Class bookings go live tomorrow....Thursday Dec. 6th......I just checked out the Class list and Tutors....looks fabulous.....so glad this is coming to Mlebourne.
For further details you can go to http://scrapbookexpo.com.au/scrapbook/
xoxo
Lyn
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WOW.........I was hoping to post up some pics tonight from the Craft and Quilt Fair but I left my camera locked up at the Show......DUH!
So I'll try and get some pics up tomorrow night after I get home........
It's been an extremely busy Show for Fiskars Craft..........we have had sell out Workshops each day ...in fact the Workshop was booked out today in the first 45 minutes.....just amazing!!
To those of you who participated in the workshop.......we hope you had fun......and a special welocme to many of you who may be visting our Blog for the very first time........WELCOME!!
It was lovely to see some children in the Workshop today......and they created such gorgeous Board Books in a Box........fantastic kids.....well done!
Tomorrow is the last day and if anyone is intending on coming in.........we'd love to see you in the Fisakrs Craft Studio........look for the TEAM in Isle G.......you can't miss us....bright orange shirts....some have the blue.......and ALL the TEAM shall have smiles on their faces.....as each and every TEAM MEMBER love their craft and love sharing ideas and inspiration with others.
If it's tools that you need help with.....we have that covered also....just ask at the Fiskars Demonstration Counter......if it's a Make'n'take you are after......just pull up a chair......
Our Quilting demo table has been very popular this show with Annemarie and Adrienne working very hard and helping answer any consumers queries and demoing the quilting tools......
Tomorrow there shall be BARGAINS GALORE in the Fiskars Craft Studio.........Albums going out for $10 each...or 3 for $25,Lil' Davis Glitter Glue.......in red,blue,pink....only $1 each........Cloud 9 Raindot titles........$2..........Paper Kits only $5.......Bent Scissors only $5.......Cloud 9 Board Books in a Box ....$5.....Heidi Grace Braded Flowers......$1 per packet.........and so much more....
See you tomorrow ......and hey.....don't forget my earlier RAK.........here
xoxo
Lyn Dwyer
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Many of you know that I am passionate about being thankful for the amazing things that I believe God has put into my life. These range from the small and random (like choc mint icecream and timers on ovens - who invented those???!!!!) to the bigger stuff (like our Autistic son snuggling into me and telling me that one of his favourite things is my cuddles). I try and take note of these on my blog and sometimes in another journal i keep. Other times my thanks just manifests itself in prayer and praise and at other times on scraplayouts and in cards I write to people to let them know i appreciate them.
I believe that our lives are made up of small and often mundane moments and that we have a choice to be thankful for the ride; to stop and be living 'in the moment'. It is a choice and one that I proactively seek to pass on to my kids. Does it mean my life is a bed of roses? Heck no! But when I travel through the hard stuff I find that being able to practice and maintain a thankful heart is much easier and makes for better less stressful living! And let's face it, who couldn't do with a little less stressful living?
So anyway, I wanted to make my sisters a thankful journal recently and I found some cute little notebooks and decided to do a quick alter using some of the fantastic (and cheery!) Fiskars Brands products. Here's what i did and what you could do too!
step one:
take a coloured hardcover notebook (or two!)...
step two:
Gather together some cute Heidi Grace We Are Family products and some Zingz too!...
then...Take some of the beautiful Heidi Grace Designs Shimmer Foiled Paper - We are family/Bird on Branches paper and adhere to the cover leaving a space above and below to reveal the coloured cover underneath.
step three:
the Heidi Grace We Are Family Icon Rubons are just lovely. take some and rub them on to the top of the cover to create a little border. They were so easy to pop onto the cover!...
step four:
add some dimensional flower stickers (all the hard work is done for you with these beauties!) to the bottom of the cover...
step five:
now add some zingz to each petal...
add a big We are Family cardstock sticker letter standing for the inital of the person whom the journal will belong to.
step seven:
write an inscription on the first page (and add any left over rub ons to the top of the page)...
step eight:
complete your thankful journal by adding alpha stickers identifying it as such, to the front cover. here is the one for my sister Mira...
and here is the other one for my sister dee (who incidently backed Kim Wylde last night on the AFL grandfinal football show!)...
I think they will love these :) I hope they do anyway! lol :)
Well may you choose to be thankful today!I've found that the more I do it the easier to do it gets :)
Hebrews 12:28 "Let us be thankful..."
Happy crafting (and b/c my best friend who madly barracks for Geelong is overseas, let me say for her "Go Geelong!" )
Lus x
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We are having so much fun here in Sydney.......here are some pics from today........taken with my small digital camera.......will take more tomorrow with my SLR........just been so busy......first one is the lovely Claire Stewart from Living Creatively....this lady is so much fun to work with in the Living Creatively area ....Level 3........Claire introduces all the Fiskars Craft and Kaisercraft Stage Presentations................and encourages crafters to have-a-go at a Make'n'take or to come and try all the wonderful Fiskars and Kaisercraft products......
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Hi everyone,
Well not long now until Sydney 
.....only 2 days to go.....woohoo......!!
Fiskars Craft once again shall be found in the 
area of the Show!
So make sure you come on up to join in with all the fun and games.....this Show promises to be a beauty!
Come and have-a-go with all the latest Fiskars Tools.....we'll have "Threading Water" and "Leave it to Weaver" Border Punches for you all to play with.....along with the wonderful UltraXpress Shapecutter, squeeze punches,eyelet setters,craft mats,Scrapboss,fingertip craft knife,scissors and much much more!
Our wonderful TEAM of CRAFTERS shall be there from 10am -5pm offering advice on how to use the tools and to help you create some fun FREE Make 'n' take projects!
Come play with the NEW Cloud 9 Range of products....MAX'S BACKYARD ......preview the NEW VELLUM FLOWERS.......we have so much fun planned......not to mention our 3 On-Stage Presentations each day!
So make sure you come in and meet some of our wonderful Fiskars Craft Ambassadors.......including:
Lusi Austin, Jacky McLeod, Lee Woodside and Lyn Dwyer!
See you at the Show....it starts Wednesday August 20th - 24th....10am starting time each day!
Rosehill Racecourse
Unwin Street, Rosehill
xoxo
Lyn Dwyer
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the Sydney 
....so come and see all the fabulous FISKARS CRAFTERS and have-a-go with all the latest and greatest FISKARS TOOLS........play with some Cloud 9 Max's Backyard products....OR ....create a Make 'n' take with the girls......it's going to be so much fun!
Lusi Austin shall be there on most days of the Show as will Jacky McLeod , Lorraine -Lee Tynerman , Robyn Wilkinson and myself(Lyn)...others to join us for one or two days will be Lee Woodside, Eve Hawkes,Azza,Jo and Trea from FISKARS Head Office.....
One of our Queensland Ambassadors.....Ange will also be at the Show ....working on the Scrapbook City Stand. Having retailers there selling FISKARS TOOLS will be so good for everyone who loves to grab a good tool when they see one......Leisa and Kerry have a great selection of FISKARS products!
I'm sure there will be other retailers there selling FISKARS TOOLS.....so make sure you check them all out.
The Show opens each day from 10am -5pm......why not bring a friend and have a day of crafting!!
Here is one of the FREE Make'n'takes on offer each day.......a quick an easy Tag that could be added to any gift.....mmmm......would be an ideal Father's Day Tag hey?
xoxo
Lyn Dwyer
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So here's a really quick and simple idea that i did this past week with my kids on school holidays!
Take some refelx paper and stamp three skulls from the fabulously funky Ink by Steph 'In My Dreams' set in the top right hand corner of the page. Tear the goodness out of the edges and ink with a brown ink pad. 'Dirty' the page up by lightly running the ink pad through the middle.
Then just fill it in by adding your own adventure destinations to your treasure map! To ours, we added bear cave (where the kids hid under a big wooden desk), a volcano (a fixed wooden step ladder over which we draped a big yellow blanket), a wibbly wobbly bridge (a big body pillow that they had to walk along balancing) and the wild animals den. Don't forget to add a big 'X' to mark the spot where the treasure is!
Here are my kids with their maps:
We took time to set the scene up....
Once the maps were rolled up and finished, I narrated the story and the kids acted it out.
It wasn't without it's dramas (liji had a massive meltdown and stayed in his room for the remainder- don't think its all craft and roses at my place! lol!!!!!) but we continued on and the other kids found their buried *treasure* in the chest....
wooohoooo! it's afternoon tea time!
We are a family all about life's simple little pleasures and mixing craft with imaginative play on a cold mountain's day in the school holidays is a real recipe for fun!
Arrrgh (in my best pirate voice) happy creating!
Lus x
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I'm a little late here but thought I would still share what I did for the challenge over the weekend :)
I think this is a real *in-the-moment* kind of shot. I decided to scrap this photo of our son Elijah who was very tired after a day at the beach. We got up bright and early one Saturday morning (at 4am!), picked up my parents and went for a great big adventure! We watched the sunrise over the beach (2.5 hours from our house) then went to a nearby lagoon where the kids fished with my dad while Brett (my gorgeous dh) cooked us all a yummy hot brekky :) The kids played for hours at the beach finding shells and chasing waves - things they've only done a handful of times before in their lives. You can imagine what an exciting day this was for them!
I snapped this shot of my son just as we were winding up to go home and I think it captures perfectly how tired he was (but content too!) after such a fun day. They are still talking about it asking when we can go on a *morning adventure* again!
Here's my layout called Tired Baby??? (sorry the picture quality isn't all that great with it being so wonderfully rainy but I hope you get the idea!)
See that checker board border above the photo? That's a Mrs Grosman's Baby Boy Design Lines sticker and the cluster of little chipboard shapes to the right are pieces from the Heidi Grace Only Time Journal Prompts Punchboard which I am totally L-O-V-I-N-G at the moment! You have to get your hands on this stuff - makes for VERY easy funky and stylish layouts! Here's a little close up too:
Why not try a challenge today to help kickstart your scrapping passion?
Love & blessings,
Lus x
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Q 12.
On the left hand page, show us what the anticipation feels like before you give a gift of something you made. On the facing right hand page express how you feel after you see the reaction of the recipient once he/she unwraps the present.
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