Fab 4 Tour of Australia 2024

 Hello Dear patient reader

I have neglected this corner of cyber space, but thought I would drop by with some close up details of the classes I am teaching from 1 August - 1 September across Australia with The Scrapbooker's Confetti Box.  

In no particular order...

First up is the half day class: Steampunk egg... here are its "mug shots" from different angles...

Then we have the full day class where we will make this MDF Steamer Trunk with 8 storage boxes inside made from papers that I have specially designed.  The outside of the trunk is stencilled and each student gets to keep their stencil.

Here you can see that the boxes are quite accomodating and you can store some large resin pieces in here or whatever takes your fancy!

I based these curved boxes on the ones that were originally in the steamer trunks for toiletries.

Next up is the half day Lady Vagabond mini album class.  I have taken the photo frames from my granny's original album and am using the last of the paper from Stamperia to make the cover.

I have created this Folio half day class using papers that I designed especially to make putting it together easy.  They are all co-ordinated to match and make for a pretty item to have on your desk or to take to crops with your favourite little things inside all carefully organised and ready to use.

This is the Creative Station suitcase stack half day class with storage for your metal embelishments or paper die cuts etc.  There is a lid that flips up so you can access the comparments and a drawer that pulls out so you can sore bigger things.

This is an example of the kind of things I had in mind to store in my Creative Station when I was designing it.

This full day class is the Typewriter with a file folio inside.  The file storage can stand on its own and is aso easy to take with you to crops or classes.  Each file is a different size and can be used to store things for junk journaling or card making.  The alphabet comes with it so you can lable each of your files for easy access.

These are the file folders that slip out of the box inside the typewriter.

New Funky Fossil Designs By Me!

 Hello dear Readers

Sorry for the "radio silence" over the past 3 months... but I have been concentrating on running my webste and making video classes to load every Friday, plus traveling a lot.

Included in those travels, was a visit to the UK back in September when I was invited by Sarah from Funky Fossil to join her on the TV channel Create and Craft to launch my latest designs. Of course I jumped at the opportunity and loved the whole experience.

These are the new Characters in the Steampunk menagerie line up.  The Clockwork Woodland crew and the Fabulous Feathers crew.  I had fun playing with the old and new characters to see what new looks could be created as you can see below:

I always love a vintage vibe and made the woodland crew into a cepia photo look!

For this mini canvas I used the new Marvelous Machinery die to make my own foam stamp and then I also die cut some foam to raise the middle paper piece.  This die shape matches the mask stencil fro the April release.  I used that in the backgroun over the woodgrain paper.

Here you can see the raised foam center piece.

In this release there are pipe alphabet and numbers.  I have made sure that you can write words like Happy, Chrismas, Merry etc with enough letters for the word to put on your block.  To create the Happy Birthday above, I have used 2 stamp sets as there is only one H per set.  I also die cut the foam to make my own stamp to use for the drop shaddow in the card below.

I used the number stamp as a background stamp for this tag.

This is another way to use the alphabet with only one set to stamp in one go.

New to this release is the set of Wow embossing powders called Timeless.  they are really fantastic.

This art journal page was created using the copper mine for the word Steampunk on the die cut letters.

Here I am getting ready for the shows.  I took some fun outfits to present in. 

Above you can see me with Yiannis  and below with my good friend Sam who was my host and taxi driver for the week-end... as well as my boss lady Sarah.

No trip to the studios is complete without the obligatory photo in the famous giant chairs...

Red and Blue...

I was lucky to meet Leonie too

We were in Studio 1

The design team made such awesome samples.  

I really value their time and effort to make and send these to Sarah.

This was my view across the room as they were doing their show.  The little bots are the TV cameras!

Matching necklaces...

It is like moving house... so much stuff to take with for 2 shows...

Boss lady Sarah in her obligatory chair photo...