January International GDT Inspiration!!

We are so excited to have some international entries flowing into the Show Us Your Stuff gallery, that we have decided to introduce an International Guest Designer each month!  This month we have Laura Rumble joining us from the United Kingdom!

Laura Says: I am Laura, 30, from the UK and I love to create.  Scrapping is my main craft but I’ll have a go at just about anything creative.  I am pretty much housebound with M.E/C.F.S so crafting when I am able keeps me sane.  I blog at beadsbuttonsandbirds.blogspot.co.uk and have just started a YouTube channel for process videos.

I am fortunate to be on two Design Teams at the moment – Crafty Ribbons and SpiegelMomScraps – my favourite products are ribbons and sequins so I have aced out with my DT’s!

My style is lots of white space but plenty of colour and texture too.

Currently my favourite company is Cocoa Vanilla.  

We asked Laura to create a layout using our January moodboard...

Laura says: Here is my offering for the January challenge. It's a lovely mood board, lots of angle to take.

I've taken my colours from the mood board - red from the umbrella, yellow from the centre of the flowers and aqua from the water.  I also gone with the overall summery feel and scrapped about it being too hot!

Thanks for having me!

Laura

Here are a few of Laura's favourite layouts/projects that she has created..

We love this! Thank you for being our first International Guest Designer Laura!!

December Winners!!

Hi everyone!
I think we have kept you all in suspense long enough, so it's time to announce the lucky winners from our December challenge!

As you may already know, we have a tradition here at Show Us Your Stuff, where we give our sponsors a break in December and allow our Design Team members to play Secret Santa for our winners instead. As you will see, our team has outdone themselves this year and we have some AMAZING prizes heading our winners' way!

Our first winner is this beautiful layout...

belonging to...Louise (TCM)

Congrats Louise! Santa will be sending these awesome goodies your way...

Our second winner is this gorgeous layout...

belonging to...Katie Howard

Congrats Katie! Santa has these presents for you...

And last but not least, we have an extra randomly drawn winner and it's this fabulous layout...

belonging to...Julene

Congrats Julene! Santa has these gifts for you...

Finally, our international winner is this lovely festive layout...

belonging to...Barbara (Germany)

Congrats Barbara! We would love to invite you to join our team as a guest designer for our March challenge.

If all our winners could please email us their details via the 'Contact' tab at the top of the page, we will get your prizes organised for you. We would also love for all four of you to join us as guest designers for our March challenge.

Last of all, thank you to everyone who played along with us during 2015, without your continued support, and that of our sponsors, our challenge wouldn't exist. Please share our challenge with your creative friends and play along with us again this year.

Til next time, happy scrapping! :)

January Mid Month Reveal!

We are half way through the first month of the year already! Have you had a chance to sit down and check out our challenge yet?  We have a super cool, summer inspired mood board designed by Sue! Isn't it gorgeous? We would love for you to have a go!

You are welcome to use the board to inspire you however you wish, just don't forget to tell us what inspired your creation, and of course, make sure you include at least one handmade embellishment. You are also welcome to enter items other than traditional 12x12" layouts - cards, Project Life spreads, art journal pages, off the page creations - as long as they meet the challenge criteria and are created solely for our challenge.

We also have a new sponsor on board this month, 

Cocoa Vanilla Studio is the brainchild of Australian designer Zoe Pearn. She has a long history of design in both the scrapbook and fabric industries, having worked as a product designer for major companies in both Australia and the USA.

Zoe says - 

We are a proudly Australian scrapbooking company, bringing you beautiful quality designer papers and accessories to help you capture your memories in style and Make A Beautiful Life Story!

Our products are designed for scrapbookers by an avid scrapbooker with a passion for design. We want to make beautiful products that will make beautiful scrapbooks and crafts, and as such we try and offer the best quality and innovative products through Cocoa Vanilla Studio.

Cocoa Vanilla Studio Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CocoaVanillaStudio 

Instagram:  http://www.instagram.com/cocoa_vanilla_studio/ 

Blog: http://cocoavanilla.com.au/blog 

Shop: http://cocoavanilla.com.au/shop 

 Here is some inspiration from our design team...

Cally

Rainbow Splendour veneer cloud and stars, Charms Creations star, and lots of D-Lish goodies

Emma

Charms creations sun and cloud, own embossed foil, and lots of Cocoa Vanilla goodies

Chloe

Rainbow Splendour wood veneer cloud, Charms Creations star and chevron, Burdy's Embellies cogs and button, handmade bow (not by me)

Ali

handmade items are D-lish rose and tag.

Janet

Inspired by a raw wood bracelet that I have been meaning to play with for way to long. It is very chunky and not at all wearable although my 8yo daughter has decided it is hers!

Lots of gorgeous resin pieces from my store The Resin Rainbow, pineapple,thong and watermelon embellishment/charm from my stash, wood birds from Corbett creations, d-Lish scraps for the bigger daisies and the background colour is by Colour Blast (colour paste) called Lipstick.

Vicki

Lots of Burdy's Embellies goodies - cogs, arrow, satin flower, button, frames and pearl dots! 

Lisette

D'lish Flair

We hope this has inspired you to play along with us! Remember to link your entry before midnight January 31st!

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January 2016 Challenge!

Happy New Year and welcome to 2016!
We are so excited here as today we start the new year with our new design team line-up, our first challenge of the year and a brand new sponsor too!

To kick off the year, we thought we would ease you in gently with a simple mood board challenge. This one has been designed by me (Sue) and is designed to reflect the current summer season here in Australia.

You are welcome to use the board to inspire you however you wish, just don't forget to tell us what inspired your creation, and of course, make sure you include at least one handmade embellishment. You are also welcome to enter items other than traditional 12x12" layouts - cards, Project Life spreads, art journal pages, off the page creations - as long as they meet the challenge criteria and are created solely for our challenge.

This month we are excited to welcome Cocoa Vanilla Studio as our sponsor

Cocoa Vanilla Studio is the brainchild of Australian designer Zoe Pearn. She has a long history of design in both the scrapbook and fabric industries, having worked as a product designer for major companies in both Australia and the USA.

Zoe says - 

We are a proudly Australian scrapbooking company, bringing you beautiful quality designer papers and accessories to help you capture your memories in style and Make A Beautiful Life Story!

Our products are designed for scrapbookers by an avid scrapbooker with a passion for design. We want to make beautiful products that will make beautiful scrapbooks and crafts, and as such we try and offer the best quality and innovative products through Cocoa Vanilla Studio.

Cocoa Vanilla Studio Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CocoaVanillaStudio
Instagram:  http://www.instagram.com/cocoa_vanilla_studio/
Blog: http://cocoavanilla.com.au/blog
Shop: http://cocoavanilla.com.au/shop

You will spot plenty of Cocoa Vanilla Studio products used by our design team for this month's challenge - let's take a look at what everyone created...

Sue

Cocoa Vanilla Studio flair & woodie

(All other papers and embellishments also by Cocoa Vanilla Studio)

Anita

Flutterby Designs flair

 Deena

Handmade umbrella & thongs

Krisy

Studio Fourteen40 flair and chalked tabs and Charms Creations cloud

Leanne

D-lish Scraps flair; Rainbow Splendour wood veneer cloud and vellum bow

(Cocoa Vanilla Studio paper and die cut ephemera)

Sandra

Cocoa Vanilla Studio flair; Charms Creations clouds and heart

(Cocoa Vanilla papers, die cut ephemera, stickers, blooms)

Amanda

Cocoa Vanilla Studio flair; Charms Creations cloud; 

Rainbow Splendour wood veneer cloud and vellum bow

(Cocoa Vanilla Studio paper, ephemera, stickers, wood veneer)

How's that for inspiring??? What an amazing array of work from the team so far! (You will see the other half at our mid-month reveal.) So now that we've shown you the challenge, revealed our awesome sponsor and inspired you with our creations, the rest is up to you! 

Get 2016 off to a creative bang and Show Us Your Stuff! :)