* DT call * January - June 2017

It's that time of the year:
we are accepting applications for our next term.
If you love to be inspired by songs and want to inspire others with your works, we are looking for you!

What are we looking for? 

Creative people from all over the world that make pretty paper projects inspired by songs: we love scrapbookers, art journalers, tag-ers, ATC-ers, card makers, altered artists. You make them all? Good! You make only one kind of paper craft? Good as well! As long as you love to play with paper, glue and all the other pretty stuff and like to tell people about it, you’re good! 
Previous DT experience is not required!
We have a Facebook group for the DT, so you need to have a Facebook account to stay in communication with us. 
You need to know English at a quite good level: we are an Italian based blog with international DT and readers, so you need to write post and comment in English. 

SIWAS Design Team Requirements:
Commit to a 6 month term: January 1st – June 30, 2016.
Complete a project a month (challenges are posted on our private group 2-3 months in advance with due dates).
Make an additional project during your term: it can be a step by step tutorial, a video, whatever you like.
Visit challenge participants blogs and leave comments.
Maintain an active and updated blog.
Post our challenges, events, and your projects on your blog on reveal day and link back to the SIWAS Blog.
Promote SIWAS challenges and events on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Display the SIWAS “Design Team badge” on your blog.  
Actively participate in one blog hop or event during the term.  
Have a Facebook account: our Design Team Group is on FB and that is how we communicate with the team.
You must be able to take quality pictures and write up a short post about your projects.

During your term you will decide one challenge: we will assign you a month and it will be your duty to choose both pop and rock song for the challenge and send a little prize to the winner.

Benefits:
A link to your blog and your photo will be displayed on the SIWAS blog.
You will be a part of a group of fun loving drama free designers!
No compensation is given but occasionally you could work with sponsor products and you will receive a little DT "thank you" package at the end of your term from Giorgia - SIWAS owner.

Dates To Remember:

Submissions will be taken until:  November 26, 2016

Submissions selected will be notified via email: November 28, 2016

New Design Team will be announced:  December 28, 2016

New Design Reveals: January 1st ~ January 15, 2017

If you would love to be part of our group, please send the following information by November 26 at: scrapitwithasong  at  gmail.com  - Please put "SIWAS DT call" on email object:

• First and Last Name, Email Address and Location
• Blog or website URL
• Any other sites/gallery where you show off your work
• FB link
• Are you currently on other creative teams? If yes, where?
• What type of project do you like to create the most? 
• Please write 1 -2 short paragraphs letting us know a little about you 
• Do you make videos? Please share your Youtube channel
• Please include any links or pictures of specific projects you don’t want us to miss! 

Christmas cards

Hello crafty friends,

Marie-Christine with you today!

It's time to make your Christmas Cards. Sometimes, I have no idea what color to choose, so I go to the web in search of an image that pleases and inspires me.

Let's go!!!

I found this one, love the colors, silver, aqua and green with some glitter.

For my first card, I used Distress ink for the background, a snowflakes stencil, some sequins and embossed dies cut with silver powder.

For the second, I used Brushos for the background and a beautiful stamp that I colored with Tim Holtz Distress Markers and some  Bo Bunny Silver Pearlescents.

I hope I have given you inspiration!

Marie-Christine

October video tutorial

Hello to all! It's me Maya here with a video tutorial of my mixed media card "Dark Elegance" for you!

I'm on the rock team, and our October song is "Dark Necessities" by The Red Hot Chili Peppers. You can see more song interpretations from our DT members on the October 1st reveal and the mid-month reveal. Like the lyrics mentioned on the song, "Dark necessities are part of my design", I used black and purple color to interpret the mysterious feeling as felt in the song. 

Here are some more close ups.

Also, this is the how-to video of how I created the card. Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you gained some inspiration from my video and our team reveals. There are still two weeks to enter our October challenge. Come to join for some fun and prizes! Looking forward to discovering your takes. : )

October 15 and time for the second half of our design team to show their stuff!

Hey all you spooks and goblins are you enjoying cool weather and the leaves falling?  Are you making trips to the pumpkin patch and making pumpkin pies?  I am enjoying the cooler weather but I haven't made any pies.  Sssh my pies come from the grocery store!!!  Well it is time for our second half of the design team to show you some more inspiration with the pop and rock songs for this month.

 POP SONG

Rihanna - Mad House

ROCK SONG

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Dark Necessities

Lets see what the Pop Chicks have for your Inspiration:

Sharon

The song started with some creepy scary music and that is how it inspired me to make this layout of my granddaughter and her halloween costume from last year.  She was a creepy cat.


Melody

I went totally off the MAD in the title from the pop song! Mad Maddox didn't like his shades on this morning so his daddy is holding them down while MiMi got a quick phone snapshot! I am happy to have finally got to use some gesso...see the arrow? Used a stencil and had lots of fun with this layout. ~go to my blog for more details-thx! and, Happy Fall Y'all!!~


Lauren

My brother has a Halloween party and haunted house every year, so I used the title mad house for these photos.



Lets see what the Rock Chicks have for your Inspiration:

Monia

This layout measuring 6x6 starring this beautiful friend's photo of the hills of Bologna ... the dawn of a new day dispels darkness :)

Elisabetta

Hello to all, here I am with my work of the month: I chose a stamp with a sad girl that fitted the theme of this month. It felt that sadness and darkness was perfect. I hope you like it!

Maya

Hello to all! Today I'm sharing with you my mixed media card that was inspired by our October rock song: like the lyrics mentioned on the song, "Dark necessities are part of my design", I used black and purple color to interpret the mysterious feeling as felt in the song. Please come back here on 18th at Scrap It With a Song for a video process to discover how I created this card. : )

Now lets talk about prizes.  

• If we have at least seven (7) entries our wonderful permanent sponsorAvec Les Mains will furnish a voucher worth  €7 from their online store.  They have some wonderful digital papers. 

  

• The design team will pick their favorite project and she or he will be asked to be our guest designer on our blog in an upcoming month. The winner will also receive this awesome prize donated by DT member Monia:

• One random winner will win this lovely prize donated by DT member Marie- Christine:

            

Link up your project(s) in the linky tool on top right of the blog to be in the running to win! 
Remember that on the 18th Maya will share a video tutorial to make her beautiful card!

Hello to our October guest designer

This month we are very happy to welcome Lizzy Hill as our guest designer! She made a wonderful layout based on our rock song for October "Dark Necessity" by Red Hot Chili Peppers (you can see October challenges here).

Let's meet Lizzy:
"Hi! I’m thrilled to be Guest Designer for Scrap it With a Song this month!
My name is Lizzy Hill. I come from the Central Coast, NSW in Australia & I’m addicted to scrapbooking. Aren’t we all? But it’s a good addiction ‘cos it means you get to meet wonderful peeps, go in awesome challenges & sometimes get featured like today!
I started scrapping around 7 years ago. I tend to like strong colours and elements, but I’ll have a go at anything, because most of all I love to challenge myself to do stuff I don’t normally do. And I’m perfectly happy making cards, layouts, Project Life or Happy Mail!
I’m currently on a few scrap challenge teams and have been published in some scrap mags, all of which I enjoy immensely. Feel free to check out my blog. My blog is at  & I tend to blog every couple of days, because I’m a bit of a ‘serial’ scrapper. Besides, I’ve 2 grown boys, 3 little grand boys & a VERY extended family of ‘steps’ that provide me with plenty of scrappy ‘fodder’.

I hope my page gives you some inspiration for this month’s challenge!"

 I took inspiration from some of the words in the song: 'Go', 'Deep at Play' and 'World at your command'. To me, they fitted beautifully with my step Grand Girls who decided, whilst at the local play ground to play 'models' and used the sand pit platform for their 'cat walk'!!!
Lizzy

Thank you so much Lizzy for being with us again, we all love your colorful works!
If you would like the chance to be our guest designer in the future, go se our October challenges: maybe you could be our pick for next month!

Blog hop winners

Last month we had a blog hop, to remember two great artists, Prince & David Bowie.
Thanks to everyone who hopped with us from blog to blog and left a comment, and thanks to those who made a project inspired by the songs chosen by DT.
We hope you all had fun and inspiration!

So, these are our blog hop winners:

•   Julene you are the commenter winner! You won a gift card of €7 kindly donated by our sponsor Avec les mains:

• Rita you are our random prize winner with your cute layout:

You won this prize donated by DT Astrid:

Please all winners contact Giorgia at scrapitwithasong at gmail.com Remember that you have 2 weeks to claim your prize!