Head down bum up

LOL well that's what it feels like around here at the moment!!! We have had lots of deliveries this week for Ruey's kit. So Tara and I have been busily packing those up ready, we are only waiting on one more delivery from the US, and believe me they are worth waiting for, and one more from over here and then they are ready to go. So that's all very exciting, it's a fantastic kit, we just love it and already it has blown us away with just how popular it is.

I have also had other very exciting deliveries from all my sponsors for my classes over in the UK next month. When everything was organised and the decision was made for me to go over, I decided to contact some of my very favourite Australian Manufacturers so I could share some of the most beautiful products with the brits in my classes. I have am very fortunate to have products from Delish Designs and Cherry Arte as well as the fantastic team at Fiskars Australia. The sponsors have all been very generous and I'm sure my classes and Make and takes will be a hit as a result.

Yesterday Mum and I also got all our tickets for our trip over, and the tours we will be doing after the retreat. Pretty exciting as it's both of our first trip OS. But before all that I have to get my samples done and instructions and all the kits packed and shipped over there. Lots of work to do over the next couple of weeks, hence the head down bum up reference. ;-))

Saturday Tara and I are holding another workshop combined with a UFO day, so some ladies can come along and finish off projects. Should be a nice relaxing day and I'm hoping to get one of my class samples and instructions done as well.

Monday was another awesome Pencil Lines week, we bought the amazing talents of Hambly Studios. Go check out the awesome layouts and Hambly stuff, have a really good look at the
Hambly Transparencies, we really love them at Scrapping Angels, so much so you will find more than one in Anne's kit next month. Wooo only 4 more days till it's released!!!! Another one that has been very popular.

Been to the Fair, Pencil Lines and more

Well what a busy, busy time it was at the stitches and craft show. I met many wonderful people, we helped many many many people learn how to use their Fiskars tools successfully. We held packed out classes 3 times every day. People even stood on the sidelines watching, It was a huge success by all counts!!!

Here's the Melbourne Team

From right - Lyn, Linda, Heidi and baby Reagan, Sarah, Me and Helen.

I was very excited to see the wall panels, They looked fabulous!!! IRL, as I had done 3 projects for it before Christmas last year. Such a great system, easy to set up and take down too!!!

Here's some images of it.

Pencil Lines went up again on Monday, Paula Sealey is joining us this week as our Guest Design Team member. Paula has also provided the lovely Sketch for this week's Challenge.

here's my take on it

As the Design Team have been asked many time about the products they use for their layouts we have decided to post a list on our blogs when the sketch goes up. Here's what I have used for this layout....... Bazzil Cardstock 8"x12" landscape, SEI patterned paper and die cut tags, Making memories alphabets and gem brads, Angel Kiss Flowers and Heidi Swapp flowers.

Yesterday I took the younger 3 children to the dentist in Gundagai, it's a long trip ( 2 hours each way) but that's Ok Dr MacDonald is worth it. Tahlia no longer needs her plate!!! YAY!!! Katelyn's are great, Ethan had two fillings in the bottom molars, which is fine as I know his next set of teeth will be great.

See you at the Fair

the Stitches and Craft Fair. I'll be heading out very early in the morning to drive down to Melbourne, I do hope to see lots and lots of you there!!!! Please pop by and say hello.!!!!

Melbourne Stitches and Craft Show

Melbourne Stitches & Craft show this week March 14-18 Caulfield Racecourse!!

This is going to be huge!!!! there are FREE!!!! YES FREE!! classes with Heidi herself, now you don't want to miss that!!! Not to mention all the prizes, competitions and give aways as well!!!! Truly you have just got to be there!!!!! Here's all the details for you.

Fiskars Papercrafting Extravaganza with Heidi Grace Kress
The Stitches & Craft Show and Fiskars welcomes special guest Heidi Grace Kress to the Melbourne March Stitches & Craft Show!
Join Heidi for FREE daily make and take craft workshops where you can learn the latest papercrafting trends straight from the US. Also at the Fiskars Papercrafting Extravaganza, view product demonstrations and be in the draw to WIN amazing prizes from the Heidi Grace Designs range. Here's a sneak peek of the projects she will be doing....

If you would like instructions for these projects feel free to email me, and I can send them onto you.

Papercraft Competition
If you think you have created the ultimate papercraft piece, enter the Fiskars Papercraft project at The Melbourne March Stitches & Craft Show! US papercraft expert Heidi Grace Kress will judge your papercraft piece and will select Daily Winners and a Best of Show Winner.
Daily Winners will receive a Heidi Grace Designs prize pack valued at $100 and The Best Of Show Winner will win a Fiskars Craft Caddy, complete with $100 worth of Heidi Grace Designs products.

Drop by, have a play, visit the Fiskars team, be inspired and get creating! Hey that's ME!!!! I'm part of the Fiskars Team Wooo Hoooo!!!!!! I'll be on the stand from Friday through to Sunday, so do make sure you say hello!!!

Hands-On Workshops with Heidi Grace Kress - Daily Timetable
10.30am - 11.30am FREE Card Making workshop
12.00pm - 1.00pm FREE Mini Book workshop
2.00pm - 3.00pm FREE Page Layout workshop

The classes are limited to one per person per day, just to be fair!!!!

Also Heidi Grace is doing an interview on Mornings with Kerri-Anne which will be aired next Thursday morning. Great to see scrapbooking getting some t.v. exposure and I'm sure this will be of interest to us all.

Monday Morning

It's a public Holiday here today, yay we sure can use it. I'm looking forward to having a nice visit with Marie today, I'm going to share with her all the fantastic projects Tara and I did last weekend with Making Memories, sadly Marie was unable to attend, she would have loved to come and see any new techniques and products ect for the ladies she teaches in our local shop. But next time we plan to get in early and all go together.

And of course being Monday Pencil Lines is up, so a very big welcome to the lovely Leah Fung who is joining us this week as our Guest Design Team member. Leah has also provided a gorgeous Sketch done as either 12x12 or 8x11 for this week's Challenge.

When I was preparing to go away last weekend, I was planning my layouts for Pencil Lines, for something different instead of going for my most recent photos, I went through old archived photos on my computer to look for photos I hadn't scrapped yet. I don't do this often enough cause I found heaps I loved and wanted to scrap. You know those older photos that didn't seem good enough to scrap at the time, well now I have looked back I love the quirky little things Ethan particularly has done over the years. Sadly he is the only one that I have in digital format but one day I may go through the old film albums and negatives and look for shots of the other kids. I have used photos from Ethan's second birthday, yep he is now nearly five, I just love the look on his face in the main photo!!!

So any way Pencil Lines is up today, and I will share mine here now, it's a very simple layout compared to others I do, but having so many photos is unusual for me too, this is another reason why sketches are so good, it can lead you in a direction you haven't tried before with your scrapping. And variety is the spice of life so they say!!!! but truly go over and check this site out, it has so many different sketches and ideas for you to use, and always send them into us so they can go in for a chance to win our monthly prize.



Our local Scrapping Angels workshop was held here on Saturday and the ladies did some stamping and stitching layouts, it was another great day, we are holding the same workshop again on the 31st as the numbers of people wanting to attend are growing. I was so not with it this workshop, thanks God Tara and I share the work load as I was in hospital with a migraine till very late on Friday night and wasn't my usual self on the Saturday. Tara pulled it all together, she's such a star, I love her dearly. She had a little help from Mum and Craige, they did what they could anyway. I'm so lucky to have the support around me when things go awry.

I have another really busy week coming up and lots of things to share so stay tuned for more things to come.

Scrapbooking Memories this month

Has just arrived in my mail box!!!! I still love this magazine, I read others but I love this one!!! Our very own Angel Designer Carole Janson has a fabulous article in here about using transparencies and not just the pre-printed type from manufacturers in true Carole style she does her own thing with them. This is a wonderful article very well done projects as usual by her and fantastic techniques that every one can have a go at. I know I will. Then Carole has a brilliant Travel wallet, now I must make one of these for my trip to the UK, which is so close now it's quite nerve wracking thinking about it.

oohh, then the next thing on my love list is our new full page add for Scrapping Angels. This turned our brilliantly I think!!! Love the little sneak peeks of the designers work with their names on it, thanks all you girls for getting me some of your work so quickly with very little notice, I hope you love the add. Emails have already begun coming in about our retreat later in the year. Our plans are coming together nicely but we are waiting a little longer before we make the announcement on the blog and website.

Next to my shock is a single layout I did so long ago( like 14 months) I was worried about seeing it in the mag, but I love it still!!!! The girls are tanned and beautiful in their little bikinis and have the biggest pieces of juicy watermelon in their mouths. Had lots of fun with stamping and coloured stitching on this layout.
Here it is..............




Then, yep there's still more, I have the pleasure of being in the free paper and scrapabet section, thank goodness the paper was actually a really good one designed by Cherry Arte!!! I have a single layout and a layout accent and here they are.....



Well that's enough chatting for today, must get onto some more of the stuff I have yet to get ready for tomorrows workshop.

What a weekend

Well Tara and I have been in Melbourne for 2 fantastic days doing wonderful Trade classes with Making Memories. We had a really good time, exceptional ideas for workshops here in Wodonga, watch out girls your in for a real treat!!!!

What a really long day yesterday was though. I got up at 4.30 am to drive to Melbourne to pick Tara up, lucky devil was already down there with Hubby and the girls, Had to be in the class by 9am, the classes then finished at around 5pm. Then I scrapped some layouts using the next few weeks of sketches from Pencil Lines. I was very impressed to get 3!!! yes 3 Pencil Lines layouts done early, while I had a very quiet uninterrupted evening in the motel room. (Must do this more often when I'm away). We got to bed around midnight, boy was I buggered!!!! Slept like a log, but was still running out of energy by the end of the class today, so we headed home a little early, at 4pm, which was great as we missed the peek hour traffic through the city and I was home just before the kids went off to bed for the night. Tara now gets to finish off all the samples of the classes to show off to the ladies at our Local Workshop on Saturday.

Now because I have been away I'm a little late in putting up my reminder that the latest Pencil Lines sketch is up. So here it is...........welcome to the lovely Anita Mundt who is joining the team this week as our Guest Design Team member. Anita has also provided this gorgeous Sketch for this week's Challenge, now go over an check out this sketch, then give it a go!!!!

Here is my take on it......

Katelyn recently had her first ever school swimming carnival, she had a wonderful day and did very well in her races. It was wonderful to be there to watch her. Mind you I had to leave early, which was disappointing, but Mum and I had to get to the Post Office for our Passport interview. Couldn't miss that very important meeting, time is running out, as we fly out to the UK on the 26th of April.

Yes!!!! I'm going to the UK, I'm going to meet all these fabulous Pencil Lines ladies, well some of them, for real. I'm so excited!!!! I will be teaching 2 classes and a make and take at the Scrapping Angels retreat in the UK!!!! How absolutely fabulous is that!!!! I can't believe it and I'm so grateful to Anna for having me over. Anyway I will get into my trip some more in another post.

But right now my own soft comfy bed is calling me

New Kits online and more

Boy what a very long 27 hours it has been!!!!! We have had huge Internet/website/computer problems here!!!!!!!!!!!! B(*^*%^&DY things when things go wrong they go wrong with a vengeance. To start with our chat room over at the site wasn't working at all well last night GRRRR so we didn't have a chance to have a very good chat with Carole GRRRR. Tara and I will be looking into another one before our next chat goes live!!!! These are growing popular so quickly, it's such a nice thing to be able to discuss directly with the designers and other papercrafters about the kits and projects without any pressure in a relaxed atmosphere.

After a very long day our new kits are now available on line . Our very good friend Marie was our guest designer this month. She recently went on a family holiday to the beach and has designed a fantastic mini album and a single layout to keep her precious memories from the trip in. She has done an incredible jog on this kit and we are very grateful to her for being a part of Scrapping Angels this month. To check out what she had to say about her kit and to see some sneak peeks of her projects, head over to the Scrapping Angels AU Blog!!

Oh and you have got to check this out the Fisk-A-Teers in the US have found Pencil Lines !!! Now that is sensational, even these fabulous ladies love the sketches, so if you haven't done so yet GET OVER THERE and look for yourself!!!!!