Ive been published!!!

For the first time ever Ive been published in a scrapbooking magazine, in the latest Scrapbooking Memories Magazine Volume 11 No 10, you'll find my page Art Night 08, one of Gails and Elises layouts also
Keep an eye out when the magazine comes on sale!!!!

The A-Z of craft products I like to use with my scrapbooking layouts

A-alphabet stickers, acetate, album rings,
B-buttons, brads and going beyond the page, buckles
C-chipboard, crackle paint, chalk,cardstock
D-distressing, dimensional magic, doilies, die-cuts, dictionary paper
E-embossing, everything really, there is just so much to use
F-feathers, felt, flourishes, fabric, flowers, frames, foam tape, filing set
G-gems, glitter, glitz, glue
H-hambly screen prints
I-ink
J-journaling, junk bits
K-kindy glitz, Kaiser
L-lace, layers
M-mosaic, metal bits, matting, music paper
N-numbers, natural card/papers
O-organza ribbon, ORANGE (everything)
P-paper, paint, punches, Parisian essence,pearls
Q-quilling (only used a couple of times), quilting fabrics
R-ribbons, rub-ons
S-sewing, stamping, stickles, sanding, straw, staples
T-trimmer, tearing paper, transparencies, tape
U-UTEE
V-Vintage, vellum
W-wool, wood flourishes
X-Xryon Machine (again only a couple of times but they can be useful)
Y-yarn,
Z-Ziggy pens

FORMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok here are some of the photos everyone has been wanting to see. Friday night to the next morning was my school formal. Here’s a hint of the photos taken. I cant put them all on here because there was so many taken, quite over a few hundred!!!

Underwater World

Last week, Simone, Karl, Megan and Casey (friends of ours) and I, drove to Mooloolaba and visited Underwater World. Yes I was so excited as I just love all animals under the sea. That is except walking on seaweed, that just freaks me out. Well we had a great time there and even got some enhanced photos. Here they are:

This one has a fault though, Simones arm has been eaten by a Shark!!!!! Well that is what we created as a joke, the photo wasnt edited right but i'll fix it, with Photoshop haha

There was also a chance to have a 3m Carpet Python around your neck

Plentiful Pocket Pages

These are some of the layouts you can create if you come to my class on October 17th from 1.30 to 3.30pm create a unique page with pocket for photos or memorabilia using the We R Memory Keepers divided page inserts. These pages are great if you have lots of photos all based around the same theme or event. The class cost includes one of the page protectors so just bring your usual scrapping stuff and plenty of photos to work with.

Seems to be that I do so many layouts on the cats.....hmmm

Ngaire Inspiration

Yes is taken a while to put it up here, but this is the page I created while being in her class at Blossies. I had such fun and completed once again another page on Little Molly the kitten. Check out Ngaires blog at http://www.scrapblogmebaby.typepad.com/

Proudly

The background piece is one from one of the newest Bella range, the pattern is flocked. Photo matted in French Vanilla. A large piece of lace is across the bottom, and is gathered up in one section. Three crotched flowers are next to the photo with a smaller brown flower and a white rose in the centre of that. The definition of “proud” was ripped out of a dictionary page and placed near the three flowers. The title is made up of different chipboard letters, all painted in Island Sand by Jo Sonja and then covered in dimensional magic. Journaling was done along the bottom edge.

Heres some close ups:

Playing with Parisian Essence

WeDded Bliss

The background paper used is from the one of the newest paper ranges from Fancy Pants. The range is called “Little Sprout” and is related to the baby theme, but I thought it was just perfect for my vintage page. For this layout I used quite a lot of Parisian Essence, to make papers etc look more aged. I have a large music book at home but the pages are white, I scrunched the paper into a tight ball and dipped into the Parisian Essence mixture (adding hot water to a small amount of the essence creates the mixture, by using hot water to colour clings to the paper better). I un-scrunched the ball and soaked in the essence water pulled it out, with newspaper dabbed off the excess water. With the iron on the hottest setting ironed out flat the music paper, the paper still being wet creates steam and make the paper flat and better to use. It is ripped as the page was too big for my layout. The paper doily I died in a similar way but without scrunching it up and was in the water for less time to not have such a distinct aging effect. Dictionary paper was already a brown colour and didn’t need to be aged. A crocheted doily was placed in the bottom right corner; this was actually crocheted by my nana, who is in the photo.

Heres some close ups;
The Title:The title is made up of pink Thickers, and Kaiser Chipboard letters, painted in Island Sand by Jo Sonja. To add more aged affect, I used a small paintbrush and the leftover Parisian Essence mixture painted over the top of the cream and pink alphabet letters. Date was written underneath the title.

Also around the edges of the large pink flower and under the bookplate, a small piece of French Vanilla is under the bookplate and stood out so I changed it and added a little bit more brown colour. With the bookplate I used sandpaper and rubbed back parts of it to age it along with the gold brads holding it down.

A piece from the dictionary, with the definition of wedding etc was ripped out and inked. A piece of lace tied around a pin was glued down on the ripped out section of the dictionary.

Vintage ribbons and laces were also used.