Shop.gurl crafty stuff

"Show in tell! Show in tell!"
When the Shop.gurls come in to work exclaiming show in tell with a box or bag in tow I know I'm in for something good. And you know how I love to show off what they have been up too!

Fenn-I did this in two days and on a budget-eke

This girl is bubble craft machine! Check out this album she put together for her church congregation to gift to a leaving reverend. Given just notes of paper with messages on, she made the album completely from scratch using just page refils, hard chipboard, handmade paper, eyelets and raffia.

Each page has well wishes to the Reverend and embellished with cut out patterned paper.

Fenn's handy tip: To make shaped paper backgrounds for a smaller album use a photocopy machine to copy and reduce a purchased shaped paper and cut out. This is now your template to trace around the patterned paper of your choice at the size you wish. Cool idea!

Sharon-I finished these at 4am this morning-Reed

Not being one to sleep when she gets on a roll. Sharon has made 7 mini canvases - one for each grandchild each using a photograph of the child and a selection of trims, flowers and leaf embellishments. What gorgeous gifts!

Shimmery lilac for girls...

Sharon's handy tip: To create the luminenct shimmery effect, Sharon sprayed her canvases with Glimmermist after painting them with acrylic paint. She also sprayed the flowers and embellishments with Glimmermist and allowed them to dry before attaching with sticky dots. Preetty!

... and night sky black for boys.

So what's your Show'n'tell? We'd love to show off what your lovely craft projects.
~Kathleen

HOT classes upcoming!

Hi all,
If you are looking for some creative inspiration, learn some new techniques or just a fun night out of the house New Zealand Scrapbook classes are where its at!

Crop Night

Crop nights are productive and fun!

Crop Night
This Thursday 12th of February - actually, every Thursday!
Perfect for all levels of scrapbooker, come along and work on your pages. Our helpful crop tutor Michelle Reid is on hand to assist you in making great pages. Crop nights are a friendly social night - all welcome.
Crop fee is just $10, no booking necessary.

Parent & Child Class

Parent and Child Class
Saturday 14th February at 1pm and Saturday 28th February also at 1pm
Always a popular class. Linda will take you and your child through some fun page projects. Ideal for the 4-7year age group.
Class fee $20 per child. All materials included.

Junior Kids Class

This weeks Junior Class layout

Saturday 14th Feb at 1pm
Fenn is our delightful Junior Kids Class teacher. Her pages are designed for the new junior scrapbooker ages8-10years. $12 materials included.

Senior Kids Class

Saturday 14th Feb at 3pm
This is the kids class especially for the more experienced scrapbooker. Suitable for ages 11-16years. $17 materials included.

Beginners Scrapbooking

Tuesday 17th February. Two time slots available 10.30am and 7pm
Want to try scrapbooking? This is the class for you. All first time scrapbookers welcome. Special class fee of only $10. Materials included

Product Preview: Three Bugs in a Rug "What a Hoot! and more" REPEAT NIGHT

Our main layout project for the night

Product Preview: Three Bugs in a rug "What a Hoot! and more" REPEAT NIGHT
Tuesday 17th February at 7pm
We had such a great time at this event so we have decided to run it again for those of you who couldn't make the first one. Full blog post to come about this event. Bookings essential. Only $20 including all product/project packs!

Scrapbooking 101

Scrapbooking 101 - New layout!

Scrapbooking 101
Wednesday 18th February. Two time slots available 10.30am and 7pm
This class is designed for the beginner-intermediate scrapbooker who wants to develop their range of skills. Michelle Whorwood has designed a fabulous new series of layouts so even if you have done the 101 to 203 range of classes before you are welcome to attend again. You will be making all new layouts!

This weeks Scrapbooking 101 layout includes the techniques of inking, rub-ons, paper tearing, fiber and foam mounting.
Class fee is $20 including class kit.

Backgrounds Tag Book

Just some of the background techniques you will be making in this class series

Tag Background workshops
Thursday 19th February. Two time slots available 10.30am and 7pm
Totally technique based, Wendy will be sharing some background methods that you can then apply to your scrapbooking, card making, altered book or general art projects. This session is number 3 of three sessions however you can join in at this session and do 1 and 2 when they are repeated next month. At the end of three classes you will have a jam packed tag book that you can use for reference to create fantastic backgrounds. Class fee is just $20 per session and includes materials.

Kathleen's Journal Workshop

Example of one of my art journal pages

Monday 23rd February at 7pm (now FULL)
new date added: Wednesday 25th February at 7pm
This journals class will have you inking, colouring, drawing, gluing, photographing like a crazy woman! How do I know this? I am that crazy woman! hehee. Be inspired to keep your own journals UNIQUE to you. Your life is worth documenting and I will show you just how rewarding that is! Strictly limited numbers. $35 including a journal and materials.

Also available - Follow up workshop Wednesday March 11th at 7pm.
Fun follow up class, we will see how you got on, answer any questions and include some more advanced techniques. Class fee $25 including materials. Get ready for a good time!

Cardmaking workshop

Class samples

Tuesday 24th February. Two time slots available 10.30am and 7pm
Wendy's superb fortnightly class - three to four cards, creative techniques. Always enjoyable. $25 including materials. All welcome!

Scrapbooking 102

Wednesday 25th February. Two time slots available 10.30am and 7pm.
Brand new layout! Sample to come. $20 including materials.

Mega Crop!

Friday 27th February 6pm - Midnight
Mega crop of scrapbooking! Bring your current projects to work on. There will also be a mini Make'n'take project, scrapbooking game and supper. Only $10! all welcome

Book of Me Series One

Book of Me example layout - "Scrapbook your favourite season"

Book of Me Series One
Six week week series starting Monday 2nd March
This popular crop series is BACK! This was a super popular crop series back in our small shop and we are reintroducing it fully updated for your scrapbooking enjoyment.

Book of me is all about scrapbooking YOU! Your favourite things, your experiences, things that are important to you. This class is both rewarding and fun. Each night is based on a different page theme, with a handout and example then tutor Michelle Whorwood will assist you in making your own page. Please bring your scrapbooking materials and tools to this themed crop. Bookings essential. $15 per session or $75 for all six sessions

Altered Books 101

Altered Books 101

Altered Books 101
Wednesday 4th March at 7pm
Introductory class in making Altered Books. You will make a niche book complete with a textured cover and crackle image. Taught by Mixed media Artist Kathleen Green (me!) this class is technique packed! Class fee is $35 including book and materials.


WHEW!!
Our class calendar gets updated with new classes almost every week. Be sure to keep an eye out here on the blog or on our website calendar for further additions. Any questions about our classes, feel free to phone or ask in store. Many of our samples are currently on display.

Bookings are essential for all classes unless otherwise stated. Please phone (09) 912 0665 or book online HERE.


Come and be part of the creative action!
Have a great week.

~ Kathleen, Linda and the team at NZ Scrapbook.

Art technique - Using your own designs!

Hi friends in Blogland!

If you are interested in sketching, journals and creating your own art sculpture skip on over to my Altered Arts Magazine Blog. I have a two part blog post that will show you some ideas for using Watercolour Pencils or crayons, Paper Clay and baby muslin (available in store) to create art using your own designs.

Part One: Shows my process for creating a sketch.
Part Two: How to use a sketch as a basis to make dimensional art and the technique for making a wood mounted sculpture.


If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and I will be sure to respond!
byes for now
~Kathleen

HOT Classes this week...

Hi all!
We have some fun classes on during the rest of this short week, perhaps one or two will spark your interest!

Thursday 30th October

Sheesh, that scrapper runs fast!

That's right! Crop Thursday. Daytime ladies are welcome to join us from 12.30 - 2.30pm and Evening participants from 6- 9pm. Cost is just $10. Bring your current pages and supplies to work with.

Saturday 1st of November:

Swivel Tree makes a fun and stunning project

KaiserChristmas Swivel Tree.
We are continuing to work our way through these fantastic KaiserChristmas Projects as seen in the fantastic KaiserWorkshop Magazine. This Saturday is the Swivel Tree project. Class is FREE, cost of the materials kit is $40 which includes all the papers and embellishments to make this great project. Suitable for beginners and advanced alike we will get you well on your way to completion of this fantastic Christmas centerpiece. Saturday 1st November 10am - 12pm Phone 09 912 0665 to book your place.

An Altered book showing different decorative edges
Sample on display in store.

Altered Book Club
This free monthly meeting is get together for people who want to work on (or talk about!) their mixed media projects. Right now, I'm hooked on journals and canvas's... you might be into art quilts, stamping, decoupage... anything mucky and fun! All welcome Saturday 1st November, 5pm till approx 7.30pm. No booking necessary.


Have a great week and hope to see you soon!
~Kathleen

Cool product for ATC Collectors!

Hi all!

Being a bit of an ATC (Artist Trading Card) collector I am loving the new products in from 7Gyspies!

For those new to ATC's, artist trading cards are small card sized pieces of art that are traded among artists (this includes you! - stampers, scrapbookers, collage artist....) as a way of collecting a tiny piece of that persons art and in turn giving a little piece of your own.

In my own collection I have art from all around the world... from local gals here in NZ to Australia, USA, Denmark, France, Finland, Canada and Belgium. The styles are diverse and are fascinating to look through and a lot of fun to make!

The general rules for ATC's are that they are created at a standard size of 2 1/2"x 3 1/2" and are flat enough that they will slip into a card holder (embellishments are ok). Other than that, they can be made of card, fabric, plastic, photos.... hand drawn, stamped, painted, stitched... any theme under the sun or no theme at all! My favourite is to create a series and then number them - exclusive! hehehee

Here are a couple of my ATC's:

Using stamped images, scrapbooking papers and a label maker.

These ones use playing cards, stamped images, sewing findings and vintage images.

The other cool thing about ATC's is due to there small size you can usually finish a couple fairly quickly. I'm all for the accomplishment of completion!

Anyways!! The fun new stuff:

This ATC revolving stand is pretty wow-ish! What a cool way to display your collection.

This punch allows you to make slots in your cards so they attach onto the stand easily.

French Dictionary ATC bases. A perfect starting point to add your own designs.

These cards are called "97% Complete" add words, images, photos - your choice!

These are ATC sized alphabet transparencies. These would make a fantastic overlay on a ATC base... I'm also thinking pretty fab for lots of other collage and scrapbooking projects.

All the above product is currently available in store now.

Have a go at making your own ATC's. Don't forget to name them on the reverse and add your email and location.

Ooooh!!! If you let me know you are going to make one I will gladly swap you one of mine! email me :) I'm up for it!! Yes, I will send international :)

Byes for now
~Kathleen

A GREAT start to a Tuesday morning!

Hello all!
This morning I woke to this bright shiny new email:


Subject: Congrats Kathleen you won the Bridal Brainstorm contest!

Hello Kathleen! Congrats, you have been chosen as the GRAND PRIZE winner for the Bridal Brainstorm contest, YEAH!! We loved the dress you created and thought the details were beautiful! We have featured your dress on our blog and will be sending you out your prize. What is the best mailing address?

Thanks again for your lovely entry!

Best regards,

Graphic 45


Wooohooo!!!!

Graphic 45 is such a great range of scrapbooking goodness so it was a pleasure to create this Bridal Jewelery Doll:


The competition requirements were to create a papercraft project using their delightful Baby 2 Bride range of papers.

While browsing my local Hospice store I came across some broken jewelery stand torsos (50c!) - a perfect starting point. The next challenge was to work out how to make the dress part. My initial thought was to fit her to a box lid so you could put wedding trinkets inside but when I couldn't find a box of suitable size I searched through my stash of work room STUFF and came up with a biscuit tin and a block of Styrofoam (yes, I have a fascinating workroom! heheh).


The next step was to hot glue all my base pieces together and carve away the Styrofoam into a dress shape...


At this point I found my groove! In other words, I got too busy and completely forgot to take more photos.

The main thing with something like this is you want to be able to focus on the design and forget about covering up her ugly undergarm... I mean base. So I completely covered the parts I wanted to hide with a big drape of lace. This also added fullness and peeks of lace throughout the design.

I folded each sheet of the Baby 2 Bride papers into about 8 layers to save time on cutting and cut large petal shapes then curled the edges to create a shabby type look. Each petal was pinned into place starting at the bottom of her dress and working my way up to her torso. Torso pieces were added by attaching with hot glue.

To complete her dress a small corset shape was cut from the paper and glued into place and a bow for the back of her dress.

Final details are pearls added to each petal and neckline and Crystalina Kindyglitz to all the paper edges - she shimmers beautifully!

If you want take a closer look she is on display in store. I would encourage you to try something like this yourself, she was much fun to make! Let me know if you have any questions :)


Thank you Graphic 45!
~Kathleen

PS: We won, more Baby 2 Bride papers (yay!) and sample packs of their new ranges released in July - Can't wait to see those!!

Crop Night Tonight!

Hi all!
Hope your having a fantastic shorty week :)

We have been doing lots of preparations in store - June is going to be one FUN MONTH starting with tonights Thursday Night Crop Night. This popular meeting is a great social and creative time where you can work on your own pages, be inspired by other scrappers projects and ideas, draw ideas from the store displays and get one-on-one assistance from our lovely Crop Teacher PAM!

Thursday Night Crops are just $10 and are open to all levels of scrappers. This is especially helpful to new Scrapbookers needing a little help - and you get to work on what ever pages you choose. Another neat things is you have the entire store at your fingertips so you can match the exact cardstock colour or embellishment that you need. We will keep a running tab of any products you select and then you simply pay at the end. 6 - 9pm EVERY Thurday and yes we still have spaces for tonight so you are welcome to give us a call on (09) 912 0665

Classes for the weekend include:

Busy bees in our Parent and Child Class

Parent & Child Class

Saturday 7th June at 1pm
Cost is $20 including materials per child. Together you will make 3 Layouts including one featured technique. Lots of fun!

Kid's Class

Saturday 7th June at 3pm
Cost is $12 including materials. Create a 12"x12" Layout including a cool technique. Taught by the lovely Fenn!

Some of the yummy materials we get to use in our Language of Flowers Class

Language of Flowers Class

Saturday 7th June at 2pm
This is part two of this class and while we have no available spaces for this session I thought it worth mentioning since we will be setting a second date to run this class. If you have had some experience trying Altered Book/Collage/Mixed Media and interested in broadening your range of techniques and using some different materials you are welcome to register your interest for the second intake of this class. You will make an gorgeous folder book using lots of collage images and altered photos.
$60 including materials, Times will be one Saturday 9.30am - 3pm and one follow-up afternoon 2pm - 5pm. See myself (Kathleen) for further information.

We're always learning something new and are inspired at Altered Book Club!

Altered Book Club

Saturday 7th June at 5pm
This is our monthly meeting for fans of all things alterery, messy, mucky, burny, embellished, painted, plastered, impressed, textured, found, manipulated, assembled, stamped..... And so on!
ALL welcome - and FREE
This is a social oooh ahhhh meeting, if you have something to show or work on at the meeting then please bring it along. For more info see myself (Kathleen) or Wendy in store.


For bookings, more information (or hey, if you just want to say hi!) phone 09 912 0665
See you soon!
~Kathleen