Thursday, October 28, 2010

It was purple!!

I went to Cropworks retreat a couple of weekends ago. It was fantastic, everyone had a good time and the food was 5 star restaurant standard. If you can only attend 1 or 2 scrapping/stamping retreat a year you need to make sure it's run by Cropworks. It was held at Long Point, NSW Australia.
As we arrived we were given a 'show bag' fully of goodies and asked if we wanted to have a try at the challenge. We could choose from 3 different colours and we received the one of our choice FREE. I decided to take the purple pack. The challenge was to use everything in the pack as least once and we couldn't add anything from our stash. We could however, add colour and glitz by using ink, paint, dimensional magic, Kindyglitz etc.
The kit contained:
  • 3 pieces of purple patterned paper
  • 1 sheet of white leather grain card stock
  • 1 packet of square purple rhinestones
  • 1 small length of tape with 'smile' written on it (the writing was purple too).
So, I needed to use the white card as the base but that didn't leave me any for embellishing. My friend Rose-Anne (from Cropworks)  doesn't waste anything and had said to me some time ago about cutting the back of a l/o out and putting the card stock to use in the l/o or another l/o.
Method:
  1. I cut the back from the white card stock so I could use it elsewhere in the l/o
  2. I chose 1 of the pieces of pp to be the mat for the rest of the l/o. I tore it, rolled the edges with wet fingers and then ink distressed it with a purple versamark cube.
  3. I then chose another piece of pp and tore around all edges for a smaller mat. I also turned the edges up with wet fingers and ink distressed it too.
  4. I then mounted the photo
  5. The stems were cut from the left over white card using a Sizzix die and my Cuttlebug. I then used Tim Holtz Distress ink to give them that green tinge - I did that by just roughly wiping the ink pad over the leaf surface.
  6. I made the purple flowers from scraps of the pp by punching 2 different sized circles, roughed up the edges of each circle and ink distressed the edges with the green and purple inks, too. I then scrunched them up and re-flattened them and glued them down the side of the page and used a square purple rhinestone in the centres. When I glued the circles together, I did it so they were off centre.
  7. The scalloped flowers were made from punching 3 scalloped circles for each flower. Ink distressed the edges and then really scrunched them up tightly. As I un-scrunched them I glued them together and left the top scallop circle more scrunched than the others in each flower. I used the square purple rhinestones for the centres.
  8. The tape was a challenge :). I decided to use a tiny bit of the tape as an experimental piece and covered it in dimensional magic. (When you do this it needs to lay on one of those non-stick mats, flat). When dried it didn't look too bad so I cut the piece with the 5 dots each end and the word SMILE in the centre and used the dimensional magic on the tape. When it dried I ink distressed the edges and adhered it to the page with 3D foam squares
  9. It still needed something so I used the left over pp and white card stock and punched out 3 butterflies using the Spellbinders dies. The top and bottom butterflies have the white card stock on top and the middle one has it on the bottom. I used purple Kindyglitz to bling them up and attached to the l/o
  10. The journaling I did at home on vellum which I ink distressed as well
The photo is a very old one (must be I'm in it :)). My twin sister is on the left with my paternal Grandmother and I'm on the right with my Dad.
All the products used (except the scallop punch) can be purchased from Cropworks.
Remember, your creativeness is only limited by your imagination. Keep smiling and until next we share ...

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Melanie Teaching



These photos show Melanie demonstrating how to use the Basic Grey kits the ladies received at camp. These kits are fantastic and I can hardly wait to use mine.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Bra Name Tags




The girls got the template to make these from Karlum. This is a website that has free templates to download.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Bras Bras Bras




More Bras





Bras from the Bra Parade.






BRAVO here are some of the bras from the Bra Parade. It was good the ladies got into the theme and had some fun yet remembered our loved ones who had or have breast cancer.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

The Bra Parade

This photo shows all the ladies who took part in the Bra Parade at camp.
These are the girls who go to my monthly crop.

Bra Purse




Here is the Bra Purse that Jeanette Osborne made. She made the purse from a bra and sewed all the decorations on by hand. This was auctioned at camp for Breast Cancer. It went for $62. WOW what a great contribution towards such a worthwhile cause.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Cropworks Retreat - The Bra Parade

We had a fantastic time on the weekend with the first Cropworks Retreat. The retreat was to raise funds for Breast Cancer. We raised over $300 and had lots of fun. The theme for the weekend was pink and one of the challenges was to decorate a bra. The slide show below will show you what we came up with. Thei is just a taste of what we got up to and I will post more later in the week.



posted by Libby

Friday, October 15, 2010

Family from Paper Inklings











We have the complete range of 10 patterned papers from Paper Inklings. They cover the whole family. They also have rub-ons and chipboard. The colours are vibrant.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Paper Inklings

Kris from Paper Inklings will be at camp on the Sunday to show how to use some of their papers. Cropworks has a good range of their products and they are so nice to use. The designs are different and they are Australian based.
Check out their website to see their full range of products.
The latest ranges that we have are School and Family.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Adirondack Dabbers



These paint dabbers are fantastic. No need to have a brush with their foam caps and no need for water unless you are splatting like I did on these pages. They come in so many colours and metallics. Cropworks has the whole range of colours.
Check out Rose-Anne's Blog to see a layout she did with the red and green splats.
Check out Rose-Anne's blog to see what she did with the blue splats on a card.
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