Friday, 15 April 2011

Guess what tomorrow is????

The HANDMADE EXPO yay! From 8am til 2pm at the Ipswich Turf Club Brisbane Road Bundamba, The Handmade Expo will showcase some of the finest handmadies around! Come for a look! Stick 'n' Giggle will be there too! All new Prima in stock, Echo Park, Basic Grey and more! Felicity Flower will be there too - you should see what my mum has been making now! So so cute and perfect Easter Presents too! Hope to see you!

Friday, 1 April 2011

I received this award from the lovely Ann over at http://raggedyannsplayground.blogspot.com/ Thank you Ann - I appreciate it! The rules of the game are I now have to tell you 7 things about me and then I am to send this to 15 of my friends! So here you are - 7 things about me....


  1. I have two gorgeous daughters

  2. I have been married for 21 years this year

  3. I don't really like cats - I have two doggies

  4. I don't really like to cook - I have a wonderful husband who does that for me

  5. I play roller derby

  6. My biggest fear is failure

  7. I teach business administration
I have chosen 7 friends to play along.....gee it's hard to try and find friends who haven't already played....which is why i have only chosen 7

  1. My Mum - Felicity Flower

  2. Liesa - Handmade Heaven

  3. Miriam - Bubba Chennile

  4. Kellie - Kellie Christie

  5. Janie - Handmade at Woolshed Creek

  6. Jodi - QTea and Dream.Create.Inspire

  7. Gigi - She's got Issues

Well well....It's April!



So much has been happening once again.....I just haven't had time to chat - sorry for neglecting you all once again!



Updates:



NEW STOCK!



Stick 'n' Giggle has all the new Prima Papers in store now! Some of the new flowers and bling have also arrived with more to come!



New Basic Grey and Echo Park will arrive next week and Sassafrass Lass coming soon!



APRIL CHALLENGES!


Over at Scraplounge (http://www.scraplounge.com.au/) are three new challenges for April - the monthly Sketch Challenge was designed by me - here is my sketch and example:







The Technique challenge is Paper Rolling! Make sure you check it out! Here is my example for the technique:


And over at Artistic Document (http://www.artisticdocument.com/) I was lucky enough to be asked to be the Guest Deisgner for this month!


My challenge over there is:

Your layout must include:

* must have at least 2 patterned papers

* must have at least 2 forms of distressing

* must have at least 2 pieces of chipboard

* must have at least 2 flowers

* must have at least 2 different alphas


And here is my example for the challenge:


Well....I think that is it for now! Oh! Stick 'n' Giggle is holding a retreat in September at Caloundra! If you would like to come, please let me know and I will email you the info!!!!


Talk to you all again soon!

Jo x