Woot woot!

WOOT WOOT!!!!
Some exciting news in my inbox today.....I have two layouts published in this months Scrapbook News and Review Magazine and a 'Back to School' layout in "Ready, Set, Create!" magazine.

A few months ago I showed you this layout, and promised to do a masculine version as a personal challenge. Here's the girly version....


...and here's the masculine layout!




I distressed and layered my papers, and spritzed them with Glimmer Mist over the Tim Holtz barbed wire mask. The vellum was embossed and laced with string. I used metallic objects, and Magic Mesh (coloured with Stazon to make it look rusty) on the layout to give it a masculine feel. The cogs were cut using a Tim Holtz die, and smeared with some Smooch ink and Distress Stickles.

Taught a card class this morning, 6 christmas cards and 6 gift tags, in K & Company 'Peppermint Twist' specialty papers. These are such cute colours for Christmas.

I haven't taken a photo of the cards yet but these are the papers we used. Yummy, aren't they!



And....suprise, suprise....I've started a 'Male' layout! It's a bit of a challenge that I set myself. I did an ultra girly page a few weeks ago, and I wanted to show that any layout can be adapted to other styles/subjects of photos. Some scrappers have trouble visualising a layout in different colours, etc. I find that alot of times in class we adapt everyones layouts to suit their photos, but I wanted to have an example on display.

Here's my "Girly" layout! You'll have to wait for the "Male" version.

This will be taught as a class next Tuesday, 17th August at 9:30am, at the Greenbank Scrapbook Shop.