywhere or published this week, please leave a comment below with the info! We'd like to hear.

fave fridays 2 september 2011

2011-09-02T06:00:00.005-04:00

Oh my gosh - what happened to summer????

Time to post links in the comments to your fave scrapbooking websites, videos that you've seen this week!!!

Some freaking faves for our last two challenges and a winner of our prize for august....

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Here are the freaking faves our design have chosen for the last two challenges:

Challenge 1 (Dream):

... and for challenge two (our first sketch):

We will have a blinkie that these ladies can grab very soon to put on their blog. I'll let you know as soon as it is ready for you ladies!!

The winner of the prize is Chiqui !!! Chiqui - please let me know your mailing address (please send to anne.pennington@xplornet.com) and I will get it in the mail to you!

30th august 11 prompt challenge ...

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Time for our second prompt challenge. You have until the 14th of September at midnight to post your take on the challenge to be eligible for our prize this month. You will have a second chance to enter a layout for this prize on the 15th of September during our sketch challenge for September.

Our prize this month is a $25.00 gift certificate to Scrapbookers.com!!!

The challenge this time is to scrap your birthplace and year – incorporating at least two things that were popular in culture that year as an embellishment (song title, historical event, movie, hero or heroine) – you can include baby photos instead of photos of your birthplace if you wish. Please include a link to another scrapbooking challenge website in your blog posting for this. If you are shy to scrap your year of birth, then why not try some hidden journalling????

You might have some luck on the internet for suitable embellishments, or popular songs, etc. Try it, and see what you find!!

Here's what our awesome design team did for this challenge:

Beverley Cunningham

Sarah Groen

Donna O'Leary

Mia Montalvan-Castrillo

Sandi Taloumis

Karen Wray

and me :)

Let's see how many come and play this challenge!!! Please add a comment to the blog after you link up your blog posting to Mr. Linky!!

Here is what our participants have done!! You may have to view using Mozilla as a browser for this website.

monday's mentions ... 29 august 2011

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The weekly posting where we mention our accomplishments - feel free to post in the comments if you have been recognized - or any of our other players and members.

Sarah Groen was a fave at Sketchy Thursdays this past week!! Sarah is also the GDT at Sketchy Thursdays for September - Sarah, we are so proud of you!!!

I was at my LSS on Saturday and discovered that the Fall issue of Canadian Scrapbooker magazine was out and it features my layout on page 29!! I was so thrilled!!

Have you or someone else who hangs out here been mentioned, been a winner, or been published this week? Please post about it in the comments below.

fave fridays 26 august 2011

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Panicking at the thought that the summer is almost over for the kids - yikes!! Good thing we saved a couple of camping trips until the end of the summer!!!

Have you been filling in the last couple of weeks with frantic summer stuff??? Did you manage to get online and see some scrap-worthy projects or techniques ?? Share the links with us in the comments of this post!!

On a more serious note - I saw this posting over at Julie Tucker-Wolek's blog, and recommend you pop over to Stacy Rodriguez's blog to see how scrappers have been supporting her niece who has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. It is so heart-warming to see how loving scrappers (are there any other kinds) are pulling together for a little girl.

technique twenty-second - August 2011

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This technique was sent to us from our guest DT Dani Donner:

1) Cut a square of patterned paper (this one is 3x3 inches):

2) Fold it diagonally in half, like the picture. Tip: use a bone folder to help you fold.

3) Fold the side points until they touch the middle score:

4) Add a glue dot to each side of the kite and "close" it again:

And that's it! You now have a cute and super easy embellishment to add to your cards and layouts. Just another tip, double-sided paper with very different colors work better with this technique.

monday's mentions ... 22 august 2011

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Yikes - have been away a lot lately - and thought I had scheduled this posting to go up automatically - but had only saved it as a draft ... sorry !!!

Have you been mentioned anywhere this week? Have you seen any of our members and players recognized for their scrapbooking this week??? Each Monday we provide this space to acknowledge our accomplishments over the past week.

They can be scrapbooking accomplishments (publication, challenge wins, becoming a guest designer or regular design team member - or they can be non-scrapbooking related. Whatever you would like to share with your friends here.

freaking design team!!

2011-08-21T23:27:00.002-04:00

Here is a little more info about our each member of our awesome new design team!! I am really excited to be working with each of these ladies!!

Beverley Cunningham

I'm Beverley Cunningham and my family is my husband Andrew, our two boys Brendan (10) and Christopher (8) and our daughter Kaitlyn (6) along with a couple of cats, a bunny and three goldfish! I discovered scrapbooking in 2006 and so wish I had discovered it sooner! I love all scrapbooking products and tend to buy them before I buy anything else for myself - give me a new craft punch before a new jacket anyday! I have been on a few design teams in the last two years. I have been published in Up 2 Scrap and Innovations magazines. Last year I have won Prima's Build-a-page competition twice as well as been a favourite a few of times so have been published on their blog and their gallery, I have also been published on the BasicGrey Gallery. I am currently on the design team and DT coordinator for Scottie Crafts a brick and mortar and online store as well as one of their Tutors. I am on the Elite team for NZ Paperchase New Zealand's only scrapping Magazine. I am also a Guest designer for Donna Salazar this year. I am very excited about joining Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge team. I am really looking forward to being on this team of lovely, talented ladies and helping other scrapbookers to learn new techniques and to have some fun along the way. You can visit me on my blog: http://bevsscrapbookingworld.blogspot.com

Sarah Groen

Hi there, I live in Auckland NZ with my hubby of 20 years (Mark) and my 6 gorgeous kids who range in age from 2 to 20. I am a stay at home mum and since I discovered scrapbooking 5 years ago I have been a hopeless addict. I am currently on the design team for two NZ scrapbook stores Scrapbook NZ, and Scottie Crafts and also for the Australian based company ‘Rasberry’ and the sketch challenge blog "Little Shop of Sketches'. I am a regular contributor to several scrapbooking magazines and love to participate in challenge blogs whenever I have time. I am very excited to be guesting for 'Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge'!

Donna O'Leary

Hello My name is Donna O'leary, I live in Dunedin, New Zealand. I have 6 wonderful children + 1, and an awesome partner who puts up with my crazy addition of all things scrappy. I work and teach at our local scrapbooking shop (Scrapbook Paradise) and yes it is my paradise. I would call my style Eclectic, depending on what the product depends what I will do. But I do love all things messy, love to ink and distress. My favourites would have to be Graphic 45, 7 gypsies and of course Tim Holtz.

Mia Montalvan-Castrillo

Hi! I'm Mia Castrillo from the Philippines. I'm a part time free-lance writer and full time Domestic Engineer to my husband of 11 years and my four girls, ages 9 to 10 months. In between cooking, writing, tutoring, taking my girls to school and generally taking care of our household, I scrap. I scrapbook because I am a storyteller and I love telling the stories of my children. :-)

Sandi Taloumis

Hi! My name is Sandi. I live in Massachusetts with my hubby, who is incredibly supportive of my scrapping obsession. We have three wonderful children and a dog and cat, all of which I love to scrap.

I started scrapping about about seven years ago...I have been addicted ever since! My scrapping style is colorful, artsy, simple, sometimes a deliberate messy, but over-all clean with crisp lines. It's such an honor to be a part of this DT and to be able to create along with such a sweet group of girls! Yippee!

I invite you to visit me at my blog http://Scrappingasigo.blogspot.com

Karen Wray

My name is Karen and I live in Canberra Australia, a place I love completely. I have a husband who tolerates my hobbies and doesn't look at the credit card too closely... I have 3 kids Matt (18), Meaghan (14), and Henry (8). I have been scrapping for a few years now, and have been both guest designer and permanant team members for a few challenge sites. Each challenge site seems to bring a different mix of people and I am very much looking forward to meeting new scrappers on another freaking scrap challenge (and how cool is that name?!!)

and me :)

Hmmm - well, now, what is there to say??? I freaking love to scrap, and I LOVE the friends I have made since I discovered this incredibly creative art form. I've met many of these friends online, as fellow design team members and fellow challenge players and many in person - and I have to say that my life is much richer for the people I have met since I acquired this passion. We share ideas and techniques, stories, and our lives. I was a designer for Scraptivity (a Canadian company), and am currently a designer for Little Shop of Sketches and Scrapbookers Anonymous. I have 5 children, and 3 grandchildren and so have many wonderful people that I love to scrap memories of. I work as a publisher full time, and am so very lucky to work with creative people every day. I love to travel, canoe, camp, cycle and my part-time studies.

Design team announcement!!

2011-08-21T01:53:00.002-04:00

Sorry - am a couple of hours late with this posting - drove 16 hours yesterday and arrived home in the wee hours of the morning this morning, then hosted a houseful today (they've just gone to bed) - but I did want to let you all know that we have our new design team all in place. I'll be posting some bios and photos soon - but just could not wait to let you all know who will be playing along with us regularly and giving us some inspiration. The new design team is:

Beverley Cunningham
Donna O'Leary
Sarah Groen
Sandi Taloumis
Mia Montalvan-Castrillo
Karen Wray
and me :)

Awesome ladies with awesome talent - I have linked their names above to their blogs so that you can visit and take a look at their beautiful designs!! Pop on over to their blogs and take a peek!

fave fridays 19 august 2011

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Got any plans for the weekend???? Kiddies enjoying their last month of summer holidays?? Did you get any time to surf scrappy ideas online this week??? Why don't you share links to what you found in the comments below???

Our first sketch challenge!!!!

2011-08-15T06:00:00.056-04:00

So many firsts !! Our first sketch challenge - yay!!! More info for the challenge below the sketch:

Please scrap something fun or humorous - we all need a laugh once in a while, and when there's nothing at all funny happening in our lives, it will be nice to look at our layouts and smile! You are not obligated to use clouds or kites in your layout - they just make me happy - so I put them in the sketch!

Daniela (Dani) Donner

Donna O'Leary

Karen Wray

Lee Schertzing

Mia Montalvan-Castrillo

Sarah Groen

Sarah says: "I loved the kites in this sketch and couldn't resist using them just as they are. The photo is typical of what I get when I try to take a 'nice' photo of my 3 teenage boys!!!"

and well, there's me:

Anne Pennington

Here is what you are playing for - all those who entered in the 30th of July challenge and enter this challenge have a chance to win this fun collection donated by me!!

Don't forget to provide a link back to our blog from your blog posting with your layout !!!! We want to share the fun with everyone!!!! Link up your blog post with Mr. Linky below then leave a comment for us!

Deadline to post your layout is 29th August by midnight!!!!

This challenge's awesome entries:

monday's mentions ... 15 August 2011

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Mitra Pratt (who plays along with the challenges here) was a fave at Sketchy Thursdays this past week. Congratulations!!!

If you, or anyone else you know, who hangs out here at another freaking scrappy challenge has been recognized for their scrapbooking work - let us know in the comments here for everyone to see.

Yay for all the winners!!!!

fave fridays 12 august 2011

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Summertime and the living is easy ... loving vacation time, and hope you've had some down time too ...

Share something you've seen this week that got your mojo going ...

monday's mentions ... 8 august 2011

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This week:

Sandi Taloumis (awesome scrapper and member here) was a winner over at Scrapbooker's Anonymous - a great challenge where they dream up fun ways to use up your stash. Pop over to both Sandy and SA's blogs to check them out.

Who else has been a winner, been published ... had an honorable mention??? We'd love to post it here!! Just let us know in the comments section.

fave fridays 5 august 2011

2011-08-05T06:00:00.002-04:00

Ahhhhhhhhh - I'm off work today and off to a scrapbooking retreat with my friends. Don't hate me because we are beautiful, lol ... so looking forward to it.

Share a link to something scrappy that you found inspiring this week in the comments!!!

monday's mentions ...

2011-08-01T16:01:00.002-04:00

Here's a new feature for Mondays - where we list all those we know from here who did something scrappy worth mentioning. Please send me a note at anne.pennington@xplornet.com whenever you see one of our members, contributors or supporters mentioned doing something wonderful!! Please don't be shy to send me a note about yourself too to post!! We all love to hear when good stuff happens to friends!!

Today, I am only listing those accomplishments from last week that I know about - I am sure there are many members who's success last week I am not aware of. I can add more from last week by editing this post if you make me aware of them. Send a link along with your description, or placed it all in the comments to this posting!

Theresa Gillman (a member here, and one of the founders of Scrapbookers Anonymou s) was a Fave at Sketchy Thursdays.

Anne (a member here) was also a fave at Sketchy Thursdays!! (Sorry Anne, don't know your last name - but I do LOVE your work!!)

Sarah Groen (our guest DT) was one of the top picks for this month's contest at the Sassfrass blog, as was Karen Williams, Tracee and Yvonne (her work was mentioned in a fave friday posting) !!! Yvonne also won at Page Maps this past week!

Hop on over to their blogs and check out their work!!!!

Design Team Call

2011-08-01T14:48:00.002-04:00

We are looking for a design team for the next 6 months. Successful applicants will create two layouts a month, due on the 13th and 28th of the month, and post them on their blog after our reveal, providing a link back to our blog from their posting. One monthly challenge will be a prompt, and the other will be a layout from a sketch. (Well, actually, designers are not obligated to a layout - if they prefer they may make a card or altered item (off the page item). We ask that designers visit the blog of each person who enters our challenges and leave a comment on their challenge post, as well send an e-mail to me listing their favourite (1-3) entries for each challenge within a day of the close of the challenge. Designers might also be asked to make a comment or two once a month for a new feature we will be launching soon.

Please let me know your preferred media (card, layout, altered item), include a brief bio, tell us what you have to offer, and include a link to your blog within the body of an e-mail to: anne.pennington@xplornet.com by the 14th of August. I will get back to the successful applicants by the 17th and provide them with their first challenge which will be due by the 28th of August. Designers will have all your challenges well ahead of time so that they can pace themselves, or do several at a time so that they can pursue other commitments.

Only those who want to make new friends, learn from each other and have fun along the way need apply!!

The design team will be announced on the blog on the 20th of August. The bios you provide in your application will be used for the announcement.