Scrapbooking Made Simple

Here are the cards I made today. I am giving these to a girlfriend of mine so that she will have some handmade cards to give away this year. (I prefer to do this as it means at least two people saw the cards before they maybe went in the bin? I hate that you put all that work in and then people throw them away so this way I know they got a little bit of appreciation first.) Card 1 - hand sewing Card 2 - Tags and flowers this is the inside of card 2. Card 3 - Paper Piecing Mouse in a gift box Card 4 - Teddy Bear in a read wagon Card 5 Softly Romantic inside of card 5 and 6 (sometimes it is nice to make the inside of the card interesting too, in this case I had two of these journal spots so I used them as a place to write on the inside of the card.) Card 6 - Romantic handmade flower bouquet. For the two childrens cards I used my cricuit cartridge (Birthday Bash) to cut the paper piecings.  I'll upload the other things I made for this friends' birthday present soon.

 Hi Everyone, Here are a couple of cards I made for my nephews. It's their 7th and 5th birthday parties today. I don't usually make alot of cards as most people just throw them away..... but as my sister-in-law is also a scrapbooker I'm sure the work that went into these will be appreciated.  I used my cricuit to make the paper piecings (crocodile and bird) but you can follow this link to some free paper piecing patterns: (http://www.scrapbooksetc.com/techniques/paper-piecing/).  Because I was giving gift cards with these cards I have made little pockets inside the cards to hold the gift cards. When giving a gift card I do like to make a nice card as it shows you still thought about that person and put some love into it. I had some pockets that I got in a little packet I bought and used these as templates for these but you can make a pocket in any shape you like just leave a "seam allowance" the width of your double sided tape and fold it under neath and at...

Little Girls like Butterfly's need no excuse. This month I'm only doing one class (school holidays and other committments to take into account and I didn't want to over burden myself). This class will teach you how to make three different kinds of flowers. How to glimmermist a background how to make the butterfly's and how to hand stitch on the layout.  The first round of this class is full but I am taking names for a second run of the class, so feel free to call arnolds if you'd like to book in Ph: 07 32934390.  Now I have added a new service for those who are quick.  If you like this layout but don't want to make if for yourself. The first person to pay the class fee and book "Teachers Example" will be the layout I make during the class to show everyone how to do it. All you need to do is contact me on: 0423679593. (First in Best Dressed) For this layout I used 3 photos (10 x 8) but 5 or 6 regular photos also look good on this canvas.

I had a question from someone on my email list about how to create layouts for the differently abled. So in answer to Ruqaiyah's question I have outlined how to go about this. You could though use this information to create an album on any topic you like. My suggestion  on how to create an album on this topic would be to find two sketches you like. (One a single photo sketch and one a multi photo sketch) You can use these two sketches over and over again by turning and flipping the design. This will give your pages some cohesion. I would convert all the photos to black and white and do the album in a single pad of co-ordinating papers. (Many of these come with a variety of matching papers and embellishments) Then choose a single colour cardstock as your background page. Buy flowers and bling (and if you're like me and love some hand stitching on your layouts, some thread) in either one or two co-ordinating colours. You could buy a pack of thickers or other alphabet sticke...

Hi Everyone, hope you all had a great new years. We had a fun night thanks to some good friends of ours. We had Pizza and a few drinks outside under the fairty lights and lanterns in front of our fire before heading inside and playing pictionary on the Wii. This was alot of fun and the kids had a ball. Then it was back to the the backyard where we watched the scarborough fireworks go off.  A lovely simple evening with lots of laughs and not driving and no crowds of people.. Perfect! Here is a layout I did of one of the many photos of our wedding vow renewal. We got so many fabulous photos of this day I've been doing lots and lots of layouts and canvas beyond the page projects.  I got the paper I used for my background when it was on special as it's been sitting in the shop for a while and the calendar journal spot was also on special so I felt I could lash out a little and use the crochet piece and the prima flower.  The title is one I punched out a long time ago using...