April Favourite

This is my favourite April class layout:
Layout Title: "Just For Ben"
Why this is my Favourite April layout:
1. The colours - just so happy, like his expression
2. The song lyrics - Really cute song. Check out the old Sesame Street muppets singing it here (My favourite bit is when Cookie monster comes in at the end)
3. The nostalgic pictures from the KCo patterned paper and Jenni Bowlin chipboard buttons
4. The bumpy dots around the inner circle - made with dimensional pearls
and best of all
5. The memory - Benny was mesmerised when I sang this song to him and when it ended he hugged me and gave me a big kiss - sweet.

It always pays to sing to your kids (especially while they're too young to tell that your singing sucks - haha)

I Think My Feet Have Finally Stopped Hurting

Creative Escape by Numbers
67 scrappers all in rows
3 terrific guests and 3 awesome classes
12 hours of scrapping, eating, scrapping, phototaking, autograph collecting and more scrapping
2 'highly enterprising' little old ladies who came with plastic bags to help themselves to leftover food after every meal
2 hands all stained with purple alcohol ink (my hands, Donna's ink - very honoured!)
6 tired Teaching Assistants with 12 very sore feet
A gazillion signatures collected from our wonderful guests Kah-Mei, Tia and Donna
Hundreds of celebrity snapshots (Can't believe I didn't take any myself!!!)
More than 20 bags full of trash to clear away
More than 30 cartons of stuff to take back to the store for unpacking
1 boss very relieved that everything went smoothly

Whew! Maybe we'll do this again next year huh? (but let's just not talk about it right now - haha)

(Present)ing...

Wanted to share some fun presents I made. Its quite a nice gift idea and not too hard to do... ('instructions' after the pics)

This one was for hubby last christmas - using lots of white rub ons. (actually made a whole series of these for friends - all in all, used about 6 packs of different rub ons for about 12 people.) Made this one recently for my sis - with her favourite paper from Sassafrass Lass. The little girl on the tricycle actually reminds me of a photo of her as a little kid - very cute, with curls)

Thought you might like to see it more clearly without the frosted cover...

Materials:

1. Notebooks with plain covers - I got mine from Borders (more expensive but really nice. You can use cheapo ones for people you don't like so much...haha)

2. Scraps of patterned paper, and rub ons.

Method:

3. Layer, layer, layer in the corner.... - you might find it helpful to cover the corner with word paper (like in my sis's book) to have a 'base' that will cover any of your empty spots. Also, I find it helps to just layer in one long element going along the bottom edge and one on the right edge to help me get started. Then all the big elements go in first, and then after that fill in little bits with rub ons or little images you like.

Note: Its quite nice if the rub ons get 'broken' as you work too - it's texture! (All my mistakes are texture)

This is a nice way to use up some of your old rub ons and bits of paper... Enjoy!

Ready Steady...Good to Go

I am ready for...

1. my May classes:
(Sorry about the pics - bad lighting and I have no photo editing software on this laptop.)

This is the 'layout' class, which will feature 3 different sized 'framed' layouts:
One for Cynthia...
One for fans of 'cute'...
And one for me...
And the collage project I showed you in an earlier post is finally done. The project has grown so huge and complicated that we're going to have to teach it in 2 classes - one class for the outside and another class for the inside....whew!

Here's bits of the inside...


And more sneaks of the outside...



And of course, we are all in the midst of getting ready for....

2. Creative Escape - exactly one week to go!!!
It's going to be great! We've got people flying in for the event (not just the teachers) and it's going to be good....tiring I'm sure, but good.

Better go charge my sleep bank this weekend before all the bustling kicks in. See ya.