Video Tutorial by Tatiana Sidorenko {Design Team 'Moment To Shine'}

Hi everyone & welcome back to another tutorial in our Design Team 'Moment To Shine' series. 
Today we have a video tutorial by Design Team member Tatiana Sidorenko
from Belarus, using our current challenge here.

We were lucky enough to see a sneak peek of Tatiana's layout in the mid-month reveal,
now here she is sharing a video of how she made her stunning project.

Tatiana created this beautiful layout based on the mood board

 below & will share her creative process with us in her video.

Let's get to know a little about Tatiana

Hello, my name is Tatiana & I live in Belarus. 

I'm wife to a wonderful & supportive man & we have 2 beautiful children,

 a 12 year old girl & a boy of 8 years. I've always loved doing things 

with my hands like sewing, crafting & gardening.

I get my inspiration from everything & everyone but primarily from my 
children & friends. I love to create different kinds of projects, like layouts, 

mixed media scrapbooking & albums. My work is both mixed media & 

freestyle. You can find lots of layers & different embellishments on my

projects. I love to learn different techniques & experiment with them,
 playing with different textures. I'd love you to visit my blog HERE.

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Tatiana's video is just 5 minutes long & well worth the watch!

Here are some close ups...

The colours in this are so delicate yet make such an impact!

Tatiana has such a 'light' way of creating despite her many layers...

What beautiful detail & texture there is on this page!!

Here are the products Tatiana used :-

SUPPLIES LIST

Acrylic paint - turquoise, pink - 13Arts, Folkart

Sprays - pink, turquoise, white - 13Arts, Dylusions

Embossing Powder -  blue, pink

White Acrylic Primer - Tpyht
Black Ink - Stazon
Other - Stencil, stamps

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT TO ENCOURAGE TATIANA IF YOU ENJOY HER VIDEO!

There are just THREE days left to get your entry in to this month's challenge. 

Are you going to give it a go?  If so time is most definitely running out :-p

You can find the challenge here.

C'mon - play along!!

Photo Tutorial by Heather McMahon {Design Team "Moment To Shine"}

Hello everyone & welcome to our October photo tutorial by new 
Design Team member Heather McMahon from Australia. Heather is 
sharing how she made these gorgeous butterflies to coordinate 
with the layout she made, using our current challenge here.

Heather shared a sneak peak of her layout for our mid 
month reveal & now we get to see her whole layout.

LET HEATHER KNOW WHAT YOU THINK BY LEAVING A COMMENT!

Heather has used the butterfly images as well as the colours 
from the mood board to inspire her layout.

Introducing Heather :-

Hi there! I'm Heather McMahon & I'm thrilled to be

 joining the Scrap Around The World team. 

I live in Australia with my husband & 2 teenage kids. I was introduced to scrapbooking 

15 years ago & was immediately addicted. My children were young when I started so 

finding scrapping time was hard, but now I have much more time to explore & create. 

I love to experiment with different styles & I think there is a lot of variety in what I create. 

No matter what style I use though, colour always plays a key role in my work. I like 

my layouts to reflect the mood or feeling of the photo & I use colour to reinforce this. 

I'm really looking forward to sharing my work & to seeing what you create too!

 I'd love it if you visited my blog HERE & my Facebook page HERE. 

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1. After you have created your background, select some of the 

colours you want to highlight. Take a scrap piece of white 

cardstock & spray it with three of those colours.

2. Dry thoroughly. If your cardstock is still damp it won't cut properly 

(& you'll get very pretty coloured dies!) Place butterfly dies

 on your cardstock & cut with a die-cutting machine.

3. Now take three smaller pieces of white cardstock & spray each with 
one colour only. Leave plenty of white cardstock showing 
on these as white helps to lighten the page.

4.Lay your butterfly dies on top. By this stage you should have 
some idea of whether you want more larger or smaller 
butterflies so adjust your cutting accordingly.

5. You can see in this picture the different results you can get depending on where 

you place your dies. If a die doesn't cut properly, consider leaving some of the 

pieces attached to the die-cut shape, as I have with butterfly on the right. 

6. Once your butterflies are cut out, add them to 

your page and decorate with Liquid Pearls & 

cotton & scatter lovely bling in between them.

Here are some close ups :-

Coloured gauze is great for adding some texture & interest to the background.

I added beads to my stitching by simply gluing them on top.

Use 2 colours of Tinby Metallic Melts to create a two-toned effect on your title.

Here are the products I used :- 

SUPPLIES LIST

Cardstock - American Crafts

Papers - Echo Park & Pink Paislee

Mists - Heidi Swapp Color Shine (Mustard &Pink) Dylusions (London Blue)

Dies - Poppy, Memory Box & Die-namics

Flowers - Scrapbooking n'Craft

Inks - Hero Arts, StazOn & Brilliance

Embossing powder - Tinby Metallic Melts

Others - Liquid Pearls, Fundamentals alphas,beads, cotton, gauze, pen

Please leave a comment here for Heather if you found this tutorial inspiring!

There is only ONE WEEK LEFT to enter the October challenge.

TIME TO GET CREATING!!  

So many amazing prizes - gotta be in it to win it!!

You can find the details here.

October 2014 Guest Designer Galina Sazonova of Russia!

Hello again :)

Please view our current challenge HERE & our 
mid-month reveal based on the same challenge HERE.

Today we welcome back the winner of our August 2014 Challenge,

Galina Sazonova  of Russia, as our Guest Designer!

Here she is!

"Hello there!  My name is Galina Sazonova & I come from Belarus, 
but now live with my family in Moscow.  Not long ago I discovered 
scrapbooking & it soon become an integral part of my life! 

I get my inspiration from different things & events, as well as

 from people & emotions. I really love life & therefore in my

 projects I create a lot of layers & colours & love to embellish!

  I would really love for you to visit me on my blog  HERE."

 Galina has used our current mood board {above} HERE for her inspiration.

Oh my goodness!

 What a stunning piece of ART Galina has created for us!!

Such amazing detail & texture!

Thank you Galina for creating this masterpiece

for us at Scrap Around The World!

Please be sure to leave Galina some comment LOVE if she has inspired you!

(I know she has inspired me!!)

We again have some AWESOME PRIZES up for grabs

this month so please join us & upload your entries!

Challenge closes on Friday 31st October 2014

Design Team Mid-Month Reveal{October 2014 Challenge 18 by Rachael Funnell} PLUS A New Design Team Member & ANOTHER Giveaway!!

Hello again!!  Yes you read that right!  
Not only are you here for the fabulous mid-month reveal from
 the 2nd half of our amazingly inspirational Design Team BUT 
you are also here for SOME MORE GOOD NEWS from SATW!  

Firstly we welcome Heather McMahon to our team of movers & shakers!!  
Heather joins us as another Australian Ambassador 
{they are quite the creative bunch down under aren't they?!} 
but she also takes on the role of "Tutorials Manager", 
which means she is in charge of our 2 monthly Design Team
 member contributed tutorials here at SATW.

Let's learn a little about Heather!

"  Hi there! I'm Heather McMahon & I'm thrilled to be joining the team at 

Scrap Around The World. I live in Australia with my husband & 2 teenage kids. 

I was introduced to scapbooking 15 years ago & became immediately addicted!

My children were young when I started so finding scrapping time was difficult, 

but now I have much more time to explore & create.

 I love to experiment with different styles & there is a lot of variety in what I create. 

No matter what style I use, colour always plays a key role in my work. I like

 my layouts to reflect the mood of the photo & I use colour to reinforce this. 

I'm really looking forward to sharing my work here with you & to seeing

 what you all create too!  I'd love for you to visit myblog @ 

www.heathermcmahon09.blogspot.com.au

Woohoo!!  Congratulations Heather!
We are all really excited to have you on our team too!

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GIVEAWAY NEWS AT THE VERY END OF THE POST!!

Hi there! Back again with REVEAL TWO - our mid month reveal!
With even more wonderful inspiration for YOU from our fantastic design team!

We hope you feel EVEN MORE INSPIRED to create with Rachael's Vibrant
mood board & be sure to refer to our Reveal One HERE for full details. 

Hello & welcome to Challenge EIGHTEEN, hosted by

 Design Team member Rachael Funnell of Australia

Rachael has created this fabulous, glamorous mood board,
 with a touch of softness,to inspire you all this month.

Please remember that in order to be eligible for our random prize each 

month you do need to share your project on our Facebook Wall.

You only need to be inspired by ONE image but can be inspired by

 more than one or even ALL the images - it really is UP TO YOU!!

We are NOT A COLOUR CHALLENGE SITE so there is no need

to follow our colours, although of course if they are your source of

inspiration you are welcome to use them all, or just some of them,

otherwise none at all!  You have complete artistic freedom BUT

we do need to be able to SEE HOW YOU WERE INSPIRED!

So please remember to tell us in your post!!

To be eligible for judging you need to follow our

 10 Golden Rules HERE, which include:- 

1)  Sharing the mood board image in your blog post.

2)  Mentioning Scrap Around The World {in full - not just 

SATW} & LINKING BACK to our current challenge.

3)  Explaining how you were inspired by our mood board

4)  Linking back to your SATW blog post NOT YOUR ENTIRE BLOG.

5) We do not accept cards, tags, Off-the-Page items or mini-books.

Only layouts, canvases or art journal pages or spreads.

(see our rules for minimum sizes please).

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If receiving comments from some of our Design Team members is important

 to you please ensure that you have WORD VERIFICATION TURNED OFF.

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  Please sign up to follow us on Google Friend Connect 

{in our right-hand side bar where it says JOIN THIS SITE to be eligible for our prizes}

And follow us on Blog Lovin' as we have anew post up EVERY 4TH DAY 

so there is always something interesting happening here at SATW - 

we have Guest Designers, Guest Teams & TWO tutorials EVERY MONTH

 to keep your creative juices flowing...

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Anna Rogalska {Poland}

Alexandra Polyzou {Greece}

Marilyn Rivera {USA}

Tusia Lech {Poland} Art Journal Spread

Riikka Kovasin {Finland}

Kim Ewins {Australia}

Amy Voorthuis {Netherlands}

 Kasia Bogatko {Poland} Art Journal Spread

Jaya Raghuvanshi {India} Canvas

Pam Ellis {Canada}

Heather McMahon {Australia} Sneak Peek - Tutorial coming up 24th Oct!

Tatyana Sidorenko {Belarus} Sneak Peek - Tutorial coming up 28th Oct!

NOW FOR WHAT YOU CAN WIN!!

1ST PRIZE

 $50 worth of Green Tara products & flowers!

Green Tara IS an Australian based company, importer & wholesaler of 
handmade & milled mulberry papers,beautiful ribbons, fabric & paper flowers, 
washi tape & more!  They are continually adding to their collections of high
 quality products with beautiful embellishments in rich colours & textures!

Image depicts a sampling of Green Tara's latest products & is for illustration purposes only. Prizewinner will receive an awesome selection of Green Tara products worth $50.

Blog:  http://www.greentara1.blogspot.com.au/
Website:  http://www.greentara.com.au/home.php 

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2ND PRIZE

$40 worth of fantastic stamps from Darkroom Door 
{the lovely Christmas one you see below plus MORE!}

Darkroom Door is owned by photographer Rachel Greig &  graphic designer 
Stewart Yule, who combine their talents to design a unique range of rubber stamps
 &  papercrafting products suitable for card making, scrapbooking, invitations,collage, 
mixed media & altered art. As the name suggests, Darkroom Door products
 have a strong photographic element in their design.

Check out the Darkroom Door website to see their

 full selection along with a gallery full of projects and ideas!

Blog: http://www.rachelgreig.typepad.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rachelgreig

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/rachelgreig/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rachelgreigyule

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/rachelgreig

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3RD PRIZE

$30 worth of product from 7Dots Studio!

7 Dots Studio was born from dreams & for dreams. 

We are a European scrapbooking manufacturer of high 

quality scrapbooking products – papers, stickers, die-cuts,

 collage sheets, 6x6 pads, collection kits &chipboards. 

Quality of our products is our top priority. 

Our collections are created by amazingly talented artists - 

from clean, graphic designs to mixed-media, grungy collage look. 

What you can always be sure of are high quality & thickness of our

 papers, which makes them work perfectly with all kinds of media.

 Among our products you will find also clear stamp sets coordinating 

with our collections to make them even more interesting & versatile.

We are amazingly happy & feel very blessed to see how much

 our products are loved by crafters & artists around the world!

If you would like to see more awesome inspiration from 

our design team please visit our blog or Facebook fan page.

Blog/website: http://7dotsstudio.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/7DotsStudio

Twitter: https://twitter.com/7DotsStudio

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/7dotsstudio

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4TH PRIZE

$20 gift card from The Flying Unicorn Online Store!
{plus FREE POSTAGE!}

Flying Unicorn...Your Passion. Your Art. 

Our online store has an incredible selection of products for all papercraft
artists. Our Kit of the Month is filled with the latest & greatest ~ including 
an off-the-page project to keep your creative juices flowing!  Be sure to 
check out the Flying Unicorn forums, a hot & happening place that 
includes monthly challenges, tips, techniques & friendships that last! 

We also have a blog &  Facebook page
where you can find loads of inspiration!

store: www.flyingunicornstore.com

Forums: www.flyingunicornforums.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Flying-Unicorn/120928447946596

Blog: www.flyingunicornblog.com

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5TH PRIZE

 $15 worth of 2Crafty Chipboard!

2Crafty Chipboard is an Australian owned & operated manufacturer & wholesaler 

of laser cut chipboard products, located in Sydney, Australia.  We have been

 in operation since October 2006 & have more than 1 000 designs on offer.

We pride ourselves on quality products that are versatile & up to date with 

market trends, as well as offering unbeatable customer service, 

with quick turnaround of jobs large & small.

We are happy to quote on personalised jobs, whether it be a single title for a 
customer, or large jobs for retreats, classes etc.  If you are a retail business 

& would like to stock our range of unique products, please contact us

 for more information.  Please see further details on our blog!

Image depicts a sampling of 2Crafty's latest products & is for illustration purposes only. 

Prizewinner will receive an awesome selection of 
2Crafty Chipboard to the value of their prize.

 Blog: http://www.2craftychipboard.blogspot.com.au/
Website: http://www.2crafty.com.au/

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RANDOM PRIZE

$25 worth of Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays, as well as
 a BONUS 9 EXQUISITE LACE FLOWERS  
sponsored by SCRAPS OF ELEGANCE KIT CLUB!

Scraps of Darkness & Scraps of Elegance are monthly scrapbook kit clubs that
cater to scrapbookers who are looking for an alternative to what other kit clubs offer.
Our kits are designed for artists who wish to take scrapbooking to a level beyond.
We strive to include the latest & greatest items on the market that will enable you

 to create not "just a layout", but a work of art.

Please also check out the inspiration from our design team on the shop's blog!
You can also find us on Facebook & Pinterest & YouTube - let's connect!
Our tutorials you can find here!
Store: http://store.scrapsofdarkness.com
Blog: http://scrapsofdarkness.blogspot.com/
Community / Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scrapsofdarkness

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ALL OUR PRIZES ALWAYS INCLUDE FREE INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE!!

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The deadline for this challenge is  FRIDAY 31st OCTOBER 2014.

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GIVEAWAY NEWS!!

Just giving you all a HEADS UP {in case you have forgotten to pay us a visit at 
SCRAP AROUND THE WORLD ON FACEBOOK {click there!!}

We have YET ANOTHER GIVEAWAY going on ONLY ON FACEBOOK.
{as we OFTEN do} so it pays to follow us there & click "Get Notifications"
to keep up with what's going on.  We feature entries there & post roughly
3 times a day so there is always something to keep you feeling inspired!

Our new FACEBOOK GIVEAWAY Sponsor for October is Cifrovoefoto of Russia
 & they are giving away a $25 gift certificate for stamps OF YOUR CHOICE
 from their website. To check out their HUGE SELECTION of stamps click here...
http://esel.by/index.php?option=com_virtuemart....
We will draw a winner on the 9th November.
Please NOTE The website is in Russian but if you use Google Chrome as your browser you can 
enable the translate tool in the URL/address bar on the right next to the bookmark star.

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS RANDOM PRIZE DRAWING ON FACEBOOK ONLY

you MUST leave a comment on the original post so we can choose our winner!!

Please remember to welcome our new designer, Heather & to leave some 

COMMENT LOVE for our uber-talented & conscientious designers

 if you are feeling inspired right now!!