Pink With One

May Challenge
Welcome to the monthly Pink With One Card Challenge! To participate all you need to do is make a card using the monthly requirements, post a picture on your blog and then use the linky tool below to link your picture to this post. The competition will run until the 20th of June when I will select a winner who will receive a nice little prize in the mail! Too easy!

This month's challenge is to make a card using:

Pink with Flowers

Good luck everyone... I'm looking forward to seeing what lovely creations you all come up with.

Meet the Design Team

A Big Welcome to Our First Design Team for 2010

Jan Agnew, a long-time friend of S4L, has been appointed as our Senior Design Team Member / Co-ordinator. Jan has kept us inspired with her beautiful page sketches and probing Questions of the Day for quite some time now and is certainly a familiar face on our forum.

Jan has been scrapping for about five years with her four children and five gorgeous grandchildren often starring in her wonderful layouts. Jan has worked as a School Administrative Manager in a rural NSW primary school for the past 14 years and simply loves her job! She also loves attending scrapbooking crops and retreats and absolutely creams the competition with the amount of pages she can turn out in a weekend.

Here is some of Jan's work:

Lisa Amiet is a new face on our forum this year, but she has bravely jumped into the deep end by accepting the position of Photography Moderator and challenge organiser.

Lisa has been scrapping for the past five years and also enjoys photography, cardmaking and a range of other crafty pursuits. She lives with her husband of 13 years and their two children, Brianna and Riley. Lisa's husband says that there isn't a thing invented that she can't find a way to make alter!

She has found a comfortable "home" at S4L, enjoying the company of other ladies that share similar hobbies and interests and we're sure that she is going to provide all of us with lots of inspiration for our own layouts.

Here are some examples of Lisa's work:

Kirsten Casey is our third and final Design Team Member. Kirsten has been scrapping for the past three and a half years and gets her inspiration from her three beautiful daughters aged six, four and two... they also keep her very busy! Lisa lives with her husband and daughters in Highfields, Queensland and they are excitedly waiting on the completion of their new home.

Kirsten is a self-confessed scrap-addict, saying that it forms a major part of her life. If she is not actually scrapping then she is thinking about it, planning for it or looking at it on the net! How many of us can relate to that?!

Here are a couple of Kirsten's creations:

Challenges

May Challenges

Here are some challenges to get you crafting this month! Once you have completed a challenge, upload a picture of your creation to the forum, using your Photobucket account, before the 25th of May to go into the running to win a fabulous Kaisercraft Bling Prize!

Challenge #1
With Mother's Day almost upon us there is no better time to scrap a page about the good times shared with those women closest to us. Complete a layout about your Mum, Aunt, Grandmother, Sister, Daughter, etc. that includes flowers either in the patterned paper, ribbon, flowers, diecuts, etc.

Challenge #2
Create a masculine card that includes dots and stripes somewhere on the card.

Challenge #3
Create a layout using Pink and Green as the dominant colours. Layout must include handwritten journaling, lace, 6 flowers a diecut shape and a two word title.

May News

News
May 2010
Welcome to our brand new blog! We've decided to keep all our valued customers up to date with shop and forum news via posts on an easily accessible blog rather than the old newsletter web pages which you've been seeing up till now. Having a blog will allow us to easily keep old posts, photos and information for future use and reference, as well as allowing all of you to post comments and questions directly into the blog!

Along with our new look "newsletter" we'll also be posting a blog only challenge each month for all those eager card makers out there. The details will follow in the next post so keep your eyes peeled.

The next piece of exciting news is that we have now chosen our Design Team for the next six months! Three wonderfully, talented ladies will be inspiring and teaching us from the beginning of May... you'll have to wait a little bit longer for the official announcement though.

As always,
Happy Scrappin'

Shelley

Design Team Corner
Keep your eyes out for our big Design Team announcement! We selected three lovely and talented ladies from amongst the people who applied for the team. And believe me, it was not an easy decision given the high quality of work submitted!

During the next six months, our new Design Team will work to provide inspiration and information to our forum frequenters and S4L members. Feel free to pop into the forum to get to know them and all our wonderful regulars. Take a class, follow a tutorial or join in on one of the challenges, crops or blind scraps.

Special Deals
We have some great deals in store this month along with our usual low prices. All discounts will be applied at the time of invoicing, rather than when you place your order.

All Versacube Ink Pads - 30% off while stocks last*

All Autumn Leaves Clear Stamps - Buy one and get one half price*

Bazzill Cardstock - 70cents per sheet

All Patterned Paper - Half price!
(excludes Kaisercraft Papers)

All Chipboard Embellishments and Words - Buy one and get on free of equal or lesser value*

All Acrylic Albums - 30% off while stocks last*

All Karen Foster Rubons - 40% off while stocks last*

Kaisercraft Alphas, Embellishment Packs, Clear Stamps and Patterned Paper
20% off while stocks last

All Bazzill Stitchz Floss - 30% off while stocks last*

All Green Tara Flowers - 20% off while stocks last*

*Limited stock; no back orders

Winner's Circle
Congratulations to the winners of our April Sketch challenge, Kay and Beccy. Here are their winning layouts.

Upcoming Events

During the month of May we will be focusing on the Big Shot Die Cutting machine and our classes will mainly showcase the fabulous dies available for use with the Big Shot. If you would like to come and join us for a Crop Day or Night you will be able to see this terrific machine demonstrated.

Our list of classes and crops will be available soon.