Sail Away - SATW January

It's time for mid month reveal in Scrap Around The World challenge nine hosted by Design Team member Kim Ewins from Australia! The deadline for this challenge is Thursday 31st January 2014.

Please see our first reveal post here (link) for another eight awesome layouts by the rest of our Design Team, as well as some of our plans for 2013, a couple of changes and a list of everyone we are thankful for so far!

We have some amazing prizes yet again this month and we hope that many of you will be able to participate in our January challenge! You can check the prices at the end of this post. As you will see we now offer a mood board only, without a sketch, in order to assist you in combining our challenge with a sketch challenge if you want.

Feel free to interpret the mood board in any way you like, using one image, several of them, all of them or even just one aspect of an image, using any colors! 

Check out the 10 Golden Rules found here (link) to be eligible for judging and prizes. If you want the Design Team to comment your project, please ensure that you've turned the word verification off. 

Here's my page to the challenge. I was inspired by the nautical theme and also by the colors in the mood board. I also used flowers, jute string, round shapes, white on white texture and pearls because of the items in the mood board.

The pictures were taken during the Tall Ship Race while the big sailboats visited Helsinki last summer. We went to see them with the girls and I took a few pictures a long the way. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and the big boats were lovely and full of feel for adventure. 

I was actually working on something completely different when the inspiration hit me suddenly. It took me just about 30 minutes to finish this page! I have told you that I usually let my hands to guide me while working, but this time I had an image and plan in my mind when I started. I just gathered the supplies I needed, die cut the photos while the gesso was drying and then put all the elements together. 

Materials: Bazzill, Tattered Angels, Prima Marketing, Talens, Ranger, Basic Grey, MT Masking Tape, Teippitarha

And here are the prizes this month!

1st prize - Over US$50 prize- pack from Creativica! {Swedish Store - brick and mortar/online}

Bo Bunny Woodland Winter Collection {papers/stickers/alphas/chipboard} plus co-co-ordinating Winter Themed stamps from Maja Design {Sweden}. All sponsored by Creativica, including postage to our winner!

Creativica is a brick and mortar/online store founded by Karin Dahllöf in May 2009, situated on the West Coast of Sweden, one hours drive north of Gothenburg.

We are 3 women working in the store and also holding classes and crops regularly, often with help of our talented Design Team. Come and see what we can offer you!

Website: www.creativica.se, blog http://creativica.wordpress.com/ with daily updates.

2nd prize - 2 Crafty Chipboard valued at $30!

2 Crafty offers affordable and versatile laser cut chipboard products to the Australian and International Craft market, with over 700 designs, manufactured in Australia for scrapbooking,cardmaking, altered art, invitations and mixed media. Vanessa, the owner, provides the highest level of customer support and is happy to discuss personalized orders with customers via their local scrapbooking store.

2 Crafty has a fabulous blog and Facebook page updated weekly with projects created by it's international Design Team. Check out the 2 Crafty website for products available to wholesalers and ask your local store to order products for you if they don't have them in stock!

3rd prize - Scrapmatts Chipboard valued at $25!

Australian Made Laser Cut Chipboard to compliment your scrapbook pages, cards and paper-crafting projects. Scrapmatts has a Ning site that showcases an amazing talented international design team who post regularly on the blog there, a gallery, customer challenges and an online store. Come join in the fun here!

Below is just one example of some of the awesome products they stock HERE.

4th prize - A selection of Purple Pumpkin products, to the value of $15.

Purple Pumpkin {Australia} manufactures high-quality embellishments of a fun and funky nature, specializing in fabric buttons, handmade flowers,resin, twine and washi tape. They have a great blog that is constantly active and they hold monthly challenges open to all, with Guest Designer positions up for grabs as well as awesome prizes of Purple Pumpkin loveliness! 

They stock a huge range of embellishments, washi tape, motex tape, etc in their online store HERE. Below is just one example of the many products stocked in their online store.

5th prize - 5 packs of Prima embellishments and miscellaneous blooms donated by Design Team member Eila Sandberg.{to be eligible for this prize you must be a follower of Eila's blog so please follow the link and sign up for some amazing inspiration}.

Random Prize - Sunshine Love Collection from Studio 75 {Poland}

"We are dedicated to bring you happiness and satisfaction with every moment spent with scrapbooking items by Studio 75.

We know that keeping your experiences positive is very important for you so we prepare our papers and embellishments with care for every single detail. Our Designers put their heart and soul into their work so we can offer you items that spark your imagination and give you endless pleasure - papers, tags, stamps, charms, chipboard, art journals, album bases and more!"