Lottie Loves Paper

Thursday, 19 April 2012

Monthly Challenge 4 (April/May)

A huge thank you to everyone who entered last month! The prize winner and our Top 3 will be announced shortly!

So, onto challenge No: 4 (April/May)

Please remember to check out the monthly challenge rules on the tab at the top of this blog, before entering. We have tried to keep our rules fairly straightforward and fair to all who join in.

A quick reminder:

Your entry may be a card, scrapbook layout or any other papercraft project.
Please link directly to your post & not a general link to your blog.
You may combine your entry with other challenge(s)

No more than 3 entries per person please.

You must mention and include a link back to the challenge in your entry post.

No back linking please - new work only.

Please ensure your work is your own and not copied.

One random entry will win a prize. The winner must contact me by e mail to receive their prize. A few of our favourites will also be selected to be featured on this blog!

The final (& most important rule) is to have fun!!

Challenge # 4

Our theme this month is: Favourites

Just a few ideas to get you started ... You could create a layout on "My favourite things" "Favourite Place" "Favourite Food".
Use your favourite technique, a favourite photograph or how about a favourite colour? Dig out your favourite stamp or punch!
Have you been hoarding a favourite sheet of paper that is just soo nice you've been saving it ... go find it and USE it!!

Closing date for entries is: 16th May at 1pm.

One random winner will win a "mystery prize" !!!

If you need some more inpiration take a look at the samples from our amazing DT.

If you want to see more of their work, just click on their name to visit their blog.

Louise

Louise .... "I used used my favourite paper (one I've been hoarding for a while!!) and favourite photos."

Supplies include: Jenni Bowlin memo stickers and tags, scraps of patterned paper from MME Lost & Found Two collection.

Lisa-Jane

Lisa-Jane .... "Lots of my favourites here .... paper I had been hoarding from my fave manufacturer October Afternoon. I also used my favourite bunting punch and the photos were taken in one of our favourite places - Beaulieu, and everything is edged with my favourite distress ink pad - Vintage Photo."

Jennifer

Jennifer .... "I've got a lot of favourites on this page - beach photos are my favourite to scrapbook with, my favourite colour is the turquoise blue shade of the MME woodgrain paper and I've used some favourite techniques of painting, machine stitching, and scattering gems/brads."

Supplies include: MME Kraft Funday Good times paper, MME Miss Caroline favorite madras paper and cute brads, Glitz Teeny teeny alphas, Prima pearls and crystals.

Jenny

Jenny .... "I've gone for favourite stamp Puff Heart Dragon from Whiff of Joy and my favourite colour turquoise!!"

Supplies include: MME lost & found two papers, all edged in Tattered Rose distress ink and lots of crystal stickles.

I hope the DT projects inspire you!

Please remember to link directly to your project and not just your blog and to include a link back to the challenge.

Also, just a quick mention about blogger's word verification thingy ... we do try and visit every entry so it would be helpful if you could consider taking the word verification off your blog (if you have it!) as this would enable us to visit and comment much quicker!! My eyes go funny deciphering the letters!!! Thanks!

If you do not have a blog, please e mail your entry to me at sarah@sjpapercrafts.co.uk and I'll upload it for you.

We look forward to seeing your "favourites"!!!

Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Simple Recipe - For Uk Scrappers!

Each month over on UK Scrappers a sponsor is setting the Simple Recipe Challenge.

S J Crafts were delighted to be invited to "cook up" the recipe for April!!

The aim of Simple Recipes is to give you a starting point to kick off your creative time. Often, when we sit down to scrap, actually getting started is the first hurdle we come to, so the recipes are designed to give you a helping hand to pick out your papers and get started.

Each month's recipe has a colour scheme and some "added ingredients" to help you put your supplies together. There's samples and sketches too and of course you can take as much or as little from each recipe as you like.

As Spring seems to be here (hopefully!) I came up with a colour combination full of spring colours!

The added ingredients for April are:

To use stickers as part of your design and feature twine, wool or thread!!

April's recipe can be downloaded in full from here - it has lots more ideas for using up stickers and twine, a sketch to work from and shows how my layout came together!!

Supplies: kraft cardstock, MME Miss Caroline papers, Echo Park This & That Chipboard, twine, Cosmo Cricket yellow tiny alpha stickers, Prima pearls, AC thickers letter, brads.

If you do use the recipe to create a layout we'd love to see .... upload your layout to your blog and link us up in the comments so we can stop by!!

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

SPRING SALE!!!

Our Spring Sale is Now On!!

Many items are reduced by 25% and some are 50% off!!!

Check out our SALE HERE !!!!

Don't forget P & P is free on orders of £20 or more!

Monday, 9 April 2012

Challenge 2 - Winners and Top 3

Hi everyone

I am so sorry for the very late posting of the Top 3 and the prize winner from our 2nd challenge.

We had an amzing 82 entries, so many beautiful flowers and red and pink in abundance!!

Using random generator the winner of the My Minds Eye Howdy Doody 6" x 6" pad is:

Number 6 !!! That's Jack with this cute card:

Jack, please e mail me at sarah@sjpapercrafts.co.uk to claim your prize!!!

With so many gorgeous entries it was tough choosing a Top 3 but with a little help from DT member, Jenny we eventually came to a decision and our Top 3 entries (in no particular order) are:

No: 71 Suzie McFloozy