Design adhesives

For all you scrappers out there who think embossing is too hard or messy, (I have had my fights with it,) if you haven't tried Design Adhesives, you must give them a go. You just peel and stick your design down, throw some embossing powder on and get out your heat gun and your done. You can use them with glitter or flocking awell. Check out this card I made with the Branches and Blooms design adhesive. They are available from kaszazz, and you can order them from me if you wanted to try them. They also work well with the Designer foils.

OLW projects so far

This is what I have done so far in my One Little Word classes at Big Picture. It's been fun playing. I have really got my mojo back and have scrapped a few layouts since this class which I will post soon! Kids are back at school on Monday and I am frantically busy organising demos and workshops. I'm teaching at the Library tomorrow, my last kids workshop for the holidays!

One little word!

Wow, am feeling very motivated, and uplifted by a new workshop I have signed up for with Ali Edwards on Big Picture Scrapbooking www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com
It's something I hadn't intended on doing, but found out about it on another blog, it was meant to be! If you are looking for some wonderful new inspiration this year, check it out, there are many classes and workshops ans some of them are free. BTW, my word for this year is: PLAY!

Holidays and scrapping

WE enjoyed a very quiet Christmas this year, and a very quiet holiday so far. Lots of sw3imming in our pool, a little shopping! (Taylah and Jack spent some of their Christmas money, on a Ripstik and a skateboard), so lots of practicing over at the park. Taylah is mastering the art of ripstiking verry quickly, as is her Dad! We had a lovely visit from Dave's younger sister a few days ago, a great afternoon with them. We have friends coming over to celebrated the new year this evening, should be good! I have managed to get a bit of crafting in among the long days! I have been seriously playing with my new Bellish Ezy Press die cut and embossing machine from Kaszazz. Also, the Funky Blooms range of papers, stamps and matching cut outs. This is what I have come up with. For the Funky Bloons cards, i was inspired by some work in Scrapbooking Memories mag by Jodie Dolbel, then I went off on a tangent! My layout derived from a sketch, and I cut strips of the Funky blooms ribbons in half for my borders. I used all products by Kaszazz, made some embossed card with the Ezy Press and the Miss You die. Sponged the edges with Fluid Chalk Berrylicious,and added some ribbon, bling and cut outs.
If you would like any info on the Ezy Press machine or any of the Kaszazz products, please contact me, the new catalogue is beautiful and bursting at the seams with yummy stash!

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year everyone!

Back from the madness!

Back from the madness of Adelaide, it's hot, it's cold, it's humid etc. Now we are back into the full on humidity. It was great catching up with family, but very tiring. Thought I would come home for a rest, but who am I kidding. I'm having a birthday party for my little man this week, then it's my birthday in a few weeks, school concerts, nativity plays and the list goes on until Christmas. Not to mention a pile up of photo editing and where is the time for scrapping?
I made a few Chrissie cards while I was away, but am seriously getting withdrawals for some scrapping. The photographers out there will be happy to know, I took around 1000 images in my 17 days away. Alot of them were spent on the beautiful pandas at the Adelaide zoo....Well worth the visit, we spent nearly an hour in the enclosure, just watching them play... Totally gorgeous!!

Christmas layout and holidays

Well, we are on the count down now till we fly out from Cairns to Adelaide next Thursday. Kids are so excited, they can't wait! We are off for 2 1/2 weeks. It will be great to catch up with family.
Here is a layout I created using all Kaszazz products once again. I have scrapped this pic before of my kids, but just love it and wanted to scrap it again. I have made the tree out of punched flower shapes and wrapped some ribbon and bling around it for a realistic effect. The papers are the beautiful Merry Christmas range, and have used a few stamps there aswell.