Cake

Thank you so much to all those people who entered the last challenge. I truly enjoyed looking at all of your entries.

For this new challenge the prompt is "Cake".

As usual anything goes as long as you've used the theme as your inspiration. You might use a stamp as I have here,  bake a plate of cup-cakes or think outside the box and create a piece of artwork of Marie Antoinette and her famous phrase "Let them eat cake".

What ever you do link it to our Mr Linky at the bottom so we can all see it

You have two weeks as usual so have fun.

Black

Thank you to Lena for adding her art work to the first challenge. I do hope we'll get some more adding artwork this time around.

Anyway, the challenge for the next two weeks is to use Black.  It's a colour which alot of people may find very difficult to work with unless it's a sympathy card, but actually it can make a pretty bold statement or just add that little 'je ne sais qui' to your work.

So for the next two weeks try to add a little black to your cards, layouts, atc's or altered items and add a link at the bottom so we can see it and comment.

Ice-Cream

Today is the launch of our brand new fortnightly challenge.

Every two weeks I'll be posting a prompt which could be a word, a phrase, a colour - in fact just about anything.  I ask you to create something, anything taking that word as inspiration. This artwork can be an inchy, atc, card, layout or altered item or indeed anything else you can think of but you must use the word as your inspiration. 

At the bottom (hopefully if it works) I should have put a linky in so you can post your creation onto the link which should appear as a thumbnail picture so everyone else can instantly see what you've created. Click on other link thumbnails to take you to the blogs or gallery's of other people where you can leave them a comment and make their day.

So here goes for the first Scrappy Accents challenge which is Ice-Cream.

August and September sketch.

It has to be said I've become a little neglectful lately on the blog front, prefering instead to put all my efforts into the web site. I intend to change all that and maybe start using the blog as a place for some extra challenges and fun.

For the moment though, above is the latest sketch challenge to be found on the Scrappy Accents web site. It'll run through September too as the holiday season and return to school takes preference.

So next time I post I should have some good news about challenges here on the blog.

A fresh new look.

Summer has officially kicked in and I thought we could do with a little lift to brighten things up a bit. I hope you like the fresh new look to the site as I think it shows a brighter summery feel.

Above are the new sketches for this month which are up on the site. We have some new challenges, the bingo has been announced and I'm planning some downloadable templates and images. We have lots of new videos for inspiration so go take a look.

I'd also like to welcome lots of new members who I hope will become involved in the group and tell us what they're up to.

That's it for now except to say I hope your summer is wonderful and the weather is just perfect.

Happy scrappin'

Challenges for June and winners from May.

Hello there Scrappy friends. I'm hoping that by now things are warming up and you're having a taste of the summer to come.

On the Scrappy Accents web site I'm trying to get everyone into that summer mood with a new sketch challenge for layouts or card makers to follow and I'll be choosing a winner at the end of the month to send a small prize to. This is the new sketch.




The winner of last months layout challenge was Abitdotty who submitted this layout;



Congratulations to Abitdotty.


Congratulations also go to Maureen who won last months bingo and has very kindly offered to host the bingo this month, so I hope you'll support her and sign up. It's alot of fun.

May, a busy month.

Well my scrappy friends I hope the spring is giving you lots of inspiration for your layouts and cards. Try and remember to take your camera out in your handbag when you go out as the colours of the new spring flowers and leaves at the moment are gorgeous.

We've been busy at Scrappy Accents recently and now with so many members I think it may be time to start some swaps.

In the groups section I've started a sign up for an altered domino swap and in the anything smaller than a card group an atc swap. I'm hoping to get lots of interested people signing up as swaps are so much fun to do and it's a fabulous way of seeing first hand how other people do their artwork.

I'm glad too to see the photo's section filling up, it's nice to see what everyone is up to.

We have new challenges and a sketch challenge up to keep you busy and in the art journalers group I've started a weekly prompt to get you going. I intend this to be an on going thing and there's no obligation to show and tell as journals can be private things. I've laid mine bare though to show you what you can achieve with your own book.

I've put in some interesting videos too and I'll be adding to them as time goes by.

So there you have it. Lots to keep you occupied for the moment so there's no excuse.