July Challenge

“Real Men (or Boys) don’t…”

Whether you have heard the saying or not I would like you to take inspiration from the saying “real men don’t eat quiche” for this months layout.

Basically I would like you to create a layout capturing your boys doing things that may be the most masculine…so a little bit on the "girly" side...you know maybe it is a secret thing for pink, them in some girly dress-ups, makeup, flowers in there hair… we all have those photos that you think “hmmm that will be a good one for their 21st birthday party…lol”

Anyway now is the time to drag them out and put them on paper…If you don’t have any photos maybe you could journal about it instead…document it before it is forgotten.

Criteria is to start your title with “real men (or boys) don’t….” (mind pink; look bad in heels…etc)

Sorry for the delay in posting this ...I hope you all have fun and I can’t wait to see your layouts.

Creative team Reveal:

Amy Welch - Real boys love teddy bears

Anna Koziarek - Real boys don't care about the haircut

Aphra Boyler - Real men don't mind pink

Hannah Blair - Real men don't mind dressing up!

Hayley Turner - Real boys don't need bibs

Kerryn Fry - Real Boys don't mind satin

Leanne Triggs - Real Boys don't do frilly shower caps

Wendy Smith - Real boys look good in a dress

Linda Eggleton - Real Men Don't feel any Shame...

Monique Follet - Real Boys pick flowers

Nahdrah Maidin - Real Boys don't ...

Pia Lopez - Real boys don't shop?

Wendela Lam

Last of the entries for the June Challenge

Lisa Balm - legomania

Marieke - Awsome Valerie Gehrke - Patiently

Jodi Voute - Toy Time Amy Oxford - Doodlepro

Sam Girardot - at one with nature

Emily Pearce - Big Boys Toys

Toni M - Summer

Taryn Stark - lego man

Erika Quinn - Wheels

Michelle - Explore

Megan Hawkins - baxaball

Quick Note

Hi all you challenge scrappers ...just a quick note to let you know I will be offline for the next 7 days therefore layouts will not be loaded over that period and there will also be a delay in posting the July challenge. I will be back on line on the 2nd July so stay tuned. Please continue to send you layouts throught to my inbox and I will post them when I am back up and running :)

Fabulous entries

Marci Negranza - Jump

Rochelle Spears - star quality

Rita S. Vergara - v-tech addict Laraine McIntosh - Cowboy

Amy Clark - Star Wars

Pearl Liu - 15.06 Sammye Jo Monroe Singer - It's a pirate life 4 me

New Creative Team Announcement

Firstly let me say the standard of the applications I recieved was outstanding...I have looked at over 85 blogs the last 2 days and read as many applications. Thank you all those of you that applied I felt overwhelmed by the interest in Scrap the Boys Creative Team Call...and I hope all those that applied "play along" in the challenges of the next 6 months and reapply next call as I had to choose 12 from the amazing response I had (as it was I couldn't so I picked 13).

So without further delay... here is the talented team for July to December 2009.

Wendy Smith – Australia
Amy Welch - Arkansas USA
Kerryn Fry - Australia
Anna Koziarek - Poland
Leanne Triggs - Australia
Hayley Turner - Australia
Aphra Bolyer - Louisiana USA
Pia Salem – Lopez - Philippines.
Hannah Blair - New Zealand
Wendela Lam – The Netherlands
Nadhrah Maidin – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Linda Eggleton – Australia
Monique Follet – Australia

So congratulations on making the team ladies and I look forward to seeing what inspiration you all bring to us over the coming months challenges.

Stay tuned for a little more information about the new team members over the next few days. And again thank you to all of you that applied it warms my heart to see so many scrappers rocking those boy layouts...

more gorgeous work

Margie Cortina - What toys?

Brigitte van der Linden - you are a star

Stephanie Yanik - wheel obsessed

Fantastic layouts

Angie Gray - Meet Emily
Kellie Daley - Boys and their Toys
Anne Patterson - Music Man
Diana Fisher - He thinks he can fly

Tara Orr - ...Family

Kerry Lloyd - he loves books

Alison Hartley - my 2 boys Anna Koziarek - Start

Ceci Bell - He's got...

More beautiful work

Kristi B - new scooter

Peg Hewitt - tall towers

Jocelyn - hang on

Joanne Caird - Laptop whiz

Linda Eggleton -... in you genes

Susan Bourgeois - Muddin

First of the entries

Helen Hollinger - beach toys

Hanneke Nauta - he loves to play soldier boy

Natasja de Roode - ball boy

Lisa Kamphius - on ya bike

Shelley Barnard - Big Tractor

Scrapping Her Boys

Scrapping her boys this month is Hayley Turner...our winner from Aprils Challenge.

I am a working Mum to Isabelle (3yrs) and Nate (12mths) who are definitely my total inspiration for scrapbooking!! I started scrapping about two and a half years ago when my first daughter was about 3 months old. I always knew that I wanted to keep all my treasured memories and milestones of my children but never really knew how. It was only when I was introduced to scrapbooking that I knew this was how I would go about it.

Probably for the first 2 years it was just a craft that I enjoyed doing if I got any free time and then about twelve months ago I think the addiction really kicked in and now I pretty much scrap in all my free time!! I am totally addicted to challenge blogs at the moment and always on the lookout for a new challenge/inspiration.

I had always scrapped girls till I had my son and found the pages came together fairly easily. For the first 6mths after having Nate I struggled and struggled to get a boy's layout at a level I would be happy with, then someone told me about "Scrap the Boys" to give me some inspiration and since joining in on the last 3 challenges I feel I have finally found my way....although I was extremely shocked....yet very pleased to have been the winner on April's Inspiration challenge!

So a big thanks to Susan and her team for the fantastic challenges every month and I look forward to joining in on many more.

WINNERS!!!

Anna Koziarek

Congratulations you have won the First Prize (decided by creative team vote)of a $30 Voucher to spend at Wicked Princesses Kits

Tara Orr

Congratulations you have won the Second Prize (decided by public poll)$15 Voucher to spend at Love Scrappin'

Frances Sylvia

Congratulations you have won Third Prize$15 Voucher to spend at Scrapbooking from Scratch

The random draw prize is a gorgeous pack from Tracy at my2angels goes to

Anne Patterson

So What is up for grabs in June:

First Prize (decided by creative team vote)$20 Voucher to spend at Scrap-a-while

Second Prize (decided by public poll) TBA

Third Prize (decided by random draw)$20 voucher to spend at Mystical Scrapbooks

Along with a random draw prize of a gorgeous pack of boy ribbons and charms from my2angels

Creative Team Call

Scrap the boys is looking for fresh faces on the creative team starting in June. So.....

Do you have boys?
Do you feel you can inspire others to get those boy pages done?
Can you commit to 1 layout a month?
Sounds easy doesn't it...well it is ...so apply.

How?
Send me:

1. a paragraph about you, your boys and your scrapping.
2. 3 recent boy layouts
3. your location (international applicants welcome)
4. link to your blog / online gallery

Applications close 17th June Midnight. Email applications to Susan.Longman@bigpond.com