Birds.

My new theme for the next 2 weeks will be Birds, prompted this week by several flocks of birds, most likely geese flying over the house on their way to warmer places.  It's a sign that the colder times are around the corner although we are experiencing some gorgeous weather at the moment making it hard to think about the snow and ice ahead.

Anyway, less of the waffle and more about the art and my ATC to hopefully inspire you includes stamps from Tim Holtz and Paper Artsy.  Usual rules apply - use a bird image of some form on your artwork but anything goes.  Leave your link at the bottom so I can visit you and leave a message and have fun creating.

For anyone who doesn't have a blog, I've set up a Flikr account where you can upload work and link from there as long as it works.   http://www.flickr.com/groups/1556304@N21/

If that doesn't work then leave me a message in the comments and I'll try to sort it out.

jaine



Pumpkins.

Well, here we go with another challenge and what could be more apropriate this time than Pumpkins. It just had to be didn't it? There can be no shortage of pumpkin inspiration out there for the next two weeks, so as usual add your link at the bottom and show off your pumpkin inspired art work.

I look forward to commenting on your creations.

Jaine

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'