Cup Cake SB Cards

These 3 cards are part of a series I did with my friend Sue. She came up with the idea and we played a little and decided on the 4831 cupcake / stripes SB card.
Originally all 3 were in the same card, but after a little trial and error we decided that the last card really 'popped' with the 4563 Dot / Daises SB card.
The butterflies are something I couldn't resist, I had a little fun with puffy tape on these to keep the wings up.
So this is a class that I will be teaching next Thursday at my Craigmore Class.
You will need a basic kit.
Cost for this class would be $25 if you would like to book it in, including the scallop hanging circle.































This needs ribbon and it is the wrong orientation. opps. You can see the hole. Well yes that is the top. :)

Friday End of Month - Panda Page

This page is a fun page that uses the rollergraph. This is the noodle design wheel that is one that I have always loved but struggle to find a good use for.
Well my friend Jan came up with this page and did a great job of it.
I really loved the fact that these are Christmas papers from the Kaszazz range. She has a fantastic imagination for using papers in ways that others wouldn't think to do.
Love your work Jan keep it up. :)

You will be stamping, heat embossing, paper layering, distressing with ink, paper tearing and matting. Really a little bit of everything in this page. The panda's are an optional element and you can substitute these for something different like a Chinese lady or fans on the day of the class. If you have a request let me know. I also have some Teddy Bears that would look nice.
You will need to bring a basic tool kit. But saying that if you have your cutter, supertape and scissors you will have all you need.

Time: 11 am or 7.30 pm
Place: Blakeview - email me for the address.
Date: Friday 30th April.
Cost: $25

There are a few spots available on both sessions.
If you want the evening session please be quick.
Hope you all like it.
Would love to hear your thoughts.

Boys Cards

Hi Everyone, been busy making a couple of cards. So I have put the pictures up for you with instructions. I have used my favorite Tim Holtz inks and bazzill. I have made these cards as I have a 40th birthday to go to this weekend and needed a card. I plan on adding a clear '40' to the top right of the card with the tools on it. Just have to use your imagination on that one.
Both cards are using the same principal but just different sizes and stamps. Easy enough to adapt to any theme and colour scheme.
I hope you enjoy making these cards.
If you have any questions or need to order any of the products please let me know.



For this card I used Parakeet Bazzill (4222) for the base card 9"x5". Score and fold at 4.5".
Pinecone Bazzill (4223) 4"x3 3/4"
Parakeet 4"x 1/2"
Oatmeal (9690) cardstock A5 4"x1 1/2"
and 1/2"x2"
Distress all edges of card with Walnut Stain Distress Ink (tim19534) and a sponge.
Stamp the Soccer (998LH) stamp in Peeled Paint Distress Ink (tim20233) over entire background of the parakeet.
Stamp the soccer stamp on the oatmeal card stock with the Walnut Stain.
Stamp "your the best" stamp from the mini messages friends (4260KK). Use a black gel pen to doodle the dots. The whole card is put together with 6mm supertape (1708). Basically I like to use super tape for most things because it is strong, no mess or drying time and simple to use.
Assemble the card as per the example.



This card uses Vintage Photo Distress Ink (tim19527), Parakeet Bazzill (4222), Nutmeg Bazzill (4462) and Lemonade Bazzill (4501), Tool boarder unmounted stamp (1700LH) and the 'happy birthday' from the mini messages friends (4260KK).

I hope you enjoy making these cards, I know I did!

Scrapbooking at the Beach

13th, 14th and 15th August.
Scrapbooking and Card Making weekend.
Arrive Friday night and pack up Sunday afternoon at 2ish.
This old school house has recently been renovated and updated.

You can have a look at the website for information on the facilities at
www.coobowiecaravanpark.com

This is a relaxing weekend for you to get away and do some craft.

You will need to bring along all your own scrapping supplies etc.

There are kitchen facilities etc so you can bring your own food to cook or the hotel in a 2 minute walk.

There are a couple of fridges, modern kitchen with all crockery, pots and pans supplied. Toilets and showers are in the facility, seperate from the caravan park.
We will supply tea and coffee as well as some nibbles.
Please feel free to bring your own snacks, drinks and provisions for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Cost for the whole weekend is $80.

There are bbqs in the main room also.
Accomodation is bunk beds.
They will supply all linen, a towel and pillow for every guest.
Being the end of winter I would suggest bring slippers. They will be supplying patio heaters in the main room, which has big open windows with plenty of natural light.

I will need to collect money from you asap to confirm your place.

Money will not be refundable but your place is transferable.

There is a maximum of 27 places.
Please be quick.
Email me with any questions or bookings.

New Tim Holtz Ink Release

These are the new Tim Holtz Inks. $11.95 each.
Available in pads or reinkers. (reinkers $9.50)
Be one of the first to have these beautiful and very versatile inks.
You can watercolour with them, blend them, emboss with them.
They can be used with perfect pearls. Your imagination is the only thing stopping you!
Email me with any questions or orders today.
Ideas can be found at www.timholtz.com

Garden Whimsey

I had a customer ask me about one of our workshops 2H333 Bella Whimsical Tree and Card.

While she liked the page didn't want to do the card. She wanted a double page.
So I sat down last night and re did the page and instead of the flourish sticky bling I used the Friends sticky bling.
I also changed a couple of aspects of the pages.
I have not used the orchid pastel ink and kept it simple with just the dark brown fluid chalk. I felt the orchid pastel was not a particularly good mix of colours for the page and looked a little out of place.
I opted out for the spots on the back ground of the mats for simple white bazzill with ink distressed mats in the dark brown fluid chalk ink.
I cut out the left over flowers to add to the page and to balance out the 'friends' sticky bling I placed 3 rhinestones on the opposite page.
I will teach this as a class at some stage.
With the sticky bling this is a $30 page.

My Hearts a Flourish

This is a fun and relaxing page to do. It is designed to suit most themes and you can change the stamp to suit yourself.
This a a page with minimal stamping, and the tiniest bit of heat embossing, because I can't help myself.
Lots of punching, which is not stressful and lots of fun.
This is being submitted to Kaszazz. I will be teaching it as a Friday End Of Month Class.
This is a $25 workshop.
Bookings will be essential for this work shop as I will need to order in the supplies.

Mothers Day Milk Carton House

This is the female version of the bird house. A little different as it has velcro dots to make it into a functional box.















Open box
























Back and Side of the box.


















Front of Box

Bird House Gift Box

This is my bird house box.
It opens from behind being secured with Velcro dots.
This is the prototype. The finished one will have clear plastic in the window and I will texture the roof using the cuttle bug.
The papers are the discontinued mayhem papers from Kaszazz.
The stamps are from the Love and Cherish set 4128KO $35 exclusive to Kaszazz.
I have used the Tim Holtz distressed inks in Walnut Stain. TIM19534. $9.50. I will be teaching this class on Thursday 18th March at the Craigmore Christian Church. This will normally be a $10 class but as a special deal for the Church group we will be doing it for $6.
We will be using a variety of inks and techniques with this project.
You will need your basic kit (refer to this blog for items) and a large round hole punch if you have one. (4856 Circle 27mm $29.95) I will have a couple with me to share.
Please email me if you have any questions or if you would like to book in.

What is a basic tool kit?

People often ask about what is in a basic scrapbooking kit.
Well here it is.

EKCP06 Paper Trimmer (I would recommend a Cutterpede by EK Success as they are easy to use and a high quality trimmer with excellent blades that do not need to be replaced often.)
4914 Bone Scorer
3026 Pencil
3028 Eraser
1708 Double sided tape 6mm
4654 Scissors (fine tip a good choice)
FRH-M Water brush medium
4208 Glossy Accents
2746 Glue Stick
1922 Ruler
1791 Black Gel pen
1916 White Gel Pen

All products can be ordered from me via email scraporders@adam.com.au
You can view the product catalogue at www.kaszazz.com

All orders over $100 receive 10% in free product of your choice.
Please remember to include this with your order.

Azure Clouds

This is the class for Friday 26th February 2010.

Cost : $25
Class Time: 2 hours.
Time : 11am and 7.30pm
Location : Blakeview

You will be using an eyelet setter, paper distresser and inking techniques.
Also you will learn how to heat emboss onto photos.
I have used 5"x7" photos and you will need to have these with you for the class. Portrait photos would be best but you can use landscape if you prefer.
Students will need to bring basic kits with them.
If you are new and do not have the tools yet discuss this with me and we can organise for you to loan tools.

Butterfly bling

This is the class for 29th January 2010.
It is a double page using bling card stock and water coloured butterflies.
Cost for the workshop is $25.
Time to complete 2 hours.

Welcome

Well I am new to all of this but here it goes.

Hello everyone I would like to welcome you to my Blog.
My name is Samantha and I am a scrapbooking teacher and a bit of a craft-a-holic.
This blog will have lots of different scrapbooking ideas and information on classes.
I teach from home and can also come to you to teach a class.
I specialize in beginners but have classes for the advanced scrapper.
So let us begin...........