Archive for the ‘Challenges’ Category

Flip Flop Chelle

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Hi everyone! I’m here to bring you our Flip Flop Challenge for the month of July. This month we’re going to be lifting Chelle (aka Roxxygerlie). You can find here gallery at DST here. Chelle has a gorgeous gallery, full of amazing layouts that are sure to inspire you. I have just a few examples from myself and Helen.

Helen chose to flip this layout by Chelle:

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And, here is Helen’s layout:

Choppers

And, I chose to lift this layout:

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Here’s my layout:

050815-Picking-Blueberries

We would love to see what you come up with when you take one of Chelle’s layouts, flip it, and make it your own. So, go take a look at her gallery and link us up in the comments of this post so we can see what you come up with.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Lydia

Remember when…

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Hi there everyone, I am back for the last Wednesday in April and the last of the Designaversary challenges from me! This time around I thought it might be fun to scrap a page about an anniversary that is special to you… the catch is, it can’t be a wedding anniversary. So pick something fun and scrap about it.

Want some ideas? Try going back and looking at your pictures of what you did a year ago today… or last week… or whenever.

What about the first time you climbed a tree? You could use this kit:

What about the anniversary of your first pet goldfish (or the 3 days later when it died!)

The anniversary of the date that you got your new camera.

or maybe even the time when your kid broke their arm skateboarding.

So there are a few ideas that you could use but feel free to come up with some fun ones on your own. I can’t wait to see what you do – link us back up here on the blog with your finished layout so we can all go and leave some love for your page!

See you in May!

Until next time,

~Lori~

3’s the Magic Number

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Hello again!  Jaedyn here with yet another challenge for you this month!  We’re still celebrating Amanda’s 3rd Designiversary, and in honor of that number, we decided to have a challenge all about 3!

The idea behind this challenge:  3 must be a part of your layout. It would be a 3rd birthday, the number 3, 3 photos, 3 flowers, whatever. Use your thinking caps for this one!  You have 2 weeks (May 10) to link up your layout to the blog (not to Facebook) to be eligible for a prize from Amanda!

To get the ideas flowing, here are a couple examples from Rebecca (Mamabee) and Janie (lady_ponies_23):

Rebecca went a little crazy (lol) and has 3’s ALL over her layout:
3 photos, 3 waves, 3 kits (oopsy Daisy, falling for, and Penelope), 3 pattern papers, 3 solid papers, 3 ribbon bows, 3 buttons, 3 flowers, 3 floral element, 3 tags, 3 alphas (spring fling, penelope, and oopsy daisy), 3 fonts (courier, DJB merry, Harrington), 3 paint smears, 3 word title… WHEW!

Janie’s here is really simple, sweet & to the point, also highlighting 3’s (3 photo strips, 3 word title & an adorable 3 year old!):

So there you have it!  I hope we have a few of you to play along with this challenge – and I hope to see some really fun ideas!  A winner will be picked after May 10 and announced here on the blog!

Also, before you go, I have a little freebie for you!  Seeing that it’s almost May, I thought a desktop was in order!  Just click the image to download – the zip contains 2 sizes so hopefully one fits for you!

Have a great day everyone!!

Want to Win Wednesday?

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Hello everyone, I hope that your April is going well so far. It is hard to believe that it is the middle of the month already! Time sure flies when you are having fun! And here is another way to have some fun for this Designiversary month… who is up for a contest where you can win BIG?

What fun is a party without games? Here is one from me – Designiversary Scavenger Hunt. On the image below are 12 blocks, each block contains a bit from one of Amanda’s kits. I need you to take a peek, figure out what kit they come from and then email the answers numbered 1 to 12 to this address amandaheimanndesigns@gmail.com

From all the correct answers one random winner will win a $15 GC to Amanda’s Scrap Orchard Store. You might want to take a browse through her store anyway just in case you get stuck and need a hand figuring out a block or two or you want to add something to your wish list! You have until Monday night April 19th, 2010 at midnight E.S.T to get your answers in. Then I will get them checked and post the winner next week when I am back on Wednesday! Good Luck to you all!

Time For A New…

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Guess what?  We’re bringing back the Flip-Flop challenge!  It’s been a while since our last one, but its back, and here to stay!

For March, we’re lifting one of our long-time team members – Janie.  Her gallery is amazing.  She is one of those scrappers who can go back and forth between heavy layered pages to simple and clean.  And she makes it look effortless.  And she is super sweet too!

Here are some of my favorite pages from her GALLERY:

For those of you unfamiliar with this challenge – it’s simple!  Pick a layout in Janie’s gallery, and flip-flop it.  Lift it any way that inspires you – but you must rotate it or mirror it in some way.  When you are finished, please post a comment with a link.  You never know – you just might win something :).

This is a month long challenge, so you have until Wednesday, March 31 to get your layout complete and linked back here!  Have fun!

~ Jaedyn ~

Want a FREE kit??

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Want a chance to win a free kit of your choice*?  Who doesn’t???  I know I love a chance to win something (I never win – I have the worst luck, lol).

So here’s the deal.  I made you a template… all you have to do is download it, and use it however you want.  Spin it, shrink it, change it… it doesn’t matter.  Then leave a comment with a link to your layout (please use some AHD products, but it doesn’t have to be 100%), and I will use a random number generator to pick a winner in 2 weeks (February 15th).

So here you go – click the image to download:

Want to see what the CT did with this?  I love all their layouts – it shows how versatile a template really is!

Janie flipped and shrunk her elements to give more white space:

Kelly created this gorgeous, soft layout – notice how she changed the photo!

Trina made this SUPER cute one – I love how she used one large element (the boat) in place of the 3 like in the template:

Vicki’s is so bright and fun!  She flipped hers so she could use a portrait style photo and she used a circle journalling spot in place of the 2nd photo:

Linz created this one, incorporating her signature clustering style into the template (which is gorgeous don’t you think?):

Here’s one from Bernadette, who also chose to flip the template on its side to accomodate her adorable photo:

Stephanie used Amanda’s new kit, Penelope, to make her pretty page:

Thank you girls for making so many fun pages to show off!!  And I can’t wait to see what you, Amanda’s awesome fans, create with this!  Have fun!!

* Please note that the kit to be won will be a solo kit – sorry, no collabs.

~ Jaedyn ~

“Sneaking” In!

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Hi there everyone, I am sneaking in to hijack the blog for a few minutes and give you all a little sneakie peak of Amanda’s new kit Penelope that will be hitting the shelves at Scrap Orchard this weekend. Take a look at this gorgeous kit!

Penelope

Penelope

And you know what – since I am here and taking over I am going to go a little wilder still… leave me a comment here on the blog telling me how badly you need this kit, make sure your email address is included and I will pick one random winner to give it to FREE! Now you can’t beat that can you!

Have a good night everyone!

~Lori~

Wonderful Wednesday!

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Hi everyone, It is Lori here again! It feels like I have been missing in action the last few weeks with all of the activity going on. I don’t know about you but lately I have had trouble getting out of my own way! So I thought that it might be nice to be able to sit down and relax and scrap a bit. But what happens when you sit in front of your screen and can’t come up with any ideas? One thing that I like to do is lift someone else’s layout. I get great inspiration from other people’s work, especially if I am feeling blah with the ideas myself.

So I took a look at Amanda’s gallery and I found this gorgeous layout by bre11414. She used Amanda’s kit, Snow Peeps, that she made with Suzy Q Scraps. Didn’t this turn out beautifuly!

I love whitespace layouts and this one definately got me wanting to scrap. And if the kids cooperate that is definately what is going to happen tonight and the first thing that I am going to do is lift this gorgeous layout. And my challenge to you is to do the same thing. Take this layout and lift it. Pick something about it that inspires you and go with it.  Show us here – leave us a comment and one lucky winner will win a wonderful prize.

And what might that be you ask… well that brings me to the second thing that inspires me when I have lost all my mojo. A really good template and no one makes them better than Amanda. Take a look at this gorgeous new template pack that will be available on Friday! You are all getting a  bit of a sneak peek today!

So how can you pass up the opportunity to win this!  You can’t!

Scrap, Post and take a chance! I can’t wait to see what you come up with to inspire the rest of us!

Until next time!

~Lori~

We Have A Winner!!!

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Last week I issued a super easy challenge for a chance to win a $5 GC to Amanda’s store, with the promise I would be back today with a winner.

Well, the wait is over!  I used a random number generator to keep it fair, and this is what it gave me:

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The post that lines up with this number is Amber!!  Congrats Amber!  We will be sending you an email soon with your GC to the store!!

~ Jaedyn ~

Customer Spotlight and A Challenge!!

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Happy Wednesday everyone!!  Jaedyn here with another layout to show off!  I was browsing through the gallery today to see what was new (and is there ever a LOT of inspiration in there!  Go take a look – you’ll be itching to scrap!).  Anyways, during my browsing I kept coming back to this layout by Leah (girlygirl), just to stare at it, lol.

You know, most of us get caught up in a “buy/use all the new stuff” rut, and forget that we have awesome goodies in our stash from awhile back.  I know that in my stash I have older goodies that haven’t even been used yet!!  What caught my eye about this layout was the fact that it used a kit that Amanda released quite awhile ago – back in March or April I believe.

So I got to thinking (not always a good thing, haha!), and I would LOVE to see some new layouts in the gallery using Amanda’s older products!  And to sweeten the deal, I will give away a $5 GC to Amanda’s store (not to be used on collabs)  to one lucky participant!

RULES:
~ NEW layouts – no old, un-uploaded layouts please. Lets keep this fair.
~ Upload your layouts to Scrap Orchard, into Amanda’s gallery
~ Leave us a comment here in this post with a link to your layout by November 17.  I will announce the winner on November 18.

Have a great day everyone!

~ Jaedyn ~