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.

Challenge winners.

These are the two winners of the challenges from the cybercrop weekend. The top one is Mica's layout which she submitted for the lolipop flowers challenge and the second one is Tammy's card entered for the circles challenge.

A prize is in the post to them as we speak so thank you ladies for entering and well done.

Spring has sprung

The sunny weather is here at last and the great outdoors is calling. Inspiration is everywhere, in the colours, the photograph opportunities and the general uplifting mood which spring gives us.

The recent cybercrop weekend was a great success with many people logging on over the weekend to take advantage of the tutorials, games and challenges. There was some video chat going on as well which due to the time difference I wasn't able to participate in (past my bed time).

The new site is well and truly underway now with already quite alot of members. The old design team is still with us, Theresa, Sharon, Tracy and Rita and over the coming weeks I'll be featuring them here.

I've posted the new bingo words for May so if you go to the site you can choose 25 words from the list and e-mail them to me by sunday the 3rd and I'll start calling them on monday 4th.

There is a new challenge up and at the beginning of May there'll be a new monthly sketch challenge.

New home for Scrappy Accents

As most of you will have heard by now, the free Ning groups are to be closed down on the 4th May.

All is not lost however as a new home has been found on the Spruz network.

The new Scrappy Accents site can be found on http://www.scrappyaccents.spruz.com/

I know it's a pain having to join another site but believe me no-one is more sorry than me. I hope you'll sign up and join me in this new venture and I imagine for the first couple of weeks I wouldn't be surprised if there were one or two problems as I'm learning on the job so to speak but if your willing to stay with me then I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things by the 1st May.

Thanks for your support.

Cybercrop weekend

This weekend we're holding a Cybercrop over at Scrappy Accents starting tomorrow, friday 16th and ending sunday 18th.

There'll be challenges, tutorials, chat and games with the odd RAK thrown in for good measure.

I'm tearing my hair out as my internet has chosen the right time to go kaput but if I have to drive to the airport and sit in the departures with my laptop, hogging the wi-fi, I'll be there!

So join in over the weekend and have some fun.

New groups

I hope everyone had a good Easter Weekend and didn't over do the chocolate?

Over on Scrappy Accents two new groups have been created. The first is for anyone interested in atc's, inchies, twinchies or anything smaller than a card. The second is for altered artists who like nothing more than to make something beautiful out of something plain.

Sign up and get the party going maybe with a bit of show and tell.

New challenges.

Woo hoo a new month and new challenges at Scrappy Accents .

Firstly the monthly sketch challenge is up along with a recipe challenge by Sharon. Go to the forum and then to challenges and you'll see her challenge and beautiful example layout.

We've two new Design Team members, the first is Tracy who is super talented and makes some beautiful things and the second is Rita who has some gorgeous cards and mini books in her gallery. Hopefully soon a blog hop will be organized where you can get to see the DT members blogs and all they do.