It is that time of year again here where I live - my girls go back to school tommorrow.  That always makes me a little nostalgic - thinking about my own childhood and school days.  I am setting some of the same traditions as my mom did for me - the special days for getting school gear, an end of summer vacation and ice cream on the first day of school.  So you can guess what this week’s challenge is!

First let’s congratulate last week’s winner…the friends challenge had some really fabulous layouts - take a look:

and Susie chose the wonderful layout by Rizulka as this week’s winner  That photo is so sweet and I love her composition and choice of elements.  A really  gorgeous layout.

Congratulations and look for your new kit soon.

Back to this weeks challenge AKA back to school.  Scrap about school - it doesn’t have to be back to school where you are to play.  It can be your school routine, a school event, a memory about your school days, your favorite class - or whatever you like.

Here is some inspiration from our CT:

Susie’s handsome son

Theresa’s sweet capture of meeting the teacher

JoAnn’s touching layout about starting Kindergarten

and my daughter’s excitement about her new school clothes

To play, link us up to your layout by Saturday night.  Use at least 50% Vera products to play, 80% to also enter Layout of the Month.  I look forward to seeing your layouts!

Hello everyone! Kim here for Susie and Cynthia to announce July’s winner! And without further ado, it is Julie with this fabulous LO:

Image is clickable to leave her some love! This layout is so adorable…congrats!! keep your eyes peeled for your $15 GC coming soon!

Hello, Susie…Cynthia and Kim here with the winner of last weeks challenge and the new challenge for this week!  Thank you to those of you who played along last week, your LO’s were gorgeous!  You can see the LO’s below and who Kim chose as our winner!!

Christi:

Kathi:

And our winner for the AAM challenge is……………………

Christi with this wonderful LO below…*image is clickable to leave some love*

We love your layering, that sweet photograph and word art!  Congratulations Christi you will receive your GC soon!

Now onto this weeks challenge, we’re doing things a little different this week, instead of winning a $5 GC the prize up for grabs this week is Vera’s new kit *You’ve Got A Friend In Me*.   It’s a beautiful, versatile and jam packed with elements kit that you could use over and over again, the papers in the kit are so pretty and unique, there’s even an alpha in there too!  Take a look at this fabulous kit below:

Elements inc Alpha:

Papers:

In keeping with the theme of this kit, your challenge this week is to create a LO with the word friend on it.  Do you or your children have a best friend?  Is your husband/partner your best friend?  What about a family pet?  Or even your Mom/Mum/Dad?  Take a look at what our CT came up with using this gorgeous kit for some inspiration:

Me (Susie) A Mother/Daughter Friendship

Joann: The bond between Mother and Daughters :0)

Tee: A Special Friendship

Cynthia: Love Between Sisters

We cant wait to see what you guys come up with.  Please remember to use atleast 50% Vera Lim products to be eligible to win this fabulous, gorgeous and unique kit!!  And if you want to be entered into the Layout of The Month contest, please use at least 80% of Vera Lim products.  LO’s should be uploaded to DST and a link left here by no later than Saturday 23rd August.  Good luck and have fun.

Hello…Susie, Kim and Cynthia here with the winner of the LO of the month for June!!  After looking through all of the amazing LO’s for June’s challenges we came to our decision…the votes have been counted and I can happily reveal that our winner with this beautiful, outstanding LO is Tracy aka 5angels!!  Congratulations Tracy you will receive your $15 GC very soon!! 

Tracy I love the overall feel to this LO, the blending is so perfect, the twinkling stars are a great touch and I love how you stitched the alpha down.  Here is the LO in question…it is clickable to leave Tracy some love!

My Dad:

Keep your eyes out for July’s LO of the month winner which will be announced in the next couple of days!  I’m sorry this hasnt been done sooner……as Kim says the summer holidays are over soon and we can then get back to our normal routine.  I also wanted to say if anyone hasnt received their GC’s please let us know, Vera was having problems with her emails for a couple of weeks so if you havent had yours that’s why.  You can contact me at sus1e31@aol.com take care and have a wonderful day!

Kim here for Susie and Cynthia.  We had some lovely entries for last week’s challenge:

Lynn Zant:

Christi:

Sabine:

Annette:

And Cynthia chose Kathi’s LO here as the winner this week:

{image is clickable to leave Kathi some love!}

As always ladies, thank you for your patience in awaiting the winner announcement this week.  Summer holidays are just about over, and with it comes the “back to routine” way of life.  Kathi, if you haven’t received your gc yet, please email me at digitaldivak@gmail.com and I’ll get it to you.

Thank all of you for your entries last week, and join us this week for the AAM challenge.  Stay tuned for the June & July LO of the month winners to be announced shortly.  Happy summer!

Kim here for the blog girls {Susie, Cynthia and moi}.  This week we bring you an All About Me challenge.  What would you like people to remember about you? Your smile, your sense of humour, what you are today? A personality trait, physical feature or even your worst trait! Did you have something happen to you that people still talk about even now? Let’s hear about it! To get your mojo flowing, here’s some inspiration from our team:

Susie:

Joann:

Teresa:

Kim:

As always, please upload your LO to the DST gallery with a link back here on the blog by Saturday, August 16th.  The winner will be announced on Sunday, August 17th with a $5 gc going to the LO with at least 50% Vera goodies and if you use at least 80% Vera stuff, you will be entered to win a $15 gc for Layout of the Month!  Good luck!

Hi Cynthia for Susie and Kim with another challenge.  This summer has been super busy for me…is it just me or does it seem that I am NEVER home.  Having lots of fun but it is pretty hectic fun with three little ones and a lot of outdoor adventures.  So this week I was really stretching thinking of a good challenge and I decided to make it easy cause I think we are all in the middle of long days and fun times.  Since we all share a love of Vera’s designs just pick your fave and scrap a page with it.  You know the rest - use at least 50% Vera goodies and I will choose one to win  a GC, 80% and you are also entered in the LO of the month, chosen by the CT.  June and July winners will be announced soon.

Here are a few layouts from the CT to showcase what we love:

Teresa-I just love this.  All the cute doodles and the touches are so fun.

Joanne has used Vera’s magic so perfectly in this sweet layout.

And I am awfully fond of her word art and went to town on this layout - yep that is my daughter with Jake Ryan - her first crush!

So what do you love - a certain kit, or magic (who doesn’t?), wordart or something else.  Show us by next Saturday and you may win a GC.

Susie has chosen last week’s winner- we had some stunning layouts for Susie’s challenge and I do mean stunning:

Sheila

Annette

Christi

Kathi

So who do you think will win - not an easy choice is it? Susie chose Annett’s layout - those sweet baby bits are adorable!  Congrats Annette - look for your GC soon.

Can’t wait to see what your fave Vera products are…thanks for participating - I just love all the inspiring layouts you create.

Hi everyone!!

Just wanna let you know that I have started my own personal blog here: www.veralim.typepad.com. I thought it’s time to have a my own blog where I can post all about my designs, photography and my other passions in one place …

I’ll see you there!

Hello, Susie, Kym and Cynthia here with the winner of last week’s challenge and the new challenge for this week!  Thank you to those of you who played along last week, as usual your LO’s were beautiful and fantastic…you can see the winner’s and other entrant’s LO’s below :0)

Sheila:

Annette:

Leda:

And our winner for the “Lucky/Special Number” challenge as chosen by Kim,  is Kathi with this stunning LO below!  Kathi your blending and soft colours are beautiful!!  Congratulations, you will receive your GC very very soon!!

Kathi: *image is clickable*

O.k, now onto this week’s challenge!  If you read the journaling on my LO for the lucky number challenge, you will see that my lucky number is 28.  When I realised it was my turn (Susie) to upload this week’s challenge I realised that the date is the 28th!  So I’ve decided to do a pick and mix challenge in which you must use the following 28 things!!  You can see the ingredients and 2 inspirational LO’s by myself and Tee (another member of our CT) below.

*Ingredients*

1 Plain Paper
1 Patterned Paper
1 Paper Tear
4 Frames
4 Buttons
6 Flowers
2 Ribbons
3 Doodles
1 Wordart
1 Title
4 Extra Things Of Your choice

Inspirational LO’s:

Susie:

Tee:

Give it a go! I thoroughly enjoyed creating my LO for this challenge :0)  I cant wait to see what you guys come up with.  Please remember to use atleast 50% Vera Lim products to be eligible for the $5 GC to Vera’s store and if you want to be entered into the Layout of The Month contest, please use at least 80% of Vera Lim products.  LO’s should be uploaded to DST and a link left here by no later than Saturday 4th August.  Good luck and have fun.

This month’s LO Spotlight belongs to the talented Sheandg!! I loved her use of Vera’s Beach kit for a fantastic 2 page LO.  The oranges, yellows and those fab pictures just scream SUMMER!!!!  Congrats to sheandg for being out LO spotlight for July!!  Images are clickable to leave her some love!!