Scrapability’s Scrap Blog of the Week -Week 23 2006 : The Dares

Once upon a time not that long ago, a group formed and hung out on various community forums in the scrapbooking world, but predominantly on 2Peas. This group was the Effers - a small group of scrapping friends who did great work, and can be suggested to be some forerunners (amongst others) of the art-journal style type layouts (which laterly started being called “Freestyle” thanks to a certain Autumn Leaves idea book recently out).

The Effers have a joint blog, now called the Dares. In September of 2005, with the start of this blog, you can see the first entries towards the philosophy provided by the Effers. Here it is - the original Effer application -

A new group of girls in the scrapping community, currently searching for an unlimited amount of gals to join them in a creative movement. Anyone may apply, and all will be accepted…as long as you are always these things….

1. Real
2. Original
3. Fun
4. Weird
5. Loving
6. Accepting
7. Creative
8. Unafraid
9. Loyal

The Dares - a regular challenge for your scrapbooking creativity - are now up to (at point of writing) their 32nd Dare - to scrap your star sign. A simple dare blog wouldn’t hold my interest that regularly. The reason why I am now including this blog, the Dares, as my own Scrapblog of the Week - is that the Effers provide some fantastic sample layouts from their own group with the challenges. They also run these dares now through the 2Peas forums (links are provided in the blog itself). For the original girls who started playing around with scrapbooking in a more free-er form, check out the Effers and their Dares blog. Take part in that fun, even if you don’t post to 2Peas. The layouts provided are well worth a stopoff for inspiration anyway.