SUPER STAMPING BARGAIN ALERT !!!!!

SORRY GUYS... I know how you all HATE shopping, (RAOTFL!!!)

I JUST HAD TO SHARE THIS TODAY...

SOME OF MY FAV STAMP BRANDS ARE ON SALE HERE UP TO 1/2 PRICE

Check it out...

www.paperforest.com.au

On The Husband's Orders...

MASSIVE CLEARANCE SALE ON NOW!

For major updates to the online catalog, please forward your email address to paperforest@gmail.com with your name in the subject line.

Our USA customers, save on international postage rates for Nichos. They will be posted to you at US domestic postage rates :-)

Welcome to the Forest...

...where you can finally buy individual unmounted stamps at the best prices!

FREE POSTAGE within Australia for orders over AUD50.00 (unless otherwise indicated)

Look at our Fabulous Nichos, they make for Great Mixed Media Showpieces!

Be it eclectic, vintage, arty, retro, cutesy, or just plain weird stamps that you're after - browse through more than 5,000 unmounted stamps at Paper Forest...

...all by reputable manufacturers such as:

• 1 Stamp Dreamer

• Alluring Impressions

• Art By Moonlight

• ArtChix Studio (+ Trans, Fabric & Collage Paper)

• Art Impressions (Mounted Stamps)

• Artistree by Paper Forest Designs

• B Line Designs (EZ Mounted Stamps)

• Bella Rosa

• Catslife Press

• Cherry Pie Art Stamps

• Claudine Hellmuth's Fringe Elements (Full Plates Only)

• Collagestuff

• Crafty Individuals Stamps & Miniature Themed Books & Transparencies

• Divas D'Este

• Eclectic Omnibus

• Elusive Images

• ETAL Creative Materials by Riverwind LLC (Unique Metal Paper)

• Innovative Stamp Creations

• Laughing Moon

• Lazar Studiowerx

• Lindy's Stamp Gang Stamps + Moon Glow Products)

• Lost Aussie Designs by Marie Otero

• Lost Coast Designs

• Museum Stamps (Mounted Stamps)

• Nature's Blessings

• Non Sequitur

• PageSage (DVDs)

• Paper Artsy (Mini Plates Only)

• Paperbag Studios (Full & Half-Plates Only)

• Postmodern Design

• Prickley Pear (Mounted Stamps)

• Queen's Dresser Drawers

• River City Rubber Works

• Sheer Heaven (Versatile Art Surface) by Cre-8-it

• Stampbord (Clay-like Art Surface) by Ampersand Art Supply

• Stamp Camp

• Stampington & Co. Mounted Stamps, Books & Magazines

• Stampland

• Stempeltempel

• Stonehouse

• Sunday International (+ EZ Mount)

• The Stamping Ground

• The Stampsmith

• Third Coast

• Time to Stamp

• Tuscan Rose (+ Trans, Collage Paper)

• Victorine Originals

• Zettiology by Teesha Moore

Grab your stamps quickly as quantities are very limited and once sold, may or may not be stocked up again.

It's best to bookmark this website to make sure you don't miss out on the best offers as the shopping-crazy lady owner will frequently stock new items in the shop!

There were definately some great quirky stamps ....here are two I went wow! and WT_?

SHES A WOW!

This was the WT_? Any idea what this  could be used for? LOL

WHAT THE ____, SCAREY BUT DRAWING ME IN

I RESISTED AND SO NOT TO SCARE MY ATC BUDDIES,

 I SELECTED ...

SOMETHING A LITTLE PRETTIER! LOL

Oh what a banquet awaits the person with

a balance in their bank.... LOL

1/2 price!!!! OOOOOH....

AHHHH....

but my person fav was just a simple little thing,

I had to have cause it made me laugh....

LOL!!!!

promise me all you'll check it out....

SALE AT PAPER FORREST

DOING A GUEST SPOT FOR ALLCRAFTZ BIG 2ND BIRTHDAY!!!!

JUST A LITTLE NOTE AFTER THE AMAZING BIRTHDAY WEEKEND .... 

WELL OVER $600 worth over store shopping vouchers were given. I personally have the Thank The incrediably generous E for the spectacular prize I won on the the weekend.

Blew my mind...one very happy camper!!!

Thankyou to everyone who joined in and made it such a great time!!!

ALLCRAFTZ 4 YOU  IS HAVING A BIRTHDAY WEEKEND

click on the link in the name above here and it will take you to the celebrations!!!

Fun & Games, sketch challenges prize giveaways and brilliant bargains to be had in the birthday sale!

(as per usual!! warning ...danger new BG on its way!!!)

and....

MOI doing a guest DT spot!!!

Sorry I didnt mention it. It had to be a surprize so ...surprize!!!

 1Layout,  2 card challenges and an ATC challenge.

I had loads of fun!

GO on I dare you...actually they are pretty easyish!

check them here....

Marcy's Challenges

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CAKE, CHALLENGE !!!!

This challenge is encouraging us all to dust of those unscrapped birthday photo's ( I have 100000 - three now!) Only one challenge here You must bring the cake! The layout has to have cake of some description!

PRODUCTS USED: Sassafras Monstrosity PP, Basic Grey Nook & Pantry PP, American Crafts chipboard and foam letters and dymo.

For Jarred my youngest in these pictures its all about the FOOD...fullstop! He eat and eats and asks for some thing to eat 20mins after breakfast!!!! LOL but I am being kinda sarcastic and rolling my eyes in a good natured way. As his food obsession is all abit much sometimes. ( dont worry theres a ying to the yang Connor is often hard to get food in as it may be unhealthy ..."how many grams of fat mum" trust me didnt get that from me! LOL) Oppps I digress....

CARD SAMPLE 1

This card challenge is too make a humorous birthday card, using at least one stamp.

 PRODUCTS USED: Bazzill A7 blank Cards & envelopes. Bazzill, Basic Grey- Nook & Pantry PP, Bazzill, Basic Grey- Nook & Pantry cupcake stamp, Smooch Spritz Vanilla, Memories ink and Making Memories organza ribbon.

I surprized myself using nook and pantry and it being soooo versitile I hadnt given Nook & Pantry a second look as I thought, it wasnt really me. Mind you this 2nd card looks alot more like me, maybe a little too bollywood but it could have been a knee jerk reaction to all the "neat" work I did for the challenges! LOL

CARD SAMPLE 2

Create a birthday card with flowers & bling. :)

Apology for the dreadful pic having camera issues as you may have read (thanks boys).

Products used: Whitewash Core'dinations Cardstock, Basic Grey Doilies, Smooch Emerald spritz, Prima Calypso flowers, Prima white collection flowers, Prima Raja flower centres, gems, Maya road boarder chipboard, American Crafts velvet letters and silk ribbon.

BIRTHDAY ATC'S

The challenge here is to create a set of general birthday ATC'S that are clearly a set but can also stand alone. EG, mine read across from left to right...(1st) HAPPY .... (2nd) 2ND B'DAY ALLCRAFTZ .... (3rd) 4 YOU.

For anyone who's a beginner just look at them as a tiny card topper, if you are a little daunted. This is what will become of mine. checkout this site... ART IN YOUR POCKET. It is what inspired me to have a go and GET HOOKED!!! LOL

PRODUCTS USED :Bazzill, Sassafrass Lass Whimsies cards, Basic Grey PP, American crafts PP, Dimentional magic, Dymo and Ballon ribbons and star rubons

Well thats enough from me today. Definately go checkout the Allcraftz forum and shop links above. Projects due in the gallery Monday night.

 Now I only have two layouts for current mag subs to finish, three school teacher presents, a demo to put together for the local scrapgroup, five layouts in my head that are driving me nuts trying to get out, all the housework I didnt do this week cause I was too busy playing

 and the kids just asked me ....

"when are we making christmas cards, Mummy?"

ARGHHHH!!! :)

Oh DEAR! + a couple new layouts...

Oh dear three boys crowded into an office and one camera found...on the floor...and no one knows what happened but I think it means certain death to my Fuji! I turn it on and it says "lens error" and makes a terrible crunching noise as the  lens goes out. Poor Fuji its been such a great camera, I have heard the reason they are so cheap to buy ( mine was $600!) is because if anything goes wrong with them they are expensive to fix! So now I have a christening to go to tomorrow a Nikon D40 thats flash is broken and a Fuji that only focuses some of the time!!!GGGGGRRRRR! So heres only a couple of my most recent layouts. The pic's were so bad I am going to get DH to scan the rest on Monday!

This layout tells the story of my bring home 17 bags of oddment buttons from work when I used to work at spotlight. The boys went nuts! There was more ooh and ahhing than christmas morning! They spent hours sorting them in the colours sizes etc. Squealing with delight when they found "treasure" eg bejewed or gold buttons. Then when the were sorted the go busy I didnt question what they were doing I thought they were just string buttons onto hat elastic. They were making mini knight complete with toggle helmets and big button sheilds....to this day I am still so proud of their imaginations!!!

terrible photo I am sorry.

I was challenged to do a christmas layout featuring...myself! LOL I had two cuter photo's but they need some repair I had a go with photo editor but I think they need to go to an image DR! I used this layout for my demo at spotlight this weeks, it was great to catch up with most of the old crowd, and I think there was alot more people in the store too. Hope they book me next time I love getting paid for having fun. Oh I took a couple layouts for people to look at too. It was a little bit embaressing and a lil funny when someone tried to buy my button layout for 25 cents!!! TRUE I JEST YOU NOT!!!

This is the job the Fuji does now...yuck! Oh I am lost without my precious camera! (sob!)

Heres a couple photo's I played with....

BEFORE

AFTER
1976 - The second I discovered Santa left me a CUBBY HOUSE... The fact it was insulated had a real roof, gyprocked walls and real windows had nothing to do with the figure standing behind me in his carpenter pants ...my Pop the builder! Santa's little helper LOL

Playing cups of tea with a can of Fanta christmas morn. Mum said since she and Dad had a hard time drink the Fanta at 7am in the morning! LOL

well that'll be enough waffle for one night catch you on the flip side.... :)

oh I forgot to share HALLOWEEN.....

The boys didnt get birthday parties this year so when I was scrapping my american niece Olivia in halloween garb...well I caved to pester power! I even got with the program and donned an outfit, and baked pumpkin scones and blood icing cupcakes!!! Sadly, only a couple people really played along. as Aussies especially country folk dont do Halloween. I told the boys to invite a friend...I think they heard invite ten....

 Daniel as a Zombie

Connor as the grim reaper      Jarred, the skeleton and his friend Jacob the friendly ghost!

Three or four kids  weren't  in the photo so you can image how daunting we were as we rocked up to unexpecting people doorsteps!!! LOL

SCAREY EH?

OMG OMG OMG!!!! I have news!!!!

Basic Grey have accepted my angels into the BASIC GREY GALLERY!!!!

LOOK! LOOK! click HERE!

I just this second read my email so I am a bit excited!!!

NOICE!!!!

NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

The month of October was NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH so I got thinking pink encouraged by a challenge set at 3AS. IT was tough for me pink is not really my thing and monochromatic pink even more so but I was happy with what I came up with....

click to enlarge images

This was my fav' I loved the stamp and how meaningful it made the card.

Those gorgeous Websters papers are absolutely spectacular!

There was a hangover though,

My office went from this....

to this...

where is that maid when you need her..oh darn

.. here I am! LOL

TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL OR THREE!!!

Been either a bit busy or just plan feeling ordinary, had a few issues in the last month so havent been me stirring self ! LOL I have no idea where to start to update you all....hmmm How bout I show you what I've been up to and then go from there...

As I havent done a technique Tuesday for a while I'll include a couple of techniquie pic's as well (yes I know thats not a real word! LOL)

I've been playing dollies....

Introducing Angelica, Angelina and Angie my three scrapping angels

created with mannequin dolls used for sketching.

( I had to name them so I could label photo's! LOL)

 Products used: Basic Grey Bittersweet PP, Basic grey dollies, Making Memories PP, Kaiser gems, German scrap wings, Jones foils, Glimmer mist, clay, paint & twinking H2o watercolours, synthetic dolls hair and wool, fabric, lace and ribbon.

I've never made anything like this before I played with the idea at the Tamworth retreat but really needed a less "social" setting to plot them out. LOL! I created attempting to impress the gals at 3AS, where I've been hanging out and managed to score a guest DT spot for early next year. Checkout the link to the right here. I am really excited but more about that later!

I am so pleased with how these angels turned out.  I really enjoyed nutting it all out, the combination of synthetic hair that I got from Spotlight and my hot glue gun had me terrified but I devised a way of wrapping the hair around a board and running a line of glue on one edge and cutting the other creating individual hair pieces. I love how it turned out especially Angelina, whos hair was originally the same as the blonde angel, Angelica but before attaching it I straightened out the curls and I dyed it with pink Tim Holtz alchol ink and it worked a treat I think! Angie is my fav' because shes a little bit grungie, a bit hippie? Her hair I LOVE and you'll never guess it was a $1 ball of moda vera wool from spotlight! LOL Enough yappin' I am happy to answer any questions if anyone wants to post them here! :)

On upon a time there was one mad scrappychick (moi) who had it in mind to create a fairy from a wooden jointed sketch mannequin ...one fairy became... before you knew it ...three guardian angels!!! LOL

I used a push mold and air dry clay to create the angel faces and then when dry painted the faces on. I gave all the girlies a flesh colour paint job and began to glue on the hair. This is a faceless Angelica who also had a hair cut after her hair was all attached. ( Hee HEE HEEE that was really fun took me back to my childhood days of attacking Barbie dolls with sissors! BAHAHAHA!!!Lorraine Mc Nuffis probably still working her way through the trouble we got into when we played "PUNK"  hair dressers with every barbie she and her sister owned! LOL)

We did have some scarey bad hair moments! RAOTFL

OMG naked angels!!!

I played with which doll should where what, made a set of clay wings but they were a bit clunky. I had a vague idea and as you can see I played around with the patterns.

Sorry about the pic but this was me creating the wings by Xyroning the paper wings the adhering them to acetate/transparency. I laided each sheet of tranparency over the original wings to get them all the same. I was a little wary of using the hot glue gun to attach the wings but

I had a low temp one so I got away with it! :)

 I loved making them, even though a couple people (DH) have given me a couple funny looks

and went "ah yep pretty, but I dont get it" to which I replied I dont get why you'd want

to climb a big scary mountain either but mount climbers do it

and I look on from afar with admiration...  husband darling!" LOL

Well, I hope you enjoyed look at them!!!

RECENTLY....

These are just a couple of recent offerings, 

but I'm working on something 

I hope will be WOW,

 so stay tuned ....

Neat and tidy and un grungy for me eh? LOL

This is my gorgeous American niece...yep! ...way to cute!!!

I loved the layed dimention I tryed to show it in the pic's.

WATCH OUT!!!! Shes doing it again....filling you up with candy

Those who have maxed out their credit ...lead others astray! LOL

Get your cavities here........

FOR TEMPTATION GALORE.....

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  HAVING A SALE ....

NEW IN STORE NOW &  TOTALLY DELISH.....

 ( when I locate that sugar daddy I'll have 2 of each please! LOL)

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