January Guest Designer Elena Tretiakova of Russia!

Our Current Winners and Features!

 

Please view our current challenge HERE and our
 2nd reveal based on the same challenge HERE.

Today we welcome back the winner of our December 2013 Challenge,

Elena Tretiakova of Russia as our January Guest Designer!

 "Hi! My name is Elena Tretiakova. I live in Moscow, Russia, with my two sons & beloved husband. I’m a teacher of German. Scrapbooking is one of the greatest discoveries of my life. It’s a unique opportunity for me to keep my memories dear. I love colours, masks & lots of details but don't think I have one particular style. I really like to try new things. Scrapbooking helps me to relax & takes me away from my busy everyday life. I am so excited to have the opportunity to be guest design for Scrap Around the World! Thank you so much!"

 

Elena has used our current mood board for inspiration.

 What a beautiful interpretation of our mood board from Elena!
Please leave her some thanks & encouragement for designing
this special layout just for us!  Remember that you have just 11
days left to get your entry in this month so time is running out!

And DON'T FORGET about our Facebook giveaway HERE!
Check out our Facebook page for all the details!
This giveaway is closing very soon - midnight EST on the 21st
of January - that's just a couple of days away!!

MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK & BLOG LOVIN'
to be eligible then check out the giveaway post on our Facebook page
for how to enter!  And remember to SHARE YOUR LAYOUT WITH US
on FACEBOOK to be in with a chance at winning our RANDOM DRAW.

Bye bye for now!

December Guest Designer Tetiana Komarova {aka Taniko} of the Ukraine!

Our Current Winners and Features!

  

Please view our current challenge HERE

Today we welcome back the winner of our November 2013 Challenge,

Tetiana Komarova of the Ukraine as our December Guest Designer!

Hello! My name is Tetiana Komarova, however in the scrap world
 I use my nickname Taniko. I’m 25 years old & I live in Kiev, Ukraine.

Currently there are 3 important matters in my life -

 1)  my family {all my time is devoted to upbringing
 of my son Timofey - & my husband too sometimes!}

 2) my postgraduate studies – for already 2 years all my mental 
efforts have been thrown into the writing of my dissertation.

 3) Scrapbooking! In 2010 I plunged into this exciting world
 & still depend on it!!

I like to make works in different styles but my favourite is clean & simple
 for cards & mixed-media for the rest!   I adore mixed-media techniques
 because they give me the freedom to express myself & seem to be
 the best tool for the realization of creative potential. I like to make
 lots of layers, play with texture paste & paint, & use bright colors
 & fabrics on my pages.  You can find my blog *HERE*

Taniko used our current mood board for inspiration
 to create one of her stunning trademark pages.

I love the white base & ever-so-subtle masking work on her background.

The eclecticism of her pages makes Taniko's work unique!

Layers & textures are a sure-fire way to add instant appeal...

I adore the white mist spatters on the photo!  

Thanks so much for joining us Taniko!!

Please take a minute to leave some comment
love for Taniko today & don't forget to get
your entry uploaded soon - time is running out...

DECEMBER RULES ALLOW tags, ATCs, single
art journal pages & NO restriction on canvas size!
BECAUSE this is an especially busy month SO
we know that time is precious but you still want
to GET YOUR CRAFT ON!!

November 2013 Guest Designer Jelissa Mei of Singapore!

Our Current Winners & Features!

Please view our current challenge HERE...Just 6 days left until it closes!

Today we welcome back the winner of our October 2013 Challenge, 

  Jelissa Mei of Singapore, as our November Guest Designer! 

Hi everyone, my name is Jelissa & I come from sunny Singapore,

 where I live with my husband & 2 sons. By day I am a forensic scientist
 & in my spare time I like to take photos, tinkle on the piano, 
read & of course scrapbook!

I started scrapbooking in 2010 as a substitute for scuba diving after 

my eldest son was born, as well as to preserve his precious
 childhood memories.  Soon it became a serious hobby as it
 helped me find balance after a disciplined day at work. 

I'm currently on the Design Team at Green Tara, where I get to
design with beautiful flowers & trims, some of which I have used here.
 I'm so excited to be featured here at Scrap Around the World!
If you would like to visit my blog you can find it HERE.

Jelissa has drawn her inspiration from our current mood board above.

Such a FANTASTIC take on our current challenge!
I am blown away & IN LOVE with this beautiful page....

 

I adore the way Jelissa has blended the colours so beautifully...

I also love how she has softened the colours through the use of white,

Such amazing details & textures!

Thanks so much to Jelissa for creating such a specal 
page for us this month!! Totally breathtaking work!!!

 Please remember to leave some comment LOVE for Jelissa.

  I hope she has inspired you to get working on our November 

mood board today - Time is running out & we have SIX great

prizes up for grabs so get creating & upload your layout soon!

Post prepared with the assistance of Di Garling ♥

October 2013 Guest Designer Zeneva Kovic of Australia!

*Please view our latest challenge HERE - you have 12 days left to enter!*

Today we welcome the winner of our September 2013 Challenge, 

Zeneva Kovic of Australia, back as our October Guest Designer! 

Hello! My name is Zeneva & I live in a regional sea-side town of South Australia with my 3 young children. 

I study at university & shall complete my degree at the end of this year - after 5 years - YAY! 

For 'me' time I love to scrap. At first it was to document the moments & memories of my 

children that I feared I would otherwise forget, but it has become so much more than that. 

In addition to memory keeping, it is about self-expression, creativity & letting go,

 in what has become, for me, a connected, supportive & safe environment. 

Plus, I love all the colour! It makes me happy!

I'm thrilled to be Guest Designing here at Scrap Around The World!

 Thank you so much for having me!!

Zeneva worked with our current mood board above.

Phew!  Now THIS is the type of layout that makes me catch my breath!

I LOVE how Zeneva has incorporated so many of the colours from our mood board into this beautiful piece!

The blues, greens, pinks & yellows as well as the splash of gold from the shoes are all evident!

Well THAT was awesome!  Don't chya think?!?

Thanks so much Zeneva for creating this special layout especially for us this month!!  

Zeneva is clearly one seriously talented artist with an obvious zest for life that comes through in her pages!  Please remember to leave some comment LOVE for her ♥  & please enter our challenge if you haven't already done so!

September 2013 Guest Designer Po Prostu Asia of Poland!

*** See our challenge HERE & remember our deadline date has changed 

to the last day of the month & our sketch is now OPTIONAL!*** 

Today we welcome the winner of our August challenge,

Po Prostu Asia from Poland, as our September Guest Designer!!

{isn't she beautiful?  Just saying'!}

She also has an awesome-sauce blog HERE.

"Hello! My name is Asia {in the scrap world I use my nickname

 Po prostu Asia}. I'm 17 years old and I attend high school. 

I live in Poland.  I started scrapbooking in 2011 & now I am addicted! 

I love colours, masks & stains, but don't think I have one particular style. 

I really like to try new things :)

I make everything - cards, albums, notebooks, but I totally love layouts!

I'm currently on the Design Team for a great Polish online-store, Scrapki.pl. 

I'm so excited to have had the wonderful opportunity to be a 

part of Scrap Around the World, thanks so much for having me!"

Asia worked with our current mood board above.

Absolutely awesome in my opinion!

Just look at all those layers!!

And I just LOVE the hand-drawn lines around the edge of her pieces...

Mind-boggling that Asia is just 17 years old too...

WOW!  Obviously she has a phenomenal natural talent!

Thank you so much for joining us Asia!!

Please remember to leave some comment ♥ {love} for her :)

Guest Designer Kim Ewins Video Tutorial {plus a Video Call!}

Hello there Scrap Around The World friends!  Well I am feeling "On Top of the World" !!  

right now thanks to just having been sent the link to the most AWESOME video tutorial

 by our August Guest Designer Kim Ewins! {who just happened to use the song

 "On Top of the World" - by one of my fave bands - Imagine Dragons ♥}

It's a fantastic BACKGROUND TECHNIQUE TUTORIAL!!  And it's only TWO AND A HALF MINUTES!!!  

Short tutorials are by far the best for me  (I can't go longer than 5 minutes 

unless I am completely captivated & 10 minutes is my absolute max!!)

THANK YOU dear Kim for such a beautiful tutorial - her FIRST EVER video tutorial!!!

  Join me in congratulating Kim on a job well done!

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Next up on our exciting agenda is a VIDEO CALL!!!   I am incorporating a Video Tutorial slot into the monthly Scrap Around The World postings so am on the look-out for some talented Guest Educators!!

Video Call Rules

1.  Call Deadline midnight EST Sept 30th 2013.

2.  All links to videos to be posted in a comment under our ENQUIRIES TAB only.

{Only video links posted in the comments section there will be considered 

 (NOT in the comments section of this post please)}.

3.  Only public videos loaded to You-Tube will be considered.

4.  All video submissions need to be 10 minutes or less.

(they can be over by a few seconds but not more than 30)

6.  Videos need to be scrapbooking related & either 

instructional/educational or 'How To'/Step-by-Step'

7.  Only video links submitted by Scrap Around The World players 

who have taken part in our August or September challenge will be considered.

8.  Only ONE VIDEO SUBMISSION per person please.

9.  Videos are to be related to techniques/layouts/canvases (min 8 x 8).

10.  Videos do not have to be newly created.

DO NOT BE CONCERNED IF YOU POST A COMMENT WITH YOUR LINK IN THE ENQUIRIES SECTION THEN RETURN & CAN'T FIND IT - as I go through the videos I will be removing the comments. If I select your video for publication here on this blog I will let you know by the end of October 2013. If selected you will be our "Featured You-Tuber" with your headshot,bio, blog & You-Tube channel link appearing in the post too.

So there you have it!!  Exciting things on the horizon!!!

What do you think of the video call & our Guest Designer, Kim Ewins' delightful video tutorial?!

August 2013 Guest Designer Kim Ewins of Australia! And Some Exciting News!!

* See our current challenge HERE & our Wall of Fame HERE*

It's time to meet our August Guest Designer,

 the winner of our last challenge, Kim Ewins, from Australia!

Kim got to work straight away on our current sketch & mood board 

so her inspiration is up-to-the-minute & here she is sharing 

her ideas on how YOU can intrepret this lovely 

mood board/sketch combination. 

So come & play for great prizes & exposure!!

Here is the lovely Kim! Check out her blog HERE. 

Hi! My name is Kim Ewins & I live in a city called Orange, 

which is a 3-4 hour drive west of Sydney, Australia.

 My husband, Roy and I have 8, (yep! 8!!) wonderful children together. 

They range in age from 23 down to 6 years of age, (5 sons & 3 daughters.) 

We recently found out we are to be grandparents early next year, 

so that is very exciting……oh! The photos!!!

 I started scrapbooking about 6 months after the birth of my last child

 in 2006 & now wish I had started so much earlier.  I am currently on 

a couple of amazing Design Teams here in Australia including 

www.craftqueen.com.au,  www.scrapmatts.com ,

www.scraptheboys.blogspot.com.au  & www.orangepaperieandco.blogspot.com.

My style is along the grungy, shabby chic lines but I love to try new things 

& mix it up!  I love  working with neutrals & pastels & lately I have started

 venturing into water colouring on my layouts.  I love texture, buttons, 

lace trim, machine stitching & tea dyed canvas. 

A huge THANK YOU to Helen & the team here at 

Scrap around the World for this wonderful opportunity!

WOW!!  Another totally beautiful layout!

Such very delicate stencil work.  Life really is in the details!

Now for the exciting news!!  

Kim is contributing a tutorial especially for YOU right here!!!

Coming soon!

I want this blog to be a place where you not only come to play but also 

to learn new skills to try out to improve your repertoire & expand your capabilities.  

In return please support our challenges to make the running of this site worthwhile.

Thank you so much!!

Counting down to this challenge closing in just over 10 days!!!

Please remember to leave some COMMENT LOVE for our Guest Kim!

July 2013 Guest Designer Lisa Griffith from the USA!

* See our current challenge HERE & our current wall of fame HERE*

Hello lovely people!  I was all set to get this post up last night when my dear kitty knocked my can of Diet Coke all over my keyboard & that was the end of that idea!  Much drying later it has - alas - NOT recovered but my dear hubby had a bright idea & I am now using my son's keyboard on top of my laptop (plugged into the USB) Yes, it is quite the contraption but, well, the things we do for love!  Guess I will be going laptop shopping again soon...sigh...

So things are very slow around here this month, which is a little sad for me, but I can't blame you gals for wanting to spend every minute you can in the sunshine at this time of the year & it is holiday season the world over, I have just returned from a week away myself & have a few more precious days with my university-going daughter, before she starts the long trek back on Sunday.

So enough of my waffle!  On with the show!!  We are so blessed to have the UBER talented Lisa Griffith here with us today with yet ANOTHER fantasmagorical layout - aaaaaaah to be THIS talented huh?!  I can only dream...

Lisa created with our July mood board, which is just so dreamy & beautiful, I am still in love with it every time I see it!  

TIME IS RUNNING OUT ON THIS ONE!!  You only have another 9 days to get your entries in!  Please give it a whirl if you can girls - NO NEED TO GO SHABBY - you can create a clean & simple or modern layout with hearts, keys & texture too y'know!  No favourite styles on THIS blog!!

You can check out Lisa's blog HERE - it is brand, spanking new so sign up & give the girls some support!!

"My name is Lisa Griffith & I live in the US with my husband of 13 years & our 7 year old son Liam. I have been scrap booking since my son was born but it is within the last year that it has developed into my passion! I love it so much because it combines my love of photography & my love of all things vintage, & having time to express myself creatively is so relaxing & rewarding. 

One of my favourite things to do is to go to estate sales and antique markets to hunt for treasures such as vintage photographs and magazines, old postcards and letters, sewing notions, or bits of old lace that I can incorporate into my layouts. 

My style is feminine, shabby & distressed, I like my designs to have an antique worn look like an old tattered book & I love using lots of inks & flowers. I have helped design kits for The Scrapbook Diaries & I am just starting out with my brand new blog!  I am so excited to have had the opportunity to be part of Scrap Around the World, thanks so much ladies!"

" As soon as I saw July's mood board I heard wedding bells! I have never scrapped any of my parents wedding photos so I thought their photo would really fit the theme."

"I loved all the romantic white lace & the white washed architecture.... perfect for a shabby romantic page!"

Please remember to leave some love for our special guest Lisa!

June 2013 Guest Designer Arnlaug Koppang from Norway!

♥ See our current challenge HERE and our current Wall of Fame HERE. ♥

Hello ladies!  Gosh I am SOOOOO excited, grateful, thankful, over-the-moon crazy happy that Scrap Around The World is such a huge success!!  The entries are rolling in so thick & fast this month that the Design Team is battling to keep up with the commenting but please bear with us - we are so excited to see what you have all created & visiting whenever we can :)

Our success is all thanks to YOU & your enthusiasm & participation - THANK YOU,  THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!  It was a dream of mine to create this challenge blog for a LONG time before I made it a reality & I'm just so glad that I did!!  Thank you AGAIN!!!!

Without further ado please welcome our fantastically talented winner from our very first challenge last month, Arnlaug Koppang of Norway, who has created a very beautiful layout for us based on this month's sketch & mood board.

Just a reminder above of our current mood board/sketch combo - don't forget you only have until midnight EST on Tuesday 25th of June to get your entry in for this one so that's only another 12 days!

You can check out Arnlaug's blog HERE.

I'm a 31 year old 'girl' from a small island on the west coast of Norway.

 I'm married with two little girls. I've been scrapbooking since 2008 but it's only in the

 last 2 years that my creativity has really hit the surface & now I can't stop!

 I mainly make layouts but sometimes I try out other projects too, and I'm just starting out with art journalling. 
I love scrapping because it's a hobby for both memory keeping & creating art. 
When I scrap my mind relaxes & takes me away from my busy everyday life.

I can't say I have one particular style but I have to say I'm having a blast when I'm playing with mixed media at the moment!  I'm currently on the Design Team for a great international sketch blog based in Norway, Skissedilla & I am so proud to be on this cool team! I'm also on the Design Team of a British online-store, A Sprinkle of Imagination & also design for  The Color Room. 

"I was inspired by both the colours & the theme of the mood board.

 Pink & mint green are two of my favourite colours & I love how they compliment each other"

"I loved the camera theme as I am addicted to my mobile phone camera & take hundreds of picture of my daughters each month, hoping for the perfect shot!  I adore this photo of them eating breakfast together & laughing happily!!"

Please remember to leave some love for our very special guest Arnlaug!