After All These Years

June Classes

It seems to be a never ending cycle of preparing for classes (both in store and online) and designing journaling helpers at the moment! Just when I think I'll have some time to put something interesting here or do some scrappin' just because, it's time to start all over again! And with illness and rain causing havoc, there are just not enough hours in the day!

I want to share sneak peeks for my June classes. First up is Sketch By Sketch. This month it's two single layouts with a bit of detail.

 

Next up is a class called Five, Six, Seven with layouts containing, you guessed it, five, six and seven photos! I love creating layouts with lots of wallet sized photos and I even did one for my album for a change!

 

I'm also running a card class, Four Corners, where we'll be making cards utilizing the reverse side of some We R Memory Keepers papers. I love how on the back of these are four 6"x6" miniature versions of their patterned papers.

Online, you can still sign up for our first class Get Into Shape where you get instructions etc for four projects . . . heaps of inspiration there.

And I'm also running last month's Sketch By Sketch class online for those that couldn't make it into the shop . This is such a great class for getting pages done. No thinking required - just copy and have fun!

Phew! That might be enough for one month! I do love teaching  . . .

For more information on the classes, see my sidebar to the right or go to the Blossie's website to look at the class timetable and descriptions.

Blossie's Journaling Helpers

This month at Blossie's saw the very first Journaling Helper released.

Journaling helpers are a collaboration of quotes and journaling spots designed to help scrapbookers and cardmakers find the right words to embellish their projects.

In honour of Mother's Day coming up next week, the first journaling helper is titled 'Celebrating Motherhood'. You have the option of black and white or colour sheets.

 

Want to know what makes them unique? As well as having them printed out in store for you to purchase, you also have the option of purchasing them in digital format so you can have unlimited use of them at home! You can print them on whatever card or paper you like and how often you need! That is cool!

You can purchase them from our blog here.

Here are a couple of Mother's Day cards I whipped up (quickly) using them. Firstly, I printed the colour version on some plain white cardstock. In the first card, I cut around the scallop quote, gave it a quick sand to hide my imperfect cutting and the rest just kind of came together. I love hanging those little crystals off organza ribbon!

For the second card, I trimmed the bottom quote in a long strip so it would run right across my card. A patterned paper background, a scallop border and a few buttons completes it. Easy!

I have lots of ideas for future journaling helpers to be released over the coming months! I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed created them!

That's What Friends Are For

I am so grateful for all the friends I have made through scrapbooking. It means, when it's my birthday, I can look forward to lovely homemade cards and thoughtful gifts like this one from Yvette.

 

Now, I don't wish to offend anyone but one of my personal pet peeves is leaving centres in letters. And my dear friends know this of me so Yvette had been saving hers to give me! Thanks Yvette! You're one of a kind!

 

And because I have nothing else interesting to share today, Can anyone guess what Amelia was into here?

 

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That's right, she got into the baby powder and had a wonderful time! All I could do was laugh and take photos.

 

She makes me laugh every single day.