New stock for December

New stock in for this month include the gorgeous new range of rub-ons from kaisercraft. At only $2.00 per packet and with 20 different designs to choose from I'm sure you'll find the perfect one for your next project. We also have new and restocked stamps from hero arts. Amongst the many other things new in the store we have green and red stazon ink, great for those last minute Christmas cards, sweet little Heidi Swapp jewel flowers and the cutest little felt flowers from junkitz.

Don't forget that we also do gift vouchers, a great Christmas present for the crafty person in your life.

Photo file box

This cute little file box is not only useful for your photos but would also be ideal to file away stickers, rub-ons etc or those dreaded bills. You get to choose the colours from the pattern paper available at the store. As this project will be getting a lot of use we recommend supertape as the cheaper versions do not hold well enough.

Basic kit required.

Bandaid Box Album-17th Oct

This cute little mini album would be a way to show off photos of the special miss in your life, or even to display photos of yourself. You will need to bring along 4 to 5 wallet sized photos or larger photos that are sutaible for cropping. You will also need your basic tool kit

It's all about colour

Some of the new Vandoros ribbons in store Sweet wooden Christmas words
Stitching or eyelet and brad templates

Gorgeous new buttons from finishing touch ideas

Also from FTI some of the beautiful choc blues range
More of those gorgeous buttons, just can't get enough of them.
For those who haven't been in for a couple of weeks we have some lovely new hero arts stamps on the shelf, and watch out in the coming weeks as their Christmas range becomes available to us.
Whoops, the ribbons again


Just a little taste of some of the new stock we have had in lately, gorgeous colours ranging from bright gelatis through to soft lattes and browns in products such as ribbons, flowers, buttons and cardstock.

Scrapbook organiser

For this class you will need your usual scrapbooking kit and some strong liquid adhesive such as pritt power glue stick, pritt power gel or scrapbookers glue. On the example shown here I have not pushed out the holes in the front right hand side for ribbon as I want to use this for storage of small items such as pencil sharpeners, erasers etc. this is totally optional. You can also choose your own colours out of the new kaiser range of papers.

Cards for August

As well as these three there will be a small gift type tag

Last months winner

of the monthly challenge pack was this gorgeous layout by Karen.

J for Josh

James Bond (the female version of course) chats with Sandie the jelly fish.The winner of the 'J' costume was Ren with her jelly baby ensemble

Kathryn, the hostess with the mostess, we all agreed that she made the night with her fun, well organised games and competitions Jingle jangling, jungle Jane (I think I got it right?)
Rosalie in her jacket and jumper, Tanya as John Trevolta (minus the hair which was getting too itchy) and Vanessa the jaguar.
Maria giving Donna one of the many prizes handed out for the night
The winner of the best badge comp was Jane with this gorgeous little piece

Kathryn's games kept every one engrossed for quite a whileMaria gives Tanya a hug
Mmmm, desert was yummo J is for jelly fish, Sandi won second place with this costume
Juggling clown

The J for Josh fundraiser held last Friday night was a great success with everyone having an enjoyable time and plenty of yummy food. Kathryn's games and brainteasers kept the night flowing nicely with plenty of gigges and prizes in between. All the money raised went to help send young Josh to the States for an intensive program to assist him and his family with his autism. Thanks to all those who helped with food and preparation. Any one who wants more information on Josh and his journey can pop into the store.

Recipe book.

This is not only a lovely little decorative piece to have in your kitchen but it is also highly functional. It will fit up to 20 of your favourite recipes and would make a wonderful heirloom to pass down. You may copy Tanya' colour scheme or choose your own papers to fit your kitchen decor.

Class requirements-craft knife, distress ink and your usual craft kit (cutter, pencil, ruler, small sharp scissors,

adhesive)

Scrap a doodle dandy

Aren't these just the cutest little pink books? Tired of having pieces of paper everywhere with layout ideas sketched on them, then this book is for you? It has a grid area to sketch your layout in with a lined section at the bottom of the page to jot notes about paper, embellishments etc. Best of all they are small enough to fit into your handbag or pocket so where ever you go you can record your ideas when the inspiration hits.

Simply stylish scrapbooking

As single page layouts As a double page layout
This layout can be done as a double page or can easily be adapted to two separate layouts. You can use a few different combinations of photos, they are; a) 6 portrait/vertical style 6" by 4" photos(this is the standard size the photography store print) b) 4 standard sized photos with 1 5" by 7" horizontal/landscape enlargement(pictured) c) 2 standard size vertical photos with two 5" by 7" enlargements(horizontal) d) 4 horizontal 6" by 4" photos e) two horizontal and 3 vertical photos, standard size. If you have photos that don't fit any of these combinations still bring them in and we can try to work out how to fit them in. You can choose your own cardstock colours to match your photos.

Equipment required, standard kit, distress ink, fine black pen, craft knife and cutting mat. We will be using paints so either old clothes or an apron would be a good idea, we do have a couple here you can borrow if needed.

A few new arrivals

Over the last week we have had arrivals from stamp-it and Aussiescrapsouce. These include items such as some of the beautiful crate paper rubons and papers, any one who has used these know of the high quality and beautiful colours, we also have new chipboard letter including a gorgeous sparkly set with more styles due to arrive with in the next week. Our most exciting arrival is of course some of the new stamps from the stampit artoligy range and the 2007 hero arts designs, these are already moving off the shelf so get in quick if you are interested.
Coming soon are several new and updated rubons, some gorgeous paper flowers, these are great as they can be painted, inked, stamped on etc to get just the effect you want and we have our rep coming in from bumblebee crafts Monday so hopefully he will have some delicious new products to show us, I'll keep you updated as they come in.
S.

Lay-by terms, fees and conditions

We happily except lay-bys, the following are our terms

.Minimum 10% deposit at time of setting the lay-by up (with the exception of preordered items, see below)
.Payments to be made monthly
.the term of the lay-by is 3 months (if you are unable to pick the lay-by up within this time frame please contact us for an extension otherwise after a four month period the items will be returned to the shelf with no refund, (we will make every attempt to contact you before this happens )
.Preordered items may be lay-byed but a minimum 40% deposit must be made at the time of lay-by setup.

Thanks, Tan and Sue.

Don't forget tomorrow nights class is cardmaking.

Photo tip-catchlights and focus points.

If you want to bring more oomph into your portrait shots try getting catchlights. This is the reflection of light in the eyes that makes them appear alive. Many artists use catchlights in there portraits to give life to their painting, next time you look at a portrait check out the eyes for catchlights. They can be created using daylight/natural light either directly into the eye or reflected off surfaces such as snow, water, photographers reflectors etc. It can also come from off camera flashes and other manmade lighting sources. I personally like natural light best. A marble is one of the easiest ways of detecting the position to get your best catchlights, make a fist and pop the marble into the little groove in your pointer finger, now simply move your hand and marble around until you get a good reflection, at around the positions, not the time, of 2 or 10 O'clock are best, but any position were you get reflections, are fine. Now that you have the right direction place your model here and take your photo. Whenever shooting people, with the odd exception, always focus on the eyes. If you have an slr type camera you can generally do this by changing your focus points on board the camera or focusing manually. With a point and shoot type camera you can use your central focus. To do this position the little red dot in the centre of your camera on the eyes, half depress your shutter release button to lock it on this position, holding it half way down, then reframe your photo as you wish and fully depress the shutter. This will make sure the eyes are nice and crisp. You can also use this method to get different effects as I did for the photo of S. below holding out the lolly pop. Using a shallow Depth Of Field or the portrait setting on your camera put the focus on the object you want sharp and depending on the capabilities of your camera the other object on different plains should blur either slightly or a lot depending on you settings.

I have included some examples below.

The catchlights are in the right of his eyes

The focus was placed on the lolly pop here, creating a soft blur on everything not in the same plain or level.Again the catchlights are on the right side
Even pets look better with catchlights too.

Calendar tin

This practical little off the page project is ideal for use as a birthday/anniversary book or could even be used as a diary. It can be made in a choice of 3 colours, it would be a good idea to pick out your papers when you book in.

Class requirements- distress ink, glue stick, some really strong adhesive for the ribbon, buttons etc such as pritt power glue and your basic kit.

Newsletter.

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Drum roll please...

The winner of the great snap swap challenge is... Maria,

she has scrapped Tanya's photo and won herself the wonderful cropodile and two eyelet packs valued at over $60.00

New stock in for May

New arrivals and top ups of the popular paper shaper punches and gorgeous chipboard Bikkies kits from Delish, these contain 75 different letters and numbers in an 8 cm high font for only $15.70, great value but hurry these are moving very fast. There are also top ups of the very popular timber ribbon boxes. Coming in within the next week or two are some of the new artiology stamps from stampit and finally some of the 2007 hero arts stamps, unfortunately Aussiescrapsource http://aussiescrapsource.com/ , our supplier do not have the entire range in as yet but the ones that are here are simply gorgeous, pop in and check them out under the hero arts section. I will be placing this order on Wednesday or Thursday so if anyone has any stamps that you specifically want to order and they are in stock let us know before then, drop in, ring or email us at scrapnpatch@internode.on.net

What colour are you???

I'm blue (personally I think I have a tinge of green)
(It's Sue BTW)

BLUE

You give your love and friendship unconditionally. You enjoy long, thoughtful conversations rich in philosophy and spirituality. You are very loyal and intuitive.

Find out your color at QuizMeme.com!

Class requirements for trinket box on the 23rd May

Basic kit, distress or brown ink and either pritt power gel or glue stick.

'Vintage' class requirements

I don't have a photo to post as yet,it will be up in the next couple of days The class requirements will be as follows; basic tool kit, brown distress ink, craft knife and cutting mat,and a strong glue stick eg pritt power glue stick. Your photo will need to be 5 x 7" or similar size, black and white or sepia tones will work best.
Cheers,
S.

New thread range

To all you sewing ladies we now have in store the mettler range of sewing threads, check out the gorgeous colour range.

For some reason these photos have some up twice, sorry.

Restock of hero arts stamps

For those of you waiting for the hero arts order it has arrived. We are still waiting for the 2007 range to arrive in Australia, hopefully soon.

Adelaide

A quick shot of Tanya and Donna at the kids section at Ikea from our trip to Adelaide a few weeks ago, it couldn't be all work now could it? (The things these girls will do for me (giggle) )

Paper bag album

Not just for lunches paper bags can used for many different things including this little album.

There will be a choice of blue 'friends' themed paper (shown here) or pink girly themed papers with words such as me, artist, sensitive, hip,dreamer,energetic etc

Class requirements-basic kit, distress or brown ink and six or more small photo measuring no more than 8cm at their widest point that relate to the above themes(these can be added at a later date)

Coluzzle

Recreate this gorgeous layout using the coluzzle tool and the newest papers from Scrapbooking Australia.

Class requirements-basic kit(don't forget to include your scissors, you will need a small sharp pair) and a distress or brown ink.

Coming soon

We've heard from our distributor that the 2007 hero arts stamps are due to arrive in Australia with in the next couple of weeks so stay tuned for more info on these. We're very excited to be getting them as we think they are one of the nicest releases yet.

Photography tip for March-light

The word photography comes form the Latin words meaning to paint with light.
Light is the single most influential thing when taking photographs, whether it be too much light or not enough. The best photographs are the ones taken in even diffused light. Try to avoid bright sunlight if possible, it can create harsh shadows, and dappled light as through tree branches can leave 'hot spots' or area which are over exposed. The best light for great color saturation is outdoors on an overcast day, especially just after rain, in the shade of a large building or trees that have even shade or indoors near a large north facing window(you can hang a sheer white curtain over a window to soften the light coming through it) If it is unavoidable to take photos in bright sun try using the fill flash feature that most cameras have these days, it will give a soft burst of light that can even out any harsh shadows, and is particularly good for anyone wearing a hat. Just remember to check your manual for your flashes range, many people get caught out both indoors and out by trying to take a photo farther away than their flash will allow. When photographing indoors again check your flash range, it is no use sitting at the back of a concert hall photographing the stage if your flash only reaches a distance of a few metres, all you will get is dark photos. It is a better idea to turn your flash off and use a tripod if the area is brightly lit enough. Those of you with an SLR can use a faster lens and set your fstop and shutter speed to allow for the low light. Also remember that almost all digital cameras now allow you to set the ISO (the equivalent of film speed) the low numbers eg ISO 100 to 200 are for brightly lit situations whereas your higher numbers eg ISO 800-1600 are for low light situations but you will also get more noise (the same as film grain) at these high speeds but sometimes these are the trade offs for capturing those special memories, this can be made less noticeable using some of the features that come with your photo editing program (generally packaged with your camera). Also adjusting your WB (white balance) will make a huge difference to how the end result will look, check your manual for more information on what settings to use in what situations.

Mini memories

This little timber album would be the perfect edition to a side board or coffee table.

The colors are a little different in real life and it is quite dimensional.

Chip chatter

Altered chipboard is still all the rage, in this class you will learn how to do this with methods including paint, crackle medium and embossing powder.

Wednesday March the 7th