I shall just add a few photos of the really neat christmas things I am

doing at Paper Trenz and Craft-a-lot

EKKA winner in professional scrapbooking 2010

earlier this year i won first prize for teachers division of the RNA or Ekka...for scrapbooking a double heritage page ..this makes it two years in row. maybe i will try next year and make it 3 but that will probably hex me.

cute owls

i can't beleive it is almost christmas again. I have been busy as always making samples for

christmas classes.

we have a great selection at Paper Trenz, you cansee them all on the new website, which

everyone is really excited to have up and going, and it is only going to get better and better.

recently i made these really cute owl boxes, i just think they are great so i will have to make some cards to go with them. They will of course be a class at the places i work.

altered bottles

if you like the bottles we are doing a class on them at paper trenz

just email us

bird house cards

lately i have been doing altered bottles, they are a great deal of fun and a great gift for someone, i can think of so many different themes, but dont have the time to do them all...they are so fun just a little alcohol ink and stamped images, lots of lumiere paints and they glow .. also doing bird houses and bird cards. i have been buying the crafty secrets stamps, beautiful bird lovers and fairy land as well as the mermaids..i have a theme going of birds and mermaids...so i had to do a bottle and cards...

time for tea

i know i am slack at updating blog, so i will catch up. i have been busy with classes for PAPER TRENZ and CRAFT A LOT. lots of pages and off the page, and little novelty things for paper trenz. we have had great fun this year with cards and boxes etc...i think more than ever there are great products and ideas to do...i have been enjoying crafty secrets stamps..and sizzix tim holtz dies.. lots of H2O's they are my favourite way to colour, and lots of glimmer mist. i can not beleive the year is nearly half over, an i am already thinking ahead for christmas ideas...time is going faster and faster...i shall up load a heap of pics and if you are interested in them contact paper trenz on info@papertrenz.com.au we are updating our website and it will be "on air" soon and will be great to get lots of ideas and inspiration from, I am certainaly excited to be offering some of our products and ideas..

spellbinder christmas ornaments

I havent update blog for a long time as we have all been busy with christmas schedules and making things ahead of time, i have just completed 3 things that i am really happy with and i shall upload the photos. and doing lots of cards with spellbinders nestabilities and pendants, i just love them. first i did a Halloween house made from a ply kit for the window display at Paper Trenz, complete with lights and a spooky cackle box that was set off when you clapped your hands. this was so succesful i decided to do a christmas themed one as well. so did a lot of my scrapbook friends, before i could begin to think 4 of us were making christmas houses at my workshop at home. we had a great amount of fun finding furniture and things to put in them. and it is a work in progress as i will add things as i find them. we have painted and papered our houses and applied texture paste and lots of pearl paint and glitter. to complete the frosty look. then i wanted the inside to look warming and homey, like santas house would look... sorry the pics are side on i forgot to rotate them first!! halloween house

santa's house

this year i designed and completed a sample for my gingerbread house, which i have been working on for some time. if you want a kit to make the gingerbread house simply contact paper trenz as we have them for sale, they are cut for us by the House of Scrapbooking.

my gingerbread house

i loved the kaiser bird house so much i have adapted it to christmas and used it as a card holder. this will be one of our classes at Paper Trenz

Also for our schedule i have done a sample of the Kaiser Advent calender, i already have 3 calendars that i have done, so i wasnt sure about doing yet another, but i must say it was really easy to do and i love the effect. i used lots of bling and glitter...and it will fit a ferro rocher just nicely in each box, shame it is only one though, oh well i will have to eat it, not the kids!!!

also this year i have designed a patty cake box that is die cut and can be purchased from Paper Trenz, to alter and ink as desired. the top of the box is the same size as the carl punch circle and these cut cup cakes can be made for weddings or parties, i am doing some as christmas puddings for christmas. if you like the gingerbread house or the patty cakes, just contact me at Paper Trenz at wynnum.. or Desk top papers website

cheers sue smyth