Todays entry comes from.....

Dale Tiernan - Book Club Dinner

Hi Shazza,

Thanks for the nice, easy challenge this month. I've met all the criteria. My book club meets once a month to discuss the book of the month. In December we meet for dinner to celebrate Christmas. You can see the yummy dessert I had.

If anyone wants to know the ingredients I've used to create this page please see my blog www.daleys-dailies.blogspot.com for that information.

Kind regards,

Dale

Hey Dale! this is a sweet (pun!) little page!! Your dessert looks yummo. A great idea to use your christmas get together with book club for your theme. Great title and lovely pp used here! Well done - Shazza

We have another entry today from....

Peg Hewitt -pjth

had a play with the Jan. 
challenge over the weekend :-)
Peg

What a great little page Peg! 

I love the journaling. 

What a cute bubba was 'pjth' back in 1990.

Goergeous flags across the corner

Well done Peg!! I love it!!

Cheers

Shazza

Another great inspirational entry.....

Lizzy Crust - 21

Hi Shazza,
i have just done the challenge for January.. 
i have a celebration - my daughters 21st.
i have 3 or more people - my family
i have food - the cake in the bottom corner of the photo..
thanks for inspiring me to scrap my daughters 21st which was 

taken 2 and a half years ago.. eek where does the time go!!
my blog addy is http://crumbsofcreativity.blogspot.com/ if 

anyone would like to pop over i would love to see you!!
hope you are having a great day! 
xxx lizzy

Hi Lizzy! I'm so glad you got an opportunity to scrap a page

of one of your daughters 21st photos! 

I love all your clustering in the corner, and how you used 

beautiful soft colors to enhance your black and white 

photo!

I also love how you used the lettered beads :) 

Well done!! - Shazza

Ooh! look at this next entry from....

Julene Matthews - Life

Hi Shazza, I made this layout after a friend recently got remarried. I went for elegant rather than cluttered as I wanted to fit the 5 photos on the page.It answers all the criteria and the colours are reminiscent of Renoir as it was an afternoon wedding.That cake was delicious! Thanks,Julene Matthews

Lovely page Julene!. love the blue shades and the 5 photos on the page look great! Love your little 'Life' quote....how true! Thanks for joining in this month. Cheers Shazza

Here is another great entry......

Sue McVeigh - Chocolate Fountain

Hey Shazza,
 
Happy New Year!!!!  Here is my submission for the Renoir 

challenge, a very
simple page of a celebration, people and food......

a few of my favourite
things!
 
Cheers, Sue McVeigh

What a yummy Page! Great idea for the challenge Sue :) 

I bet the kids enjoyed their chocolate fountain.

Thanks for joining in this month. Cheers shazza

Another great inspirational entry.....

Jenn Fawkes - Meet My Cousins

Hi Shazza, thanks for another great inspiration painting for January.

Here is my entry, from our Christmas celebration where the 5 siblings and their families got together (all in the same place at the same time) for the first time in 15 years. I have a 'celebration', 'a group of people' and some 'food' (that represents the teenagers.

Looking forward to seeing what the other participants come up with.

Jen Fawkes

Great entry for the challenge Jen. Love the pp's you have used, the stitching and all the little added food embellies.I Love the three different fonts you have used in your title.....and a lovely photo of the cousins you have used. Well done! Cheers Shazza

Our first entry for the month comes from.....

Karen Williams - Its Gourmet Time

HI Shazza
 
Love this new challenge
 
My effort is called "its gourmet time"
Its from this New Year's Eve and shows us sharing a "gourmet 

schotel" with our 
friend. They are VERY popular here in the Netherlands for 

celebrations like 
Easter, Christmas, New Year and Sinterklaas. I'd never seen 

one until we arrived 
here. Anyway I have included the celebration- New Year's, 

the three people and 
the food ( although most of it has gone by the time I took 

the picture!) 

- Karen **

Thanks for your entry Karen,its turned out a treat. 

I love the way you have left the open space, great photos.

Have never heard of a 'gourmet schotel' sounds interesting!

Love the masking of the letters across the page too!

Well done - Shazza 

** Sorry your sentences have come out strange but no matter 

what i try i cant fix them, it may be the font you use when you 

send your email through to me...I'm not sure!

Our Guest DT, Nicole's submission......

C & L in Love

I was so excited when you asked me to be a guest DT member, but when I found out the painting would be Luncheon of the Boating Party I was extra excited because I've seen it in real life!  I was shocked to discover it is actually a very big painting (over 4 feet tall!).

Diva Demanded a celebration with 3 or more people and food, so I immediately thought of my niece's wedding reception pictures that I still hadn't scrapped from June.  They are such a sweet couple!  I picked out some polka dot letter stickers to use since I think of Renoir as a "dotty" kind of painter.

Happy Holidays!
Nicole

Meet our Guest DT for January......

Nicole - aka Captain Jack Sparrow

Here is some information about Nicole :)

Hello everyone!  My name is Nicole and I teach first grade.  I'm married with 2 fur kids and I live in Arizona.

I started scrapbooking after I went to a Creative Memories party with my sister in 1997.  It wasn't until I saw Elsie Flannigan's scrapbook pages in Creating Keepsakes magazine that I had a scrapbooking revolution and discovered my own kind of style.  Combined with challenge blogs like ARTastic, Elsie has been a big inspiration.  My favorite supplies/addictions are patterned paper and letter stickers, and I love journaling!
We just finished tearing out the carpet and painting my scrapbook room so I'm ready to get scrappin again!
Thank you Shazza for the honor of being a Guest Design Team gal!
XOXO
Nicole

My blog addy is: www.paperbackpirate.blogspot.com

Here are some of Nicole's favoutite layouts that she is sharing with us :) 

Art in the Park 

Gilligan Hat 

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Thanks for sharing you layouts with us, I think my favourite would be Gilligans Hat...I just loved that show!

Your Gilligans Hat suits you to a T!!

Please make Nicole welcome as our Guest DT this month.

Shazza 's submission.....

Christmas Day Lunch 2010

Our Family Christmas Day lunch 2010

From Left around the table: Brother - Craig, Sister-in-law - Linda, Daughter -Jenna. 

Nieces - Mim, Kahlli and Tillie, My mum - Melvie, 

then me hidden behind Hasan my partner !!

It was a great get together, as always :)

TFL

Shazza

Michelle Lark's submission......

 Celebrating Friendship

Hi Shazza,
 
Here is my LO for the January challenge. The story 

behind this photo is that Deb and I only met for 

the first time in August at a scrapbooking retreat 

and we have formed a fabulous friendship. I was 

lucky enough to holiday close to where she lives 

a month later and we caught up again a few times. 

Here we are on Father's Day 2010 having lunch at 

a lovely cafe with her hubby Pete 

(taking the photo) in Nana Glen. 

Technically there are 4 people in the photo, 

I have used some cute little food embellishments 

and the celebration is either Father's Day or as 

I have stated in the title, this photo is a 

celebration of our fabulous friendship. I love 

how this one turned out even though I had no 

idea what I was going to scrap when I set the 

challenge!
 
Cheers!
Shelee

Sarah Cooper's submission....

Thanksgiving

mmmm... food! What a good topic. :O)
I decided to scrap the King of all Foodie-Celebrations: Thanksgiving.
We always have a veritable herd of family over, on top of the herd that already live under our roof. lol
Table laden down with a feast of:
ham, turkey, potatoes, turnip, carrots, olives, apples, cranberry sauce, corn relish, pineapples, salad and buns.
This is always my eldest son Arthur's favorite part: the food.
Though all da boyz kinda hang around, underfoot, as my Mom & I are getting the buffet meal laid out.

Robin Jenkin's submission......

Celebrate

Hi Shazza, Hope all is well with you!  Attached is January's submission.  Every August, my brother-in-law and his family come to visit my mother-in-law and our family here in Florida.  We usually have a barbecue in our backyard, but this year we did something different--we went Japanese!  We went to our local restaurant and had a grand time.  I had a hard time taking pictures in the restaurant that evening and they are not very clear but I hope I still conveyed the fun we had that evening!  I used Studio Calico November kit to create this LO! Best regards, Robin

Peggy Schenkel's submission....

New Friends

This last summer, I had the good fortune to be able to meet two of my all-time favourite scrappers and online friends, Jenneke and Jeanet.  We had a lovely time shopping for scrap supplies, talking, laughing and just getting to know each other.  We ended off by having dinner together (pics with food!!!).  By the end of the day, I felt I had made some new friends!  I guess you could say that that day we were celebrating online friendships becoming real life friendships!

Hugs

xxx Peggy

 

Melissa O'Neill's sub.....

 Happy Birthday

Dear Shazza,

Had a lot of fun with this challenge, it is Nate's birthday this month so going back 1 year ago (can you believe a year already) it was his 3rd birthday, so it was only fitting to scrap his day of celebrations, there was several cakes over the course of the day and family in the photos. I hope you like my layout trying a collage. Love Melxx

Megan Vin's submission....

"Dessert, and Then That's Christmas Wrapped Up"

Hi all, 
Ahhh, a New Year, how refreshing! :) Here is my 

page, it features our christmas dessert time. 

All of us are concentrating on the food and 

not even aware of the camera. I felt the 

painting really captured a moment like this one. 

I've used the colour range too in my layout, 

representing the warmth of family together and 

of course the Australian heat filled christmas! 

I also cut up some christmas catalogues too 

and it features a bright orange doily I found 

at an op shop last year for 30 cents! I did 

some pencil work and paint for the background. 

There's also a gold earring from the 80's in 

there. Hope you have fun with this painting 

this month, it's a really inspiring piece!
Happy New Year!
M

Lisa Hanrahan's submission....

Sweet

My layout is called "Sweet". This was a lovely challenge and I thought the extra criteria were fantastic! I scrapped a photo of my girls and my Mum while we celebrated Caitlyn's birthday... she is the one without the crown. I have all of the criteria covered - three people, a celebration and I have food (cupcakes) on the gorgeous Webster's paper. I added some pretty flowers too. I really enjoyed having some time to scrap again! Cheers, Vanilla  xxx

Debi Clarks submission

 Fab Fun Friends

Hi Shazza,
 
What a gorgeous painting by Renoir, Luncheon of the 

Boating Party! I have loved looking at it, whilst I 

was scrapping my page & seeing all the elements that 

make it up to be a masterpiece.  Love the movement 

of the subjects, their happiness, the table adorned 

with food & wine & I actually took note of all the 

many different hats too.
 
So I have used a Christmas photo of a group of my 

friends at their decorated table with their emptying 

glasses & nibbles in plates, in our elf & Santa 
outfits for our annual Trivia Christmas celebration. 

I have used Christmas colours, with flowers, ribbon, 

lace & doileys to set the scene. 
 
Once again, thank you for a great challenge. 

I enjoyed working on this, for sure!
 
Cheers, Deb xx

Angie A's submission

 Welcome to the world - Brooke

 

Hello Shazza....

Sorry I am making it just under the deadline.  but I had in my head that I wanted to do a layout about the new grandbaby  and well

she was just born Tuesday December 28, 12:24 pm....and I just got home late last night from MD to be at the birth....

Here in her first layout I'd like you to meet Brooke Noelle McGowan....8 lbs.  14.4 oz   21 inches long..She is my 3 grandchild

the first baby for my daughter & her hubby...I had to go back and think if I meet all the requirements....and I am pretty sure I did

celebration.....check.....

3 or more people.....check

food.....check.....bottle plus  mommy will be breast feeding  so mommy is the food.....I know that one is a stretch...oh well

call it lack of sleep the past few days....

Happy New Year all

angie

Amanda Taylor's January submission

Every day with a Great Grandparent is a Celebration

hi Shazza, here is my layout using the 'renoir' painting 'luncheon with the boating party'...................i loved that painting, and the added criteria, i chose to use a photo of my boys meeting their great grandfather(my grandfather) for the 1st time in a long time, and that when a great grandparent gets to be in their 80's and beyond then really every day with them is a celebration, and a milestone not to be overlooked......................ive got a celebration pic, more than 3 people in the pic and my food is the icecreams that the boys are eating and even included an ice cream stick pin..................thanks, hope you like this

Here are the winners of Decembers The Mystical Nativity' by Boteculli

Hi Everyone! The votes are in and I can now announce our winners for the month. Thankyou to all the ladies that participated, I loved looking through all the entries in the one blog. You have all done an outstanding Job :)

We had 11 entries for the month, unfortunately two entries came in after the deadline. We had two newbies, Jessica Wyllie and Helene Bogren. Thanks everyone for taking the time to submit your entries, we love seeing all the different art work each month :)

......................so without further ado.....

The Picture This winner for  December is 

Lizzy Crust

with her entry

The Angel and the Shepherd Boy

Congratulations Lizzy!

You have won the Christmas Scrap Pack from 'Old Favourtie Vintage Supplies'

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Pictur this Runner UP! 

winner is

Lean de Ruiter

with her entry

'Happy Holidays

Congrats Lean! You have won

the 'Joyous Kit' donated by me

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The Random Draw Prize goes to Helene Bogren

with her entry

Sankta Lucia

Congrats Helene!! You have won some A2Z scraplets

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Curators 'Choice Award' goes to

Jessica Whyllie for her entry 

Jessica, Jordan and Isaac

Reason - Jessica did a marvelous job of the challenge. I love how she just added a roof to her photo to iminate a stable. Well done!

You have won the 'Honey and Hugs' Docrafts Pack :)

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The winner of the Randon Draw prize 

donated by DT member Deb Clark 

has been won by 

Nicole

With her entry

BARN

Congrats Nicole - you have won a RAk of goodies!

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The Guest DT Rak

donated by Peg Hewitt

(and picked by Peg herself)

has been won by

Julene Matthews 

with her entry

'I believe in Angels'

Congrat! Julene!! you have won a swag of goodies!

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The DT sub vote goes to

Melissa O'Neill

with her submission

Four Years Ago a Child was Born

Congrats Melissa, you have won a rak from me

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HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!!

Well another month out the way....and now on to January 2011r!!!!

A big thankyou to all the December sponsors,
your donations are much appreciated by all of us at ARTastic

SPONSORS for November

A2Z scraplets

Old Favourites Vintage supplies

Peg Hewitt - Guest Dt RAK

Deb Clark - RAK of goodies

'Curators Choice' Award and 'Picture This' Runner UP! prizes donated by Shazza


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Thankyou to all the ladies that took the time to enter this month,

Thankyou to Peg for being our Guest DT for the month,
and adding some great comments to the entries during the month.

Thankyou to my DT members, who submitt the most inspiring work

We hope to see you all back again with some great entries for our 'Lucheon of the boating Party by Renoir

Could all the winners please email me their home addresses to:
shazzaalleyes@hotmail.com
so I can get all your prizes organised :)

Apologies - I'm having computer problems with my network connection so this post has been hurried to get uploaded, - I will add the prizes tomorrow if all is well!

cheers
Shazza

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We have a late entry....

Helene Bogren -Sankta Lucia

Hi Shazza!

I’m so glad I found this Challenge Blog! What a wonderful way to introduce challenges in! Unfortunately I missed that the deadline was on the 29^th and not on the 31^st of December. As I did this layout for this challenge I email you the picture anyway…

The photo is of my daughter celebrating the Swedish festival Saint Lucia at the 13^th of December. Saint Lucia goes perfect with angels, gold embossing and stables. This is my way of interpreting Botticelli’s painting and your challenge.

Best regards

Helene

Hi Helene, I'm so sorry your entry was late, you've done a great job of the challenge...love all the angels surrounding the pic. A beautiful photo of your daughter and just perfect for the Botticelli theme. Well done - Cheers Shazza 

We have a last minute entry from.....

Sue McVeigh - Three Wise Men and Angel

hey Shazza, did you not receive my submissions????? 

I am currently away and having trouble sending 

emails. if it's too late, that's fine. 

Cheers, Sue

Hey Sue! Your entry popped into my email, right 

on the deadline :( 

I was too tired to upload it last night...sorry!!

You have done a great page and that photo is 

the best!!

Your title is awesome!

Cheers

shazza 

Here is the Showcase of entries for 'The Mystical Nativity' by Botticelli for December....

Thanks to the nine ladies that joined in our challenge this month, I'm thankful that you all spared some time to scrap during our busiest time of the year..........its much appreciated!

We had one newbie for the month and that was 7 year old  Jessica Wyllie, who did a fantastic job of the challenge! Well done Jessica!

I will pop January's inspiration up shortly so you can all get a feel for the painting and Artist. I think you are going to love what you can do with this painting. The Design Team have put together some fantastic layouts to share, I will add them to the blog shortly.

So! Why dont all our followers have a go and start the New Year off with some of your creative talents and show us your style, we would all love to see your work whether you are a beginner , newbie to challengies or a regular entrant....why dont you make 2011 your best scrapping year ever!!

Maybe you could make it your News Years Scrapping Resolution to join us each month at ARTastic!

Here are the entries for December.......

Jane Howden - A Merry Little Christmas

Jen Fawkes - of all god's creatures

Jessica Wyllie - Jessica, Jordan and Isaac

Julene Matthews - I believe in Angels

Karen Williams - Noel

Lean de Ruiter - Happy Holidays

Lizzy Crust - The Angel and the Shepard Boy

 

Nicole - Barn

Vicky Hyninck - HOHOHO

I'm off to decide my votes.....will be back shortly

Good Luck Ladies!

TFL

Shazza