Tuesday 4 December 2012

STB November Winners

Yes, we are early releasing our winners this month but one of our fabulous sponsors, Lee-Anne and Danny from Scrap Therapy are heading off to the US in the middle of this month so we need to get the voucher codes out for the winners asap!!! 

Fantastic entries for November's challenge,I was hoping we would have more entries for a colour challenge but you all must be busy in the lead up to Christmas!!

If the winners can please email me asap to scraptheboys@hotmail.com


The winner of the SCRAP THERAPY $25.00 voucher is...


 NARELLE RILEY...


The winner of the 10 Piece Chipboard of your choice from WOW Chipboard is...


JESS McKENZIE...

Saturday 1 December 2012

STB December Challenge!!!

It's December and that means a new challenge, it also means that we are getting increasingly close to Christmas YAY!!! 

We have two wonderful sponsors this month and one is brand new to Scrap The Boys, a big thanks to both of our generous sponsors!!!


THE SCRAPBOOK STORE...

The Scrapbook Store is a Perth, Western Australia based Scrapbooking and Craft online retailer. Stocking an extensive range of the latest beautiful and exciting released scrapbooking and craft products. Formerly known as Handmade By Suzanne- our new store name, The Scrapbook Store and website was launched 21st August 2012.
With over 5000 products online and growing there isn’t much in scrapbooking and craft that we don’t sell! Our brands include – Kaisercraft, Bo Bunny, Webster’s Pages, Prima, Hambly Screen Prints, Dusty Attic, October Afternoon, Martha Stewart, Crate Paper, Cheery Lynn, Sizzix - just to name a fraction!



The online store is fast loading and easy to navigate. We have grouped our products by both brand and type making it easy to find just what you need.
First time customers receive 15% discount off their 1st order. Simply register and you will receive an immediate e-mail with the details of how to claim your discount. The Scrapbook Store offers competitive prices, professional service and fast dispatch of your orders. Orders under $65 are shipped for just $6 flat rate or shipped FREE for orders over $65. For your information, average shipping time to the East Coast is 4 business days.

The Scrapbook Store is offering a $20.00 Voucher + Free Post.


TWIDDLEYBITZ...
Twiddleybitz  is an Australian owned and operated manufacturer and wholesaler of chipboard and fine crafts products located in Western Australia.
Our  motto: Let Twiddleybitz change the way you scrapbook!
 As we strive to provide the scrapbooking and craft community with quality and affordable cutting edge chipboard and related products.
Twiddleybitz  has an extensive and inspiring  product range of chipboard and off the page items,  catering for  Scrapbookers , Papercrafters and Mixed Media Artists (and all other crafters!) which  can be used with  colour and textured mediums,  and anything else you can  imagine,  to create your very own unique embellishments, letters, words and shapes to use on your creative projects.
See our extensive range on our wholesale site
http://www.twiddleybitz.com.au/
or join us on our Ning
 for some great ideas and to share your Twiddley creations.
http://twiddleybitz.ning.com/


Our Guest Designer for December is Wanda Heron from Canada..

Hello, my name is Wanda Heron. I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. I have been married 22+ years to a special man, Mark, and we have one son Mitchell. Mitchell is 16, driving now, and generally growing up too fast! Both of my ‘boys’ provide constant inspiration and encourage me to challenge myself to do and be the best person I can be. I have been told I have an infectious laugh and a warm spirit. I try to honor these traits at every opportunity.

I have always had a creative heart. Even from an very early age the right side of my brain was definitely stronger than my left! I was introduced to scrapbooking by my wonderful mother-in-law when my son was just little. But, returning to University when Mitchell was 1 year old put other things first. About 2 years ago a good friend asked me if I would like to attend a “Weekend Scrapganza”. I packed up my little bag and off I went to give my hand a try at this art form. I was flabbergasted by the volume of people and the amount of luggage they brought. Now I am one of them – rolling my multiple suitcases of paper and supplies to Crops whenever I can!

My style is ever evolving and is only slightly dampened by the fact that my one child is a boy. I put flowers and lace wherever I can! I like vintage and shabby chic, and combining with these two just the right amount of ‘grunge’. Most of all my pages are a story, and in the best way I can they retell the moment, the feeling, the emotions from the past. I try my best to not be held to any conventions of what things should look like and follow the map that is in my head. I love completing challenges not just for the great ideas they provide but also the deadline that is put in front of me. 

Scrap the Boys is a favorite blog of mine. The design team is fabulous and their challenges have great variety. I hope you will join in on the fun of showing us your non-traditional Christmas color scheme. Here is my take on it. 

If you like there are close-ups of this on my blog TwoMakeDo at http://twomakedoscrapbooking.blogspot.com



OUR DECEMBER CHALLENGE...

This month we want to see you create a layout using a Christmas themed photo and a Non Traditional colour scheme.

*Please make sure when you link your layout that you add your country as well as your name, you have until 11.59pm December 31st.



THIS MONTHS CREATIVE TEAM EXAMPLES...

KAREN...

ANNIE...

DOT...

KERRYN...

LINDA...

TARRAH...

KIM...


MICHELLE...

MARELLE...


NANCY...



Thursday 22 November 2012

SCRAP FRIENDS - Christmas Candy Giveaway!

Scrap Friends have just launched their Christmas Candy giveaway...


Christmas and New Year are just around the corner and it’s Giveaway time!
A little bit of time left to prepare your self for this wonderful time that brings joy and inspiration to all of us, along with that a bunch of photos will come that we all want to put in the album. We have one gorgeous kit to giveaway that contains everything you need for an amazing Christmas album!

Head to SCRAP FRIENDS using this LINK http://blog.scrapfriends.com.au/2012/11/christmas-candy-giveaway.html and follow the instructions for a chance to WIN!!!


Sunday 11 November 2012

STB October Winners!

 Here are our winners for the STB October Challenge are...


The winner of the $25.00 SCRAP THERAPY Voucher is...

 AMY F...


The winner of the $20.00 CHARMS CREATIONS voucher is...

 SARAH HEMMINGS...
** Could both ladies email me as soon as they can at: scraptheboys@hotmail.com

Thursday 1 November 2012

STB NOVEMBER CHALLENGE

November, the countdown to Christmas is now on, we will be opening presents and having Christmas lunch before we know it!

We are finalising our sponsorship roster for 2013 and have one spot left for each month for the following year, if you are interested in sponsoring or know someone that might be please email me at: scraptheboys@hotmail.com


This month we have a fantastic challenge for you, we have two wonderful sponsors and our Guest Designer, read on for all the information...


SCRAP THERAPY...
We have closed our other business to focus wholly on Scraptherapy, opening a Paper Craft Bricks and Mortar store in Babinda, FNQ to run in conjunction with the online site. During the last 2+ years we have learnt a whole load of stuff about e-commerce, scrapbooking, cardmaking and the people who love these hobbies.

At www.scraptherapy.com.au you will find a fantastic gallery filled with inspiring ideas, a great community of ladies and an odd guy or two in our online forum. Our Design Team backed up by our Big Sisters offer regular competitions and challenges to help you find your mojo, and a chance to win a shopping voucher or two. Then of course there is the shop where we hope you will find all the latest Linkand greatest products at great prices. If you can’t find what you are looking for feel free to contact me at lee-anne@scraptherapy.com.au and check to see if we can get it in for you. We often can.
Our freight charges for orders up to $25 is $9.00, orders between $25 to $100 stay at $6 and orders over $100 are now free. I love scrapbooking and Danny can whip up a pretty good card, but our true passion is excelling in great customer service, which we hope to continue to do for years to come.

Scrap Therapy have donated a $25.00 voucher.


WOW - Words or Whatever...
Words or Whatever is a small family owned and run wholesale business located on the Central Coast of NSW.

We saw the need for affordable chipboard, acrylic and MDF products for the scrapbooking industry.  We can provide 1.8mm chipboard as well as MDF from 3mm to 25mm thick.

We specialise in providing custom made items and can also create exclusive items for retail outlets upon request. 

You can offer the custom made service to your customers so they can order their children’s names or individual titles for their pages.

We recognise the need for shops to be able to take orders from customers and so have no minimum quantities and no minimum order amounts!

Do you have a suggestion for a product that you would like made?  Email us and ask us!!

Contact WOW at wordsorwhatever@exemail.com.au

WOW are offering the lucky winner 10 pieces of chipboard of their choice!



OUR GUEST DESIGNER THIS MONTH IS....

SARAH GROEN - NZ

SARAH GROEN

I live in Auckland NZ with my hubby of 16 years (Mark) and my 6 gorgeous kids ranging in age from 21 to 3 years - so lots of scrappy inspiration there :))) I am a stay at home mum and since I discovered scrapbooking 6 years ago I have been a hopeless addict. I am currently on the design team for Kraft it Up Challenge blog, a NZ scrapbook store Scottie Crafts,, the Australian based companies "Purple Pumpkin" and ‘Rasberry’, and the on-line challenge blogs “Frosted Designs”, “Stuck Sketches” and “Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge”. I have been published many times both in NZ and overseas and in 2009 I was lucky enough to be chosen as an Elite Team member for Up2Scrap, NZs premiere scrapbooking magazine.

I also love working from sketches and putting my own twist on them. I regularly contribute to challenge blogs and particularly enjoy creating multi-photo layouts. I really admire the work of all the members of your current design team, and I hope that my own style will complement the amazing talent that you already have. My pages often have a whimsical feel to them but I love to try out new techniques and my style changes according to my inspiration. 

My blog can be found here: http://scrappinsaraz.blogspot.com/

Here is Sarah's creation for this months challenge...


** NOVEMBER CHALLENGE  **

This months challenge is a colour challenge and the Creative Team and our Guest Designer Sarah have created some stunning examples for you...

Here is the colour swatch...

Here are the CT layouts...

ANNIE...
  
MARELLE...

MICHELLE...
  
NANCY...

DOT...
  
LINDA...
  
TARRAH...

KAREN...
  
AGA...

 KERRYN...
  
KIM...


Wednesday 24 October 2012

Sneak Peaks of November!

Hoping we can get some more entries for this months challenge!!!! 

Here are some sneak peaks of some Creative Team examples for Novembers Challenge...




Tuesday 9 October 2012

Winners & Important Information!

Please read the below if you are going to enter the Scrap The Boys challenges, this is just an update of some of our rules for this challenge site...

* Firstly and most importantly your entry MUST be created and ONLY entered for this challenge and NOT be used for any other challenge site.

* This leads to the next point which I have been thinking about for a while and have been receiving feedback about, your layout that you have created for THIS challenge site can not be used as a Design Team requirement for another store or challenge site. 
- You are more than welcome to use products that a certain site/handmade store sells and can also have in your post for example, (the polka dot buttons are from Purple Pumpkin or the chevron badges are from the Greatest View etc...) but it cant be created for a DT/CT assignment.


 * International entries now get voted on for a chance to win a Guest Creative Team Spot, the above rules still apply to our International readers, you must create your entry for this site only and not use it for any other challenges or DT requirements.

* The challenges are boy orientated so the only stipulation we have is that the layout has to be about "boys".
It is acceptable for you to appear in the photo with your boys as they wouldn't be here if it weren't for their mother.


* Since August we now have ONE winner that is voted by the CT or myself and a Random winner along with our Guest CT winner which is voted by the CT on our International reader entries.
 
I hope you understand why these rules are in place, there are so many challenge blogs out there, we are just trying to make an even playing field for everyone.


SEPTEMBERS HONORABLE MENTION & WINNER OF A GUEST CT SPOT FOR DECEMBER IS..

WANDA (Canada) 



OUR SEPTEMBER WINNERS!!!

The winner of the SCRAP THERAPY $25.00 Voucher is...
 DONNA O'CONNELL...



The winner of THE SCRAPBOOK STORE'S $20.00 Voucher + Free post is...


MICHELLE LOGAN...

Could the winners please email me asap at: scraptheboys@hotmail.com

Monday 1 October 2012

October's STB Challenge & a SALE @ SCRAP FRIENDS

October, I still cant believe it, daylight savings starts next Sunday for us here in Tassie, my birthday is this month, Harper will be 10 months old on the 20th of this month and we only have 84 days until Christmas...  
How has that happened so fast!!!!!


Now that blogger has changed to the "new look blogger" I have increased the size of the layout images, so I am wondering if you can leave some feedback as to whether you like this size or the old smaller size?

Head to the bottom of the post for all the details regarding Scrap Friends, 1st Birthday Sale!


This month we have a fantastic challenge and the Creative Team has outdone themselves with some stunnign examples for you, we hope you like the challenge and play along this month!!

Our Sponsors this month are 


SCRAP THERAPY...


We have closed our other business to focus wholly on Scraptherapy, opening a Paper Craft Bricks and Mortar store in Babinda, FNQ to run in conjunction with the online site. During the last 2+ years we have learnt a whole load of stuff about e-commerce, scrapbooking, cardmaking and the people who love these hobbies.
At www.scraptherapy.com.au you will find a fantastic gallery filled with inspiring ideas, a great community of ladies and an odd guy or two in our online forum. Our Design Team backed up by our Big Sisters offer regular competitions and challenges to help you find your mojo, and a chance to win a shopping voucher or two. Then of course there is the shop where we hope you will find all the latest Linkand greatest products at great prices. If you can’t find what you are looking for feel free to contact me at lee-anne@scraptherapy.com.au and check to see if we can get it in for you. We often can.
Our freight charges for orders up to $25 is $9.00, orders between $25 to $100 stay at $6 and orders over $100 are now free. I love scrapbooking and Danny can whip up a pretty good card, but our true passion is excelling in great customer service, which we hope to continue to do for years to come.

Scrap Therapy have donated a $25.00 voucher.


CHARMS CREATIONS...
A bit about Charms Creations....

I started creating my Lovely Lollipops just for my own scrapbooking pages in about February/March of this year. I saw that Scrapbooking Top 50 had a Craft Market that gives the opportunity to sell your own handmade embellishments, so thought I would make a few packets up and see how it goes! It went really well, so I thought I would make a few more packs up and try my hand selling them on my own personal blog too - my first sale was in April. That went really well too! I've had a sale a month, plus have been a regular at the Craft Market at SBT50 too. I've also set up a Facebook Shop where I have them available as well. I have LOTS of giveaways so to keep updated on those & upcoming sales - make sure you LIKE my Charms Creations Facebook Page & check out my blog Charms Creations!

Each and every embellishment that I have created has been handcut {making them ALL totally unique} and can include a mixture of felt, fabric, lace, hessian, doiley & any other interesting piece of material I can find. They are finished off with a button and cross-stitches that are also as unique to the embellishment! I have started making different styles and sizes of Lovely Lollipops, Luscious Lollipops & Page Runners. Something NEW are my Suns and Clouds too! I have also dabbled in a bit of clay stamping too. So, if you are looking for something totally unique and one of a kind please pop on over and check them out!

I am soooo excited about sponsoring this month - and look forward to seeing what you all create! Have fun & Good Luck on winning the fab prizes up for grabs - including mine of course... heheh!

Charms Creations are offering a $20.00 Voucher.




OCTOBERS CHALLENGE...

* This month your challenge is to create a layout that is about your childs favourite book or book series, if your child is too young to have a favourite book, what is your favourite book to read to him...

You have until 11.59pm 31st October to link your entries using the linky tool in the top sidebar.



CREATIVE TEAMS EXAMPLES...

DOT...

KIM...

LINDA...

AGA...

ANNIE...

KAREN...

KERRYN...

MICHELLE...

NANCY...

TARRAH...

MARELLE...



SCRAP FRIENDS HAVE TURNED 1, THEY ARE HAVING A HUGE 2 DAY SALE, GET ON OVER AND CHECK IT OUT NOW!!!!

SCRAP FRIENDS