Sunday, July 11, 2010

ACP Claytons Retreat Class Sneak Peek

I am teaching a class at A Creative Place's Christmas in July Claytons Retreat and here is a sneak peek for you all

We will be creating six Christmas Cards and a matching box to pop them in, making the perfect gift for your non crafty friends, or just a great head start on your Christmas cardmaking. I just love the cute Karen Foster patterned papers that we will be using ☺


If you are interested in booking into my class please contact the ladies in store at A Creative Place or pop into the store. Or for more details on all the classes being offered click here

Friday, July 9, 2010

more creating

here is another layout from our cruise photos

this time i have used Bo Bunny A Gift of Love Pattern Papers and for the flowers i used my new Martha Stewart fringe scissors, which i just love,  i cut a strip of patterned paper, rolled it up and then for one flower i rolled each "petal" to make a curled flower and for the other flower i left the "petals" straight matching the patterned paper.
ETA - Check Carole Jansen's blog for a tutiorial on making these flowers


here are some other flowers i have made ...
the sm lilac flower is made using the fringing scissors this time cutting wide satin ribbon and then i held the ribbon over a flame which gives a curled look.
for the dk Purple flower uses wide satin ribbon this time cutting approx 1 cm apart and then holding over a flame - see here for Rhonna's tutorial
lastly i made this one using my lg scallops nestabilities and tissue paper, i just folded a sheet of tissue paper up to a small square and then ran it through the cuttlebug with the die, then popped a brad in the middle to hold all the pieces together and then starting from the top scrunched each piece, then i sprayed it with gold maya mist for a slight sparkle ☺ I saw this on a blog but cannot remember which one sorry.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Seam Binding Ribbon



I have listed some of the Seam Binding Ribbon on eBay so if you too would like some of this gorgeous ribbon, it is wrinkled to give a vintage look, but if you do not want a vintage look you just need to iron it flat. (i have seam binding ribbon on my layouts & cards in previous posts)

click here for eBay listings

I have it available in 5mts of a single colour or 1mt of ea of the 12 colours

If the link doesn't work my eBay seller name is country_blessings

Friday, July 2, 2010

more cruise layouts

here are some more cruise layouts again using Basic Grey Cappella Collection, i am thinking that i will use this collection for all my photos from the cruise... or at least until i run out ☺


Taylah's 10th birthday






all of the above photos were taken NYE on the ship - don't you love Taylah's fringe in the last layout ... she took to it with a pair a nail scissors while we were off the ship at Da Nang, she stayed on board as she didn't like Vietnam, too many people grabbing her ☺

Thursday, July 1, 2010

The Worldwide premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trailer is here!

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Finally ....some cruise layouts

I have scrapped some photos from our cruise. 
These are photos that were taken on board, I am yet to have any of the thousands we took printed ☺




Products Used
Basic Grey Cappella Collection - Patterned Paper and Sticker Embellishments
Green Tara - Flowers
Maya Road - Mists, Pins, Chipboard, Fabric Flower, Button
WOW - Cruising Chipboard Word
Other - Walnut Ink, Muslin, Sm Tag, Seam Binding Ribbon, Dymo Tape

Monday, June 28, 2010

years in the making...


finally i have completed this wall canvas for Taylah's room and actually hung it on her wall
now it is very basic but i wanted to paint her room before hanging it and as it was just a job we never got to the canvas got put off and put off - the letters have been covered and embellished for at least 18 months... just waiting for us to decided on the wall colours, so i could paint the canvas the colour the walls would be... and so we decided on the colour probably 12 months ago and i painted the canvas still no sticking on of the letters as i was still waiting for the walls to be painted! So now i am over waiting and have stuck everything on and hung it on her wall, it would look better with the walls painted but it is up.
The letters and flower are the now discontinued Making Memories Chipboard and the papers are We R Memory Keepers White Out Hoopla Collection which i love and bought loads of so i would always have it in my stash ☺

Saturday, June 26, 2010

card share

here is a quick card i made for my Mother in Law using Maya Mist on a paper doily and also on my muslin flower, i have also used my new seam binding ribbon and a Maya Road Pin.


and just because here is my vintage cotton reel jar

more Sea World pages

i have finally finshed scrapping our Sea World photos... as you can see i am loving my new ribbon ☺




a closer look at the ribbon and the crocheted flowers my Mum made.


These two pages are using the we are memory keepers photo sleeves


Thursday, June 24, 2010

lookee....new ribbon

i am so excited my parcel arrived yesterday filled with all this gorgeous ribbon.... i have been searching for it since seeing it used here it is so soft, so gorgeous ☺


now what to create... with 1200 metres of ribbon to inspire me.....