New Month, New Challenge!!

Oh Hi Everyone,

Lauren and Teddy here to tell you all about the new challenge for April.... No Joke!!!

It is a fantastic SCRAPLIFT Challenge, yes that's right, Scraplift any project from this blog!! What an amazing selection of items to choose from.  Go on have a look at through, you will be impressed!!

A2Z Scraplets Challenge April 2017 - SCRAPLIFT

Create your project using the A2Z Blog ( http://a2zscraplets.blogspot.com.au/ ) for your inspiration by finding a layout you like (any layout on the blog) and making your version of it.. It is fabulous way to learn by making your version of a layout or project by someone who just seems to make things look so easy. Please put the lin...k to the layout that inspired your creation in the description when you upload.

 

There is no product criteria for your project, you can use chipboard if you have it (can be any brand). Please include any technique used for decorating your chipboard if you have used it. A2Z Scraplets chipboard available at http://www.a2zscraplets.com.au/

  Entrants in the Challenge are asked to be a "liker" of our facebook homepage https://www.facebook.com/a2zscraplets although this is not compulsory.

 

Entrants in the Challenge are asked to be a 'follower' on our blog (you are here) although again, this is not compulsory.

  All entries must be created exclusively for the A2Z Challenge only and not combined with any other challenges

  All entries are to be made brand new and the Challenge runs for the full month of April and is open to experienced as well as novice papercrafters. Tell us if this is your first challenge with us or maybe it is your first challenge ever.

 

A lovely packet of A2Z Scraplets Chipboard will be sent to the winner (as deemed by the A2Z Scraplets DT) and also something will be sent to any novice or first time challenger.

Upload entries to https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.931285813641168&type=1

 

 

Love and Hugs to you all, happy scrapping xxx Lauren and Teddy (we take the title of Challenge Co-ordinators) hahahaha

 

 

 

 

A2Z Scraplets Papercraft Challenges

Hello Everyone,


Today we thought maybe something a bit different was in order.  So Teddy and Lauren have decided to bring you some of the entries in our June Challenge!!!  How exciting is that?


The Challenge was all about using scraps and buttons.


 The first one we want to show you is by Charlene Easton and I love the way she has put together the page and the raw chipboard arrow with hearts carried through from the stencil background.  Love the colours and the seeming simplicity of the layout.  Clever use of scraps and buttons here.

This next layout is by Ebonee Goodings and is such a clever way of using scraps (and don't we all have loads of them?).  Love the glittered butterfly with the trail of buttons.

 

 

 

This fun and vibrant layout is created by Emma Moore.  Great use of scraps and we just love those buttons in orbit around the photos!  Love the simplicity of just colouring the chipboard.

 

The next layout is created by Jo Howard and it is just so cute that it makes us want to hug that baby tight!!  Love the chipboard colouring and the use of the buttons and other embellishments.  Just a gorgeous layout.

This next layout was created by Margaret Duck and shows great use of the scraps and buttons.  Again the chipboard is left raw and works so well on this page.  Lovely photos and great treatment of the scraps.

 

 

 

 

Now hop on over and see the new A2Z Papercraft Challenge for July!!

 

 This month we have a fabulous Mood Board Challenge with so many elements to choose from!!! Use your imagination and creativity on your project for your entry and upload to the album if possible or put your photo in comments and we can do it for you, One entry per person, closes 31 July 2016.

 

 

Oh I love playing with challenges, and have loved bringing you a sample of our challenge entries for last month. 


Hugs

Lauren

Pretty Cards

Hello Everybody!!!


Lauren and Teddy up today!!!!  Oh we just love sun-filled Winter Days!!! At the moment we are getting mega fogs in the morning and that fog burns off to be such a sunny day, we open the blinds and let the warmth come inside.  When it is like that I love to craft and Teddy and I have been doing a bit of that lately for you!!!



So we thought we would show you a couple of cards we have made for you :)

Oh today we have used one of the A2Z Scraplets Stencils Pebblestones - Stencilets & Masklets on the background with CM Metallic Silver, and sprinkled with Embossing Powder (Adirondak Wild Plum) and then heated.  I love this result.  Also used a recent release Decorative 9 Corner Set of 2 and painted it with Viva Inka Gold, so shiny, so beautiful, so vibrant.  You could use a paste or spray from the Colour Blast range in store.

Handmade flowers by me using the EK Success Flower punch in Whale and Medium size.  Tutorial here to make the flowers.

The second card we have for you has used those fabulous words for cards that A2Z Scraplets have available.  I love them.  Handmade holes around the edge of the card, but no stitching in it. 

Lots of dies, a stamp and I love those little rosettes that I have used a scoreboard to make, then decorated with charms, flowers and pearls to match my card. Leaves are painted with Glimmer Glaze.

 

Love that leaf die, it is by Crafty Ann and not sure whether Cheery Lyn have picked it up since they took over.

So proud of ourselves with this one!!  You know I like to recycle, well I have recycled the 'outer' of the Star Set of 2 Flourish, so 3 cards out of this chippie, how clever is that.  We have coated it with Stampendous Shabby White Embossing Powder. Went with  purple glitter paper behind it, as I found some leftover star shapes in my diecut box. 

This close up gives you an idea of how dimensional and textured this card is.  I love it!!!



Thanks for calling in, have fun papercrafting and get your hands messy with mediums!!!


Love Lauren xxxx

Gorgeous Cards

Hello Everybody,

 Yes you have Lauren and Teddy on the blog today and the weather has turned to Winter for our Birthday month (yes you can send pressies to us) :)



So here we have a couple of cards for you, very pretty ones with flowers and things on them.

This one has used one of the A2Z Scraplets Umbrellas with Stampendous Embossing Powder, Shabby White then stamped with a script stamp with StazOn Ink and reheated to smudge it a bit.

All the usual embellishments from me, seam binding, lace, flowers and pearls.



The second card is all frills and things as well.

 We started with a template and green for the new Leafy Template, then a doily die, the lace and ribbon.

The brickwall is painted with white.  the butterfly swirls is coloured with Tombo Dual Tipped Pens and then coated with Ranger Distress Crackle Paint, Rock Candy.  I love the crackle look.

Flowers were added and some stamen pieces and the word gorgeous was painted black and coated with Glossy Accents.



For those of you who have not met Teddy, here he is scrapbooking with friends :)  He is my sidekick and mentor and keeps me crafting on :)

Hugs from Teddy and Lauren



Special Birthday Cards

Hello Everyone!!!


Lauren and Teddy on the job today with a couple of you beaut milestone celebrating Birthday Cards for your viewing pleasure, errrr, ummm, for your inspiration and ideas for using A2Z Scraplets :)

We started with a 5x5 inch panel in cream and did some texture stamping over it and also some DTP inking, then put some mesh tape down the left side and across the bottom, then freehand pen line around the edge.  The rest is just embellishment build up, starting with the leaves and then the doily.  Then finishing with a painted 18th Birthday in Ebony from A2Z Scraplets

 

 



 

 

This one is with a plain 5 x 5 panel, with an inked die cut, the stamped and layered cake and background making a pocket for the tiny tags and the ribbon treatment and bow.  Finished again with a wonderful chippie 21st Birthday A2Z Scraplet.

 

 

Hope you get some ideas from here.

 

 

Love Lauren xxxx

 

 

 



Get Well Cards

Hello Everyone,

Lauren and Teddy up on the blog for you today with some cards that we hope you will enjoy looking at :)  You might even get some inspiration from them!!! We hope so.

 

So simple but then so pretty, I have used a Memory Box Stencil - Texture Mesh for the background with texture paste and then sprayed it with Ranger Perfect Pearl Spray Cappuccino, added some sprayed lace and rose ribbon. 

 

The A2Z Scraplets is Vine Flourish Shape 1.  I have coloured it with Tombow Brush Pens and then used Stamp-It Dye Based Embossing Powder - Transcendence to make it shimmer and shine.

 



 

The fabulous flat black words for cards in GET WELL are so new and so exciting, they are not yet on the website, so watch out for them in the next release.  All ready to go and need no work if in a hurry.

 

 

 Supplies used were:

 A2Z Scraplets Vine Flourish Shape 1

A2Z Scraplets Words for Cards Get Well

Memory Box Stencil - Texture Mesh

Testure Paste

Ranger Perfect Pearls Mist Cappuccino

Lace from stash

Rose Ribbon from stash

Mulberry Paper Roses

Mulberry Paper Cherry Blossoms

Ranger Ice Stickles Crystal Ice

 

 

Oh and here is another one for you, Teddy loves this one best.

 

 

 

 

We have used some Kaisercraft Paper for out background and put some soft mesh ribbon over it to add some sparkle to our background.  then the Kaisercraft Doily with another lacey doily in the centre.  Along the bottom is lace and the ribbon is ruffled (youtube tutorial for ruffled ribbon), a gorgeous bow and flowers of course (we love our flowers).

 

 

 

Again we have used these fabulous A2Z Scraplets Words for Cards - Get Well. Matte black and ready to go.  We have put it over the lovely white and glittery sugar beads (mix of small seed beads and micro beads.

 

 





We have used my favourite A2Z Scraplet Swirly Corners Medium Set of 2 here, painted with Ranger Distress Paint Victorian Velvet, sprinkled with loads of glitter and topped with Inkssentials Glossy Accents.  Decorated with some mulberry flowers with their wires curled to a spiral and a pearl spray.



 

 

 Supplies used were:

 

A2Z Scraplet Swirly Corners Medium Set of 2

A2Z Scraplets Words for Cards - Get Well

Kaisercraft paper

mesh ribbon

Kaisercraft Die Doily

 Ranger Distress Paint Victorian Velvet

lace from stash

ribbon from stash

My2Angels Sugar Beads

Mulberry Paper Roses

Mulberry Paper Cherry Blossoms

stamen

pearl stems

Glitter

Ranger Ice Stickles Crystal Ice

 

 

Oh my goodness, Teddy and I are so tired now from all this thinking on how we did all this and the lovely goodies we used, you know most of them are available from the A2Z Scraplets shoppie!!!!

 

 

 

 

Anniversary Escape

Hi, Deb here with you again today. I thought I'd share a page I did of a little place we went to for our wedding anniversary. We try to organize our holidays around that time of year to celebrate a very special day. 

I have used the Anniversary Escape title and simply colored it, added dimensional paint and sprinkled a little bit of chunky glitter on. 

This gorgeous embellishment was made by our DT member, Lauren. She makes the most gorgeous chipboard embellishments that are just beautiful for special cards or pages. 

A close up of the chipboard showing the glitter. 

Materials used:

A2Z Scraplets Chipboard

Kaisercraft papers

Basic Grey papers

Bella Bling

Doily

Until next time

Happy Scrapping

Deb

Karyn's DT member favourites from 2015!

Hi there! How are you all going with your New Year resolutions? Did you make any, or are you just flying by the seat of your pants and hoping for the best like me?

Each of us were asked to make a post of our 3 favourite posts from the rest of the Design Team. Well, I'm sorry but I just couldn't choose three! So, instead I chose (with much difficulty) just one that love from each member! It was sooo hard, because I love everything they've created, and I'm so thrilled to be part of such an amazing team. 

So here goes... and you tell me, could YOU have chosen only 3???

First up, I have the lovely Kerry with her beautiful layout titled ME. Kerry used the very funky Circle Hash Texture Shape and kept it raw. I love using raw chippies, sometimes they just don't need any extra decoration! Thanks for sharing this layout with us, Kerry. It's beautiful.

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Secondly is my lovely friend, Lauren. Lauren and the super cute Theodore Teddy Brown created this stunning card using one of my favourite chippies... the Brick Works set, which has been painted shabby white. White goes with everything! Thanks for sharing, Lauren and Teddy!

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Next up, is this super cool Beach Bums layout, by Caz, There is so much awesomeness on this layout to draw your eyes around the page. In particular, the thing I love about it is the way Caz has decorated the Beach Bums Corner Word. She sprayed half of the words with blue mist, the other half with green mist, and the shells in gold mist. She then added diamond glaze over the top of the shells and spotted the glaze over the words. Gorgeous effect, thanks for sharing, Caz!

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Onto this super cute layout about her adorable puppy by Donna, using the Dogs Leave Pawprints on our Hearts and the Nested Triangles scraplets. Both chippies were coloured black, and the pawprints were inked Gold. I love creating layouts of my precious furbabies too, Donna! Thanks for sharing!

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Next is Kylie with this incredible layout using the I Love This Life and Double Scribble Hearts scraplets. There is nothing I don't love about this layout. The clusters are beautiful, and the Scribble Hearts scraplets are some of my favourites! So much texture and gorgeous things to look at, thanks Kylie!

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Lasty I'd like to share this layout from Deb - the owner of this amazing company we all get to be a part of, doing what we love most - creating fabulous masterpieces! Deb, I'd like to take this opportunity to say thank you. Thank you for believing in me and supporting me through everything and being the wonderful person you are. Oh, and of course for providing me with such beautiful pretties to create with! Love you Deb, and I'm honoured to call you my friend :)

Ok, now that the sucking up is done heeheehee, Deb created this layout using the Industrial Corner scraplet and the Lovely scraplet. The Industrial Corner was painted yellow, dabbed with black and misted with a spritzer which gave it a gorgeous grungy effect. The word Hello was coloured with a gel pen - one of my most favourite tools! All together it makes a marvellous grungy boy layout, thanks Deb! 

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So there you have it. Admit it, you couldn't have chosen just 3 either! I love the team I work with!
Wishing you all the most incredible start to the year, and I can't wait to see what masterpieces you create. Remember to share your creations on our Facebook page here so we can all rave about them too!

Best wishes to you all. And until next time, keep calm and craft on!

Lauren and Teddy's Favourites for 2015

Hello Everyone!!!


Teddy and Lauren here today with our favourite posts from the last year...... oh so many to choose from and you know that Teddy loves them all.

Oh this one is my favvie I think just look at that lovely brown and pink, the gorgeous dies (Memory Box) and the A2ZScraplets in the corner and the Congratulations.

Oh Oh and we love this one, dies and A2Z Scraplets again, in Teddy's favvie colours of pink and green with lovely crackle finish on the butterfly.

And you all know how much Teddy loves his hearts and his dies, yes he loves the antique colours of this one too.


Well there are three of Teddy's favourite creations for A2Z Scraplets for this year.

Hope you like it.


Love Lauren xxx

Pretty Box Card

Oh Hello Everybody!!!

Yes it is Lauren and Teddy up here on the blog today, how exciting is that for you!!! Yes we are pretty special *wink*wink!!!!! 

So today we have made a box card for you, you know, one of those wonderful creations that are embellished to the hilt and have so many goodies that seem to explode from the inside!! Love them!!

So you can see we have used lots of flowers and foliage and the lovely Darla and Vivienne Butterflies and the smaller Isabella and Pippi Butterflies from MemoryBox.  This would be out favourite shape in butterfly and we do seem to have a plenty of different ones!!!

Well we could not just leave it at one card, we have been spoiling you with a couple of cards, so here is our other one, pretty, and simple too for us.

This one is simple with the lovely Catalina Wreath from Memory Box over a stamped image on a circle.  Sweet and embellished with adhesive pearls.  We did have to used our ribbon treatment and bow, it seems to be our signature, and if you want to learn it, head over to our YouTube Channel and have a watch of the video, then you can be as expert as Teddy.

Love you all, hope you like out pretties today.


Lauren and Teddy xxxx