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Jan 21

Free Class by Kathy on Australia Day

Our wonderful Creative Chook Kathy is running a free class on Australia Day. She will be teaching us how to get more out of our stamps by using a masking technique. I also need to say a big thankyou to Flea for demonstrating this technique at our last retreat. The class will be starting a 2.30pm WA time but as always it will remain in the forum for 3 months so you can complete it at a time that suits you.

Requirements list –

* 1 photo – mine is a 5×7 portrait
* 1 cardstock
* approx 1/2 sheet of pp
* flowers
* buttons
* rub-ons
* brads
* ribbons
* title alphas
* journaling block
* 2 STAMPS of different sizes, 1 1/4 to 2 ins in diameter
* INKS
* POST-IT NOTES larger than your larger stamp
Here’s a sneak peak –

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For more information visit our forum.

Jan 17

Cybercrop this Friday January 18th

Hi Everyone

Just a quick reminder that our monthly cybercrop is on this weekend. The first challenge will be posted at about 2.30pmWST and you have till midnight on Monday January 21st to upload your entries into our gallery. We already have some pre-CC chat and hints in our forum go and check them out here. The DT girls and I would love to see you all there.

We have had some gorgeous layouts made with our January scrap pack and I thought I would share a couple with you.

This fabulous layout was made by our Creative Chook Kathy using the January Chook Scraps pack. I love the way she has cut the diamonds from the patterned paper to create the border under the photo.[photopress:Kathy_Jan_Pack.jpg,full,pp_empty]

This stunning layout was made by our Creative Chook Susan using the January Chook Scraps pack. The felt makes a wonderful border and the way Susan has journaled straight onto the photo has finished off the layout perfectly.[photopress:Susan_Jan_pack.jpg,full,pp_empty]

 

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Jan 14

Competitions, Challenges and Sketches

Hi Everyone

Just thought I should let you know about our first major competition for 2008. After the success of out 2007 Survivor Competition we have revamped it for 2008 and we are currently taking sign ups. To check out the details please visit our forum here. Apart from the chance of winning some great prizes the competition is also loads of fun.

We have also revamped our monthly challenges for 2008. Each month we post eight challenges and for everyone you complete you get an entry into the draw for a $10 Chook Scraps voucher. Four of our challenges are sketches which will be added to our sketch gallery and you have the chance of your layout being chosen to be the sample in our sketch gallery. All the details for our challenges can be found here.

Speaking of the sketch gallery have you visited it yet? We are slowly populating it with sketches and each sketch comes with a sample. I just love this layout titled “New Skills” which Kathy made using our October 2006 challenge sketch.

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Jan 13

October/November Scrap Pack Winner

Our October/November scrap pack featured some wonderful papers from Jenny Bowlin including one of her versitile die-cut papers. Our Design Team created some amazing layouts with the pack including this fabulous one made by Jan. I love the way she has made a frame by cutting the edge off part off the diecut sheet.

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The winning layout for this pack was created by Hilary and features her gorgeous son. Great layout Hilary and congrats on your win.

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We still have some of these packs left in stock so if you’d like to purchase one you can find the details here

Dec 28

December CC Winners

Well we had another very busy CC this month with an extended deadline for uploading entries due to the hectic nature of the festive season. We had heaps of wonderful entries and I know voting was hard with two of the challenges ending in a draw. Here are this month’s winners –

Challenge One Winners

Horsies Kyk by Jolene

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Joy by Ceci

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Challenge Two Winner

Moment by Kim

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Challenge Three Winners

You by Sue-Maree

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U Turn My World Upside Down by ToniT

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Challenge Four Winner

Xmas card by Kim

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Dec 25

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I’d like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. Hope you all have a wonderful day with family and friends. Mum and I went out looking at Christmas lights tonight and here is one of the pics I took to share with you.

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Dec 17

New Shop and December Cybercrop

Just thought I’d let everyone know that the new shop is now up and running – I’m still adding stock but there’s already plenty there to look at. We are having a 10% off everything in store sale from now till midnight December 21st. To get your discount just add the code NEWSHOP in the appropriate spot as you go through the checkout.

We ran our December cybercrop this weekend but have an extended deadline so there’s still time to enter a layout or two. The upload deadline this month is Wednesday, December 19th midnight. So why not visit the forum and check out the challenges. Here is a couple of layouts made by our Creative Chooks for the CC challenges.

Challenge One – Brothers by Francine aka scrapcat

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This challenge was set by Kathy and is inspired by a Christmas Wreath. The challenge is to make a layout that has at least one circle, leaves and some green on it.

Challenge Three by Kathy

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This challenge was a sketch challenge.

Hope you will have time to check out the challenges and make an entry – even if it’s only for the non-scrappng challenge.

Dec 03

Celebrating You Sixth Month Winners

Well we have just announced the winners of the final round of our Celebrating You in 2007 competiton. Congratulations to all those participants that saw it through to the end and entered every round I hope you have a fabulous album that you will be able to look back at in the years to come as a momento of 2007. Here are the final winning layouts in this competition.

In first place we have Jan with her wonderful “I’m a Creative Chook”

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In Second place we have Sue-Maree with her gorgeous layout “Amazing Grace”

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And in third place we have Col with her lovely “Changing Careers”

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We have also announced the overall winners in our competition. If you would like to find out who they are please visit our forum.

Now that this competition is over make sure you are on the lookout for a new competition starting in the new year. Details will be announced shortly.

Dec 03

November 2007 Cybercrop

Despite a few hiccups with our gallery and issues with posting we still got a heap of fantastic entries for our November Cybercrop. I know the girls had a hard time choosing who to vote for as is evidenced by the fact that we have draws in two of the challenges. Here are our winning entries –

Challenge One Winner

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I have a Question By Sue-Maree

Challenge Two Winners

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Beautiful by Kaz

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Precious Like a Flower by Dorryswife

Challenge Three Winners

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Beautiful by Lindy

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Helping Hands by Flea

Challenge Four Winner

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Greeting Card by Lindy

Congratulations to all our winners and remember our next cybercrop is on December 14th starting at 3.30pm WST so put the date in your diary!