CHALLENGE #19

Our challenge this month is all about

ARCHITECTURE

We would like you to be inspired by this building.

The architecture, shapes, materials and the colours used all work together to give it is appeal. Combine with arches, columns and scallops (whatever you can take from it) and use it noticeably in your project. (Note: this is not a colour challenge - but by all means use the colour if it appeals!!)

Here are the girls inspirational interpretations
Check their blogs to see further close-ups and details
(as soon as they get a chance to upload)

Mandy

Julie



Ruth

Yumiko

Corinne

Sasya


Lene



Olga




Vibeke




Gayle

Our guest designer
With her stunning interpretation of our Challenge
Rae



from
Scrap Matrix

and sponsoring this
magnificent prize!



Our challenge will close midnight 20th January (Aust, Sydney time)
And make sure you check the rules and FAQs on the left hand bar.

Cant wait to see those creations coming in!!

INTRODUCING OUR NEW SPONSOR AND GUEST TEAM DESIGN MEMBER

With great pleasure and much eye candy in her wonderful store....

we get to meet and work with the lovely

Rae

of

Rae Cooper is the owner of Scrap Matrix

A born and bred country girl from Western Australia with 3 sisters, craft and that sort of thing was part and parcel of what ‘5’ girl family do, poor Dad!!

Life’s journeys take us in many directions before we commence what is truly a passion.

Through the inspiration and support from all my family, I secured a local Country supermarket to start my dream of a small Scrapbooking outlet. Luckily the owner was a nice guy!!

Relocating from Western Australia to the Northern Territory opportunities combined with a passion for paper crafts saw the creation of Scrap Matrix. An online store that provides an extensive range of products including German Scrap - European embossed die-cuts, Metal embellishments, handmade Beaded Trim exclusive to Scrap Matrix and so much more.

A new range to the site is “Out There Chippy’ laser cut designs that should send you wild with creative ideas.

Especially designed for the ‘Let’s Get Shabby Challenge’ is some architectural miniature shadow boxes being the first release for ‘Out There Chippy’ with lots more to come in early January 2011. The first 25 customers who place an order will receive a gorgeous shadow box free so you create to your heart’s content!

For some inspiration check out Rae’s blog!!

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Rae has some wonderful ideas and

a fabulous offer for

'Let's Get Shabby' members

make sure you come back on the

26th December

to see what that is

and

the prize

along with all of our creations

for

CHALLENGE#19

WISHING YOU ALL A VERY

HAPPY AND SHABBY CHRISTMAS!!

with heaps of

MERRIMENT AND LOVE

us Shabby Girls

xxx

CHALLENGE 18 WINNERS AND HONORABLE MENTIONS!

Its double and more fun to hand out this time for Challenge 18!

And its because

TALLULAH BELLES



has offered TWO prizes

for the WINNER and RUNNER-UP

and having said that

it was very very close!!!

So without further ado.....

the

WINNER

of this beautiful prize

is

Kaori

AND

the

RUNNER-UP

receiving

this beautiful

SECOND PRIZE

is

TAKAKO

Beautiful work girls!!!

Can you please email me your addresses

to the email addy on the left hand side bar

thank you!

Now there was a mention of 'MORE'

and

TALLULAH BELLE'S

has also offered this lovely

Mini Embellie Pack!

(may not all be the same but equally as fabulous!)

15 pieces of ephemera

to ALL the

HONORABLE MENTIONS!

And here they are:

following very closely behind our Runner-up

is

TOSK

Lean

PIA

Sue

Kirsty

Maja

Lea

Christianne

Marianne

Kseniya

Could all the HM's please pass their details in an email located on the left hand bar as soon as possible

THANKS SO MUCH to EVERYBODY for sharing your beautiful work with us

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ATTENTION

The 25th is CHRISTMAS DAY

and like last year -

the new

Challenge #19

will be uploaded on

26th December

(Sydney Australia time)

Please check the time at the top left hand side for clarification

See you back here

on the 24th December

to introduce our next Sponsor and Guest Design Teamer

xx

RUNNING OUT OF TIME?

We wouldnt like you to miss out on

these fabulous prizes

 from

TALLULAH BELLES

so

get your creations submitted for

CHALLENGE 18!

Only a couple of days left!!

you have until midnight 20th Dec

(Sydney Aust time- check our clock on top left hand side)

Can wait to see those last creations come in!!!!

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SHABBY CHRISTMAS TREE TUTORIAL

Our monthly shabby tutorial is back after a short break and this month our new Shabby Girl Olga is showing us how she has created this gorgoeus mini Christmas tree.

Step 1

Make a sketch of the tree. You will need another tree made with the same pattern but smaller. For the second fir tree I simply outlined the first pattern indenting a little bit.


Step 2

Trace and cut out both trees onto cardboard.


Step 3

Cover the smaller tree with a thick layer of crackle paint. Don't be afraid to make the layer really thick as the more paint you apply the better the crackles will be and leave to dry.


Step 4

Paint the bigger tree with acrylic paint. No need to paint the middle of the tree as it won't be visible any way. When it dries - add some bling. I used Stickles "Star Dust"


Step 5

When dry layer the two trees with 3d mounting tape.

Step 6

Your tree is now finished and ready to embellish.


Hope you enjoyed Olga's tutorial. If you try this out please link it back to this post so that the Shabby Girls can pop in and have a look and if you check the side bar we have got links to all our past tutorials if you need some more shabby inspiration.

Don't forget to check out our Christmas challenge and Tallulah Belles our sponsor this month.

Shabby christmas rak winners

Thanks for playing along and having fun trying to guess the creators of the cards in our RAKs!

Here are the RAKs again along with the names of those that created and the lucky winners.

Pack 1

Cards created left to right by
Back-Yumiko, Olga, Julie, Gayle
Front-Lene, Vibeke, Mandy

and the winner of this pack is

Jodi Dolbel has left a new comment on your post "IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS.....":

I think Mandy made these cards......
But who ever did, they are devine!! How special to win something like that! I dont think they would be being sent to just anyone either!!!
Merry Christmas Shbby Girls!


Pack 2

Cards created by left to right
Back-Mandy, Gayle, Vibeke, Julie
Front-Lene, Yumiko

and the winner of this pack is

Asil has left a new comment on your post "IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS.....":

Hmm.. Gayle might be the creator of the cards with red flowers on, on pic 2?
Vibeke - maybe the one in the bottom on pic1, with green flowers in a white bow? Or the santa-card on pic2 with that red curley thingy? :)
Sasya: the Noel-card on pic2 and Joy from pic1?
Olga's card is the green one with tag, from pic1.
No, I have no idea, I'm clueless! :D
But thank you so much for the inpiration - lovely work, girls!!

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I had Corinne's cards arrive just after I posted the challenge so her's along with Ruth's, which should be here any day now, will be added to the packs before posting them out. Jodie and Asil can you please email your details to address up the top and I will sort out getting your goodies in the mail to you.

Thanks again for playing along with us.

Don't forget to check out our Christmas challenge and Tallulah Belles our sponsor this month.

Shabby christmas card rak

Have you put in your guesses as to who made which cards?

You can check out the rak photo's here in this post.

The guessing part of the rak is all for fun and I will be doing a random draw from all the comments posted not just the correct ones so it doesn't matter if you are right or wrong.

Don't forget to check out our Christmas challenge and Tallulah Belles our sponsor this month.

Happy guessing.

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS.....

in my house, not with any Christmas decorations yet, that will happen on the 1st but I have been drooling over some gorgeous cards and embellies that the Shabby Girls have created and sent to me for our Christmas card rak.

Here are the two raks on offer that I will post out to two lucky shabby players.


Pack 1
7 cards with envelopes and a surprise bundle of goodies.



Pack 2
6 cards with envelops and a surprise bundle of goodies.

I have still got a few parcels from some of the girls to arrive so there will be a few extra surprise cards in the packs.

Now just what do you need to do to be in the running for one of these packs???

-Become a follower if you aren't already one
-Post a comment on this post with your guesses as to which one of shabby girls created the individual cards within the packs.  (so who did what card???)

To help you in this pop on over to the shabby girls blogs where they will post (as soon as they can) these two photos along with a clue as to which card or cards are theirs.

I'll leave the guessing open till midnight Sunday 5th December and will put my portable random number generator (Asher) to work on Monday to pick out the lucky winners from the comments.

Have fun guessing!

Don't forget to check out our Christmas challenge and Tallulah Belles our sponsor this month.

CHALLENGE #18

LET'S GET SHABBY'S CHALLENGE #18

IS

We would like you to share your favourite Christmas song/carol or hymn.

You could use it as a title on your layout or use parts of it as your journaling.

It’s got to be noticeable!

If you don’t celebrate Christmas –

you can share one of your special occasion or celebration song/carol or hymn

Check further down for the wonderful PRIZES!!!!

Here are the DT creations, and for extra details, information and more photos please click on the links to their blogs! (just give them some time to upload to their blogs though - should be sooon!)

Mandy

Julie

Ruth



Yumiko

Corinne

Sasya

Lene

Olga 

Vibeke

Gayle

GUEST DESIGNER

KRIS

created

'DECK THE HALLS'

and

SPONSORING PRIZES

from

TALLULAH BELLES

AND THESE ARE WHAT YOU CAN WIN:

FIRST PRIZE

SECOND PRIZE

And this is just a sample of what

ALL

the

HONORABLE MENTIONS

will receive!!

A mini embellie pack!

(may not all be the same but equally as fabulous!)

15 pieces of ephemera



AND

and.....theres MORE!!

Tallulah's is also offering a free pack of 10 tickets with every purchase up until Chrissie and daily shipping.

So with all that on offer...

Get those submissions happening!

The challenge will close midnight 20th December (Aust, Sydney time)

And make sure you check the rules and FAQs on the lefthand bar.

Cant wait to see those creations coming in!!

xx