New 2hour workshop

Kaszazz have released a brand new catalogue with some amazing new products. Which also means new workshops created by all the wonderful consultants.including this one by Nicky Winter. Titled; ROSES IN BLOOM CARDS. Techniques here are watercolouring with Distress Markers, Distress stains for backgrounds and masking. All flowers made using small daisy punch.I am really loving pinks and blues right now.

So thrilled with this issue of SBM

Not only have I got my Phototech article in this month, but am truly delighted to have my first ever cover shot, featuring my little guy, Jack. He is thrilled! And inside in the letters to the editor, my gorgeous online friend, Lizzy has given me a wonderful boost too! Thanks Lizzy and thanks Scrapbooking Memories Magazine!

Nothing like a scraplift....

To really get the inspiration and mojo flowing. I have so many ideas I would like to try and so many magazines sitting here with sticky notes. But this layout really caught my eye this week in Creating Keepsakes mag. The artist is Stacy Cohen. I just loved the bright colours and design!

I decided to adapt it to suit a single 12 x 12" layout and this is my take on the layout!

I used some Kaszazz papers, some Dear Lizzy papers from A. Crafts, and the blue scallops are misted and cut from some Heidi Swapp colour Magic papers. I used Picked Raspberry Distress ink for the dark pink cirlces and the dots around the circles are made with my BIC mark it pens! There's a range of hand made and bought flowers, including Prima, Kaszazz and some generic. I made the leaves using a stamp and some ink and Distress Markers. Re-coloured items with Dylusions ink and Heidi Swapp Colour Shine, and finished with some Distress Stickles.

Parisian love cards

Did a lovely Demo on the weekend and this project was one of my samples I took to show the ladies what they might make at a Kaszazz workshop. Love these cards which have some distress blended edges, stamping and silver embossing. I altered one of the designs to suit the stamps I had available.