Friday, August 16, 2013
I hope you all are getting ready for a fabulous, scrappy weekend! We haven't shared our winners of Layout of the Month, in a few months, so we thought it would be a good idea to share who has won so far this year. All of these amazing layouts will be voted on again by our DT in January for Layout of the YEAR 2013! In the past we have had some great prizes including a hefty Swirlydoos gift certificate, and even a guest spot on our design team!
So, without further ado, here are our choices this year, so far:
January- Ayeeda D
February- Kathi S
March- Barbara P
April- Barbara P (again!)
May- Jeannie V
June- Cheryl M
July- Peggy G
So give a hand to these winners! Thank you to everyone who posts their gorgeous creations to the Swirlydoos gallery! Keep posting, and you could be next!!!!
Congrats, gals!
So, without further ado, here are our choices this year, so far:
January- Ayeeda D
February- Kathi S
March- Barbara P
April- Barbara P (again!)
May- Jeannie V
June- Cheryl M
July- Peggy G
So give a hand to these winners! Thank you to everyone who posts their gorgeous creations to the Swirlydoos gallery! Keep posting, and you could be next!!!!
Congrats, gals!
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Hello everyone.
I hope your summer has been great, and that you've got time to rest up a little.
To start this new craft season, I have prepared a card tutorial, using the gorgeous
To start this new craft season, I have prepared a card tutorial, using the gorgeous
August "Passion Berry" kit.
It is a simple card, to get us all back in action, and also to invite new members or fellow scrappers,
It is a simple card, to get us all back in action, and also to invite new members or fellow scrappers,
to join in and play along. If you play along, please share your creations with us,
and/or upload them to the "Off the Page -Card" section, in the gallery.
You can find step by step instruction for this card, in the Cards, Cards...it's all about CARDS! thread.
or click HERE
I hope you like it, and will create one your own.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Here is a peek at some beautiful creations from the current challenges for August over on the Swirlydoos Forum.
*LOTS of prizes to be WON!*
*LOTS of prizes to be WON!*
1. August 2013 Sketch Challenge
This challenge is open to ANYONE (you do not need to be a kit subscriber)
This challenge is open to ANYONE (you do not need to be a kit subscriber)
2. Butterfly Challenge (using the "Passion Berry" kit)
All you need to do is create a layout using the current month's kit and add some butterflies. Click HERE to see the details on the forum about this challenge. DT member Angelica's beautiful inspiration for this challenge:
3. Project Kit Technique Challenge (using the "Passion Berry" kit)
Each month Swirlydoos releases a gorgeous technique kit and a great challenge for it. Check out the details on the forum HERE. DT member Andie has created a beautiful project to inspire you:
4. SGC (Swirly Girl Challenge): Transform it!
This month Swirlydoos member Christy is hosting a really FUN challenge all about transforming paper. Check out the details on the forum HERE. Here is Christy's great layout:
5. Vicky's August Technique Challenge
This challenge is open to ANYONE (you do not need to be a kit subscriber)
This is a fantastic summer challenge with a RANDOM DRAW prize - click HERE for more details. Take a peek at DT member Vicky's inspiration:
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Don't forget about our new subscriber contest!
Sunday, August 11, 2013
This weeks layout was an easy pick for me. Talk about getting down and dirty with mixed media, Christy's layout has it all!!!! Watercolor paint, mists, ink, Pan Pastels, Modeling Paste & Gesso. Here use of all the different mediums is amazing. All those layers are spot on! Who can pass on this girly grunge layout!
Congrats, Christy!!
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Happy Saturday everyone!!!
Do you just love the look of mixed media layouts?! I sure do!!! Mixed media layouts are all the rage in scrapbooking today. So I have decided to share with you one method of creating a mixed media layout. But first, here are some examples.
Here's one of my personal favs from my own gallery. This was so much FUN to make:
And here are a few from some of our subscribers!
Here's one from Barbara (Pala):
and Patty (Katyoparty):
Our August swirly girl challenge hosted by Christy(Cbshai), called Transformation, is a chance to try a mixed media layout of your own and submit it for a chance to win a totally awesome random act of kindness. Check out Christy's sample:
Here's a video showing you just one way to make a mixed media layout. Mix it up, use different mediums, make it your own. The sky is the limit.
Have fun y'all and happy scrapping!!!
Andiepants
Thursday, August 8, 2013
THANK YOU to all who participated in our August blog hop! We appreciate all of your kind words about our reveal projects. And, now for the winners:
Prize #1:
Prize #1:
This fabulous prize pack from Swirlydoos goes to:
Buffy Esser!!!
Prize Pack #2:
Sarah Lynch,
YOU have won this amazing loot of papers from Swirlydoos!
And, Clear Scraps is giving away these mascil sets:
to THREE lucky gals, and they are:
Amarylis
Kim
Debbie
CONGRATS, ladies!
You have SEVEN days to claim your prize!
Email rae@swirlydoos.com with your contact information so we can send out your goodies!
Monday, August 5, 2013
Swirlydoos is PROUD to present our August collection:
Passion Berry
Passion Berry Main Kit
**All collections are available in our scrapbook store while supplies last***
is it sold out? - become a subscriber and never miss a kit again!
Click here to snag your kits now - before they're all gone!
Make sure to stop by our Facebook page and "like us". This way you can keep up on all of the contests, challenges and other things going on at Swirlydoos!!
August Collection Video
August Technique Kit Video
August Collection Video
August Technique Kit Video
Our Education Team is going to show you how to use the new Martha Stewart Silk Screens in our August technique kit! Visit our home page for step-by-step video tutorials!
Head to our homepage for kit details and to subscribe to receive our awesome monthly kits at a reduced price!
***Subscribe TODAY and save 10% on your first kit when you mention this blog hop!***
Here's what you're hopping for this month!
Swirlydoos Prize #1
Swirlydoos Prize #2
Clear Scraps!
The wonderful people over at Clear Scraps are offering up THREE (3) sets of Mascils! There is a collection of 5 Mascils per set!!!! Holy crap!!! A Mascil is a cross between a mask and a stencil. These work FABULOUSLY with our Mediums kits!
AUGUST SKETCH CHALLENGE
Swirlydoos Monthly Sketch Challenge is NOW OPEN TO EVERYONE!
Visit our "challenge forums" for more info on our monthly sketch challenges!
August Sketch
August Sketch provided exclusively for Swirlydoos by Beggahuna. See more of her inspirational sketches at www.scrapbook.is/beggahuna/
Sketch Challenge runs until September 15th! Upload your project into the “Passion Berry” Sketch Challenge gallery to be eligible for the awesome prize pictured below!
August Sketch Challenge Prize!
We have an INCREDIBLE Guest Designer with us this month. Tara Orr!!!!!!! Please make sure to give her a big Swirlydoos Welcome on her blog!!!
THE RULES
You have until midnight, eastern time, on Wednesday 8/7 to complete the hop. Winners will be announced on the Swirlydoos Blog on Thursday 8/8. In order to qualify to win here is what you need to do:
1: Visit all of the blogs and leave a comment on each. This way we know you were there. Become a follower if you're not already. Take your time. There are REALLY beautiful things to see along the way.
2: Before you leave each blog, look for the “special” words and write it down.
Once you have visited all the blogs and collected all the special words, they will create a sentence.
3: Finally, go back to the Swirlydoos blog and leave a comment letting us know how much fun you had, tell us the sentence that was created with all of the special words you collected. Can't wait to hear from you.
The party starts over at Rae's blog. Have fun!
Here is the order and blog addresses:
Swirlydoos CLICK HERE
Rae CLICK HERE
Tara CLICK HERE
Paulien CLICK HERE
Angelica CLICK HERE
Andie CLICK HERE
Lisa CLICK HERE
Back to Swirlydoos!!
Did you see the FABULOUS prize pack we're giving away to one lucky (randomly selected) new subscriber? Subscribe between August 1st and September 25 and you're in the running!
Up for grabs in this FABULOUS Scrappy pack is:
- A Tim Holtz autographed Idea-Ology tote bag
- A Ranger Ink apron
- One of every single sheet of pattern paper that Kaisercraft released at CHA Summer! TEN COLLECTIONS! Six of which you can't even buy now!
Visit the "JOIN THE CLUB" page of our website for more information!
Sunday, August 4, 2013
What would Swirlydoos be without our wonderful subscribers?!? It's a pleasure getting to know these ladies on the forums and from the stories they tell through their layouts. Yes,we are an amazing community, but most of all, we're a family! We appreciate each and every member and they deserved to be spotlighted. With that being said, our featured member for August is.....
Here is a bit about Linda:
Here are a some of my favorite projects of Linda's, sure to inspire you!! Her altered projects are mind blowing!!
*** Linda Pekrul***
Here is a bit about Linda:
“I’m honored to be able to share a little bit about myself and my history with Swirlydoos! I have been scrapbooking since the time my kids were little (I’ve been married for 37 years now, so that tells you how long it’s been.) It kind of went by the wayside as my friends and I got into quilting and our time was taken up getting together for weekly quilting sessions and travelling to retreats for lots of giggles and laughs (and a wee bit of quilting.)
Then I had to move from my community and friends of 30 years to a new community and I was lonely with a capital “L”. So I went back to scrapbooking, but scrapbooking as I knew it was cutting some mats and adding some stickers. One special day however, I was browsing through an online store and happened to see a page done by Angelica (using some of the products I was going to purchase). WOW! I went to her page to see more of her wonderful work and learned about this magical place called Swirlydoos and the rest is history! A new world of flowers and lace and stuff called “chipboard” opened up to me and I have been smitten ever since.
I have been a club member of Swirlydoos for 3 years now and thanks to the generosity of the design team and others on the forums, I have learned so much and continue to learn. As local people have seen the work I’ve done with challenges, they have started showing interest. I have ended up designing projects for a local scrapbooking company, and now this fall I will be doing some classes that have been requested. Sometimes I think I need to pinch myself when I think about how far I’ve come! The best part is there is always something more to learn, a new video to watch, a new product to discover. (Boy are there new products … we now need to put an extension on the house LOL.)
I can’t leave without saying what a wonderful group of people there are on the forums. We chat about anything and everything. My family has long wondered if I was a little bit “touched in the head”, as they’ve heard me giggling and laughing at my computer over some little bit of silliness that has been going on. Your friends on the forums are always there to lift you up when you’re feeling down, and support you when life is throwing a curve at you. Most of all, they understand your love for paper and ink and flowers, and they share your joy of it all with you!
Swirlydoos is a wonderful community, that I am grateful to be part of. Thank you for featuring me this month. It really was a pleasure to go back in time and reflect!”
Linda
Please come back and visit every first Sunday of the month to see who our next featured member will be! We love our Swirlygirls!!
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Happy Saturday to everyone! I thought I would share a project with you using things you already have in your stash: a canvas, lace, and Silks paints! I've been working on a large, or at least a very detailed project for a while now that I am calling a "Canvas of Me", and I am very excited to say that I am nearly finished with it, as I finished up the last little canvas panel recently, and here it is:
And here's another canvas that I did in the video to show you how I created the background:
And here's another canvas that I did in the video to show you how I created the background:
So take a peek at the video right here:
and see how you can do this simple background for your own project!
AND, don't forget to join us for our August Blog Hop 8/5 with AMAZING prize packs to be won!
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