April Random Draw Winner

Hello everyone, it's time to draw our April winner!


We had some fabulous entries for our April Tic-Tac-Toe challenge! 


I have a little RAK to give away via a random draw!

Our lucky winner is Coralie Lizzy Crust

Thank you all so much for joining in!  I hope you enjoyed the challenge, and I look forward to seeing what everyone creates for our May challenge

Regards
The Bickie Team

May Colour Palette

Welcome to our May challenge. 

This month, we have a wonderful colour palette for you!  You can add a bit of white or black if you need to, but these colours need to dominate your page.

Sharon Bishop

Sharon used wood grain for her background and mainly blues and browns from the selected colours to create this gorgeous, fun page! 

Julene Matthews
Julene has created a brighter take with the moodboard colours to create this wonderful page.

Jane Howden

These colours and the woodgrain panels inspired me to create a heritage page. I also incorporated two little birds as an ode to the patterned paper in the moodboard.

Donna O'Connell

I've used the majority of the colours here with a touch of florals.
A fun day in the city (Sydney) for Father's Day 2023

Donna Cope
This range from Cocoa Vanilla was perfect with the soft blues and greens, with a pop of yellow!

My baby is all grown up now....

I hope our Creative Team has inspired you. I look forward to seeing everyone take on our May Challenge.
Our challenge is open until the end of the month, and you can upload your pages to our community page here: What In the Bickie Tin?

March Random Draw Winner

We had some fabulous entries for our March sketch challenge!

 Thank you to everyone who joined in!

I have a little RAK to give away via a random draw!

Our lucky winner  - Simera King.

April Challenge

Welcome to our April Challenge

This month we have a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge....

Choose a row, in any direction and add those items to your layout.

And here are our Creative Team pages to help inspire you...

Jane Howden

Jane chose the middle horizontal line.

Circles - Your Choice, Paint - Stamping

Donna O'Connell

Donna chose the bottom vertical line
Tearing - Stamping - Metal Charm

Sharon Bishop

Sharon chose the middle vertical line 

Flowers - Your choice, Circles - Stitching

Julene Matthews

Julene chose the top vertical line

Gold - Circles - Neutral Colours

Donna Cope

I chose the horizontal left line

Gold - Flowers - Tearing

I hope our Creative Team has inspired you. I look forward to seeing everyone take on our April Challenge.
Our challenge is open until the end of the month, and you can upload your pages to our community page here: What In the Bickie Tin?

We had some gorgeous entries for our first month back!  Thank you to everyone who join in!

I have a little RAK to give away, via random draw!

Our lucky winner by a hair!  Tracey Campbell.

March Sketch

Welcome to our March challenge :) 

We have another sketch and this time you need to add some Chipboard!

And here are our Creative Team pages to help inspire you...

Sharon Bishop

Jane Howden

Julene Matthews

Donna Cope

Hope our Creative Team has helped to inspire you, I look forward to seeing everyone take on our March Challenge.
Our challenge is open till the end of the month and you can upload your pages to our community page here - What In the Bickie Tin?

Our Creative Team

Hello everyone

Let me introduce our wonderful creative team, as we kick-start our challenges in 2025

These amazing ladies will be inspiring us this year, keeping out mojo flowing and getting though our stash! 

 

Donna O'Connell

Hi, Donna here. I started scrapping a year after my first child was born, 2002!. Totally addicted. Have given most styles a try, but I like minimalistic and quite structured designs. Love using different elements/textures. My favourite things to scrap are holidays and family.

Jane Howden

Hi, I’m Jane and live on the beautiful Central Coast of NSW. I have been scrapbooking now for over twenty years using this wonderful craft as a creative outlet and a way to preserve my family’s precious memories. My personal style has evolved over the years, but I do lean towards a clean, relatively simple design approach with a heavy emphasis on white space. I like to capture not only those special events and travels of my family but also our everyday moments too. I am a keen follower of challenges and am particularly drawn to gaining inspiration from mood boards and colour themes for my pages.

Sharon Bishop

Hi! Shazza here, and I live in Melbourne, Victoria. I have been scrapping for about fifteen years and have been on several Design teams throughout this time. I love trying different styles, and I suppose my style is just a mishmash of everything….. lol

I find mood boards give me the most inspiration. I love scrapping my grand-daughter ‘Skyla’ and my cat ‘Teddy’!

I have been a follower of ‘What’s in the Bickie Tin’ for a long time, and I’m looking forward to scrapping with my CT friends and bringing all the members some inspiration.

Julene Matthews

Hello, I'm Julene and have been scrapping for many years.  I was on "What's in the bickie tin ?" Design team previously and am delighted to return. I've tried all styles of layouts, cards and OTP but still prefer 12X12 layouts with the emphasis on the photos. I've been published several times and also exhibited my work at craft shows etc. As the family historian I scrap heritage layouts and also love doing travel layouts.

and myself, Donna Cope

I live in beautiful Perth Western Australia, with hubby and our son, and have been scrapping for over 20 years on and off.
 I have a bit of a mixed style but tend to favour pages where my photos are the focus point.
If I'm not scrapping, you can find me with a book or in the garden.

 

February Sketch+

Welcome to our first sketch for the 2025!  

February Sketch +
You can flip or rotate to suit your photos or resize if need be.

The plus requirement is to use ribbon and or twine

And here are our Creative Team pages to help inspire you...

Donna O'Connell 

Sharon Bishop

Jane Howden

Donna Cope

Hope our Creative Team has helped to inspire you, I look forward to seeing everyone take on our February Challenge.

You can upload your pages to our community page here - What In the Bickie Tin?

We Are Back!! 1st February 2025

 Our new 'just for fun' challenges will restart in February!

We look forward to inspiring you with a new fun challenge each month.  

We will upload and chat on our Facebook page, find us here - What's in the Bickie Tin

Please note that it is a public page, and as long as no one posts nasty comments or links, it will stay public.

Please welcome our 2025 Creative Team team!

Donna O'Connell

Jane Howden

Julene Mathews

Sharon Bishop

 

Looking forward to lots of fun and inspiration! Please share with your scrapping friends!

 

May Inspirations

Welcome to our May inspirations...

This month inspirations are;

• Colours -Blue -2 different shades.  Use as little or as much as you like.
• Add an Angle to your page
• Use a Die-Cut.

And here are our Creative Team pages to inspire you...

Hi Liz here with some more inspiration.  Loving the Blues in the 'Something Blue' Collection from Uniquely and perfect for this month's inspiration. ' I put the lighter blue page on an angle. Teamed with a hand made 'washi' tape flower.

Thanks for taking the time to look and cannot wait to see what you do come up with.  Until next time.

Happy Scrapping.   Liz

JANE

Used two shades of blue, angled my photo slightly and added in a number of die cuts to document a page for our Tasmania holiday album from a few years ago.

Hope you will find some time to join in with us this month.

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

April Inspirations

Welcome to our April inspiration...

This month our inspirations are;

• Colours - Pink & White.  Use as little or as much as you like.
• Add a Flower or two
• Use a stamp. 

And here are our Creative Team pages to inspire you...

LIZ

Hello and welcome, this month I embraced 'flowers',  I do not like using them too much, but thought I would not hold back doing my layout  :)

I only used a little pink, which are the bling crystals, white background which is a soft tissue, not sure the exact name for it, little word stamp and of course lots of flowers.

I hope you join in the fun this month and thanks for taking the time to look, until next time.....happy scrapping,

 Liz

JANE

I love white space - that's no secret so I have created a simple layout yet following the criteria. I've used a background stamp to create an area under my photo which normally would be patterned paper.

Hope you will find some time to join in with us this month.

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

March Inspirations

Welcome to our March inspiration

This month inspirations are;

• Colours - Green.  Use as little or as much as you like.
• Add a Circle
• Use some Ink

And here are our Creative Team pages to inspire you...

LIZ

Hello Crafting bloggers,

Today I have used my new 3 Quarter Design paper, Dejavu Collection.  It is amazing.   I used a little green  (a little hard to see in this photo) a bit of a dull day at home) and inked my old cardboard rolls (various sizes) to add some more circles.  I just love how it all turned out and just have to wait for the right photo.

Thanks for taking the time to look and trust that you are inspired by this month's criteria.  Until next time. happy scrapping.......Liz.

JANE

I decided this could be a great opportunity to use up a lot of little scraps of green paper I had in my stash and proceeded to punch circles to create my page and used a number of small embellishments to add some interest.  My background is distress ink and a stencil which I think is rather effective.

Hope you will find some time to join in with us this month.

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

                                                                          JULENE

I cut the centre out of the Ruby Rock-it circle.

Using distress ink through a mask I added small circles to my background.

There is also ink stamped butterflies on the tag.

Lastly, I fussy cut some almost circular flowers and added them near the top.

Hope our layouts inspire you. :)