Paper. Scissors. Chocolate. Louise Williams

Some blatant promotion and CHA shares

Ok, first the blatant promotion. We still have some spaces available for this:

28-30th October, 2011
Motu Moana Scout Camp, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland.

Cost: $230 all inclusive.

Take some time for yourself and indulge your need to create with a fun group of like-minded women. Learn something new with some amazing classes. Take a whole weekend to do what you want. Make what you want. Eat what you want.

Chocolate and inspiration provided. :)

Bookings are open now and a registration form is available on the sidebar of this blog.

The price includes:

• accommodation for Friday and Saturday nights
• 46 hours to scrap, chat and be inspired by your fellow scrappers
• a delicious breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday and breakfast and lunch on Sunday
• a gorgeous layout class taught by myself, full of goodies from the top brands to get you inspired
• a fabulous card buffet class taught by talented Stampin Up designer Liz Hicks - make 3-4 cards and help yourself to the goodies to make them with
• a Creepy Crop night
• a great shop to keep your supplies and motivation replenished throughout the weekend
• a welcome goodie bag
• giveaways, prizes and more!

Don't miss out, it's going to be AWESOME!

Next one...

Paper Crafts Festival in Brisbane on the weekend of September 9-11, 2011.

I'm joining the super talented Janine Koczwara and Jane Clark in teaching a mini album workshop in Aussie! the classes are:

Janine Koczwara (Australia)

Class Description:
Do you love the look of layer upon luscious layer of detail in a layout?  If you do, but struggle to pull it all together, this is a class you will love as Janine Koczwara (Prima Educator) takes you through creating a very feminine, multi-dimensional, layered layout.  While you are learning about layering you will also learn lots of new ways of incorporating Prima products on your page, with masking, misting, stamping, distressing, stitching and texturizing elements. To top it all off you will create an amazing floral cluster on your page, showcasing the beauty of Prima’s flowers on your layout.

Sneak Peek of Janine’s workshop

Janine’s blog

Louise Willams (New Zealand) (that'd be me)

Class Description:
Do you often scrap about your family, children and pets but neglect to tell your own story? Join Louise in creating a beautifully detailled “Growing Up Me” Twiddleybitz album. Decorated with beautiful Prima papers and flowers, Twiddleybitz chipboard and Shimmerz paints, this album is full of little tips and techniques you can easily transfer to your layout scrapbooking. Louise also adds her own custom embellishments to the mix to give you a unique keepsake to treasure for years to come.

Sneak Peek

and

Jane Clark (Australia)

Class description:
Learn how to create two beautiful cards using a technique that will have you producing a grungy but elegant style of Faux Tiling. In the class you will be using Gesso, embossing (wet and dry) and playing with the latest Tim Holtz Distress Stains to achieve this fantastic rustic look. This class will make you want to rush home and play with this simple but effective technique some more! This workshop is suited to all levels of cardmakers, new and experienced as clever tips will be shared along the way.

Sneak Peek

Jane’s blog

So as you can see we will be offering three AMAZING workshops at this show.

Each tutor will teach their workshop 4 times over the three days only and spots for each class are limited. You can pre-book by emailing [email protected] as well as getting full information on workshop times. The cost for each workshop will be $55 this includes all materials! Make sure you get in early!!! As a BONUS, if you book into any of the workshops you get THREE days entry for the price of ONE!!! You can see the schedule here!

So if you're planning on being in Brisbane in September make sure you get in on these workshops, they're all pretty gorgeous!

Ok, so now the shares. I was pretty excited to be sending some of my work to be displayed on the Prima stand at CHA this year. I've always dreamed of CHA and although, despite my repeated badgering, they declined my offer to hand deliver the items ;) I still had this acrylic album and layout there! woohoo!

This layout uses the new North Country line of papers and embellishments with some Printery and other Prima touches in there. It's a redo of a layout I did a year or so ago that I was never completely happy with and I adored the photo and title so wanted to give it another go. Don't you love the rubon snowflakes? too cute!

 

And the other item is my favourite. I LOVE acrylic albums and mixed and matched some Prima ones to create this one. I completely adore the new resin embellishments, the vintage birdy is to. die. for. Seriously need to stock up on more of these!

So there you go, thanks for looking

L :) x

A trip over the ditch...

I'm heading over to Brisbane to teach a gorgeous mini album at the Paper Crafts Festival show in September. A big box of Shimmerz goodness arrived this morning and you are going. to. LOVE the amazing altered page album from Twiddleybitz that I'm using as the base. Look at that window on the front!! and the scroll cut pages... oh be still my heart. Anyway if you're heading to Brissy for the show (and you really should!) then make sure you book in for all three AMAZING workshops on offer from myself, the incredibly talented Janine Koczwara and cardmaker extraordinnaire Jane Clark.

Each tutor will teach their workshop 4 times over the three days only and spots for each class are limited. You can pre-book by emailing [email protected] as well as getting full information on workshop times. The cost for each workshop will be $55 this includes all materials! Make sure you get in early!!! As a BONUS, if you book into any of the workshops you get THREE days entry for the price of ONE!!!  You can see the schedule here!

Anyway back to my class...

Class Description:  Do you often scrap about your family, children and pets but neglect to tell your own story? Join Louise in creating a beautifully detailled “Growing Up Me” Twiddleybitz album. Decorated with beautiful Prima papers and flowers, Twiddleybitz chipboard and Shimmerz paints, this album is full of little tips and techniques you can easily transfer to your layout scrapbooking. Louise also adds her own custom embellishments to the mix to give you a unique keepsake to treasure for years to come.

Places are filling up so make sure you book!!

L :)

a LONG post... grab a coffee...

Well SENZ is over for another year and I'm still CRAZY busy with lots of shows, classes, videos and blog posts coming up!! eek how'd that all happen? :D

Anyhoo this is a Tim Holtz configurations box that popped up over on the Aussie Scrap Source blog the other day. (Oh and before I forget, head over and check it out for your chance to guest design for Jenni Bowlin!!). Back to the box... I used a tonne of Tim's fabulous designs on it as well as some of the amazing steampunkey Twiddleybitz chippie (and some gorgeous Prima) but I'm thinking it's not quite done. Oh and yes, that really is our bedroom wall colour (remember I told you we had a circus themed house?)... that WILL be changing. Seriously. How we manage to sleep in there I'll never know. It's not like there's anywhere else in the house we could sleep either, every wall is another shade of sunglasses-required. One thing at a time and anyway, I digress...

I covered the box in Tim's paper masking tape (love that stuff - it covers so easily!!) and arranged and hot glued the boxes so they didn't all lie flat. I inked all the edges (used a mixture of Distress Inks and Staz on) and added those gorgeous feet!

The gorgeous Twiddleybitz chippie was inked in two colours, layered on top of each other and hot glued into place with a door knob just because I could :). I finished that section off with some Prima, and layered a butterfly cut from Tim's paper on top of his metal wings for a really eyecatching finish.

I used the film strip a bit differently too - I hot glued one end into the gaps between a couple of the boxes then twisted it like ribbon before hot gluing the other end into place.

This is the bit that needs work I think, just doesn't work for me now (it did but now... not so much). It feels a bit empty to me still... I think it's one of those things I'll keep fiddling with for years to come (and the piccies are going to change)... stay tuned for updates on this one!!

Speaking of Prima (as I do) I got my Educators box yesterday and Oh. My. Seriously, be still my beating heart... the things they have for you at the upcoming CHA... *sigh*... I seriously {hearts} them and I'm still expecting an email to say sorry, wrong Louise can you please return your box of goodies... (and my answer would be "no, it's mine and kind of crumpled because I've been rolling around in it"). lol

Onto SENZ. This year I decided not to teach as the only time slots were the last couple of hours of the show and I figured everyone would be shopped/classed out by then and I was right. With 87 different classes to choose from (and many repeated multiple times over the weekend), it wouldn't have been worth the time involved to prepare the awesome class I had in mind but stay tuned as I'm thinking I might run it online instead... ;)

Sooo anyway (keep getting sidetracked), I was selling my jewellery at SENZ this year instead of doing anything scrappy and I really enjoyed it! I didn't make a huge amount of money and probably wouldn't do SENZ again as it's the wrong place for that kind of thing, but I did get to talk to a huge number of scrappers who thankfully took the time to come and say hi! Loved meeting you all and it was nice to put a real face to all our facebook comments! All the jewellery and headbands etc that I was selling at the show will be heading into my etsy shop shortly (once I get a second to breathe and load them) and if there's anything custom you'd like just drop me a line.

I spent a fair bit of time (as did my mum who is always an amazing help) preparing my wee table for the show. Mum's currently addicted to making flowers and has been producing the most beautiful paper flowers which we sold a tonne of at the show, as well as sewing this gorgeous table skirt for me!

I saw a picture online somewhere, sent it to her and voila! she's too clever and it made the table look gorgeous. I've also been collecting bits and pieces off trade me for the last few months including a big old tin box, complete with a bit of rust that looked perfect!

So there you go. Sold enough to keep me happy and got some custom orders, had a very long (but fun) weekend and got to finally have a coffee with the lovely and uber-talented Jilly G (been such a long time coming!). Can't wait to catch up again in Brissy in September! Speaking of Brissy, if you're over there then come and check out the Paper Crafts Festival. You can catch classes from me, Janine Koczwara and Jane Clark (and get discounted entry into the show) but bookings are strictly limited!

Ok... that's all for now, be back with some stuff to share as soon as I'm allowed!!

L x

Busy, busy, busy!!

and I love it. It keeps me outta trouble ;)

Firstly, I'm heading off to Brisbane in September to teach with Your Creative Journey at the Australian Papercrafts Festival alongside the super talented ladies Janine Koczwara and Jane Clark. Check out the classes here: http://yourcreativejourney.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/whats-coming-up/

I'm teaching one of the gorgeous Altered Page Albums from Twiddleybitz and also featuring some gorgeous Shimmerz paint and Prima goodness... love this album... here's a sneak...

Class Description:  Do you often scrap about your family, children and pets but neglect to tell your own story? Join Louise in creating a beautifully detailled “Growing Up Me” Twiddleybitz album. Decorated with beautiful Prima papers and flowers, Twiddleybitz chipboard and Shimmerz paints, this album is full of little tips and techniques you can easily transfer to your layout scrapbooking. Louise also adds her own custom embellishments to the mix to give you a unique keepsake to treasure for years to come.

You can pre-book by emailing [email protected] as well as getting full information on workshop times. The cost for each workshop will be AU$55 this includes all materials! Make sure you get in early!!!

Also SENZ is approaching (as in this Friday!) so I've been head down, bum up getting ready for it. I'll be in the craft market so if you're coming to SENZ then don't forget to say hi! Here are some pics of some of the things I'll have for sale:

Looking forward to having a look around, meeting some new people and hopefully selling stuff! lol

The ArtLab is coming up fast and I'm in preparation mode for that too, it's going to be an awesome day!! I have room for a couple more if anyone else would like to join us :)

Ok, that's me for now... back to it!! only 4 days to go!!

L x

Your Creative Journey...

begins here... go check it out! Seriously amazing idea from my very clever friend Sherry Mendoza.

If you're a retailler then you gotta sign up to this, if you're a scrapper then you need to nag your stores into coming on board to get some amazing classes to your LSS.

L x