Announcing Scrap it With a Song DT January 2016 - June 2016

Hello friends
How are you?
It's time to announce the new SIWAS DT, but first of all let me thank so much those who applied to be part of our group!

So, this is the SIWAS Design Team for January - June 2016:

Giorgia

Hello there, my name is Giorgia - a.k.a. Jò in Wonderland - I'm 33 and I'm Italian.

I' m the owner of SIWAS blog.

I scrap from 5 years: I love playing with papers and all those lovely embellishments, colors and preserving memories.

I mostly make layouts, but I' m trying some cards and off the page projects too.
Scrapbooking is my happy place!

I'm actually on Scrap it With a Song DT, Paper House Productions DT, FabScraps DT, The Robin's Nest DT and CreaFamily DT.

Tynke

Hello, I am Tynke, 33 years old (or young, whatever you want). I am SIWAS blog and DT coordinator.
I live in the very North of the Netherlands in a small town. 

I've been cardmaking since I was a child, I did it always with my grandmother. I discovered scrapping about 9 years ago, but it became my favorite hobby when I joined a panel vor North-Dutch Scrappers 5 years ago. My style is colorful, I like to experiment with different materials. Since October 2013 I joined the SIWAS team, and I like it very much! I hope our work inspires you to join our current challenge and all the challenges that may come!

Sharon

My name is Sharon and I have been married for 42 years to the man of my dreams and my best friend.  We have a daughter and a son that are both grown and out on their own. Our daughter has given us two beautiful grandchildren.  A boy age 20 and a girl age 11.  I scrap my family and our travels.  My family loves looking at my scrapbooks. I have been scrapping now for close to 20 years.  I usually scrap clean linear type layouts.  I have been trying to do more layering and using some mixed media products too.  I love music and was very interested in joining the team here at SIWAS.  Such an interesting perspective to scrap with ideas from songs whether it is lyrics or just the way the music makes you feel.  Anything can be used for inspiration and I hope it will improve my layouts and also help inspire others too. I am very honored to be chosen to work with the wonderful ladies on this team.

Monia 

Hello everybody, I'm Monia Fiocchi, I'm 37, I live in Bologna - Italy.

I am part of SIWAS DT from a long time and I hope to continue with this awesome blog!

I began with scrapbooking 4 years ago and I love to experiment and try new techniques of this amazing hobby.

I found out that music can inspire a lot of wonderful scrapbooking projects and I love to inspire you with mines!

Astrid

Hello, my name is Astrid and I am from The Netherlands. I'm on SIWAS DT since September 2013 and I am still in love with music as inspiration for scrapbooking.

I began scrapping in 2004 when I bought a scrapbooking magazine,  I became more interested in scrapbooking in 2006 when my son was born and a new passion was born too, lol.

In the last few months I'm experimenting with paint, watercolor and stamps . I love trying new techniques.

We have a lot of fun challenges for you here and we hope to see you play along.

 Marie-Christine

I am a French woman who lives in Brittany in France, married and mother to teenager boy. When I am not working, I love to scrap. I have always been creative, but I really started scrapbooking a few years ago when two friends of mine showed me their scrapbooking work. I love to work with a lot of papers, stickers, ink and others embellishments. I don't have my own style, I like to do different things. I am so happy now to join "Scrap It With A Song" Design Team. To see more my work, visit my blog "L'Encre Et Scrap".

  Aya

My name is Aya Alsheshtawy.

I am 27 years old married and I have Mariam 1.9 year.

I am Egyptian but i born and lived in Saudi Arabia . I have master degree in educational psychology.

NowIi am the assistance of the head of CS and AMCS departments in KAUST.

I started scrapbooking 2013 and i love it so much .

This is myYoutube channel.

I will share a video tutorial here on SIWAS on day 18th of each month!

Melody

Hello, I'm Melody.  I consider myself a graphic artist with a MBA in Marketing. When our 5 children were younger, I cross-stitched, did a bit of sewing, painted t-shirts and sold wood cut-outs at an antique mall booth.  Since operating my own antique mall for 5 years, I learned to lay ceramic tile as well as acid stain cement. I acquired some great antique and architectural pieces and now have Rent My Vintage, an event styling business, mostly decorating for weddings. My husband of 28 years and I are enjoying being grandparents (in May of 2016-we will have 7 grandkids), and currently I babysit our 5 year old grandson. A good learning experience was a 100-page commissioned scrapbook for Miss Rodeo New Mexico that was completed in 90 days! Next up is a digital swim team scrapbook. I'm looking forward to being a part of Scrap It With A Song and hope you all have fun scrapping along.   

                                                                                 

We want to thank our leaving DT members Carolyn,  Kicka and  Brittany and wish them all the best. Thanks girls, you rock!!

We all hope you  will like our works and will have fun playing with us.
Please come back on January 1st for the first reveal of the brand new DT and our challenges for the month.

A little more inspiration from Monia using "Avec Les Mains" printables

It is December already!  Can you believe it?  I for one am not ready for that!!!

Monia is here today to inspire us with a project using the printables from Avec Les Mains.  They are a French Store dealing in digital images for not only scrapbooking but other genres as well.  Check out their website and look at all the wonderful digi papers etc, that are available.  Here is a link to their store:  http://www.aveclesmains.fr/

Now here is Monia with her project.

This is a little tutorial to show how I used the beautiful sponsor's paper from Avec Les Mains. I start pouring distress paint on plastic block and spray water to mix the colour

(okay, the stamp block too... same here)

Add the same colour to wood chipboard (if you want add some glitter..)

 Press the block on paper and let dry

Add texture stamp randomly as you like (different colour)

With a stencil add some white gesso (i love it!)

the result:

With a sponge apply lightly the same ink you used for the stamps, for the circles I used the cap of a jar

With the spray create small droplets where you want and let dry

 Yay! Looks so good now! We're not finished yet ...

Finally add the fabulous Avec Les Mains papers 

add photo and some details...

project finished!!!

If we have at least 7 entries this month you can win a 7 euros voucher from Avec Les Mains.
We are sure you will love their printables as much as we do!

Video tutorial: vintage style canvas

Hi everyone! 

It's Aya back with you today to show you a video tutorial on how to make the canvas I created for our current challenge here.

Sorry for the delay, my videos usually go live on 18th of each month but December is a busy month, we know that!

I hope you enjoy it and I hope to inspire you to join us in the fun this month!
Thanks for stopping by.

Click on the link below to watch my video

December Mid-Month reveal

Hi lovely followers, here we are at the mid-month reveal of December.

We have two  challenges for you:   a POP SONG  and a ROCK SONG as inspiration to create any kind of paper project (altered canvas, card, layout, ATC, art journal…) you choose !!!
You can use lyrics, title, theme or maybe the video to inspire you (here is a link to the challenge rules).

It is now time to reveal
DECEMBER SONGS

Rock Song
"For the rest of my life" - Maher Zain

Pop song 

"Rock Me Amadeus" - Falco

Let' s see how the other half of the Design Team used these wonderful songs

ROCK TEAM 

Monia

I love this photo! Made in my beautiful city Bologna at an event .. you see in the background the Neptune fountain . I thought about my half bearing me and my scrapbooking material!

Aya

I created a canvas inspired by wedding theme: this woman is getting marry and she is ready fo shopping for her big day!



POP TEAM

Carolyn

Rock Me Amadeus is one of my favorite songs to clean the house to. It's upbeat and fun to sing. Well after Jack's first bike ride he told me "Momma, this rocks!" and then he said "Just like that song you listen to while cleaning." LOL, kids are little sponges at that age. Now, I hope he will like to "clean the house to that rock song" when he is older.


Federica

The song inspired me this Christmas card with a style a bit ' rock

Join in on the fun this month!

Link up your project until the end of December with the link tool on the top of the blog.

• Since it is December we have a gift for all of you! All the lovely entrants will receive the digital version of  Histoire de Pages Spring issue (HDP62). How cool is that?! Thanks to our sponsor for this month: Histoire de Pages!

• If we have at least 8 entries in the challenge there will be a random prize:  a voucher of €7 kindly donated by our permanent sponsor: Avec les mains

• One random winner will win this prize RAK kindly donated by our DT member Carolyn:

• The Design Team will choose their favorite project and the winner will win the digital version of  Histoire de Pages HDP63 and HDP64 and will be our Guest Designer for a future challenge!

We hope you will play with us! Let the music inspire your scrapbook: here you can find our challenge rules.

We all want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a very happy and scrappy 2016!!!

Giorgia
Tynke
Astrid
Monia
Federica
Marie-Christine
Carolyn
Brittany
Aya
Sharon