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Guest Designer at Passion 4 Paper

A month has passed and I haven’t had a chance to blog about the exciting guest designer piece I did for Passion 4 Paper!  Bad blogger!!  It has been a crazy 6 weeks in our house with my youngest travelling to Canada, losing my part time job & hubby working all hours of the day & night. 

You might like to check out my post here.  Let me know what you think!

In other news I have finally taken the plunge to start up an Etsy business selling handmade cards and other stuff.  Stay tuned for more news on that front as I will post the link once I have actually loaded more than one item into my shop !

A new home on the web

Hello readers!

I have finally taken the plunge and invested in a permanent web address and have moved my blog over to a new home.  I still need to make a heap of improvements to the new one but at least I have ‘moved in’.

You can now find me at:

www.purplesalt.net

I will look forward to seeing you there!

A Magical Bird

Next we had a play with some Magicals powder, a powder made by Lindy’s Stamp Gang which complements the Starburst Sprays.  I covered mine with some rock candy Ranger Distress Crackle for some added texture.  It was quite effective!

 

Dylusions

Next we created a background using the new Ranger Dylusions sprays – the colours are really vibrant!

Once I got home I stamped some of the Dylusions leaves over a sprayed background made with Starburst spray and popped them along the side.  The mushroom spots were outlined with my new Molotow white ink pen.  It is so easy to use and created a good, solid white line on my image.

Sparkly Magic

If you attended the Brisbane Scrapbook & Papercraft show you would have seen the wonderful Kate Palmer demoing sparkly Starburst Sprays & the new Ranger Dylusions Sprays for Passion 4 Paper.

Each afternoon, Kate ran a class featuring these gorgeous sprays and I was lucky enough to secure a spot in the first Saturday class.  Boy we had lots of fun!

I wanted to show you the cards we created and I will do three posts so that I can link each of them to the Passion 4 Paper blog.  Anyone who did the class has been invited to share their creations.

This one features the glossy embossed papers from Pink Paislee.

A Catch Up

Goodness it has been over a month since I last posted – I had been doing so well!  I promise that although I have been busy with life I did manage to squeeze in some crafty time as well.

In the past month, I:

• Spent a week on nearby Stradbroke Island with my family at a beach front unit.  Stradbroke Island is a 40min ferry ride across Moreton Bay so really accessible from Brisbane.

• Picked up our new puppy, a whippet we have named Zed.  He is now 15 weeks old and a ball of energy!

• Celebrated ANZAC Day and watched our son Josh march in the city ANZAC Day parade with his high school marching band, Drumline.

• Sent off the first part of an ATC background swap.  Two sets of backgrounds were made and swapped out. I got a collection of other people’s backgrounds back to decorate and return.  At the end I will get mine back with other peoples artwork overlaying my backgrounds.  I’ll share once they are returned.
• Received a wonderful prize from Helmar for participating in their Facebook competition.  Thanks Helmar!

• Received my Darkroom Door March ATC swap.  The theme was turquoise and here are the ATCs I created. 

• Finished a Smash Book swap which was hosted on Facebook.  The book was a touch larger than A5, bound with rings to enable the recipient to add more pages.  Here are a sampling of the pages -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Celebrated 21 years of marriage to my wonderful husband, Brian.

Gee, it makes me tired just thinking of all the things that have happened in the last month !