Tags, Tags and more Tags

Hello again crafters

A busy couple of weeks in the Cupboard with lots going on - firstly the wonderful canvas class detailed in my last post and then - tags !

We had a couple of sessions on making tags - and not just any tags either. Lots of techniques learnt in these creations and lots of experimenting with different products too including spraying paint mist with the wonderful Paper Artsy Fresco Chalk Finish paints. A simple recipe in a spritzer bottle and we turn paint into a lovely spray mist - a fabulous alternative to the stronger tones of some other spray mist products out there on the market today. Great for spraying and altering all those wonderful little flowers that we have for sale on our website from Prima as the paint takes to the fabric in the flowers just as well as Dylusions, Glimmer Mists, Perfect Pearls etc

So, without much more ado, here are some photos of the finished tags. It never ceases to amaze me how we can start out looking at the same example for inspiration and once everyone has been given the same materials to play with, but the licence to go down their own path of creativity in terms of colour and layout, how the end results always look so different.

Work in progress...

The end results were amazing and I know the creators were absolutely delighted with their efforts. One participant told me she couldn't believe she'd done hers as it was her first experience in altering and creating in the altered art/mixed media space.

Well done to Kate, Naomi, Charmaine, Keryn and Anne - they are all superb !! Have a look everyone - comments much appreciated by the artists ! 

A great range of colour schemes and layouts. Those Prima flowers certainly come up well after a good spraying with colour and everyone really enjoyed using lots of different Treasure Gold colours to alter the embellishments and metal for shading and texture - not to mention creating a few interesting 'gadget embellishments' of their own along the way. It's amazing what you can do with a bottle cap !!

Til next time


Jennifer

Canvas Workshop - The Results

So much happening in the Cupboard and time for an update on our Canvas Workshop. We had a great bunch of ladies who had a wonderful time creating fabulous scrapbook canvas's and here they are hard at work.

Lots of embossing, altering, grunging, painting, gluing and several hours later here are the results.......Well done Anne, Bev and Joy.

I'll be back soon to update you on our tag classes before posting our very first Design Team Project


Jennifer

Canvas Workshop This Week !

Struggling with ideas for Christmas presents? 

We have a scrapbook canvas workshop running on Saturday  - the 19th October here in Berwick.

Check out the website for detail on the class but here's a piccy of how your canvas could look by the time you have finished. You'll get to play with lots of different texture and products through the day, learning some new techniques and producing your own unique canvas by the end of the class. Just bring your own photo, your lunch and your favourite tool kit !! Enrol via the website - it's going to be a fun day.

We have a whole range of exciting classes and workshops coming up - this is the first of many. I'll be previewing them here on the blog, but they are all up on the website for you to view as well so go 'have a look'. 

Cheers

Jennifer

What's happening in the Cupboard this week

Hello Everyone

Another busy time with the Picture to Page Show at the Sandown Racecourse here in Melbourne last week. It was a busy time for us all getting ready for the show, setting up and then 2 days of fun as we demonstrated our favourite products, showed off some new ones and met up with some of our existing customer base while also being discovered by lots of new people !

Top sellers as always were the wonderful PaperArtsty products - We had the new paint colours in stock and they went very quickly. Some lovely yummy colours, so have a look on the website. We don't have all the pics up yet as these colours weren't even on the Paper Artsy website a week ago - they are THAT new !!

JOFY stamps continue to fly out the door as fast as we get them in. We've added to the range with more Hot Picks and Lynne Perrella and Treasure Gold and Grunge Paste were flying too.

Lots of ladies queuing for Glitter Paste and watching Angus experiment with the new fluro colours and ladies were signing up for our series of courses, classes and workshops between now and Christmas. The Art Journaling course is particularly popular and not many places left.

I had a ball - made 3 tags over the two days, altering all sorts of bits and pieces along the way. Pictures to follow.

Our website has had a boost this week and has been moved to a super fast server. We hope you all appreciate the difference. It's grown very rapidly and had outpaced itself !!

And that's it from me for today - I'll be back soon with some pictures and news about our great Scrapbook Canvas class this Saturday. Still places left if you want to sign up and come along - a good chance to make a Christmas gift for someone special using one of your favourite photos.

Cheers everyone,
Jennifer

Exciting Stuff

9th October 2013

It's been a busy time in our 'cupboard' since I last posted. We've had a great Steampunk Clock workshop which was very popular and some fab clocks came out of that.

Olivia married Marco and their wedding was wonderful. We generously let her have a week off, and we did too as we had lots of overseas guests to catch up with & entertain. By the time we all got back to work, we realised that the next Picture to Page Craft Show at the Sandown Racecourse was coming up quickly.

So all hands to the pump to get in some exciting stock for the show, and for those who are going, you won't be disappointed !

We are delighted to announce we now have the new Paper Artsy Fresco Chalk Paint colours in stock. They arrived today and they are GORGEOUS. They are so new, they aren't even up on the Paper Artsy website yet ! Olivia is working hard as we speak to get them uploaded onto our website, and of course, we will have them at the show. I don't think they'll last long, but don't despair, we'll be ordering more soon. Here's a sneak peek, just after they came out of the box ...

We've got some more Paper Artsy stamps in to. The ever popular JOFY plates & Minis
plus a few other favourites and more of the Hot Picks range

But that's not all ......

We've also got the most gorgeous supply of mechanical elements in. For those of you who are Finnabair fans you won't be disappointed. We have a range of her Sunrise Sunset Mechanicals in as well as an extended range of other metal and flower embellishments from Prima - absolutely fabulous for all your mixed media/altered art projects. 

Best of all, we can't believe the prices. I had to check my sums several times. They are all very reasonably priced when compared to other brands. Here's a wee look ..

We've got more Glitter Paste and Stencils too and some new Saturated Canary stamps from their recent release along with some Molly Blooms which are so cute for Christmas cards. If you are coming to the Picture to Page Show this weekend here in Melbourne you won't be disappointed on our stand !

But that's not all ... we have also been working hard to put together a range of great classes and workshops between now and the end of the year, so check out the website for those. And to top it off, we finalised our design team of super talented ladies over the weekend. They will soon be up and running with a great serious of projects for you to try out - but more of that next time I post.

Until then, happy crafting. Give us a call if you need any help

Jennifer

Paperific Wrap Up

It's Monday and the 2nd September already! 

Spring is in the air here in Melbourne - lots of blue sky and sunshine which is wonderful.

I just had to post a note today to tell you all about our stand at Paperific here in Melbourne over the weekend. Where to start ! So much to tell about a great show. The weather was fabulous so it seemed like every crafter for miles around decided to come and see what was on offer and Crafters Cupboard were there in style. We had lots of great comments on our stand and for those who didn't see it, here's a piccy !

Exciting News

Just prior to the show, we began to pull together our Design Team. Now some of you will be surprised that we have moved on this so quickly, but we have been so fortunate to meet some talented crafting ladies in the last 2 months and we didn't want to miss the chance to have them come to join our team. I will be introducing them to you over the coming weeks and first up we'd like you to meet Liz Aitken. We were delighted to welcome Liz on board at our stand at Paperific - she does fabulously inspiring work on canvas, journals, tags, albums and much more and many of you will already know her.

Liz  was on the Crafters Cupboard stand to show everyone the wonderful Paper Artsy products which she loves to use. So many visitors were delighted to find them on our stand as they have been hard to find in Australia for some time, and for those who love mixed media/altered art, it was a slice of heaven to be able to watch Liz demo the stamps, the paints, and the grunge paste from Paper Artsy, using stencils from our great range and treasure gold to embellish & highlight, creating some lovely pieces over the 2 days that she was at the show. She also shared her journals for those who love to journal and inspired a lot of others to give it a go and created some fabulous mini canvas boards demonstrating each stage to an enraptured audience who kept coming back for more!

 You will spot one of Liz's great pieces on the demo table in the middle of the photo above, and here's a close up shot of another. If you'd like to have a wee peek at her blog, here's the link to  Liz Aitken's Blog.  If you'd like to do a workshop and create your own, let us know !

We had lots of wonderful samples on display - a big thank you to Liz, Rosie and Joan McAlpine for your contributions to our display which had lots of variety and ideas for people. 

Here's another close up shot showing our Paper Artsy range on display ..... Look at all those yummy paint colours and all that Grunge Paste. Needless to say there wasn't much left by the end of the show!

Angus was very busy on the 'make & take' table, ably supported by Rosie McLeod, offering the opportunity to play with Glitter Paste. Literally hundreds of people took up the offer and really enjoyed discovering what an easy product it is to use. Even the children lined up and had a ball. Needless to say, there wasn't much glitter paste left at the end of the 3 days. For those of you who haven't seen it, it spreads on through a stencil quickly and effortlessly and dries within a minute or two ! Great for quickie cards and embellishing those scrapbook pages and other projects without having to wait to long for it to dry. Liz had a go with black glitter paste and a fab stencil in one of her journal pages and it looked stunning.

Speaking of classes and workshops .....

We have a workshop on the 14th September in Berwick and it's a Steampunk Clock ! It's an all day class, starting at 10.30 am and runs through to 5.00 pm

If this is a workshop you'd like to do, use this link to our website Crafters Cupboard Website and choose the workshops & classes button to enrol ! Places are limited so don't miss out!

We've also got a Copic Colouring Workshop in October - check out the website for details - and in my next post I'll show you what you can do at our Tag & Canvas workshops which are coming up in October and November.

And that's all from me today - rather a long post, but I wanted to update everyone on the happenings at Paperific.

Our next show is 'Picture to Page' at the Sandown Racecourse here in Melbourne on the 12th & 13th October. We'll be there with all your favourite products and some great ideas for Christmas, so mark it in the diary now. 

Thank you to all our wonderful customers for your continuing support at the shows and via the website and please keep letting us know about the products you would like us to stock in our 'cupboard'.

Cheers everyone, and happy crafting. 

Jennifer

Scrapbook Pages

Hi Everyone,

Today I thought I'd add a few pages that we had on display at a recent Craft Show we exhibited at.

This page was designed by Jennifer Couper. She has used the following products:

Design Paper - Kaisercraft 12 x 12 design paper 'In the Attic - Trunk'

Cardstock -  Kaisercraft Weave - Coffee Bean.

Chipboard  - A2Z Scraplets - Cousins 

(she covered this with glitter paste - copper)

Die - Impression Obsession 'Heart Flowers'

Stamps - Whimsy 'Ticket Sentiments'

Brads - Bo Bunny Love Letters

Lace/Ribbon - Prima Marketing Alencon

Date Ticket - Jennifer's Stash

This page was designed by Olivia Batters. I have used the following products:

Design Paper - Bo Bunny 12 x 12 'Powder Mountain - Morning'

Cardstock - Kaisercraft Weave - Coconut

Chipboard - Scrap Fx - Ski Trip and Snowflakes A

Glitter - Glitzcraft Glitter Paste 'Royal Blue'

Paint - Paper Artsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic 'Snowflake'& 'Baltic Blue'

Brads - Bo Bunny 'Powder Mountain'

Ribbon - My Stash

Hope you enjoy these pages I will post some more soon.

Until Next Time......Olivia :)