Dare 19th February

Everyone loves a little glitz and glam, add in some flowers and you have a combination for a dare! The dare for this month is all about flowers and glitter.

There are so many ways to incorporate flowers onto your pages you can leave them as they are, layer them, fold them, cut them or apply other mediums too, such as paint or ink to change them in fun ways. The medium we want to see used this month is glitter. This can be the powdered form or glitter glue eg. Kindy Glintz.

If using powdered glitter you can easily control how much you want to add to the flower when you apply the glue. You can go for a subtle approach by placing glue at the tip of the flowers or cover it all.

Using a product such as Kindy Glintz that comes in its own squeeze bottle gives you even more control. You can "draw' the glitter on any way you like.

I chose to use powder in my example. I watered down craft glue with a damp brush and painted the ends of my flowers with it. Then I dabbed the flower into a container filled with powdered pink glitter Layered heaps of flowers together to give some dimension (I love doing this) and added a decorative brad in the centre.

So everyone now that you know the dare start glitzing LOL!

I cant wait to see all your lovely Layouts. Upload to the CISter's Dares section of the gallery by the 29th of February to be in the running for a prize.

Posted by Ally

OTP Project

Ally gave me a gorgeous Off the Page Pack to work with this month including a Kaisercraft Heart Album, MM Noteworthy and Chatterbox Alphas! I teamed these with a few things from my stash and a bunch of little techniques to put together a mini album with photos of DH and I.

You can find all the pics and instructions in the forum here. Hope you like!

Don't forget that there is 25% storewide in February so it is a great time to stock up on all these little bits and pieces!

Have a happy, scrappy week! Tatum xx

February Stylish Kit

I had fun playing with the We R Memory Keepers 'Promendade' range of papers this month. I used the 'Dedicated Scrapper Pack' and had enough product to complete four layouts and one other project.

Here are the layouts:









And I also created a little mini-album using the kit too...
Check out this thread at Crafting in Style for instructions.

Kits available here

Posted by Karen

FEBRUARY DARE

If you dare!!!
So it's the first day of the month so what does that mean? Yep that's right time for a new CISter's Dare. So here we go......

The dare for this month is to create a LO using 'texture' as the emphasis.

Without texture a scrapbook layout would be dull. You can choose from a wide variety of textures to make your scrapbook pages unique. There are two basic types of texture: tactile and visual.

Tactile textures stimulate your sense of touch and can be incorporated into a scrapbook by layering different materials, fabrics, and other elements for a three-dimensional look.

Visual texture refers to what the eye sees. Using media such as paint, ink, and fabric, you can create textures on your scrapbook pages. Use your imagination and don't be afraid to experiment.

For me, texture means having a "feel" about it. Something that makes you want to touch and see what it feels like. This doesn't have to be dimensional, it can be subtle

For my LO 'Beanie Kid' I have used tearing and inking of pp, 'coral' paper, lumpy bumpy ribbon, micro beads and felt to evoke the sense of touch





So that you all know about texture, I would love to see how you incorporate it into your work. Have a go and upload to the CISter's 'dares' section of the gallery by midnight 17th of February to be in the running for a prize


Posted by Trudi

Exciting New Year Ahead

Hi everyone and welcome back after a busy holiday break. 2008 has brought a few changes around CIS!! We said our goodbyes to Jolene as she moved on to try new things and welcomed in Allison (Ally) as our new Head Cister :)

We also welcomed Karen Brierley and Trudi Harrison to the CIS DT and they will be inspiring you with all sorts of fun layouts and projects throughout the year. Trudi has a wonderful "Love Mini Album" class in February using the fantastic and colourful Scenic Route Loveland papers and wait until you see the beaut LO Karen created using the Feb Monthly Pack...Yummo!!

The DT has a great new monthly competition as well.. Are you ready to be DARED!!!! well then you simply have to pop into the forum to check it out. This month Tatum has dared us to try out some stitching on our LO's so grab your needle and thread and try your hand at something different like running stitch, cross stitch or feather stitch. Dont forget to upload to the gallery for this months prize of a $10 store voucher.

Until next time :)

CISter's Santa Scrapping Workshop

The Santa Scrapping Workshop kicks off tomorrow with lots of great workshops and Kaz's layout class on Sunday night! You can purchase access to all of this great stuff here, all instructions will be up until christmas to give you plenty of time to work though it. In addition to the class workshops include

- A Brag Book Mini Album
- Quick and Easy Christmas Solutions Workshop
- Pretty'ing up the presents
- 10 Amazing Christmas Cards Workshop
- Glass Coaster Workshop
- Wall Clock Workshop

Hope to see you there :)

Cybercrop Winners

Hiya...hope that you are having a great, relaxing weekend and getting a bit of time to scrap.

Just wanted to say a huge congratulations to all our cybercrop winners from last weekend.

• Challenge ONE winner - WendySmith with her gorgeous '1 thing I know' LO.
• Challenge TWO winner - Julie with her gorgeous LO 'Ghostly Hugs'
• Challenge THREE winner - Kells with her gorgeous LO 'A bit cute'
• Kiddies Challenge Winner (random) - Dane (Dee's son)
• Random Participation Winner - Linda
• Non-Scrapping Challenge Winner - PJ
• Bingo Winner - Kate
• Bingo Random Winner - Megan
• Hangman Winner - Dee and Wendy Smith
• Scavenger Hunt Winner - Kathryn aka Clueless
• Gallery Comments Winner - Dee

And the winners of our little blog comments comp are Nae and Linda! Nae can you PM Kaz with your Addy and Linda PM me and we'll send you a RAK each in the mail :D

Also gotta say a huge congratulations to the new CISter Stylish Sketch Blog DT

• Marni
• Nae
• Tam &
• Terri

Well done girls, can't wait to see what you come up with to inspire us each week!

I gotta let you in on a little secret, that Kaz has been up to something great for you all --- so keep your eyes on the forum for something new and inspiring with a bit of a challenge for you all!

Jolene has added some GORGEOUS new Fancy Pants to the store...YUM!

Til next time, Happy scrapping

Tatum xx

New new new!

Gotta love Thursdays as it is my catch up day here at home :)

I have been checking out the latest sketch and example LO's over at the sketch blog ... have you been there yet? It has just been updated with a gorgeous Sketch by our CISter Linda :)

I have spent the afternoon uploading new rubons to the store. They are just gorgeous and unbelievably well priced!!! Make sure you pop over to our new section and check them out as they are sure to sell like hot cakes!!

What is even better, follow this link ------------------> right here, if you like what you see and leave us a comment to tell us 'what' exactly it is, I'm giving away one for free :)

I'm off to fiddle with a monthly pack, catch you all later :)

xoxo Jolene

Midweek Update!

Hiya CISter's!

It was great to see so many of you over the weekend at the cybercrop, both new faces and old! Voting was hard because there were so many gorgeous layouts to choose from! Don't forget to vote for your favourite layouts, you have until midnight! You can check them all out in the gallery here!

Can't wait to see you all back at the next CIS Cybercrop will be the weekend 10th January 2008! A perfect chance for you to have a bit of me time after the silly season draws to a close!

Speaking of Christmas have you signed up for the CISters santa scrapping workshop yet? You can purchase access to the weekend of scrapping classes and workshops here. All the fun is happening on the weekend starting November 23rd and you will have access to all the info until Christmas eve to complete your gorgeous project!

At the moment in the store you can purchase kits for Marni's Brag Book Workshop here ...be quick there is only one left!...and all the paper and embellies you will need for Tatum's 10 Card Workshop...plus there are plenty of leftovers to make more!

One last reminder....how are you going with your Smokin' hot kits? Don't forget that you need to have your layouts using this gorgeous kit in the gallery by the end of tomorrow, 15th November, for your chance to win that gift voucher!

Happy Scrapping Girls!

Upcoming Cybercrop and a little Blog Launch Competition!

Hi Girls!

Just wanted to remind you all about this weekend's Colour my World Cybercrop over at Crafting in Style!

Hints for Challenge one are up and Kaz has the words up for Friday night Bingo madness! I heard that the sketch for this month is the same one that will be featured on Sketches Oz so you get a double chance to win there!

To celebrate the launch of the DT blog we are giving away a couple of RAK's...how do you get one you ask? Well, it is pretty easy, leave us a comment to say hi and we will pop all the commenters in the hat and randomly draw some winners, how easy is that! We'll give you until Monday lunchtime, same time you have to have you cybercrop entries in by!

Looking forward to catching up with you all on Friday night!