November Sketch Challenge

Hi Ladies

Welcome to November, WOW! this year is certainly flying isn't!!!!

The rules for this competition are for you to use the sketch as a basic format and interpret it however you like, e.g. turn it, mirror it or even make it into a double if you wish the choice is yours as to how you choose your theme, colours and titles.

You have until 5pm on the 29th of November to have your completed layout emailed to my email address at scrap.n.art@hotmail.com so I can place it into the slide show for all to see and importantly for it to be judged with everyone else.

The judge is my featured Centre Stage ~ Artist in the spotlight and this month it will be Sharon Dalton. The following day the 31st of November the winner will be announced here on the blog .

Minimum of (2) two entrants as in people for the competition to be valid and fair for judging purposes, there is a wonderful Scrap.n.art pack up for grabs each month to the lucky candidate and this month it will be an arrangement of the following:

Basic Grey - Urban Couture ~ Damask P/paper

Basic Grey - Urban Couture ~ Pashmina P/paper

Core`dinations Lime Green Cardstock

Small alpha set

Metal butterfly

4 small wooden pegs

4 SEI pastel pink large brads

1/2 mtr of white organza ribbon

1/2 mtr of bright pink and green ribbon

3 Prima Flowers fuchsia, white and lime green

A picture of the prize pack can be found on the sidebar under Sketch challenge prize pack!!

Once you have sent me your completed layout via email I will place it into the slideshow gallery at the top of my blog underneath my header for all to see.

Remember you have to be in it to WIN IT and at the end of the day, who doesn't like receiving FREE STUFF for your efforts:)

Good luck ladies and happy creating, I cant wait to see what you come up with this month.

Sketch design is underneath here for you to see, otherwise you can email me and I can send it to you directly. Thanks to all the girls who have submitted request for the sketch to be sent direct to them every month, your email should arrive this morning sometime.

MWAH and HUGS Angie

November Sketch Design

Created and designed by Scrap.n.art ~ Angie

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

Hi Ladies!

Firstly thanks to all who participated this month

DRUM ROLL PLEASE ..................................................................................

and the winner of the October sketch challenge is ..........................................................

EACH DAY WITH YOU IS A BLESSING ~ BY CHIQ

Well done Chiq!!! Deb Mitchell my Centre Stage Artist for the month of October had a hard decision to make, as all your works where fantastic ladies:)

I'm also giving away a RAK (random act of kindness) this month to the first person who emailed their layout to me and that was Sharon Dalton!!!

Congratulations to both of you and could you please email me with address details so I can send your parcel's early next week:):)

Thank you again ladies for your efforts in October and I have had a wonderful response from you all to receive the sketches via email, so keep posted tomorrow for you email with the November sketch challenge, good luck for next month.

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend and keep smiling:):):)

MWAH and HUGS Angie

Hi Ladies

I would like to compile a list of interested people that would like me to email them the monthly sketch competition at the beginning of each month, this way you have it in your hot little hands and can see a better idea of the sketch that is happening for the current month.

So if you would like to be on the list, please email me at scrap.n.art@hotmail.com

Many thanks for your ongoing support for my blog, it truly means the world to me.

Hugs Angie

Hi all!

Well today is decision day for my spotlight artist to decide the winner of the October Sketch challenge. The winner will hopefully be announced just after lunch time ladies, so keep posted if you have entered in this months competition.

I would really like to thank all the ladies who participated in my first competition, I really appreciate your time and effort and the layouts speak for themselves, GREAT WORK INDEED!!!!

This will be a ongoing monthly sketch challenge with a Scrap.n.art kit up for grabs each month. So keep posted as the sketches will be up at the beginning of the month with all the details etc.

Looking forward to the month of November with a great sketch up for grabs and a lovely Basic Grey pack on offer for the lucky winner.I look forward to seeing your wonderful creations ladies again for November, I truly love the diversity of all your layouts completed.

MWAH & HUGS Angie

Hi Ladies

Just a friendly reminder that the competition is closing soon for entries into the Sketch Challenge here on my blog.

Well as part of my on going at home business, I'm holding a monthly sketch challenge! I have posted the display sketch on the side bar for all to see and underneath here as well along with my example, but if you would like to participate in the challenge I can send it to you via email if you cant get a good look at it, please notify me in the comments area or via email to scrap.n.art@hotmail.com

The rules for the competition are that you use the sketch as a basic layout and interpret it as you like! e.g. Turn it, mirror it and even make it a double if you wish:) the choice is yours as to how you choose your theme and colours and title. You have until 5 pm on the 30th of October to send me your layout via email so that I can put it into the slide show area for judging to take place.

Voting will be done by my guest Spotlight Artist and I will announce the winner in the posting area the following day!!! There has to be a minimum of 2 entries for the competition to be valid and the Spotlight Artist can not enter the competition for that current month. There is a monthly Scrap.n.art kit up for grabs to the lucky winner!! Look on the sidebar for winner's package.

Well good luck ladies and have fun creating!!

I placed a slide show at the top of my blog area under the header to show the participants entries for the current month. Remember you have to be in it to WIN IT and at the end of the day, who doesn't like receiving FREE STUFF!

MWAH and HUGS Angie xoxox

What is on your agenda for the weekend?

Hi Ladies

Well another weekend comes around, god this year is certainly flying!! EKKKK

Ive had a pretty eventful week, hospital appointments for my operation, orientation day for Curtis which went better then expected (thankgod) groceries, ordering, curtains made, massive house spring clean and scrapping finally!

Looking forward to this weekend, mind you need to still do some much needed washing and change beds, so that will be things I need to get completed this morning sometime. The weather here has been off and on, one minute lovely and then next severe thunderstorms and hail.

Looking forward to getting some scrapping down this weekend, Ive virtually had a week off, cause I just had so many things to get organised. So now I feel refreshed and ready to go again, maybe found some more MOJO too. hehehe

A friendly reminder too, that this is the last week to get in entries for the October Sketch challenge I'm holding on the blog, so come on girls get those entries in, you have to be in it to WIN IT!!!!!! You can find the sketch on the sidebar of the blog, if you are having trouble viewing it, email me and I will send it to your email address for a better view!

Ok hunnies, off to get things organised for the morning then I will be back later on to go surfing myself on your wonderful blogs!!!!!!

Take care of yourselves and each other until we speak again.

MWAH and HUGS Angie xoxoxox

It's Orientation Day for Curtis

Hi Ladies

Thought I would share this special time with you in regards to my son Curtis, who is having his first orientation day today for Kindergarten. The session runs from 9.15 am - 11.00 am.

He is so excited about it all, which to me is fantastic! To be honest I think I am more nervous then he is. This is going to be such a special time for him to bond with new friends and old ones from his pre-school. His teachers name is Mr Haywood, yes unusual for a kindergarten teacher to be male, but I think it will be a good influence on the kids indeed.

His next orientation days are on the 27th of October for a longer period of time and then a full school day being on 3rd November 2008. There is only going to be 19 students in his class consisting of 12 boys and 7 girls.

Looking forward to sharing some more of his journey with you all and Ill try to take a photo of each session and his thoughts about being independent.

Wish me luck!!!! LOL I hope I don't turn into a sooky lala

Thanks for listening. HUGS and MWAH Angie.

It's a small world AFTER ALL!!!

Hi there!

Well how exciting is this! I was blog surfing through Heidi Kelley's blog and how much inspiration there is in there as Kelley is one of Deb's Creations VIP Lounge artist this month and came across that Heidi was a design team member for guess who "Scrap.n.art". As I was most interested in finding out who had the same business name as me and where abouts in the world they are.

I went along to ScrapN'art.com (Ezine) an Internet magazine site for scrap booking in the USA!

I thought to myself, Ill write to the administration team and let them know who I am and what I am doing over here in the land Down under as a home based business. Well I waited with anticipated breath for the response.

I received an email later that day with good news and excitement from the Editor of the magazine and guess what?????? It gets more interesting with the editor of the magazine being also named ANGELA, yes can you believe it, same name, same business name and even freakier our birth dates are the same day but different months.

Even though we are on other sides of the world, I look forward to keeping in contact with Angela from ScrapN'art.com and building a fruitful relationship. Talk about great minds think alike!

Thanks for listening:):):)

Angie ~ aka Scrap.n.art (down under) LOL

Its all coming together, my vision is alive!

Hi Ladies

Just wanted to share some pictures of my class area here at home! Jay was kind enough to give me half the shed! lol and believe me its deffintly HIS/HERS.

Its been a long time since my vision came to me regarding what I wanted, but the end result is truly fabulous and I cant thank Jay enough for all his hard work and dedication. I took progression shots to show the difference between start to finish product!.

Only a couple of little thing to go now, I have some new curtains being made and I have more stock that is arriving in Late October early November then I will be fully operational. Looking forward to getting started!!!!!

Thanks for taking the time out to see my little part of my scrapping world I call SCRAP.N.ART!

Hugs Angie

My example of the October sketch challenge

Hi Ladies

I thought I would show my example of the sketch challenge I am running here on my blog. As well as offering a giveaway i do enjoy joining in on the fun also. Good luck to all those who are participating and ladies that haven't entered as yet, there is still time to get your entries in.

You can find the example of the sketch on the sidebar or if you are having trouble viewing it and you would like to enter in this competition, please email me at scrap.n.art@hotmail.com and I will gladly send you the sketch design.

All entries need to be returned to me before the end of this month to be in the running. Judging will be done by the lovely Deb Mitchell from Deb's Creations and who is also my feature artist in the spotlight this month.

Hope to see more of you join in the fun and who doesn't like winning free stuff at the end of the day for your efforts:):)

Hugs Angie

IT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!

I know to some of you this may seem a personal question or maybe not, my whole point of this post is to make someone else I care, share and scrap with aware of when was the last time you had a Paps Smear????? Yes that dreaded advertisement, sometimes it annoys you other times it makes you get off you butt and doing something about it!!!

Well I'm one of those ones that made the appointment and thank god I did! I have pre-cancer stage 3 after my results have come back from the gynecologist. I now have another appointment on the 21st of this month to see just how far I now have to go in relation to either having them lanced or a cone biopsy to see if I need a full hysterectomy!

So what I'm really trying to say is to all you wonderful ladies out there, that haven't had one recently, go and do it!!! Its been two and half years since my last Pap Test! who would have thought hey that in two and half years something like this could develop, not in my wildest dreams, would I have thought this could have even happen to me!

I just thank the big guy upstairs every day I have 2 beautiful children and that if worst comes to worst and I do need the hysterectomy that I have them in my life. It is a strong presence in my mother's side of the family with some already having the hysterectomy even at the early age of 26 yrs old! I am playing the waiting game now and I will have to wait and see what the gynecologist says on the 21st of October in relation to what comes next with me!

I'm keeping a positive mind and doing alot of meditation and scrapbooking, so that I feel is doing my soul good anyhow. Its really out of my hands now, but If I can only get one of you to go have a test if you haven't, then please do so!

MWAH and HUGS ANGIE:) xo

Photography UPDATE!

SNEAK PEAK!!!!

Hi Ladies

Pop across to the sidebar and visit the recently updated "My Journey through the lens" link. This will take you to my Passion for Photography section and once your completed looking, there is a returning link back into Scrap.n.art scrapbooking blog!

Thanks once again for taking the time to see how I see the world:)

Regards Angie ~ Scrap.n.art

ScraptasticSouthWest with new Sponsorship for Deb's Creations

Hi all

WOW! how lucky am I to be working with two fantastic ladies:) Taryn Franklin of ScraptasticSouthWest has now taken on Sponsorship of Deb's Creations monthly Challenge for October.

Taryn set a challenge on Deb's Creations to create a layout with Monochromatic qualities and the theme of Spring!

The colour yellow being the main objective. Taryn and Deb have had a great response to the ladies participating in the challenge and with some fantastic layouts being produced.

There is still time ladies if you are members of Deb's creations to have a go at this task and remembering too ladies each person who participants needs to make 10 posts in the forum area of SSW to be in the running. Layouts to be uploaded into the gallery area of both websites under the selected gallery thread.

A $30 voucher up for grabs to the lucky winner this month! At the end of the day, who doesn't like receiving free voucher's to spend on scrap goodies:):):)

Visit Scraptastic South West http://www.scraptasticsouthwest.bentwebs.com/ or Deb's Creations http://debscreations.net.au/ for further details in the forum area's.

I have also entered this competition, but am not eligible to win prize as I am one of Taryn's Design Team Members. Good luck to all participants:):):) My entry can be found on the posts below and it's called "Country Bumpkin".

Regards Angie

EXCITING NEWS

Hi Ladies

Just wanted to share some exciting news with you all! I have recently been chosen to be on the Design Team for Deb's Creations Home based business!! YAHOO!!

I would like to thank Deb for this wonderful opportunity in being chosen and I am very honoured too:) I will be working with a talented bunch of ladies including Theresa, Nat, Stephanie, Vicki, Treesa and Kerry.

Looking forward to working with you all and creating up a storm.

HUGS ANGIE

Challenge Chicks Layouts for October so far!

Hi there!

Just wanted to share what I have been creating over the weekend for Deb's Creations:)

So far I have completed the three of the main challenge chicks entries consisting of challenges set by the lovely Kylie, Vicki and Gayatri.

Challenge # 1 Kylie ~ Getting back to nature - My take is called "Nature's Spider Chandelier".

Challenge # 2 Vicki ~ Vick's favorite techniques - My take is called "Gallant Seamen".

Challenge # 3 Gayatri ~ Chipboard alpha's or numbers - My take is called "It's as easy as 1,2,3".

The creative Deb has also set more challenges this month with the following that I have completed so far!

Deb's Challenge # 1 ~ Bling it up - my take on the challenge is called "Your Smile"

Deb's Challenge # 3 ~ Negative Space - my take on the challenge is called "Pucker Up"

Looking at getting the rest of these done shortly.

Sponsorship Challenges completed are:

1. Scraptastic South West ~ Monochromatic Challenge ~ my take is called "Country Bumpkin"

2. Scrapper's Warehouse ~ Red, Blacka dn White ~ my take is called " Take this heart, but please don break it"!

Thanks for allowing me to share my creations with you and I hope you are all having a wonderful long weekend:) I will be posting more of the set challenges later in the week once I have completed them.

GUEST DESIGNER WANTED

A Message from Taryn owner of Scraptastic South West!!!

Scraptastic South West is looking for a Guest Designer to Create some lovely Christmas themed Layouts in the near future!If you are interested please email Taryn at enquiries@scraptasticsouthwest.com.au with some of your latest work!Your layouts will appear on our site in December.Thanks Taryn.

Hi Ladies

Welcome to another month, boy time is flying now hey!

This month at ScraptasticSouthWest with the Mojo Challenge, I would like you to incorporate these 5 things into your layout and here are as follows:

1. One photo (no size limits)

2. Two pieces of P/paper that measure to 1 inch wide by 6 inch long.

3. Four different styles of ribbons

4. Photograph to be mounted onto cardstock or P/paper.

5. 2 Different rubons on the page.

Good luck to all that enter get those thinking caps on ladies and show your creative style!

You have until Midnight the 31st of October to upload your layouts into the gallery labelled October Mojo Challenge at ScraptasticSouthWest. http://ScraptasticSouthWest.com.au/

To be in the running for the online gift voucher (3) non DT member must enter for the prize to be valid. any queries, please PM me and I will promptly reply ASAP!I will hopefully have my layout up as an example shortly:)

Happy Scrapping

Angie ~ Design Team Member