Everyday Garbage

How about this.......

Now don't say we don't spoil you for choice here!!! :)

This is a recycling bin and all of the contents are oh so ordinary and are off to be recycled as they should be....BUT....could you transform the items you see here into something extraordinary before they go?

For once I'll throw my two cents worth in and say that I'm looking at that opaque plastic juice bottle and I want to cut stars out of it!!!!

How about you? What would you do with this everyday garbage?

What on earth would you do with.......

......these bread bag clips are soooooo ordinary that I bet you just throw them in the bin without a second thought - I know I used to!  Then then very talented Lusi showed me the light and I haven't been able to throw one away just in case I need them!  Now that you know that Lusi can do amazing things on a layout with these you'll need to trust us that they can be extraordinary!!!  What you gonna do with these babies??????

What would you do with.......

These little beauties are cheap red flexible foam drink coasters from Ikea.......even on their own they are pretty funky and I wouldn't call them ordinary BUT......they could be.....with a bit of imagination......EXTRAORDINARY!  Let your imagination run wild and tell us what you'd do with them!

What could you do with......

  so here we have disposable chopsticks.....so ordinary (and bad for the environment as well!).....how do you make these extraordinary once you've finished your sushi???? (so they won't wind up in landfill?) 

Because we've had such a fab response so far to our hints we're going to be giving away a random RAK this week as a thank you so if you've commented already or if you post a comment on our hints any time before our first challenge is posted then consider yourself in the draw! 

What would you do with.......

Yup, it's a brown paper bag.....so ordinary.....how do you make it extraordinary????  Tell us!  Tell us now!!!

Gearing up, getting ready!

We thought we'd do a little ground work before our first challenge on Tuesday 18 September so periodically throughout the next week and a bit we'll be leaving visual hints on the blog to really get your imagination going and the creative stuff flowing! 

We'll be posting pics of things we consider to be a bit..well....ordinary!  But these ordinary things all fit into our first challenge theme so we'd like you to have a think about what you could do with those items to make them extraordinary which is the name of the game.

Keep an eye on the blog for the first visual clue which will be posted tomorrow, Saturday, 7 September and remember.......

....you can find good garbage everywhere - every day!!!!

We have a blinkie down, I repeat, a blinkie down!!!

Naturally no good unveiling occurs without a snag or two and as soon as we can revive our blinkie or get a blinkie transplant from somewhere else we'll have it up and running for you to claim for yourselves!

Want to know more?

Okay, basically this blog has come about because of our mutual love of junk, found objects, recycled objects, garbage, tat and various non-scrapbooking stuff that we like to use on our layouts.  There aren't any real limits and we don't care much for rules either!

We figured that if we love to use this kind of stuff on layouts, then maybe some of you do too!  And then we thought that maybe there are scrappers out there who'd like to have a go at incorporating those elements into their scrapping but lack inspiration on how to use them.  Maybe you're just looking for new ideas, a new way to look at your scrapping or you're a scary challenge blog stalking nutbag - all of the above are okay with us!!!

Everyday Garbage will run pretty much as your average challenge blog:

• a new challenge will go up each Tuesday on a fortnightly basis, starting with our launch challenge on Tuesday 18th September 2007 but don't hold us to first thing Tuesday morning as we have lots of kids between us - you know how it goes!
• the contributors share the job of choosing topics but if you have any cool or fab ideas then we'd love you to drop us an email so we can incorporate our Garbage Girls' ideas as well
• we will choose one layout from each challenge to receive a RAK as a thank you for playing with us (if you love Marah Johnson then you're going to totally love our first RAK - yummies from her new Rock Star Collection and don't tell us you haven't been waiting for that!!!!)
• the RAK winner will be revealed usually same day as the new challenge goes up
• if you would like to have your layout displayed on our slideshow of entries then email it to us but make sure you squish it first otherwise our email server will say "No Gary No"
• you can also link your layout to your blog or gallery through the comments section if you like - we don't mind if you do both either
• if you have any questions please drop us an email as we're all in this challenge blog thing together and we're learning as we go along

So that's basically it as far as guidelines go.

Over the course of the challenges we'll have guest Garbage Girls to join us and we'll be picking them from scrappers who join in the challenges with us each fortnight.  Sometime we'll have surprise Garbage Girls too - fine, upstanding, well-known scrappers that you never would have suspected like to play with garbage!

If you are feeling the vibe and like the sound of things so far then go get yourself a blinkie to put on your blog and proudly declare that you like to play with garbage too!!  We hope people will enjoy the challenges and that it will help to evolve your style and make you really reconsider what you can put on a layout.  I know we're all going to learn something along the way too and we're so excited to be getting our first challenge ready for you!

C'mon!  Come join the Garbage Girls - we'll see you Tuesday 18th September!

Hey you! Yes you!!!! Do you wanna play with some garbage?

We had this idea....that rubbish was not really rubbish....and garbage was not always garbage.......and that maybe there's more fun in this recycling business than we'd thought.......

Be here on 18th September for the launch of the Everyday Garbage challenge blog which will stretch your imagination - you'll never look at rubbish the same way again!