Stains Come in Colours Other Than Brown

Hey ho!  Here's a book that I designed for class in May:

We had a lot of fun staining the Prima Resist canvas covers with Distress Stains in class - I especially like the Bundled Sage colour when its diluted with water.  It's a little hard to see on the front cover, but you can see the nice minty green better here on the back cover:

And because so much time was spent staining the canvas (and fussy cutting all those darned roses), the pages are not sewn to the spine, but tied instead - hence the 'nest' of strings on the back.

A super big thank you and hello to all the lovely ladies who attended this class - especially those of you who were attending scrapbooking class for the first time - you did an AWESOME job!  I had fun! Hope you all did too!

Catch you later!  Some G45 goodness coming up real soon! A Tutorial no less! (finally!)

Vintage Summer Basics

Hey ho! Happy Sunday!

There's lovely lovely paper out at majadesign:

Vintage Summer Basics

(Actually it's been out for a while, but I only just got around to playing with it.

 And here's what I made:

 

Pretty paper for pretty girls. :)

Black makes it Better

The papers I'm using for June's layout class are full of pastel colours.  But I really like how they look with a shot of black here and there. It's true....black goes with everything!

There'll be 4 layouts in the class (super productive!) and we'll be doing stamping and bits of painting.

 The dates and timeslots should be out real soon, so you can book your slot for this and other classes.  See you in June!

Bible Verse Box

Hey ho!  It's Graphic45 time again!  Here's what I made with the Olde Curiosity Shoppe collection (my favourite!) that's featured on the G45 blog today!  (Be sure to check out the gorgeous projects by Clare Charvill and Denise Hahn)

 It's a little box

that opens up

to reveal a little space where you can keep your favourite quotes, or in my case, bible verses.

My favourite part of the box are the sides - they're a little 'mouldy' looking because they're painted with a thin layer of teal paint and then inked.

All supplies are listed on the G45 blog K?