#42

Please welcome a new addition to our team this week - the wonderful and talented Karen Leahy! Karen (or Dolly as she is known) is a very well known name around the UK scrap community as an inspiration to many scrappers and as fur mommy to the Fikimonster! we are delighted to have her as part of our team.

42....42......with such an important number as 42 we should have been challenging ourselves to scrap the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.... but of course that would be utterly ridiculous - you could never get it on one page for a start. So instead - we asked one of the other age old questions we scrappers often find ourselves troubled with

WHY did I buy *that* and will I ever really use it???

Well - the answer is YES!! for this week - we challenge you to go delving down in the depths of your stash and pull out some of your older, scary, unused and forgotten 'mistakes'. Did you buy on impulse and regret it at leisure? Was it chosen before you really had a clue what your style was? Have you left overs from a kit you just never really clicked with? get those hidden horrors out and give them a rethink - a bit of a makeover maybe, or a clever bit of cutting? See what wonders you can produce with some of your 'less favourite' stash items. You never know, it might rekindle that secret love you had for puffy heart stickers back in 2002....

As always please share your dares here in the comments section, we always LOVE to see what you do with our challenges. Every time you play along you get a ticket into the monthly prize draw. This is your last chance to enter for February's gallery prize - the lucky winner will be one of the very first to be subscribed to the new online classes and inspiration of The Design Collective with a full 3 months sub :o)

Details about the girls LO's can be found on their personal blogs.

AJ


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Fiona

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Suzanne

#41 gallery

Thank you charlotte and pam for these 2 fabulous dares - loving them both - and an extra big thank you to wee George for helping his Mummy out with photographing her LO :o)

see the gallery here.

#41

One week, any week :) 7 photos from a week in your life. It could be anything from a family holiday, first days of school through to the world this week or the first week of a newborn life. There are so many different takes on this one we look forward to seeing what you create.

Remember to link in the comments section so we can add you to the gallery and also pop your name in the draw for this months prize! Good luck :)

AJ


Ali


Clare


Debbie


Debs


Fiona


Jane


Jennie


Karen


Katie


Kirsty


Suzanne

#40 Gallery

The gallery for dare #40 can be seen here thank you to all who dared - you have one entry into the draw :o)

#40

How does that saying go..Its the simple things that make us happy?? Well, im sure the girls will agree this week - take a look at all the super things that make us and our families happy. Those little simple things that make you stand still and think, yep, this is what life should be about! Whether it be that longed for bar of chocolate, a cup of coffee first thing in the morning, a simple 5 minutes of peace and quiet in an otherwise hectic day or dancing in the rain! Think about it for a few minutes and let us know YOUR simple pleasure :)

Please give a warm welcome for our newest Speshal girl - Jane Dean!! She joins us as team member 12a (we dont do 13!) LOL

Pop a link to your entry in the comments section and you will be added into the prize draw - good luck :)

Ali


AmberJane

Debbie

Debs

Elaine

Fiona

Jane

Jennie

Karen

Katie

Kirsty

Suzanne

#39 Gallery

The gallery for dare #39 can be seen here thank to all who dared, you have one entry into the Feb draw :o)

#39

This week we have something extra speshal. Our dare is 'On the cards' - we challenge you to make a scrapbook page that is also a card, any size you like as long as it will fit in one of your albums - we have made ours to give as valentines cards, but you can chose another theme if you wish. For this weeks dare we have joined forces with the talented girls over at Daring Card Makers and all worked on the same theme - but from 2 different perspectives - we turned scrapping into cards - they turned cards into srcapping! The results are all so different. Take a look at the DCM site and see what they came up with too.

All techniques and products used can be found on the girls personal blogs - and dont forget to leave a link to your dare - everyone who takes part and leaves us a link gets a ticket into the monthly draw for a prize :o)

AJ


Ali


Clare


Debbie


Debs


Elaine


Fiona


Jennie


Karen


Katie


Kirsty


Suzanne