BOOTCAMP

BOOTCAMP

How did you go with the last bootcamp? Hopefully we inspired you to scrap up a storm!

Here are 3 fabulous sketches from Becky at Pagemaps for your design inspiration this month: 

 

  We have also included a fabulous colour palette courtesy of Jessica at Design-seeds.com.

The colour palette we have chosen this month represents summer loving colours...if you live on the eastern side of Australia you will have not really experienced a "normal" summer this year...in Sydney we have had the coolest summer in something like 40 odd years! But...we are now into February and summer has finally decided to show it's face...not as hot as usual but sunny days, at least, have finally arrived. 

                                        Sky       Pool     Lagoon     Straw      Spiced Pumpkin
  

We have labelled the colours above with the best match of cardstock we have for sale in our online store...you can click each colour for the online shopping cart.

Create a layout using all or some of these five colours. Think about the use of cardstock, patterned papers and embellishments...raid your stash or see what we have at the shop to represent these gorgeous summery colours.

Theme Ideas: The first one is SUMMER! But have you also thought of doing layouts about...wild weather, swimming, at the beach, theme park fun or even what you read over the summer holidays!

From now on Bootcamp will comprise of sketches, theme ideas, a quote and a colour palette...we have decided to keep it to this simple collection each month so you know what to expect...we hope this collection of ideas will inspire you to not only complete layouts but also think outside the square or even do something a little different!

Don't forget we would love to see layouts...you can upload them to our gallery or email them to us for us to upload!

Happy Scrapping!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a great new year break and are ready to start another creative year!

This year is the year of NEW....

- Classes at a NEW venue...McGraths Hill Community Centre, 1 Philip Place McGraths Hill
- May retreat at a NEW venue...Juniors on Hawkesbury...can't wait!
- NEW Competitions...first one starts 1 February 2012...just a week away! Check 'Competition' tab on the website for details.
- NEW inspiration...Bootcamp starts next week...hope you can join in our online challenges to keep you motivated and working through your projects...Yippee!
- NEW subscription kits for scrapbookers, card makers and mixed media artists!
- NEW Year in Review classes...one in person at McGraths Hill and another in kit form.
-A NEW Copic Marker Instruction kit for you to learn to use these fabulous markers for your creative projects!
- NEW tips and techniques here on our blog...

It is a NEW year and we have a reNEWed passion to bring you exciting things this year...please check back regularly to see what is happening in the Creatively Inspired world!

PS...we have just put a followers link on this blog so scroll down the right hand side and join us to follow our blog and be notified of any updates :)

What an adventure our October weekend retreat turned out to be...the venue we were booked into fell through 2 weeks before due to new owners who decided that we couldn't rent the hall 24/7 but had to pack up ALL our stuff at 11.30pm to then haul it all back in again at 8am each morning! A retreat where we cannot create all day and night...well we said forget it!

Then the panic set in....

We had all the ladies booked and raring to go so we spent that day and evening on the internet and phone to find most venues booked but we eventually found somewhere that would fit us all in...just!

So...emails were sent out...the ladies rallied around and really supported our new venue decision and it ended up (once again) being a fabulous retreat!

The Pink and Pearls came out on Saturday night after great company and a meal with everyone at the restaraunt.
      
We followed this with bubbly and a chocolate fountain...strawberries and marshmallows dipped in chocolate...YUM who could resist!

Queen Louise won the dress up comp and the Scrap Pack Challenges were won by Alison and Bec who were both new to a Creatively Inspired retreat.

Lisa gets special mention for scrapping through both Friday and Saturday nights again...and once again we wondered how she did it!!

We once again had some fabulous new products in the shop and

Scrappy gave out plenty of awesome prizes as usual!

All in all we had a fantastic time...we made some new friends, caught up with some old ones, scrapped really great pages, made some wonderful cards and came away with fabulous memories...can't wait to do it all again next year in May!