Scrap Around The World - July

Hello there friends of Scrap Around The World!  

Thank you so much for your support, sharing your awesome talent with us & for your comments!  Keeping in touch with us means so much - we love hearing from you, because we want this site to cater for YOU therefore your feedback is invaluable to us!

On with the show - Reveal 3 ...We present you with our exquisite mood board for July, created by talented Design Team member Keren Tamir, together with a lovely sketch from our resident sketch designer, Jules McKenna-De Lumen!

All you need to do is be inspired by the mood board (in ANY way) & use our sketch as your starting point.  

Our mood boards are for your INSPIRATION only.  

You can be inspired by one of the images, all of the images, or any number of them, or even parts thereof. 

It's entirely up to you!  Be Inspired in any way!!

The above image MUST appear on the blog post containing your challenge entry -you also need to mention that you are playing along with the current challenge at Scrap Around The World & link up to it please,

Please link to your ACTUAL POST - not to your entire blog - to do this you need to CLICK ON THE TITLE OF YOUR BLOG POST then copy & paste that entire URL into the linky tool {you will notice that it is your blog address but it contains an extension}. 

Onto our prizes & sponsors for this challenge!

Our design team votes on all entries, thus selecting a winner & 3 features.

A random winner is also drawn. 

This month we are again blessed with 5 PRIZES!!

We have prizes for the Merit & Random winner AND for all 3 features!!!

AS WELL as winning our first prize, 

the winner will be invited back as Guest Designer for the next challenge.

Our challenges are open to everyone, anywhere in the world

 & all this month's prizes include FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING!!

This month our merit winner will receive the June Kit 'Dreams in Pastel' 

from C'est Magnifique Kit Club, full of Maja Design's new papers, '

'Vintage Spring Basics' plus lots of Prima loveliness...

Wow!!  It looks AWESOME!!!

2nd place will receive paper collection 'Vintage Memories' from Polish company Studio 75!

See their full range here in their online store.

3rd place will receive a $25 chipboard prize-pack from

Scrapmatts Chipboard in Australia,

containing a selection of their latest releases!

4th place will receive a $15 prize-pack of your choice from Purple Pumpkin!

Our random winner will receive this prize pack of assorted goodies kindly donated by Keren!

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Now on to sharing the layout I created for this month!

My soul inspiration when looking at that gorgeous mood board was the little wooden birdhouses on the bottom right.  They really appealed to me,

I loved the woodgrain and the lovely soft colour.

So I went about recreating my version of that particular image on my layout.

On the background I used Jo Sonas Decor Crackle to create the woodgrain effect and I was really happy with how it turned out.  It was so cool watching that crackle effect appear as the

top layer of paint dried! 

 Who said watching paint dry was boring!! ;)

I added some ink droplets in shades of pink and turquoise.

Being such a soft girly page featuring my daughter and our puppy,

I added some soft pastel coloured flowers, and some Prima lace and Mistables canvas.

The 'love' wood veneer is by Freckled Fawn.

The chicken wire chipboard is from 2Crafty Chipboard and a flair button from 

 A Piece of Cake Designs.

The deadline for this challenge is midnight EST Thursday 25th July 2013. Thanks for stopping by and I really hope you can find time to squeeze this challenge in to  your scrapbooking schedule this month.