NEWS FLASH!

Ok - scrap that last post - it seems we're back to the original plan to work with the April kits lol!

Advanced Warning for my Scrapaholix Gals!

This month, we were supposed to be working with the detail scissors kit from Scrapaholix, but due to a mess up with suppliers, that's being postponed till next month, and THIS month, it'll be papers from We R Memory Keepers (Good day Sunshine), and brads. I don't have the kits yet, nor a photo, but look the papers up, they look nice! As soon as I have a kit in my sweaty little hands, I'll knock up my layout and post it so you can see what we're going to be playing with - ok? Looking forward to seeing you all! xxx

March 2012 Scrapaholix

OK girls - sorry for the late post, but here's what we're gonna make! I was lucky enough to get a new Silhouette Cameo last week (yay - SO much better at cutting intricate shapes than the Cricut - in my opinion).
The large frame and the banners are made with that. The cute trio of polaroid photos are a Go go stamp - they were really lovely when I posted on UK Scrappers that I HAD to have it, and sent it as a gift - how nice is that??
If you want to use the stamp, you'll have to pick photos that are suitable to cut down so that the image you want  - a face for example, will fit inside the frames - about 1.5" square for the large one, and 1" square for the little ones. I cropped my photos on my computer and printed them out a bit bigger than that to give me room to stick them behind the frames.
If you have no photos you can do that with, no worries - just bring along a photo that'll fit inside a 4" by 3" aperture, or one that you can cut down to that.
Looking forward to our play date, as always.
Hope you like! xxx

Here's What We're Making!

So, I've had real fun playing with the Ranger Glassine paper - it's a lot more versatile than you would think! I will  be showing you all the wonderful techniques you can use with it... but i got to thinking, enough of the grunge... how about using it in a DIFFERENT way - here's what I came up with:

Instead if tearing, scrunching and crumpling, I tried out lots of different mediums - and most of them worked!

If you have any of the following, you may want to bring them along with you:

Sakura pens, Promarkers, glitter glue, Glossy accents, any stamps that will make a nice embellie for your layout, archival ink pad, and heat gun. As always, it doesn't matter if you have none of the above - just helps to speed up the process!

IF I get time, there may be another layout to share on the day - but I'm not promising anything lol!

See you Friday/Saturday! 

Hope you like! xxx

Scrapaholix February Class

Just a quick post for all my Scrapaholix gals to let you know what papers we're working with this month. As soon as I have them in my sweaty little hands, I'll show you what I've done with them! So, without further ado, this month you shall receive in your kit the following:
1 x Madame Boutique - Corset (double sided)
1 x Madame Boutique - Lingerie (double sided)
2 x Brown
1 x Wheat
1 x Katchina
3 x sheets of Glassine
Hope you like!
xxx

How Flattered am I??!!

So, I had a surprise email last week, from Sarah's Cards, asking me if I'd like to be their guest designer for February's kit. Well... obviously... I had to think about it for like... 2 nano seconds!!!

Other news? I'm thoroughly enjoying creating beautiful things for both Scrap365 (if you haven't purchased it yet you really should!) and Craft Stamper. Ok, so the deadlines leave me feeling a LITTLE under pressure at times - but that is entirely my own fault as I seem to be such a last minute gal!

So perhaps my New Years Resolution should have been to get more organised, and to work ahead of time... yeah... right... like THAT'S ever gonna happen!

I don't feel I can leave you without something nice to look at, so here is a piccie of one of my cats - Cedric (I know I know - we let the kids choose the names!). Hope you like! xxx

Scrapaholix January Class

Ok... so it's obvious that my New Years Resolution was NOT to blog more often... but let's not go there!
This Friday/Saturday is my Scrapaholix class, and this is what we shall be creating:

I've used one of the fabulous sketches in Scrap365, from Marsha Valk, with a tad of individualism thrown into the mix!

I'm trying a new approach with the girls this year - printed instructions with a photo of the layout for them to keep - hope they like it! xxx