Monday, March 1, 2010

and suddenly it was March....

woohoo.


Here we are at THE best month of the year. Why is that i hear you ask!

Why? Because March means RETREAT in any escape2create-ers language!


This month will hopefully inspire your creativity. I am on a month long quest (ok well 26 or so days) to inspire YOU to be more creative and to get the absolute most out of our retreat.

I have a couple of great ideas lined up and all will be revealed over the course of the next few weeks but here are the March challenges.

Amanda's Challenge #1.

I would like you do do a layout using all one colour - or variants of one colour - and then have ONE SINGLE ELEMENT in a contrasting colour. It may be a letter, a flower, a button. Whatever. Just ONE element in a contrasting WOW colour to the rest of the page.


This celebrates the unique-ness of YOU. That one single colour represents you and how you are bringing a special YOU-NESS to our retreat and we are so glad you are coming!

Amanda's Challenge #2.



Unleash your creativity! Yep right now. Unclip it - let it go.

In challenge number two i need you to go to this site


befunky

and choose a photo effect that you like. NO cheating and doing it in photoshop! (be patient as it takes a little while to upload your photo)



you might like to share your finished photo with us, you might like to scrap the finished photo (the print and save option is also free) or you might just like a private fiddle (ooooh!)




This challenge i particularly would like you to think differently about your photos. Use them differently. Pick a different effect than you would normally go for. And finally and most importantly think of how to use your photos differently!





Sue's Sketch


Stay tuned! Sketch coming soon!




Meredith's Challenge.


Don't switch the dial - coming soon to a screen near you.



Colour Challenge


orange and white. Yep. Fresh. Funky. Go.





I don't know if you noticed this in the latest CK but it is here to download free. I love it .... and guess what? It is orange AND white :)



**in the next few days i will post a special retreat challenge. This is for everyone - most particularly the retreat attendees to think about and do in the coming weeks.


Think team building.


Think cool-ness.


Think creativity.


Think yeah, woohoo, e2c here i come !

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great challenges Amanda ! You girls do such a good job of coming up with so many ideas on the blog !
I love your 'befunky' photos, they look very effective ... I'll have to give that one a whirl soon.
I now have a large 'L' shape 'workstation / office desk' at home here in the back of the loungerm and I really hope to make it my 'scrap spot' and get stuck into some serious scrapping for once ! Yay !
Kylie S

Tiff Firth said...

lots of inspo there and wow, more to come!! My cup of creativity will runeth over (I hope)!!

Count down to Retreat now......

sandra said...

WOW girls!
These are BRILLIANT!
Can't wait to have a go!
I have already tried an all white layout... can't wait to give another one a go! (with just a splash of another colour... kewl)
Have already played with the photo challenge...it is SOOOO COOL!
have saved it to favourites already.
and ORANGE! uh oh! trip to the scrapbooking store on the agenda!!
This is really getting me even more revved up for the retreat!
Thanks Girls!

miasmummy said...

Yay, rockin out to Accadacca for now, then retreat inspiration for me!! Love the challenges... lots to think about! x

Maryanne Ridgway said...

wow, some fantastic challenges there to get the creative juices flowing [hopefully mine too.]
amanda love the befunky photo effects,have done a couple already.

Meredith said...

Really really love these challenges and hope to get some mojo soon to try them out! I am keen to try the white and orange too!