Featured Scrapbook Blog: ScrapWhispers

Do you remember playing the game Telephone or Whispers when you were growing up? You know, the one where everyone sits in a circle. The first person thinks of a phrase, which they whisper in their neighbour's ear. That person then has to repeat the phrase to the next in the circle and so on. The whisper gets passed around secretly person-to-person and eventually the last one has to exclaim the phrase out loud. More often than not the phrase at the end is completely different from the one the group started with and everyone takes pleasure in how much it has changed.

Now there is a scrapbook version of this game, only it's played by scraplifting a layout and passing it on to someone else in a team.  You can check the challenge blog here for this game and come along to join in the fun. 

ScrapWhispers Blog

Scrap Whispers in its current form has been around for just over two years now and we're currently on our fifth round! I originally created the game randomly one afternoon on the Scrapjazz message board. It became a popular challenge and so with more and more people playing, it made sense to create a blog to keep all the creations in one place and keep track of the teams.

How does it work exactly?  After signing up, following the challenge blog instructions, you register your interest to play. You then get allocated to a team of other participants. In your team, you have a team leader who is also a member of the wonderfully creative and inspiring Scrap Whispers Design Team.  They are responsible for answering all questions you might have and for keeping you on track to meeting the final deadline for the big reveal.

Each challenge runs for two months in total and is coordinated by the team leaders but you will only scraplift one layout in that time and everything is kept top secret until the "big reveal."

I pass a scrapbook layout to each member of the Design Team who then scraplifts that layout. 

When we refer to scraplifting we are talking about taking someone else's layout and using your own photographs and products to make it your own. You may choose to flip the layout like you would with a sketch, only use elements of it or copy it completely.

When the team leader has lifted the original layout she then pass her layout to the first person in her team. That person will scraplift the team leader's layout and then pass her layout onto the next person in the team and so on.  This is where the whisper gets passed around the circle so to speak.

At the end of the two months, team leaders reveal every layout in their team in one go (the out-loud exclamation if you will).  When the big reveal occurs you get to see the original layout and then the progression as it got passed around your team. It is fascinating to see how the layouts change as they get passed around.

When all the layouts have been revealed the winning team's members each win a prize. The winning team is the team who has stayed the truest to the original layout.  Here is an example of the most recent winning team's "Whisper" layouts:

This is the original layout that I created and sent to the team leader:

Nancy saw a big circle, with borders and buttons. Her pictures would not fit four on the circle, so she did three.  She kept the basic design, and used some chipboard borders:

Julie was next. She got a little funky and made her pictures wave-shaped. Otherwise, she did the same basic design.

Mindy liked a border on her pictures. She also made the circle smaller, but she kept the placement of embellishments and title.

Keely liked the matted pictures and embellishments where they were. But, she decided to make the circle bigger again -- pretty amazing, considering she had only seen Mindy's layout.

Lisa didn't want hers to be so linear, so she staggered the photos a bit, and added a border to the circle.

Nikki scraps 8 ½" x 11", so she had to make the circle smaller again. She also varied the picture placement to fit them on her page.

When you compare the first and last layouts together you can see so many similarities but also so many differences and that's the fun part!

There are six teams playing all of the time so it is quite a big game. This is the reason each whisper challenge takes two months to play.  In addition, each week there is a separate challenge posted on the blog. These challenges are not team challenges and are open to everyone even if you're not playing the main game.  The purpose of these challenges is to keep you busy while you are waiting for your turn playing the main scraplifting game. Every two weeks there is a random prize drawing and one person who played the challenge wins a small prize.

It really is great fun to play and you make some excellent like-minded friends too. The blog has a message board where you are able to chat with members of your team and players are from all around the world; a large percentage also frequent Scrapjazz's message board so you may recognise some names!

Why not stop by and say hello or join in some of the challenges yourself; it's a great way to get inspired and get creating.  The blog address again is http:www.scrapwhispers.blogspot.com

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