It's been one of those days...

Class Packs for Sale!

EDITED TO ADD - All class kits are now sold out - thanks for helping make a little room in my office!

I’m cleaning out my scrap room.  It’s a scary situation, there is stuff flying everywhere!   I’ve found about 10 class packs here and I thought I’d offer them for sale!  Perfect for those of you hoping to jump back into the scrapbooking swing of things but finding it hard after too many days lazing on the beach or hanging around home!  They are fairly old class packs, but all are still really cool classes, have great instructions and I’ll add EXTRAS!!!  Goodness knows I have extras floating around, I’ll put together some packs of stuff and include it with the class kits :)

So – for sale – the following kits, $38.00 per kit plus a flat rate of $5.00 postage per kit (or combination of kits) sent out.  Extras included at my discretion!  It’s a big old lucky dip really!!

Trinkets (as taught in Sth Island and Melbourne).
Scrapbooking is all about the details at the moment and this class will introduce you to just a few ways to bring this into your pages. Experiment with gorgeous Prima product in a layout that is full of texture, true to Nic Howard style. We’ll use a background that is a little unconventional. We’ll play with bold colours and bright papers. We’ll distress and cut and add a few bits and pieces. The result will be a page that will contain a sprinkling of technique to use in pages to come.

 

 

Three Layouts, today! (As taught at SENZ and Melbourne)

If creating stylish layouts in a small amount of time is your idea of a great class, then you're in the right place!  Join Nic Howard as she walks you through three fabulous layouts in the space of 2 hours.  Nic has pulled the finest of products together with this class based around the popular new range of papers "Knave of Hearts" by Collage Press.  Layouts will suit a variety of themes and Nic will touch on a variety of techniques.  What could be more perfect!  You'll not only walk away with 3 completed layouts, but with piles of inspiration to keep you creating for hours.

 

 

Multi-Media Mini Album (As taught at Autumn Escape and Melbourne)

 

A little bit of this… a little bit of that…some gorgeous trim, flowers, throw in some Paislee and Prima and what do you have? A stunning multi media album perfect for any theme of photos. Join Nic Howard as she pulls together all manner of materials into a gorgeous mini album packed with techniques you are bound to use for months to come. Album will suit any theme, photos to be added later.  This class opens your mind to various techniques, meaning that you not only go away from this class with a large mini album ready for all variety of photos, but plenty of ideas and techniques up your sleeve to apply to your own work later.

Routine, Lego, nintendo and tadpoles.

Back into routine this week.  Nearly.  I still have three kiddos playing Lego, and Nintendo, and riding bikes and leaving containers of tadpoles around my home, but routine has mostly been restored to the Howard home.

One more week and they are back at school.  It’s a huge week next week with the kids going back to school, Jacob turns 12, Abby turns 7, Paul and I celebrate our 15th anniversary and my little brother gets married.  Gets married! It seems like yesterday that he would take my $2 and peddle his heart out on his BMX bike up to the local shop and come back with a backpack of yummies.  Pebbles were my favourite, especially when they released the white milk chocolate ones.  That must have been 25 years ago.  We’ve remained the best of friends and it’ll blow my mind to see him married.  I can’t wait.  

I’ve completed my BasicGrey boothwork and I’m so pleased that I have 4 layouts in the BasicGrey catalog this time.  I’ve also completed my Prima work with 10 projects winging their way to the USA right now – cross your fingers they get to the show on time!

What am I working on now?  A new Big Picture Classes workshop – just a small instant download one.  Another one is in for proposal.  I’m working on Autumn Escape, for those of you registered, a newsletter is due out sometime really soon.  I’m also working on not tripping over lego creations and containers of tadpoles.  I’m hoping to get through the day without having to clean playdoh out from the cracks in the tiles, and I’m doing my best to avoid eating the Christmas food which is still hanging around my house.  As much as I am focused on the new me and the exercise and loving being fit and toned, I'm also wishing Moro bars didn’t taste so nice and that reduced cream and onion soup didn’t go with chips so well that I have to lock them away. Hands up who is having the same problem?!

Leaving you with a double layout that I created for Suz and the Aussie Scrap Source blog.  You’ll see me say it over and over about Sth Africa and this one says it again… love the place, adore the culture, want to go back!  For those of you that were with me for the Colour workshop, notice which sketch I used?  This is how it can become a double.

Laters!

 

Supplies:

Paper: Cosmo Cricket Circa. Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 Elements. Crate Paper Restoration Fringe.  Webster's Wonderfall Vellum.  Webster's Wonderfall Alphabet.  Webster's Hollywood vogue Alphabet. Webster's Hollywood vogue paper. Sassafras Lass Fawnd of You Alphabet.  Kraft cardstock.  BasicGrey Buttons.  Prima lace

Ali Edwards giveaway

Hey there – I just realised I had the chance for a giveaway, so here you go… leave me a comment by the 8th January to be in for a free spot in this class!

OR you can go right ahead and join up now, class started 30th December, so the fun is already underway.  You can enjoy 10% off the “Yesterday + Today” class price by using the following code at checkout: promo code: yesterdaytoday

About Ali’s new class:
Join popular blogger and scrapbooker Ali Edwards,  along with a diverse group of memory keepers, as they learn to make meaningful connections to their past in order to live their life in a more thoughtful way. Projects are limited to one layout a week that address the questions listed below.  
Are you new to online education? Ali’s robust, cutting-edge online classroom provides content in multiple learning platforms: video, audio and traditional written handouts.  The classroom also houses sharing galleries and multiple message boards. This is your last opportunity to participate in Yesterday & Today at Big Picture Classes. Don’t miss out on this popular class!
Yesterday & Today

• Where do you begin creating with photos from generations past?

• What do you wish you knew about your parents when they were growing up? What life lessons do you want to pass on to your children?
• How do you document the challenging times in your life?
• How do you create layouts that tell special stories when you don't have any photos?

Ali says,
“The benefit of looking to the past is that we gain perspective. We see things differently after developing an awareness of what we know and what we wished we knew. Looking back, even if we're just viewing old photos of people we don't know, can change the way we approach the photos we take and the stories we tell today.”
Read the rest of the class description
http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/yesterdaytoday.php

A new year…

A new year.  I slid into the summer month of January by the skin of my teeth.  My kids were away, my hubby was away and my sense of ‘enough’ was away.  I had a good friend staying, we enjoyed the season, the sun and the summer and I ended up with a timely reminder of why I don’t do that more often.  I also gained a relaxed and positive attitude – although that was kind of happening anyway – and an elbow injury.  All around about the time the clock ticked over from 2010 to 2011. 

Besides the lovely new year celebrations I have also been scrapping my heart out for CHA.  I’ve done more BasicGrey layouts for the booth over in Anaheim than ever before, and I’m on to the Prima stuff now.  CHA is always busy, I always disappear from facebook and my blog only to have a whole lot of layouts to show you at the end of January. 

Do I have any new year resolutions?  Sure.  I always do.  Many of them are gym related – I see some of you rolling your eyes – but I also have scrapbooking goals.  This year I want to share more.  I plan to update my blog, show my layouts, talk about what I’m doing, where I’m going, who I’m meeting and the projects I’m creating.  As scrapbooking has become more and more involved for me, I’ve shared less and less.  This year I’ll change that.  After my CHA work is done.

I’ll leave you with a layout I created for my Big Picture Class back in October.  You’ll recognise the ‘sketch’ or the design, it’s one I use often.  It’s a favourite so why not.  I hope you enjoy the layout but most of all I hope you enjoy the sentiment.  It’s a goodie for this time of year.

laters.