**Sponsor Update - Purple Pumpkin**

If you love handmade buttons and embellishments, make sure you check the Purple Pumpkin blog at 7.30pm AEST tonight, Friday 1st October.

All new buttons and embellie kits will be available then, but you need to be quick, because once they're gone, you'll have to wait til the next update to get your hands on some more!

October 1st Sketch

Welcome to a new month. We are debuting our new 8.5 x 11 designers, Tara and Louise, this month and you can see that they have slotted in perfectly with our current CT members.

The Sketch:

Alicia:

Amanda:

Charmane:

Chloe:

Colleen:

Crystal:

Jasmine:

Karen:

Kirsten:

Louise:

Sarah:

Suzanna:

Tara:

Entries are to be added to the link box in the sidebar no later than midnight October 31st to be in the running for one of our fabulous monthly prizes.

We can't wait to see your layouts.

**Sponsor Update - Red Earth Scrapping**

Get in quick for the last days of our SPRING SALE - 20% off a huge range of products including Prima, Fancy Pants, Pink Paislee and more. See our HOME PAGE for all the details and dont forget to use the code SPRING20 during check out to receive your discount.
SALE will end on 30th September to get in quickly!!!

And just around the corner is PINK month at Red Earth Scrapping. That's right, we're turning PINK for the month of October in support of the Cancer Council's Pink Ribbon Day fundraising.

There will be loads of activities on our site during the month including raffles and giveaways PLUS our very first ONLINE CLASS with our Creative Team Member MISTRA. She has put together the most divine selection of gorgeous products from the brand new Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology range plus some Prima pretties, and loads of bling. The Class Kit is available in store HERE for just $41.95 and includes all materials plus instructions. You can find more details about the class in our forum HERE. Red Earth Scrapping is also donating 10% of the class kit to our Pink Ribbon Day Fundraising - everyone wins here so be quick to get your kit as there are limited numbers.

See you all at Red Earth Scrapping !!!

Announcing....

Thank you to those of you who applied for our 8.5 x 11 CT call. We had a great response and the decision was difficult.

We have selected two new 8.5 x 11 designers and they are:

Louise Nelson 

About me, well I have been scrapbooking for 5 years now and I love it more and more everyday. I especially love the friendships I have made through his fabulous craft. I love to create at every spare opportunity, so much so that I do something scrap related almost every day. I am very much a hands-on type of creative so will probably always remain mostly a traditional scrapper.

When I am not creating I work full-time as an Operating Room Nurse. I work for Adelaide’s main Specialist Perioperative Nursing Agency, and as such go to a different hospital nearly every day. I mostly work in 3-4 of Adelaide’s major Public Hospitals and 1 of the main/larger Private Hospitals. I tend to get most of my work in the areas of Adult Trauma, and occasionally in Paediatric Trauma and emergency Obstetric and Gynaecology; in the Public Sector, and mostly ENT, Head and Neck Surgery; in the Private Sector. I truly love my profession and cant think of a more satisfying or fulfilling job that I would rather be doing at this moment in time!

Whilst this job can be pretty physically and mentally demanding, I try to keep a good ’work-life’ balance, and scrapbooking helps me to do that.

http://louise-justloolabelle.blogspot.com/

 Tara Scobie

 I am 28 years old, living with my partner Mark and our 3 beautiful kids in country NSW, which I love, it's such a pretty place to call home! I love to take photo's, my favourite subjects being my kids, my brand new little niece, and all the weird and wonderful things around us! I also work part time as a florist, so I get to be creative at work as well as home!

http://tara153.blogspot.com/

The girls will be providing samples from October 1st, so check back to see their creations then.

** Sponsor Update - Scrapbook Savvy**

ONE YEAR TILL RETREAT! Thats right, this weekend is 1 year exactly until the 2011 Savvy Delights Retreat booked for the weekend of 16-18 September 2011. Stay tuned for further info including registration, xmas club payment options, and a BIG SURPRISE regarding our retreat stay...plus all the usual fun of a cybercrop - challenges, bingo, prizes & more!

Starting Friday night 17 September 2010 in the forum. See you there!

Cheers,
Sar W

September 15th Sketch

Are you ready for a new sketch?

I hope that you can find some time before the end of the month to have a go at our next sketch. The CT have done a great job as always.

The Sketch:

Alicia:

Amanda:

Charmane:

Chloe:

Colleen:

Crystal:
OUT FOR PUBLICATION

Jasmine:

Karen:

Kirsten:

Sarah:

Suzanna:

Entries are to be added to the link box in the sidebar no later than midnight September 30th to be in the running for one of our great monthly prizes.


Happy Scrapping!

*Sponsor Update - Red Earth Scrapping**

You're all invited to Red Earth Scrapping for our very first CYBER CROP!!!

Join us from this Friday, 17th September for 6 days of papercrafting challenges to "Celebrate Spring".

Our Creative Team have some fabulous ideas up their sleeves, and there'll also be a photography challenge and treasure hunt.
Of course there'll be plenty of prizes and shop vouchers up for grabs so make sure you join us.
Check the forum HERE for all the details.

Our Weekly Challenges are also continuing as normal. Make sure you check out Mistra's Lift & Twist challenge,

And dont forget which Sketches we'll be using for the sketch challenge in our weekly challenges, it's double the chance of winning actually.

Happy scrapping all!!!

Cheers,
Helen.

CT Call - 8.5 x 11 Scrappers

Are you an 8.5 x 11 Scrapper?

With the impending introduction of 8.5 x 11 sketches to Stuck?!, we are looking at expanding our current team.

I'm looking for two new creative team members. It is essential that you scrap predominately in this size.

**NB. You are required to start immediately, with our October sketches. I will send out the sketches on your receipt of your acceptance email and they will be due at midnight September 29th.

Requirements:

Please read these carefully, I can not consider any applications that are missing information/requirements.

1. Send an e-mail addressing the following:
a. full name
b. location
c. blog link
d. Any current or previous DT work/DTs that you are on and publications ( no experience is necessary, I am just nosey)
e. a short bio
f. a few short sentences about why you want to be on the CT

Entries are to be emailed to stucksketches@optusnet.com.au . Please put STUCK?! CREATIVE TEAM APPLICATION in the subject line.

Entries must be received by midnight EST on September 22nd. The two new members will be contacted by September 23rd and will be announced on September 25th.

Expectations:
* Your term will run from the October 2010 until January 2011 sketches. You will receive your first sketches immediately and your final sketches during the month of December 2010.
*Each CT member will be required to submit 2 LOs per month. At the beginning of the current month, I will send you both new sketches for the following month and it will be due late in the current month.
* CT members are expected to remain exclusive to Stuck?! Sketches for their CT period. We are not able to accept applicants who are current CT members for other sketch blogs / sites. You are free to design for other challenge blogs, manufacturers, stores and magazines.
* You must maintain a current blog. Word of mouth is the only way people will know about Stuck?! and you must be willing to promote Stuck?! on your blog.
* Positions will be held for until the end of the current period and members will be required to reapply at the end of the term to continue on.
*CT members should use the Stuck?! blinkie and promote Stuck?! where ever and when ever possible! I want each CT member to be proud to be a member and to spread the word around!!!

International scrappers may apply.

If you have any questions, please email them to me and I will answer them as soon as I can.

Birthday Celebrations Winners

Thank you to everyone who took part in our birthday celebrations.

We had some extra sponsors and prizes to give away, so without further fuss.

Drawn by random draw, the winners are:

Bonus Sketch #1
receiving a $10 voucher to What Is Old Is New kits
Kerry Snell

Bonus Sketch #2
receiving a $10 voucher to Sweet Peach Crop Shop
Audrey Yeager

Blog Hop
receiving a $15 voucher to Kimmie Prout Designs
The winning word was CELEBRATE! 
Tone Jensen

Congratulations to all our winners. Can you please email me at stucksketches@optusnet.com.au to claim your prize.

August Winners

Thank you to everyone who took part in our August monthly sketches. I am blown away by the response every month and love to see so many layouts created from the same sketches.

There can only be 3 prize winners though and this month, they are:

Receiving a $25 voucher from Scrapdango:
TesaB

Receiving a $15 voucher to Precocious Paper:
Anthea

Receiving a $10 voucher to Scrapbook Savvy:
Samantha

Congratulations to all our winners. Can you please email me at stucksketches@optusnet.com.au to claim your prize.

There is still time to enter our birthday bonus sketches and the blog, would love to see some more entries.

** Sponsor Update - Red Earth Scrapping**

Hi everyone, I'm Helen Kinsela and I'd like to invite you along to a brand new papercrafting website, RED EARTH SCRAPPING.
My little baby is just one month young but I am really excited to be supporting this fabulous sketch challenge blog.

I hope you will join the wonderful group of Red Earth members in our forum and gallery and also find some special goodies for yourself in our shop. We have a great variety of products and kits to suit every taste and every budget and during September I am expecting loads and loads of new stock including the ever faithful and gorgeous Prima, the always inspiring October Afternoon and the bright and cheery Sassafras Lass, to mention a few.

The Red Earth Scrapping Creative Team and I do our best to keep you inspired with lots of samples in our gallery, and our Weekly Challenges too. Each Monday morning a new challenge is revealed and you have until the last Sunday night of the month to upload at least 3 of the 4 weekly challenges to be in the running for an awsome monthly prize, a $30 shop voucher! One of the weekly challenges is a sketch challenge, and I'm sure you cant possibly guess where the sketches will come from for the next few months? LOL. So make sure when you've uploaded your entry here, you pop across to the Red Earth Scrapping gallery and put it in there too.

Our forum is a wonderful place for inspiration, but also a fun and friendly place to hang out and chat. Everyone is welcome to join in here - the more the merrier! Come and tell us about your day, share a tip or trick with other papercrafters, or make us giggle with a joke or funny story. Dont be shy joining in. Although our site is new, it is already quite a happening little place with a great group of ladies who have made it their online home for papercrafting. I hope you will find a home with us there too.

If there's any particular products you're trying to track down, please dont hesitate to ask me. And if you have any queries about my site or the shop, just give me a yell.

Good luck everyone with the Stuck Sketches!!!

Cheers,
Helen.