PLK JULIETTE - WEEK 38 - NAE

Hey guys,
So guess what?? I DID SOME PL!! I found some time on the weekend to dig into the fabulous new PLK for February JULIETTE!! I just love all the beautiful valentine like cards that are in this kit but today I wanted to show you something a little different. I didn't PL Valentines week, I actually scrapped a week from last year, my birthday week.

I absolutely fell in love with the bright pinks and the watercolour look of some of the cards. Mixed it in with the gold hand painted looking cards and some woodgrain and that was my inspiration for this double page spread. 

I don't know what it was about this spread but I just felt the need to embellish EVERYTHING (thanks Adele lol). I usually leave a photo or two but everything ended up with something. Some photos you cant even see at all because of the amount of thickers and what not I placed over them. Oh well, I love it (thanks Adele). 

So this is my title card. I love the colours and the layered effect. I had a bit of trouble of it in the beginning because there was just no space to write anything so I have to pull in a label from a Studio Calico sticker sheet to create a little bit of space. I loved mixing both alphas from the PLK and the BPK this month!! They just worked so well together!!

I knew I wanted to use some of the stunning tags from the BPK Valerie as well and so I used the blue watercolour card and a collection of stickers from the Kiss Kiss sticker sheet to layer up a love card. The 14 embellishments don't have to be used just for valentines day. My birthday is on the 14th of September and so these cards and embellishments just worked perfectly throughout my layout.

I also dug into the little banners from the BPK Valerie and layered them on some of the ephemera from the TSK Bella. I also added some of the gold phrase stickers from one of our first kits ever, our BPK Gloria. I just love this little embellishment cluster and works so well on the bright greens of the rainforest. 

I also enjoyed layering stickers and ephemera together. They were the same image, just in two different forms and I love the shadowed effect the two create. I really enjoyed layering and embellishment clustering on this layout (if you hadn't already figured it out). 

And finally, if you want to check out how I did all of this, here is my process video that you can find on our Scrappery Youtube Channel. We are so blessed to have over 2000 subscribers now! We love making these videos for you and love the support every single one of us on The Scrappery Team receive. Thank you so much for your patience and support guys. I hope you enjoyed this layout and Ill be back in a week with another layout.

PAPERCUT LABS CHRISTMAS BLOG HOP

Hey guys, good morning. This morning on The Scrappery Blog we are doing something a little different. Today we are fortunate enough to be involved with Papercut Labs and their 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop! We love supporting Australian scrapbook businesses and Papercut is a wonderful resource that usually was only available from American companies. They are an online classroom, focusing on scrapbooking and other papercrafts. It is so great to see this resource highlighting the potential we have over here in Australia.

Here is a list of all the participants in the blog hop. We are already 5 days in so be sure to keep up with the list and write it all down. There are some pretty amazing contributors in this list!!

Monday, 8 December 2014: Papercut Labs
Tuesday, 9 December 2014: A Piece of Cake Designs
Wednesday, 10 December 2014: Kellie Stamps
Thursday, 11 December 2014: Heidi Swapp
Friday, 12 December 2014: The Scrappery <<<< HERE WE ARE!!
Saturday, 13 December 2014: Seriously Scrapbooking
Sunday, 14 December 2014: Maya Road
Monday, 15 December 2014: Stampin’ Up!
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: Scrapmatts
Wednesday, 17 December 2014: D-lish Scraps
Thursday, 18 December 2014: Studio Calico
Friday, 19 December 2014: Papercut Labs

Papercut also has a Cybercop happening over on Facebook. Go and join up. There are an amazing amount of prizes from some amazing international brands and awesome Australian companies. There are a stack of challenges to compete in to increase your chances of winning. I just wish I had time to participate. Some of the challenges are really inspiring.

We are donating two of our kits to the prize pool so please go and participate and you could win one of our amazing kits!

Our PLK - is our Project Life inspired kit, featuring exclusive hand designed and Australian printed Project Life sized cards and a range of embellishments, cut outs and of course, Thickers. Every kit we like to include Thickers!! 

Our BPK is our embellishment kit and for our second prize we are giving you our NOVEMBER PLK - This was one of our most popular BPKs with neon enamel dots and that amazing Amy Tangerine - Stitched stamp set. Such great value!

Want to win one of our kits or one of the other amazing prizes up for grabs? Check this out.

*All the below details are from the Papercut Labs site and can be found here*

Everyone who joins the crop party event on Facebook goes into the draw to win one of twenty-four prizes (two from each sponsor, and four from us).

However, to improve your chances of winning one of the giveaways, you can:

a. Create a project (card, layout, OTP, something paper-y) inspired by the challenges and upload it to the event page. Doing this, you’ll receive SIX entries into the giveaway draw. (Make sure you tell us which challenges you used!)
b. Comment on a project on the event page, and you’ll receive another one entry into the giveaway draw.

To see the challenges visit here

You have until the 20th of December to participate! So get in there and get creative!!

Now onto our contribution for the blog hop. Charm has created some amazing christmas cards using our old BPK Elsa - which is still available in store. I had a little fun with this months BPK Noelle and created a few cute little tags. Finally, Adele has created an adorable bunting for Christmas using last months TSK - Camille, this months BPK Noelle and a variety of other pieces from her own stash. So sit back and get ready to be INSPIRED.

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Hello! Charmane here! Just for something different I'm going to show you some simple cards I have made using The Scrappery Elsa BPK {which is the *Bits & Pieces* Kit} I believe there is ONE in stock HERE!

I just fell in love with all of the Silver in this kit, and knew exactly what I wanted to do with those Silver Glitter Triangles - make Christmas Cards with TREES on them, of course!

But first I wanted to create a unique background using the Mister Huey's Silver Mist, I've done this by using the "Watercolour" Background technique that I've seen being used by others - this is where you use scrunched up plastic packaging, spraying a few squirts of mist and then scrunching it onto your Cardstock... simple!

Then I've added my stamps {you may recognise them from another Contributor?}

I've then added the CUTE Dear Lizzy Silver glitter triangles, and also the Studio Calico Mistable Stars from the ELSA BPK and my own handmade Chevron...I've then added a border by using a journalling pen, then stuck it to a pre-made blank white card! Done!

Here are a few more similar ones that I have made using the same background technique... I have also used the Studio Calico Silver rub-ons from the ELSA Kit on these cards too.

I'm planning on giving these {and more that I've made} to my relatives at my up and coming Family Get Together - I can't wait! Bring on Christmas!

I hope you all Have a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

xo Charm

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Wow Charm those cards were amazing!! After all that amazing eye candy, I think I am just going to give you one photo of my cute little tags and then the process video I created to show you all just how easy they are. 

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Merry Christmas fellow Scrappers!

This week I have been working on some homemade Christmas decorations for my new house, including this pretty no-so-traditional bunting for my fireplace. Here’s a little step by step process to make these beauties, and the great thing is, they are completely customizable! Include photos, text, even journaling!

1. Start with two packets of DIY Shop Large Chipboard Pennants and a collection of papers from the past couple of TSK kits from The Scrappery

2. Attach the papers to the pennants using a dry adhesive (wet may cause buckling of the paper). 

3. Order your pennants in a desired colour order. I decided on a random scattering of papers but you could consider a pattern, or an ombre effect of colours too!

4. Now it’s the fun part…EMBELLISHING! Add as many (or as little) embellishments as you like! I used a variety from the BPK Noelle and various thickers from past kits and my stash. I also added a few Christmassy photos too!

5. After you have finished embellishing your beautiful pennants, it’s time to string them together! I re-poked through the paper to make the holes visible, then grabbed some gold and white baker’s twine from my stash and threaded them together. I used 11 pennants in total, which is about 2 metres worth of bunting.

6. Now hang your beautiful creation!

Hope this can give you some ideas for some no-so-traditional decorations for your home! 

Adele xxx

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Thanks so much for joining us on this blog hop. I hope that we have added to the tons of inspiration you have already received from some amazing designers. Be sure to continue to follow along to continue your Christmas DIY inspiration.

Merry Christmas everyone and we hope you have a very creative New Year xoxo

August Cyber Crop Winners

So the weeks and the months are just flying past us now. The Scrappery has just released our THIRD kit and we are super excited with the direction our cute little kit club is going. We have some exciting news to announce over the next couple of days so be sure to stay tuned so that you don't miss out on all the amazing kit releases, videos and announcements.

I thought today I would post a little about the recent Cyber Crop we had for August. Once again we had three amazing challenges and the participants have grown in numbers. It was amazing to see a whole new group of scrappers work towards earning points to receive their free kits.

Please check out the gallery of all entries, they are all featured in our PINTEREST GALLERY.

So the first challenge we had in the Cyber Crop was a mood board challenge. The mood board was an arrangement of bold colour and shape, inspiring quotes and techniques. Here is the mood board I created and the challengers had to use to inspire their layouts.

The winner for the Mood Board challenge was the always beautiful Peg Hewitt. She is a long time friend of mine and I just absolutely love her style and layouts. I love how she had used the darker colours in this board but her photos really lend themselves to the yellow colours in the board as well. She also used the quote on the woodgrain panel. Many decided to use this quote and I love it! I may even consider making a PL card with the quote. Time will tell. For now enjoy Peg's fabulous layout and don't forget to check out her blog and the other layouts in the pinterest gallery. 

TIMES ARE HARD FOR DREAMERS

Peg Hewitt

Our next cybercrop challenge was our ever popular sketch challenge. I love these challenges and it seems a lot of you do too. Here is the sketch that we all had to work with this month. 

I love the collection of doilies and arrows and the layers as well. Circles are always a challenge for me so I tried so hard to make my layout fit exactly with the sketch. Enough about my layout though (you will see that later in another blog and process video). The winner of the sketch challenge was the beautiful Karen Jarman.

TIME TO BE HAPPY

Karen Jarman

Now I am the first to admit, I am not a fan of green and gold but this layout just does it for me!! I love this layout and its green paint and black stamping and distressing. The gold just lifts everything off the page. All of this just works with the photo effortlessly. Great job Karen and thank you for entering. 

The final challenge we had this month was a little different. To celebrate the peek of our new BPK (embellishment kit) Elsa, challengers had to Use the four letters from the name Elsa and use those letters for first letter of scrapbook products to use on your layouts. I had seen these challenges before but never really participated. Apparently you guys loved this challenge as we had so many entries. It was so hard to choose a winner but eventually we chose the beautiful Rachel Dutko. 

LOVE

Rachel Dutko

Really loving this page. Rachel used E - enamel dots, L - "love", S - stars and spray inks and A - arrows. I just love how she has clustered embellishments and given the edges that little bit of colour. Looks distressed, like aging painted wood and I love it!! Congrats Rachel.

So at this stage you are all probably wondering what points you are on to earn your kits. Here is the updated table for August. We will start incorporating more incentives to help you earn your points soon so stay tuned for that. 

Name	Total	July CC	Aug CC
Kerry O'Meara	16	13	3
Alyce Blyth	15	13	2
Lydia Gibson	5	3	2
Melissa Smith	2	2	0
Kristie-Anne Bridges	1	1	0
Charmaine Kosch	11	11	0
Carmel McKee	2	1	1
Peg Hewitt	13		13
Rachel Dutko	13		13
Connie Souter	3		3
Melissa Lea Meyer	3		3
Deb Egan	1		1
Paula Fitzpatrick	1		1
Janmaree Peace	1		1
Karen Jarman	11		11

It is not too late to join in on our fabulous cybercrops, held during our PEEK PARTIES, around the 15th of every month. Just be sure to check out our facebook page and you can definitely join in the festivities. You don't have to be a subscriber to participate!

Thanks guys, I hope you enjoy the work from these three wonderful ladies!!

Do you want to know something really cool???

We are going to be teachers at Papercut Labs in October!!!! Thats right, not only are you able to buy beautiful kits every month from us that really reflect our own style, but now you will be able to learn our tricks and tools that we use in our everyday scrapbooking.

Our class is going to be focused on Project Life inspired scrapbooking but there are some other really amazing classes being taught during other months. Traditional Scrapbooking, by Jen Hall, Card Making by Natalie Elphinstone and a Christmas class by Donna Williams. Something for everyone!! Watch this video to get an insight to all the teachers that will be hosting classes in 2014.

 

Please sign up and enjoy the fun, not just in our class but in the other classes as well. It is a great way to support the Australian Scrapbook community and build it up to be seen around the world as one of the leading trendsetters in the scrapbook industry.

So jump on over to the Papercut Labs site, sign up and make sure you are in the know about all the classes and when sign ups will be available.

We are so super excited to share with you all our love and passion for the modified scrapbooking that is project life. We cant wait to show you how to make your layouts more creative and less "photo and card" type layouts. This will not be a "how to" project life class at all, it will focus more on the creative aspect so if you are looking for a way to spruce up your weeks and make those photos really take center stage, go and check it all out!!

 

Go Gold - BPK and TSK 12x12 Layout

Hey guys, Nae back again with another beautiful glittering 12x12 layout to feat your eyes on. We are having so much trouble with shipping this month that things just seem to fall further and further behind. We are so sorry to inconvenience you all in only our second month but hopefully after this month we will have things sorted out and there will be no more set backs. If you are a subscriber be sure to check your kits for the free gift we have provided to say how sorry we are for delaying shipping. Now, onto the layout.

I originally made this layout for the sketch challenge in our first Cyber Crop but never got around to actually getting it finished, photos taken and uploaded. So now, here it is for you all to see. Its funny, it reminds me a lot of Charm's layout in a previous post.

The layout, like I said earlier, was for the sketch challenge listed on the previous blog post about the Cyber Crop but I will post it here for you again so you can look at the resemblance. 

This is probably the closest to a sketch I have ever been. I actually surprised myself with how well I stuck to it. When I used to scrapbook 12x12 layouts (about 5 years ago) I tended to just take inspiration from the sketch and just work it into my own layout. Eventually they would look nothing like the original. So this was a huge accomplishment for me. 

I absolutely loved the woodgrain paper that featured in our TSK - The Scrappery Kit - Tilly in our July Edition. I knew as soon as I found it, like Kayla, that I had to use it as a whole background piece. I could seriously have another 20 pages of this and be happy!!

I just absolutely loved the BPK - Bits & Pieces Kit - Gloria, our July Edition and all its gold beauty. I did originally start out with a heap of the papers from Tilly but after a while knew that I wanted to work with just the golds on this stunning piece of background paper. The Lindy's Stamp Gang Spray is just amazing. If you haven't mixed up your own bottle and used it yet I suggest you do. I will be definitely getting more of these and using them as my main mists. Just heavenly to use. 

As always I have made a process video to go along with the layout, so sit back, relax and take a peek into my workspace. Thank you so much for sticking with us guys and I hope I get to see more of your amazing layouts in the weeks to come. 

Until next time guys,
I have some packing and wrapping to do,

JULY CYBER CROP

Hey guys, Nae back here again with another blog update. We had an amazing first cyber crop the other week. We plan to make these cyber crops a monthly event and as such, they run a little differently to other cyber crops you may have seen.

Each month we will supply everyone (subscribers and non subscribers) three challenges.. For every challenge you complete and upload you will receive one (1) point. If you win that challenge you will be awarded ten (10) points. These points accumulate and if you participate often you will be able to use these points to earn a free kit. You will need a hundred (100) points to earn a free BPK and one hundred and fifty (150) points to earn one of either our PLK or TSK.

Each month the challenges will be posted in the PEEK PARTY event page and entries will be posted to these same posts on Facebook. All entries will then be loaded into our SCRAPPERY GALLERY on Pinterest.

So now that you know the drill I hope to see you all participating and earning those free kits!!

So for July we had three completely different challenges. We were absolutely amazed by some of the work you all did and it made picking winners very difficult (especially in the SKETCH CHALLENGE).

CHALLENGE NUMBER 1: PRETTY SKETCHY

Use this sketch as inspiration for your layout. Follow it however you like and make it your own. Just stick to the main sketch. Cant wait to see your entries. Post as a response to this post before 23rd July.

Here is the sketch:

And here was our winning entry:

Charmane Koch

Congratulations Charm on an amazing entry! We just loved it! You can see the rest of the entries for this challenge in our PRETTY SKETCHY Pinterest Gallery. Charm has won herself 10 points to add to her total. 

CHALLENGE NUMBER 2: COLOUR BETWEEN THE LINES

Pick one of the colour combos from tonights peek party and create a layout (or PL spread) using it. You can use as many, or as little of the colours as you like but I would love to see mostly the colour from the Colour Peeks used. Please only use one combo.

These were the colour combos the participants had to work with:

August PLK Colour Combo

August TSK Colour Combo

Everyone chose to go with the August TSK Combo which just confirms how much people love pink! That made me very happy lol. So anyway onto the winner:

Alyce Blyth

Congratulations Alyce! We just loved your Project Life take on the challenge. The colours just work really well together and we just love how you mixed and matched different collections to create a complete story. 

You can see the rest of the entries for this challenge in our COLOUR BETWEEN THE LINE Pinterest Gallery. Alyce has won herself 10 points to add to her total. 

Finally the last challenge. 

CHALLENGE NUMBER THREE: IM YELLING TIMBER!!!

This one has a little something to do with our "all wood" colour palette. We know how much wood veneer and other wood products are a huge trend in scrapbooking at the moment so what we would like for this challenge is for you to use "wood" predominately on your layout or PL layout.

Augusts BPK Colour Combo

Here is our winner!!

Kerry O'Meara

Congrats Kerry! We just loved how many different pieces and different types of wood you used on your layoyt!! Just beautiful!

You can see the rest of the entries for this challenge in our IM YELLING TIMBER! Pinterest Gallery. Alyce has won herself 10 points to add to her total. 

So with that I thought I would also post at the end of each cyber crop the current standings of our lovely members and participants. This way you can keep track of your points along with us.

Name	Total	July CC
Kerry O'Meara	13	13
Alyce Blyth	13	13
Lydia Gibson	3	3
Melissa Smith	2	2
Kristie-Anne Bridges	1	1
Charmaine Kosch	11	11
Carmel McKee	1	1

So that should be about it for the moment. I hope you all enjoyed our PEEK PARTY and CYBER CROP!! Cant wait to do it with you all again next month!! 

Remember kits go live in a few days and we cant wait to show you some of the amazing things we have lined up! xoxo

PLK - Charlotte - Project Layout and Process Video

Hey guys and welcome to the new blog and our very first The Scrappery Kit Club design and inspiration post. If you have noticed Kayla and I have decided to do things a little differently with our little kit club. Instead of having a design team straight away, we will design with the kits and provide you with a wealth of blog posts, photos and process videos to inspire your own creativity with the kits. We also hope to feature some of our amazing subscribers here on the blog and show off their works.

But for today I thought I would get the ball rolling with my first Project Life layout in a long time. With getting the business all organised and set up, I haven't had much time to play with my pretty cards. It felt so good to just sit and play and more importantly play with my new set of cards from our PLK - Pretty Little Kit. 

The July kit, Charlotte, is full of beautiful light corals and teals and contrasted with stunning navy blues and blacks. The entire collection is made of original cards created by myself for The Scrappery Kit Club. Every month subscribers will be treated to unique card sets. I am so excited to bring this little Australian first to all of our subscribers!!

I found it very easy to piece together with the cards in the kit. The cards also enabled a lot of room for journalling. This is something I don't usually do a lot of in Project Life. I have always wanted to journal more as it is about capturing the everyday moments. It felt so good at the completion of this layout to know that these memories will always be here to look at an now I will actually have written notes to remind me of the times in the photos. 

I just  love how the layout all came together as a whole. This would be one of my first layouts that I have done that hasn't worked around a particular three colour scheme. I worked more with just the cards as a whole, knowing that whatever combination I used, they would all work together as they were designed to be used in any combination. I just love the flexibility. 

I just love title cards. Its the one place where you can really scrapbook (even if it is just on a smaller scale). I really like to dig in and create something beautiful with these title cards. This week I really loved using those SC South of Market kraft and white striped thickers. They just work with any colour combination, a great  neutral alphabet. I also dabbled in all things I normally embellish with. Mists, enamel dots, sequins, gems, doilies and I also used some of the cute gold foiled label stickers from our BPK - Bits and Pieces Kit for July, Gloria. 

Here are a few more closeups of how I used the cards within the layout. I was really in love with paint splatter and brush script and so I really wanted to give it a go in this months PLK cards. The colours are soft unlike so much of the harsh blacks of traditional brush script. I also used my very first list card ever. I was so excited to get the card out and make a list of all the exciting things that had happened this week. 

My final piece of love on this layout was the PHOTOWALL card that I made. This week in Project Life I made a photo wall in the lounge room and hung a heap of photos on a few pieces of twine. I really loved how the whole thing turned out and had to document it. I also love how I ended up presenting this card. Once again using those great SC Thickers and a beautiful gold foil label from the PBK. The label allowed a little room for journalling but also allowed you to see all the mini photos captured in the one real photo. 

As always with my blog posts and a common thing here on The Scrappery, we will be posting process videos with most of our layouts and inspiration. Click the video below and you will get to our youtube channel where you can see more amazing and inspirational layouts and process videos from both Kayla and myself. 

So thats it guys, I hope you enjoyed that layout and don't forget to go over and check out The Scrappery Website and sign up for one of our amazing kits. We still have three kits left from this month so if you would like your own set of these cards you can still get your pretty little hands on them here. 

Thank you so much everyone for your love and support with both Kayla and myself as we start this new little adventure. I honestly had no idea this would happen so quickly but I am so happy it had. I have loved getting to know so many of you and I hope our little community continues to grow.  Please don't forget to share with us your creations you make with our kits, we would love to share them in our Pinterest gallery. 

Don't forget this week we have our August Peek Party and our very first Cyber Crop. Click the link to go to the event page and join in the fun. We will have a heap of challenges to get your inspiration flowing as well as a heap of peeks for the upcoming kits in August.