Past Class layouts

One of my class layouts, using border punches, stitching, and vintage images on transparency.

Some pictures of the fabulous layouts done by the ladies in my classes. This one's by Madonna, from my "Impasto and Glimmermist" class.

And some closeups of the Glimmermist, stunning.


Cathy did my "Haberdashery" class and this was her lovely finished page.

Rosina's layout from the same class.

One of the ladies did this in our "Alcohol Inks" class, where we used the inks in four different ways, ...talk about versatile! (Please let me know if this was your layout...it was awhile ago!)

Creative Block!

I was lucky enough to attend Creative Block this month, organised by the well know Australian wholesalers, Printblocks. There was three days of classes, make & takes, demos, and of course.....shopping in their warehouse. Boy did I get some bargains! I won't tell you how much I spent but I saved heaps, with alot of products discounted by 70% & 80%. I bought up big on 7 Gypsies, and Graphic 45, and couldn't pass by the Pink Cricut Expression which is now sitting proudly in my scraproom! I thoroughly enjoyed the classes by Ngaire Bartlam, Shane Hershey (SDU Manager for EK Success), Michelle Van Etten (Provocraft), and Sizzix (who were very generous giving us all the dies, inks, and embossing folders used during the class!).
My favourite display was Graphic 45, here are a few pics of the outstanding design team work, these ladies are amazing.



I was lucky enough to meet Jane Tregenza from South Australia, who's magnificent handmade books are pictured below. Check out her blog at http://janetregenza.blogspot.com/ . Her work is exquisite.

Busy, busy!

Wow, the time has just flown, I've been so busy the past couple of months. I managed to get away at Easter for a week of camping at Sandon River, in New South Wales. It's a gorgeous spot south of Yamba in the Yuraygir National Park. It was so relaxing and we had a primo campsite, just metres from the mouth of the river and only 50m from the beach. We were lucky enough to go on a canoeing trip with National Parks rangers, and two Aboriginal elders who told us of the local customs and history.

Another great place we visited was Lake Arragan and the Red Cliff area, simply stunning.

Teaching today

Hi everyone, Just a quick post today as I'm off to teach class. But I do have some layouts for you.



As you can see some are nice and simple.....depends on what sort of mood I'm in.




I love how this turned out, the paper was just perfect for the photo.

Gladwrap and h2o's technique tutorial

This is a fun and easy technique which gives fabulous results. I've used it on quite a few of my layouts and I thought I'd share it with you.

You'll need enough Gladwrap/clingwrap to cover your paper when its wrinkled up (approx one and a half times the width), a water spritzer, and a selection of Twinkling H2O's in a variety of colours. Please note, you can substitute the Twinkling h2o's with Radiant Rain daubers, or any type of water-based paint with a shimmer in it. The H2o's/paint should be a a runny consistancy. Splatter a few large drops of each colour onto your paper. Spritz with some water to increase spreadability. Lay the Gladwrap over your paper, and squish it so you create wrinkles in the Gladwrap. Make sure you do have lots of wrinlkes as this creates the cool concentrations of glimmer when its dry. At this point you can add more paint if necessary to cover the paper, or leave 'white' space if you like. Set aside to dry for a few hours. Press flat under something heavy if necessary.

Have fun and experiment using different coloured/textured cardstock to get different effects. I've also used this technique on my "Slip & Slide" layout posted on the 3rd of March,2010.
Let me know if you found this helpful.

Canvases

I finally got around to uploading the pics of the canvases I made as gifts for Christmas.
I used Fantasy Film, Impasto, Crystalina, beads, chipboard, paint, & Perfect Pearls on these.





Let me know what you think!

Don't drink V after midnight!

Well I think I learned my lesson.....I was up scrapping at Lisa's last night, doing well, getting 4 pages finished and experimenting a little,...anyway she gives me a huge "mansize" V at around midnight, needless to say we scrapped till after 3am. That wasn't the problem, it was when I got home .....I was absolutely sooooooo wide awake! Think I laid in bed awake for a good few hours before eventually falling asleep. We were having so much fun playing with the new laser-cut mirrored acrylic pieces. They are to-die-for! Sorry, I haven't taken any photos yet to show you. All this rain makes it hard to take pics outside (and I hate taking them under the flouro lights)





I used the "make your own flourishes" technique, as you can see the acetate is only visible close up, once behind a plastic sheet protector you don't see it at all.





I used the "Gladwrap and h2o's" technique to create the background paper on this layout.

Rainy days = more scrapping time!

Gotta love the rain, despite the fact that its flooding and I can't work in my 'real' job doing car detailing. I got to hang out with Lisa at the shop, and get some layouts done.


This layout will be taught as a class at Greenbank Scrapbook shop next Tuesday at 9:30am



I was playing with the Tim Holtz masks and Distress inks on this layout, super easy and I love the effect.


Another experiment, this time colouring my transparency with alcohol inks.


Gotta love the Radiant Rains daubers from Luminart, they transformed a boring sheet of plain white cardstock to something bright and funky.
Please leave me a comment to let me know what you think.