Happy Monday Scrappers !!!

The two Sketch Challenges for January were a success, all of you truly amazed us with your response and we would like to say a **BIG** thank you for playing and adding your creativity to the Gallery. After a round of votes and counting the points, the winner of the $30 prize of Made Wtih Love vouchers is :

Esther Aw !!! This is her colourful and festive layout textured with an embossed frame and a ribbon circle ! Isn’t it a perfect Chinese New Year page ? Congratulations Esther and do visit her gallery for a closer look at all the details.

For February, the Design Team will be working on a range of mediums and to kick off, today we feature layouts in the Gallery using them. Glimmer Misting is a popular technique and we have seen scrappers loving the spontaneous dimension and surprising mixes of colour it gives their layouts.

 Hilda has used both paints and glimmer mist to create a background for her layout.

 Tinkerbell used a mix of bright coloured mists for this whimsical layout of their visit to Hong Kong Disneyland.

 Wu Ling used a light misting of blue to add a dreamy, soft feel to her nature layout.

Thank you ladies for your contributions to the Gallery  !! Remember, the Gallery is for scrappers of all abilities and styles, we *love*love*love* looking at fresh layouts and projects as they provide ideas and tons of inspiration for scrappers who visit.

I’ll see you soon, have a great week ahead !

*Aida*

Sketch Challenge #1

How hard can it be to choose a winner ?? Well ….. let me say : it was hard !!!  All the layouts were REALLY, REALLY good and after a round of votes, for the first time, the top scorers had to be shortlisted and voted on again. Finally we have …….

Aamummy’s Making Waves !!

We love  the colours, the handsome photo and the sponteneity of  the layout !  Congratulations, we will be contacting you so look out for a message on the forum !

What’s a blog post without MORE gorgeous creations spotted in the Galley right ?

Lavender69’s  beautiful Butterfly mini :

Susan luv2scrap   sweetest layout with it’s circular hand-cut paper and lace ribbon trim :

Colista’s textured canvas is stunning, and a *manly* enough gift for a guy !

Thank you for sharing your work in the gallery, they are all gorgeous and a sure source of ideas to scrappers.

Come back for Sandra’s and Jasmine’s updates on CHA and the exciting new products or trends !

See you soon, happy scrapping !!

*Aida*

How about another challenge from Made With Love ? To open your scrapping year with a *BANG !!!*, only for this January, we are bringing  you not one …. but TWO Sketch Challenges to get you scrapping again after the celebrations of Christmas and New Year. Made With Love will give away a prize to each winner of the challenges.

Challenge #1 begins today and ends Thursday 21st at 12pm.

This week’s Sketch is :

For scrappers still new at following sketches, the rules are really easy-peasy !!

1) Create a 12 X 12 layout  2) Follow all or some of the design elements in the sketch 3) Use any brand of products you love, in whatever combination of colours you like.  To give you an example, the smallest circle in the sketch can be replaced by a circular tag, punch out or chipboards, you can also use flowers ! The partial circles at the top and bottom corners can be die-cut patterned papers or you can hand cut the circle shape. Don’t have a large circle cutter ? No problem, do what I do some times, the low-tech way - use a plate or a bowl **LOL!!!** In fact, you don’t even have to use a circle if you prefer other shapes like brackets.

Your layouts must be uploaded to the Gallery under Sketch Challenge #1 by the closing date and time. This is open to all scrappers in Singapore only.

To help you along, the Design Team will be posting their support layouts in the Gallery . Come on, don’t wait to join the scrapbook community at Made With Love …… good luck with this challenge and have fun !!!

**Aida**

We were egg-xtremely thrilled to receive all the submissions for this challenge!!! It is clear from all the intricate details that we saw, that we have one very talented bunch of scrappers who don’t let the lack of surface area get in the way of their scrapping skills and creativity!!!

Many thought out of the box, or rather the EGG …. sorry … couldn’t resisit that … … and came up with fabulous-looking eggs!!!

And after an egg-xtremely gruelling round of decision-making … … we are finally able to declare that … …

THIS IS THE WINNING EGG!!!

  Designed by Felicia Ow!!!

She wins for herself a gift basket of scrapping supplies worth $80 for her creative effort!!!

Yes, as the participants of this challenge can testify, plenty of effort was involved, as it is no mean feat trying to clean out the eggs … although we did receive a couple of hard-boiled eggs …. which were reeeeally adorable on the outside …. and like us … ants were also very attracted to them! LOL!!!  Not to worry, we fended them off! :)

But before we draw this challenge to a close, if you haven’t had a chance to view the eggs in our previous blog entry or at the store, here is a wonderful peek once again at all the egg-xtremely beeee-a-uuu-tiii-ful submissions!

THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN to EVERYONE who participated in this challenge!!! You’ve really made it an egg-xtremely unforgettable Easter month for all of us with your creativity!

And as always, remember to keep on lovin’ and keep up the scrappin’!!!

Luff, {e}

Note: All egg submissions will be ready and waiting to go home with their owners from 4 May ‘09 onwards.

Wowoweeeeee!!!! Look at all the amazing submissions we’ve received!!! It’s going to be an uphill task as the Made With Love Team and Design Team band together and come up with our choice pick. So stay tuned for the results which will be released on Thu. 30 Apr ‘09 on our blog here and online forum!!!

In the meantime, be dazzled by these EGG-xtremely EGG-citing EGG scrapping creations!!!!

And ooo yeah … there’s a repeat of an image of one of the eggs to have a complete grid …. no favoritism intended. ;)

Do visit our online forum for discussions on these egg-citing submissions!!! :)