sketch 15 september 2014 ...

Here's the sketch for this month - hope you find it inspiring!!!

Our sponsor is Scrapbook Fantasies, owned by design team member Alicia Redshaw. Alicia will send a beautiful pack of ribbons to a randomly drawn participant.  

Here's what our designers did with the challenge:

Anne Pennington

Eli Colavero 

Mary Bennetts

Mitra Pratt

What's your take with the sketch!!

We will feature our faves from September in October on the blog.

15th may sketch challenge ...

Hey scrapbookers/art journallers - we have two challenges every month, and you can play along with our prompt challenge and sketch challenge each month until the end of the month.  Don't be shy, we really do want to see your work and share in the fun with you! 

Here is our sketch challenge for May - come play along!!! 

Our sponsor is Scrapbook Fantasies, owned by design team member Alicia Redshaw. Alicia will send a beautiful pack of ribbons to a randomly drawn participant.  

We will feature our favourite layouts from both of our May challenges early in June on the blog. 

Alicia Redshaw

Anne Pennington

Catie

Donna O'Leary
 

Eli Colavero 

Libeeti

 

Margaret Walz (Mar) 

Mary Bennetts

Mitra Pratt

How will you interpret the sketch this month???

15 february 2014 sketch challenge

More excitement - our first sketch challenge since we've re-opened!!!  We hope you'll  come visit and play along. No theme required - just interpret the sketch as you like, let others know about us and link back to our blog. You are welcome to combine our sketch with other non-sketch challenges.  You're not restricted to a scrapbook layout in your interpretation of the sketch - you may art journal, make a card, or make a mixed media canvas.

Our sponsor is Scrapbook Fantasies, owned by design team member Alicia Redshaw, who will give a beautiful pack of ribbons to a randomly drawn participant.  We will feature our favourite layouts early in March on the blog.  We are always looking for guest designers, and often choose from amongst participants.

Fun fact: Two of our designers are mother and daughter!! Margaret Walz is the mother of Alicia Redshaw - we are so proud to have mother and daughter designers on our team!! Be sure to click their links and visit their work on their blogs!

Here is our sketch for this month.  You have until the end of February to upload your interpretation of it.

Alicia Redshaw

Anne Pennington

Catie

Donna O'Leary

Eli Colavero 

Libeeti

 

Margaret Walz (Mar) 

Mary Bennetts

Mieke Nagtegaal

Mitra Pratt

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

15 march 2013 sketch challenge ...

Time for another mid-month sketch at AFSC - here is our latest!!

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

Leila Cassimira

Lindy Gillespie

We thank Lindy for all her inspirational layouts.  This will be her last layout for AFSC.  

Lindy, we have enjoyed your distinctive style, and wonderful support!! Thank you so much for being a big part of what we are! We hope to see you play along with us whenever you have the opportunity.  You will always have a place on our design team if you wish!!!

Sarah Groen

Karmeleiro

Will be back soon!!!

Monique Liedtke

Mitra Pratt

Anne Pennington

Coming soon !!

Karen Wray

You have until the end of the month at 10 EST to participate in our latest challenge!!!

We have some new members of the design team coming up soon!!

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 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!

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.
 

15th december 2012 scrapbooking sketch challenge

Dani Christina won October's draw to be guest designer for December - so we are also featuring her work this month!! Also, this challenge is Kim Price's last time here as a member of our design team.  Kim has been selected for many design teams over the last while, so you will be able to see her wonderful work still all over the internet - so no worries about losing track of her awesome design skills!!

It is time for the December scrapbook sketch challenge.  Here is our sketch is month:

Leila Cassimira

Lindy Gillespie

Sarah Groen

Karmeleiro

Monique Liedtke

Mitra Pratt

Anne Pennington

Kim Price

Karen Wray

 and our featured guest designer  Dani Christina

Can't wait to see your take on this sketch.  No prompt, just base your layout on the sketch - and link your layouts up to the linky tool on the right!!!