Teaching in Brisbane early Febuary

Hi Everyone

I'm very excited to be invited to teach at Workshop Wonders Sunday February 7th.

Before and after the event, I will be teaching at 4 Scrapbooking Stores in Queensland. I have listed the stores below along with their details. I have also put a sneak peek in for each class, Some of the stores have limited seats so you will need to book in early. Please contact the stores directly to secure your space. It will be a busy 5 days as I will be teaching 10 classes, all different projects. Some stores are hosting 3 classes in a day and some 2 classes. I will be doing 2 different card classes, 3 different off the page projects, 5 different layouts and even a mixed media canvas. It's going to be amazing and I am really looking forward to teaching in Brisbane early February it as I will not be at the Brisbane Scrapbooking and Papercraft expo in June this year due to another commitment.

Thursday 4th February

The Stampers Hut

Facebook Page here.

 Store Address:  4/146 Cotlew St, Ashmore QLD 4214
Phone: (07) 5539 5188

Projects:

 

Double Male Layout

I don't often do double layouts in a class, but this one really is quite perfect as a single but even better as a double. Learn how to piece a layout together. You will be using a few mixed media techniques in this class as well. Learn how to emboss chipboard, paint metals, and more.

Mon Amour Cards

 

I love making Cards and these circle front easel cards are really something special. Once you know the trick to making them - there are so many possibilities. I have a set of two beautiful Easel cards for this class. Using Graphic 45 papers from the Mon Amour collection, these cards will be perfect for a very special engagement or wedding.

 

 

Lazy Summer Days

Off the page projects are great fun to make. I designed the chipboard billboard used in this class a few years ago, and I still love the concept. Billboards can be used to display or celebrate many different events. I have done ones for Wedding, Babies, Christmas, Females and Males. This one is to celebrate Lazy Summer Days of which, here in Australia, we have lots of. So join me using lots of different bits and pieces to make a lovely keepsake ready for a perfect summer photo.

Friday 5th February

TJ's Scrappin with Style

Store Address: 10 Mayes Ave, Logan Central QLD 4114
Phone: :(07) 3290 1201
Facebook Page here.

Projects:

Pictures of You.

I have 4 girls and only one son. But for some reason I really love doing male pages. Girls are always easy, just add lots of bling, flowers and ribbons. But boys- well they are harder.  Male layouts lend themselves to using mixed media products so you will be making your own elements for your layout using different mixed media products and chipboard on your layout. Learn how to combine traditional scrapbooking techniques like making a frame around a page and mixed media elements.

 

 

Little things Big Memories

I love this photo of my two girls and I really wanted a special page to show it off.  Learn how to construct a layout and use lots of different mixed media products on a traditional scrapbooking page. Lots of different techniques to learn in this class. You will be using, micro beads, glitter, wire, silks glazes, embossing powder gel mediums, metals, chipboard and more.

Saturday 6th February

A Place to Create

Store Address: 24/1147 S Pine Rd, Arana Hills QLD 4054
Phone: (07) 3851 2200
Facebook Page here.

Projects:

Male Mixed Media Canvas

I really do love making mixed media projects. I don't often get a chance to have a real play, so when I was asked for a mixed media canvas for a male, I was delighted. It's a great way to learn lots of techniques. This class you will be using, masks, texture paste, distress sprays and paints, embossing powder, mica flakes, silk glazes, chipboard and much much more. Be prepared to get dirty in this class, so come prepared.

 

 

 Victorian Tags

I love making tags, they are more substantial than a card and can be tied to a present or just hung. They are great fun to make and the two I have to share with you, have a real vintage feel to them. You will be using lots of gorgeous vintage style bits and pieces to decorate your tags.  If you enjoy card making then try tag making.

 

Feminine Mixed Media Tags

Sneak peak coming soon...

 

 

 

 

Sunday 7th February

Workshop Wonders

Facebook Page here.
Where: 29 Chardean St, Acacia Ridge QLD 4110

Project:

 

 

Love Cherish Blessed Adore

I love using mixed media elements on my scrapbooking layouts. In this class you will use, micro beads, silk glazes, mica powders and gel mediums. You will need to bring 2 large photos that can be cut. The page would also work so well as a layout to show how one person has grown. You can use each arch for a photo of the same person at different stages of their life.

 

Tuesday 9th February

Daisy Chain Scrapbooks

Facebook Page here.
Store Address: 7 Daniel St, Nambour QLD 4560
Phone:(07) 5441 6797

Projects:

Steam Punk Cards:

This set of three cards is just amazing, so many little bits and pieces to look at. Learn how to create a set of specialty folded cards perfect for male and females. One I have shown you how to make the card foundation - you will be able to make this card again and again for any occasion or theme.

 

 

Imagine

A beautiful layout using Graphic 45’s “World’s Fair” collection. Lots of bright colours, some Imaginarium Designs Chipboard, a touch of glitter and more. This layout is mainly focused on creating effects with paper and would be suitable for most occasions.

Mon Amour Cards

Hello Everyone
Graphic 45 are sharing some cards I made using their lovely "Mon Amour" collection.
I decided to share them here too.

As soon as I saw my bundle of Mon Amour paper I knew I wanted to make lots of projects using this collection.

 

 

The first project I used it for was my Graphic 45 cards. I have a group of Ladies who join me each month for my card class and I like to challenge them.  I decided to make two circle easel cards. 

Circle Easel Cards are quite simple to make. All you do is make a regular easel card, but cut a circle for the front of your card rather than a square. I chose some lovely lace for the edge of my circle just to neaten up the edge.

There are so many wonderful images in this collection and one of the great things about cards is the fact that you can fussy cut lots of bits and pieces and layer them on your card.

I cut lots of roses and leaves from Dearest Darling, along with images from My Beloved. It was just a case of working out how everything would fit on my card and filling any bits in with more roses and leaves. I just added some chipboard from Imaginarium Designs and metals from Seriously Scrapbooking to finish my cards.

Thank you for reading my blog. For more inspiration make sure you visit Graphic 45's Blog.
Jane

September, October & November Monthly Layouts

Graphic 45 are posting my September, October and November Layouts which are long overdue so first of all I would like to apologise for the delay. The months have just flown by and so much has been happening I haven't had a chance to get them to Graphic 45 on time.
I always appreciate the patience of the lovely Graphic 45 team.

September

For me September is all about the Father’s Day celebration, so it was an easy choice to do a layout on Malcom.

We have been married for over 32 years. We met through our Church youth group, I was a city girl and he was a country boy. We dated for nearly three years before we got married. 

We have five children so life for us while they were little was very busy.  We both are very active members of our church so there is always a lot happening in our lives. Malcolm works very hard at his day job and has been with the same company for his whole working life to date, having started as an apprentice at age 17. He also helps me with my two businesses in his not so spare time.

 Malcolm has a wonderful tenor voice and has had years of training.  He has performed many solo pieces at performances over the years of our married life. His singing in the shower is amazing and I love listening to it.   Marriage is a work in progress and requires commitment, patience, and understanding along with a lot of love.

The secret is to not take each other for granted and to put the other person first.  With everything happening in our busy life this doesn’t always happen every time, but we both are committed to our marriage.  I am so grateful for having Malcolm in my life and I do love him very much. We have so many things in common, our children, our faith, love of music and more.  We are now starting another stage in our marriage with our grandchildren starting to arrive and old age becoming something we are starting to think about and plan for.

I am very grateful to have Malcom alongside me and for his support in everything I do.  Without him, my life would be so much harder and without his love – a lot lonelier.

October

Well, October is my month; I was born on the 26^th of October 1962 in New Zealand.

I wasn’t even sure if anything happened of any great importance that year, so I googled it.

I discovered the following:

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was Linus Pauling.

The USSR announced that it was going to build missile bases in Cuba until Kennedy ordered a Cuban blockage which he lifted after Russia backed down.

The Yankees won the World Series over the San Francisco Giants.

Rod Laver won the men’s single title at Wimbledon.

The Oscar for best picture went to West Side Story.

The song of the year was Moon River.

Marilyn Monroe passed away.

I am sure there were many other important things that happened that year, but these are just some of the high lights I chose.

My life so far has been pretty easy. I didn’t have a great time at school though, due to being dyslexic and my teachers telling me I was just lazy. I knew I wasn’t but a lot of what I was learning just didn’t make any sense. I wanted to be a school teacher, but with my learning difficulties I would have found UNI too hard. So I worked in retail and really enjoyed helping & serving customers.

 

I grew up in a Christian family and from a young age attended everything happening at our Ecclesia.  I  met and married my husband over 33 years ago.  Have 5 wonderful children and now have three lovely sons-in-law.  My grandchildren are now starting to arrive and I am loving this next stage in my life.

I have had some interesting events in my life and some challenging ones too, but with my faith and support from family and friends nothing has been too big to handle.

So on the whole it has been really good and I am so grateful for this. Not everyone can say that about their lives like I can.  Through scrapbooking I have met some lovely ladies who have had not so good lives. Some have really sad stories to tell and I am always touched that they feel they can share with me. I always hope they feel better for sharing and not so alone or at least that their load feels lighter afterwards. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everyone had an easy life and could be grateful like me?

 I know we need to have sad times in our life so we appreciate the good times. I always think of our lives as quilts or now a scrapbook layout – that we work on as our life happens. The highs in our lives are the bright colours – the reds, yellows and oranges. The lows in our lives are the blues, greens and browns, and the really sad events and tragedies are the greys and blacks. A quilt or layout in bright colours is too much to take in. It’s the lows and the sad events that give us the shadows against which our bright colours really stand out and make our quilt or layout really beautiful.

So I am grateful for how my layout is turning out, at this stage it is very bright but with a little blue, green and brown. It has a touch of grey but thankfully no black.

Hopefully there are still quite a few more years for me to work on my layout. It will be interesting to see how it changes as time goes by.

I would love to hear how everyone else’s quilts/layouts are going.  Please share in the comments so I can read them all.

 

 

November

 

 

 

We are so blessed – our first grandchild has arrived safely with all 10 toes and fingers.

Harry James is just beautiful and I know that you may think I am biased but I did ask around at church and everyone assures me that he really is beautiful and I’m not just imagining it.

I didn’t think I would be such a doting Grandmother, but I am. I had taken 200 photos of Harry by day 4! I have to keep stopping myself from showing everyone I meet all of them!

I can’t go more than a couple of days without a cuddle and I can’t believe how fast he is growing. It’s going to be so hard next time around as our second grandchild, due in March, will live in a different state.  I won’t be able to visit this little treasure as often as Harry. Hopefully we will be able to skype and watch this one grow daily.

Babies are a miracle and not to be taken for granted. I didn’t really understand how precious and fragile babies were until at age 22 I had Anna.  She was so sick and needed major surgery to live, we were given the option of not having the operation and leaving her to die in the hospital – unthinkable now, but we were given that choice back then.

I didn’t even consider it – she was mine and our responsibility. She was given to me for a reason and I just needed to work it out. Well, after so many years, I have worked it out; she teaches me more about myself and life than I have taught her. She teaches me to be compassionate, patience and loving.  Not to take life for granted anymore and to treasure each day. Her life is quite simple, she doesn’t worry about too much – she leaves that to me. She doesn’t want much, her needs are quite simple – she has no concept of needing everything she sees or what brand names are.  She has her likes and dislikes and she doesn’t bear a grudge. If she is angry with me, she forgets quite quickly and forgives even quicker. She finds delight in little things and loves sharing. She’s not an angel by any means and sometime drives me batty but we love each other and at the end of the day, that’s all that matters. If I had my time again I would not change anything.

So my November month started out with me being grateful for my first grandchild. Feeling so blessed that he arrived safely with everything as it should be. Watching my daughter take to mother hood, like she has been doing it all her life, has been so rewarding. Watching my son in law being so protective of his first child is a real delight. But I know that it isn’t always like this for everyone and from my own experience I know how hard it can be when it doesn’t go according to the plans we make.

In our family, we have so much to be grateful for. My children are quite close to each other and supportive. They keep in touch and watch out for each other. They help each other out  and they all know that they are there for each other when needed. For that we are very grateful and with another grandchild on the way there is even more to be thankful for.

Thank you for viewing my blog. For more inspiration make sure you visit Graphic 45's Blog.
Jane

Graphic 45's "A Christmas Carol" Collection - Cards

Hello Everyone,
Graphic 45 are sharing a pair of Christmas cards I recently made using their beautiful "A Christmas Carol" collection so I thought I would share them too.

I have wanted to do some pop up cards for quite a while. When I saw the new Graphic 45 “A Christmas Carol” collection I decided that this was the collection to use. I really love the Charles Dickens feel to the cards with all the vintage images.

I fussy cut lots of pieces from the Christmas carol sheet; I loved the flower clusters which were just begging to be put on my card front with foam tape. A touch of glitter to the flower centres just finishes them off.

It’s always lovely opening a card with a pop out surprise. The first time I taught these cards my ladies really enjoyed the pop out feature, especially when it actually worked; there were lots of Oooh’s and Ahh’s. These cards will be the perfect Christmas cards for those of my friends who appreciate the work involved

 

Card 2

 

 

Thank you for visiting my Blog. Make sure you visit Graphic 45's Blog for more inspiration!
Jane

Imagine Layout

 

Hello Everyone

 

Graphic 45 are sharing one of my new layouts on their blog, so I thought I would share it here too.

It's called Imagine...

 

A layout using Graphic 45's “World's Fair” range.

 

My eldest daughter was married late August this year, after being with her partner for 5 years. They had a beautiful wedding with lots of stunning photos taken by David Henry for me to use.   

Before their wedding they had a photo shoot with David and again I got another lot of stunning photos. Beth has the most amazing coloured hair – I don’t call it red, but rather copper. Anyway it is just beautiful though she does not agree. I have always told her to be grateful as you cannot get her hair colour from a bottle!

 

Every time I see a collection from Graphic 45 with red, yellow or orange, I open my box labelled “Beth’s Photos”. So when I got my bundle of “World Fair”, I just loved it right away. The colours are amazing, blue and green with all that bright orange and yellow; it’s just perfect. But more important are all the wonderful images just begging to be cut out and built up with foam tape.

I chose a selection of Beth and Noah’s engagement/pre-wedding photos for this layout.

I am sure you will agree with me that the photos and papers look really great together.

I did rummage through my old papers to find an orange border for my layout. It is one of the papers from “Olde Curiosity Shoppe”. I just happened to have a few sheets of it left.  I added a very narrow blue border just inside of my orange border.  Another old paper I used, was for around my photos, I wanted something a bit more dramatic as a mat for the photos to bring the orange from the background paper out.  I chose a paper from Happy Haunting, which had lots of smaller squares I could cut out and use for the photo mats.

 

So starting with my sheet of “Counting Down” I just cut my piece of “Mind over Matter” to fit inside. Then I added a piece of “Inspiration Station” to go under my photos. I decided to mat my bigger photo and place a larger blue photo mat under it.

I did some fussy cutting for the bottom of my layout using foam tape to give it a more 3d look. “Be yourself everyone else is taken” looks great matted on some black cardstock and fits so nicely on my layout.

I painted my Imaginarium Chipboard flower stem with some green silks paint – this gives them a rich shimmer look. I added some beads and glitter to my flower heads. To help them stand out, I just tucked a paper flower underneath the flower heads. Some Prima wire rapped around the stem just looked great. An orange ribbon and mesh with a heart charm, all add to my layout. I added a chipboard title at the top, some blue brads in the corners along with some black photo mats. Then all I needed to do was choose which of Beth and Noah’s beautiful photos to use.  

I love the way I can use any Graphic 45 paper from any collection and they all work together.

 

This layout will be making its way online as a kit early next year if all goes well.

 

To view my range of kits available just visit Seriously Scrapbooking.

There are also a few Christmas projects available including a Christmas Layout, a Christmas book & Christmas Cards will be coming soon.

 

Thank you for visiting my blog.

 



The Wonder of Christmas

Its almost Christmas...

Today I'm sharing a Layout called "The Wonder of Christmas"

“Twas the Night before Christmas” Paper Collection

Again Graphic 45 have designed a perfect Christmas collection for anyone to use. I love the traditional feel to this collection and the brighter colours make every paper just pop. I don’t celebrate Christmas quite like everyone else does. For my family it’s a time to get together and remember the true meaning of Christmas, without most of the trimmings that make everyone else’s Christmas’s so traditional.  So I don’t have the traditional family photos or photos of a Christmas tree to use on my layouts and projects. I always have to “borrow” someone else’s Christmas photos for my work. This is a very special Graphic 45 little gentleman  and I loved doing my layout for him.

I like working on a square within a square for my layouts. This restricts the area I have to work on. I don’t like adding too many embellishments to my work, as I love Graphic 45 papers so much, and I am happy to just have them. I also love fussy cutting, so this layout was the perfect excuse to get my scissors out and start cutting.  I have tried to create a wreath around my Father Christmas, using foam tape to build the ivy up. Some white snowflakes, just added the touch I needed. 

I matted the photo of the “little gentleman” and adhered it to my layout. I added some brads, photo corners, a ribbon bow and a title from Imaginarium Designs to finish the layout.

It is quite a simple layout really, not too hard to make.  I think that the combination of wonderful Graphic 45 papers and a perfect photo is really all one needs for a great layout.

I have the instructions for this layout finally ready. Kits are available for purchasing as pre-orders on Seriously Scrapbooking's Website here. We are waiting on a few papers, you can still purchase the kit and we will post them as soon as the papers arrive. Hopefully next week.

 

 

 

 

Another project I would like to share is my 12 Days of Christmas pop-down book. You may already have seen this one or even made it yourself.

 

 

 

 

The 12 Days of Christmas Book is an elaborate pop out project which opens out from a book to a magnificent Christmas display consisting of six stunning pages. The pages when the bottom flap is folded down open out to a detailed 3D scene featuring the days of Christmas from the well-known song.

 

 

Using papers from Graphic 45’s Twelve days of Christmas Collection, chipboard from Imaginarium Designs and metal charms from Seriously Scrapbooking, this project is a perfect Christmas gift for a special person, or just yourself. To personalise this project there is ample space for photos on the reverse side of the project.

 

 

 

 

 

This book is available as a kit with detailed instructions. The kit includes all the materials to make the entire book including the cover.  

The kit is available for purchase on Seriously Scrapbooking's Website Here. It has been very popular and we now only have twenty or so kits left.

I hope to share some more of my Christmas projects with you, I have a few up my sleeve. For more Christmas inspiration or just any inspiration ☺ visit Graphic 45's Blog.

Thank you for reading my blog ☺