Having successfully completed one creative stamping layout, I am ready to tackle a more ambitious one. Instead of going with my usual pattern paper background I will attempt to create my own stamped background. The linen colour ink and grey cardstock...

Few things are as exciting as the idea of incorporating a new technique into my scrapbooking. But the reality is learning takes time, mastering takes practice, patience and the willingness to accept some first failures. So it's with not a little trepidation...

Happy news to share today. I'm on a design team that calls for creative work with embellishments - Trinket Track , an Australian online shop retailing all sorts of yummy embellishments. Thank you Monica for including me on your team. This fancy barrette...

I'm flattered by Tanya's invitation to contribute a tutorial to The ArtChoice Blog . I hope her readers enjoy this look at my technique for layering on cards. ArtChoice has also kindly offered to sponsor a giveaway. All you have to do is you leave a...

During  Artful Crafts ' May 40% clearance sale I spied some vintage Cosmo Cricket grab bags. The Social Club collection is so me, I couldn't resist using the papers to make a couple of cards. It's a little cheeky but I think I can get away with using...

As we head into June, Trina must have sun, sea and beach on her mind. I see Citrus Twist kits inspired by those themes and named accordingly. Three mid-season collections feature through-out the kits : Studio Calico's Atlantic, MME's Find Your Wings...

Here's my final project using Citrus Twist's May kits. I use a long vertical panel on this 8.5"x11"layout against a background consisting of arcs of pattern paper. I lifted the idea of overlapping circles from a recruitment advertisement which goes to...

When designing landscape format cards I like using the rule of thirds as a compositional tool. It guides me in deciding how much space to allocate to different pattern papers and where to position my sentiment. To illustrate the application of this design...

I've really embraced  Citrus Twist's May kits with a rich, sun-soaked colour palette, wide array of geometric patterns and cool retro fonts in the alphas, papers and embellishments. A perfect complement to my natural scrapping style. I mix all the mod...

When May's Citrus Twist kits arrive, I encounter something  kit subscribers occasionally face - one of the papers in the main kit I already have in my stash. Disappointed ? Not me. The DIY Shop Clippings sunburst pattern is so brilliant I use both sheets...