December 2013 Winners, Features, Finalists & Guest Educator Spot!

Hello again!  Time to announce our December 2013 Winners!  THANK YOU to everyone who entered last month, we closed on an awesome 67 entries, which WAY surpassed what we were expecting over the busy holiday season!! 

 I am so grateful & delighted that Scrap Around The World has been so well received by so many people, in so many different countries - it is a dream come true for me & is very fulfilling indeed to see this challenge blog come to fruition & grow & develop just as intended - many thanks to all of YOU - our wonderful PLAYERS!

Here is a visual reminder of our December mood board, which was used as the inspiration for the projects below.

The entries last month were OUTSTANDING.  The pages submitted here are of an extremely high standard & judging is taken very seriously & I correlate all the votes very carefully - it takes HOURS!  

Our winner this month is Elena from Russia, for this very beautiful interpretation of our December Mood board.  Congratulations!  Your page was a complete hit with our Design Team & it's easy to see why!!

2nd place goes to Tanya Palamarchuk from Poland, who submitted 2 stunning

 entries this month, for her light & modern take on Zanka's mood board.

3rd place goes to Annar, also from Poland!  What a remarkable page!!

4th place goes to Alice for this soft & pretty page - love, love, love ♥♥♥

5th place goes to one of our past winners, Lisa Griffith, from the US,

with another one of her light & delicate creations.

6th place goes to Macarena from Poland for this perfect canvas.

7th place goes to Debbie Burns from the US for this ethereal canvas.

8th place goes to Amy Voorthuis from the Netherlands, for this uber pretty page.

9th place goes to Zuziucha, from Poland, with this very lovely layout.

10th place goes to Yvonne Yam from Singapore, for this beautiful & original layout.

As we said last month, starting from January 2014 {this month!} we are choosing a

  "Guest Educator" every month , based on a project that catches our eye from a 

technique perspective, that we would love to learn how to create.  This month we

 chose this cool layout from Rikki Graziani of Australia as we are desperate to 

discover how to create a background as stunning as this one!

And last but not least we have our random winner, Beatrice Lawson from Canada.

 Congratulations!  I love your pretty background, doily & the butterflies!!

DON'T FORGET we have a FACEBOOK FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY here, 

closing on the 21st of January {this month!} so if you haven't signed up as

a SATW follower there now is the time!  Competition details are up on

our Facebook page!  Please sign up as a follower if you haven't already :)

IMPORTANT RULE CHANGE

We would LOVE to see your creations, made for our challenges here at Scrap Around The World, 

SHARED ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE AS WELL so we ask that you PLEASE SHARE

 to our Facebook page in future, in order to be ELIGIBLE FOR OUR RANDOM PRIZE

 as only those who have shared their entries on our Facebook wall will be eligible.  

Please click on our "Scrap Around The World"page on Facebook HERE to share your work 

with us & remember to QUOTE YOUR LINKY NUMBER to be eligible, for example

 "Beatrice Lawson - Entry 50" at the beginning of your description. 

 Please share with us directly,don't just tag us, THANK YOU!

By sharing your entries with us on Facebook YOU will get more exposure
 & we can all enjoy seeing the SATW entries in our newsfeeds as well!

You are welcome to share a link to your actual blog post on Facebook
 too if you like, this drives more traffic to your blog if people want to take
 a closer look!  So it's a WIN/WIN deal right?!?

And here is a reminder of our current mood board HERE.

We look forward to seeing your amazing entries rolling in!

I'm sure our winners would LOVE it if you left them your congratulations!

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DETAILS BELOW ARE RELEVANT ONLY

 TO OUR CURRENT PRIZEWINNERS

PRIZEWINNERS PLEASE NOTE

Prizes to be claimed on or before the 15th of the month please, otherwise they will no longer remain valid.

Replies will NOT be sent BUT if you do not receive your prize within 6 weeks please contact 

the email address given {& copy me on scrapaddict {at} telkomsa.net} so we can follow it up.  

We trust our sponsors to be honest & reliable but we cannot be held personally responsible for prizes

 that go awry, although this would be the exception rather than the norm, having never happened to date.

PLEASE PUT YOUR NAME & THE PRIZE YOU WON IN THE 

SUBJECT LINE - for example - Elena - 7Dots 3 Collections

1st prize - Elena - please email me {Helen} @ 

scrapaddict {at} telkomsa {dot} net with your 

full postal details to claim your 7Dots prize, then

please contact our Guest Designer co-ordinator,

Kim Ewins, @ kimewins {at} hotmail {dot} com

regarding your upcoming Guest Designer post!

2nd prize - Tanya - please email Di Garling @

vgarling {at} bigpond {dot} net {dot} au with your

 postal details to claim your 2Crafty Chipboard prize.

3rd prize - Annar - please email me {Helen} @

scrapaddict {at} telkomsa {dot} net with your full 

postal details to claim your Scrapmatts Chipboard prize.

4th prize - Alice - please email me {Helen} @

scrapaddict {at} telkomsa {dot} net with our full

postal details to claim your Purple Pumpkin prize.

5th prize - Lisa - please email me {Helen} @

scrapaddict {at} telkomsa {dot} net with your full

postal details to claim your prize from Eila :)

Guest Tutorialist - RIKKI please contact our Education 

Co-ordinator,Leonie Neal-Dawson @ leoniend12 {at} gmail {dot} com

to discuss your upcoming video OR photo tutorial guest spot!

Random prize - Beatrice - please contact Leonie Neal-Dawson

 @ leoniend12 {at} gmail {dot} com with your full postal address

to claim the prize pack she has donated - THANK YOU EVERYONE!

January 2014 Challenge 9 - A Soft & Beachy Mood Board by Kim Ewins

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Welcome back to Scrap Around The World Challenge NINE

 hosted by Design Team member Kim Ewins from Australia!

OUR PLANS!

We have all sorts of great things planned for you here this year & a few changes too, starting with 

splitting our monthly reveal in TWO, with 8 design team layouts being revealed on the 1st of the month, 

followed by another 8 on the 16th, as well as our usual Guest Design Team post on the 12th of each month 

& our Guest Designer post on the 20th - so all in all we'll be providing you with approximately TWENTY FIVE 

projects to inspire you each month! Then of course there is also our educational side where we provide

 TWO tutorials a month{either photographic step-by-step or videos} so we have plenty to offer you in 2014!!

OUR THANKS!

As it's the beginning of a new year I'd like to acknowledge some people before we begin.  

Firstly THANK YOU to YOU for participating.  

Without players a challenge blog cannot function.  

    Then of course, to my Design Team - who produce a beautiful project

 each month, without fail, as well as posting, sharing, commenting & judging.

This journey has not been easy.  It has certainly had it's fun & satisfying moments

 but starting & running a challenge blog is difficult & I appreciate all the assistance 

& support I get, in spite of the inevitable setbacks I have had to overcome.

Finally we have a SATW admin team who help me hold everything together!  

When I first began I had little idea what I was getting myself into & naively thought

I could to everything myself & that everything would run like clockwork.  Well of

course that hasn't been the case & there have been many disappointments

but we are looking foward to a FANTASTIC 2014 & now have some great 

systems in place :)  Let me introduce the official 2014 admin team!

Kim Ewins recently joined us as our Guest Co-ordinator, liaising with our 

Guest Designers & Guest Teams & adding all their information to their

posts for me to complete.  Kim is my "right-hand man" lady!!

Di Garling began administering our Facebook Page  a couple of months ago,

with GREAT success &  has more than doubled our following there through

 her tireless efforts.  She is also in charge of promoting our challenges at

Paper People, All our Challenges are Here & Design Team Calls & will be

taking over the Wall of Fame from May 2014 when we move into our 2nd term.

Leonie Neal-Dawson has been with SATW since our inception & has recently

 taken over as our Education Co-ordinator, assisting me in liaising with our 

tutorialists & tutorial posts.  Leonie is the most down-to-earth, reliable &

dependable person I know & I am so grateful to have her help in 2014.

Together we form the Scrap Around The World HEAD HONCHOS

 & with the help of these 3 awesome admin assistants I can now look

 forward to 2014 & plan our awesome FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY

EVENT in May!  All I can tell you is IT WILL BE AWESOME!!

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MORE THANKS!!

  Alexandra Polyzou  compiles our WALL of FAME monthly & posts it.  It takes time to 

get it right, especially with our foreign players with names that are not easily spelt :)

Gayle Price keeps our Winners & Features list up to date in our sidebar

 as well as on our Winners & Features page {awesome for easy reference} 

as well as going above & beyond the call of duty in the commenting department!

Eila Sandberg is the most awesome & steadfast commenter I have ever known

AND provides sponsorship assistance whenever we are in a jam, as well as a 

willing ear & solid advice when needed!.

Agnieszka Bellaidea helps out whenever & where-ever she can & has

 been responsible for plenty of our fantastic sponsorship contracts.

Riikka Kovasin is a relative newcomer at SATW but deserves a special mention 

for her willingness to go the extra mile whenever she can,  including sponsorship

 & amazing video tutorials.

Since SATW began 8 months ago people have come & gone & it has been an almost

  non-stop job for me to build up a strong design team of not only fantastic designers 

but also reliable people to assist me in running this site, that needs daily attention,

  thorough forethought & consistent effort & team work. 

Thank you to everyone who has helped me to to this end.

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EVEN MORE THANKS!!!

Last but not least - our sponsors.  Garnering sponsorship was the one thing

 that always put me off starting a challenge blog.  I absolutely hated the thought

 of "asking" anyone for anything.  {I can now report that I have become a great beggar!}

So many AMAZING companies have been only too willing to help us out in return

 for some great advertising!  As you can see from the long list in our sidebar, 

we have had many companies, big & small, affiliating themselves with SATW. 

Our sponsorship schedule for 2014 is ALMOST FULL so anyone considering 

sponsoring us needs to please get in touch with me URGENTLY via e mail at

scrapaddict {at} telkomsa {dot} net.

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We have some amazing prizes YET AGAIN this month & we hope 

that many of you will be able to participate in our January challenge!

As you will see we now offer a mood board ONLY, without a sketch, in order

 to assist you in combining our challenge with a sketch challenge if you want :)

Feel free to interpret the mood board in any way you like,

 using one image, several of them, all of them or even just

 one aspect of an image, using ANY COLOURS!  

To be eligible for judging:-

1.   You need to follow our 10 Golden Rules found HERE, which include :-

1)  Sharing the mood board image.

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

SATW} & LINKING BACK to the current challenge.

3)  Mentioning HOW you were inspired by our mood board.

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

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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Kim Ewins  {Australia}

Keren Tamir {Canada}

13 Arts products used :- Faces of Spring- In your eyes, All is Love- 

follow your heartAyeeda Gesso, Ayeeda Molding paste & white stems.

Di Garling {Australia}

13 Arts products used:- Ayeeda Modelling Paste, Ayeeda Gesso,Ayeeda Pearl 

Turquoise Light Mist, Ayeeda Pearl Navy Blue Mist & Ayeeda Pearl Sky Blue Mist.

Agnieszka Bellaidea {Canada} CANVAS

13 arts products used :-  gesso, mists, gel medium.

Leonie Neal-Dawson {Australia}

Carla Marchee {Netherlands} ART JOURNAL PAGE

Gayle Price {Australia}

Helen Tilbury {South Africa}

PRIZES!

1st prize - Over US$50 prize- pack from Creativica! 

{Swedish Store - brick & mortar/online}

Bo Bunny Woodland Winter Collection {papers/stickers/alphas/chipboard}

plus co-co-ordinating Winter Themed stamps from Maja Design {Sweden}.

ALL SPONSORED BY CREATIVICA, including postage to our winner!

Creativica is a brick &mortar/online store founded by Karin Dahllöf in May 2009,

 situated on the West Coast of Sweden, one hours drive north of Gothenburg.

We are 3 women working in the store & also holding classes & crops regularly,

often with help of our talented Design Team. Come & see what we can offer YOU!

Website: www.creativica.se, 

blog http://creativica.wordpress.com/ 

with daily updates.

2nd prize - 2 Crafty Chipboard valued at $30!

2 Crafty offers affordable & versatile laser cut chipboard products to the Australian 

& International Craft market, with over 700 designs, manufactured in Australia

 for scrapbooking,cardmaking, altered art, invitations & mixed media. Vanessa,

 the owner,  provides the highest level of customer support & is happy to discuss

 personalized orders with customers via their local scrapbooking store.

 2 Crafty has a fabulous blog & Facebook page updated weekly with projects 

created by it's international Design Team.  Check out the 2 Crafty website

 for products available to wholesalers & ask your local store to order products

 for you if they don't have them in stock!

3rd prize - Scrapmatts Chipboard valued at $25!

Australian Made Laser Cut Chipboard to compliment your scrapbook pages,
 cards & paper-crafting projects. Scrapmatts has a Ning site that showcases
 an amazing talented international design team who post regularly on the blog
 there, a gallery, customer challenges & an online store. Come join in the fun here!

Below is just one example of some of the awesome products they stock HERE.

4th prize - A selection of Purple Pumpkin products, to the value of $15.

Purple Pumpkin {Australia} manufactures high-quality embellishments of a fun & funky nature,
 specializing in fabric buttons, handmade flowers,resin, twine & washi tape.  

They have a great blog that is constantly active & they hold monthly challenges 
open to all, with Guest Designer positions up for grabs as well as awesome 
prizes of Purple Pumpkin loveliness!  

They stock a huge range of embellishments, washi tape, motex tape, 
etc in their online store HERE. Below is just ONE EXAMPLE
 of the many  products stocked in their online store.

5th prize - 5 packs of Prima embellishments & miscellaneous blooms donated by 
Design Team member Eila Sandberg.{to be eligible for this prize you must be a
 follower of Eila's blog so please follow the link & sign up for some amazing inspiration}.

Random Prize - Sunshine Love Collection from Studio 75 {Poland}

 

 "We are dedicated to bring you happiness & satisfaction with 
every moment spent with scrapbooking items by Studio 75.

 We know that keeping your experiences positive is very important 
for you so we prepare our papers and embellishments with care
for every single detail. Our Designers put their heart & soul into
 their work so we can offer you items that spark your imagination
 & give you endless pleasure - papers, tags, stamps, charms,
 chipboard, art journals, album bases & more!"


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The deadline for this challenge is Thursday 31st January 2014!

Please leave some comment love for our amazing Design Team
 or let us know  what you think of our mood board & prizes!
Here's to a wonderful year ahead!!