Halloween Time and a blog hop to get Started

Graphic 45 is holding a Halloween Trick or Treat Bag blog hop with all the design team.
Each day you'll see a sneak peek of a fantastic Graphic 45 trick-or-treat bag designed by our design team members. Just click on the link to their blog and you'll be transported to a magical world of craft bliss! See the full unveil the trick-or-treat bags on our featured design team member's blog each day and get inspired by their amazing projects! We are offering two awesome Magic of Oz gift packs as prizes this week! Want the opportunity to win? Just click on over to our featured design team member's blog each day and leave a comment. We will choose two random winners from our design team member's blog comments and announce them on Friday, September 30th! Sound like fun!? You bet it does! Check out this amazing prize! A Magic of Oz 12x12 paper pad, Chipboard Button Staples, 3 chipboards from Imaginarium Designs, and some beautiful bling by Want2Scrap! Remember, there's two chances to win this week! Wow!
This should be great fun with lots of wonderful ideas and creativity to see. Make sure you follow the blog hop each day and leave comments. The more you leave the more chances you have to win. I would love to see lots of comments on my blog for Graphic 45 to choose from. To see all the teams work just click on their name.
Monday
Lynette Carrol:
Tuesday
Laura Denison

Robin Shakoor:
Tara Orr:
Wednesday
Sherry Cheever:
Jack & Cat Curio:
Nicole Eccles:
Thursday
Nancy Wethington:
Hilde Janbroers:
Yuka Hino:
Friday
Melanie Forbes:
Goria Stengel:

I was disapointed with how mine photographed. I cut a hole in the middle of my bag so as you filled it, you could see how many sweeties (candy) was in the bag! I used lots of chipboard from Imaginarium Designs. I love the house on top of the Witch, don't forget to leave a comment to win.

Thanks for looking.

I am a bit behind and can't seem to catch up!

Graphic 45 and Fiskar are having a blog hop and the Graphic 45 design team have been posting projects using Fiskar products on the blog all week. Please visit Graphic 45's blog and Fiskars and see the wonderful projects been showcased. Today it was my turn along with two of the other wonderful ladies on Graphic 45's team. I decided to do a layout using "once upon a Springtime" papers. I love this collection, the colours are so soft and delicate.
I was wrapped to receive from Fiskar’s some of their punches for a blog hop. I am a big fan and love the border punches. They kindly send me two borders and a squeeze punch. The squeeze punch was in the shape of a postage stamp. Perfect for me as I love stamps.
First I used the ribbon threading punch, I punched a strip of paper 12 inches long and threaded some apricot satin ribbon through it. It was so easy to do.
I got a bit carried away and ended up with two more punched border pieces. The punches work so well and are easy to line up, allowing you to create a continues line of bordered edges on your papers. I love the way using border punches allow you to add lots of detail to your layouts without bulking the page out too much.
I used Enchanted Forest for the base of my layout. I layered all the punched strips on the page. I added more ribbons to hide any joins.
I love the “once upon a springtime frames” . I matted one of the big frames on some cardstock and over the top of my photo. I added a heart topped chipboard fence from Imaginarium designs.
Another frame to the right of the layout balanced it nicely. I added some Prima pearls to create a flight path for the butterflies!
The smaller frame gave me a foundation to build all the other elements on. I added a large chipboard Butterfly with some flowers. I love these butterflies from Imaginarium Designs. They are so tiny and delicate. I used a square from “Enchanted Forest” for a journaling block. I used the photo squeeze punch from Fiskar for my title squares. It nearly fitted the” tiny treasures” postage squares printed on the paper perfectly. I added smaller square of pink “Spellbound” in the middle and some chipboard alphas to spell Anna’s name.
This is one of my favourite photo of Anna. It takes me back many years. At nine months old she could just hold her head up and roll over. My husband took this photo of her and it reminds me of how tiny she was and how clever she thought she was at the time. She has grown into a lovely woman and a much love and valued member of our family. Life would not be the same without her.
Materials used
Graphic 45 Papers
Spellbound
Tiny Treasures
Enchanted Forest
Woodland fantasy
Once upon a springtime
Once upon a springtime Frames.
Fiskar punches, ribbon border, embossing border and squeeze punch
Colourbox inks Olive pastel liquid chalk
Imaginarium deigns
Heart topped fence
Butterflies
Alpha’s
Flowers
Melisa Frances vintage embellishments.
Prima say it with pearls and lace
And don't forget to swing on by the Graphic 45 Facebook page and the Fiskars Facebook page to see more wonderful crafts. Leave a comment on both pages for your chance to win a spectacular prize this week! Just write "Graphic 45 + Fiskars=______" Fill in the blank with your own words and you'll be entered to win! They will choose two random winners from Facebook and their blog and announce them this Friday!
Thanks for looking
Jane.

Graphic 45 has just announced their Halloween Rejuvenaiton Challenge! Here is what they had to say about the challenge.
"Fall and Halloween are definitely on the way and we thought it would be fun to have an altered art challenge that's inspired by this colorful season. We're asking you to take an old object and bring it back to life with Graphic 45! We've all got stuff around the house that could use a little dressing up. Maybe it's something you found at a garage sale, thrift store, or even an old item that's been sitting in the basement since forever. We want you to create a beautiful Halloween or Fall-themed altered art project from any old, random objects you might have using Graphic 45 products. It's the perfect craft challenge to jump-start your holiday crafting!
The submission deadline is September 25th. Email submissions to charee@g45papers.com. On September 26th all of the submissions will be uploaded to our Facebook photos and you will get to vote for your favorite submission by "Like"-ing it! Voting is from September 26th to 7am on Septmeber 30th. The TWO projects with the most likes win! Winners will be announced on Friday morning at 8am on our Facebook and on our blog.
The prize? You could win our entire Christmas Emporium collection! A 12x12 and 8x8 Paper Pad, both coordinating chipboard die-cuts and one of each cling stamp! That's a $76 USA value! Wow! We can't wait to see what you create!"
What a wonderful prize and having just received the new Christmas Emporium Collection myself to play with, I can tell you the best Christmas collection I have seen so far. So have a go, Graphic 45 and myself would love to see what you come up with.

Halloween is not realy big in Australia, but is catching on!

Sorry for not posting but I have been so busy doing Graphic 45 projects for the blog and classes at Seriously Scrapbooking. In regards to my book I will be teaching here on my blog, I can tell you at this stage the first page will be using the new primer range. I hope over the weekend to finish the page and post a list of materials you will need to have on hand to make the page.

I am featured on the Graphic 45 blog today, so pop over there for a tutorial by me. I hope to post the project and tutorial on my blog tomorrow.

thanks for looking

Jane

I am Featured on Graphic 45 today

Have you checked out the Graphic 45 Blog today, three of the design team members have layouts using the Magic of Oz line of papers featured and one is mine. This was a layout I did for CHA in July. I fell in love with the strong colours of Magic of Oz as soon as I saw it. The paper Emerald City was a favorite straight away. As soon as I saw it, I wanted to make a frame from the paper. It was the tab shape in the top left and bottom two corners which gave me the clue. I cut the frame from two sheets as I needed the left and bottom piece twice to make one frame. I didn't want the corner of the balloon or the clock to show on my frame so I had to join the two pieces together to make one frame. It is hard to see in my photos but the frame is folded and raised up to make a box. You need to look photo of the paper carefully to see where I cut it. I cut along the emeralds, under this line there is a light print green strip and then a strip of light green and dark green. I cut all four strips together to give me a wide frame. I cut the corners around the shape back to the first printed strip each side. I then bent alone the light green strip and the dark strip to create a open sided tube! ( this is getting quite technical) The dark green strip was glued down to my page and the light green strip is on the inside edge of my frame. The two pattern strips are on the top of my frame, totally confused! I know I am. You can see from the photo above where I joined the two frames together to make one. It is joined in the top left corner and bottom right corner. I used the back of Goblin Gazette for the base of the layout.

I love Imaginarium Designs Chipboard, so I used lots of it on this layout. Clocks, steampunk clock, fine ferns, flourishes, corners, title and more all got layered on this layout.

I started with two flourishes inked black. The big clock is inked with Tim Holtz Ranger Distress ink - Peeled Paint. The fern is inked with brilliance in a lighter green. The smaller clock is inked with Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Dusty Concord and sprayed with iridescent spray.
I cut the words wicked from the"wicked" print paper and placed them around my frame

The flower head I inked with peeled paint and added glitter to it to give it a sparkle.

The steampunk clock was backed with a clock from the back of the "wicked" print paper. I used some of the metal flowers from Graphic 45. I love these flowers and I used one of Graphic 45's big brads as well for the flower center.
I had the perfect photo for this layout. It is one of Leah taken at her 18th birthday.
She had made her own dress including the wings, she is very talented and artistic. I knew that the photo would be perfect for the layout, but the quality was poor and the colour shocking, but it was the only one I had. I got John at Imaginarium Designs to do the title Magic to finish the layout off. I will add some journaling when the layout comes back from USA. I like to add very personal jouraling and don't like sharing it with everyone, so I leave the journaling off my work.
thanks for looking
Jane
PS Thanks to all who have left a comment on making a book with you. I have made a start and will keep you upto date as to when we are starting and what you will need.

A tutorial for a Book

First thanks so much to every one who left a comment for me. I was blown away with all the lovely things you all said. I wish I could leave a comment for you all on your own blogs, but I can't so please take this as a special thank you.
Lots of you have asked me for a tutorial on how I make my Graphic 45 books. I have decided to do one for my blog readers only. So I need you to tell me what kind of book you would like to have me teach you here on my blog. I would love to hear from you as to what Graphic 45 collections, and how many pages you would like to book to be and the theme. I will post a tutorial every two weeks with a product list for you for the next page. This will give you the chance to get all the bits and pieces you need before hand. I am hoping that Seriously Scrapbooking will be selling each page in a kit form, so you will be able to buy it from their on line store. I am letting you know well in advance as I hope to be starting this in October. I will need some time to get it all coordinated. This is a big comment on my part so if you want this to go ahead, then you need to leave a comment so I have some idea of how many of you are going to do this with me.
So please leave me a comment with your input and I will get started.
thanks
Jane

My Turn to Share

Sorry I am a bit late. I have been flat on my back for the past couple of days with back muscle spasms and are totally over it! Have just got out of bed and come to work to post my layout today before returning home and back to bed. I love the two albums I received from “want 2 scrap” but didn’t want to make an album. I decided to use part of each of them on a layout and use the rest for other projects.
I love the chipboard cover with all it's fine detail. I inked one door piece with black ink and cut it in half. I used one piece in the top right and one piece in the bottom left corner of my layout. I covered the other piece of chipboard with the Magic of Oz “Goblin Gazette” after I had cut the border from it.

I used the Magic of Oz “Emerald City for the base of my page and adhered the border from Goblin Gazette.
This made a narrow frame for my layout. I needed to add some more colour to my page and used Halloween in Wonderland “curiouser and curiouser” as a square for my covered chipboard to sit on. I matted the curiouser and curiouser paper with black Bazzill and adhered it to the middle of my page. I then placed the black door pieces in the corners. I put more chipboard on the back of my covered chipboard shaped square to compensate for the door pieces. This also adds more dimension to my layout. I also received some flourish shapes which I inked with some pearliest inks to give them a shimmer. I added one at the top to hide the cut edge of the door. I added some brads to hide the hole in the door as well.
The other two I used down the bottom corner to create a feature on my layout.
I used a blossom branch and Desire flowers from Prima plus two flourishes from want 2 scrap..
I had the perfect photo of my daughter Anna for this page and I love her cheeky grin!
I like my layouts not to be too fussy and the photo to be the focus. I love colour and the wonderful range of Graphic 45 papers means there is lots to choose from and as the colours are so rich and beautiful and all go together it’s not hard to find the perfect paper every time.
Don't forget to vi sit the the other supper talented ladies blogs and leave a comment to win.
From Want2Scrap:
Dana Gustafson - http://www.paperdaydream.blogspot.com/
Mimi Leinbach - http://www.mycharmingblog-scrappermimi.blogspot.com/
From Graphic 45:
Nicole Eccles - http://www.mycharmingblog-scrappermimi.blogspot.com/
This week promises to be an amazing journey filled with wonderful projects to inspire anyone, so make sure you check Graphic 45 and want 2 Scrap each day and be blown away with all the creativity on show for you. Not to mention the chance to win some lovely product from both companies.
thanks
Jane

It's all Happening

Welcome to a super exiting week. Graphic 45 and Want2Scrap™ Design Teams have joined forces to bring you an amazing week-long Blog Hop August 8th -12th. This week will be filled with fabulous designs that are sure to inspire all! Each day they will be sharing a link list and some sneak peeks of some fabulous projects. All you need to do is click on the links to be transported to one of the featured design team member's blog where you will see the full reveal of each craft project. They have a master link list just in case you happen to miss one of the days. It's Going to be fun and a great way to find even more craft inspiration!

What would a blog hop be without prizes? Yes, Graphic 45 will also be giving away prizes! Both Graphic 45 and Want2Scrap™ will be giving away a $25.00 prize on two of the blogs and on each company's Facebook page. That's a total of four chances to win in one week! Wow! The prizes will be hidden on the Graphic 45 blog and the Want2Scrap blog so be sure to visit both blogs and leave a comment to increase your chances of winning. For Facebook, they will be picking a winner from all of the comments made during the week-long Blog Hop.
Graphic 45 & Want2Scrap Blog Hop
August 8th-12th
Monday, August 8th:
W2S: Elise Durenberger- http://mamacowcreations.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, August 9th:
W2S: Dana Gustafson - http://paperdaydream.blogspot.com/
Mimi Leinbach - http://mycharmingblog-scrappermimi.blogspot.com/
G45: Nicole Eccles - http://mycharmingblog-scrappermimi.blogspot.com/
Jane Tregenza - www.janetregenza.blogspot.com
Wednesday, August 10th:
W2S: Heidi Blankenship - http://embellished-dreams.blogspot.com/

G45: Jack & Cat Curio - jackandcatcurio.blogspot.com

Sherry Cheever - http://sherrycheever.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/

Yuka Hino http://nsnlso.blogspot.com/
Thursday, August 11th:
W2S: Terre Fry - http://terresscraptherapy.blogspot.com/

G45: Gloria Stengel - http://www.gloriascraps.blogspot.com/

Nancy Wethington - http://art-from-the-heart.typepad.com/

Melanie Forbes - http://www.blogger.com/www.melanie-forbes.blogspot.com
Friday, August 12th:
W2S: Karen Taylor - http://creativeyearnings.blogspot.com/

Lori Craig - http://loricraig.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/

Lynette Carroll - http://www.lynettecarrolldesigns.typepad.com/

Robin Shakoor - http://robinshakoor.blogspot.com

So it's my turn tomorrow but make sure you visit the Graphic 45 and want 2 Scrap bogs and face book pages to win. Then follow the links each day for some amazing projects.
thanks
Jane

PS sorry about all the spaces I do the editing in HTML and it looks fine.but once I post it adds all these spaces and there is nothing I can do to fix it.

Tara and I are on Graphic 45 Blog today!

Tutorial for a beautiful baby girl layout
For this layout I wanted to do something a bit different. Whenever I get new Graphic 45 papers I like to look that them and see if I can find a way to use them differently from the way they have been designed. The Once upon a Springtime enchanted Forest paper was a case in point. The paper is so beautiful so where do you put a photo? I decided to make mine a patchwork piece and cover most of the squares with some of the other lovely papers in this collection. This let me add smaller photos and I was able to fit 3 on my layout. You could add more photos if you wish to. I also cut the squares smaller than the printed ones on the paper, which gave me a cream frame round each of the pieces.
So get out all your leftover small pieces of “once upon a springtime” and let’s get started.
Graphic 45 papers used
Once upon a Springtime, Enchanted Forest, Fairy Folk, Woodland Fantasy, Spellbound, Tiny Treasures, Primrose Cottage and Flight of Fancy.
Imaginarium Designs Chipboard:
IDFR0005 Mirrored Bracket Oval
IDC0002 Swirl Corners
IDS0023 Girl Silhouette
IDB005 Heart Picket Fence
Please note all measurements are in inches:

Use your sheet of Enchanted forest and remove the excess cream around the edge. You can use scissors for this. This will be the foundation on which we place all our other print papers. Ink around the edge and tape it to your green cardstock, making sure you have the same amount of green showing all the way around.
I have numbered each square in the photo, as we will be working from square number 1-15. Below is a list of each print paper used and the size you need to cut to fit the square.
1. 1 ¾ x 2 15/16 inch of Spellbound.
2. 1 ½ x 2 1/8 inch Woodland Fantasy.
3. 1- 1/16 x 2 1/8 inch Primrose Cottage.
4. 2 x 2-15/16 inch Woodland Fantasy.
5. 2-1/8 x 2-15/16
6. 1 -6/8 x 3 ¼ inch Once upon a Springtime.
7. 3 x 4 inch Woodland Fantasy.
8. 3-1/8 x 2-12/16 inch Tiny Treasure.
9. 2-1/8 x 2-12/16 Primrose Cottage
10. 1-9/16 x 4-9/16 Woodland Fantasy
11. 3-1/16 x 4 -3/16 Flight of Fancy.
12. 1 x 2-3/4 inch Fairy Folk.
13. 2-1/16 x 2-11/16
14. 1 ½ x 3-1/16 Primrose Cottage.
15. 2-3/16 x 4-6/16 Enchanted Forest.

Square 4 is put on with foam tape and has a matted photo on it.
Square 6 has a piece of pink ribbon tied around it before adhering it to your page.

Square 7 is put on with foam tape and has a matted photo on it. Once you have your photo on, you can tie a ribbon around it with a bow on the front.

Square 10 is out on with foam tape. Add a photo (not matted).

Square 11 has a quote on it. I like the one " Babies are such a nice way to start people".
Use a Martha Stewart boarder punch and punch a piece of green vine long enough to fit on the fence. Glue the vine to the fence. Glue the five cream roses to the apricot flowers and place them along the vine. Add crystals to the leaves. Glue fence to layout as shown

Ink title words and glue it to your layout.
Add frame and flower to your layout.
Ink corners and glue them to your layout.
Ink girls and glue them to your layout.
You can place as many photos as you like and put them on any square you like. You can even leave some of the print papers off and have the base squares showing.

Graphic 45 and Want 2 Scrap have a blog hop starting on the 8th of August and all the design team have been making some amazing creations to share. So check out Graphic 45 and Want 2 scrap blogs for some great inspirations.

Thanks for looking

Jane

Check out The Lets get shabby blog

Imaginarium Designs was asked to sponsor the Let's Get Shabby Blog for this month. I was asked to do their monthly challenge.

Challenge #26
is all about
TOILE AND TICKING
(Your creation must contain both 'Toile AND Ticking')
What's this you might ask???
Here's a wonderful site we found that will help answer your questions.
or look to the Shabby Design Team projects.
french-country-decor-guide
You might find this in fabric, or paper...
Another question you might raise is ...
'I don't have any?'
You can also find Toile and Ticking and print off the computer like a couple of our DT have done.
Toile and Ticking is beautifully historically French and fabulously Shabby!
Toile is a distinct elegant pattern used in various shades and Ticking is a stripe – usually a double stripe or uneven spaced stripe…

I didn't have any Toile or Ticking, but found some fabric in a patchwork store for the toile. I had to print the ticking image from the Internet. I decided to do a layout on my Great Grandmother Florence. I remember visiting her in a nursing home. She was such a grand old Lady who always sat bolt upright in her chair. She died at 96 with her memory intact, by then I was 12 years old. I used a photo of her taken when she was about 19 years old. She was married by this time and had one child. The smaller photo is take at her 90th birthday. She must have had a hard life as my Great Grandfather was injured in a work related accident and died in his late 40's. She had 9 children and lived through some of the great changes in 20th century. From travelling by horse and buggy to seeing Man walk on the moon. From using candles to computers. The changes she witnessed in her life time were huge.
I used the fabric for tieing the large bow on my page. I also cut some on the fabric into a 3 inch strip and ran a gathering thread up the middle of it and pulled it up to make a bunting which I put under each of the photos.

I used two frames from Imaginarium Designs and randomly painted them with a paint dabber. This let the grey chipboard show through a little which gave it a blue tinge to balance out all the white on my layout . I also put a little bit on glitter on the frame to give it a lift. I added the ticking as stripes at the bottom of my page and attached it with some MM button brads. The flower was white and I had to spray with glimmer mist to get the deep blue colour I wanted. I added some ribbons, a lock small frame and swag from Melisa Frances. It is my first "white" layout I have done and I really like it. It still needs some journaling but I will do another page to match and put the journaling on that one.Thanks for looking
Jane
PS Don't forget to visit the Let's get Shabby blog for some more inspiration and check out their design teams work.

Don't know what is happening to my weeks but they keep disappearing!
So the winner is
DeeDee
"This is wonderful! Graphic 45 has such fabulous talented designers!! Saw you via Imaginarium ♥ "
Dee Dee can you email me at jane@seriouslyscrapbooking.net.au and I will send you your price.
Graphic 45 have featured some of my work on their blog, this means I can share with you. Grapic 45 sent me some of their new papers from the Magic of Oz collection. I decided to make an easle card.
I love the way these kind of cards stand up, making them a special card which can be on display rather than popped in a box or stashed in a draw. I used papers from the Magic of Oz collection for this card. I used some of graphic 45 hinges to make a flap on the front of my card. When you open the flap there is a pocket which lets you tuck money or a gift card into. Purple and green work so well together, and isn’t funny how the meaning of words change. Wicked now means great or cool as my kids tell me. Different from when I was a kid and it meant extremely bad. So now I have a totally cool card for a very“ wicked” teenager - Perfect.

I am really into miniature at the moment and having great fun doing lots of little projects. I have a great photo of the Lovely Graphic 45 ladies taken in Australia this year. I decide to do this project on Diane The book is only 4 inches high and five inches wide. It sits on an Imaginarium Designs chipboard stand, slightly opened. I love the way all Graphic 45 papers work together, I used papers from the new “magic of Oz” range. I love this new line of papers. The colours are so strong and the prints are delightful. I uses a chipboard compass and fine leaves from Imaginarium designs. This balanced the heavy metal staples flower from Graphic 45 which I just love. I cut out flowers from one of the prints and layered them to give them a 3d look. I added some magical words in an Imaginarium designs frame which describe Diane (hope she doesn’t mind being thought of as “antique” meaning valuable rather than old!) I also added a crown because she is the” Queen of design” as we all know.

I am also a guest designer for the Lets get Shabby Blog, they will be showing my layout tomorrow. Once it is on their blog I will post it on mine. Make sure your visit their blog for some beautiful inspiration and remember to leave a comment on my blog and go into a draw to win.

Thanks for looking

Jane

It's CHA Time Again

Once again it's CHA time, this time its the summer show being held in Florida. I was lucky to attend the winter show in LA in January. I decided to make a Victorian style theater using Graphic 45's Le Cirque. John and I got together and came up with a stage which all locks together and is easy to put together and take a part and packs flat!

It is about 14inches wide and 16 inches high. I cut lots of the animals and people from the Graphic 45 papers and put them on long sticks. It has backdrops so that a child can stand behind it and using the animas and people create their own circus.

Here it is at CHA, sitting on an old chair in the Graphic 45 Booth. It was so great seeing my work on display with all the other wonderful projects from the Design Team Members. If you are lucky enough to be going to CHA, then make sure you visit Graphic 45's Booth and check out the work from the new design team. We have been sharing on our private facebook page and the work is just amazing. I have sent my projects to them and they should nearly be there by now. Graphic 45 will be posting projects every couple of days on their blog during and after the show. Make sure you visit their blog.

Please leave me a comment any time until the end of next week. I will be choosing one of you to receive a bag of Graphic 45 papers and Imaginarum Chipboard.

thanks for looking

Jane

PS I have put more photos on the Imaginarium Blog, just click the link!

What another post!

Just checked the Graphic 45 web and found some photos of one of the new lines to be released at CHA. The girls and man on the domestic team were able to get papers from this line to work with for CHA, but us international girls missed out. We will be getting ours a bit later. Make sure you vist the Gaphic 45 blog over the next few weeks to see all the amazing projects created by the team. We have been sharing projects with each other on our private face book page and the projects I have seen so far are beyond amazing.
thanks
Jane