My Weekend Ahead...

Sometimes it is good to have a surprise, a break from what you would normally expect.

When the 7 Gypsies Mykonos arrived I was definitely surprised. It is just about as far from what I expect of 7 Gypsies style as possible. Well ok they added the grungey sanded look but still, the bold colours and geometric patterns are not their typical offering.

My plan for this weekend it to work with this range and see what I come up with - it's always fun to try something different!

Come back on Monday when I will upload something made with 7 Gypsies Mykonos!

Before signing off tonight a HUGE Happy Birthday to Ann who is celebrating one of those significant birthdays today - 21 again! xxx

Final Cyber Crop Prize Winners

OK so we have now drawn the Participation Prizes for our Cybercrop. Three names were drawn out of the hat to win a prize. Each time you uploaded your name went into the hat and then three were drawn.

**Sarah**

**Denise**

**Sue**

Ladies as with the other winners please contact us and let us know contact details and we will get a prize sent out to you!

Thanks again to all who participated in the cyber crop and to the lovely ladies who designed classes and challenge examples for us, and extra specially to Ann who kept us all in line in the run up and told us what we had to do and by when!

Loving This...

The most recent Echo Park: Country Drive, is so lovely, perfect for scrapping all those photos you are taking right now of summer time fun!

Their next new one however is so beautiful that it is quickly going to become one of my favourite Echo Park ranges - Victoria Gardens has a slightly softer colour palette and not such a heavy emphasis on the geometric and bold designs that usually typify Echo Park - An extra collection pack will go on the order for me I think - I will have to do a class with it to justify "product testing"

I will be back this evening with prizes for participation in the cybercrop!

No scrapping for me this weekend....

... unlike last weekend which was very scrapping focused this weekend I have been away with some friends to stay at a hotel and enjoy some shopping, cinema, food and general fun. Our destinations sounds most glamorous - The Hilton... Dartford Bridge! But the hotel itself was actually really nice and of course its main selling point is proximity to Bluewater Shopping Centre!

Anyway, having not been in too long I will be organising and drawing the participation prizes for the cyber crop tomorrow when I return from Sports Day at Isabelles school - typical that it always falls either in the middle of a complete monsoon or in a heat wave - one day it might just happen on a warm but not too hot, dry day!

Back tomorrow with prize winners :)

Scraplift Challenge Winner

And so we come to our final winner of the weekend; the Scraplift Challenge. This is another of my favourite challenges. It is always so interesting to see how a layout can inspire someone to go on to create their own page which shares some elements but usually ends up looking quite different.

Our winner was inspired by this layout entitled "Summer Days" by Suzanne Torr:

I think you will agree that Charlottes "Hungry Harvest Caterpillar" is a wonderful scraplift, bringing her own style and interpretation to the layout while still clearly using many of the design features and elements.

Charlotte you are the last of our challenge winners. Please confirm your address with us and we will get a prize out to you.

That just leaves the participation prizes to go!

Between The Lines Challenge Winner

Here comes another winner! This time it is for our "Between The Lines" journaling challenge. I think most of us realise the importance of journaling but it is had to really incorporate it as part of the layout design. If you are interested in developing different ideas for journaling do take a look at this series of posts made from August last year about journaling HERE HERE and HERE


Now, onto our journaling challenge winner. We liked both the sentiment and the handwritten journaling on this layout and so we have chosen Hilary as our winner for this challenge.

Hilary, please get in contact so we can send you a prize.

That just leaves one more challenge prize to give and then the participation prizes, check back to see who will be stalking the postie waiting for a prize to drop through their door!

Sketch Challenge Winner

I really love the sketch challenge. It is great to see how everyone starts off with the same starting point and by the time each person has chosen different products to use, made their own interpretations and amendments the finished layouts all look so different.

In the end we chose this layout by Karen P. We liked her colour scheme and the use of the stamped flowers to repeat the embellishment.

More winners still to come - Karen please contact us with your details so we can get your prize out to you.