Shhh... The chooks have flown the coop

Shhh....Chookie and all the other Creative Chooks have gone off for the weekend and left me in charge!

If you are looking for some fun this weekend pop on over to Chookscraps. Most of the chooks are fluffing their feathers on retreat...but for those of us stuck in our own nests we have a special cybercrop planned.

The first challenge will go up tonight at about 6pm Queensland time. There will be three scrapping challenges. And as always there will a special game of bingo on Sunday. I will also be asking you all to challenge me! We would love to see you there so fly on over for a look.

Susan aka Jibii

www.chookscraps.com.au

CC at Scrapbook Divas

The Scrapbook Divas Cybercrop is this Friday night 26^th September commencing at 7.30pm. There will be 3 challenges, kids challenge, prizes, bingo and Dizzy Divas Dip. So to register go to the forum http://scrapbookdivas.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=102&t=826 and come along and have a great night of chatting and scrapping.

Keep them coming

We have had some more beautiful LO's submitted... and here they are:

Yum by Emma Morris




























Love by Kerryn Lawson
















Two in the tub by Sarah Ward

Look What's On

Here is some information about a fantastic class opportunity... check this out from Scrapbook Divas.





















So pop on over the the website and check it out!

Another beautiful LO

This stunning LO is from Vicki Crawford:

September instructions.

Just bumping these up so they don't disappear off the page:

This months Word Picture Challenge is written by our very own Design Team Member Sheree Power. So put your creative thinking caps on and lets see what you can come up with.

Material List
1 x photo (6x4 or larger if you wish)
1 piece of patterned paper for the base (paper A)
1 piece of patterned paper 9in x 9in (paper B)
alphabets
Journal block
Decorative tape or ribbon (about 26cm long and 1cm width)
embellishments of your choice

Step One:
Take paper B and decorate how you wish.eg: doodle around the edge, ink, sand etc its totally up to you.

Step Two:
Place paper B roughly about 1inch from the right hand corner of paper A (you may attach this paper now)

Step Three:
Place your picture on top of paper B this can either be to the right or left hand side of the paper its totally up to you. The photo should be around 1 inch away from all the edges of paper B. (do not attach the photo just yet.)

Step Four:
Take your journalling block and run this flush up to your photo. Drag the journalling block down about an inch under the bottom of the photo. Stick both the photo and the journalling block down now.

Step Five:
Take your decorative tape or ribbon this is placed in the middle of the journal block and the photo running length ways on your page.

Step Six:
On the side where your journal block is this is where you will put your title. the title should be placed either overlapping the journal block or just underneath it.

Step Seven:
On the side of your photo that is opposite to the journal block is where you will put your embellishments of your choice. You may also like to put one embellishment on the other corner of your photo and journal block next to your title.

Step Eight:
Journal and make it yours.

Once you have finished your layout - email them in to us here at word.pictures@hotmail.com by the 30th of September

Our First September LO's

Here are our first LO's for this month. I'm sure you will all agree that they are just gorgeous:

Beauty by Marion McIntyre


Lemonade by Peg Hewitt


















And Kiss for the Bebee by Deb

DT examples

Here are some samples from our DT team. We have received some other gorgeous LO's which we will start putting up over the coming days.


One of the gang
by Sami















Because of you by Sue-Maree






and Hula Girl by Sheree

The DT example LO's....

Will be up tomorrow afternoon!

Chatter from the Nest

Chatter from the Nest
www.chookscraps.com.au

There's plenty going on at Chookscraps over the next week or two. On Saturday afternoon (5 pm WA time or 7 pm Eastern States time) there is a free class where we will be making a matchbook album. Everyone is welcome.

There is also plenty of new inspiration with our It's Raining Sketches challenge now in it's fifth round. This fortnight the talented chooks are making sketches and samples for ATCs.

Next weekend we have our monthly cybercrop with the usual 3 scrapping challenges, a card challenge, a non-scrapping challenge and a chicken's challenge for our under 16's. There will also be bingo and games of 20 questions so pop on over to the nest to have a look.

Little Break

Hi Everyone. Just wanting you to know that I am taking a little break from Word Pictures for this month. My husband who has been off sailing the seas with the Navy is having a short break alongside in Singapore - so I quickly arrange for Bronte and I to fly up and meet him. So we are off travelling for a little while. It will give me a break .... I can dump Bronte on Daddy' knee and have a well earned rest.... well if you can call site seeing and shopping a rest!!!! It also gives Bronte and Daddy a chance to get to know each other again - three months away is a very long time for a one year old. After Bronte and I get back at the end of the month we will then only have another two months before Daddy comes home. It has been a long trip this one.
Anyway I ramble on - the wonderful Sue Maree is going to be running Word Pictures whilst I am away. Jodi is also having a break from word pictures - she has gone back to full time study for a teaching degree and is in the middle of her practical work experience so she is flat tack too.
Nothing is changing - you can still contact us through the e-mail, Sue Maree will be doing all the running around for us. Thanks Sue Maree.

Community Announcement

Scrapbook Divas
WE ARE INTRODUCING A NEW KIT FROM OCTOBER AND SO TO CELEBRATE WE ARE HAVING A COMPETITION AND SALE
After the success of our Diva kits, we have decided to offer bigger and better fully coordinated kits!There will be a new kit released each month incorporating a wide variety of paper and product companies.
Our first kit will be released in October, however we don’t have a name for them yet….So do you want to win a kit for FREE? All you need to do is come up with a name for our kits, something that reflects their nature of being fully coordinated, budget conscious and that they take the guess work out of constructing pages.
You will need to email Michelle (michelle@scrapbookdivas.com.au) with your top THREE
naming entries by September 21st. Be sure to put Name that Kit competition in the subject line. Judges decision will be final. A winner and the new name of the kit will be announced on October 1st when the first delicious kit is released.
Keep your eyes out for sneaks from our Design Team too!!
Now for the sale well all the remaining Diva Kits have been reduced and are now on sale for $8.00.

September Sponsors

This month our wonderful Sponsors are;
Scrapbook Divas, Bon's Scraps, Blumars Craft, Scrapbook Savvy, Crafting In Style and Scrap a While.
A huge thank you to these wonder sponsors for all their kindness in donating fantastic prizes for the challenge.

September Word Picture Challenge

This months Word Picture Challenge is written by our very own Design Team Member Sheree Power. So put your creative thinking caps on and lets see what you can come up with.

Material List
1 x photo (6x4 or larger if you wish)
1 piece of patterned paper for the base (paper A)
1 piece of patterned paper 9in x 9in (paper B)
alphabets
Journal block
Decorative tape or ribbon (about 26cm long and 1cm width)
embellishments of your choice

Step One:
Take paper B and decorate how you wish.eg: doodle around the edge, ink, sand etc its totally up to you.

Step Two:
Place paper B roughly about 1inch from the right hand corner of paper A (you may attach this paper now)

Step Three:
Place your picture on top of paper B this can either be to the right or left hand side of the paper its totally up to you. The photo should be around 1 inch away from all the edges of paper B. (do not attach the photo just yet.)

Step Four:
Take your journalling block and run this flush up to your photo. Drag the journalling block down about an inch under the bottom of the photo. Stick both the photo and the journalling block down now.

Step Five:
Take your decorative tape or ribbon this is placed in the middle of the journal block and the photo running length ways on your page.

Step Six:
On the side where your journal block is this is where you will put your title. the title should be placed either overlapping the journal block or just underneath it.

Step Seven:
On the side of your photo that is opposite to the journal block is where you will put your embellishments of your choice. You may also like to put one embellishment on the other corner of your photo and journal block next to your title.

Step Eight:
Journal and make it yours.

Once you have finished your layout - email them in to us here at word.pictures@hotmail.com by the 30th of September.

August Layouts

The world has caught up with me - working full time, with DH away for 5 or so months, DD being a right little Madam at the moment and still having computer problems to boot ..... I need a break! Sorry I am so late posting these for last month.

Everyone that has submitted a layout for the Month of August has done a wonderful job of interpreting the Word Picture and we have got some fantastic layouts to prove it. So in no particular order here they are;

Now if I have missed your layout, please e-mail me, as I said previously I have really been having issues with the computer lately. So I apologise.

At Play by Nicole Hargraeves

Yum Cha by Peg Hewitt

Inverlaken by Emma Morris

Perth by Jan Agnew

Fun at 1 by Debbie

Ta Dah by Kylie

Got Cake? by Anthea Peterson

Okay there where a couple of layouts that I did miss because of this silly computer. I will post them here now ..... everyone is in the running for the prizes. Which will be announced tomorrow.

Happiness is a Muddy Track by Marion McIntyre

Mud by Natalie Satchwill