My blog award!!!

I was so excited to find this wonderful award waiting for me when I checked my blog yesterday. It's from a fellow Kaszazz consultant, Kelly at http://kelskaszazzkaleidoscope.blogspot.com/ Thanks Kelly, you made my day!!!

This award was created for bloggers who have fewer than 300 followers, but who put a lot of love and heart into their work. It's a great way to share blogs that might not otherwise be seen or ones you want to share with others.


As a recipient of this award I must share the love and pay it forward by:
1. Creating a post where you blog about the Liebster award and reveal your 3 - 5 blog picks.
2. Let those people know you have chosen them.
3. Copy and paste the blog award onto your blog.
4. Have faith that your followers will rally and show their crafty love back out to those you awarded.
5. Finally - Have Fun!!!!!!

Choosing only 3 - 5 worthy blogs isn't as easy it is should be - but I have finally choosen:

My wonderful Team Leader, Karen at www.werkaszazzled.blogspot.com

Karen has just had some lovely projects accepted by Kaszazz..

The very talented Simone at www.simonekaszazzconsultant.blogspot.com Check out Somone's fantastic you tube videos, I have been very inspired by them...

And Rachel at www.rachelskaszazz.blogspot.com Rachels blog is looking great, go and check it out!

Go on and check them all out, very inspiring, thanks ladies to all of you for your inspiration!

Ezy Press and distressing

Well, this project has been a work in progress for the last few months and finally I got them finished a little while ago. I call them my EZY PRESS DISTRESSED & EMBOSSED MY GIRL TAGS.
I have used white card, the Ezy Press Miss you die, the Frame it circle & scallop dies, My Girl rub ons, Funky Blooms papers, punches,music stamp, plastic sheets & of course good old Tim Holtz distress inks. I die embossed the card first, then rubbed the Perfect medium ink pad over the embossed design & sprinkled with silver embossing powder. Using a small paint brush, I dusted off parts of the powder, but wanted a real shabby design. I am really happy with the end result! It all began from having a few of the pre-cut lace border pieces hanging around on my desk. I have submitted these, so fingers crossed!

Playing with distress inks again!!

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I am soo in love with my distress inks, blending tool and those gorgeous little vellum flowers I told you about a few posts ago. Look what I have come up with this time. I started with a blue card, Milled lavendar, Tea dye and Dried Marigold inks. I blended the edges and did some stamping with the Reasons, Seasons stamp and the tree fern stamp around the edges, in milled lavendar. Then, Idecided to get out the design adhesives and Designer foils. I am so happy with this result, I will be submitting this one! (Did I say how addicted I am to those little vellum flowers??? So easy to make!)

Frame it- Quick kits!

Check out the NEW Funky Forest Frame it kits from Kaszazz. Each kit gives you all the bits you need to make these two adorable frames.Plus, there's enough leftovers in there to create more beautiful projects.If you would like any more info. or to purchase something from the Kaszazz catalogue, please email me at tan.dave@bigpond.com

PLAYING!!!

Well it seems my ONE little word has come back with a vengeance. Even though I have'nt finished my March assignment over at Big Picture www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com my word is showing up all around.Yesterday I held my first official Team meeting with my Kaszazz Port Douglas team. Sadly one is a little far away, but hope she was there in spirit! We played with some vellum and Tim Holtz distress inks, as I had seen some gorgeous flowers on a fellow Kaszazz consultant's blog.www.cheryldevlin.typepad.com There are a few pics here to show you what we have created. My team members were chuffed to have a play with the shrinky dinks and make a little shrinky tag, lots of fun! I have also incuded photos of a new maken'take, using the adorable rollagraph wheel, some magic mount and chalks, just gorgeous. The other is a lovely demo, the blended butterfly vine and card, just love the distress inks and blending technique. If you are keen to find out more, why not email me tan.dave@bigpond.com and Find out how you can receive a brochure from me with all the lovely new products

New kits from Kaszazz

I have been busy playing with one of the new quick kits from Kaszazz. It's called the Magic Moments kit and uses the gorgeous new rub ons and rub on frames!There are some great specials on this month too. Customer freebies for spending $50 or more, 2-for-1 deals and a great button up pack for a bargain price.Please contact me for more info.
We've had such a miserable, wet and depressing start to the year,I hope everyone is getting back on track. For those affected by the floods, my heart goes out to them. We didn't get alot of damage from cyclone Yasi, but the build up and uncertainty has left us all quite scarred up here in the Far North.Thank goodness I have my crafting to turn to!

Sharing the love

Just wanting to share the love around the Etsian community, (That's Etsy.com). I've joined a few teams to try and reach the greater Etsy community and spread my shop around a bit more.The link here is to some lovely hand made jewellery which I have just discovered and this lovely lady has a free, share your passion page on her web site. If you haven't ever checked out Etsy, you really are missing something special. I just wish I had more time in the day to create and expand my shop faster!!! (Just click on the title of this post to take you directly to janewearjewelry...)