New Arrivals in Store now

New Arrivals in store now

and restocks of ....

My MUST have product, Dimensional Magic, is back

not only does Dimensional Magic give a gloss top coat but it is also a GREAT adhesive

for your charms

Glossy Acents

Clear Rock Candy Crackle

Tim Holtz Tags

Wonder Tape

Various Distress Stains (Distress Inks are on back order)

Snowflake Coordinations Cardstock

and much more ....

We were asked by so many at the Scrapbooking Show to stock the following products from Viva Decor that we just couldn't say no! What is it they say? "Ask and you shall receive?"
(wish it also related to the housecleaning fairy!)

Inka Gold

Viva Decor’s Inka Gold is a revolutionary product that produces an amazing metallic finish without any toxic chemicals. With beeswax as one of the main ingredients, Inka Gold is safe and easy to use in all crafting and home decor projects. Just rub it on and polish! . One jar of Inka Gold can cover up to 80 square ft. Excellent for refinishing or accenting furniture. Also great for paper mache boxes, chipboards, paper crafting and much more.

Viva Decor Modeling Cream

Viva Decor Modeling Cream has a creamy consistency with a high degree of color brilliance – used to deliver extraordinary 3D effects. Viva Decor Modeling Cream is suitable for indoor and outdoor use and works well on glass, wood, canvas and card – perfect to decorate your hanging room mobiles and wind chimes. Please note: objects decorated with Viva Decor Modeling Cream should not have a permanent contact to water. All colors are intermixable and decorated objects can be cleaned with water.

and plus

Stone-Art

Viva Decor Stone Effect Paint contains natural ground stone; marble and granite color variations may occur due to color changes in the stone.

Unique effects can easily be achieved.

Used as a modeling medium Stone Effect Paint will deliver unique effects.





Pop over to the Viva Decor website for tips and techniques of using their products Viva Decor

then off to the my2angels "New Arrivals" where you can view all the new goodies we have in store for you!

New Design Team Angel to join the team

We thought it was about time we made Jen a permanent DT Angel, since she often pops in when I need purple creations and something quick (she works conveniently 2 streets away from us and not so convienent for her and her bank balance lol)

So please Welcome Jen to the my2angels DT :)

Hi! I'm Jennifer, a Mum of three - 2 'typical' boys and 1 gorgeous girl. 

 I have been stamping and scrapbooking in some form or another for over 20years! I love to create, and inspire others, sharing my craft through my blog, facebook, industry magazines, shows, design teams, and teaching from my studio on the Gold Coast. 

I relish the challenge of Off The Page projects, love the story and emotion behind layouts and cannot resist making cards and ATC's (artist trading cards). 

 I get bored very easily so my projects tend to vary wildly in style and colour (although I'm a purple freak!), and I love that this means I am constantly trying new things!  (I can't wait to get all painty with the Distress Paints and Ferro etc!!)

www.jennihodge.blogspot.com

A quick fun card for a young boy...

 Easy Peasy panels of patterned paper from the 6 1/2" paper pad, add some collectibles adhered with foam tape... I also added a bottle cap  to draw the eye as it's the only other texture on the card :-)

Ingredients:
Twiddleybitz - square card and envelope, white
Kaiser - Blast Off 6 1/2 inch paper pad from My2Angels
Kaiser - Blast Off Collectables from My2Angels

My2Angels - Bottle Cap, from the charming brights dates Embellishment packs

 

 

Cherish... pop-up card

I love interactive cards!  I made my own pop-up card using the new Kaiser Papers - True Romance and Twiddleybitz 13 x 13 White card.
I also used the 6" paper pad and the collectables.

It's so much easier to 'fussy cut' with the collectables instead of doing it by hand!!  With a bit of inking using Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink

A few slits here and there and hey presto - you have a pop-up card.

Thanks for stopping by!  If you've created a pop-up card recently, I'd love to see it - pop a link in the comments below and I'll come and visit!!  If you haven't - get cracking!

Jen :-)

Who is attending the Big Picture Online Class?

with Claudine Hellmuth?

We are!

have you heard about it?  Do you like Mixed Media and playing with various types of mediums?

Then this is the class for you ... all the details are here

and we have all the products you need for the class in store now

including

Claudine Hellmuth Paints and Medium Packs

 

 Inky Rollers

Foil Tape Sheets

Adirondack Embossing Powders in a selection of colours

 Perfect Pearl Mists in a variety of colours

 Sticky Backed Canvas

and new glimmer mist colours to my2angels

 and 

The latest addition to Tim Holtz' Distress family have arrived!  The new Distress Paints have been around for a few months but all good things are worth waiting for, especially these bottles of creamy goodness PLUS at our price of $5.99 you can afford to add more than a couple to your cart!

Metal Effect Textured Paint

A totally unique special effect color that delivers a real metallic finish. Use Viva Décor Ferro Metal Effect Color to decorate and enhance any Art Deco object - can also be used to decorate your personal wall. Viva Decor Metal Effect Color is particularly suitable to be used with stencils. Viva Decor is also a perfect structure color.

Pop over to the my2angels "New Arrivals" where you can view all the new goodies we have in store for you!

Getting Inky!

Hi everyone,

it's Tina Connolly with a layout I'd like to share with you. 

I had lots of fun creating this.  Would you believe the main paper started life as a piece of plain white cardstock?  Yes, it's true!  
I layered various washi tapes onto my paper both vertically and horizontally in a random manner.  

I pulled out my Tim Holtz Distress Inks and began shading with a variety of colours to match my backing sheet.  I've used Chipped Sapphire, Peacock Feathers,  Barn Door, Salty Ocean,  and Mowed Lawn.  The best way to apply the colour is with a Inkssentials Blending Tool used in a circular motion.  


(Tracy tells me that all distress inks OOS will be back in store mid next week along with LOTS of new goodies)
 

I sprayed some Glimmer Mist Wheat Beer to add some golden yellow to the page.

Using my Twiddleybitz Chicken Wire stencil and sponged Gesso through it to create extra depth. 

 Of course I had to use some my2angels flowers on the page. 
 I coloured them with Glimmer Mist before attaching to my page.  

I've tucked an Antique Bronze Round Floral Flower Filigree under a Twiddleybitz Tweeny Chipboard Cog.  These cogs are my must have, go-to product at the moment.  I use them on so many projects, both feminine and masculine, and have even used them as flower centres on an ultra girly page.  

 My journaling was from a prompt which included " I drive, I go, I talk....".  It gives a quick and easy insight to my life right now and some of the things I do.

I hope I've inspired you to get inky and have fun playing with your products.  Remember, don't be afraid to alter your papers and embellishments to suit your page. 

Happy scrapping,

Tina

True Romance Double layout

Hi Ladies,

Ngaire here. 

I don't do doubles all that often - about as often as I do multi-photo layouts - so it makes a nice change to work on a multi-photo double layout. There has been a lot going on over the past few months and I've not had much time to scrap and I am doubly pleased to get something finally completed.

The range is one of the two new Kaiser ranges for June - True Romance - and it is a sweet and pretty range, just perfect for feminine, shabby chic style layouts. The dominant shades in the range are pale blues, greens and pink - with a slighter darker reddish pink for contrast. Themes in the range include some gorgeous pink roses; birds with their cages; and lots of lovely luggage tags. All very girly and pretty.

For the base of 'Cherish Life's Moments' I used the reverse side of the Affection paper - but I cut it out as a frame, so that I could use the smaller piece as well. Over this went a slightly smaller piece of the reverse side of Faithful and then over this went the cut-out bit of Affection. I really like the old-fashioned script you can see on this paper and being a background pattern, you can pile heaps of other things over it without missing out on anything really pretty.

I distressed all the paper edges and inked only the base paper. Rather than use other paper layers, to embellish the page I added a paper doily and some hand cut roses/tags. The larger of the two tags comes from the Desire patterned paper. The hand cut title letters on it are from the First Sight  paper.

The fussy nature of the hand cut flowers/doily make the layout look a little busy - so I kept other embellishments to a minimum.

I love these filigree edges - the Twiddlybitz Wrought Iron Mantle - it's so easy to pop them alongside a photo to make an interesting border piece. This one has been inked with several layers of ink to get that lovely mottled pattern. The first layer was a mid-dark grey ink. Over that went a layer of white - but very sparingly - and then random bits of white ink dabbed here and there. You end up with a variety of greys and some white splotches - all very chic and shabby.

Over the top I popped some hand cut roses from the Adore paper and the daughter charm from the Daughter Pink Charming Rose Chain. I embossed the charm (and all the other bronze charms on the layout) with some Stampendous Aged Embossing Enamel Ivory - but I need to make a note not to do this again with the 'text' still inside the charm. :( Obviously the glue didn't like being heated - oh well, you learn as  you go.) The cream pearl is part of the Cream and Antique Bronze Keys Charming Chain set - I've used the rest elsewhere on the layout.

In the top right-hand corner of the layout is the rest of the Daughter Pink Charming Rose Chain set. I've curled over a bit of the top paper edge and tucked some more hand cut flowers from the Adore paper underneath the edge - just to fill this empty bit of corner.

I like to layer other embellishments on my chipboard pieces - here I've added some more hand cut flowers and the rest of the Cream and Antique Bronze Keys Charming Chain set- to the Twiddleybitz Eiffel Tower . Like the other chipboard pieces on the layout (the exception being the title) the Eiffel Tower has been given the grey/white inking treatment.

The Twiddleybitz chipboard title - Life's Moments - has been treated with Stampendous Aged Embossing Enamel Ivory embossing powder - which gives it a lovely creamy white colour with gold flecks through it.

Underneath the photo I added in a Large Antique Bronze Key charm and one of the tag pieces from the Perforated Tags Sweetheart patterned paper.

The second page of the double showcases Madame's (current) outfit. It's a very pretty, feminine tulle skirt and crocheted top from an Australian company called Dollcake.

I've used the same basic patterned paper arrangement as for the left side of the double and kept to roughly the same elements.

The filigree work on this Twiddlybitz Wrought Iron Mantle is a nice match for the crochet work on the top. The top was the inspiration for using the doily as well. The roses and charm embellishment is one I made up myself from various left-overs. It came up rather nice I think - and I can see myself making a few more.

All of the hand cut flowers come from the Adore paper and the two tags are again from the Perforated Tags Sweetheart patterned paper. I trimmed off the perforated bits and inked the edges to hide that they were once perforated.

The final elements in the layout are the gorgeous tag that came with the skirt/top and in keeping with the dress theme - I added in one of the Twiddleybitz  Vintage Miss Mannequins. They come in a set of three - this is one of the plain designs. The "K" bronze charm is from my stash, but the rose next to it is one of the 'left-overs' I used to make my other embellishment.

So there you have it - my first layout in several months - and a pretty feast of girly sweetness.

 Check out my2angels for the Twiddleybitz chipboard, True Romance papers and bronze charms I've used and have some fun making your own shabby chic creation.

Ngaire

Scrapbook and Papercraft Expo weekend

Please bear with us over the next few days whilst we are attending the Scrapbook and Papercraft Expo in Brisbane. 

Due to the volume of off-line sales at the Show, some stock may show up as ‘in stock’ when it is not. For this reason (and due to the huge demands attending the show makes on all our staff) we apologise that no online orders will be processed over the long weekend. 

We will do our best to get paid online orders attended to as soon as possible, with the intention of getting them posted on the Tuesday. 

Where online orders contain stock is sold out, we will advise you of this for your choice of replacement stock or refund. We thank you for all your support during this very busy time. 

If you are attending the show, pop in and see us at Stand 40

Happy long weekend everyone

 

G45 Secret Garden - two Tags

Hi Ladies, Michele back again :)

I like to tie a pretty tag to a gift sometimes as an alternative to a card - especially if the gift is not meant for a special occasion - like a bottle of wine taken along to a dinner in somebody's home or a random ''thank you''. 

Graphic 45 patterned papers are great for this - they have so many interesting elements you can layer to create a little piece of gorgeous. I was playing with Secret Garden over the weekend and came up with two tags....Both tags were first covered with ''Seed Fairy'', inked with Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet and Vintage Photo Distress Inks and the bottoms were die cut.

The first one features a piece of frayed muslin topped with a pretty rose from ''Springtime''  mounted on some dimensional tape. The same rose, only much smaller, from ''Seed Fairy'' is mounted on more dimensional tape on top of that. Both have had their edges distressed and inked. 

The details....A pink pearl flourish from my old Prima stash, various ribbons, including Pink Organza, a Deep Pink Rose Wooden Button and a Pink and Silver Love Charming Word.

The second one was just as simple. A panel cut from ''May Flowers'' mounted on Dimensional Tape over a piece of white tulle. I added a Pink and Silver Charming Chain, using a tiny brad to attach it and some fussy cut blossoms from ''Leafy Treetops''.

 A tiny Light Pink Rose pink rose beside a small ''With Love'' sticker and a small frame from  the Secret Garden Sticker Sheet were added to the bottom .

 All these extra elements are popped up on dimensional tape to add depth and texture.

I hope you are all enjoying Secret Garden from Graphic 45....there are a few out of stock items so I think you must be!!

Michele