Our October guest designer ...

 Please welcome our October guest designer,  April Reece with her beautiful double page layout based on our challenge this month.

Hi I'm April. Mum of 5 adult children, Nanny to 4 beautiful grandchildren, so I have endless pictures to scrapbook.

Been single and loving life for over 4 years! Recently trained as an AIN in aged care and currently working as a support worker. Just started a Water Colour class, discovering techniques which I plan to use in my scrapbooking and putting up original art works in my home. Have done a lot of travelling this year and been on many adventures which I am trying to keep up with travel albums!

I am a chronological scrapper so I have organised albums and systems in place to make sure I don’t double up events and milestones…and of course my other hobbies of collecting scrapping supplies and the never ending task of organising my supplies so I use them!

Thank you so much for joining in with us this month, April. It has been lovely having you as our guest.

There is still plenty of time to join in with our challenge for October using delightful PINK and adding butterflies to your page - entries close midnight on the last day of the month. We'd love to see your layout.

Our September winners ...

 Thank you for all your delightful September entries for our combined challenge with Soul Scrappers last month - it was really wonderful seeing all your bright and happy layouts for our challenge.

and our first winner by random draw is ..

EMMA DOWDING

and our second winner by random draw is ..

DEBRA METCALFE

Plus there will be a special "Admin Choice" winner who will receive an invitation to guest with us for our next challenge.

and our winner is:

MARION WILSON

We would love to have you guest with us in November.

Congratulations to the winners. Can you all please either message me or send an email (www1scrapblog@gmail.com) to claim your prize if I don't already have your details. Please remember it is the winners responsibility to claim their prize and provide postal details. You have until the announcement of the winners in the next month to do so.

Our current challenge is open until the end of the month so you have lots of time to play along with our challenge on our FACEBOOK page. We'd love to see what you can do with our colour combination this month.

Welcome to October ...

 Our October challenge is a nod to the annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and an important time for the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) to highlight why research in this area is so crucial. Breast cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia, with 9 people losing their lives to the disease every day.

The only way to stop deaths from breast cancer is by funding research to improve our understanding of how breast cancer originates, grows and spreads so that we can stop it in its tracks. Join us to progress our vision of Zero Deaths from breast cancer.

 I don't think there would be many amongst us who haven't been touched by this insidious disease in some way - be it yourself, your grandmother, mother, sister, daughter, family member, friend or colleague, so if you can, please make a donation to this worthy cause.  Your contribution matters!

https://nbcf.org.au/donate/

Our OCTOBER challenge will be PINK with butterflies. Thank you all so very much for all your wonderful September entries. They were all fabulous!

This year we will be using a base colour (or allowing you to select your own) in any variation of that one colour you might like to use - light, dark, colour ranges just so long as we can tell it IS your monthly colour choice. Please follow the simple monthly criteria.

Create your layout on WHITE cardstock

COLOUR – PINK

Small amounts of black, navy may be used for contrast and we will allow green if part of a floral pattern.

Criteria for October - please add butterflies to your page

and now some totally amazing inspiration from our talented 2025 team in no particular order!

Tracey Beer (Australia)

Heather Bensley (Australia)

Karen Brierley (Australia)

Jaimie Ramsey (Australia)

Amanda Moran (Australia)

My beautiful youngest daughter with her niece (my sweet granddaughter )

Karen Guy (Australia)

The Ballerina was of course my inspiration, here is my little Ballerina surrounded by Butterflies!

Victoria King (Australia)

I took inspiration from the dancer, this little ballerina sure is a cutie 

Jane Howden (Australia)

In 2025 we will have one main prize each month selected by random draw.  If we have over 15 entries I will do an additional prize draw.  This is open to all entrants so anyone could be a winner.

Plus there will be a special "Admin Choice" winner who will receive an invitation to guest with us next month. 

To enter please visit our Facebook public group White with 1 challenges and put your entry directly into our monthly album under media.

All entries must be new for this challenge and the original work of the entrant. Please remember we are a layout only challenge - cards, OTP or pocket page entries (etc) are not eligible for prizes. 

We'd love to see how you use our White with 1 colour combination this month. Please come and join in with us! You have until the end of the month to get your entry in.

Our September guest designer ...

 Please welcome our September guest designer, Amy Prior with her gorgeous take on our challenge this month.

Please use TWO of the colour options of  APRICOT / TEAL / HOT PINK / GREEN on a WHITE background to create your layout using elements from the moodboard as inspiration.

Our additional criteria is FLOWERS so don’t forget to include some on your layout.

My name is Amy Prior, I live on the Central Coast with my husband and 2 teen daughters (16 & 18). I have been scrapbooking for about 20 years although life has gotten in the way of my hobby a lot over the past few years. Throughout the years I have had the pleasure of working with some of the biggest brands/publications in the industry, and I have even spent many years on the WW1 design team here and there. I have always had a very mixed style where sometimes I love a bit of grunge, shabby chic, bright & fun, or everything in between. One thing has consistently been in my style and that is mixed media. I love art and getting messy with creating fun unique backgrounds for my pages. I have also got a bit of a reputation for layers and flowers lol. Unfortunately, I don’t have an active blog or socials for my scrapbooking anymore but whenever I get the chance, I will randomly enter some challenges and am always happy to share more pics of my work if requested.

Thank you so much for joining the team this month, Amy. It has been wonderful having you join in with us.

There is still plenty of time to join in with our challenge for September - entries close midnight on the last day of the month. We'd love to see your layout.

Our August winners ...

 Thank you for all your amazing August entries - it was so inspiring to see how you all tackled our Burgundy with flowers challenge.

and our winner by random draw is ..

MARION WILSON

Plus there will be a special "Admin Choice" winner who will receive an invitation to guest with us for our next challenge.

and our winner is:

APRIL REECE

We would love to have you guest with us in October.

Congratulations to the winners. Can you all please either message me or send an email (www1scrapblog@gmail.com) to claim your prize if I don't already have your details. Please remember it is the winners responsibility to claim their prize and provide postal details. You have until the announcement of the winners in the next month to do so.

Our current challenge is open until the end of the month so you have lots of time to play along with our challenge on our FACEBOOK page. We'd love to see what you can do with our colour combination this month.

Welcome to September ...

Something a little exciting is happening in September! We are doing a combined challenge with Soul Scrappers Challenges, which means you do the one layout upload here and over in their monthly album and have two chances to win!

Please use TWO of the colour options of  APRICOT / TEAL / HOT PINK / GREEN on a WHITE background to create your layout using elements from the moodboard as inspiration.

Our additional criteria is FLOWERS so don’t forget to include some on your layout.

Your inspiration could be a shape or pattern, theme or items contained with in it. You might like a particular element or use of background. You can use black (or navy/ dark brown or a little gold/silver) as an accent colour only. Please don’t forget to tell us what inspired you and pop over to Soul Scrappers to add your layout to the album there. 

and now some totally amazing inspiration from our talented 2025 team in no particular order!

Tracey Beer (Australia)

Karen Brierley (Australia)

I loved the hot pink flowers on the mood board.

Victoria King (Australia)

Karen Guy (Australia)

What fun colour combinations, again inspired by the Flowers (I do love flowers) in the Mood board, I have shared some more stunning flowers from Butchart Gardens, Canada!!

Heather Bensley (Australia)

Jaimie Ramsey (Australia)

Amanda Moran (Australia)

Hot pink & green & spring (racing season)

Jane Howden (Australia)

In 2025 we will have one main prize each month selected by random draw.  If we have over 15 entries I will do an additional prize draw.  This is open to all entrants so anyone could be a winner.

Plus there will be a special "Admin Choice" winner who will receive an invitation to guest with us next month. 

To enter please visit our Facebook public group White with 1 challenges and put your entry directly into our monthly album under media.

All entries must be new for this challenge and the original work of the entrant. Please remember we are a layout only challenge - cards, OTP or pocket page entries (etc) are not eligible for prizes. 

We'd love to see how you use our White with 1 colour combination this month. Please come and join in with us! You have until the end of the month to get your entry in.

Our August guest designer ...

  Please welcome our August guest designer, Jackie Edwards with her wonderful take on our challenge this month.

Burgundy with flowers

Hi!  My name is Jackie Edwards and I live in Southend-on-Sea, Essex in the UK.

 I am a widow but have a wonderful daughter and three beautiful grandchildren who are mostly the subjects of my layouts. 

 I have been scrapping for over twenty years now. I discovered scrapbooking when I was on holiday in America, and started when my first Grandchild was about a year old and my style has changed many times over the years.  I am very lucky to have my own craft room and because I am now retired, I can scrap all day and not have to clear everything away!

 

I have always been involved with craft in some form – sewing, cross-stitch, cards, altered art and mixed media but seem to return to scrapbooking every time.  My best buy many years ago was a Craft Robo, and I have a Cameo too now which means I can now cut 12x12 and titles etc and not buy alphas (although that is hard and I am often tempted)  !!

I very much enjoy entering challenges because they give me the starting point for a layout, whether it’s a sketch or other criteria……..although the end result doesn’t always reflect the original design or intention! LOL

 

I don’t know what I would do now if I didn’t scrap!!!

 

I was very pleased to be asked to be GD this month and hope that my layout might give you some inspiration for this month's challenge!

Thank you so much for joining in with us this month, Jackie.  It has been such a pleasure.

There is still plenty of time to join in with our challenge for August - entries close midnight on the last day of the month. We'd love to see your entry.

Our July winners ...

 We had some totally delightful entries entries for our July challenge last month - it was such a joy seeing all your wonderful cat and dog layouts. There were some seriously cute furry friends pages!

and our winner by random draw is ..

SHARON ETTWELL

Plus there will be a special "Admin Choice" winner who will receive an invitation to guest with us for our next challenge.

and our winner is:

AMY PRIOR

We would love to have you guest with us in September.

Congratulations to the winners. Can you all please either message me or send an email (www1scrapblog@gmail.com) to claim your prize if I don't already have your details. Please remember it is the winners responsibility to claim their prize and provide postal details. You have until the announcement of the winners in the next month to do so.

Our current challenge is open until the end of the month so you have lots of time to play along with our challenge on our FACEBOOK page. We'd love to see what you can do with our colour combination this month.