It's not too late!! And... if you'd like to we'd like you to!!

Here is a lookee at the Get Scraptivated intro class I am teaching on Sunday, and it's not too late to book.  The class starts at 12.30pm and I am happy this week to take people in the class right up to when we start. Just either give the store a call (9444 6626) this arvo or rock up tomorrow with your basic tool kit and an assortment of photos. We can't ususally fly by the seat of our pants like that but what the hey, let's do it, I say! Apart from the usual basics on design and technique my focus technique is embossing, in case you didn't notice, lol!! Yes everything on this layout ,except the laces, including the background paper, has been embossed. I love embossing!!


The other big news is that the Docrafts Scrapbook Apprentice site seems to be up and running which means we can finally get on board and vote for our beautiful, talented Miss Mel!! So if your up to it flick over to the site and put a tick in the box for our favourite girlie. GO MEL-BELLE, you rock and you know it... and now everyone else can see how you rock!!


Take care of each other,
see you soon.
M

Don't forget to ask...

Don't forget to ask what our focus technique is going to be! Each class, I ask all the girls that are coming back the following month what technique or product they would like to learn about in the following class.  This Sunday (April 18) I am doing the first part of a two part class on incorporating embossing on your layouts.  Do you want to see a sneak peek??  Do you want to know about the special I negotiated with Natalie for all the ladies that come to my "Get Scraptivated" classes??

Little Echidnas

This is a DT challenge I had recently from the store. This is the sweetest paper, and for the life of me I can't remember the name. I can't even look at what it is because the layout is in the store. But the challenge came from the idea that who ever got this DT pack had to leave the little echidnas intact. (I think the paper is english and they are actually hedgehogs but I'm going with the whole echidna thing, we have Easter Bilbys, not bunnys in this house). I was really glad I got it and I loved leaving the little treasures out for all to see, the paper is so sweet and it suited a baby layout to a T. This is my little princess just a couple of hours old. I glimmer misted and then used the beautiful tattered rose distress stickles along one edge to highlight those chipboard flourishes. I love distress stickles, they and the glam without the glitz. They are much gentler looking so they really suit the soft layouts.
Anyone who speaks to me for more than a minute will quickley find out I don't sew (on my pages anyway) and I don't cut out. Well I have done both on this layout, even if I did give it my own special twist. I punched holes with my big bite and "sewed" in that ribbon. I actually really like the look and I love that it was a lot easier than a needle and thread! I also cut out the leaves on the paper, but I only cut 2/3 of each, left them attached to the paper, and just curled them up to give it a bit of depth and texture. I touched the edges of all of those with the distress stickles again! I was on a roll!


I can't believe that is my little Eliza, I can hardly remember her being that little! Mind you she wasn't that little, she has been my biggest baby so far. She was a whopping 8lb 8oz which probably isn't very big for some babies but I am only 5ft myself! She (unlike the boys) has changed so much to look at since she was born.


Take care of each other,
see you soon.
M

I am back

Not that you would have noticed I was gone, because I did still update my blog. But I am officially back. Lent is over so the internet is back in my daily diet. It has been an interesting journey over the past month and a half. There were issues and aspects I honestly didn't think of arising out of my fast. I wonder now, to a degree, whether this thing called the internet is even an option in our lives anymore, is it a bonus, an added extra, or has it become indelible in our lives, has it become a necessity to survive today? I am not sure I am at the end of that question, I am far, far from an answer in my life, but I think I am definately the better for realising that there is a lot of questions and I will continue to move forward, questioning and enjoying the journey.


I am posting photos today of a DT project I did with the My Little Shoebox "Little Ladies" papers and the Kaisercraft Paisley Mini Album.

I did really love doing this, I put a giant shaker in the scalloped paisley frame that came in the album. The colours and patterns in this paper range were so cute, girlie but not pink and frilly, which totally suits Eliza. And I lllllooooooooooovvvee Lady Bugs.
I sincerely hope everyone had a wonderful Easter, I hope you all had the opportunity to share time with your loved ones, had time to experience something memorable, had an experience to challenge and reaffirm your beliefs or even just had a good rest, either way I wish you all the peace and renewal this time of year offers to us all!!


Take care of each other,
see you soon.
M