Updates August 15th

123 Challenge It's already halfway through August - have you completed your 123 August Challenge http://www.ourbrightstarsandus.typepad.com/123challenge/ yet? Great Prizes up for grabs and lots of layouts to inspire you - including the first 123 Creative Team upload happening on the 15th!

3 Angels Scrapping GUEST DT SPOTS AND FAB PRIZES TO BE WON
The brief for ROUND 1 of the Battle of the Scrappers has been posted in our forum. Entries close on August 27, 2008.

Enchanted Scrapbooking Not Long Now... What is Happening???We are almost up and running... with our brand new Scrapbooking Website... http://www.enchantedscrapbooking.com.au/ Just ironing out those few persistent little bugs, and then we should be set and hopefully launching ourselves onto the big wide world of online scrapbooking on the 1st of September (fingers crossed). We are organising some wonderful challenges, competitions and fun for the coming months and we hope that you all will be keen to join in...Additionally, our stock is now arriving and we are having a wonderful time goggling over the gorgeous and delightful goodies... and thoroughly enjoying putting our Fairy Fun Packs together...So please join us at our new home... and join in the fun and frivolity... and Scrapbooking Delights...

Heaven Sent - What a team !
With great excitement and enthusiasm I would like to introduce the Design Team of Heaven-Sent Scrapbooking to you! Five our our Design Team members (Brigitte, Karen, Leanne, Mary and Melissa) have been on the team for a while now, but we also have three brand new team members: Suse Hocking, Melanie Brewin and Moira Coates! All Design Team members are introducing themselves here. Welcome our team and win $ 50.00 worth of scrapbooking goodies !With a new team comes a new challenge and chance to win a great mystery pack of scrapbooking goodies! So ... what do you have to do? I would like to ask you to have the most original, creative, funny etc. message on our forum to welcome our Design Team! Please reply to this message on our forum to be able to win! You need to register on our site if you want to post on our forum. Your message has to be posted no later than August 31, 2008. In the first few days of September our Design Team will vote for a winner. The winner will be announced on our forum and through a personal email ... so, what are you waiting for? This is open to all current and new forum members!

Karen Day Designs (KDD) is a line of products designed by Karen Day and brought to you by Scrapware (http://www.scrapware.com.au/). Coming up in September she has an exciting release of a brand new mega-fun product which is TOP SECRET at the moment :) This is unlike any product on the market at the moment as far as she knows and she can't wait to show you how it works!!! To help introduce it to the Aussie scrapbooking scene Karen has decided to run an online as well as an offline class showcasing this new product. The secret product will not be available wholesale until the weekend of the classes, so participants will be the first to get to play!For more information visit the KDD Blog at http://karendaydesigns.blogspot.com/ - Or email Karen Day at: karen@tkday.net

Keep'n the Memories are having a 50% off sale this weekend only. Saturday the 16th until midnight Sunday the 17th August. Sale does not include kits,gift vouchers and paper racks. Free postage does not apply during sale. Quote 50% off in comments box at checkout and I will contact you with a final total. Some quantities may vary.

Koko Vanilla Designs is running a competition for August. When you purchase one of our Koko Vanilla kits or products during August we would love to see what you create with them. A Competition Gallery will be set up for customer entries. When you have completed your layout taken a photo email your entry to mailto:pontikis@netspace.net.au.net.au. The layouts will be uploaded into our gallery on site and our design team will be choosing the winning entries. Two entries will be chosen to win vouchers to spend on site. The first winner prize is a $30 voucher and the runner up a $20 voucher. We have a wonderful selection of kits ranging from $11.00 to $66.50, full of the latest scrapbooking products. Layout prompt is "What makes you most happiest?" You can either use these words in your layout or just use this as the theme for your layout. To be eligible to enter you must purchase your products from our site. Entries close on the 31st August. So purchase your favourite kit and start creating. If we get a huge influx of entries we will create more prizes, so the more the merrier!!. We really would like you to enjoy the process and be proud to showcase your creations.

Scraptacular are proud to announce the details of the first ever "SO YOU THINK YOU CAN SCRAP 2008" competition. Join us as our Award Winning Design Team challenge you week by week until Australia’s voting public (fellow scrappers) narrow it down to Australia’s Favourite Scrapper... It could be you!Follow us through four weeks of heats where entrants will be given scrapeography (yes, just like choreography) to create gorgeous layouts. After a few rounds of voting we will be left with a bunch of talented finalists, who will go on, round by round, delving through different 'genres' chosen by our Design Team.Our talented Design Team will create example layouts to suit every genre week by week as extra inspiration for the entrants and watch out for Guest Designers every few weeks for added spark! Aside from the prestige of winning this competition, Australia's favourite scrapper will take home a prize pack consisting of a Making Memories SLICE Machine Starter Pack valued at $330 PLUS a $250 Scrapping Pack supplied by Bumble Bee Crafts. The winner will also have the option of joining the Scraptacular Award Winning Design Team. Their entries from the Grand Finale will be showcased on the Scraptacular home page and an email to all Scraptacular customers will go out introducing this scrapper to the world.What are you waiting for? This could be YOU! Sign up now!! For all the rules please visit scraptacular !

Scrap of Faith Retreat.We have planned a great weekend for you - scrapping, fellowship, a theme night, classes, goody bags with a special T-Shirt, worship and lots of laughs - and most importantly ... NO COOKING OR CLEANING!! The theme for the weekend is "His Princess" so expected to be treated like royalty WHEN Friday the 7th to Sunday the 9th of November 2008 WHERE Fred erick Marsden Youth Centre10 Narangba Rd, Kallangur, Queensland http://www.fmyc.org.au/ COST Weekend: With Accommodation $150 Without Accommodation $115 Extras: Pillow & linen hire $22 Towels & face washer hire: $16.50

Scrapping Outback is bringing another new release to there shelves this weekend. This time you will find some funky cupcakes that look good enough to eat. Along with our very own release we will also have in stock the new release from Scrap FX which includes owls, titles and more. VERY HOT PRODUCTS...that will be sure to fly out the door, so be quick. Also this weekend come and join the fun of Julies Scrap Weekend which will invole three scrapping challenges and a game of BINGO!! Prizes and Raks to be won. Do not forget there are only a few days left to register in the seven week "Chipboard School"..... huge prizes to the value of $200 to be won. Teachers include Rusty Pickles Rachelle Minett, Prima's Ingvild Bolme and Iris Babao Uy...plus our very own Sandra Gerdes, Nicole Pomeroy, Louise Nelson and Raechelle Bellus. http://www.scrappingoutback.com.au/