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Saturday, April 30, 2011

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

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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.

Monday, April 11, 2011

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

Friday, April 8, 2011

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


Thursday, April 7, 2011

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

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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

Friday, April 1, 2011

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


Thursday, March 31, 2011

APRIL SPONSORS

Hi everyone, here are our april sponsors!!! First up we have a $20.00 gift voucher to kim archer creative eWorkshops. I love kims classes and if you have always wanted to try one or if you have an eye on a class, then this will be for you. Then we have this awesome prize pack from gail at the greatest view.The prize pack from Greatest View includes an ever-popular book paper mini banner as well as felt rosettes, a doily and flower kit and baker's twine in fresh, citrus colours!!! Well there you have it girls 2 great reasons to join in with Show us your stuff for april. I will be back tomorrow with the first challenge. Have a great evening Kerry xx

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

A reminder!!

Hi, just a reminder you only have till tomorrow night to get your challenges in. There are some absolute gorgeous entrys this month well done everyone!!! As usual you have made it very hard for the design team to vote.

I have one entry come to my email addy and it is by Kerry Pace. Thanks kerry.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Whats on for the weekend???

If you love a good cyber crop then come on over and join us!!!!

Come and join us for some scrappy fun during our cybercrop at Wicked Princesses!

The fun starts at 6:30 pm QLD time and a week long deadline means plenty of time to join in!

* great challenges
* friendly forum
* inspiration
* prizes!

Hope to see you there! http://www.wickedprincesses.com.au/

Have a great one
Kerry xx

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

March challenge #2

Hi everyone. Mid month is upon us again and here we are for our second challenge this month.

We have loved seeing your March 1st entries so far and hope to see many more. Check out the awesome prizes up for grabs this month here.

Now, onto the 2nd challenge for this month.

 This month we have a sketch challenge for you and along with this sketch you are to include a number in your title. Don't forget to include a handmade item!!!



Here is what our design team came up with. They had some goodies from Purple Pumpkin to play with.

First up Gilly. She had used some of Purple Pumpkins gorgeous owl buttons. I know I cant get enough of these...


Gilly also has used one of Purple Pumpkins flowers to make this gorgeous headband!! I love it Gilly..



Next up Penny who has used Purple Pumpkin buttons and flowers in her gorgeous layout...


Leanne has used a Purple Pumpkin flower, which she has misted to suit!!!



Bridge has done a gorgeous layout...




and Ebony has also used a Purple Pumpkin spotty buttons (that i love as well)!!

Well there you are, lots of inspiration. Thanks Sam for sending the girls out something to play with.
I cant wait to see all your layouts.

You have 'till the end month to upload your layout, card or other project to the Linky tool at the side of this blog. Also don't forget that the 1st March challenge is still also open 'till the end of the month.

Kerry xx

Friday, March 11, 2011

One more WINNER

We have one more prize to be given out for February...

Congratulations...



you were our International winner and this is coming your way...



Please email Nadia here with your address so I can get this out to you as soon as possible..

We'd love to see more overseas entries this month, and who knows...you could win a special prize too!




Thursday, March 10, 2011

Winners!!!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone!! We have our winners, yayyy....



The winner of the first challenge and a prize pack from lime tree creations is.....




Bec Miller. Well done bec.



The winner of the second challenge and this gorgeous prize pack from creative bits is...



our guest designer of the month jess mackenzie. Love this jess...



And the random winner of these awesome buttons from pinkie pinkie buttons is....





Amanda Taylor....




Well done girls. And thankyou very much for our sponsors from last month...


Kerry xx




Tuesday, March 8, 2011

March GUEST DESIGNER!!!!!!

Hi everyone, our guest designer for this month is .......







Jess Mackenzie......I really love jess work and i love reading her blog. One very talented lady:)

Heya there gorgeous gals! My name is Jess...Although you can call me Princess Jess 2nd the First if you like.....Ahem....Anyhoo I'm Married to an AWESOME Guy who works VERY hard, so I can fund my scrapping......I have a GORGEOUS son Elijah who provides me with FAB photos to scrap....ANd just incase you hadn't already noticed....I'm pretty ADDICTED to scrapping : )
My style could be described as.....ummm...a bit nutty and colourful I suppose.....I love paint splatters, buttons, BRIGHT colours and lotsa texture....I'm most definately NOT a neat and tidy scrapper....the only thing I use my ruler for is to scratch my feet when they are itchy and I can't be bothered bending all the way down to my toes......TMI??
This challenge was SUPER DUPER fun....I scrapped my love of fresh flowers. Firstly because I love flowers....duh....and secondly because my Bday was coming up and I needed a NOT SO SUBTLE hint to give to my hubby about what I would like...and it worked!!!
Soooo thanks Kerry for the AWESOME challenge...I'm very honoured to a guest designer at SUYS.....
Oh and have you noticed the GORGEOUS Purple Pumpkin buttons & doily?? The fab Miss Sam H sent these to myself and the dt to play with.....how GENEROUS is she...and the colours couldn't haven't been more perfect!! Thanks Sam : )
Love and Peace and Happy Scrapping xox

Jess M




Thanks jess, i love your bright and happy layout, and i hope you get those flowers LOL... You can visit jess at www.thehappyscrappyplace.blogspot.com



Im waiting on a couple more votes girls and the winners will be up shortly.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

MARCH SPONSORS

Wow, you girls are all in for a treat this month. We have 3 great sponsors again!!

First up we have this prize pack from the Chip Chop Shop.

The prize pack is valued at $25.00 plus postage. There is an assortment of fimo magic, dyed doilies, Miss Wally’s journal spots and some old and very new chipboard designs along with some twine.

 
Plus the Chip Chop Shop is offering a 10% discount on all items in the shop for 1 week only!!!
Conditions: 10% discount on all shop items (NOT including postage) will be refunded back to you thru paypal or email your order to l.pearce@westnet.com.au (subject – SUYS10) and wait for total and account details. Leave “SUYS10” in the comments to buyer to be eligible for your discount. Only valid from 1st march – 7th march 2011

 
Thanks Leeann Pearce for your support of Show Us Your Stuff this month. That's a very generous offer so go and support her girls and grab a bargain!!







Next up we have this gorgeous prize pack from Purple Pumpkin. I so love those flowers!!!





and last but certainly not least, we have a $15.00 voucher up for grabs from Wicked Princesses!!

Here is an example of the gorgeous kits she has on offer over there this month!!


A big thanks to all the sponsors again this month.
We will be back soon with the winners from last month!!
Kerry xx


Tuesday, March 1, 2011

March Challenge #1

Hi everyone!! March already. Goodbye summer!! I know a lot of you are looking forward to some cooler weather but where i am we did not get much of a summer and today is wet, windy and cold!!!

Thank you everyone who entered last month, I was totally blown away by all the entries and you have certainly made it a hard job for us dt members. I'm glad one is a random pick!!!


Well onto the first challenge for March.

**Scrap something that you cant live without**
and include a handmade item(by you or someone else)

I love the different takes the design team has done with this. Purple Pumpkin has kindly donated some goodies to the design team this month, so check out her gorgeous goodies on their layouts.

First up is Samantha's  layout, and i think most of us can relate to it!! What gorgeous buttons!!





Next up is Krissy and she has used one of Purple Pumpkins yummy flowers...Krissy has also used the Love kit from Wicked Princesses store..


Here is mine and i have used a button and flower from Purple Pumkin,


Kim has done a fab card and that button is soo sweet,


and lastly Nadia. I love all her fussy cutting and bits and pieces and her use of that Pretty Petals handmade flower.

Well there you go, I hope we have inspired you to scrap something that you cant live without, I cant wait to see them all!!

You would have noticed the blog is getting a bit of work done on it at the moment, and I want to thank Nadia for all her hard work!!! Yayyy, and for fixing my stuff ups LOL.

Stay tuned for the sponsors shortly, we have some awesome prizes up for grabs this month!!!!

Have a great scrappy day
Kerry xx