Scrapbooking Made Simple

Don't you love these cute little shops. I've been calling them houses but they're really shops.. see the shingle out the front? I am making these for Christmas and filling them with cookies or lollies to give to friends and family. They are really easy to make. To make them I used a template from the Cricuit Cartridge Sweet Tooth Boxes and then it's just a matter of sticking everything down and glueing them together.  I'm demonstrating these at Arnold's Scrapbooking Store at The Zone Rothwell this saturday from 9:30am if you'd like to come watch or pick yourself up a precut kit.

Looking for a cheap and really cute gift idea for Christmas? Here are some shoes I made for a girlfriend of mine to give to her coworkers for xmas.  She is going to make fudge and put it in cellophane bags sitting in the shoes. I cut each of these from a single sheet of patterned paper. I used my cricuit and the Princess Party Cartridge to cut these. One of the shoes uses two different papers as it wasn't a double sided paper and I had to hand cut the sides of the shoes to stick over the plain paper. For decorations you can either go all out with your left overs like I did or a cheaper decoration would be to use a strip of co-ordinating paper across the toe of the shoe (check out the shoe in my november classes) which you can punch with an edge punch and then add a large jewel.

Here are the classes I'll be teaching at Arnolds Scrapbooking Store. There are lots of other things on offer by the other teachers if none of my creations take your fancy. LOL  go to: http://scrapbooking.arnolds.net.au/  and browse the class list. You won't get photos of all the classes though. But if you join the mailing list they'll email you out photos of each week's classes as they approach. Hope to see you at one of my classes..... and if you come don't forget to tell me you read my blog. Luv to meet some of my readers. This is a really great present idea. It's a folder and birtday book and a selection of cards to go into the folder.  This class is called golden angels. The large brown box is a writing set. The gold purse is a chocolate gift. The round box is a really nice gift idea as it is a box filled with angel wings and a lovely sentiment. The small butterfly box will hold a small piece of jewellry and the card has a gorgeous golden angel charm on it.

These are the photos of the girls bedroom. The name plate for the door is first.  Then the lamp. All I did here was spray the base and lampshade to match the bed.  I glued on tiny satin rosebuds. Then I stamped butterflies onto acetate cut around them and then coloured them using art glitter. when it was done I added dimensional magic to stop all the glitter falling off over time.  The bed was white when I got it. We sprayed it in two colours. Purple down the bottom and then blue up the top. The small 3 tier shelf was sprayed the same.  This is the painting my darling hubby did for my daughters room. (last year) and I wanted to keep it in the decorating as he put so much work into it.  This is a canvas that I will be teaching at Arnolds in the future (you are getting a preview).  I did the background using a stencil and glimmermist. I handmade the flowers and made the butterflies using the stamping on acetate technique. All in all this was a very cheap redecoration. After adding t

Hi Everyone, I have been very busy re decorating my daughters' bedroom.  I have moved both the girls into the one room so we can have the other room as a playroom. So...... of course we needed to redecorate. I got some bunkbeds on Ebay and have painted them to suit the theme and have used some scrapbooking supplies to make the sign for the door (I'll upload photos soon) but what I wanted to let you know is if you use alphabet stickers or thickers and have some in your stash but they've gotten to the point where you can't use them anymore as there aren't enough letters left on the sheet, instead of buying another packet of the same I buy white stickers of thickers and then use them with the other left overs.  For the sign for the girls door I have used some blue thickers and then I used white ones that I stamped with a lace stamp in purple. (The girls room is blue and puple). But if you don't want to alternate your colours you can colour the entire letter in th