Scrap Shanty Challenge Blog

Ultimate Recipe Showdown contest!

Come find out what we have cooking for the month of July! 

We’re not talking Betty Crocker here–we want to put your culinary skills to the test, using your kitchen (scrap space), cookware (tools) and ingredients (scrap supplies).   We’ll provide the recipes, but you’ll need to add the final garnish–your creativity!

The contest will run the entire month of July 2008.  The winner will receive an online gift certificate in the amount of $25.00 USD (online vendor TBA).

 Beginning Tuesday, July 1, each week participants will be given a “recipe” to follow (a list of scrap supplies to use on one layout).   How well you follow that recipe, as well as your skill at combining the ingredients,  will be determined by a weekly vote, with only the top chefs moving on to the next round.

The requirements are pretty simple:  you need to be registered for our message board and have at least 25 posts.  To register, simply go to www.scrapshanty.com and click on “message board” for info.

Paper, digital and hybrid scrappers welcome!!

Please note that this contest does not involve actual food preparation, nor will you be making a book of recipes.

We hope you’ll come join us for a month of fun and to find out if you can stand the heat–or if you need to get out of the kitchen!

Filed by Stinkerbelle at 5:01 pm under Challenges, Digital Scrapping, News, Paper Scrapping, Stash
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Hi there fellow scrappers!!! Here at the Scrap Shanty we started a new schedule and with a new schedule comes a bit of a change for our challenges! We will be having two sketch challenges per month, bi-weekly, to keep those creative juices flowing.

For this week here is a little special sketch from our lovely Brook!!!

http://www.scrapshanty.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=10288 

Here is my go at!

Everything that I am into was in this sketch. The little tidbits, swirlies, small photo, and a good balance of wthite space. I NEVER thought that I would get into white space! Who knew! LOL!!!

Have fun and remember to stop by the Shanty and share your AWESOME creations!!!

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Have you been playing along with us? We are in week three of SYTYCS and Christi our game hostess is giving away a RAK for one lucky person thats participating!

Week three challenge is…

Because June is known for being a month when a lot of weddings are held, this week’s challenge is called “Goin’ to the Chapel!”

You must use:

Something old
Something new
Something borrowed*
Something blue

*you must borrow something from your partner. This could be a title, LO idea, LO design, color scheme, a tool/product if you live close enough IRL or even a photo if your partner would like to email you one.

The choice is up to you, but when you email your entry to me, please let me know what it is that you have borrowed, as well as the old, new and blue items.

Do your best to participate and get your name in the drawing for the RAK!

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OK - here is your first Ad Challenge for June! (This challenge will be alternating with the Sketch challenge each Friday).

Please feel free to get your inspiration however you choose. I treated this ad more as a sketch, but that doesn’t mean you have to. Perhaps the colors inspire you, or the type face used, or just the general arrangement of the elements. I can’t wait to see your creations.

So, without further ado, here is the ad:

And here is a template for digital scrappers to play along:

Come check out the Shanty Board for how some of our Design Team members interpreted this ad!

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This month’s digi-sponsor at the Shanty is A Shade of Blue! Anne has given us two of her latest kits to play with, Lakeside and Summer Sherbet. Here’s a layout I made, using one of Anne’s incredible background papers:

Be sure to stop by the Shade of Blue Gallery on the forum to have a peek at all our pretty layouts that we’ve made with Anne’s fantastic kits!

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Be sure to watch many of the challenges for new lil twists

Starting this month there are some changes…

The LOTW now has a scraplift challenge and is being done bi-weekly

The Ad Challenge is now bi-weekly also

POTW has some new twists also—there will be TWO of them..hehe

one will feature a ’scrappable’ photo challenge. The other will be a technical type photo challenge with photo tips

There are other changes but you will just have to WATCH for them ..hehe

Looking forward to seeing your creations

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A “So you think you can scrap” contest challenge is starting June 1st and going all month long with new challenges every week. Will you make it through to the final round or get voted off? Only the best will win a fabulous prize at the end!

Filed by Christi at 12:06 am under Challenges, Digital Scrapping, News, Paper Scrapping
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We love to show off one another’s works of art! If you didn’t know, we have a Layout of the Week thread every week where anyone can come and post their links to their favorites that they’ve found in the Gallery.

Would you like to stop by and join us in the fun? Here’s this week’s thread: Layout of the Week for May 19th.

Can’t wait to see YOUR favorites!

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This month’s digi-sponsor at the Shanty is mgl Scraps! She gave us her funky-cool new kit, Full Circle, to play with:

Stop by this thread on the forum to have a peek at all our pretty layouts that we’ve made with Monica’s fabulous kit!

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The Shanty will be celebrating NSD with a Cyber Crop! Stop by the Shanty now to sign up for all the fun!

The NSD Cyber Crop will be all about getting back to the roots of scrapping and scrapping “for scraps sake!” We’ll provide the challenges to help you get your creative juices flowing. All you need to do is show up!

Scrapping begins at 12:01 am Wednesday, April 30th and goes through 9pm Wednesday, May 7th.

The Challenges will be:

Chatty Cathy Challenge
No Comment? Not Me! Challenge
Order Up! Challenge
Pick a Card any Card Challenge
Elaine’s Spelling Challenge
The Hillbilly Challenge
And Bingo!

Be sure to stop by so that you can join in all the fun!

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