My Introduction on Graphic 45's Blog and some exciting News

Hello Everyone
It's my turn for being introduced on the Graphic 45's blog. This years team is full of amazingly talented and wonderful people, so it will be very creative year for us all.
I have arrange with Graphic 45 to do one of my books on their blog. Each month I will post the instructions on their blog which will include a step by step tutorial. I will have kits for sale for each page at Seriously Scrapbooking's online store. This is a huge project for me, and the whole book will take about 10 months to do. I am planning to do it as a family album with pages for wedding, Christmas, baby with tags and more. The book will be about 7.5 inches wide and 9 inches tall. This the a great chance for all of you who have emailed me over the past few years asking me now I make my books to join me on Graphic 45's blog as I share the whole process with you all. I am planning to start in July, I hope to have sneak peek of the first page in June.
Now to share my latest book.
This is one I did for my final project for Graphic 45 for this year. It got me on the team again for my 3rd term. I did it on my Great Grand Mother. Florence was born in the late 1800's. She had 9 children and live in hard times with her husband out of work after being injure in a work accident.
With this book I started at the end of her life and work backwards. I remember her as a child, she passed away when I was about 12 years old. I had great fun researching her life, I found online newspapers from the time she was alive. I found the manifest lists for the ship her parents came out on to New Zealand from England. This was an amazing find, it contained information on the food, conditions, weather and entertainment, it even included the doctors report.  I found reports on dances held at the local tennis club which included details of the dresses worn by her daughters. School sports day results which had my grandfathers name and the events he won. So much information I still need to include in my book.

This is the first page in the book and is a pocket iwth more photos in.

This is the other side of the book and allows me to tuck more information and photos.

This page shows photos of my Great Grandmother over the years and the fashion she wore.

This is the other side of the page, it is a large pocket and includes a paper pattern from 1912, an advisement from 1889 and a mini book which folds out to allow me to have more photos.

This was a page with photos of Florance with her children. I made it a pocket and added 4 tags.

This page is on my Great Grandfather, and is a large pocket with mini books, photos and his death certificate.

I included information on my Great Grandfathers parents  and their family on this page. I added a copy of my Great Great Grandfathers will, which was written in his hand writing.

This page shows Florence's parents and some information on her side of the family.

I did 7 pages for this book, I will share some more pages another time,

Look forward to sharing the book making joy with you all

hugs

Jane

Another Layout for Graphic 45 and some Great News on my Classes at the Brisbane Expo

Here is a layout I did for Graphic 45. I love Graphic 45 papers and the way you can mix up collections and the colours still work. I like this kind of challenge when I scrapbook . This layout is one I have done for Josh, who travelled with me to the States this year. We had a great time at Disney land, where it is true that “magic still happens”. I have chosen papers from “play times past”, “Tropical Travelogue”, “On the Boardwalk”, “communiqué”, “Primer “and “ le Cirque”. Every time I do this  then teach the class, my students always say “I would never put those papers together”. That’s what’s great about Graphic 45, the different collections always work together. I have done a tutorial for you if you want to have a go.

Cut your black cardstock to10 ¾ x 10 ¾ inches. Keep the scraps as you will need it to back your 5 cent boarders.

Cut your Tiki Voyager to 10 inches by 10 inches

Adhered your black cardstock onto your I think I can, Making sure you have the same amount of I think I can all the way around. Adhered your Tiki Voyager to the middle of your black cardstock.

Cut the 5 cent board from by the beautiful sea. Adhered them onto the left over bits of your black cardstock so that you have a bit of black each side of them. Do all four pieces and put foam squares on the back quite close together. Add them to your page with a bit of the black cardstock showing on the outside, this will create a frame around your page. You will need to trim them back so they fit. Don’t put any foam in the corners just yet,  as you will need to glue your corners on and push a brad through them. Once you have done that you can add a foam square to the corners. My frame measures about 10 ½ x 10 ½ inches.

Cut a piece of On the Dot to 5 inches by 8 ½ inches and adhered it to your page inside the frame near the bottom. Cut a piece of Le Cirque to 4 inches x 5 inches and adhered it to your page near the top left corner as shown above. Add a photo corner to the top left corner of Le Cirque.

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Cut a piece of On the Dot with the stripes horizontal 3 inches x 4 inches. Adhered it to your page as shown above. Add your photo’s, mine are 4 inches x 5 inches and I matted them in black cardstock. Add two piece of film strip and use brads to hold them in place.

For my title, I used one from Imaginarium Designs. I inked with an olive green ink. Once it was dry I outlined it with Platinum glitter.  I used some small alphas and inked them with French blue and lightly touched them with a black ink pad. Once they were dry, I used Glossy Accents over the top. Once they were dry I glued them on top of the title “Magic”.

To finish the page, I inked a Imaginarium Designs fence with French blue and again lightly inked it with a black ink pad. I waited for it to dry and added some glossy accents, only on the upright palings. On the rails in between I used Platinum glitter and did little dots. I added a square from Building Blocks, I used the letter J for Josh. I used it to add my journaling and chipboard numbers which I inked black.

Materials used

Graphic 45 papers

G4500037 I think I can

G4500199 By the beautiful sea

G4500410 Tiki Voyager

G4000303 Le Cirque

G4500061 On the Dot

G4500373 Building Blocks

Imaginarium Designs Chipboard

Edward Corner

Magic title,

numbers

fence

3L Photo Corners – Black

3L Scrapbook Adhesives 3d Foam Squares

3L Scrapbook Adhesives tape runner

Black cardstock

Brads

Film strip

Glossy accents

Colour box French Blue and blackbird

Brilliance Pearl Olive

Thanks so much for looking.
If you are wanting to do one of my classes in Brisbane June Longweek end and didn't get in due to them being booked out so quick, then the news is good. The expo has extended my classes, so if your quick you should be able to get in
Have a great weekend
Jane

A big day today

Hello Everyone
It's a big day today for me with my work being featured on Paper Crafter's Library.

Graphic 45 and Paper Crafter's Library are having a blog hop with week. Each day Graphic 45 has been posting a sneak peek on their blog of one of the projects the design team has made for this blog hop. On Paper Crafter's Library they have been showing the whole project along with their own design team members project. You can even win prizes. What you need to do is is click on the over to the Paper Crafter's Library blog  to see some stunning  Tropical Travelogue Library creations and be sure to leave a comment for your chance to win a wonderful Tropical Travelogue prize pack. It is mine turn today, so here is my sneak peek. Its a mini album and box to keep it in.
The mini Album is for my son, who traveled with me to the USA earlier this year. I have made it with pockets to hold all the bits and pieces in, like tickets to shows and his name tag for CHA . I added some more pages so I could fit in about 40 photos.

Make sure you visit Paper Crafter's Library to see the whole project with some instructions and remember to leave a comment to go into the draw to win. I will post all the photo's plus some more instructions over the weekend.

I also have some sneak peeks of my Brisbane expo classes. You should be able to book into those classes in a day or two. I have place a link on my right side bar and some photo's .

Well that's all for now,

Thanks for looking and have a safe and happy Easter.

Hugs

Jane

I am selling some of my projects as kits at Seriously Scrapbooking. Each month I will be putting more kits online.

My First Post on 3L Adhesives Blog

 For my first project for 3L, I decided to use a photo of Anna taken at her 21^stbirthday. I love altered art projects, so I decided to use one from Imaginarium Designs. It is one of their altered art kits called billboards- “you light up my life”. This is would be the perfect project for sitting on a desk or bookcase and would make a lovely gift. You can theme it for any occasion, I have made them for baby gifts and even Christmas table decorations.  I always ink around the edges of my papers before I stick them down as I like the look and find it hides the white edges. I find that Colorbox fluid chalk ink pad in the cats eye shape to be the best. For this project I used olive pastel.

I used papers from Teresa Collins collection called Fabrications. The papers from this collection are thick and have a linen look to them. They are also double sided, so choose which patterns you like.

www.teresacollins.typepad.com

For this project I used 3L Adhesive Sheets, this makes covering the chipboard project quick. I used it for the larger pieces of my project, manly the front and back pieces of the billboard part. I placed a piece of print paper slightly larger than the chipboard shapes onto the adhesive sheet. Lay the chipboard shapes on top and trace around the shapes. You can neither cut them out with scissors or peel the backing of the adhesive sheet and stick them down. You run then around the edge with a craft knife.

For the two base pieces, I found the E-Z runner work perfectly for this, as the runner is made up of small rectangles this lets you go around a curve. I put the tape onto the chipboard and taped them down to my print paper, then ran around the edge with a craft knife.

 Use the E-Z runner to tape the two bases together.

Use the tape runner and cover the two stands with print paper, these then push into the bases and let you insert the billboard between them.

I added a chipboard cog which I inked black and the word“you” which I printed onto the print paper and cut it out.

I used a large butterfly disk from K&Co and stuck it onto one of the print papers. I traced around it and cut it out. I used the tape runner again as I wanted to stick it onto the small oval chipboard shape and need to go around the curve of the chipboard.

Then I adhered it to the top of my billboard, again I used the E-Z tape runner.

  I matted my photo onto black Bazzill. I added a photo corner to each corner of the matted photo then stuck it down again to another pieces of black Bazzill. I love photo corners and use the black one’s on nearly all by projects and layouts. I like the classic look it gives to my work. I used 3 large size 3D Foam squares (black variety), I love these squares and use them by the packets. I like the fact that this packet comes with two different sizes. Big ones for larger areas and small ones for my mini projects. I adhered the photo to my billboard on a slight angle.

For the flowers and leaves I used DodzRepositionable for the quote first to make sure it would fit, once I worked out where it needed to go, I removed one word/phrase at the time and used the E-Z Runner permanent tape to adhered them back down. The finished size of this project is about 6 inches high and 3 ½ inches wide.

01615 3D Foam Squares Black Variety

01300 Dodz Small

01644 E-Z Runner

01626 Photo corners black

3L scrapbooking Adhesives, certainly made this project quick and hassle free. They have an adhesive to cover any situation you may find yourself in when making a mini project like this. Whether you need your adhesive in big sheets to cover large areas or small pieces to go around curves, they have got it covered!

Imaginarium Designs - Billboard – You light up my life

IDW0026 Love, Cherish, and Adore
Teresa Collins Print papers
FAB101 Floral Garden
FAB103 Yellow Flower
FAB106 Petite Flowers
FAB109 Ornate Circles
KC3059451 Floral and Fauna butterfly Baubles
Colorbox fluid chalk inkpad – olive pastel
Vandoros Ribbon
Black Bazzill
Please visit 3L Adhesives Blog and leave a comment for me.
Thanks for looking, I am on another blog today as well, so I will post again later today.
Jane

Another Year with Graphic 45, can't believe it.

It is 11.30pm local time and I am just leaving the store after a late night Scrap. Nat has just checked Graphic 45's Blog and found my name on the list. Still shaking and can't quite believe it. Had heart palpitations while reading the list. Wow another year with my favorite company so privilege and delighted. Congratulations to all the talented people on the list. Speical Whoo hoo for fellow design team member from Imaginarium Designs - Maiko and a special Whoo Hoo Hoo for Gloria - fellow Graphic 45 team member from the past two years and fellow Imaginarium Design team mate.
Will have to visit every one's Blog and leave messages tomorrow. I am feeling sorry for those who did not make the list, who must be feeling a big sad. Also want to say special goodbys to the other design team members from last year who did not make it again this year.
I have this project to share, it was featured on Graphic 45's Blog last week but I decided to hang on to it as a final piece to show if I didn't make the team. I had quite a few emails in regards to how I made it, so if you want me to post a couple of tutorials on making it then you had better leave a comment ask me to do it. If enough of you would like it then I will post the instructions (I hate writing instructions - but it is good for the soul to do things you don't like doing to make up for all the things you get to do that you like doing!)

Have to go to bed now as I have another big day ahead tomorrow with 25 ladies in the store doing a mini half day scrap.

thanks for looking.

From a very Happy Jane.

3L Adhesive Design Team for 2012

Now I can share some exciting  news. I have been invited to join the 3L Adhesive Design Team for 2012. I am a bit fan of their products, they make the some amazing foam squares and black photo corners of which I go through packets and packets. I have yet to visit and meet all the other team members blogs, will try and do this later today, as I am teaching this morning. Now all I need to do is make the Graphic 45 team and "my cup will be running over". I sent them a book, one of my best to date, hopefully I will be able to share some photo's later on.

AJ Otto – USA

Ashley Harris – USA

Beth Pingry – USA

Birgit Koopsen – The Netherlands

Christine Emberson – UK

Flo “Floliescrap” Teixeira – France

Iben Højholdt – Denmark

Jane Tregenza – Australia

Karin Strandby – Denmark

Kimberly Crawford – USA

Kristen Cohen – USA

Latisha Yoast – USA

Leica Forrest – Canada

Nina Ostermann – Germany

Vicki Chrisman -USA

So that's all for now, I do have a project from Graphic 45 that I want to share on my blog, will have to do it over the weekend.

Thanks so much for looking.

Jane

Another Layout for Graphic 45

Hello everyone
One of my layouts from CHA is on Graphic 45's Blog. It is one I did on the two most important men in my life.

 I love the new “Olde Curiosity Shoppe” papers. This is a layout I did on my husband and son. They are on a ride at Water World (QLD) I started with two cardstocks, the first one was black with an aqua blue cardstock on top. I then put a piece of “Exquisite Motif” which is one of my favourite prints. I used “Olde Curiosity Shoppe" print for the diamond frame, which I double matted in black and terra cotta. Then I layered it on top of “Exquisite Motif”. I place another piece of “Exquisite Motif on top of the “Old Curiosity Shoppe" paper (I used the reverse side). This gave me a wonderful foundation on which to do my layout. I double matted my photo and added it to the page. I added some brads in the corners. I love adding layers to my work so I added a piece of ”Optical Oddities” over lapping the photo. A piece of “When Pigs Fly” for the title and “Optical Oddities” for the stripes. I used a penny farthing bike backed with a piece of “Counting Down” I used a staples brad from Graphic 45 to attach it to the page . The chipboard title, boarder, flourish, bike and clock is all from Imaginarium Designs. I love all the strong colours in the layout. Even though the prints look floral, the page is still masculine and suits my boys perfectly.
I am not a ride kinda Girl, so when the boy's told me that the pirate ship ride was ok, I was a bit skeptical as I don't even like the ferris wheel! I was persuaded to get on the ride with the condition that the boys would sit in front of me and face me, so I could get a photo. I will never get on that ride again. I took the photo only a couple of seconds into it. By the time the ride really got going, I had my eyes tightly shut and hanging on for grim death, with my bottom leaving the seat at the top of the ride. Never - Never again, not even for a million photos.

 Graphic 45 Print Papers
G4500424 Olde Curiosity Shoppe
G4500427Exquisite Motif
G4500427When Pigs fly
G4500426 Counting Down
G4500302 Metal Buttons
Chipboard – Imaginarium Designs
Distress inks.
Double side tape, Foam tape
Brads
Tim Holtz Spinner

thanks so much for looking

Jane

PS Have finished my Graphic 45 Design Team Project, will be posting it Monday. Please cross your fingers for me.

Where have I been?

Hello everyone,
Wow what a month (or is it two now), it has been. I need to do this post in bullet points.

1. Congratulations to all the talented ladies and Gents who have made it through to the final round of Graphic 45's design team call for 2012. It was so nice to see some familiar names among the list (including mine) So now I am flat out making my final project to send to the States and it needs to be amazing if I want to stay on the team. Bless wishes and lots of creativity to everyone!1. Karen Zueger - USA
   2. Alberto Juárez Díaz - Spain
   3. Nate Da Silva - France
   4. Nancy Wethington - USA
   5. Romy Veul - Netherlands
   6. Susan Fraser - Canada
   7. Arlene Cuevas - USA
   8. Karen Foy - UK
   9. Maiko Miwa - Japan
   10. Theresa Kimbrell - USA
   11. Nicole Eccles - USA
   12. Shell Carman - Australia
   13. Kristin Wilson - USA
   14. Gloria Stengel - USA
   15. Roberto Cesar dos Santos - Brazil
   16. Melanie Forbes - Australia
   17. Sharon Ngoo - Singapore
   18. Laura Denison - USA
   19. Susan Killam - USA
   20. Clare Charvill - UK
   21. Jane Tregenza - Australia
   22. Denise Hahn - USA
   23. Kelly Klapstein - Canada
   24. DeeDee Catron - USA
   25. Tara Orr - Canada
   26. Torill Fossum Stamnes - Norway
   27. Jim Hankins - USA
   28. Jan Hennings - USA
   29. Tracy Burtt - USA
   30. Susan Lui - Singapore


2. 
   Have you caught up on the news that I am doing a feature in every Scrapbook Creations magazine for the rest of the year! I am doing a tutorial for my little squares project in their magazine every second month, the other month it will be on their online magazine. I taught this project at the Brisbane expo last year and promised the ladies I would do more and put the kits online. Well it has finally happened, the kits are online at Seriously Scrapbooking. The first kit is  online with the second and third kit to be released on the 14th of March. Seriously Scrapbooking do post overseas, although the website is not quite set up for it yet. Just email them and they will let you know how to go about it. They can also send you the cost of postage before you pay, so you know up font how much it will cost. To make a project like Diane's you will need about 10 different kits. Beware - this form of scrapbooking is highy addictive!  Seriously Scrapbooking have sold nearly 100 1st kits. It is so nice to think that so many ladies want to make one of my projects.
3. 
   Sam and I have also been working on some of the layouts I have done for Graphic 45 over the past two years and writing instructions  for them, we will be releasing a couple of kits each month with this one being available on the 14th of March. The patchwork kits and new layouts will be released together on the 14th of each month. Our plan is to get about 20 layouts done by the end of the year. I also hope to get some altered art kits done as well.
4. I am teaching at the Brisbane Scrapbooking and Papercraft Expo (hope I got this the right way round) June long weekend. I am doing 9 classes for Seriously Scrapbooking and Imaginarium Designs. I will be using Graphic 45 papers for all three projects. I know that one will be a patchwork project, a male layout and a female layout. All three projects will be using Graphic 45's new Olde Curiosity Shoppe papers. You can start booking into my classes at the end of March on the Brisbane Scrapbooking and Papercraft Expo. I will put a link on the side of my blog in a day or two.
5. If you are a store owner or teacher, I am doing some master classes at printblocks late April, you can contact them to book into my classes.
6. For CHA Graphic 45 asked if any of the design would like to demonstrate. I put my hand up straight away and was delighted to hear that I could have a spot on the Monday. I did pop up cards. Graphic 45 have put my instructions into a pdf file that you can down load and I have copied the link. Jane's Pop up Baby Card please note that it is a 1.4MB file.
7.  For CHA the design team was asked to make a tag. Here is some photo's of mine.

This is the front of my tag, it is a mini Booklet.


The inside with a favorite photo of my girls

A close up of the detail, love the peacock feather from Imaginairum Designs.
Supplies:
Graphic 45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe
G4500424 Olde Curiosity Shoppe
G4500426 Counting Down
G4500428 When Pigs fly
G4500430 Optical oddities
G4500432 Butterfly specifics
G4500425 Mercurial Masterpiece
G4500435 Bazaar of Wonders
G4500431 Race for Time
G4500299 Metal Hinge staples
Other
Title, mini peacock feathers, border, Flourishes – Imaginarium Designs
Ribbons
Inks
Well that is all from Me I feel that I have finally caught up on my blog. So much is happening at the moment that my head is spinning. But back to work, need to spend the day on my final project for Graphic 45. After every post I am going to put one of my photos from my holiday in the states for the rest of the year. But not this time as this post is already way to long!!!!!
thanks for looking.
love and best wishes
Jane

Graphic 45 Design Team 2012 Audition

I  love this company, so much that I am going to apply again! As part of the design team submission, you have to create a post with a minimum of 6 projects. So here are some of my favorite Graphic 45 projects. I have lots of new projects to show, but they need to be shown on Graphic 45's blog before I can share them here, so I am going to share some old favorites. I am going to put them into three groups.
First - My Favorite Layouts.
Second - My Favorite Off the Page Projects

Third - My Favorite Books.

 So make a cup of coffee and enjoy my trip down memory lane with Graphic 45 and some of my "all time favorites".

Some of My Favorite Layouts.

This is one of my favorite layouts, I did it for a Japan Scrapbooking Site. The photo is one I took at Alcatraz. I love all the metal elements and the way it all came together. The papers are one of Graphic 45's new releases

 " Tropical Travelogue" and were a perfect match for my layout.

This is another favourite. The photo is of my son Josh, taken when he was about 12. The papers from the "Magic of Oz" were perfect for a boy's layout. I love the images that are on Graphic 45 papers, and the fact that they are perfect for cutting and layering on your layouts.

This is another favourite of three of my daughters. For this layout I used the "Magic of OZ" papers. The travel themed paper was perfect, again I cut the images out and layered them onto another print paper.

  I did this one for a magazine. I love the way you can use Graphic 45 in so many ways. This one let me put lots of little photos on one layout.

 Another favorite layout. You can use different papers from each of the Graphic 45 collections and mix them up.

 I love doing boy's layouts using Graphic 45, the colours are perfect for any layout. For this one I used Graphic 45's "Steampunk Collection".

Some of My Favorite Altered Art or Off the Page Projects.

This form of scrapbooking is a favorite of mine. I love mini projects or altered art projects. Anything that is out side the square! Here are some of my favorites.

 A set of altered art tags, which I hinged together to make a mini book. The Graphic 45 8x8 pads are perfect for these kind of projects as the prints are smaller.

 This was another blog hop, this time with May Arts Ribbons. I used the back of a canvas and lots of Graphic 45 print papers - in fact 9 sheets.

This is another favorite project I did for Diane's Birthday. I am doing this project for a Scrapbooking Magazine in Australia. Each month they are putting a section of the Patchwork Piece in the magazine. It will take 10-12 months to do this project as you need to have 100 decorated squares. I am selling kits for this project if anyone wants to have a go.

Another Blog hop, this was a calendar for Petaloo using Graphic 45's Tropical Travelogue" papers.

Again another project outside the square. This was a hat I made out of  Papers from "Once upon a Springtime" It was a blog hop with 3L.

I love mini off the page projects and this was one I did on Diane.

Another Mini Project, this one was for Josh.

Some of My Favorite Books.

This is a book I made for Graphic 45, it was published in USA and I still get emails from people who had seen this book and love it.

One of the pages from the book. This is a page using "On the Boardwalk" Collection.

Another page from the book using a selection from Graphic 45 papers.

This was another book, this time I made a box for it to go in. It is a pop up book and was published in the USA.

Once of my pages from my Pop up Book using "Once upon a Springtime".

Another page from my Pop up Book. This one is using "Steampunk".

This is another book, with pop up elements. I used papers from the "Magic of Oz" It is a affirmation Book with quotes and photos.

The first page of my book. For this book I used papers from the  "Magic of Oz" collection.

Another page using one of my favorite papers from "Magic of Oz.

There were so many more projects I would loved to have shared with you, but this post is already long enough.  I love Graphic 45 and use it for nearly every project I make. I love all styles of scrapbooking and Graphic 45 have so many wonderful print papers to choose from, there is alway one to match every project.

Good luck to everyone who has entered the Graphic 45 Design Team Call for 2012.

Wish me luck!