July 2009 Newsletter

	S4L News		Winner's Circle
	Design Team Corner		Scrap Challenges
	Upcoming Events		Product News

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.  ~ Pope John XXIII

S4L News

The cold weather has definitely descended and everyone seems to be spending a lot more time at home and indoors.  I know many of the girls on the forum have been giving their scrap spaces a good work out lately, and what better time to do it then when the days are short and the nights long and cold.  We have plenty of terrific specials in the shop to help boost your scrap stash and hopefully a few new goodies will help get that scrapper's mojo flowing. I am still in the process of trying to co-ordinate another retreat for early October.  Please drop me a line if you are interested in attending, or stop by the forum and visit the retreats thread where you will find more information.

If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree.  ~ Jim Rohn

Design Team Corner

Linda has used this month's Design Team scrap pack to create this wonderful page of the gentlemen in her life having fun together at the park.
Notice how she has layered the main photo by punching and cutting out sections from a second print and adhering them on top of the first with
foam tape.  She then built the title up with paint, ink, and some strategic doodling!

Kelly has created this wonderful pocket money tin using the July Design Team scrap pack.

A little tag hangs off the handle of the tin along with some ribbon and string for embellishment.

These beautiful cards were all created using the monthly Design Team scrap pack.  Toni has heavily distressed the edges of some of the patterned
papers to give a beautiful textured effect.  This technique is also great on layouts when you're trying to achieve a weathered or antique look.

Take a mini class with our Design Team member   1.  Cut a piece of green cardstock to measure 8.5" x 11" and ink the edges with red ink. 2.  Cut a piece of the patterned paper to measure 7¼" x 8¼".  Sand the edges, and tear one of the short edges. 3.  Cut another piece of the same patterned paper to measure ½" x 7". Tear one of the short sides. 4.  Hand cut a design element from your patterned paper.  I used a Christmas tree. 5.  Sand the edges of your photos. 6.  Glue the 7¼" x 8¼" piece of patterned paper on to the cardstock, ½" from the top and 1" from the left hand edge with the torn edge on the right hand side. Glue the photos 1/2" from the left hand edge of the pattern paper, and 3/4" from the top of the pp. The photos will go off the right edge of the pp and onto the cs. Glue the strip of holly pp at the top of the photos, flush with the top of the photos and the left hand edge. Cut a piece of red ribbon and glue this along the top of the photo, overlapping the piece of holly pp. Ink 3 chipboard stars with red ink and glue them to the top right hand corner of the photos. Using pop dots to give the xmas tree dimension, glue it to the bottom right corner of the photos on an angle. Using the letter stickers, put your title to the left of the xmas tree. Journal around the edge of the left photo.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.  ~Brecht

Upcoming Events

Free On-Line Class with Kelly Harrison Kelly has been kind enough to organise another on-line class for us in place of our previous Design Team member, Francine Dunleavy.  Details of the class, including the purchasing of the class pack, will go up in the forum in the next couple of weeks.  Please be sure to get your orders in early as you will need time to receive your class pack through the post. July Cyber Crop hosted by Toni Crane Toni will soon be organising our bi-monthly cyber crop!  There's no need to sign up or register, simply print out the challenges and get scrapping!  Layouts, or links to your layouts must be posted in the forum by midnight on the Monday following the crop.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind:  that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.  ~Mignon McLaughlin

Winner's Circle Thank you to all those members who participated in our various monthly challenges.  The quality of the work is always exceptional and it's often difficult to choose from amongst all the wonderful entries. A hearty congratulations must go to each of our lucky winners! Remember, you have to be in it to win it!

Choose Your Own Layout The very first winner of our brand new bi-monthly challenge is Kim, with this gorgeous layout! Congratulations Kim, keep your eye on the post for a fabulous scrap pack prize courtesy of S4L. Monthly Sketch Challenge This month's winner is our very own Toni!  Congratulations Toni on a very well deserved win. May Bingo With A Twist Wendy was the lucky winner of last month's Bingo With A Twist game. Here is her gorgeous winning layout. Sketch Recipe Challenge Toni has won the sketch recipe challenge with her layout titled "By the Sea". A fabulous scrap pack will be coming your way soon Toni.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.  ~ John Lennon

Scrap Challenges

Monthly Sketch Challenge Jan has created another gorgeous sketch for us to work from.  Simply create a layout based on her design and upload it to the forum gallery by 8:30pm on the 25th of July to be in the running for a fabulous scrap pack prize courtesy of Shelley and Scrapbooking 4 Less. Bingo With A Twist Beccy has this month's bingo grid up and running in the forum.  Simply choose a row of four scrapping elements, create and upload a layout and then wait for your numbers to be called.  Once you have crossed off all four, yell "Bingo" and if you are the first, you win!  How easy is that??  Please visit our forum for the full details on game play. Scraplift the Design Team Visit the Scrapbooking 4 Less album and choose your favourite Design Team member project to scraplift! You have until 8:30pm on the 25th of July to upload your submission and please don't forget to acknowledge the original artist. The polls will open on the 26th and all members can vote for their favourite project. The winner will receive a terrific scrap pack courtesy of Shelley and Scrapbooking 4 Less, and will also have their winning project featured in our August 2009 e-Newsletter. Progressive Challenge Beccy has a progressive challenge brewing in the forum at the moment.  Members are slowly adding elements to create a list of ten items that will need to be added to a scrapping project.  She is offering a small prize to the best project.  Stop by the forum and check it out... don't forget to add your own element to the list!

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Product News

We have some great new  chipboard products in store this month, all below the recommended retail prices. Our specials section is still overflowing with terrific bargains, so why not pop in and grab a few of the sale items while stocks last.

Chipboard Heart Cluster our price $3.15	Chipboard Red Robin Bird our price $2.50	Chipboard Scroll Bird our price $6.50	Chipboard Spring Tree our price $2.20
Chipboard Scroll #12 our price $3.15	Chipboard Scroll Corners Pack of 2 our price $1.65	Chipboard Scroll Corner our price $2.50