Capture My Heart necklace class

Together with some very lovely friends I did a wonderful class with Chris Aitken today. There was lots of hammering and wire work today to make a "cage" for a special keepsake. I was fascinated with the riveting process which I haven't tried before and very happy with what I made. Inside my piece is an old Marcasite watch that belonged to my Mum (inscribed with her maiden name) and the dangly bit at the bottom is from one of Dad's cufflinks. Dad would have loved to hear how Jen and I shared his tools in this class. Thanks Chris for sharing your work with us and to Sue for the magnificent lunch!

Arty Oz Swap

Things have been very quiet on the ArtyOz front lately, I didn't sign up for this swap but poor Ness did and couldn't get things going so I took her spot yesterday and today posted these tiles to Greta. I had to do them straight away, it's the second week of the school holidays and we are away for a few days, enjoying the fantastic Easter break weather!

Dale's neice turns 21 this month and all 21 year old girls love purple. This Kaisercraft paper inspired me to make an explosion card (centre) for Tiffany and 6 other birthday cards. Gail even used my leftovers for another card!

The photo makes the colours look more blue than the bright purple they really are.

March 2010

Enough has been said about the supercel storm we had 2 weeks ago when Paperific was washed out so I will move on... there are so many birthdays in March. My youngest nephew Edward turned 4 and as he has a Pirate bedroom I made him his own pirate book...

Long Weekend

In Melbourne we have our Labour Day Public Holiday on Monday, just as well I have so much to do....

This morning Sarah and I were invited to an International Women's Day breakfast. Can't resist a free feed! LOL

Paperific is on this weekend and I am off with Sarah tomorrow and we are staying in town. Sunday we have tickets to see "Cats". Monday is the Moomba Day parade and MartheJane is taking (?) me to Mamma Mia on Tuesday night! I will need a holiday after that!

Patsy insisted we enter the Kaisercraft competition at DFO and these are our entries. We were given 3 wooden "tiles" to do with whatever we wanted. Patsy chose an "Egyptian" theme and joined her three pieces, beautifully painted and decorated front AND back! Thanks Patsy for sharing your workshop.

I was determined to only use Kaiser products (although you could use anything) and did one in my favorite sepia/vintage style "Boys" and painted the second in my favourite "Ro" style using Kaisercraft paints and stamps. Two very different pieces.

Scraptacular Class

Gail invited me to join her in the "7Gypsies Printers Tray Class" today and we had a lot of fun! I know how precious Scraptacular are with their copyright so I am sharing another creation. Although I didn't really have a lot to do with this massive zuccini, I cooked up less than 1/4 of it to feed a family of 5. After today's class we couldn't afford anything else!

Arty Tiles

It's Kathy's Birthday this week and these tiles are on their way to her, Happy Birthday Kathy!

Gail requested larger pictures, hope she can see these! LOL