Next Week ... 8th April 2013

Good morning, good morning!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter break, a weekend to remember :-)  My family had a lovely relaxing time at Meningie, gazing over the waters of Lake Albert.  The lake level was up this year, encouraging lots of bird life... pelicans galore!

I am in full swing with Little Shop of Horrors.  Such fun music!  As this goes for 3 weeks, opening night is tonight, this has pushed things around and out!  There is no Scrap'n'Roast this month :-( and the Art Journal workshops have to be on a Wednesday.  All will be back to normal (normal?!) soon!! 

Next Week's Workshop is ...

ATTACK YOUR STASH   $10

Monday 7-9pm and Thursday 9.30-11.30am

This gorgeous page is from the Bo Bunny Projects Blog.  It uses layered stamping to create the background and photo mat area - pretty cute hey?  Depending on the colours and embellishments you choose, this page could be either girlie, masculine or in-between.

You will need one landscape 4"x6" photo.

From your stash you will need - 

• Background - 1 x patterned paper or cardstock
• Top layered background - 1 x patterned paper that is fairly light with not much pattern or you could use a light cardstock.
• Title
• Lace or hessian (burlap) to create part of the photo mat and embellishing
• Embellishments - go through your stash to find things that will match your photo theme, using the picture above as a guide.  Brads, buttons, old jewellery, flowers, chipboard, pearls, etc...
• Stamps - you can see in the picture many different stamps have been used to create the background, so look through your collection :-)
• Inks
• Distressing tool
• Masking tape - we will stamp this to make our own stamped tape
• String
• Dymo machine and tape

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS are fast approaching! They begin on the 13th April through to the 28th April.  There won't be any scrapping classes during the holidays.      

The next ART JOURNAL, $10, workshop will be on Wednesday, 24th April at 12.30-2.30pm and 7-9pm.  ***I'm sorry I have changed the day from the usual Friday, but due to Little Shop of Horrors and school holidays, everything is all mucked up!!!  If this doesn't work for everyone, we will just have it in May instead.  Please let me know.  To make up for it, I will schedule two Art Journal workshops in May :-)

We will be using up a fist full of those pages you have been ripping out of your books!  You DON'T need to gesso your page for this class.

You will need -

• 5-6 book pages
• Bostik GluStik (blue container) I got mine from Kmart and Big W.  We are using this glue and not tripletac as the glimmermist won't work as the tripletac leaves a varnish like coating and repels the sprays.  Let me know if you have any problems getting the glue and I will grab some for you.
• Glimmermist/Smooch Sprays - 3-4 colours
• Paint - to stamp our saying
• Paintbrush
• Paper Leaves x 2   
• Stamps for the background
• Black or brown versacolor ink cube or distress ink
• Stazon Ink - black
• Journaling pen - black    

Okey dokey, I think that's everything!  I hope you all have a lovely weekend.  Mine is going to be full of music with two shows of Little Shop of Horrors and the first rehearsal of Brigadoon. La, la, la!

Happy Scrapping,

Mandy :-)