New Design team members!!!!

Yayyy blogger has finally let me on to do this post!!! I am very excited to announce the 4 ladies who will be joining us here. They are all very talented and am sure that will be offering you loads of inspiration.

So here they are, first up is........

Charmane Koch

My name is Charmane Koch, and I have been scrapbooking since May 2004, a couple of months after my son Chei was born. Since then, I haven't stopped! There's not a day that goes by that I don't do something related to scrapbooking {or think about it!}.


After living in Melbourne for the past 15 years or so, I have recently moved to South Australia, with my partner and 3 children, Chei {7}, Harmony {5} and Ryarne {18 months} to be closer to my family and give the kids a new way of living. My partner Ashan, got into Photography around the same time as my scrapping, so we both have similarly related passions!


In the years that I have been scrapping, I have been on numerous Design Teams, published numerous times in Aussie mags such as Scrapbooking Memories, Scrapbook Creations & For Keeps {when it was around!}. I have also taught online classes from 2006, which has been rewarding and challenging too!

Currently I am on the Handmade By Suzanne Design Team, and a couple of other Blog Challenge Creative Teams too! I have set up a forum specifically just for the blog challenges that you can find not just in Australia, but around the world. This makes it a lot easier to keep up-to-date with them all! You can check out Chat with Charm here http://chatwithcharm.forumotion.com/ - We have a fabulous group of girls there, come and check us out!

I have also just started creating Handmade Embellishments called Lovely Lollipops, which I really enjoy making - and also seeing on other scrappers pages!!!

I'm looking forward to being part of the Show Us Your Stuff Team and can't wait to be challenged and to see what creations everyone comes up with too!!!


xoxo Charmane



Next up is.................................

Crystal Goulding

Hey all, I’m Crystal Goulding (though you may know me as Bowman but I've recently married!) and I currently live in Ipswich, QLD. I am lucky to have three beautiful children who are definitely not camera shy, perfect for a scrapaholic like me!


I have only been Scrapbooking for about 2.5 years but have been lucky to be published in both Scrapbooking Memories and Scrapbook Creations, as well as being part of a few Creative/Design Teams. You could describe my style as minimal, with lots of paint, rubons and a “must have” for me, doodling! I hope that I can inspire you all here at Show Us Your Stuff!


Then, not only do we have this very talented lady inspiring layouts but she will also be offering a sketch each month........









Sara Noendeng.....

My name is Sara and I am 24 years old. I live in mostly sunny Brisbane, QLD, with my husband, Nathan, and our two boys, Jet who is nearly 4 and Max who is 20 months. I started scrapping several years ago and fell even more in love once Jet was born. I have had the pleasure of serving on several design teams and also running my own sketch blog for the past 3.5 years. I was a 12 x 12 scrapper until a few months ago when I decided to play around with 8.5 x 11 and I think that I have now switched. I still don't think I have a certain style but I love to use a single photo, with great patterned papers and a splash of embellishments, especially those of the handmade variety. I am looking forward to providing inspiration as a DT member for Show Us Your Stuff.


And lastly, but certainly not least is a lady who also taking on the role of the 2nd challenge co-ordinator, as well as helping me out around here is






Marelle Jackman.......

Hi everyone - Marelle here.

I live outside Geelong Victoria in a small town and I am surrounded by farmlets, vineyards and the beach! I am married with two daughters Mia 10 and Ella 9 and have a stepson Greg who is 27.
I have been scrapping for 8 years, and have been published in Scrapbooking Memories, Scrapbook Creations, and soon to be in Creating Keepsakes. I am yet to identify my "style", as a scrapper I am flexible and like to try new techniques, and I usually scrap in 6x12 or A4 size. recently I have been dabbling with canvasses, texture paste and paint!
I am a Design Team member at scrapbudz, and a socialite Team member at The Color Room, and now I am thrilled to have joined such a talented group of ladies here at SUYS!
I look forward to seeing you complete our challenges set by the fab DT .



Well i hope you all are looking forward to seeing what these ladies will come up with,as i certainly am.

See you in a couple of days with junes challenge...and dont forget you still have a couple of days to get your may challenge in.

May 2nd challenge

Hi. The 2nd challenge for this month is an easy one. This gorgeous sketch that i found over at page maps.

Again the girls had some gorgeous stuff from bibbys to play with.

Here is what ebony came up with.......

Gilly used the flower on a gorgeous card for mothers day..




I love how bridge has used the flower and the felt buttons and circles...

Just gorgeous leanne...she has used the butterfly as well.....

I love this penny....She has pulled apart the flower to use on her banner. Very clever..

Wow, lots of inspiration for you all. Dont forget to go and check out bibbys embellishment kits, i heard a little whisper that next month is a boy kit!!!!

That is also the last month for ebony and bridge. Thankyou very much girls for your inspiration, we have all loved seeing your work.

You will get to meet our new team members very shortly........

Have a great day

Kerry xx

Winners...

Hi everyone, here are the winners for may. We had some gorgeous entries this month and lots of them, so thankyou everybody!!! I love seeing all your creations. I may not get time to comment on them all but i do look at them all!!!

The winner from the first challenge this month is

Sharmaine Kruijver......

you have won a prize pack from the greatest view........




The winner of the second challenge is marg oliver....


You have won a $20.00 gift voucher from kim archer...


Thanks girls, if you could email me your details i will get your prizes out to you....


I will be back later with the next challenge.....

Guest Designer for May......

Happy Mothers day everyone!!!!!

Its time to share with you our guest designer for may!!

Its Tamara Wade.................................

My name is Tamara Wade or aka Stepfordwife!

I’ve been scrapping for about 8 ½ years now, and during that time have been on 3 different design teams as well as a part owner in an online scrapping store which I owned for just over 12 months.

I traditionally scrap 12 x 12 but also like to mix it up with cards and off the page items too..I wouldn’t say that I particulary have a style but do like to add lots of things to my layouts to give it texture, almost every layout I create has been distressed in some form and also have a slight addiction to ink!

I loved the lace criteria and felt it gave a softer edge to my layout of my niece..

Tam used bibbys felt buttons as well. Its a gorgeous layout tam, thanks for joining us this month.

Find out more of tam here
http://mumto2angels.blogspot.com/

Hope you all have a great mothers day!!!

May Challenge #1.

Well hi, sorry i am late with this today, its hard to find some time on the weekends!!

Well here is our first challenge for may;

Trims, ribbon and lace!! How do you use it?? Something simple or more elaborate. We want to see....

The design team were lucky enough to be sponsored again this month, this time by Bibbys one of a kind!! Check out what the girls have done with her goodies.

This is just so gorgeous!! Sam has used bibbys large flower as the base for her cluster of flowers. She has used ribbon and twine.

Nadia has used the large flower, butterfly and the felt buttons by bibby. This is really beautiful nadia. Love how you have used your twine.

Kim has used the flower on a card. I love this kim.

I decided to attempt a boy page with this theme and have used bibbys felt buttons on the page.

Well sadly this is the last month for kim and nadia, they have given us plenty of inspiration and i am sad to see them go. Hopefully they stick around and do a challenge or two every now and then. Thanks girls.

MAY SPONSORS!!!

Really??? May??? I cant believe it!!! How is this year going sooo fast?

Here are the sponsors for may. As usual we have some awesome prizes lined up. First up is lovely bits and bobs. The winner can choose 5 sets of buttons!! How cool is that??

Next up we have Lime Tree Creations, and they have put up a $20 prize pack. Becs work is just gorgeous so anyone would be lucky to win this!!

And lastly but certainly not least we have a $15.00 gift voucher up for grabs from wicked princesses!! Someone will have a great time choosing what they would like from krissys shop!! Its full of kits, of course her MVB flowers and critters, and lots of other stuff!!

I will be back later with the challenge!!!

Last Day!!!

Hi everyone, last day to get your challenges in as well as the dt call!!!!

I just wanted to share with you this gorgeous book done by Tracey Taylor who just missed out getting her entry in last month because of the time zones. I thought it was such a gorgeous book and she has put a lot of time into it, that i wanted to share.

Check out more shots and a tutorial on her blog here.

Thanks for joining in tracey!!

Kerry xx

April challenge #2

Hi everyone, im here with the second challenge for april. It is an easy one this month, and its a product challenge.

BUTTONS........Big buttons, little buttons, lots of buttons or one or two. Its time to show them off!!!

So lets see what the design team have come up with. They had some gorgeous product from wicked princesses to play with.

First up penny..she has scattered some gorgeous buttons around with her wicked princesses flowers.

Another gorgeous layout from eb, and how clever is she using the button in her title!!! I love the button gilly has on her wicked princess flower....

And a close up.....



How gorgeous is this..... I love her big yellow button and the gorgeous girl button.. I love it leanne...
And lastly another gorgeous layout from bridge, and love her mixture of buttons with the wicked princess flowers.

There you go. You have until the end of the month to get these in. And dont forget your design team applications!!!

Have a great weekend.

Kerry xx

Blog hop winner

The winner of this blogs prize for the blog hop is Cynthia Lloreans!! Well done contact pretty petals here for your prize.

March winners!!

Hi everyone, here are the march winners!! Yayyy. There were so many gorgeous entrys this month, thankyou all very much.

The winner of the first challenge, and the winner of this gorgoeus pack from purple pumpkin is

Jodie Butler....

The winner of the second challenge and this scrummy pack the chip chop shop is Marg Oliver.... And finally the random winner of this $15.00 voucher from wicked princesses is

Charmane.........

Well done girls!!!!!!!!!!If you could contact me here with your addresses i will pass them on.

There are lots of great entrys this month so far...and dont forget the DT call....

Have a great day

Kerry xx

Blog Hop!!

Hi, and welcome if you have just came from my blog, lol, for the pretty petals blog hop. You should know the drill by now, we are having a treasure hunt. You must find the 3 images of pretty paper petals new releases here somewhere on the blog, comment on this post of what you seen, make sure you are a follower, and head on to the next one. A random winner from this blog will receive these gorgeous flowers, donated by vicki.

And dont forget to look out for the 40% off voucher on one of the design teams blog. When you make your way back to the pretty petals blog there will be a sketch challenge on there, created by nadia. The winner of that will receive a 3 month subscription to pretty paper petals club!! Wow.

Your next stop is Katrinas blog www.mycraftyretreat.blogspot.com

April Guest Designer!!!!!!!

Hi everyone and welcome to our guest designer for april.

Its Chloe Neilson. Chloe has entered some gorgeous creations onto this site in the past few months, so i am very pleased to have her as guest designer for the month.

Hi there, my name is Chloe Nielsen and I live in Queensland with my husband and 2 children. I have been scrapping for 7 years now, but only seriously for 4. (Having children means so many pics to scrap!!) Scrapping for me is my creative outlet, my stress relief and a perfect way to record our precious family memories. I find it hard to define my style, I'm not even sure I have one, but I guess you could say most of my pages are clean and simple with the odd non-scrappy item added. I am super excited to join the team at SUYS this month and hope I can inspire you ... even just a little bit :-) Thanks chloe. You can visit her here.

And here is chloes gorgeous example from this months sketch, using some of wicked princesses gorgeous flowers.

Thanks so much chloe.

We have a little surprise for you all tomorrow night, pretty paper petals are having a blog hop and they will be passing through here. Make sure you jump on the hop as there is some awesome prizes to be given away.

Well thats all for now. Who is going to apply for the design team??

Kerry xx

Do you want to be on our design team??

Hi everyone, we have a couple of spots available for the term of june till november.

Interested???

Well here is what we want you to do. Just complete both the challenges for this month, then email me here, and give me a link to your blog and any other dt you are in (if any).

We are also looking for 6 guest design team members as well!!

We are also after a sketch designer, who could be on the design team as well.

The second challenge will be up on the 15th. I look forward to seeing all your creations!!

Kerry xx

Sponsor news!!

Wicked princesses are looking for a new Princess!

Would you like to be a part of a fun and friendly forum,have a fabulous kit to work with each month and design challenges and inspire others? If you answered yes then this is the opportunity for you!

Monthly requirements for the role are:

Regular chatting on our friendly forum Supporting the gallery Creating 4 kit examples each month (3 examples and a step by step) Designing challenges and examples

In return you will receive a kit per month to create examples and step by step with and a generous store discount

How to apply:

Wicked Princesses is a kit based site and I would love to see how you work with one of the kits in the store. The successful applicant will each month be required to create 3 kit examples and a step by step with the kit. I would like to see your work and the sorts of things you would create with the kit other requirements of the application is designing challenges for cybercrops and monthly challenges so I would love for you to design a challenge and create an example.

Tell us a bit about yourself ! How long have you been scrapping? Family,work etc any other info you would like to share including why you would love to be on the wicked DT

Send your photos of your kit creations,challenge and example and your bio to wickedprincess2010@gmail.com

Applications close 15th of May 2011 and the successful applicant will be announced on the 31st of May.

As a bonus for those wishing to start right away I am offering 15% off ALL kits instore even the new ones! *No vouchers or other disount codes can be used in kit orders*

Good luck everyone! I can't wait to see all the applications If you have any questions please email me on the above email addy and I will get back to you asap :)

Happy scrapping and stay wicked!

Princess Krissy xx

http://www.wickedprincesses.com.au

April Challenge #1

Hi everyone, can you believe its april already!!! I know that i cant. Well this month the design team were lucky enough to have been suplied with some gorgeous products from wicked princesses. The challenge this month is a colour challenge, pink, yellow and blue as well as this gorgeous sketch by michelle fowler. You may use black, white or kraft with your colour. And dont forget your handmade item.

First up is kims layout and i love these papers and her theme!!

Next up is nadia, and what a gorgeous card!!!

Loving the soft pastel colours of krissys layout and loving that gorgeous flower cluster.

I love sams take on the sketch, what a great range of photos.

And finally mine. I loved using these flowers!! I find them so easy to use and they fit in anywhere.

Well there you have it girls, i cant wait to see all the pink, yellow and blue come in. You have till midnight 30th april to get your entrys in.

All your entrys are amazing from last month girls, thankyou. Its going to be one tough job picking a winner!!!

Kerry xx