Dragonfly Scrapbook retreat class

I am teaching this weekend at the DragonFly Scrapbooks retreat in Penrith.

Each lady will leave hopefully with an Kaisercraft advent calender looking much like one of these.

This is mine in it's almost embellished state. I added a ornament to each top corner but that pic is still on my camera.

Come back Monday to see the pics oft he retreat.

I am considering adding this as a class on my tutorial blog.

Card making

Wednesday after lunch (& a wee bit for the house shopping - more on that later) Haylee & I spent some time in the scrap room creating. Haylee finished 4 or 5 8X8" Lo's (she lost count)and I started making cards.

5 of these cards -Praying for you, You make me smile, Smile, God loves you & Lotsa hugs - were made using this tutorial for quilted cards from Nina's blog Crafting in Croatia . I love how simple and quick these cards were. The other cards were using left over papers and a few different punches.

All cards were made with Basic grey patterned papers and all but 2 - Congrats and With Love - were made with BG's Sugared range including the die cut chipboard shapes.

The messages on the cards were simply made by typing up several messages and printing them on patterned papers.

I am really happy with how the cards turned out now all I need to do is remember to send some on.

In fact I owe a PIF (pay it forward) that I received from Cass's blog sometime ago (where did the time go) so the first 3 people who leave a comment on THIS post who are prepared to play along with the pay it forward scheme (you will need to make something to send onto someone else) will receive 4 of my cards. Please make sure you leave away for me to contact you.

Scrap day - blogtoberfest day 18

Back with the promised photos from Yesterdays scrap day. Now neither of these photos are perfect (I am hoping Lou or Cathy have better photos) in the first one Cass is hiding behind Lou's head and in the second Lou is looking - well I am not sure where she is looking but it's not at the camera.

So here we are L-R Tracey S, Ro, Leisa, Gail, Marion, Haylee, Lou, Cass, Cathy, Tracy T.

It was Tracy T's first meet up of the SOF ladies and she fitted right in and looked like she had a
wonderful day with us. We certainly enjoyed having Tracy with us.

Unfortunately Tracey S was very unwell so Marion took her home early - actually they were leaving as soon as we took the photos.

We arrived around 10.30 and had morning tea then scrapped till 1.30 when we stopped for lunch. Had a break at 4.30 then scrapped till 6.30 when we all packed up and enjoyed a lovely BBQ tea cooked by Lou's DH John. Thanks John for cooking our dinner and TY Lou & John for allowing us to invade your home.

I managed to complete 3 wedding LO's and 4 tags. Will keep those pics for another days post.

Canvasses

After seeing a few vintage canvasses in some very gorgeous blogs I decided I would love to try my hand at a vintage canvas. I have a dear friend who I know love anything old, I knew vintage was right up her alley, so I invited her over for a day of vintage canvassing. We started by having lunch together yesterday and doing a wee bit of vintage shopping b4 lunch. We bought the most cutest little tiny canvas on their own easels , a linen canvas and the only way we could get the right size for what we wanted to do was to buy a kids painting canvas with piccy drawn on the canvas and little pots of paints. We then raided our stash of bits from our mums and mother in laws "stuff" (doilies - plastic and crochet & lace hankies) even found some of our grandma's buttons add to that some ric rac, lace an braid and we were ready to create vintage. let me tell you we didn't think we were going to get anywhere in the beginning as nothing was working, vintage is not a natural thing or me/us . But by lunch time we were on our way. I am really happy with how mine turned out. Haylee was working on old photos of John's family and I worked on my families photos. And then to have a bit of fun I did a contemporary mini canvas to finish the day.

The first canvas is my parents wedding, the second is a family Christmas but b4 I was born - I simply love this photo, take a look at the joy on my siblings faces and the way Stuart is clutching at his gift like it is the most special thing eh has ever been given, love those hats too. The mini canvas was taken Boxing day 2007 when Roz visited us from Qld with her two children Jack & Ellen, we hadn't seen them since b4 Ellen went to school, so this moment had to be captured.

the last two canvasses were made by Haylee, I haven't taken a photo of the contemporary canvas she made and boy did she whip that one up in no time. The first is of John's father as a boy and his mum & dad etc (he is the biggest boy) and the 2nd is his parents Wedding. We decided that I would do my family and Haylee would do Johns.

SWS retreat

Last weekend was the Scrapping with Soul retreat at Waterslea on the Shoalhaven River.
This is the best scrapping retreat, the girls are so wonderful and make you feel very very special. There were 62 guests and the team and of course we have Rose-Anne form Cropworks come with her amazing shop that I spent way too much money at (but I do have a very large tin of flowers of every colour). Rosie gave an inspiring and challenging talk on "our hidden stories", she used the story of the Samaritan woman and the prostitute who wash Jesus feet with her tears and wiped them dry with her hair, he knew into the hearts of these women. Rosie encouraged each of us to take our hidden stories to Jesus not matter how bad they are, nothing will shock him, he already knows them.

I managed to finish 4 Lo's and one very large OTP.

This first LO was done b4 the retreat as a "Woman of Faith " display as I was teaching a class at the retreat.

My first project that took me all of Friday night and most of Saturday was a set of altered building blocks. These were so fiddly as they were only

1 1/4" high. I have left some plain as I felt it would have been TOO busy and too much to look at if each block had word or pics on them.

I also started my wedding album. We have Johns mum's album of our wedding photos now so I thought I would scrap them. This may take me a while - i do not do that many LO's.

This is the title Page - I didn't think it needed any embellishments as I wanted the photo to do the talking.

This LO is of my sister and niece. We got married on their combined birthdays.

I also made a start on my Psalms album.

I have had this Lo planned for a long time but only just managed to get it done on the weekend.

The first photo was taken by Caleb Graham and is the sunrise over the Shoalhaven river. The sunset was taken by Haylee and is at Greenwell Point over the Crookhaven River.

I have used Ps 113.3 From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the Lords name is to be praised.

How cute is this pic of the puppy under the wings of the mumma chicken. When Gayle(from SOF) led me to this photo on the web I knew I had to use it for my LO of Ps 91:4 "He will cover you with his feathers and under his wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart."

Our stories Album

This the completed and embellished Layered mini Album that I taught at the SWS retreat last Saturday. Each lady in my class (15) went away with the book completed but not embellished. I am hoping they all remember to send me pics of their embellished albums. The story I have told in this book is of my relationship with God. So really its His story as he has done it all. even my faith is a gift from God.

This is the same album done in another Kaiser range and tells the story of the combers. I am really happy with how these albums turned out. They were totally my design even down to the chipboard word (with help from Rose-Anne http://cropworks.blogspot.com/). I have to thank my dear Friend Rowena http://willrownco.blogspot.com/ for her great work on the transparency frames.

I've been dancing while scrapping

Well really I've been scrapping with Kaisers Dancing Jewel papers. I just love these papers. I taught a few girls how to alter an vanity case and I produced this rather large one that is now sitting on a table with a few other altered items. The bottle is an aluminium wine bottle, I am so happy with how this turned out. I have had the little memo pad holder for about 2 years but only just altered it, it came empty so i had to cut the papers to fit it.

These papers are the papers I have used on the altered mini book I am giving away. See http://missnance.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-blogiversary-to-me.html