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Birthday Cyber Crop

Welcome to our October Cyber Crop.

October 2008,  I purchased Mystical Scrapbooks.  Over these past 10 years I've seen a lot of changes to our craft, trends come and go.... and then come back again 😊

I seen people come and go, and I’m lucky enough to still know some scrappers from when I started about 20 years ago!

I’ve seen kids grow up via photos and layouts, online friends that I’ve never meet in real life that are still dear to me today.

Facebook has changed many things for us, we closed our on-line forum several years ago now as people moved over to Facebook more and more, and this year we moved our photo gallery over as well.  Facebook being much easier for people to use and comment on layouts.

Design Team members have made this journey possible for me, and I've been so lucky to have had so many great DT members over the years... My deep thanks to them all.

Mystical has been a wonderful journey for me, one that I hope to keep going for another 10 years.

Challenge 1 - Use 10 embellishments only

Paper, card-stock and multi mediums are not included...
Stencils and stamps are counted as 1 no matter how many time you use them.
BUT everything else is counted as single items... ie: 3 rhinestones are counted at 3 items.

Again I've used 2 paper ranges here, Cocoa Vanilla - Love Always and Fancy Pants - Trendsetter 
The flair is from Just Add Flair, and chipboard sprayed with Kaisermist… doesn't show up in the photos, bit it has a gorgeous gimmer to it.

1 stencil,  1 flair and 8 bits of chipboard = 10 embellishments

Challenge 2 - Add a banner and a flourish 

I've used 2 paper ranges here, Cocoa Vanilla - Love Always and Fancy Pants - Trendsetter 
Green Tara flowers, including the Azalea range  and my flourish is embossed chipboard.

Challenge 3 - Tic Tac Toe

(Supplies used: Pebbles Spring Fling Words, Kaiser Mist, Fancy Pants Happy Place Papers and Word Stickers.)

Don't forget: I'm also celebrating this month- it was my birthday on the first and once again I'll be giving away a $20 prize pack picked by me for you to one of the challenge participants this month. (Drawn by a random pick from all the entries in the monthly and cybercrop challenges).

Due date Sunday, 28nd October - Midnight

Upload your challenge entry to the Galleries on our Mystical Scrapbooks Facebook Chat Page.

The chat is private and if you haven't yet joined us we'd love to have you. If you have any trouble joining please email Donna you name and or a link to your Facebook profile and she'll send you an invite.

We will be giving away 1 shopping voucher valued at $20.00, and each entry receives 1 ticket into the draw.....each challenge you do gives you a chance to win!

We will also have a surprise prize!!  Our DT members will chose their favourite over-all layout and I will send that lucky person a surprise in the mail.

Happy Scrapping.

Mystical Team

New Stock...

We have a new paper range available in store, Le Petit Jardin from Couture Creations.

Le Petit Jardin is a gorgeous and soft collection of florals complemented by brilliant watercolours and inspired by the work of Stephanie Ryan. Indulge in bright yellows and greens alongside soft blues and purples perfect for event invitations, wedding invites, beautiful cards, scrapbooks pages and more!

Happy Scrapping!

Mystical Team

October Monthly Challenges

It's Mystical's Birthday Month and we're celebrating with celebrating! This month's Cyber crop will be all about Celebrations. But for now we have some monthly challenges to wet your appetite.

Gypsy's Challenge:
Pick 3 elements from my page to use on your layout: here are some ideas for you... mixed up letters for your title, 4 patterned papers, washi tape, celebrate something small, journal on a card, photos that span the page, repeated stamping, vertical strips, yellow/pink/blue... or your own choice.

 

(Supplies used: Thickers: Foam & Chipboard, Papers, stickers and washi tape; Cocoa Vanilla, Fancy Pants: Happy Place, Simple Stories; Hello Summer & Life in Colour.)

I'm also celebrating this month- it's my birthday on the first and once again I'll be giving away a $20 prize pack picked by me for you to one of the challenge participants this month. (Drawn by a random pick from all the entries in the monthly and cybercrop challenges). 

Donna's Challenge 

I have a sketch for you... 

And here's my take...

I've used Fancy Pants - Trendsetter papers on Kraft Cappuccino cardstock, embellishments are bits from Cocoa Vanilla, Kaisercraft Prima and Green Tara

Challenge Rules· Please upload your entries to our Inlinkz link up, or to the gallery in our Private Facebook Chat Group by 11.55pm 31st October 2018 to be eligible for the prize. Prize is by random draw.

· International entries are welcome, however due to international postage cost a Creative Design Spot will be offered along with a little surprise in the post.

Australia residents, this month’s prize is an Embellishment Kit.

Have fun and please share with your scrappy friends!
Mystical Team

September Cybercrop

Do you remember finding a box of photos at your grandparents or parents home, only to wonder who everyone is or when it the photo was taken?

I do, and I remember asking my Mum about the photos, only to get answers like...
" I think that is uncle ------ "

This month we are thinking about Journalling.  For a lot of us, journalling seems to be one of the most difficult parts of scrapbooking, We spend ages thinking of designs and colour combinations and how to use our many wonderful embellishments, but journalling is one of the most important details often forgotten or crammed in at the end.

We have 3 challenges for you using different types of journalling techniques, let's get back into the habit of adding some extra details on our pages :) 

Challenge 1 - Sketch with Journal Tags

For my page I've used Basic Grey Serenade papers, flowers from Green Tara, and my title is from our new range of chipboard from 2Crafty. 

I've left my journalling tags blank for the bride to write her own journalling.

Challenge 2: Journalling first

For this challenge I want you to write the journalling first- so you can make it a feature of your page rather than an add-on that you slip in there. This is a great chance to tell a longer story (though you don't have to make it as big as mine).

Supplies used: Simple Stories: Heart and Life in Colour, Thickers Foam and Chipboard.

Challenge 3: Document a person

Make a page about a person, rather than an event or location. 

This page describes my niece at 2 years old. I talks about what she currently loves, where she spends her days, there are some word to describe her character, and some important facts like that she still has an afternoon nap and enjoys helping with the cooking.

Supplies used: Fancy Pants Happy Place, Simple Stories Life in Colour, Amy Tangerine Foam Thickers, Basic Grey Alpha, Ribbon, Jillibean Word stickers.

Due date Sunday, 30th Sept.  Upload in to the correct photo album by midnight to the in the draw.

You can find our Facebook gallery and our chat page here - Chat

We have a private chat page over on Facebook, if you new to our challenges just send me a email with your name and I can send you an invite to our little group.

We will be giving away 1 shopping voucher valued at $20.00, and each entry receives 1 ticket into the draw.....each challenge you do gives you a chance to win!

We will also have a surprise prize!!  Our DT members will chose their favourite over-all layout and I will send that lucky person a surprise in the mail.

Happy Scrapping.

Mystical Team

September Monthly Challenges

Welcome to our Monthly Challenges for September!

The trial of Facebook albums for the challenges has gone really well and it's been great to see so many pages shared in the chat group. (Please remember to pop your pages into the correct album so you can be included into the prize draw.)

Gypsy's Challenge:

This month our Cybercrop theme will be all about Journalling- I've already been thinking about my challenges for the crop and have a journalling challenge for my monthly challenge.
Your challenge is to either: make your journalling hidden- mine is slipped under the black and white paper on the left.
Or: use the same sentence starter for your journalling... I've used 'I love..." for my LO below, but you can use any starter that you want.
(You can do both if you want. :-) )

 

This page is made with a combination of the Fancy Pants - Happy Place and Simple Stories- Life in Colour lines.

Donna's Challenge:

For my challenge, I would like you to use some journaling strips to tell a little story behind the photo.  For my page I've used the computer to write out the journalling, then cut it into strips.

I've used Echo Parks For the Record papers, with Kaisercraft Script Words  and Mists.  Embellishments from Cocoa Vanilla, Fancy Pants.

Challenge Rules

· Please upload your entries to our Inlinkz link up, or to the gallery in our Private Facebook Chat Group by 11.55pm 31st August 2018 to be eligible for the prize. Prize is by random draw.

· International entries are welcome, however due to international postage cost a Creative Design Spot will be offered along with a little surprise in the post.

Australia residents, this month’s prize is an Journalling Note Set.  You can choose from Take Note from Basic Grey or Fancy Pants Dancing Girl.

Have fun and please share with your scrappy friends!
Mystical Team

August Kit Layout Shares

 

I've really enjoyed working with the Kaisercraft Memory Lane Line this month.  This line teams up really well with the Cork Thickers, Crate Paper Fourteen and the Kaisercraft Open Road Line as well. If you're looking to team it up with the Nuvo Drops then the Neptune Turquoise  and Copper Penny are a great match.

 

Cocoa Vanilla Boys Rule Clear Stickers.

  

 WRMK Washi Tape and Tim Holtz Adage Tickets.

  

Happy Scrapping. :-)