Boy how the time is flying, can't believe we are almost in November. Am starting to scrap with some new Chrissy papers tha Lana has sent me. There will be kits available in store in the next month or two.

What's been happening at CIS?
Raising money for Breast Cancer!!!! We had our girls night in last saturday night and it was great fun!! We had lots of games and scrappy fun for everyone and the girls had a blast. Lana and the girls ended up smashing her goal of raising $100 and ended up with approx $230.
Karen ran a speedscrap, Kerryn had her hyperdash class and Lana and I ran a few games, the night went soooo fast, but I loved every minute of it!!
Krissy also did an exclusive sketch and all the girls did a gorgeous job with it!!!
Here is the layout that I created for it.
There are still the monthly competitions that are on and you have until saturday night (31st october) to upload your layouts to the gallery to be for a chance to win a voucher from the store! Here is what I did for the technique - ribbons challenge, which is to create ribbon flowers.

This layout is for the monthly Shaping up challenge, which is to use rings on your layout.

We also have the October GIRL POWER CYBERCROP coming up over the Melbourne Cup long weekend holiday, next weekend. So come on down and join in on all the fun!!

ARTYPANTS NEWS!!!!

Well the SCRAP YOUR PANTS OFF is in full swing and I've just uploaded the week 2 challenge!

The challenge includes to use this comic strip as inspiration.

But you can check out the full details of the comp HERE

Challenge 1 was posted by Jodie and it included Something new, something old, something borrowed and something blue. So here is the layout I completed for it!!

So lots going on in the scrapping front and loving every minute of it!!! Thanks for popping by and leaving a comment :)

MORE SCRAPPY NEWS!!

Well I'm very very happy to announce that Scrapbooking Memories Magazine have accepted one of my layouts for publication!!! WHOOHOO!! I've just sent it off today, so we'll see what comes of it and if they actually choose it for their vintage theme in a few months time. I can't share the layout until 2 months after the magazine has been released, but I will then :)

CRAFTING IN STYLE NEWS!!!

October is GIRL POWER month and the girls have cooked up a treat of monthly challenges:

Shaping up - rings by Kerryn

Technique - ribbon flowers by Karen

Favourites - scrap your favourite girl in your life and use one of your favourite sketches from September.

Kerryn is also running her HYPER DASH class on the 17th October (next saturday night) which is available in store now!

That night is also our GIRLS NIGHT IN raising money and awareness for the Cancer Council. So for a donation you'll be able to come for a great night of challenges, games and laughs.

So here are the links for CIS goings on:

The forum for all the fun and information

The store for class accesses and Girls Night in, as well as lots of yummy goodies!!

The sketch blog for lots of ACE inspiration!!

I have also put together a Stylish kit this month called - ADORABLE - which is available in the store for $12 and for every kit sold, I'll be donating $2 to the Cancer Council!!

I also participated in the first Scrappers Whispers that Ginny organised for us and here was my interpretation:

ARTYPANTS NEWS!!

Registrations are NOW OPEN for Artypant's big competition - SCRAP YOUR PANTS OFF!!!!!

The comp is open to anyone, but you must register your interest before it starts.

The first challenge will be revealed on 17th October and you'll have til the following Sunday night to upload to the gallery.

It will run for 6 weeks, with the top 3 or 4 having a SCRAP OFF in the 7th week.

The major prize will be a 3 month subscription to Artypants monthly kits, which are just awesome!!!! That includes free postage.

There will also be other games and challenges throughout the comp to play along with aswell as weekly prizes.

So for more information check out the forum HERE.

This weekend is Artpant's SCRAPTOBERFEST Cybercrop!!!! It will kick off on friday night will 2 challenges and a game and then saturday night another challenge and game. You'll have until wednesday night to upload, so lots of time to get your creations in!!

Artypants are also getting in lots of ace stock at the moment from Prima and Buzz and bloom and they have lots more yummy things like glimmermist (I just got my first bottle whoohoo!!!)

So check out their store HERE.

Ok lots going on, so I'll leave it there and be back soon with some other of my latest creations!!!

Cybercrop over at CIS

OMG I totally forgot to put this on my blog on friday, oh well it's still going on over at the forum today and the challenges don't need to be uploaded until wednesday midnight, so still lots of scrappy time left :

Here's the timetable:

Friday 25th September

7:00pm - Sign in and chatter

7:30pm - Challenge 1: REDUCE with Karen

8:00pm - Challenge 2: REUSE with Laura

8:30pm - Challenge 3: RECYCLE with Kerryn

Saturday 26th September

8:00pm - Live chat sign in

8:15pm - Game: Scavenger Hunt with Lana

Sunday 27th SeptemberScrap and chat all day!!!

Upload by Wednesday 30th September midnight AEST

My challenge is to scraplift someone's work from the gallery, plus an additional criteria that you can check out in the forum. I scraplifted this layout by Ali:

ARTY PANTS CYBER CROP

Just letting you know that the Artypants cybercrop had to be rescheduled due to a lot of the DT's personal committments, but the good news is, that it will be held this weekend (Friday 11th til monday 13th). So come along to the forum and check out all the fun!!! Just click on the cute pic above to send you straight into the forum :)

Will be back later on in the week with the goings on of CIS and some AP cc sneeky peeks :)

Take care xoxo

AUGUST SCRAPPY NEWS!!!!

Well its that time again over at CIS - we are having our August cybercrop starting tomorrow night, here are the details:

GOURMET DELIGHTS Cyber Crop

"The DT girls have been cooking up some yummy challenges for our August cybercrop! Put on your chef's hat and pre-heat that scrappy oven for somedelicious scrappy fun and your chance to win some tasty prizes!"

When: thursday 27th - Wednesday 2rd August.

Where: @ the CIS forum

Hope to see you all there :D

We also still have the CIS Idol going and there are lots of ways to earn points to your tally, so you can check it all out here. It will be running until the end of August.

I've also just ran the last FTL there for a little while now, as we are launching a new format of monthly challenges next week. Come on over on tuesday night to check it all out!!

Here is my FTL layout from last week:

The WINNER of the FTL draw was RACH!!!


A little bit of sad news..... our DT member, Manon, has decided to step down from her position at CIS. So sad to see you go Manon, but can understand your decision wasn't taken lightly. We'll miss ya!!!!

Kerryn, has accepted a position on the DT and has been working behind the scenes in the upcoming cc and more challenges coming soon!!! Great to have you on the team Kerryn!!

ARTYPANTS NEWS!
How do you get 3 ArtyPants kits delivered to your door for FREE? Watch this space and find out how...

Shortly, there will be a new and exciting comp coming to the Artypants forum, so go and sign up and see what they are all up to!!!

We are currently working on the next cybercrop too, here are the details:

SPRING INTO SCRAPPING!!!

Do you need that mojo boost that you have been looking for? or maybe you just want to start some FRESH pages? Come on down to artypants and check out the fun and fresh challenges the girls have planned for the first weekend in SPRING!!!

When: Friday 4th September

Where: Artypants forum

Young Scrap Birds

I've recently joined another new forum, that is exclusively for the Gen yer's and I only JUST make the cut (age wise lol). They had their first cc last weekend and was lots of fun to be scrapbooking without too much restriction.

Here are the layouts I made for it, using the latest train ride pics of the kids. Have heaps more of those photos to scrap and love em all :D

I got an email from Rach (the owner of YSB) to let me know that I won one of the challenges with my second layout "birds of a feather flock together"!!! Thank you so much girls, had a great time and look forward to chatting more to you all.

I've also made a pressie for my friend (and DH's cousin) and her new baby Jordan. Was lots of fun!!! I actually got the idea of the baby book, from when I had Luke and a friend from Scrapbooking Memories forum sent to me - Thanks Alison!!

We're looking for the first CIS Idol!!!!

Come and visit us at Crafting in Style!!! In the month of August (started on the 10th August) we are looking for our very own CIS Idol.

http://picasion.com/pic12/1925b5569d984e3997f6937d9be23f71.gif

Check out the rules here.

Also on this month is the monthly "Shaping up" Comp and this month Manon provided us with a beautiful sample and the shap is CIRCLE, include three circles on your page.

We are also going to be having our Follow the Leader finale next week. I'll post up the ingredients of what you'll need to complete the layout and the instructions will be up next Wednesday 19th August. Everyone who has their layout up in the gallery by the sunday will go into the draw for a prize!!

We are going to be lots of fun stuff in september too, so keep an eye out!!

Crafting in Style cyber crop

I know, sorry about the late notice, but just thought I'd pop it up here cause you've still got two full days of scrapping to get your layouts submitted before monday midnight.

The Technique challenge is "Quilting" and here my layout complete with instructions in the forum.

Manon has set a great 'homie' inspiration challenge and Lana has put to us some quotes to use as inspiration.

Karen (who designed the fantastic banner) will be hosting her challenge tonight and there is still time to get in and play Hide and Seek!!!

So come on over to www.cisters.ning.com for all the fun this weekend.

Artypants Birthday cyber crop!!!

Come on over to Artypants this weekend, as they are re-launching their cybercrops with a big birthday bash - yup....Artypants is 3 this month!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I've already put my challenge up last night, using a party food picture as inspiration. Here's my layout, you need to gain 3 pieces of inspiration from the pic in the forum:

Bec has given us the "pass the parcel" challenge.

Kerry will be posting her Sketch challenge tonight and there will also be a fun game of bingo.

You can also be in for a chance to win a cool prize for the door prize challenge.

So go on over to the forum to check it all out!!!

The start of a new month - July!!

Thought I would jump on here and give an update of my scrappy business for the Start of the month and financial year!!!

Over at Artypants, I've just uploaded my next Scrap it with a Quote challenge for July. So go and check out the forum for the quotes and other criteria. Here is my sample layout using my first DT pack, including the yummy Pink Paislee, fetching paper.

You've still got until the 4th July to get your June entries in for Scrap it with a Quote, so hurry!!!
ALSO coming very soon is the Arty pants cyber crop come back, so go and join in at the forum and get ready for lots of fun challenges!!

Over at Crafting in Style, the new Shaping Up challenge is up and the lovely Karenb has posted her sample layout. The new shape is HEARTS and you can use as many as you like, but you must have ONE prominent one on your layout. Upload to the gallery by July 31st AEST.
There's also some new exciting news going to be announce TODAY with our Sketch side of things, so go and check out the forum to see what's going on.

I'll be running my "Friends" class on thursday night. There are still kits available in store and the instructions to the class will be there for as long as you need to access.

The Cybercrop has ended but if you head over to the forum, you can help us out with the voting!!!

AND lastly the LCA winners were revealed over the weekend.

CONGRATULATIONS to.....

First - Krissy

Second - Kerryn

Third - Chantal

Well done girls, your layouts were excellent and thanks to all the girls who participated!!!

In other scrappy news....

I don't really do much other scrapping as the two DT's keep me pretty busy, but I always love the challenges and cybercrops over at Scrapboutique.
This month I completed their Boutique Stylist challenge which was ran by the beautiful Manon and she set a colour challenge. Here is my layout...


I also participated in their cybercrop and got 3 out of the 4 challenges done. There were...

Kate's puzzle challenge:

Liz's sketch challenge:

And Chels' lucky dip challenge:

Yesterday the winners were announced and I won Kate's challenge!!!! Thank you so much girls for running another great cybercrop!!! And I also won the bingo whoohoo!!! lol

They are also having some birthday celebrations this month, so head over to their forum to check it all out!!

Ok well that's it for now, I'll be back when I have more layouts and projects to share. I'm currently working on a new OTP Kaiser project, but won't be able to reveal for a little bit :)

Lots of Scrappy news!!!

Ok so its been WAAAAAYYY to long and I've been doing HEAPS of scrapping so I won't be able to share everything cause I would be here all night.

Recently I've had some very exciting news to share!!! I'm now a DT member at Artypants!!! Artypants is owned by Judy and Jodie and used to be my LSS, but have recently gone exclusively online now and have there forum and gallery up and running again!!

I've joined a wonderful DT who are: Jody, Suzi, Andrea, Bec and Kerry A.

Go and check it out, there are a few fun challenges up for the month of June, so there is still time to submit your creations. The website is: http://artypants.com.au/chat/index.php

I've put up a challenge "Scrap it with a quote". The quotes for June are:

"Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live" author unknown

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Henry David Thoreau

"Our character is what we do when we think noone is looking" H Jackson Brown Jnr

And what's a challenge without some extra requirements!!You must also include this month:

* paint and

* a rubon

Here's my layout:

Kerry has posted a Winter Woolies challenge and our GDT member Gayatri has posted up a card challenge. So go now and check it out!!!

Crafting in Style News!!!
We've just hosted the last week of the Lights, Camera, Action competition. Probably a bit late to be advertising this now hehe, but there will always be the next time. Here are the layouts I completed for the weekly challenges (although I didn't get to the first or last one :( )
Week 2 - E.T

Week 3 - Stand by Me
Week 4 - Pinnochio
week 5 - When Harry Met Sally
All the girls did a fantastic job and there were so many wonderful layouts produced. The winner will be announced this weekend on Sunday night!!

I'm also running a class next week - FRIENDS- using the new yummy Basic Grey Lime rickey range. Lana has popped the kit up in the store for a bargain of $12 (including class access) or your can just come along to the class with your own supplies for $5. I'll also be doing a prequel to the class on monday night (29th June) all the details are:

When: thursday 2nd July from 7:30pm

Where: in the groups section of the forum

If you aren't available on the night, you will have access to the instructions for as long as you need :) So come and join me!!!

Lastly, CIS are having their June Cyber Crop on this weekend starting tonight (25th June) and ends Sunday with all the challenges needing to be posted by monday 29th June midnight AEST.
The first challenge is up, its a sketch challenge and here is the sketch and my sample using the new yummy KaiserCraft Child's Play that Lana picked up at the product launch last week!!

Well that's about it for the time being, I promise I'll update more often in the future :)