MEET SOPHIE

So, its time that we reveal a little secret we have been dying to tell you about. At The Scrappery, we really want to provide you with as many inspiring layouts as we can. So we would love to introduce you to the first of our Creative Team Members.

Her name is Sophie Koschmann and she is a fabulously creative soul and a 2014 Scrapbooking Memories Master!!! We just love her artsy style. They are full of wonderful colour and shape and we know that her layouts (along with our beautiful kits) will keep you in awe and hopefully her layouts will teach you some new techniques.

Here is a little bio Sophie wrote herself to let you all know a little more about her.

Hi there fellow scrappers. My name is Sophie Koschmann and I am super excited to be joining Kayla and Nae on the Creative Team at the Scrappery.

I live on a farm in country Victoria with my mum, dad and younger brother. When I am not there however I am living in Bendigo where I am half way through a Bachelor in Graphic Design. I am a serious all-round crafter, DIYer and Pinterest lover. I am also a keen dancer and performer and am currently rehearsing for Chicago here is Bendigo.

I began scrapbooking when I was 10 years old, which is almost 10 years ago now. (Half my life? What?!). I don't remember what inspired me to start but I do remember creating my first layout. My mum booked me into a class our local scrapbooking store. One of my biggest achievements in this time was being named a 2014 Scrapbooking Memories Master. I am also currently on the design team at the Show Us Your Stuff challenge blog that I joined about 3-4 years ago when I started up my blog (which is feeling a bit neglected at the moment).

I am a 12 x 12 scrapbooker and often combine elements of mixed media like texture paste, mist and paints on my layouts. I love to contrast bright colours against white card stock to create a modern, stylish feel. I scrap about everyday and major events but especially love to feature my photography and portraits of myself, my friends and my younger cousins on my layouts. My style has definitely evolved over the years, as techniques and products have, but would say it is now eclectic and fresh. I don’t know, you’re probably a better judge than I am.

I can’t wait to play with Kayla and Nae’s gorgeous kits and I hope my layouts and videos will inspire you to use up every last bit of their goodness.

So I hope you guys have enjoyed getting to know our first CT Member. Please make her feel welcome on the facebook groups and the subscriber suite. We can wait to see what she creates with the TSK - Jericho and the BPK - Elsa. Be sure that it will all be featured on the blog right here.

Thanks for checking in again guys,
Love you all xoxo

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