September Scrapbooking Class

Hi Everyone

Here is a sneak peek of this month's Scrapbooking Class.....

You will need your basic tool kit & trimmer; adhesives and gel glue(Helmar 450 ideal), ruler, foam tape and rubon applicator.

3 photos required for this layout: 2/6x4 landscape orientation and 1/3x4 portrait orientation.

Class dates are Sunday 22 September at 2:00pm and Friday 27 September at 10:00am at my home in Caboolture South. 

If you haven't already booked, please contact me either via email info@qldscrapbookingretreats.com.au or call me on 0413 21 6096.



Looking forward to seeing you all then.

Take care, Ann :-)

Scrappers & Cardies 12hour super crop day

Scrapbooking / Papercraft Weekend Retreat - North Brisbane

Queensland Scrapbooking Retreats next weekend retreat is being held on 3-6 May in Kilcoy, about and hour and a bit from Brisbane. Kilcoy is a lovely little country town and the atmosphere adds to a wonderful relaxing weekend.

These retreats are great value with everything included (accommodation, all meals, class & kit, challenge kits, goodie bag, demos etc). Accommodation is motel rooms - no bunk beds here or dorm style rooms!!

Numbers are capped for the weekend, so if you are interested in going along don't leave it too long to register by visiting the website www.qldscrapbookingretreats.com.au

Payments are easy via Paypal.

This retreat is for 3 whole days (in Friday afternoon and out Monday afternoon) but 2 day packages are also available.  Local participants are more than welcome to attend.

We hope to see you there.

Class Layouts.....

Hello
I have a couple of class layouts to share, one with a single photo and the other with 3 photos.  I love using my dies and I must say I have a few in my collection from Spellbinders, Memory Box, Sizzix, Sullivans, Cuttlebug to name a few....I would say that my favorite at the moment are Memory Box - their dies are so delicate...just gorgeous and so many beautiful designs to choose from.
Anyway, here are my layouts......

I like to make my own fabric buttons and add them to my layouts....these seem to work perfectly with the papers and theme.

I also like to make by own flowers and love using lace.  I made the frilled lace flower by using the simple running stitch through the seam binding and pulling it together to form a circle - I added a silk flower on top and put kindy glitz in the centre.....perfect.

TFL

Scrappin' layouts a plenty.....

I sneaked off to a retreat last weekend up at Mapelton - it was so good to be able to get some layouts done - 21 in all...I was very pleased. 
 
I managed to get the kid's primary school class photos done - I cheated a little and did each year's page the same for both of them.  I've still got to add a couple of embellishments to some of them and will do that tomorrow at my crop night and then take some photos and post on the blog .

My new order for Memory Box dies arrived last week and I used a few of them at the retreat - I just love these dies - they are my absolute favourite at the moment....so delicate and some beautiful designs.    Check them out at www.memoryboxco.com

Here are some of the layouts that I did at the retreat.....

 

 

I will post some other layouts when I add those extra embellishments.

 

TFL, Ann

Class & Crop dates

Hi there

Just letting you know that the August class dates are as follows:-

Friday 10 August commencing at 10:00am
Sunday 12 August commencing at 1:30pm
The same class is run on both days.
Further details regarding cost and a sneak peek will be posted in a few days.

Also, the August crop night dates are:-

Friday 3 August,
Friday 17 August and
Saturday 25 August.
The start time for the crops is 7:00pm.

Classes and crops are held at my home in Caboolture South.  Please email me on amealin@optusnet.com.au or call me on 0413 21 6096 if you would like to come along.

There are still vacanies for this Saturday (28 July) crop.

TFL, Ann :-)

Class page

Hello again

I have another page to share....this time another one of my son's wedding......a layout that I created for a recent class that I taught to a group of very enthusiastic ladies - I got some great feedback from them and hope to be able to see them all again soon for another class....

Here is the layout that we did....

I used the grey cardstock as the background and dry brushed it with Winsor & Newton Iridescent Medium.  This product leaves a gorgeous shimmer to anything that you apply it to - I'm not sure if you are going to be able to see it around the border but I also applied it to the Spellbinders flower and also the lettering on the tag.  A bottle costs about $12 but it lasts forever!!  Even after using it in the class with a dozen ladies, it has hardly made a dent in the bottle.  Try it....you will just love it. 
The two patterned paper are the Kaisercraft After Five range being Waltz & Tuxedo.  I used the "plainer" side of the Waltz paper to make the artisan shape - it has a faint pattern on it but I didn't want to use the busier side as the Tuxedo paper is certainly that.

The pearl flourish is one that we made with the Bazzill Jewel Flourish template - these templates are fantastic - we all have lots of adhesive pearls and rhinestones in our stash and some of the pre-made flourishes, while beautiful, can be a bit expensive to use on our layouts...so why not purchase yourself a Bazzill template and make your own.  There are two templates in each pack and a few designs available that you can custom create your own flourishes using all or part of the design - there's no struggling with trying to stick a pre-made flourish on to your page (and everything else) and no sticky clear tape shows through either - just pure bling!!  I do have these available for $12.95 a set (plus postage) - if you wish to purchase a set, please email me at amealin@optusnet.com.au and we can arrange it.  This is what they look like:-

The adhesive pearls are from Flourish with a Bling and are great value as they contain 100 pearls/rhinestones per pack. We had a few left over by the time we finished this page so they certainly went a long way.

The layout has some gorgeous cotton lace and some more bling in the way of the Kaisercraft pearl brad and the triple pearl pin at the back of the hearts.  All in all I was quite happy with the layout.  

Thanks for looking, Ann :-)