fave fridays 11 january 2013 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

1 December 2012

Karen Shady

Amy Voorthuis

15 December 2012

Lizzy Hill

Lizzy Crust

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

Paisley Petals (Karen)

and here is Karen's layout:

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

fave fridays 4 january 2013

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

1 january 2013 scrapbooking challenge

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

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

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

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

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

Our challenge this month is to scrap about:

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

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

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

Leila Cassimira

Lindy Gillespie

Sarah Groen

Karmeleiro

Monique Liedtke

Mitra Pratt

Anne Pennington

our winning guest designer from our November challenges Lizzy Hill

 and our featured guest designer Julie Tucker Wolek

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

our featured guest designer for january 2013 ...

Well, we are starting the year off right.  Our first featured guest designer of the year is none other than  Julie Tucker-Wolek, who is no stranger to scrapbookers all over the globe.

I first met Julie when I used to play along with her challenges at These are a Few of my Favorite Things.  That was one of my favourite challenge sites before she closed it in 2011. Julie and I were on the design team together over at Scrapbooker's Anonymous - an awesome challenge site.  Julie was also the social director over at Sketchy Thursdays - another fabulous challenge website. She has been on the design team, or a guest designer at numerous other well-known companies and blogs.

Nowadays Julie hangs out at her own blog, and is on the design team at Lessology and at Scrap Africa.  She is one of the greatest encouragers out there for fellow scrappers. She visits many scrapbooking blogs each day and leaves positive comments for others. Her upbeat attitude is very catchy!

Welcome Julie!!

Julie Tucker-Wolek

My name is Julie Tucker-Wolek and I have been scrapping since my son was born 15 years ago, but really got into it as a major passion about 6 years ago when my daughter was born. I create everything! Cards, layouts and altered projects!

Visit Julie at Life with the Tucker-Wolek Clan :)

monday's mentions 31 december 2012 ...

Wow, I cannot believe this is the last day of 2012!  It's been a good year in our household, ups and downs, but mostly just pleasant.  You can't ask for better than that.  I hope it's been the same for you.

... and speaking of Lizzy Hill, she is just delighted to be on the Scrap Friends design team for another term!

Monique Liedtke has been published in Issue 69 of Scrapbook Magazine!

If you or someone who plays along here has been mentioned or otherwise successful with their scrapbooking, please let me know at: anne.pennington@xplornet.com so that I can feature their success in another edition of Monday's Mentions.

Our winning participant guest designer for January 2013

We were so delighted when our friend and regular participant in our challenges, Lizzy Hill was the winner of our random draw amongst November's challenges participants to be one of our January 2013 guest designers.  Lizzy participants in many challenge blogs, so we know many of you know her and her lovely  work already.  She is a friendly soul, and a great encourager to others who play along with various scrapbooking challenges. Welcome Lizzy!!!!

Lizzy Hill

My name is Lizzy Hill & I began scrapping in 2009 after coming home from a trip overseas. Mum encouraged me to ‘give it a go’ as a way of getting my photos sorted. It opened up a whole new world which I just adore. Blogging seemed to be a natural extension of scrapping – thus I’ve managed to combine a whole pile of ‘loves’ - photography, writing & scrapping! 

My style is madly eclectic. I’ll give anything a go…my fave embellie atm has to be Washi tape – oh! And buttons/badges are up there, too. I scrap cards & OTP’s [off the page projects] as well as layouts. I don’t consider myself artistic – but I do really enjoy colour combinations. That may come from my dim, dark past as a hairdresser! I was also an English teacher…but my boys are grown up, I have my first grand-child, & I’m pretty much enjoying the good life these days. Not complaining at all…

This is my 2^nd term on the Scrap Friends Design Team, which is my first serious ‘gig’ & that’s been a learning curve that I’ve totally enjoyed. I’ve also been published a fair bit in Scrapbooking Memories – a fab Australian scrapping mag.

Basically, I LOVE the ‘love’ of belonging to the Scrappy Community…blog hops & challenges are such fun!  So on that note, I hope you’ll join in with AFSC…it was one of the first challenges I ‘had a go’ at, & I still enjoy them immensely! Happy scrapping…..

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Stop by the blog here soon to see who our featured guest designer will be along with Lizzy for January.  Bet you can't guess who????

monday's mentions 17 december 2012

Kim Price was a winner over at Stuck Sketches for November!

Monique Liedtke has been chosen for the Imaginisce and Doodle Bug design teams!!

Sarah Groen was one of the top five featured layouts at Once Upon a Sketch for November!!

Congratulations ladies.!! If you have been mentioned or published anywhere, drop us a line at anne.pennington@xplornet.com so that we can mention you in an edition of "monday's mentions".

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!!!

Our freaking faves for november 2012 ...

Some lovely entries again for both of our monthly challenges.

Our favourites for the 1st of November 2012 challenge are:

Her

Lizzy Hill

Our favourites for the 15th of November 2012 challenge are:

Wanda@twomakedo

Wiosanka

And our winner for the change to guest design for the month of January 2013 is:

Lizzy Hill!!!!

Congratulations Lizzy - e-mail me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com so that I can send you January's challenges!!

monday's mentions 3 december 2012

Kim Price was selected as part of the new design team over at Once Upon a Sketch.  So happy for you Kim, have been glad to have you as part of our design and wishing you well on your new journey.

1 december 2012 scrapbooking challenge

This month our Sandra Scott, who plays along regularly with us, suggested we make a generation layout.  So, we made her a guest designer this month for her great idea!  And then Dani Christina won October's draw to be guest designer for December - so we are also featuring her work this month!!

So show us your generation layout - maybe you have a wonderful 3 or 4 generation photo that you treasure?  If so, feature it.  Maybe a nice photo of your grandparents?  Then scrap it!! An object that belonged to them?  Scrap it or scrap a photo of it!

Leila Cassimira

Lindy Gillespie

Sarah Groen

Karmeleiro

Monique Liedtke

Mitra Pratt

Anne Pennington

Kim Price

Karen Wray

our winner of our October 2012 challenge and guest designer  Sandra Scott

 and our featured guest designer  Dani Christina

Can't wait to see your generation photos - just link them up to the linky tool on the right!!!