Our February cybercrop begins next Friday. Now, don’t be confused by the date next Sunday. Our theme may not be what you expect.

Here are a few hints:

Challenge one: Anyone for a tea party?

Challenge two: Is somewhat open for interpretation

Challenge three: Think landscape

Challenge four: We like shiny things.

After another round of voting, which never gets any easier, the following layouts, card and photo were our winners.

Ch 1 – Kaye’s  lovely ‘Memories’

Ch 2 – Wendyq with her ‘Truck Boy’ LO.

Ch 3 – Emma’s take on the blind challenge, ‘run, slide, hooray’.

Ch 4 – Jem’s gorgeous card was a clear winner!

Photographic ch – Flea

Congratulations to the winners and well done to all who entered.

Myself and the team at Chook Scraps would like to wish everyone a Happy Australia Day.

We hope you have had a relaxing day celebrating this great country of ours.

While doing not a lot today I came across this page and thought I would share it with you – it’s not a new page but it certainly has an Aussie theme.

Yesterday Sue-Maree ran an online class and it was just awesome! We learnt how to make a cute folded flower and she also shared some stamping/distressing techniques with us that I will certainly be using in the future.

The online instructions will be available for at least three months so check them out!

This is Sue-Maree’s completed page -

And here’s Kathy’s page

Okay ladies,

Here are a few sneak peaks for the class this afternoon.. starting in about 6 1/2 hours… which will be 4pm WA time.

This Sunday, at about 4 pm WA time (which should be 6 pm Qld time and 7 pm for the Eastern States with DST) I will be running a class focusing on making the teabag folded flowers I featured on one of my January Card Challenges.

There will be a thread on the forum shortly with more details but if you are looking for something to do on Sunday then make sure you pop back in and check it out.

Here’s some samples for the cybercrop challenges from 0ur wonderful Design Team members.

Challenge One, Sample by Kathy

Challenge Two, Sample by Sue-Maree

Challenge Three – no samples yet as it’s a blind challenge

Challenge Four, Sample by Anna

Remember you have till midnight on Monday to upload your entries so there is still plenty of time to participate.

Well the cybercrop is in full swing and I thought I would share the challenges with you -

Challenge 1

Create a layout using – blue, white and yellow for the summer colours, two photos and paint

Challenge 2

Thinking about summer being a time for spending time with friends we thought you could use the word friends and make a page with:
F – fiber & / or fifty words of journaling or more
R – rubons & / or ric rac
I – inking & / or iron on transfer
E – eyelets & / or eight of something
N – Numbers on the LO & / or somebody’s Name in the title
D- distressing & / or die cuts
S – stamping & / or sanding

Challenge 3

This month Challenge 3 is a blind challenge

Materials-

3 portrait photos (I used 6 x 4 that I had cut down to 3 ½ x 5)
1 30×30 base
Paper A – 28 x 11
Paper B – 26 x 9
Paper C – enough to matt one photo so around 4 x 5 ½ (I used a transparency for this)
Pens for doodling and journaling
Alphas for title
Ink
A curled embellishment to go up around one of the photos – I used a flower stencil template and a stamp but a bling flourish or flower cluster would work.

Method -
-Edge your photos with ink or sanding, set aside.

-Take paper A and shape the long bottom edge. You could do this with a template or freehand. I used a big bracket type shape but you could use a semi circle or just scallop the bottom. Place this across your page about 4 cm from the base of your cardstock or base paper.

-Take paper B – trim off 1 cm and set aside so you now have a piece 26 x 8 cm. Edge one long side. This could be distressed, punched or cut. Place this overlapping the top of paper A with the detailed edge at the bottom. The top of this paper should run across about half way down your base CS.

-Place paper C, for your matting, in the centre of the page overlapping paper B by about 1/3 of its’ length, but with the rest sitting up into the white space at the top of your page.

-Place your three photos across the page with the centre one on the matting and slightly higher than the two on either side. You may want to angle them slightly.

-Run a double line of doodling around the entire edge of your page – this can be hand drawn or stamped. You may want to use straight lines, curly lines, lines and dots – whatever takes your fancy.

-Place your corner embellishment up the edge and around the top of the photo on the left of your page.

-Take the extra strip you cut off paper B and cut it down to 14 x 1. Place this across the page in the middle of paper A. Place your title on paper A over / around that strip.

-Journal on the CS following around the shaped base of paper A.

-Add extra embellishments to make the page your own.

Challenge 4 card

Make a card that has -

- White with blue & / or yellow
- layering
- knotted ribbon

Our first CC of the year is on today starting at 2pm WST.

Our photographic challenge for this month is to upload a photo that you have taken on the theme “Summer”

and this month’s Chicken’s Challenge is to create a page using-

blue, white and yellow
numbers
knotted ribbon

You can check out the weekend timetable, bingo words and chat in our forum.

Joey celebrated a significant birthday on the 7th and here are a few of her LOs.

This is my Life

Making Pizza

S is for Santa

LisaJoc’s birthday was on the 10th and it was great to see her complete the Continuous Challenge recently after a bit of a break after being one of the runners-up in the Idol Challenge last year.

Christmas Joy

Celebrating

A Boy and a Horse

Today is also a significant day for Monk (aka Caroline) and I’ve chosen these from her LOs in the gallery.

Advent

Monk

Reading magic

We hope you each had a wonderful day on your special day!