Thursday, June 19, 2008

a new challenge....and some changes

Firstly congratulations to Jenny for her win! What great luck to be pulled out of the hat by Sue's gorgeous little helper! We hope you enjoy your prize pack!

Apologies to Amy who sent me her entry yesterday but i didn't check my emails until the wee hours of the morning as i was out all day and at meetings at night. Sorry Amy.

Also a note to all that i cannot stitch your scanned images together - sorry if that sounds grumpy but i am finding it very difficult to manage my time at the moment with so much going on.

The next bit of news is in relation to the prizes. So far the prizes have come from a few sources; donated from individuals, scrap stores, and from our retreat prize pool. Because of this we have decided to have a monthly prize instead of a weekly prize. If we continue to use our retreat goodies that we use as giveaways over the weekend, come next year and we will have very little if anything left. And we want to be able to give fantastic prizes away on the retreat too!!!

So for every challenge you go in on the blog your name will go into the hat for the monthly draw. If you do all 4 weekly challenges then you have 4 names in the hat. 4 times the chance of winning if you know what i mean!

We hope you understand and will continue to be involved in our challenges.

Ok so this weeks challenge is - to be inspired by your environment!
A little while back Meredith posted a fantastic example of how a cereal box inspired her to make a page using the same sort of layout used on the cereal box. It was brilliant! I have also showed how i used a magazines table of contents page to help with the layout of a page.

See what you can see around your home and use it to influence a page. Not just a colour etc but the whole thing - how elements are placed and how you can translate that to a page.

T-shirts are great sources of inspiration!

This sort of thing is all around you. Look with fresh eyes at advertising, food packaging and music clips - anything!!!

Send your entries to me WITH a photo of your source of inspiration!

I hope you can be invovled in this one :)

Stay tuned for some exciting retreat news

2 comments:

sandra said...

Oh wow....what a challenge! It will be very interesting to see what kind of layouts you are going to get...
As for the prizes, I think that is a great idea... I am sure that most of us do not participate for the prizes anyway... they are just a nice bonus... but not necessary..
I get a buzz from seeing all the entries and learning from them..
Well I am off to check out the pantry, magazines and wardrobes..
Hey I could kill two birds with one stone and tidy them up while I go!!!...... nah!

Anonymous said...

Yep, me too. I like doing a LO with some of the thinking already done!! and it is great to see everyone elses interpretation.
Karen D