Trick or Treat

As it is October, Graphic 45 asked all the design team to make a trick or treat bag. I spent ages trying to find glow in the dark paint, pen or even embossing powder. No such luck. I had to make do with gloves which I attached to the sides of my bag. They can be worn or used as part of the decoration. Candy has posted my bag on the Graphic 45 blog so this means I can now share with you all. I used halloween in wonderland and cut some of the images from it. The chipboard shapes are from Imaginarium Designs. I have inked some with black ink then sprayed haunted shadows glimmer mist on them. The cat and tree, have just been sprayed with haunted shadows glimmer mist. This is one of my favorite colours. Although we don't do halloween in Australia I did have fun making this bag.

Just finishing my projects to teach at Printblocks in November. More about that later!

Thanks for looking

Jane.

Ps If you have a store in Brisbane and would like to have me teach while I am visiting. Then get in touch.

Something of mine published

Well, finally got some of my work published. Special thanks to Scrapbooking Creations for publishing a tutorial for me. Its in their September magazine - out now. The tutorial is for a 7 Gypsies mini book I did on Josh for my Graphic 45 first round entry. Love mini books and in this project I used the 8x8 Proper Gentleman paper pad. So glad they use a model's hands and not mine for the photos!

Ps they are publishing another tutorial for me in Decembers magazine (I think)

thanks for looking

Jane

Our Home

Thought I would share a page I taught last night. I have been teaching Ancestry classes for the past three years to a dedicated group of ladies. We have two albums full of layouts using K&Companys Ancestry line of papers. Each month we get together and do another layout. Mine don't have photos in yet. I think I will need to retire before I get around to do the photos and journaling! The class has turned into another two classes, which are held on the first and last Friday each month. Again another two groups of ladies are doing the layouts all over again. I used some of the collection houses on this page. My layouts in these classes are kept quite simple.
Its all about the photos and stories in Ancestry and not about over decorated layouts.

Thanks for looking

Jane

A Sneak Peek

I have sent another layout to Candy today for the Graphic 45 team. Its a boy's layout using steampunk + Chipboard. I have decide to teach it next week end at the scrapbooking fair being held in Adelaide at the Marion leasure centre on Daws Road. I have the class room from 10am -11.30pm. The cost of the class + kit is $35. You will need to ring the shop and book in as I am limited to 16 people. The page is perfect for the child/adult who has a "need for speed" As my page is not on the Graphic 45 blog I have only put a sneek peek. To book into this class, please ring 8277 1298

thanks

Jane

Classes at Printblocks

I had so much fun teaching at Printblocks on Monday. The 30 ladies who attended were all so nice, and I hope enjoyed the day with me. We did a Graphic 45 layout, a Making Memories Mini Travel Album and three cards. For the first two projects, we all did them at the same time. For the cards, I got them to re-arrange the room. This gave me three groups of tables and each table did one different card. The ladies moved from the groups of table as they made each of the cards. It was a bit messy but I couldn't teach everyone the same card at the same time. Printblocks were great and really looked after me. I will be back there teaching again early November.

thanks for looking

Jane

its a bit frantic here at the moment!

"To be truly creative, you need to be able to make a big mess"

We have been flat out in the shop this week, 10 boxes arrived with all the new products. So it's been Christmas everyday. Have taught 4 classes this week as well, with another 2 tomorrow. So at the moment the girls are getting all the kits done for printblocks. Our chipboard arrived yesterday and I think it will have to go on the plane as hand luggage!

thanks for looking

Jane

Time to Share Another Layout

This is of my favorite layouts. I did it for Graphic 45 as one of my 10 projects needed to make the 1st round for their design team. Its a page on my daughter Anna, I had a photo of her on a Merry-go-Round at Victor Harbor. She was 6 years old. I just love the photo, and it is very special. As a younger child she hated being on any thing that moved. Part of her early intervention included puting her on a board with 1/2 a ball under it. She would sit on it and I would tilt it from side to side, backward and forward. This taught her to move her body to counter the tilt and retain her balance. All the time spent with her paid off. By the time she was 12, she could jump up and down on a trampolen and skip with a skiping rope at the same time. In the photo she looked like she was enjoying herself, but not quite sure about it all. I used the stripe paper from the play time past collection. It's built up with foam tape, this creates a shallow shadow box. I can then add lots of bits to my page and start layering some of them. Frames on a page are my thing at the moment.

Thanks for looking

Jane

A sneek peek of one of my classes at Printblocks

Hi everyone,
I have been flat out doing instructions and taking photos for my classes at Printblocks. The classes are for people, who are customers of Printblocks. I am doing a layout using Graphic 45, a travel album which started out as a mini album and has taken on a life of its own and is now way to fat! and some cards. There are still some spots left, so if you want to do the classes at your local scrapbooking store, then check that they are attending.
I thinking of doing a Tim Holtz and taking some photos of all the kits I am putting together. I only have to get 105 organized and not the 100's Tim does.
I am really looking forward to teaching at Printblocks (Monday 30th).
thanks for looking.
Jane

My Master's projects have left.

I finally got my masters project off today, one whole day before the last day you could send your projects in - so me! And to cap it all off, Saturday night saw me starting my everyday project again. I had been working on something for a couple of months. But it just wasn't coming together for me. In between teaching two classes on Saturday, I decide to start again. After the shop closed I spent an hour wandering around and trying to sort out what I would do. Bolt of lightening hit and I was off. Choosing papers and embellishments for my project. I can't share any information with you, but I made it totally from scratch and I love it.
Now we wait and see.
All the best to everyone to has entered
Jane
PS Will let you know as soon as I hear anything!

Pop over to the Graphic 45 blog and have a look at the video. About 3.5omins in, watch out for my page!

Here is the LINK.

Another CHA project

Diane asked all the design team to make a pop-up card. Say no more, cards are not my thing. Had a go and quite liked the finished project. I have fallen in love with Graphic 45's new embellishments especially the packaging. I used one of them on the front of my card to make a display box and then was able to add 3d pieces. The pop-up bit consists of two pieces, the frame/window in the back and the man hanging. He hangs out quite a bit, almost to the middle of the card and I just love the image.

I have a lot more to share so please check back in a few days. Going off to set up for our all day scrap tomorrow.

Thanks for looking

Jane

Sharing Time

Graphic 45 have some of my work and Gloria's on the blog, so I will share some more creations with you all. This is a layout I did for Diane, using her Steampunk collection. As soon as I saw the paper with the ladys head, I knew I wanted to do it on her. I would love to know how her brain works and where all the creativity comes from. I have used to the butterflies to give the idea of creativity flowing from her free. The roses have been done paper tole style, this means I needed 5-7 of each rose to build them up.

Candy my design team leader made this amazing dress form, so much detail on so smaller figure. There are more photo's of her work on the Graphic 45 Blog.

The Hot Air Balloon is from Jenny, who makes amazing creations too. Again so much detail added to this master piece. More photo's of her work on the Graphic 45 Blog as well.

Thanks for looking will share more photos of my other projects later.

Jane