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Hi there,

happy Saturday to you all :) Its a lovely sunny day here in Victoria. We are off to my BFF house for a BBQ today, so Im glad the sun is shining.

Theres a great new sketch up over at the Kaisercraft blog this morning. You definately need to have a go at this one, the prizes are fabulous, head HERE for the sketch and all the details. This is my take on this weeks sketch, using the newest Kaisercraft release 'Chanteuse'. And yep, you do see right, its a photo of me !! That doesnt happen very often, cos I really hate having my photo taken., although not quite so much now Ive lost all my excess weight :).

I love this new collection, and found it so easy to work with. I have more layouts from this range to show you next week too :) The kaisercraft wooden flourishes are 'to die for'. I love the birds and birdcages. I have painted the little bird with Tim Holtz crackle paint, and for the cage, I simply inked it in a brown Kaisercraft ink. Heres a closeup

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend. Thanks so much for calling in. Take care my friends

Ingvild Bolme is coming to Ballarat....

You may have heard whispers on the grapevine about PRIMA coming to Ballarat. Well, now we can officially announce the details.

As you have probably heard, PRIMA U.S.A. are sending 4 of their amazingly talented Design Team girls to Australia to teach classes at Local Scrap Stores in November of this year. We put our hand up to host a DT gal, so that Ballarat would have the unique opportunity to learn from one of the best scrapbookers in the industry.

We are thrilled to announce that the internationally renowned INGVILD BOLME is coming all the way from NORWAY to teach a Prima workshop at none other than THE IMAGINATION FACTORY. Lucky us!

To see some of Ingvild's amazing work, check out her blog http://www.ingvildbolme.com/ She will be teaching with Prima products, including a hands on play with her new tool kit that has just been released by Prima. Prima have the most gorgeous papers, flowers, ribbons, gems and embellishments you have ever seen. Visit the Prima blog http://prima.typepad.com/ to check out their products. You can also see lots of their design team work on their blog too.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to learn from someone of this calibre right here in Ballarat.

THE IMPORTANT DETAILS

Ingvild's 3 hour workshop will be held at the Imagination Factory, Ballarat on Tuesday the 8th of November from 10am until 1pm.

Class fee is $150 per person.

To book and secure your place, you must pay a $50 non-refundable deposit at the time of booking. No places will be held without this, and you may pay over the phone if that suits.

We will also be running a payment system for those preferring to pay the balance off in installments.

All payments MUST be finalized by 1st October 2011. No exceptions.

We will notify all workshop attendees of project details and class requirements as soon as we have that information ourselves.

I am sure it will be a fabulous day, and look forward to hosting INGVILD at The Imagination Factory in November.

How totally exciting is it to have Ingvild coming to town :) I know Im excited !!!! Spots are filling fast so if you dont want to miss this one, call now.

Loving these wooden flourishes

I am so loving playing with wooden flourishes ATM... There are just so many things you can do to them. For this layout, of my daughter, I have used a few of the new flourishes from Kaisercraft. The iron fence has been given a 'rusty' makeover, using distress ink, Tim holtz clear crackle paint, and some metal rub on.

Then I have simply painted the 'lamp post' with Tim Holtz Picket fence crackle paint, then used the same rusty metal technique for the top. Heres a few closeups.



Also, dont forget the Boxx cybercrop starting tonight, and running right through the weekend. You wont want to miss it. Thanks for calling in, and have a fantastic weekend my friends x

Cybercrop, and some shares

Hi,

A quickie today, as my little fella is a bit miserable at the moment. I just wanted to remind everyone about the BOXX cyber crop coming up next weekend. Click HERE for all the details.



And just a little share. Kaisercraft have released this gorgeous new product collection called 'Nan's favorites' this month. And it really does remind me of my Nan's kitchen. Check here for the entire collection. This is a layout of one of my boys 'helping' me with the baking. He thinks licking the beaters is the best part of all :) .




The little chipboard embellishments with this range are sooo cute, as are the wooden kitchen utensils. Thanks for calling in, and I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend x

Some HUGE news

Hi my friends,

We are just back from the hospital after my little guy having his tonsils out, he was an absolute star.... He has been brilliant, and so brave, he is asleep atm, so I thought Id take the opportunity to call in and let you know the 2 'secrets' Ive been keeping....

Ok # 1 ....... this is soooo amazing, I really am still in shock....I have been a huge fan of Pencillines sketches for a long time.... And just recently they had a DT call...... My GF pushed me ( hard) to apply for the DT, I did, but never in a million years thought I had a chance, but guess what ?????

I have been asked to join the pencillines newsletter design team !!! I still cant believe it. A huge thankyou to Anna for giving me this amazing opportunity :) I am so looking forward to working with this amazingly talented group of ladies.

The next exciting secret Ive been keeping is .......drumroll....... INGVILD BOLME (Prima DT and all round scrapbook legend ) is coming to ' the imagination factory' !!!!! For those of you who dont know the imagination factory, its about the best scrapbook store around, and its in Ballarat. I dont have any of the details yet, I just know it will be in November, and Ingvild will be teaching some of her amazing techniques. So, if you are interested in finding out more info, contact the shop on (03) 5331 6108.... I will have more details in a few days..... Im sure the places will fill up quick, so book early... I will most definately be there.........

Ok, better go look after my sick little boy :(

We are off to the hospital

Hi girls,
Just a quick post to let you all know that my littlest boy is having his tonsils out tomorrow, so I wont be around for a few days. I will call in as soon as I get a chance, cos Ive got a few exciting things to share with you :)))

Hi there all my scrappy friends :)

Im happy :) I have 80 followers now, isnt that so cool... 80 people think my blog is intersting enough to follow ? :) .... Who would have thought that 12 months ago, I had no blog, and no idea of how to go about starting one, now I am totally addicted to blogging, and love everything about it :)

I have a bit of Kaisercraft to share today. The latest releases for March are both gorgeous, and I have had great fun playing with them. Today I want to show you a recipe box I have made for my daughter, using the new 'Nans favorite' collection . She has recently moved out of home. She loves to cook, and will often call me asking how I make certain recipes she loves. So I thought i could make her her own recipe box, and include in it all her favorites, using the recipe cards included in this collection.

Thanks so much for calling in, and thanks for all the wonderful comments... Oh, and thanks for thinking Im interesting enough to follow LOL !!!! xx

a little challenge for you

Hi ladies,
Wow, its been a week since Ive blogged !! Where does the time go. Its just a quickie today, cos Ive got losts to do. Im up at 5.30 in the morning, to get some scrapping done before the kids wake up. LOL. So I really need to get off this computer, and actually do it.

I wanted to tell you about a little challenge we have set over at the Kaisercraft blog. I as you know have 5 kids, and 4 of them are boys, I really struggle with all the gorgeous girly collections I get for my DT projects, I just dont have enough photos of my DD , who is 20 now. So I decided to set myself a little challenge. I have plans to try to make a 'boy' layout out of even the most 'girly' collections Im handed. I have used Kaisercrafts totally pretty and girly 'Bubblegum Hills' collection for my first attempt, and really am quite happy with the result, and I dont think there is anything girly about my layout I did....

NOW HERES THE CHALLENGE: the wonderful people at Kaisercraft have got on board, and are offering a prize of a $25.00 Kaisercraft collection of your choice for one lucky person who creates a layout like this, using one of their ranges. So have a go, choose the most girly papers you have, and make a boy layout from them, or even make a girly layout out of a predominantly masculine range. Here are the details .........





OK, gotta run and do some work :) well, playing LOL...... I will be back to share some more very soon

some new shares

Hi friends,

I got my layouts back from 'Australian scrapbook ideas' magazine, and remembered to photograph them this time. I was asked to do 3 x double layouts, which was a challenge in itself, as I dont tend to scrap doubles very often. I used some gorgeous photos of 3 of my boys at the beach for all the layouts. I am quite happy with how they turned out. I was lucky that I could pretty much do whatever I wanted for the mag feature, as long as they were double layouts, and sat well together on the magazine page. I have used lots of inking and destressing, which are 2 of my favorite techniques :) and even managed to slip in some handmade flowers too :)


I used Kaisercrafts 'homemade' collection for all the layouts, I love all the blues and browns in this collection. with a dusty attic fence which I destressed to look like rusty iron, and some birds cut from Websters paper.

For the layout above, I again used Kaisercraft 'homemade' collection, with some prima vines, and some handmade flowers.



The little frames Ive used in the 2nd 2 layouts are a pack from K and Company. The stitching technique I used is explained in a step x step in the current 'Australian scrapbook ideas' magazine, theres also step by step instructions on how to make all the layouts here :) ....

And some more exiting news to share, the scrapboox is having a cyber crop and a blog hop. The cyber crop theme is 'Home Comforts' .......... So put this date in your diaries, bring along plenty of MOJO, and a bottle of wine or 2, and we will see you there :)


'if you are visiting on the Boxx Cyber Crop blog train... your next stop will be http://bblowe.blogspot.com/2011/03/home-comforts.html "