Happy NSD!! TST challenges

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!  I'm sure a lot of you will be spending today making/crafting/scrapping :) We're joining in the festivities with a few little challenges of our own  :)

Firstly, as mentioned in yesterday's post, you have until midnight tonight (California time to give everyone a chance!) to decorate a tag, take a picture and either leave a link to it in the comments to this post, or e-mail it to us at 'thescrappytree' (at) 'hotmail.com - we have some prizes to give away, so join in if you can!!  It can be decorated in any style you prefer, using any supplies you have to hand, but it must be finished today!

Our second challenge is going to be running for a little longer - this week is also National Postcard Week and what do you do with postcards? You send them! The challenge is to decorate a postcard (measuring approx 4"x 6") in a style of your choosing; you can embellish to your heart's content if you prefer, but it must fit into an envelope.  Let us know that you're finished and we'll sort you out with a swap partner!  We love getting happy mail here at The Scrappy Tree and we hope you do too!  You have until midnight on Saturday 12th May to finish your postcard and get in touch with us either here in the comments section, via e-mail at 'thescrappytree' (at) 'hotmail.com, tweet us on Twitter, or message us through Facebook - you can message TheScrappyTree or contact us at our Facebook group.  


Happy scrapping! xx

Challenge

Another month, another challenge. This time we will focus on the smallest and fluffiest members of our family.

I have so many photos of Sammy, and I’m slowly making layouts to put in his album.

This one will be the first page of the album.

All these layouts are 8”X8”, and I used sketches from NSD at Studio Calico, I did not win the prize but I was able to complete a few layouts.

A couple of double pagers.

All the pattern paper and most of the embellishments are from Basic Greys Max & Whiskers collection.

Now it’s your turn to make a layout or project of your furry friends, link them here or join us at our Scrappy Community and post them in our Let’s Scrap Group.

On June 29^th I’ll show them all here with a link to your blog.

Happy Scrapping

=Di

Layouts

A few weeks back I posted a challenge about making a layout using less then 5 types of non paper embellishments, this is not easy for me because I am guilty of over decorating my pages, but I managed to make this layout using only: gems, ribbon and a glitter sticker.

The following beautiful layouts were made by two talented members of our Scrappy Community

Michelle Unruh

Michelle used only a gem flourish, and she rocked her Cricut machine.

Jean Marmo

Jean used corks and a bright flower that looks amazing on her page.

Beautiful!! thank you ladies for sharing with us your wonderful work.

I’ll be posting another challenge in a couple of weeks, and we would love for all of you to participate, so please leave a comment and let us know what kind of challenge would you like to see, all suggestions are welcome.

That’s all for today, hope you all have a great day!

=Di

Happy St David's Day!

The Scrappy Tree would like to wish you a very happy St David's Day! St David is the patron saint of Wales, and on March 1st every year, this is celebrated across Wales; children at school wear the national costume, and many people wear a daffodil or a (fake!) leek, as these are both Welsh national symbols.

As you may know, one of the Scrappy Tree team lives in Wales, so we thought we would offer you a chance to experience a bit of Wales for yourself! Create a project of your choice using the colours yellow and green (representing the colours of the daffodil) and upload a picture to our Scrappy site here. The competition will close on 14th March and we'll announce the winner on the 15th!

You'll win the items shown:- two Welsh recipe books (one sweet, one savoury), some Welsh tea, a Wales mug, a Welsh dragon (a red dragon appears on the Welsh flag), a felt leek, a lovespoon (these were originally carved and given as a gift to a sweetheart; the symbols represent different sentiments) and not shown here we'll also include some Welshcakes for you to enjoy with a nice mug of tea!
Of course the real prize is this cute little dragon! :)

To be in with a chance of winning, get those yellow and green supplies out and get creating! Happy St David's Day!

Introducing a new challenge ...

Today I am introducing a new monthly challenge I will be hosting, I'm calling it the WCP Challenge. I am sure you have heard of or played along with one similar to it before. The WCP stands for Words, Colors and Pictures. On the first Saturday of every month, I will introduce the WCP and what we are making (ATC, Twinchie, Card, Inchie, Layout,etc). You will have one week to play along and feel inspired. Once completed, share it on our new Group for the challenge on our Scrappy Community HERE. Or just come and visit to chat about how we created our projects and get tips. I hope the challenge and the group will encourage folks to try new things, help others learn and trigger your creativity :)

December
WCP

Type of project: Layout
Word: GIVE
Color: BLUE

Picture:


I chose a LO as our first type of project because I really feel like it's my weak spot. I understand with my lack of talent, this sample may discourage rather than encourage you to join the group, but again, I hope each months WCP will help us take on things we may not be great at and inspire us to be creative and supportive!



For me, the word GIVE, drove this project and the blue picture of Christmas ornaments reminded me how important it is to teach our children to give back, especially at this time of year when so many families need the support and help. I borrowed the image from this blog that spoke of William and Mary students that are part of a public service fellowship and have helped earn $282,231.! Our family picks a local family to support every year, we hope our kids are learning through those efforts to Give back as often as they can.

Items used on the LO: Thickers, wide white rick rack, Bo Bunny , a gift of love PP, Snowflakes were cut from the Accent Essentials Cricut cartridge, I used a white chalk marker to outline the Thickers in the title.

Thanks for visiting, I hope you join the group and join the fun!

Happy Saturday!

Kristin xxx