Welcome to the first newsletter for this year!
DEAL OF THE WEEK
This week our ONE CENT DEAL are Kaisercraft Rub-ons for only 1 cent if you spend more than $30 excluding postage in the store. (*while stock lasts) here. Spend $60, choose 2 etc
SALE
All Kaisercraft papers are now 37c.
All Christmas products including papers, die cuts, ribbons, stickers, stamps and more reduced by up to 75%. Papers as low as 36c.
Also check out the Clearance section. Some real bargains to be had!
No other discounts, deals or coupons apply.
DT NEWS
We welcome the wonderful Rachael Merrick on board. Rach has been whipping us into shape with her Biggest Loser food focus and incidental exercise ideas. Rach will continue her pursuit to have us all feeling fit, healthy and organized in her Relentless Rachaels Rambles 
section in the forum. Here is a little bit about Rach.Scrap Space: I have a study nook, no bigger than 2mx2m. Not ideal but it will do. It has a desk, my sewing machine, my guillotine and a filing cabinet which holds the majority of my scrapping gear. At least I can close the door to a big mess!
Scrap Style: I have no idea what my style is. I guess I like to try new things, I try to mix brands and use plenty of embellishements. I enjoy using patterns as background and hardly use plain cardstock any more. Overall though I guess my style would be described as clean with detail.
Fav Colour: This is a tough one. At the moment I am enjoying using lots of colour in general. I don’t scrap with purple or green often. Blues seem to dominate my scrap gear.
Can't Scrap Without: my double sided tape. I find it so easy, just tear off a piece and use it to stick stuff down, so much less messy than glue!
Inspiration: I am constantly surfing blogs for inspiration. I find a lot of my ideas sprout just from looking through magazines and other peoples work. I like to try new things and am always experimenting, try to mimick stuff I have seen elsewhere. I especially love the manufacturers blogs – prima and cosmo cricket always spark my interest.
Perfect Day: plodding around the house doing nothing. Not too hot, cool enough for jeans and tshirt. Having the kids in the background with my computer on and playing with paper!
Perfect Holiday: We’ve been to a lot of places but I think Melbourne will always call me back. I love the lifestyle, a little bohemian, lots of window shopping, gardens to stroll, coffee shops to explore with some art and history thrown in. I think that’s why I loved Paris and Rome so much. Its all about culture for me.
Fav Food: Pasta. I could eat pasta most days if only my waist would allow it.
Fav Drink: Pepsi Max/diet coke if its hot, or a good skinny hazelnut latte if its cold. Of course champagne and margaritas are for night time and holidays J
Can't Live Without: It sounds clique, but I really can’t live without my family. Particularly my husband. He is my rock, my sounding board and knows me better than anyone.
JANUARY MONTHLY CHALLENGE
This month challenge comes from Lydell.
You'll find details on how to enter the challenge in the Designer Zonez.
Upload your entry into the Monthly Challenge Gallery (using MC005 in your title) before 11:59pm AEST Jan 31, 2010 for your chance to win a $15 SCRAPZ.BIZ shopping voucher.
JANUARY TICKLEZ
This month's Ticklez is full of Lucy Bird goodness and lots of other goodies from 11 different companies including Maya Road, Prima and more. How cute is that little Lucy Bird stamp? Valued at $46.30 it is a steal for just $29.95.
All uploads into the appropriate TICKLEZ gallery by midnight February 28, 2010 will automatically go into a lucky draw for a $10 shopping voucher. Our favourite submission for that month will receive a $15 shopping voucher.
SCRAPZ BIGGEST LOSER
All BL projects and missions have to be completed by midnight Sunday, January 24 and have to be listed in your tally. If you haven't set up a tally yet, please do this as soon as possible here. Don't leave it to the last minute.
Remember that you need to complete a minimum of 3 in each category to go into the draw for the prize/voucher packs. The 3 Biggest Loser prizes and the "Queen of The Biggest Loser" prize are decided by the DT. All the prizes are listed hereWEEKLY CHALLENGEZ
This week we return to our Weekly Challenges. This year we have a new weekly challenge to help you 'cook up a storm' scrap wise. Each week will be giving you a list of ingredients for you to whip up, a gorgeous layout.
Welcome to 'What's cooking'.
Complete and upload one of the challenges by Wednesday, January 27, 2009 and you will be in the running for one of the two prizes below.
(You will receive one ticket for every submission) Winners will be announced in next week's newsletter.
This week's prizes are a packet of Sassafras Monstrosity Paper Whimsies and some felties.
FETCH A SKETCH FAS013 by Lydell Quin
WHAT'S COOKING WC013 by Melleny Ams
NOTEWORTHY NW013 by Sheree Forcier
BUILD IT UP BIU013 by Jen Sweatman
DOCUMENT WITH DEB
Hi Ladies,
This week's portrait tip is to Get in close....crop, crop, crop.
This is one tip that has helped me to like my shots more.
You can get in close and 'crop' with your camera before you take the shot, or you can 'crop' whilst editing after taking the shot. Just remember, sometimes 'cropping' afterwards can cause a grainy look to your shots. Probably better to zoom in, or move closer whilst taking the shot.
Cheers,
Deb
SCRAPZ.AMOUR starts on February 3!
Happy scrapping,
The SCRAPZ.BIZ TEAM