12 Hour Scrap

Yes, you heard correctly!! Saturday 19March we had a 12 Hour scrap at The Scrapbook in Bellville - I know we can all scrap for 12 hours straight - even more if we want , but there was one catch - this scrap was from 8pm to 8am!!! 12 Hours through the night!! We were a brave total of 24 and - believe it or not!!- we ALL stayed awake for the whole event!! I went with two dear friends and we chatted for 12 Hours straight!! :) - oh yes, almost forgot, we ATE for 12 hours straight as well - we had a ROOM filled with food, cakes, even popcorn and all the drinks your heart desires (nooooo, soft drinks and coffee - naughty minds:)! . All through the night we had projects to complete and every hour on the hour we had prizes on a lucky draw basis! Tanya Clayton was the planner, organizer, teacher and "entertainment" fort he night and she did an amazing job. Her layouts are beautiful and you can imagine at 3 in the morning it is difficult to inspire people:) . The night started with cocktails (virgin cocktails, ladies!) and then the Red Bull girls arrived with ice cold Red Bull to keep us going - as well as a Red Bull energy shot drink if we needed it at 4 in the morning! . We started off with a cute tag set with cupcakes and yummys - added some Smooch paint and Voila!! Beautiful for any gift! . This was the first LO we completed. ***Keep in mind I have a reputation of not doing what I'm supposed to in any class :) - i like making the projects my own and thus they never look like the original design - the basic principles and ideas are still original but the end result is always different:). In Simple Joys I decided to add a brown mat for the photos and stamped the pink letters with a script stamps as I had a bit of male influence in the photos - didn't want it too pink:). The flowers were punched in class and the leaves hand-cut, I added the twirly flower in the centre with a pearl to round it off. Strips of paper is always an eye-catching design. I added another strip under my title and some ruffles to give the page some dimension.

We decorated a stunning tin and I added a bow and a beautiful border (borrowed my GF's punch!!) at the bottom. The lid was embossed to create a shimmery effect (I used different stamps to what they offered in the class - too lazy (of sleepy) to get up to use theirs!!)

On this LO Tanya made lots and lots of bows with the two ribbons - I decided to use them together and tie a "frame" around my photo! Isn't the photo too cute:) - still need to add a title and journalling to this LO:)

Then - at 4am!!- we had a challenge!! One brown cardstock - half a sheet of patterned paper - another 4" x 4" of patterned paper. No extra paper / cardstock / embellishments were allowed and we had some ribbon, titles and blossoms for our use..........and we had ONE hour!! This is a challenge at any time of the day but at 4am it was loads of fun - this is when the giggling started:)))

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My take won me a lovely Cuttlebug Embossing folder and I love a challenge (as you know by now!!) I even had time to stitch around the LO and add little bits of paper behind the teared parts (to fake the matted look)! Not bad for 4am:) - The photo is a self-portrait my little one took with my cellphone!! We ended the night (SADLY!!) with a beautiful gift bag - decorated and embossed! (with a stunning tag - which I opted not to do - or didn't care to do at 7am :))))))

I even received a certificate for surviving the night!! It was loads of fun and we really had great laughs (it took me about a week to feel myself again!!). Thanks Tanya for a stunning event!!

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Hope you enjoyed the projects and feel totally inspired to scrap 12 Hours throught he night!!

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Happy scrappin'