The Scrap Heap: January 2010

Daily Inspiration/Challenges !!!

Labels: Daily Challenge Inspiration | at 3:54 AM

DC 18 Todays word is Pet - do a Lo about your pet, someone else's pet, a pet you'd like to have, maybe even a pet hate

DC 19 use sewing on your LO - it could be hand stitching, machine, rubons or pen stitching

DC 20 use 5 brads on a LO or card

DC 21 make a get Well card for someone

DC 22 use the colours black and white as a feature on your LO

DC 23 Sketch below

DC 24 scrap a LO about your home

Newsletter Link and Special Offer

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This week's Inspiration Team Newsletter is ready for you to view online and I hope you enjoy having a look at the layouts and projects that the Team have created for you all this week.

To view the Newsletter, simply click on the link below to view it online:

www.thescrapheap.com.au/newsletters/23-01-10-newsletter.htm

If you have any problems viewing this web page please email info@thescrapheap.com.au and we will try to help you out!!

and here is the Newsletter Special Offer for this fortnight

25% OFF all Fiskars Border Punches etc in stock on our website

Offer runs for 2 weeks only ... Saturday 23rd January, 2010 to Friday 5th February, 2010.

Simply purchase any Fiskars Border Punches from our website during this time and we will reduce them by 25% of the Regular price!!

Please Note: The price will still show as full price on Checkout but we will manually adjust for the discount when we invoice and before your credit card is charged for any product.

Clean Up 1 ... Sharing my Messy Desk

Labels: Clean Up | at 3:37 AM

Here is the before shot of my Messy Scrapping Desk ... sadly at the moment isn't looking much better but I am working on it!!

I seem to have just shuffled and moved things around but the table section is clearer and all the stuff sitting piled up the top at the back is gone now and I am going to lift up the middle shelf so it is on top of the paper shelves and I can then hang things from the holes in the metal reinforcing strip along the shelf edge.

How is everyone else going with their tidy up??

Christine M

Clean Up 1 - More photos

Labels: Clean Up | at 1:11 PM

Audrey has finished the first challenge in our Clean Up challenges, although looking at the before pictures, it looks like Audrey is a very tidy scrapper
Have you finished the first challenge yet, if you have don't forget to share your photos.

Clean up challenge 1

Labels: Clean Up | at 11:01 AM

Your First Mission ... is you choose to accept it is ... Clean that Table!!

But the first thing you all need to do is take a photo of your scrap room / area / desk and share it here as well as upload it to this new section of the gallery just for your clean-up photos ...

Clean Up Photos

This is mainly so that when you have finished you can go back and say ... holy crap, how did I ever work / find anything etc etc ... in that shambles ROFL!! How can you create beautiful work when you are working in mess??

OK Then we all need to clean off that desk/table/workspace. I mean clean off everything ... everything ... all off the table and now actually clean the table. Wipe it down and if you are like me get that dirty Self Healing Mat out and scrub it clean ... get all the dried paint and glue and glitter and other crap off it and put it back on the table when it is nice and clean and dry.

Now doesn't that look good?? All clean and isnt that table about 5 times bigger than when you started?? Ah hah but the hard part is all the stuff that you took off the table now isn't it??

OK obviously you need to sort through all the this stuff and then you would be able to put most of it away as you go!! Put away all the tools and adhesives and paints and things where you normally store them .. in a drawer / tote / box / on the shelf etc

Put away anything else off the table that has a definite place to go ... you know what I mean ... cardstock back in your storage files, papers in the paper holders etc Sort them into your preferred style as you go though ... no short cuts.

Just put away as much of as much of the clutter as you can now.

Then you really need to get all those little scraps of paper and cardstock that are too small for anything but we all keep anyway and throw them in the bin. Seriously ... will you ever use them?? Now empty your bin and put a new bag in the bin so even that is clean and tidy!!

Now of course you will be left with other bits and pieces that don't have a spot to go yet but we will get to all this in good time.

For now the rest of mine is going in a big box for the rest of the Organise Your Stuff Missions ... I know this seems that the job is only half done but you will feel great once that table is clean and you have room to create again!!

Then when you are all done .. take another photo and upload that ... don't you feel good!!

Oh yeah ... You have until next Saturday to complete this mission when I will post the next step to tidiness for your scrapping area!!

now for some before photos

this one from Tracey Manderson
Thanks for sharing this photo Tracey
anyone else up for sharing?

Newsletter Special - 35% Off All Kaisercraft

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NEWSLETTER SPECIAL OFFER!!

35% OFF all Kaisercraft Stock including Papers, Embellishments, Storage etc in stock on our website.

Offer runs for 1 week only ... Saturday 16th January, 2010 to Friday 22nd January, 2010.

Simply purchase any the Kaisercraft Products including all Papers or Embellishments from our website during this time and we will reduce them by 35% of the Regular price!!

Please Note: The price will still show as full price on Checkout but we will manually adjust for the discount when we invoice and before your credit card is charged for any product.

Week 1 Daily Inspiration/Challenges

Labels: Daily Challenge Inspiration | at 9:57 AM

DC 3: Scrap a photo of your favorite Christmas Food and share the recipe.

DC 4: Scrap a Lo using the word "Goal" as your Inspiration - this could be the sporting kind or your goals for 2010

DC 5: This sketch is featured on the Kaisercraft blog, over here don't forget if you do this one to enter in the competition over at Kaisercraft to go into the draw to win $25 collection pack

DC 7: card - make a thank you card,

DC 8: Colour - use pink somewhere on your LO

DC 9: Sketch - this ones from Pencil Lines don't forget to enter it into the competition over thereDC 10 Journaling prompt - in Ali Edwards tradition, please scrap a LO of your one little word for 2010 - my word for this year is LEARN - what's yours?

And i am looking for your work to feature on the blog so if you have completed any of the above challenges, please email them to me at cassqsac@yahoo.co.uk and you may be featured on the blog. don't forget to tell us a little bit about yourself as well.

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