Sisters are different flowers from the same garden

Dear Bloggers - Hi,

I just love the Lost and Found Collection by MME.  The LO I posted last session came together so easily that I tried another one with the same papers.  The second LO definitely did not come together easily but with perseverance I created a page that I am very happy with.  I used the Pink Paisley ribbon to make a flower and I feel that the colour and texture work really well - I was thrilled to finally be able to use that beautiful silver grey ribbon to good advantage.  See what you think.

FYI I had the LO all but finished and as I was applying the final touches I realised that somehow I had purple ink on my hand and I merrily had smudged it over my work - AHHHHH!  Well after painting, sanding, tearing, resewing and some covering I hope that none of you can see those dreaded purple splotches.  I still have no idea where the purple ink came from!!!!  Oh the joys of working in a mess.

That's all for now - time to go to bed.

Sweet dreams

Just a quick post

Hi Bloggers,
Here are 3 LOs I  have done.

I love the 7 Gypsies Paper and I put the photos into my Collections Chipboard frame.

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 More of the same - this time using distressed corrugated cardboard as the background.  I just love the butterflies and birds in this range of papers.

Had a little play with the magnificent Lost and Found Papers and used the wonderful Dusty Attic Clock face.  This LO came together quickly (what a pleasant surprise) and I was pleased with it.

I love the glitter and the soft blue/green and beige colour scheme.


That's all for now TFL

Back Home from a great holiday

Hi Bloggers,
Sorry for the break between posts.  We have been away in Canada skiing in beautiful Whistler for 2 weeks.  I have taken lots and lots of photos for lots and lots of LO and I am dying to put them together.  The last day that we skied was minus 15 degrees Celsius and now we are back in Aus in the midst of a record breaking heat wave with temperatures today threatening to spike at 42 degrees Celsius.  I hope you are all staying cool and scrapping in lovely air conditioned rooms.

The latest Scrapbooking Memories magazine arrived the other day and they were kind enough to publish a double layout that I created telling the tale of a lovely Summer holiday weekend on the river that we had last Summer.

I was playing around with some of the beautiful Echo Park papers in the series Summertime.  I felt the LO was going really well until I added some doodling which in my opinion was a complete disaster.  I tore the doodling off where I could and covered it with paper where it couldn't be torn.  I redid the LO with the remnants and then reattempted doodling.  Not sure what I think of the result given I know how nice the original was but I'll post it anyway.  The LO represents a creative journey if nothing else and I do love the photo of Tiff.

Don't melt in the heat and TFL

Amy's 21st Birthday

Hi Bloggers,

My beautiful daughter Amy turned 21 last year and here are the LO from her party.  As you will probably gather from the pictures the party was themed 'Out of this World'.  Amy was a gorgeous alien in a blue dress, Kirsty was Princess Leah and Will -Hans Solo, Nick was Dr Who, Tiffany and Tayla were Avitars, Brad was Captain Kirk and I was Captain Kirk's wife.

Hope that you like them.

The 'circular theme' and the 'Crate Paper' papers and embellishments were used as I felt they were 'spacey' and 'Out of this World'.

Thanks for looking

Jenny xxx

Special Invitation to have my work in the Papercraft Showroom

Wow I am sooooo! excited and honoured. 

I have just received an e-mail from lovely Kristy Evans (the editor of Scrapbooking Memories) asking me whether I would like to participate in the Papercraft Showroom which is an expo that travels around most of the Craft Expos In Australia until July 2011.  I have included relevant parts from the e-mail below.

Scrapbooking Memories would like to invite you to be a part of a display – the Papercraft Showroom – that will travel around most of the Craft Expo’s in Australia in 2011. This will be a special display of scrapbooking talent on show for all the public to see.  It will then travel around with the Craft Expo’s until July 2011 and it will be returned to you before September 2011. Your layouts will be presented in gorgeous shadow box frames with your name and project name clear for all to see.

We think your scrapbooking is worthy of a special place in our Papercraft Showroom and hope you will agree to take part. 

Of course the answer is yes.

Thank you so much to the wonderful team at Scrapbooking Memories.  Your magazine is just amazing - so informative, inspiring and beautiful and thank you sooo! much for letting me be part of it.  

Layouts on Display at Catchy Crafts

Thanks all the wonderful people who are visiting my blog.  Since Maria ran the article in the newsletter there have been hundreds of hits on this site.  Wow!!!! I am soooooo happy and very humbled - thanks guys.
 I was asked to put all the LO on display in Catchy Crafts  on to my blog.  The Webster's Pages LO have  already been featured (see earlier posts) - but here are some of the others.  Hope you like them.

This was me on my first day of school back in 1969 and  my class K2 at Lane Cove Primary School. This is a hybrid page and I just love the old journal.

My beautiful girls Amy, Kirsty and Tiffany at Noosa Beach one dreamy afternoon

in about 2002.  I love the Basic Grey paper and their great chip board letters.

Another hybrid LO.  This was so fun as I was able to dedicate a LO to my lovely house.  After all our 'Home is our Castle'.

Just in case you haven't realised  I LOVE FLOWERS.  How blessed am I to scrapbook and have 3 daughters - perfect.  I absolutely adore this photo of Amy that I took recently.  She is wearing the dress that I wore to my 30th Birthday and doesn't she look wonderful.  I adore PRIMA papers and flowers so making this little dedication to my wonderful Amy in pink flowers was just toooooo  much fun.

Amy and Tiffany on Christmas Day in 2009.  I LOVE how they look in SEPIA and yes you guessed it more Prima flowers - this time in beautiful warm earthy tones. 

This is a LO about Kirsty and her boy friend  (sadly now an ex) on her 19th birthday.  I loved the photo with the harbour Bridge in the background which sits over the two of them like a halo.  Scrapbooking Memories kindly commissioned me to do a LO using the stunning Sizzix die cut flowers and leaves featured in the LO.  I used the latest release of Basic Grey papers at the time and I was very pleased with the outcome.  The second part of the commission was to use the large Sizzix die to create a large hexagonal prism.  This sat within the flap on the LO and popped up when you opened the page.  It had an elastic band inside so it really did POP.  Great for the adventuresome scrapper and wonderful way of showcasing lots of photos - mine contained 12.

More wonderful Basic Grey papers for this sunny DIVA LO.  It is  playful and fun so I wanted to employ a cheery orange palette.  This is Tiff and her friend Tayla at Noosa last year having a great time.

I have already posted this on my blog but it completes the collection that is on display at CC.  (there are a couple of others but I do not have photos of them).
Thank you so much for looking but remember NOTHING IS BETTER THAN SEEING THE REAL THING SO POP INTO CATCHY CRAFTS.  It really is a fabulous papercrafts store and a real MUST to visit.  I was there yesterday and again today and will probably be there tomorrow or Monday.  It is the place to be.

Take care
Thanks for visiting.
 

Featured Artist at Catchy Crafts

Hi Bloggers,

Catchy Crafts  is my favourite Scrapbooking store of all times.  It is an absolute scrapbooker and stamper's delight with  a glorious range of paper crafting products. They have very kindly made me their featured Artist.  Fifteen or so of my recent layouts are on display and they ran a little section on me in their newsletter.  I feel very privileged and honoured.  Thanks Catchy Crafts - especially Maria who worked so hard setting everything up and the wonderful job she did with the newsletter.

I have included the  relevant parts of the newsletter :

Featuring JENNY GARLICK

Many of you know Jenny - a regular face at Catchy Crafts and  guest teacher. She has been a passionate papercrafter for over 7 years covering a whole range of works including Off-the-Page, Cards, Mixed Media and Collage Work. Around 2 years ago, she took up scrapbooking proving herself a great talent with amazing artistic flair with her layouts featuring quite regularly in Scrapbooking Memories and Australian Scrapbooking Creations. Her cards and other work have been published in too many magazines to list here but she has been a featured artist in Australian Stamping and Papercraft and most recently in Stampers Sampler. We are lucky to have a gallery of Jenny's original scrapping layouts to inspire you which we have started in the shop to this week to share with our customers so come in and check it out for yourself. We also recommend you visit Jenny's blog at http://www.jennygarlick.com/


Maria also promoted some of our blogs in the newsletter.  If you are reading this you are one of the lovely people who visit my blog and I thank you very much.  Here is what she wrote:

Looking for inspiration ?
Visit some blogs and find a whole on-line community of fun and talented papercrafters.  Catch up with us at www.catchycrafts.blogspot.com and we also encourage you to visit Cookie Aguilar's blog at www.cookieaguilar.blogspot.com to see what our clever Cookie has been up to as she often participates in on-line challenges and comes up a winner! Jenny Garlick has recently set up her wonderful blog  http://www.jennygarlick.com/ and we would definitely recommend you take a peek . Check them out for news and inspiration and make 2011 the year you try something new.

Thanks again to Dina and the Catchy Crafts Team.
 If you haven't been to CC it is absolutely worth a visit.  See their details below.

Catchy Crafts
106 George St
Hornsby, NSW 2077612 94774401

http://www.catchycrafts.com.au
info@catchycrafts.com.au