Artz de Scrap would like to wish you a Happy New Year! May 2008 bring Joy and Happiness to us all!

Artz de Scrap wishes all our Scrappers A Blessed

Welcoming our Newly Appointed DTs

Let's welcome our newly appointed Designers on
Artz de Scrap

Nathalie Jane Lopez

"I'm Nathalie Jane 'Cabbie" Lopez from Manila, Philippines. I'm married with 4 active boys at large. I'm a physician by profession but chose to be with my kids for the meantime. I love to create anything under the sun and i go for the classic, vintage and aged look though I like to experiment with different techniques too. Last october 2007, I am honored to be chosen as the first Scrappinmoms Idol ( a local challenge for scrapbookers). I am also a DT member for Scrapbookshawaii ( a store in the Philippines and Hawaii). "

Felicia Ow

"Hello hello! I'm Felicia from Singapore, (you can call me feli too!). I'm a Uni student who started scrapping in January this year. But my love for handicraft has started way before that.. Scrapbooking is something i'd always love. Altering to me is really fun cos practically everything can be used. I'm so excited to be part of Artz de Scrap and I hope to inspire and be inspired by all the altered projects that will be coming up! My ideas come from everywhere. Like on my inspiration board, Creativity comes from just being myself and the materials I used!!"

Do Come back on 1st Jan to check on our Jan Challenge!
Merry X'mas & Happy New Year

Dec-Jan 07 Inspirational Scrapper

Artz de Scrap's Chosen Inspirational Scrapper for December 07 is

Lesley Langdon

Lesley has been scrapping in one way or another for many years. She is a designer for Cornish Heritage Farms and Scraptivity Kit Club. Lesley loves being creative, forcing herself to use what she has at her fingertips. She believes that anything goes in scrapbooking, do what's best to remember what is important to you. She lives in Canada with her husband and 2 children.

Tutorial #1

Christmas Gift Bag with Card

Do you love to make your own personalized wrapping for gifts? Try this!!!
Its easy, and creative project to dress up ordinary paper gift bags.
Pull out your backgrounder stamps, ink, lace, ribbons, buttons, cardstock, and whatever you have to make a personalized gift bag.

Lesley is planning on using red stickles to write the gift recipient's name on the stocking.

The stocking decoration on the front is actually a card that opens on the left, and you can put your personal greetings inside.

Final Step - Step 7 - add ribbons to the gift bag handles

Supplies:

Prism Paper
3 Bugs and Cosmo Cricket Paper
Backgrounder Stamp: Ticking by Cornish Heritage Farms
Acrylic stamps: Cherry Arte, Gel-a-tins
Shimmering Mist
Adirondack Ink
VersaColor Ink
Prima Marketing Inc Lace and Ric Rac Ribbon
Other Ribbon Unknown
Buttons
Making Memories Snowflake Brads

And....these are our take on the tutorial

Liza's Gift Bag

Wati's Gift Bag

We would love to see your take on this tutorial
Do share it with us, email us at artzdescrap@yahoo.com.sg
Happy Altering!!!

These are our scrapper's take on the tutorial

Challenge #1 Submissions - Inspiration Boards

Feast your eyes on these WONDERFUL and AWESOME Inspiration Boards made by our scrappers

Inspiration Board - Challenge #1

Are you ready for Artz de Scrap's first Challenge?

The first challenge will be for you to show us your board of inspiration. This can also be your current board (be it a corkboard, clipboard, poster board, canvas etc) where you would put up all your favourite photos, embellies, cutouts etc to draw inspirations to scrap from it (the board can be of any size).

Here are ours

Liza's Inspiration Board

"This is my inspiration board. I get my inspiration to scrap from my son's photos. I love all things that blings (as you can see here)! I also love beautiful flowers and cutouts. The centre piece is my son's artwork that I really love."

Wati's Inspiration Board

"I just have to put Adam & Chris pics..who are my muse, my source of inspiration and my common subjects for all my layouts.
Having my favourite stash... flowers & buttons on it is just so convenient! I even have a bag of all the photos that I need to scrap on it...as they somehow elevate my mojo, like my travel pics...just by looking at them reminds me of the great time that I had, and it eases my mind thinking about it."

Do you already have it?
Then quick go take a photo of it! Show us what inspires you!

Don't have it yet?
No problem......this will be the perfect time to create one!

Email a picture of your board to us by the 31st of Dec 07 and we will choose the lucky winner to receive a RAK!

DT Call

We are looking for talented scrappers who love to alter items and just can't stop thinking of altering when looking at something.

You would need to submit to us your inspiration board as in the 1st Challenge and a previous mini book that you have done before.

Only for DT submissions, pls submit by the 15th of Dec 07 (Midnight Eastern time) via email to artzdescrap@yahoo.com.sg

The newly appointed DTs will be announced on the 20th of Dec 07 here at Artz De Scrap.

We can't wait to receive all of your lovely submissions.


Sneak Peek of our 1st Tutorial


Do check back here on the 15th of Dec 07 for this Gorgeous Project and a wonderful tutorial by our chosen Inspirational Scrapper.

Welcome to Artz de Scrap

Are you a scrapper who likes to alter all things beautifully? Looking for unique artistic ideas as well as everyday, accessible projects that makes great gifts for friends and family? If your answer is YES, YES and YES, then you've come to the right Blog!!!
Here at Artz de Scrap we are dedicating this site to inspire Scrappers through all the different altering techniques available and we will be sharing all the beautiful and unique creations by our scrappers.

How are we different?
At Artz de Scrap, we not only challenge you to be creative, we even sometimes supply you with the alterable items FREE! Yes! FREE! Including postage!!! Now doesn't that sounds good? For a start,all FREE alterable items are only limited to the first 6 (six) scrappers who register and email us their particulars after the challenge opens.

Challenges
All Challenges are open to everyone (International and Local Scrappers)
Challenges will be posted on every 1st of the month. Each challenge will comprise of a particular item and a theme. Our DTs will chose the most creative work and the chosen scrapper will be given a RAK on the last day of the month. We look forward to seeing all of your beautiful creations!

Inspirational Scrappers
We will also be featuring tutorials from our chosen Inspirational Scrappers on the 15th of every month.
During the tutorials you will be guided with step by step instructions for altering.
You will be amazed by the endless possibilities of it all!!!


Calling for Designers

We are looking for talented Scrappers to be part of this inspirational group for a period of 6 months.

You will receive the following

- Recognition and Exposure

- All alterable items for the Challenges for the next 6 months.

- A RAK as a token of appreciation from Artz de Scrap.

So, do come back here on the 1st of Dec for more details!

Get to Know Us

Hello! I am Liza Yet from Singapore and am a full time working mom to my 3 Year old. I have been scrappin for 3 over years now and am absolutely glad that I picked up this hobby as I have met a lot of wonderful scrappers! I started altering not long ago and am absolutely loving it! I hope that we will all be able to learn, share and create together at Artz de Scrap!

Hei! I'm Wati from Singapore. A full time working mom, trying to find every single available time to scrap. Mu muse, is my son Adam who is 20 months old. Started scrappin last year and idea of altering came a few months later. From that moment onwards, there is no turning back! Trying to find inspiration to alter every single thing that I see. Hoping that with Artz de Scrap, we can see more alter projects from more talented scrappers. The idea is endless!