tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77016260142055075642024-03-14T10:21:40.664+11:00EmbelleesWelcome to Embelleeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429369423150160796noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701626014205507564.post-67720859471195536422012-12-15T07:26:00.000+11:002012-12-15T07:26:10.653+11:00Time To Say Goodbye<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Embellees team would like to wish you
a very Merry Christmas and a healthy and prosperous 2013. <br /><br />We thank you all
from the bottom of our hearts for the support, encouragement and friendships
that we have made over the past two and a half years, but the time has come for
Embellees to say Goodbye. <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The last couple of years have flown by and it
comes as no surprise that 2012 was a tough year, especially for Lizzie and we
have decided that a new year brings new projects and plans for us both.
<br /><br />Before we go any further we would also like to give a huge thank you to
Di, Cassie and Nat for all their help and assistance this past year, we could
not have done this journey without you and your support and more importantly
friendships. <br /><br />By now you can all imagine, cancelling our Christmas
Workshop was such an extra tough decision as we knew this was going to be our
last as Embellees and we really wanted to celebrate with you all, however this
was not able to happen (by the way I (Lisa) have not received those papers as
yet). <br /><br /><br />So you ask, what is 2013 going to bring:-
<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Lisa</span></strong> – I am launching my new
business, Scrapart With Lisa and I am excited that I will continue to deliver
Workshops and some new plans are still in the pipeline. My passion is
scrapbooking, mixed media and crafting and I do really enjoy doing the Workshops
and having us come together to get creative. <br /><br />I have launched my new blog
:- </span><a href="https://myemail.det.nsw.edu.au/OWA/redir.aspx?C=81c2b93f99be439185155c24da0115a9&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scrapartwithlisa.blogspot.com.au%2f" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial;">http://www.scrapartwithlisa.blogspot.com.au/ </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">and also a Face
Book page, click on FB button on blog to be directed to page. I will not be
loading any information to this page until this announcement has been sent out.
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />Please go check out my blog, whilst I am still adding content, all dates
and a brief description for 2013 classes are already there, first class back in
2013 is on Sunday 10th February, the format will remain similar to what you are
already accustomed to fun, challenging and creative. <br /><br />To my dear friend
Liz it has been thrilling, exciting and at times a nerve racking ride, but we
can both feel really proud of what we achieved and created. I wish you health
& happiness and it comes as no surprise that this lady has some plans of her
own, that I cannot wait to partake in. xxx <br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size: large;"></span></strong><br />
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band</em>) - a new blog for you to visit: <br />
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Page: </span><a href="https://myemail.det.nsw.edu.au/OWA/redir.aspx?C=81c2b93f99be439185155c24da0115a9&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2f%23!%2fpages%2fGetting-Your-Craft-On%2f308310635937538" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial;">https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Getting-Your-Craft-On/308310635937538</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have lots of 'ideas' (well what is new you say!) and hope that you will
join me on this new solo creative journey. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">To my bestie, roadie pal,
business partner and all the other titles I have bestowed upon Miss Lisa over
these years - thank you for riding the wave of Embellees over the last few years
and in particular for taking the lead this year while I battled the Big C...
there have been so many highlights and, well yes some low lights but I wouldn't
change it for anything. I look forward to my new role as a participant and
getting 'down and dirty' in your creative workshops and for waving the supporter
banner as you venture forth in your new business. xxx <br /><br />For now ... we
look forward to seeing all our lovely customers (friends), sharing many more
scrapping workshops and events filled with friendship and laughter.
<br /><br />Cheers<em> (and for the last time) </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miss Lisa (<em>aka</em> Lisa Greedy) our gorgeous <em>'Creative Director'</em> has been very busy playing with lots of Christmas goodness for our <a href="http://www.embellees.blogspot.com.au/p/workshops-2012.html">Christmas Workshop</a> on 2 December and, has sent through some pics just so we could tempt and tease you all!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our 'sample' table will be full of lots of wonderful ideas to get your 'creative juices' flowing and, hopefully have you running off to make up some gorgeous 'handmade gifties' for those you love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We will be working on a gorgeous layout ready for a new 2012 'Chrissy Pic' or maybe a special one from years past. The beautiful My Minds Eye (MME) papers have been teamed with lots of other 'gorgeousness' to really make the page pop!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Date:</strong> 2 December 2012</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Time:</strong> 10:30 am to 4:00 pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Venue:</strong> Edgeworth Bowling Club</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Cost:</strong> $40.00 (includes kit) - Christmas Special!!!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>** Lunch is not included - Club has great Cafe</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more information and to register please ensure you have read our Terms and Conditions at our<a href="http://www.embellees.blogspot.com.au/p/workshops-2012.html"> Workshop Tab</a> (above).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All enquiries should be directed to our email at: <a href="mailto:Embellees@bigpond.com">Embellees@bigpond.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It will be <em>party day</em> with lucky door prizes, Secret Santa (was so much fun last year) and prizes for the best handcrafted/scrapped/decorated Christmas Hat .... we might even get our <em>'baking'</em> on for some yummy goodness to indulge on the day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Because this is our last workshop for the year - we have reduced our workshop fee to $40 <em>(yes that includes your kit)</em> and we have kept our busy agenda under control so you can bring along any projects you might want to revisit on the day!!!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><strong>Date: </strong> 2 December 2012</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><strong>Time: 10:30 am to 4:00 pm</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Venue:</strong> Edgeworth Bowling Club</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Cost:</strong> $40.00 (includes kit) - <strong>Christmas Special!!!</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>** Lunch is not included - Club has great Cafe</strong></em></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In August we all got hooked on yet more of the 'mixed media' trend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Miss Lisa <em>(aka Lisa Greedy) </em>and Cassie <em>(McCumstie - DD Member)</em> led the Workshop day and everyone was inspired with layouts and canvas art. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We are so pleased to see how many of our Workshop Lovelies have </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">been 'playing' with all their new found techniques and creating some gorgeous layouts and canvas art. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Miss Lisa showed everyone how to take wrapping paper and transform it into a fabulous background by adding layers of paint, gesso, masks and stamps .....what a great backdrop for a favourite layout!</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi013zQmXR5eWF8-tBi8A-x3DjDrTxF1PfuTywJpUmpmr2z_Cc_pLT7Ic39tJpA-Q6j8ijzyb4CgYrY5-WoTy9f8J1KV5X07WM_TtOUTMWSE0KJYD72dWYRtnOojQocMpguNcKDGKoSpO4/s1600/Hybrid+10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi013zQmXR5eWF8-tBi8A-x3DjDrTxF1PfuTywJpUmpmr2z_Cc_pLT7Ic39tJpA-Q6j8ijzyb4CgYrY5-WoTy9f8J1KV5X07WM_TtOUTMWSE0KJYD72dWYRtnOojQocMpguNcKDGKoSpO4/s400/Hybrid+10.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">Our August Workshop had us revisiting our Hybrid approach and showing off our new Silhouette Cameo Machine. <br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is always a fun way to approach scrapbooking with everyone having a fab time</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The workshop kits were <em>'full to the brim'</em> with great items from Typo, Etsy, lots of different Washi tape and so many embellishments that everyone was 'spoiled for choice'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We introduced the beautiful papers from Amy Tangerine and it was great seeing everyone turning their albums into their own creations!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The star of the show was the beautiful vintage layout Miss Lisa taught - this had everyone 'rummaging' through their photos for that perfect 'black & white' vintage pic they had been hoping to scrap for ages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We promised to post some of our favourite links for our Hybrid Scrapbooking - so here goes:</span><br />
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<li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Designer Digitals: </span></strong><a href="http://www.designerdigitals.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.designerdigitals.com/</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Two Peas In A Bucket:</strong> </span><a href="http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/</span></a></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mel Stampz: </span></strong><a href="http://melstampz.blogspot.com.au/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://melstampz.blogspot.com.au/</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Graphics Fairy: </strong></span><a href="http://www.graphicsfairy.blogspot.com.au/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.graphicsfairy.blogspot.com.au/</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Kate Hadfield Designs: </strong></span><a href="http://katehadfielddesigns.com/blog/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://katehadfielddesigns.com/blog/</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Sugar Hill Company: </strong></span><a href="http://www.sugarhillco.com/blog/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.sugarhillco.com/blog/</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Jessica Sprague: </strong></span><a href="http://www.jessicasprague.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.jessicasprague.com/</span></a></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry it has taken us so long to get back to blogging but, we took some time out while Miss Lisa and the Design Team Gals caught their breathe after all the work this year while Lizzie has been undergoing her Chemotherapy regime - so thanks for your patience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our Christmas Workshop has just been announced and we hope all our Workshop Lovelies will be back for our last date of the year - put it in your diary <strong>2 December 2012</strong> and here is a link to what we have planned.......<br /><br /><strong>Workshops 2012 Tab</strong> - </span><a href="http://www.embellees.blogspot.com.au/p/workshops-2012.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.embellees.blogspot.com.au/p/workshops-2012.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In September 2011 we presented our first Mixed Media Workshop and everyone loved learning lots of new techniques. Over the past 12 months the Embellees Team have been undertaking as many educationals as we can to be ready to present a great new Mixed Media Workshop for 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our Mixed Media Workshop will be held on Sunday - 19 August 2012 at our regular venue here in Newcastle (Edgeworth Bowling Club). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The aim of this Workshop is to introduce lots of new techniques, reinforce those that we have been exploring at different times in our past workshops/projects. We will be doing two beautiful page layouts designed by Embellees Creative Director extraordinaire - Lisa Greedy and, will finish up with a lovely little canvas artwork inspired by the beautiful stamps from Christy Tomlinson (designed and presented by Cassie McCumstie - Embellees DT Member).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our Wokshop kits will be full of an exciting eclectic mix of goodies that will enhance your beautiful works of art. As always our Workshops are about 'techniques' not just sticking down pieces of paper on a page - in this Workshop we are especially keen to have you incorporate the mixed media techniques into your layout pages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Registrations have already opened and the numbers are growing quickly - so to ensure your spot, please email us at: <a href="mailto:Embellees@bigpond.com">Embellees@bigpond.com</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our September Workshop will be all about us revisiting our hybrid approach to scrapbooking. We introduced this concept last year and we have had numerous requests to revisit this fun style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We are so looking forward to introducing you to a whole digital kit approach and how to incorporate this into your 'stash' of products to choose from (especially good for those of us who don't get out to shop traditionally and want to have some new products to play with). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our fun project at this Workshop will be a fabulous 'brag book' called <em>'Pictures of You'</em> using some gorgeous new products from the Amy Tangerine range that we have fallen in love with. Our kits will be 'full to the brim' as always with a fabulous eclectic mix of products both traditional and digital.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Again, registrations for this Workshop have already opened and we thank all our lovely regulars who have been quick to book a spot - so please don't miss out - email us at:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Hope you have enjoyed our workshop updates and we look forward to offering you some more sneakies as the dates approach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a great day we had on Sunday 22 July 2012 at our most recent Workshop - Cluster Clever. We loved seeing all our regulars and few new ladies who have returned for their second and third workshops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We spent the day playing with lots of techniques that we decided should be defined as 'clustered layers'. Lisa Greedy had everyone working through two lovely layouts...<strong><em> It's the Simple Things</em></strong> (above) and <strong><em>Share Your Smile</em></strong> (below). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In this Workshop we wanted to get our workshop lovelies working with 6 x 6 paper ranges. These little gems are often forgotten, but what we found is that they worked beautifully for layering and clustering. It allows you to get a whole paper range to play with these techniques you don't always need a full sheet of paper. What makes these even more versatile is that you still have heaps over to play with, the papers seem to go on forever - so we sent our workshop lovelies home with lots left in their kits to keep creating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For Lisa Greedy's - <strong><em>It's the Simple Things</em></strong> layout above we introduced the beautiful Simple Stories Summer Fresh paper range. Lisa had everyone playing with a range of Tim Holtz Distress Stains to free-hand the gorgeous Chevron on her 'It's the Simple Things' layout above. Masking off the chevron and stamping adding the second of our background layers and defining with a black outline pen and it really took a simple piece of white cardstock to a whole new level. In the beautiful "clustered layered" it is hard to see all the bits and pieces - but the workshop kits were full to the brim with lots of little eclectic bits and pieces (just how we love our kits).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>Share Your Smile - Lisa Greedy (Embellees)</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our second layout for the day Lisa Greedy's - <strong><em>Share Your Smile,</em></strong> we introduced the beautiful My Minds Eye (MME) - Follow Your Heart paper range. We loved the softness of the layout and Lisa had everyone busy using a patterned background paper (MME Follow Your Heart - Be Amazing - Honey Blue), adding Glimmer Mist (just love a dribble of GM) and then lots of layering with masks, distress stains and stamping (love those background stamps we have in our stash). One of the great techniques that our workshop lovelies played with was making their own ceramic tile embellees - nothing like a trip to Bunnings, gesso and some know how to pull off a beautiful handmade embellee for a layout! Again, back to our fabulous eclectic kit mix to keep our clustering and layering unique and to add texture .... hessian, fabric, lace, buttons, ribbon, chipboard, doily, papers, stamped images... just lovely and a favourite with all our attendees!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is always a fun filled and very busy day at an Embellees Workshop ... below are some other 'great layouts that starred in our 'Inspiration Gallery' on the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>Sk8 Dudes - Lisa Greedy (Embellees)</em></strong></span></div>
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspired - Liz Smith (Embellees)</span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope you have enjoyed a look at our workshop day and layouts - we will be back very soon updating with our 'Sneakies' for our<a href="http://www.embellees.blogspot.com.au/p/workshops-2010.html"> Mixed Media Workshop</a> in August. We had our projects on display at this months workshop and, it was so great that all our attendees were busy signing up for August - not many spots left with all our regulars returning so we are opening up registrations in the next few days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be back soon.</span></div>
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</div>Welcome to Embelleeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429369423150160796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701626014205507564.post-30168816228312300582012-06-26T06:28:00.003+10:002012-06-26T06:30:41.516+10:00Cluster Clever Sneakies .... Check Out the Workshop Projects!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are so excited about our Cluster Clever Workshop on 22 July 2012 and wanted to share some 'sneakie peeks' that the team have been working on for our workshop projects and gallery. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Embellees Workshops are held at the Edgeworth Bowling Club each month and at a cost of $60 for the day (including your kit) we welcome all scrapbookers to join in the fun. Check out our <a href="http://www.embellees.blogspot.com.au/p/workshops-2010.html">Workshop Tab</a> above for more details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our Workshops are about techniques and we love to present a great 'eclectic' kit that has lots of bits and pieces to compliment the projects we undertake on the day. For the last two years we have got to meet a great mix of local scrapbooking ladies, many of whom have become our friends and we so look forward to seeing them again at this July workshop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you would like to see what we have been doing, check out our <a href="http://www.embellees.blogspot.com.au/p/workshop-photos.html">Photo Tab</a> above or visit our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/liz.smith.545?ref=tn_tnmn#!/pages/Embellees/123092587736147">Facebook Page</a> and 'trawl' our photo albums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>So now for the 'sneakies' and we hope you 'likie'....</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So to start with..... this lovely layout will have you playing with layers of banners, creating the very popular chevron design, masking, misting and the list goes on......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The next beautiful layout that is showcased above is all about layers from the background up - lots of layered stamping, clusters of embellishments that have been enhanced with mists, ink and some other fabulous techniques that make the whole layout pop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This <em>Cluster Clever</em> workshop will have you working on three layouts using gorgeous papers from the latest My Minds
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">While the beautiful page above is not one of our workshop layouts - it is part of our workshop gallery. Cassie McCumstie from our Design Team created this beautiful layout as part of our Mists & Masks workshop in May with the aim that she would combine techniques for this workshop by layering lots of stamping and texture to her very plain cardstock background and simple clustering of embellishments that add that whimsical vintage feel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Date:</strong> <strong>22 July 2012</strong><br /><strong>Time: 10:30 am to 4:00 pm</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Venue: Edgeworth Bowling Club</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cost: $60.00 (includes kit)</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">** Lunch is not included - Club has great Cafe</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Registrations Open as at 18/06/2012</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more information and to register please ensure you have read our <br />Terms and Conditions at the <a href="http://embellees.blogspot.com.au/p/workshops-2010.html">Workshop Tab</a> above.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All enquiries should be directed to our email at: </span><a href="mailto:Embellees@bigpond.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #a9501b;">Embellees@bigpond.com</span></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We will be putting up some sneakies next weekend as we finish off our Workshop kitting while we are away retreating with all the lovelies from Scrapboutique at the gorgeous <a href="http://www.noonaweena.com.au/">Noonaweena</a> retreat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to all our lovely ladies who attended our Mists & Masks Workshop back in May. Please forgive our 'tardiness' and not updating our Blog sooner - but as you know Lizzie has been in recovery and we are working at a different pace (not our usual frenetic one).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We had such a fun time with all the new sprays, inks and masks on the market.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At this Workshop we introduced a techniques journal concept and all our workshop lovelies had so much fun playing with all the techniques on their pages....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The picture above is the gorgeous dust cover done by Cassie McCumstie (DT Member) for her techniques journal - gotta love us a rainbow using Dylusion Ink Sprays and some well chosen masks all on art canvas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">While the fab cover to the right is by the talented Natalie Bright (DT Member). Natalie was into re- purposing and loved using her inked and misted scraps to create this gorgeous banner for her technique journal ... how good does this look!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We hope you enjoyed our '<em>wrap</em>' of the last workshop and now it is time to start 'gearing up' for our July workshop - <strong><em><a href="http://embellees.blogspot.com.au/p/workshops-2010.html">'Cluster Clever'</a></em></strong>. We will be back real soon with all the details so keep an eye on our updates.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly, we would like to thank everyone who has enquired after our Lizzie's health. Many of you are aware that in early March Lizzie was diagnosed with Bowel Cancer and it has been quite a journey thus far. But in her own words <em>'don't give up on this over 50, overweight gal - she is a fighter'</em> and that she is.... Lizzie is two weeks into recovery from major surgery and she is already keen to get back to everything routine.... while she still has a journey ahead of her, she has done remarkably well and we are so happy to know that she is going to be sitting in on the next workshop in May and is keen to see all of our workshop lovelies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was great to find new tools that made this so much easier and cost effective. We purchased our tools from an Oz Company by the name of: <strong><a href="http://stores.ebay.com.au/packitin-bags">Pack It In</a></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This great little company has good prices, quick purchase options and fabulous customer service. We found them via their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Embellees/123092587736147#!/packitin">Facebook Page</a>, which led us to their products on Ebay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Here are some links to these sites:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Facebook Page:</strong> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Embellees/123092587736147#!/packitin">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Embellees/123092587736147#!/packitin</a></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Purchase a template/kit that matches size of button (one-off purchase)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We look forward to showing you many more ways in which we intend to use these 'embellees' in our future projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We undertook to finish 3 layouts with lots of left overs for a 4th. Our sample table above had everyone inspired to use their punches in so many ways. We tried to focus on punches that most of us have collected in our 'stash' over the years so that everyone could go home and continue to experiment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This gorgeous layout by Lisa Greedy (the Embellees Creative Director) was inspired by the most basic of punched shapes the circle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This fabulous 'retro' look had Lisa busy with a couple of her circle punches that took us back to our early scrapping days when we used both the positive and the negative punched shape. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What is so great about this layout is that Lisa wanted to concentrate on using punches to cre<span class="text_exposed_show">ate backgrounds and to mix it up with some 'old tools' (round punch) and 'new tools' (distress inks). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To <em>'wet the creative appetite'</em> we have decided to publish this fabulous tutorial so you to can have a play with some mixed media backgrounds and some innovative ways of using your punches....</span><br />
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Artist canvas - any size you like (We used a 10" x 8")</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Paint - shades of blue and white</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mod Podge adhesive</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Paint brushes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Paper doilies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dressmaker's pattern tissue paper</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Masking Tape </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Black & White Cardstock</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Black Stazon Ink Pad</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Black Marking Pen</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Book paper </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Selection of background Stamps</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Punchinello and other masks from your stash</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Punches as outlined in the instructions below</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To create the background. Paint with a light blue paint covering side of the canvas. Layer dress making paper, book paper, masking tape and doilies on the bottom half of the canvas to create a hilly mountain effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Draw clouds on book paper and attach to the sky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Add texture with paint and stencils, i.e. Punchinello, crafters workshop etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em>** Handy Hint: Using a 'stiple brush' the type you use for 'stenciling' works great with these tools.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Step 4:</strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The punches used on this canvas are:</span><br />
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</div></div>Welcome to Embelleeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429369423150160796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701626014205507564.post-42332917002415638242012-03-07T13:39:00.000+11:002012-03-07T13:39:50.739+11:00Somewhere Over the Rainbow - More 'Sneakies' for our March Workshop<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our lovely design team member Natalie Bright has been very busy getting lots done for our <a href="http://www.embellees.blogspot.com.au/p/workshops-2010.html">Paper, Punches and Photos Workshop</a> on 18 March 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were very excited when Natalie handed over a gorgeous layout she had prepared for the workshop and stunned (<em>in a good way</em>) at what she has done to produce the embellies for this page. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nat has really been <em>'thinking outside the square'</em> and we are sure you will be as equally 'stunned' with this great technique she is going to introduce to you at the workshop in March.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nat's fabulous layout will have everyone talking about not only her unconventional use of a standard punch to add dimension and texture to the page, but her fun way of using the 'left overs' to get the 'best bang' for your scrapping $$$s!!! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No wonder she is one of our design team - just love a girl who uses her scraps and repurposes!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have made sure that we have lots of great ideas in our Workshop room to get you thinking about those punches in so many different ways - we have had such fun with this workshop prep that we can't wait to show you all the different things you can do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For now we wanted to just make sure we had included a few more 'sneakies' of some of the great work Nat has prepared for the day... just a little more to <em>'wet your creative appetite'</em>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now remember we have a couple of extra spots that have opened up because we have taken to plunge and extended our maximum numbers... we also have a few of our beautiful workshop lovelies 'tripping' around overseas in the month of March so they are only ordering our kits and have left a few chairs that need warming until they return.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So if you think you would like to join us - check out the full details regarding our Workshops by clicking on the Workshop Tab above and emailing us at: </span><a href="mailto:Embellees@bigpond.com"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Embellees@bigpond.com</span></a> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to register.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Embellees Workshops are always about technique, repurposing and introducing fun products to play with. A great day for $60 and that includes your kit and enough projects to keep you at scrapping at a 'cracking pace' all day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We will be back very soon with a great tutorial our lovely design team member - Cassie McCumstie has been dreaming up for us.... <em>'we see clouds and trees and birds all on a canvas in our very near future'</em> - so get ready to be inspired with yet more punch ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This past weekend had the Embellees Creative Team in lock-down at a lovely little holiday house working on 'secret Embellees business' and, well let's be honest lots of great food, laughs and most of all friendship was really what our weekend was all about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We had a very big 'agenda' to work through including finishing touches to our March and May Workshops and, our first 'Tweenies Scrapbooking' Party in April .... beautiful creations were all around the table and lots of ideas had our heads spinning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We got busy with many a canvas, numerous layouts and playing with lots of new products and experimenting with a range of techniques.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We can't wait to share our creations with you, not to mention the new workshops we have planned. We are going to be introducing our Tweenies Scrapbooking Workshops/Parties, Master Classes, Market Stall and our Sewing Circle... so many new and exciting opportunities!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For now it is all about our next Workshop<br />
<a href="http://embellees.blogspot.com.au/p/workshops-2010.html">Paper, Punches and Photos. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We just love using punches in our projects and most of us have been buying these since we started 'scrapping'. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have so many in our 'stash' that we decided to 'challenge' ourselves to explore different ways to use them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We want to revisit how great these tools can be and what fabulous interest they can add to a page as a background, an embellishment or even as a great way to create a decor item for your home. We aim to have you racing back to your stash of punches and using them all over again! If like us you have always used them, our aim is get you looking at them with fresh eyes to add new dimension to your projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this Workshop you will have the opportunity to work on 4 different layouts and we are sure you will inspired by many other projects we have been developing using our punch stash. Now you know or will have heard that a layout with the Embellees Team is not just about sticking down paper - we look forward to introducing you to some new techniques and well what can we say - it wouldn't be an Embellees Workshop without some great repurposing techniques included - yes girls we have been back to 'Bunnings' again!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have opened a few extra spots on our Workshop as we have been able to expand our numbers at our venue - so if you are interested please contact us at: <a href="mailto:Embellees@bigpond.com">Embellees@bigpond.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We will have some more 'sneakies' to share with you in the lead up to the 18 March Workshop - so please pop back to visit us soon!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Lizzie and Lisa</em></strong></span>Welcome to Embelleeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429369423150160796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701626014205507564.post-64661274622124353332012-02-29T19:32:00.000+11:002012-02-29T19:32:13.533+11:00Wanderlust Workshop Wrap-Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV98PokTebVll6iEcv1SruCnupE2jv0IDjd5aVpIdoXz7tBms8veh2lc7Fllkcu6hU4LPvGzQcYnoVio3frXZrYzjrSCMMHukfercEsH3j2jB4eEJJz6B4ncPz0VqyVAkZW1F6gpjT3Bo/s1600/017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV98PokTebVll6iEcv1SruCnupE2jv0IDjd5aVpIdoXz7tBms8veh2lc7Fllkcu6hU4LPvGzQcYnoVio3frXZrYzjrSCMMHukfercEsH3j2jB4eEJJz6B4ncPz0VqyVAkZW1F6gpjT3Bo/s400/017.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to all our lovely ladies who attended our recent Wanderlust Workshop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A full day was had by all and it was great seeing everyone getting <em>'travel fever'</em> with the great layouts and our mini-album project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We so enjoyed meeting some lovely new ladies who joined us for the first time. Welcome to Leisa, Kim and Julianne, it was a pleasure getting to know you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was so nice seeing our workshop room full with familiar faces and hearing all about Christmas celebrations, holidays had and holidays planned (yes Lexie, Ruta and Lynney we are most envious of your up and coming travels all over the world). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Take a look at our ladies emersed in their creativity. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Here we have our lovely Kerry showing us her UBD page she is about to repurpose on her next layout along with Dianne, Julianne, Maureen and Kim.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Terrie, Janice and Kim were on task in this photo working through one of the great projects - thanks ladies we loved having you join us again!</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lizzie had everyone stamping on balsa wood to create the cover for their mini travel journal/album, cutting up lots of manila folders to create album pages, trying lots of new background stamps from Darkroom Door and other great stamps from Ippity, Tim Holtz, Unity and Hero Arts. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVcVr8EUuRXIBsDvW8dlArqwYel87yGAA2zJVKOmTLWOpMy1-OvAUapiucOFPxh_-Pcxtx30DPUaDDSApSqnMiXPomJAAz35La6pxfbYdUQV_maet2Pa4VtiOEoHZIaH8bdg7OS4jCNR0/s1600/042.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVcVr8EUuRXIBsDvW8dlArqwYel87yGAA2zJVKOmTLWOpMy1-OvAUapiucOFPxh_-Pcxtx30DPUaDDSApSqnMiXPomJAAz35La6pxfbYdUQV_maet2Pa4VtiOEoHZIaH8bdg7OS4jCNR0/s400/042.JPG" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">We embossed gorgeous Tim Holtz kraft glassine paper and added acetate pages and tags for additional pages. Book binding tape we sourced from our local Riot Craft Store was the perfect material to secure our pages and extras in place.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">But, it wouldn't be an Embellees Workshop without some 'repurposing'. Check out the fabulous use of pages from an old UBD and Gregory's Street Directory that we diecut using our Sizzix Alphabets available from StampinUp.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lisa again used a repurposed UBD page to create the collage background and some great embossed frames to anchor her photos from a family trip to Adelaide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another fabulous sample layout from Lisa Greedy - showing great use of background stamps and how to make a simple sheet of cardstock really interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Just love how Lisa incorporated a map she collected on her recent family holiday as part of her layout background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The lovely Cassie McCumstie from our Design Team was also very busy with this fun layout that showed us how to take simple paper based embellishments and turn them into something special with the use of dimensional magic for that epoxy look that is so popular again. Cassie shows us that a great layout using all the new travel inspired papers and embellishments does not have to centre around a trip - but can be an exercise in journaling about our 'dreams' of travel!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We just love that there are so many new travel related papers, embellishments and stamps cdue to hit the shelves in the next months - we hope we have inspired you to take a journey (pardon the pun) exploring some great new layouts about your recent travels!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are so very excited to introduce the Embellees Team for 2012. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Miss Lisa and Lizzie are the owners of Embellees, it is not just us that keep the <em>'wheels turning'</em>, the <em>kits happening</em> and the <em>Workshops on track</em>. We have a lovely group of friends that have supported us from day one and great family support.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that we are nearly 2 years 'young' and, from our early days we have always wanted to work with a design team as part of our structure.... it is time to announce that this is finally a done deal!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is important to acknowledge that while this blog post is about announcing our Design Team, the Embellees Team has had a 'silent' member who has been with us since day one.... and that is our lovely</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> friend Dianne Lovett .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dianne has been a big part of the Embellees Team, always there to encourage, support and help us. We just call this lovely lady <em>'our go to girl - our wise owl' (a reference to Dianne's love of all things Owl that started with a gift from Lisa a few years ago)</em>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dianne is a 'wealth of information' and if you need research done then she is the lady to set on the task... we can't thank Dianne enough for her constant support and, even through some very sad and difficult times of late, this grandmum to many (yes triplet grandsons born recently to add to her growing tribe) she has always been there doing anything we ask of her. Dianne is an Embellees Girl through and through and our team would not be complete without her... we love ya Di!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We welcome Cassie McCumstie and Natalie Bright officially to Embellees. Girls we can't wait to see all the great ideas and projects you are going to produce and work alongside you both.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cassie is very well known in our local town of Newcastle as our 'go to StampinUp lady'. Cassie has a gorgeous family of boys and her and Miss Lisa now bring that balance of gender to our scrapping</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">projects.... yes, we have heard you ... more boy layouts please!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cassie does beautiful work and with her lovely quiet presence she is sure to balance our team in other ways. If you want to check out Cassie's work please visit her blog called Pieces of Me by Cassie at: </span><a href="http://piecesofmebycassie.blogspot.com.au/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://piecesofmebycassie.blogspot.com.au/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also welcome the very bubbly Natalie Bright to the team. This gorgeous gal like Lizzie has a beautiful DD and her work is always of the highest standard. Natalie has been scrapping for many years and not only is she talented, but this gal is so funny that a crop/workshop or retreat is never dull with her in attendance. We already have Natalie putting together some gorgeous kits to compliment our workshop themes and they are fabulous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, please keep watching our blog as we have many more changes ahead and this will be the first of several 'BIG' announcements to come over the next months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am so glad that we have been able to let this 'secret' Embellees business 'out-of-the-bag' as it was just about impossible to contain it as we were so excited when Cassie and Natalie agreed to join us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So please, next time you see them say congrats and we look forward to featuring lots of their beautiful work very soon!!</span><br />
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<span class="definition"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are on the countdown to our first workshop for 2012. </span></span><br />
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<span class="definition"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are now only 8 sleeps away from our <strong><span style="color: #741b47;"><a href="http://embellees.blogspot.com.au/p/workshops-2010.html">Wanderlust Workshop</a></span></strong> on Sunday 19 February at Edgeworth Bowling Club (near Newcastle NSW).</span></span><br />
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<span class="definition"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are very excited to see lots of our workshop friends returning again 2012 and, welcome lots of new ladies. </span></span><br />
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<span class="definition"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So for all those 'workshop lovelies' that have booked in - watch your emails as your <em>'bring list'</em> is going to be on its way shortly! </span></span><br />
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<span class="definition"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been very busy with lots happening at <em>'tribal council'</em> (as our friend Natalie calls it) and, the Embellees Team have lots to tell you - but that will be another blog post coming shortly.</span></span><br />
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<span class="definition"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes ... time to let you know what we have been busy planning with some great new Embellees ideas bubbling away and finishing touches happening in the next weeks, just got to make sure we have all the pieces sorted before we do the announcements.</span></span><br />
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<span class="definition"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But for now... some quick sneaky peeks of what we are 'kitting' for our <strong>Wanderlust Workshop</strong> next weekend<strong>.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span class="definition"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are going to be completing two great layouts with Miss Lisa guiding us through lots of techniques and using lots of repurposed items and fun stuff .....</span></span><br />
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<span class="definition"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.... come on let's get serious Miss Lisa is never happier unless she has a pot of paint, stamps and inks of every kind at her finger tips.</span></span><br />
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<span class="definition"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have so wanted to do a workshop with a travel theme - be it the big overseas journey, a holiday to the theme parks with the kidlets or just a day trip to a favourite spot locally - these pictures are in everyone's stash and this is the workshop to get them onto a layout or two....</span></span><br />
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<span class="definition"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We will be using lots of stamps, tags, mixed media techniques to create our backgrounds, punches, inks and diecuts... so many tools ..... just what we love at Embellees - using our tools over and over again!</span></span><br />
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<span class="definition"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And ..... it wouldn't be an Embellees Workshop without a great 'off-the-page' project - a great mini album ready for that next holiday or to put those recent holiday pics in... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lizzie has been playing with her punches and what better place to start than with her collection of butterfly punches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">With so many gorgeous punches on the market we often find ourselves on the look out for new ones to add to our ever growing stash. Such versatile tools and we never leave for a crop without our favourites in our totes - butterflies for Lizzie, borders for Lisa... and who could forget our favourite StampinUp ones - birds, owls and banners (just to name a few)!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We had been talking for ages about how much you can do with punches and, how great it would be to have a Workshop all about punches... so from the <em>'drawing board to the Workshop floor</em>' ... we are very excited about our <a href="http://embellees.blogspot.com/p/workshops-2010.html">March Workshop - Papers, Punches and Photos!</a> </span>Welcome to Embelleeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429369423150160796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701626014205507564.post-35294675980040322372012-01-11T00:53:00.012+11:002012-01-11T01:09:07.990+11:00Workshops Kickoff for 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSpQLxWE2a4HG-rPJj2J5S7P3j9M1_ZvHLYm2_tTXnIkRLhHvC80uWaAahQhf3_wQW7_eVC0yfVhVVpDnGXZv2wol_uAl5pxEciFtYHjWdkpuf6u5eZHfkMgK7JnGEis7EBNUP4GGEv-A/s1600/MC910221023.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSpQLxWE2a4HG-rPJj2J5S7P3j9M1_ZvHLYm2_tTXnIkRLhHvC80uWaAahQhf3_wQW7_eVC0yfVhVVpDnGXZv2wol_uAl5pxEciFtYHjWdkpuf6u5eZHfkMgK7JnGEis7EBNUP4GGEv-A/s400/MC910221023.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>19 February 2012 - <em><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Wanderlust Workshop</span> </span><span style="color: black;">(Registrations Open 12/01/2012)</span></em></strong></span></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">18 March 2012 - <em><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Papers, Punches and Photos</span> <span style="color: black;">(Registrations Open 12/01/2012)</span></span></em></span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">20 May 2012 - </span><span style="color: #bf9000;"><em><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mists and Masks</span></span> </em></span></span></span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">22 July 2012 - <em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Cluster Clever</span></em></span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">19 August 2012 - <em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mixed Media Layouts</span></em></span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">16 September 2012 - <em><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Hybrid Approach Revisited</span></em></span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">14 October 2012 - <em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Paint, Paper, Paste and Plaster</span></em></span></strong></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>2 December 2012 - <span style="color: #274e13;">Christmas Party</span></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #274e13;"></span></strong></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are so excited to announce that registrations for our first two Workshops for 2012 are open. Check out what we have planned for February and March Workshops by checking out our <a href="http://embellees.blogspot.com/p/workshops-2010.html">Workshop Tab</a> above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our March Workshop is all about <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;"><em>Wanderlust</em></span></strong>... <em>a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore!</em></span> </span><br />
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This workshop will see us using maps as backgrounds, ways to use that ephemera we collect on our travels, using postcards for when we didn't quite get that perfect shot of that special place. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't worry if you haven't done a lot of travel recently... bring out the old photos, scrap that day at the local gardens or beachside suburb you recently explored. We will be working on several layouts and a very nice off-the-page project for you to take away with you on the day.</span></div><div></div><div></div><div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our March Workshop - <strong><span style="color: #0b5394;"><em>Papers, Punches and Photos</em></span></strong> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">will have you playing with lots of different products and punched shapes. </span></span></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.craftster.org/pictures/data/500/medium/TBP_13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" src="http://www.craftster.org/pictures/data/500/medium/TBP_13.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We want to revisit how versatile these tools can be and what fabulous interest they can add to a page as a background, an embellishment or even as a great way to create a decore item for your home. </span></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We aim to have you racing back to your stash of punches and using them all over again! </span></span></div><div> </div><div>If like us you have always used them, our aim is get you looking at them with fresh eyes to add new dimension to your projects.<br />
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<div></div>Welcome to Embelleeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429369423150160796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701626014205507564.post-37713496788157811852011-12-08T09:45:00.000+11:002011-12-08T09:45:22.124+11:00Tis beginning to look a lot like Christmas!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8cA6BW0fj4Xn-lVSmlzcVbbPuV2xRUznny1r1zP7M1qbj0S3knlzPLseohwDjL5gSwyWHEHwB-Z904ZQ_gcI3m2YJ9ozsXiHaM0pqpTQNP_jWnbNom-YJSPr7aab5el71ux3aqJhW5ic/s1600/Embellees+Advent+Calendar+%25233.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: right; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8cA6BW0fj4Xn-lVSmlzcVbbPuV2xRUznny1r1zP7M1qbj0S3knlzPLseohwDjL5gSwyWHEHwB-Z904ZQ_gcI3m2YJ9ozsXiHaM0pqpTQNP_jWnbNom-YJSPr7aab5el71ux3aqJhW5ic/s1600/Embellees+Advent+Calendar+%25233.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: right; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" closure_uid_je4kk2="3" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8cA6BW0fj4Xn-lVSmlzcVbbPuV2xRUznny1r1zP7M1qbj0S3knlzPLseohwDjL5gSwyWHEHwB-Z904ZQ_gcI3m2YJ9ozsXiHaM0pqpTQNP_jWnbNom-YJSPr7aab5el71ux3aqJhW5ic/s640/Embellees+Advent+Calendar+%25233.jpg" t$="true" width="296" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">December is here and we are already at the end of the first week (or at least my December Daily tells me this) ... where has 2011 gone?????</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well at least we have our handmade Advent Calendar ready for this year - a first!!!! No more 'Barbie/Hi5/High School Musical' chockie countdown calendars for Lizzie's household. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Let's go back to our wonderful <a href="http://embellees.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.html">Christmas in July Workshop </a>and check out the gorgeous Advent Calendar we did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We get so many emails about this gorgeous project, with many asking if we have kits available... sadly no we don't ... but we love to share, so what we have decided to do is showcase this project again to show how it all came together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you look carefully you will see that we used a large canvas (long and elongated for that contemporary feel). We then cut the canvas away and used the back of the canvas frame - the idea was to have a 'shabby/vintage' look with the staples showing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We then got stuck into inking and stamping, distressing the bits of canvas to give it that authentic 'vintage/shabby chic' look.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">We then measured and used cotton twine and fabric to create our 'rungs' to attach our gorgeous numbered tags to ( by cute tiny wooden pegs). We made sure the string and fabric stayed securely in place by pulling out the staple gun and <em>voila</em>... the frames were complete.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">To compliment our vintage feel we stuck to a black, white and red colour scheme. We added lots of embellishments (or Embellees as we like to call them) to our tags, but we kept them simple and easy to construct. No way when you are creating 25 tags do you want them to intricate (if you are anything like us it would end up being added to a pile of 'UFPs' <em>aka </em>Unfinished Projects).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So let's take a closer look at our Tags. We used manila shipping tags for this project. For those of you here in OZ you can purchase these at OfficeWorks in bulk (think it was about 100 for under $10. For us here in Newcastle we purchased a bulk box from Combined Packaging in Shortland and it was 1,000 for about $30 or a bit less).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">To finish my tags (Lizzie) I printed out activities and pasted to the back of each. My DD loves this and I have commented on these below in our descriptions. This was also a great way to use up our large stash of numbers and alphas .... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We embossed the background with the ever popular 'swiss dots'. We added a hand stamped Santa, finished off with hand colouring and a bit of Kindy Glitz 'bling'. A final touch was a digital print out and a Thickers number.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Hint:<span style="color: #990000;"> A<em>ctivity for Tag #1 - Dear Santa Letter</em></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Miss DD (age 9) still believes in Santa... so time to write that special letter to Santa and send it off. She so loves that she gets a reply each year and, well I have to say I love having these in my collection to scrap.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #2</span></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Using the pre-purchased manila shipping tags as a template we added a few kraft cardstock tags as part of our vintage inspired theme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We embossed the background with a Tim Holtz embossing folder, added a number tab from a set we picked up at Typo (oooh we love this shop). The finishing touches were a piece of vintage crochet doily and a covered brad. Remember our idea was to keep it simple/quick we still have another 23 tags to go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Unpacking all our Christmas decorations that are stored in the garage. In our household that takes a long time as we love to talk about all the gorgeous things we have collected. The stories have become a favourite part of Christmas time for my 9 year old DD.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We embossed the background (Sizzix Christmas Embossing Folder). We placed this so that the #3 could be emphasised. We used a red marker to outline the #3, some distress inks to shade the rest of the tag and stapled some cute mini pom-pom trim to finish off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Time to pick our Chrissy cards and getting them done (ok.. started). This meant DD got her class list of friends together, we went shopping to pick some cards this year (no way was I making 40 handmade jobbies), some cute candy canes and Chrissy pencils to finish off our activity ... all done ready to hand out at school this week.</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We love us some digi goodness. A mini bingo card, a glittered heart cut with our Spellbinders and a stapled ribbon threaded through the shipping tag to finish off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>We love to add at least one special ornament each year. I started a tradition when my DD was born - 'a new ornament each year so that when she has her own home and first Christmas Tree I can present her with a box of all her ornaments collected since she was born'... we are about to do this for my 19 year old who has just purchased her first home... how exciting!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Still loving us some digi goodness. A printed Christmas tag cut down, some gorgeous StampinUp papers to cover our shipping tag and finished off with some black and white baker's twine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Pictures of new ornaments to add to our scrap book album. We love to take pics of those new purchases for our growing 'mini album' we created a few years ago. I love to document why we purchased these ornaments, the significance... this year it was a beautiful nativity set... ooh must show you this photo - these were worth every penny... just gorgeous!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Using a Sizzix Tag Die Cut - back to the kraft cardstock and a nice new shape for this next tag. Some more digi goodness for our circle definition stapled to our tag, finishing off with wrapped baker's twine and some great use of alpha stickers to spell out our number.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">A<em>ctivity for Tag #6 - Trim the tree!</em></span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #7</span></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Using the same range of papers from StampinUp we covered this #7 tag, finishing it off with a kraft colour ring reinforcement, inked edges, Spellbinders die cut glittered cardstock star and some gorgeous binding tape across the bottom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Hint:</strong> <span style="color: #990000;"><strong>A<em>ctivity for Tag #7 - Christmas Stories</em></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Getting out our collection of Christmas books. Starting our tradition of reading these until Christmas day... special books we save for this time of year. This year we are 'memorising' the 12 days of Christmas so we can sing the song and remember all the 'geese a laying, lords a leaping and well you get the idea'.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We love the gorgeous Chrissy stamps from StampinUp. Adding some small pieces of lace and cord trim to the bottom edge and a red felt #8.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em><strong>Hint:</strong> <span style="color: #990000;"><strong>Activity for Tag #8 - The Wishing Tree</strong></span></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Choosing a gift to put under the local 'wishing tree', wrapping it and taking it to place under the tree - a special treat and a reminder that it is just as important to give as to receive - my DD loves doing this every year.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #9</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Using the same range of papers from StampinUp we covered this #9 tag, added a gorgeous red silk flower (trim from Spotlight), ribbon stem and a leaf made out of book paper. The number is stamped and hand cut... Miss Lisa (aka Lisa Greedy) really made this one of my favourite tags.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Hint:</strong> <span style="color: #990000;"><strong><em>Activity for Tag #9 - Gift Wrapping</em></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>We love to get creative with our wrapping on our 'very special gifts'. This year we are making our gift tags from the 'left over shipping tags' (seriously we did purchase 1,000 of them), brown paper wrapping, paper doilies and baker's twine. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #10</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We wrapped our #10 tag in 'sequin waste' (aka punchinello), added some Maya Road tape, hand cut glittered Christmas tree, some red bling and Scenic Route stickers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">A<em>ctivity for Tag #10 - December Birthdays</em></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>In our family and friends we have 8 birthdays in December. We make a special effort to ensure that these birthday celebrations don't get lost in the 'hustle and bussle' of Christmas.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #11</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Miss Lisa got very inventive with this beautiful tag. We wrapped it in lace dressmaking fabric - sticking to our red theme. A stamped saying 'deconstructed' and this was not only quick but the simplicity is what makes it one of my favourite tags<em>.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">Activity for Tag #11 - New Christmas Outfits</span></strong></span><br />
This year we have a new sewing machine - so I have been busy making some gorgeous Chrissy dresses for the girlies in our family/friends...</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #12</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Stamped background, another gorgeous StampinUp ornament stamp finished with baker's twine and some mini pompom trim.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">A<em>ctivity for Tag #12 - Teacher's & Staff Gifts</em></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>DD loves to hand make gifts for her teacher and I love to make something special for my colleagues... this year it is desk calendars (more digi goodness), rein-beers and chockies all wrapped with care!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #13</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Vintage book paper covering this shipping tag, hand cut tree out of hessian, baker's twine and more of our cute vintage inspired numbered tags from Typo stapled to finish off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">A<em>ctivity for Tag #13 - Santa Photo</em></span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #14</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One of our favourites - Sizzix die cut tag in kraft cardstock, finished with an embossed background. We added a Tim Holtz die cut dress form in red glittered cardstock, handmade tissue flower, pearl brad and tiny red alphas to add our #14.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">A<em>ctivity for Tag #14 - Carols by Candlelight</em></span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #15</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Tag #15 is all about stamping. We stamped the background and added hand coloured stamps as embellishments (or Embellees as we like to call them).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">A<em>ctivity for Tag #15 - Christmas Parties</em></span></strong></span><br />
<em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">School party day, OOSH party, work party, family catchups... we make sure we have this all covered in the diary and can make it to as many as we can... just love celebrating with friends and family!</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #16</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We have used a gorgeous <a href="http://ippitywithalex.blogspot.com/">Ippity Stamp</a> as our background on this tag (courtesy of our friend <a href="http://ippitywithalex.blogspot.com/">Alex</a>). We finished this off with a digi printout hand coloured and backed with a die cut felt scalloped circle, some Kindy Glitz and tiny alphas for our #16!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">Activity for Tag #16 - Santa List </span></strong></em></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><em>I can plan in advance all I want, but DD often changes her mind from the time I start shopping back at the sales in June/July. I always get her to do a last minute Santa Wish List - for my last minute shopping and maybe some quick changes in the stocking contents! Also a great addition to my December Daily!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Tag #17 is all wrapped up in vintage book paper finished at the top with a scalloped die cut edge, spot ribbon, mini pompom trim, Maya Road tape and felt Thickers for our #17.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">A<em>ctivity for Tag #17 - Christmas PJs</em></span></strong></span><br />
<em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">We love getting new Christmas Outfits, but we always make sure we have some lovely new PJs ... want those early morning photos and video on Christmas Day to have us looking somewhat decent!</span></em><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tag #18</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Another one of our favourite StampinUp Chrissy Stamps (courtesy of our wonderful StampinUp Demonstrator - <a href="http://piecesofmebycassie.blogspot.com/">Miss Cassie - check out her blog here)</a> has been hand coloured, adding some stamped words on notepaper and some ribbon tied to finish off our #18 tag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">A<em>ctivity for Tag #18 - Christmas Scrapping</em></span></strong></span><br />
<em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Scrapping our Santa Photo for our Christmas Santa album. Now DD is older she also scraps her version. I am sure she will love seeing how her scrapping evolved over the years.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #19</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This tag is covered in another lovely StampinUp paper. Some lovely red ribbon trim, a handmade rosette made out of vintage book paper and red felt Thicker numbers.<em> </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">Activity for Tag #19 - Holiday Planning</span></strong></em></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><em>By day 19 school is finishing up and vacation care kicks in for our household. DD and I love to make up a 'vacation calendar' of all the things we want to do throughout the School Holidays... much negotiation goes on in this process!!</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #20</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We couldn't design our Advent Calendar without adding a Tim Holtz die cut birdcage. We just love this die cut and we finished it off on a hand cut kraft cardstock tag, a large rhinestone brad and baker's twine. Our bird is cut out of the same range of papers we have used throughout the calendar from StampinUp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">Activity for Tag #20 - Christmas Lights</span></strong></em></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><em>Time to trawl our neighbourhood - we just love visiting the local Christmas lights!!!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #21</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Another Sizzix die cut tag in kraft cardstock (just love the shape of this tag). We have finished this with a mini paper doily wrapped around the right side of the tag, add some tied baker's twine and a Spellbinders cut bird and tag #21 is ready to add to our Advent Calendar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em><strong>Hint:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #990000;">Activity for Tag #21 - Christmas Cooking</span></strong></em></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><em>As DD gets older she wants to learn how to cook. Each year we experiment with a new Chrissy recipe. Not sure what we have on our 'plate' this year... time to do some research.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #22</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Only three more sleeps.... another StampinUp paper from the same range covers this shipping tag. It is finished with a digi tag and one of our favourite techniques - Dymo labelling (gotta love that retro look).</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><em>Time for DD and I to do any last minute shopping... no matter how organised we are, there always seems to be some last minute things we need to pick up.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is one of our all time favourite StampinUp Stamps. This lovely stamped tree is finished with some Kindy Glitz and red bling. We added some more colour with ribbon stapled in place and tiny alphas for our #23.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">We love to document our Christmas each year. We do a special album documenting our activities and what we did in the lead up to the special day. This year we already had our 'December Daily' ready for our pics and journalling - thanks to our <a href="http://embellees.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.html">Christmas in July Workshop</a>.</span></em><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Tag #24</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Yes, we are nearly there. We have hand cut a hessian overlay for this tag, added a Spellbinder die cut star in red felt and a button.</span><br />
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<em>Our Christmas Eve is all about getting our food organised - just love that DD is happy (and old enough) to help peel the veggies. But our special treat is still putting out Santa's treat and something for the reindeer. Like all parents a late night for me!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our final tag. We have inked around the edges of our shipping tag in black. Added a hand coloured digi saying, a black and white bow and red button. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So hope you have enjoyed our Christmas Advent Calendar project ... now time to put another one together for a very special friend.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>Lizzie and Lisa</em></span></strong> </span></span></span>Welcome to Embelleeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429369423150160796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701626014205507564.post-16456817646467624822011-11-06T08:07:00.002+11:002011-11-06T08:09:52.751+11:00The Digital Scrapbooking Experience<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOuFqBSPjSoJHx5BngAB8kNKRsJ3gZ9GeiC6Xx3KtU7QgWiqudYdbs3B8h7NgfcVStBD2ijZKyd605L1V096xVQxQlfO6u_hwzchNReknRkdRd-2uApQxESjbpJpaV7z0zfRiQUyEIol0/s1600/AVictoria-pine-wish-tag.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOuFqBSPjSoJHx5BngAB8kNKRsJ3gZ9GeiC6Xx3KtU7QgWiqudYdbs3B8h7NgfcVStBD2ijZKyd605L1V096xVQxQlfO6u_hwzchNReknRkdRd-2uApQxESjbpJpaV7z0zfRiQUyEIol0/s320/AVictoria-pine-wish-tag.png" width="316" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">While we were preparing for our recent Hybrid Scrapping Workshop we knew we wanted to put together a list of sites our ‘<em>Workshop Lovelies’</em> could visit after the class to explore the world of Digital Scrapbooking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>On this journey<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we came across a great<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>blog entry by the lovely Vanessa Roberts on the <a href="http://tarisota.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/10/guest-blogger-vanessa-roberts.html">Tarisota Blog</a> and, we would like to acknowledge that some of the information below was courtesy of this Blog and Vanessa’s research.... read and enjoy!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> Sahlin Studio “How to Start” tutorial</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.jessicasprague.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=606&catid=35:general-class-information" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Jessica Sprague</span></a> a 'guru' in the world of digital scrapping - this is another great site with so much to offer. Great tutorials, classes and supplies - a must on your favourites list.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.the-lilypad.com/">The Lilypad</a> - alphas that we just love and soooo much more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.afterfivedesigns.com/">After 5 Designs</a> - some fabulous whimsical designs on this great site</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well we convinced them to join us on the journey and the resounding feedback was ... <em>thank you, thank you.. you have opened our eyes to a whole new world of scrapping!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our Workshop was not about computer skills or having certain software applications, it was about using digital options in simple ways that didn't have to challenge their computer skills more than what they were already doing using word processing or their camera software .... the advantages of purchasing digital papers and elements that they could use again and again, 'bunny slipper buying' - oh yes, turn on the computer and go shopping in your PJs if you get the urge and last but not least... budget busting options.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our team became addicted as we pulled our workshop projects together - Miss Lisa (aka Lisa Greedy) was on a roll and her beautiful layout shows her creative use of elements (tags) and alphas purchased online... add some mixed media background - gotta love some distress stains, paints and Punchinello (aka sequin waste) and this is one fabulous Hybrid layout that everyone just loved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lizzie just loves the idea of being able to download projects that she can combine with bits and pieces from her stash ... Hybrid at its best!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She took some inspiration from an online project and started with a white timber frame (minus the glass), added some digital paper as the background, baker's twine, paper doily and a bulldog clip... a great way to display her finished calendar pages!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lizzie introduced these gorgeous calendar pages she has made for a friend...</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">by adding some 'Embellees' magic..... antique doily pieces, pearl brads, stamped images, diecuts, handmade flowers and Kindy Glitz the pages came to life and added that Hybrid approach that we wanted to showcase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A beautiful digital image printed on white cardstock, finished with Kindy Glitz, a punched bird image (StampinUp punch and digital papers), bling, baker's twine and a beautiful stamped verse - truly just gorgeous and such a lovely colour option for this Chrissy season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cassie also showed how we could play with the same digital image and change the colour to produce a different look... check out the lovely options she came up with when printing the Christmas Tree image in black on Kraft cardstock, adding different bird images and finishing off with red & white baker's twine, pearls and rhinestones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One of the best things about our Embellees Workshops has been getting to know all our lovely Workshop regulars and welcoming new Workshop participants to our growing group - so welcome... Bronwen, Lyne, Jo and Mary. It was a pleasure meeting you ladies and thank you for the feedback on how much you enjoyed your first Embellees Workshop. We so look forward to you joining us again in 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Don't forget to check us out on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Embellees/123092587736147">Facebook Fan Page</a> for more updates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On 30 October we have all our workshop lovelies working on 2 beautiful layouts, a fabulous off-the-page project and a gorgeous Christmas Card designed by our lovely friend <a href="http://piecesofmebycassie.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #225588;">Cassie McCumstie</span></a>. Yes, that's right all this on one day of 'jam packed scrapping'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lizzie was inspired by a gorgeous project the lovely <a href="http://etzceteramagazine.com.au/workarea/"><span style="color: #225588;">Kim Archer</span></a> featured in a recent newsletter and well with some adaptation it helped bring our digital project to a stunning finish.... this will make a lovely addition to your scrapping table or a great gift.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We hope you have enjoyed our<em> 'sneakies'</em> and we look forward to seeing lots of familiar faces at our Hybrid Workshop and welcoming some lovely new ladies to the group.</span><br />
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</div>Welcome to Embelleeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429369423150160796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701626014205507564.post-75068965083078998552011-09-20T13:13:00.000+10:002011-09-20T13:13:31.297+10:00Let's visit our Mixed Media Workshop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivMzTNOhlbDSR_A5T0cxYIJBwkKzNoIHYKeW8TKiCoBzfJKYvkHHQO3Hr_lgGyi8QVMt5mWjf8ih4Cnyr8rgbMsm0W47V73i9xitWok7hwzyIuK94WdZ7HXLOweiwACyXXqUemBv8eChw/s1600/Setup+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivMzTNOhlbDSR_A5T0cxYIJBwkKzNoIHYKeW8TKiCoBzfJKYvkHHQO3Hr_lgGyi8QVMt5mWjf8ih4Cnyr8rgbMsm0W47V73i9xitWok7hwzyIuK94WdZ7HXLOweiwACyXXqUemBv8eChw/s400/Setup+1.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Sunday 11 September we had the pleasure of presenting our first Mixed Media Workshop and, what a fabulous day we had with all our workshop lovelies. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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We started working on our gorgeous Owl Notebooks - nothing like a bit of mixed media on a fabric covered notebook and such a practical project. We just loved that our Workshop Lovelies took to our original 'recipe' and added their own interpretation - the finished projects around our workshop room were just fab! </span><br />
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