October Monthly Challenges

Celebrate!
October is Mystical's birthday month... I brought Mystical Scrapbooks 11 years ago!  Doesn't seem like it, I remember when the stock started to arrive from the previous owner,  (who had run Mystical for about a year I believe)
I still get excited when new stock arrives!

Challenge 1: Alter an embellishment on a page about a celebration/special occasion.

I have sprayed these white Prima flowers with Kaisermist and inked some wooden hearts to tie in with the colours on the cake and my patterned paper.

Challenge 2: Scrap lift my page and add a heart!

Like a sketch, but it's my finished page... Take inspiration from it, or a direct lift,  and add a heart or two.

Challenge Rules

Please upload your entries to our Inlinkz link up, or to the album in our Private Facebook Chat Group by 11.55pm 30th September 2019 to be eligible for the prize.

Albums - Here
Chat Page - Here

The 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 a Mixed Alpha Stickers. 

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

Gallery Pick: Cheryl Ann

Each month on our Facebook chat, we host the albums for the monthly and Cybercrop challenges. There is such a great wealth of inspiration in those albums I wanted to pick some scrapbookers pages to share each week.

This week's pick is Cheryl Ann. She has taken the challenges from the July Cyber Crop and really made them her own. I am loving the backgrounds on that first page and the lovely muted boyish colour pallette. The second page is a great design- I love the monochromatic colour pallette and all the different textures on her page. Thanks for playing along with our challenges Cheryl.

Weekend Inspiration: UP, UP, UP!

A dozen ideas for your weekend scrapbooking...

1. Use arrows to indicate direction.
2. Go with a blue, green and white colour scheme.
3. Scrap three photos cropped down.
4. Use circles on your page.
5. Make a three-word title.
6. Add stars to a LO. 
7. Use repition for emphasis. 
8. Hand paint on your page.
9. Use sequins for added sparkle.
10. Hand write your journalling.
11. Leave some white space for the eye to rest.
12. Add some metal elements to your page.

Lego Marvel

Looking for the right place to put your embellishments?

When in doubt, try to go for a visual triangle that encompasses/touches on the key aspects of your page: Picture(s), title, and journaling. Your eyes often look unconsciously for this design tool to give your brain a sense of completion.
If your page isn't 'feeling' right when you look at it- see if a visual triangle can be employed to help balance it out.
You can have more than one triangle on a page.
You can form the triangle with matching elements, e.g. Cogs, buttons, flowers. With matching colours, with photos, or clusters, shapes, e.g. circles of patterned paper, or even text.

Take a look at some of your favourite layouts sometime and see if you can find the triangles.

Supplies used: Bazzill Cardstock, Kaisercraft Time machine: Mechanism and Ironclad, plus the cut off strips, and 12 x12 sticker sheet. Pink Paislee- Indigo and Ivy Sticker sheet, Phrases, and Thickers. Memory Maze Chipboard Cogs inked with Versa Color Indigo. Kaisercraft Rhinestones: Black and Dark Blue, Nuvo Drops: Metallic Bright Gold. Word Stickers Jillibean Soup Grandma's Lima bean.

Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Unforgettable

Unforgettable is now available!!

"This collection is elegant and bright, bursting with our famous watercolours, florals and everyday sentiments.  Versatile elements with a focus on documenting our stories, combined with gorgeous patterned papers will be perfect for feminine and everyday pages.  We have brought back some old favourites, as well as some fun and on-trend new products to this line that I’m sure you will love!"

Find it in-store here - Unforgettable

Tuesday Tip

The curse of the missing letter: We all know the problem, you pull out a packet of letter stickers and have everything you need but that one letter- never fear, there's often a solution. In the example above I turned f into a t but the following are also often possible

a, b, d, p, q into c 

b into a or q or c

c+l = d, p, or b

d into p or a

f into t

g into a

h into n

j into i

m into w

n into u or r

p into d

Q into O

q into a

T or t into l

u into n

v + v = w

w into m

X into y

Z into N

0 into O

3 into E

6 into o

7 into L

8 and 9 into o

! into i 

& into 3 or 8

Quick Share: The Story Today

Supplies used: Papers: Kaisercraft Time Machine; Steam Engine, Iron Clad, Cardstock: Core'dinations Impressions; Clocks, and Aegean Mixed. Kaiser Bling: Black Rhinestones, Stickers: Kaisercraft - Acetate Stickers - Antiques, Script words, and Time Machine; 12x12. Ink: Versa color Pinecone.