Savvy CC & Kit Release for September!

This weekend sees Scrapbook Savvy's very first Cybercrop & Kit Release Event on Facebook!  Check the event out here, we've had lots of people playing along and its great to see some new faces joining in our challeges.  Feel free to join in, the fun lasts for another five days yet!

Friday night saw the release of our only September Kit other than the Retreat Kits (the only one left being our She's Savvy Retreat Kit).

The He's Savvy Kit looks like this and includes lots of new products including papers from the Studio Calico Yearbook and Jillibean Soup Country Pumpkin Chowder ranges, and extras including brand new Thickers, mistable stars and washi tape.

We have FOUR awesome challenges happening in the forum now - check them out here!

My challenge this month is a Recipe Challenge. This month I want you to include the following 'ingredients' on your layout....

- Masked background (paint, ink, mist, your choice!)
- Ribbon
- Tickets

Easy peasy challenge for y'all tonight BUT if it gets you scrapping, then my deed is done!

Here's my take...

 

Please upload to the relevant gallery folder by midnight Thursday 4 October for your chance to win some super Savvy spending money - so much new product in the store at the moment so WHO wouldn't want that?!  

Please create a layout specifically for this Savvy Challenge.

Have fun & happy scrapping!!!!

Scrappy Happiness Galore!

WOW what an awesome couple of scrappy weeks I've had!

Last weekend I went to the most awesome retreat of the year....the Savvy Delights Retreat for 2012!  Always a great time with my Savvy girls at the best organised retreat ever by San, the time put in to challenges and prizes and just fun for all is outstanding. 

Not to mention the shop...the shop was pretty good this year...  ;)

Needless to say, I stocked up to provide the girls with lots of scrappy goodies and the Scrapbook Savvy online store is now overflowing with new releases.  Be sure to check out the New Products section.  And while I've been loading new stock I've been moving lots into clearance, so plenty of bargains now to be had in the Steals @ Savvy Sections.

Here's a few pics with the awesome girls that spent the weekend with San & I at our retreat.

I was so excited when my best friend Alicia arrived on the Friday night, I didn't think she was coming but she had secretly arranged it with San, cheeky bugger!  Linda knew but didn't tell me either!  Was great to have both my besties with me for the weekend x

The group photo (well taken just before the official group photo by Lisa), the best group of scrapping chicks around!

 

Me with my Savvy DT girls, it was so awesome to have us altogether for the first time! L-R Sara, Kerryn, Sar (aka ME!) and Tara.



This was the helpers left right at the end, when we'd just about finished packing cars and trailers, thanks lovelies, San & I really appreciate all of your help.

And just cause she is missing from the group photo up there ^^^ and she took all these photos that I have subsequently pinched off her Facebook, here is me with the wonderful Lisa aka Scrapwitch, was a hoot having you join us again and I loved listening to your cackle from the other end of the scrap table!

I can't actually share any of my layouts from retreat as yet, they were all either class, DT or commission commitments...but because I can't do a blog post without sharing a layout, here is the latest 15th September Stuck sketch for you...

And my take using some of the Bella Blvd Too Cute To Spook range, a layout of Georgia with San at her halloween party. 

Love the effect of the mist sprayed onto the background using the ghosts as a mask as taught to me by Kerryn...then using said ghosts elsewhere on the page! You can get all these items in the 2011 Retreat Class Kit by Kerryn which has now been reduced in the Savvy Store to only $20...thats nearly half price for all class projects and step by step instructions!  This whole range is now reduced so grab a bargain before its all gone and get your halloween pics scrapped.

Be sure to upload your take on the Stuck sketch to the blog by the end of September, only a few days left!

Thanks for visiting, see ya soon!

Sept 1st Stuck Sketch

Another sketch to get you scrapping this month, and this one was just what I needed as I prepared for my Class at Savvy tonight!  I sometimes find it hard scrapping under pressure, scrapping for others, scrapping to try and show people different ideas...so to get me moving, I decided to do a sketch class for the girls.  I have scrapped four layouts for them using a variety of sketches, adding step by step instructions and a few different techniques.

This is the only one I can show so far, this is the BONUS fourth layout from tonight's class, one the girls can take home and do at their own leasure with my instructions.

Here's the 1st Sepember sketch from Stuck...

And my take (which I did totally at the last minute, accidentally scrapping the October sketches and sending them to Sara instead!!).  Princess For A Day is a layout of Georgia at one of Bronte's little friends birthday parties a couple of months ago, Cinderella came to the party and the girls just adored her! 

A close up of the gorgeous peacock we are fussy cutting in the class, from the new October Afternoon Woodland Park range.  I will also show the girls how to create their own banner from scrap paper and string.

And a closeup of my tearing, this was seriously a couple of tiny scraps that have just added a little extra colour to my layout, along with a butterfly cut from a Hambly Transparency.

Upload your take on the Stuck blog by the end of the month for your chance to win!

August Savvy CC Challenge by Sar

With recently losing a DT member in Jen with her six month term ending, I have had to step it up and create a challenge for this month's Cybercrop at Scrapbook Savvy!

My challenge is a 54321 Challenge, in which you have to create a layout using this list of product...plus whatever else you want to add in.

5 splashes of black paint
4 letter title (i've got 2 words with 4 letters )
3 papers
2 splotches of Mist
1 photo

Here's mine...


And a couple of close ups...

My title, tag, butterfly and paint work...


And my journalling together with my 'washi banner' on string, a technique I only tried here for the first time and just LOVE!

To be in the running for some Savvy spending money, upload your take to the gallery by midnight tomorrow Thursday 6 September.

What are you waiting for, get scrappin!   Not much time left!!! 

My Stuck RAK Winner...

Thanks to everyone who visited my blog for the Stuck Birthday Blog Hop, it was great to get so many comments from scrapper friends, old and new!

Today we are announcing all of the winners, and my winner is...

Congratulations Shauna, you have won my pretty pink RAK which you may remember from my Blog Hop Post here.

Keep your eyes on your mailman, cause he'll be bring your prize to your letterbox soon.  Enjoy!

What a Month!

Where do I start?!

I know the year is flying, but August...holy crap, what happened to August?

I've just resurfaced from a week 'off the radar' with my baby girl in the hospital for 3 nights with a UTI.  Scary time but she is ok, still on antibiotics for a few more days but seems back to her normal bouncy self.

And now I have two more sleeps to get organised for my big boy's 8th birthday!  Talk about time flying....

Before the end of August comes around, I best be showing you the rest of the Stuck sketches for our birthday month...so far I've only shown you the first sketch, there are three more!

Bonus Sketch 1, this one I haven't had a chance to do but I'm sure you can find time before the weekend, right?

 

August 15th Sketch...

 

My take features Cooper & Kirsty playing in the water at Belmore Basin.  I have used a great kit from SFS for this layout.  I've used an awesome Crafters Template on the background with mist, there are so many varieties of the templates these days, the possibilities are endless.

 

And a closeup of a flower that I completely stuffed up with mist, it turned out super bright so I toned it down with some distress ink and I ended up liking it in the end.



 

 And the last one, Bonus Sketch 2...

 

My layout is my baby girl Bronte on her 3rd B'day, using one of the She's Savvy Kits from 2011, I can't remember which one but I had little bits & pieces left over so just ran with it.

And a closeup, I basically cut squares from my scraps and distressed the edges.  I've also punched some super cute Monarch Butterflies with a Martha Stewart punch.

 

To be in the running for some super awesome prizes, load your takes on any of these sketches over on the Stuck blog before the end of the month.





 

Thanks for visiting :)

My First Savvy Class!

Now that I have one less scrappy commitment I need to keep up, it is time for me to focus on my own business.  Something I probably should've been doing already, but now I'm forced to turn my attention to what really counts in my own world and do the best I can for myself and my little business.

Last Friday night I held my first Savvy Class.  The girls have been telling me for ages I should teach but I really didn't know if I could.  But I bit the bullet and put together a class kit, creating three layouts from it and then writing step by step instructions.

The girls all seemed to really enjoy the class, learning a few new things along the way and 'remembering' some things they hadn't done in a while!  Everyone managed to get the three layouts done in just a few hours, and really...isn't that what its all about?

Getting out of the house, hanging with the girls AND getting three layouts done on a Friday night...a successful night in my books for my lovely customers & friends that joined me and supported me on my very first attempt at teaching!  I really appreciate the support of my local girls and hope I can continue to inspire you in the future.

There are three class kits left and these are now available in the Savvy store here.

Here's a look at the layouts you can create with this class kit.

Her Day - a pretty girly layout with spashes of colour and new techniques including making pendants and inking with punchinella.

A close up of the cluster you will create including inking, rhinestones, fussy cutting, string and more!

Kiss The Boy - a more neutral layout which includes washi tape and two different flowers to handmake.

A close up of the 'concertina flower' and 'spiral flower' made with step by step instructions.

Xmas Fairy - this one doesn't HAVE to be a xmas layout and would suit any photo with the right colourings.  Includes scruching your paper which was VERY funny to see the girls do in the class...they so weren't keen!  Also more spiral flowers on a fussy cut vine and some hand cut leaves.

A close up of the spiral flowers with rhinestone centres, and the washi tape folded 'ribbon style'.

Can't wait to plan my next class for next month!  Don't forget to head over and grab a kit if you'd like to create these layouts yourself. 

Thanks for visiting!