JULY Take-a-chance Mystery Box Challenge

Amanda here....

Join us this month at RED EARTH for our Mystery BOX challenge - where I give you a set of ingredients and leave it to YOU to create a project...

This month is one with a twist - one where you need to take-a-chance and put your faith in a DICE... so run now and get yourself a dice. To decide your numbers of ingredients, you just need to roll the dice! No cheating! Take a chance!

SO: For July, you need to create a layout or project, and you MUST use the following key ingredients:
* Flowers
* Patterned Paper
* Words in the title
* Photos
You need to ROLL a dice to decide HOW MANY of each to use.

Heres what I rolled:

And here is the layout I created:

All my patterned papers and letters are from my stash.

I added some Jillibean Soup birthday stickers and some of these lovely flowers and some more of my MME brads.

Please take-a-chance - roll the dice and join us for this months Mystery challenge. Upload your project to the gallery for a chance to win a voucher to use in store.

Thanks team,

Amanda

JULY SKETCH Challenge

This JULY at RED EARTH... I have set the JULY Sketch challenge.

Here is the Sketch I designed: AND yes, its a single - can't believe the stir a double caused last month - ha ha ha....

And here is my page i created using the gorgeous My Minds EYE (Indie Chic-Citron) pack available now in store at Red Earth - HERE:

As well as the lovely Indie Chic papers and brads, I have also used Tim Holtz masking tape, October Afternoon Letters and Cosmo Cricket flowers from my stash.

And RESIN and CHARMS from HANDMADE HALO.

Please upload your Sketch my the end of July to be in the chance to win a voucher to use in store.

Many thanks for looking and playing along.

Amanda

JUNE Sketch challenge

Hi again everyone,
Amanda here again, this time with our SKETCH challenge for JUNE. Helen asked me to design a sketch and she said I could make it a double..... so here it is! (I love doubles, I know they are not everyones cup of tea - but this is why we set challenges, right?)

Apologies for the slightly messy hand-drawn sketch, I found myself short on time this week!

And here is my layout:

Used some a MME pin - http://redearthscrapping.com.au/node/4380
Prima letters http://redearthscrapping.com.au/node/4456 (last one left)
Kraft cardstock http://redearthscrapping.com.au/node/75 - always a favourite for beach pages..
Plus added some paper flowers and pebble from our friends at HANDMADE HALO.

Good luck this month. Remember to please upload your page to the gallery by the end of June for a chance to win!

Amanda

June Mystery BOX challenge

Hi girls,

AMANDA HERE!

Here is our JUNE mystery box challenge....

This is a timed challenge, so get out your stopwatch and make sure you get your layout done in the allocated time..... nothing like a bit of pressure to get a page finished, right? This challenge has been designed to help you do a quick page, one where you don't waste time planning and rearranging things, instead you JUST STICK IT!  My friends are rather familiar with me shouting this out during a crop!

YOU HAVE 45 MINUTES to create a card or layout.....
Your mystery ingredients are:
1 punch
1 stamp
1 photo
then single embellishments - keep it simple.


Here is the page i created (I did mine in 35 minutes)

So i used 1 border punch, 1 stamp and 1 photo.  For my embellishments I stuck to singles: 1 HALO resin flower, 1 HALO pebble, 1 HALO paper flower, 1 fabric brad, 1 micro-brad, 1 glittery brad, 1 sticker, 1 metal clip.

Have fun with this challenge. When you post your creation in the gallery, please let us know how long it took for you to complete!

Remember, great prizes up for grabs - please get all your entries in by the end of JUNE!

AMANDA

May Stash Stomper Challenge

Another month rolls around, can you believe it- May already! It's a lovely month for me personally, we celebrate birthdays of some very special people & of course there's Mother's Day, which I'm sure most of you would be looking forward to as well. I was thinking that challenges in May tend to typically be related to women, flowers & the like so I thought I might mix it up a little & choose a completely different angle as the subject matter for the challenge.

With winter sports now getting into to full swing & also (with any luck) gorgeous sunny days to get out & about to enjoy the great outdoors without gettting too hot............I'd like you to create a L/O about a winter sport or another kind of outdoor activity that you or your family enjoy during this time of the year & I'd also like you to include more than 1 photo on that L/O. The rest is up to you, any colours, papers or embellishments that take your fancy!

Here's my sample......

......looking forward to seeing all of your entries in the gallery.

Have fun & don't forget to upload your entry into the gallery before Midnight on Thursday 31st May to be in the running to win a fantastic prize (* minimum of 3 entries required for prize to be awarded)


Have a happy, scrappy May Day.

Susanne

MAY - Mystery BOX challenge

Hi everyone,

Amanda again - can you believe we have hit MAY? So on the 1st of the month, it is time for me to reveal my May Mystery Box challenge.

I know you are all as sad as me, seeing Liz Weber leave our RES Creative Team at the end of April. That means I will go on alone with my Mystery box challenge each month and create a layout using a list of special ingredients.  I will try to create a card also (not to compete with Liz, but instead for the personal challenge!). Anyway , no card for today, but I will have a go at creating one this week and load to our RES gallery.

MAY MYSTERY BOX CHALLENGE
Create a layout or card using the following ingredients:
* Misting with masks - you should try to use two different types of masks
* Stitching of some kind - machine, hand or even hand-doodled is fine
* Strips of paper
* Hand written journalling - preferably lots of it!
Remember you can add your own pantry staples, but you must stick to the core ingredients as much as possible!

So today I would like to share this layout...

I used new Crafters Workshop masks - both the hearts  (in stock) and chicken wire (currently out of stock, but Helen is getting more!)

I handstitched around the masked hearts (I love this!)

Used lots of paper strips - left overs from the layouts I created last week with Patterned Paper

Plus I did lots of journalling.

Letters: Prima

Embellishments: Handmade Halo Pebble, Handmade Halo Wooden Button, MME button and pins, Prima flowers I stole out of the April SUNSHINE kit. 

So please join us this month.... I would LOVE to see what you cook up!

Thanks,
Amanda

Patterned Paper Product Focus

Hi everyone,
Amanda here...

This week until WEDNESDAY, Red Earth Scrapping has 20% off Patterned Paper as a part of our monthly Product focus.

So this blog post is a quickie to show you some more layouts and inspiration for using patterned paper, which we all use, and own, in excess quantities!

I have the entire LILYBEE buttercup collection of papers.  Here are 3 layouts I created this week (2 for our CC sketch) and as you can see, even though they are from the same range, completely different colour combinations can still be created. I love the coordinating stickers and lettering in this range too. Plus I still have some left to create more layouts!

(Title didn't quite work out - "another day to play"

I'll need to fix this when i have more time later in the week!)

Remember to SAVE all those little strips of paper because they can become quite eye-catching elements on your layout.

And I hope the BACKS of your layouts look like this - creative cutting to get the most out of your papers! This a cost effective way to get lots of layers of paper in your layouts without using lots and lots of sheets of paper!

I always like to share my double layouts too....

Now i used only 1 SHEET of double sided patterned paper on white cardstock in this layout - fast, easy, balanced and quite effective. Give it a go!


And remember my April Mystery box layout?

Remember to hand-cut elements from your patterned paper, eg. the clocks in this layout and use the papers to make your own paper flowers.


Have fun creating this week - look forward to seeing all your layouts at the end of our CYBER CROP!

Amanda