Queen Floriade...a humble beginning

On my recent trip to Perth I found myself a polystyrene doll head...I had to wait for my Mum to come for a visit before working on her because my luggage had been full with other goodies. Anyhoo, here she is...created with Green Tara paper flowers...I used a whole "mixed 21" pack, and Lindy's Stamp Gang helped create the colours

Big Girls Bloomers

original colour

final colour

I love designing products...it's so cool seeing my sketches and doodles turn into something that is sold/used all over the world...I still smile when I see my designs in stores and I wonder what they become once they are purchased by consumers.

Anyhoo...I love flowers and my work with them is always pretty well accepted, so I decided to take the good ol' chipboard designs that I made for Words Or Whatever and I suggested an "upsize"...going from 2.5" to a huge 5"

...and what to do with them? use your imagination...the possibilities are endless!

and of course all my colour is owed to the use of Lindy's Stamp Gang products

retreat!!!!! going the distance

little felt bucket $3.99!!! I just had to have four!

(Scrapsidaisy)

hand made bunny buddy by Leisa Barwell (owner of Scrapsidaisy)

my bags packed to head to the retreat...five hours of driving!...well worth the trip!

Linelle Bird, me, Kim Solomon...online and now offline friends

me being me...silly...so what!

The last few weeks have been crazy busy...and it's just the way I like it, maybe not so much the crazy part but busy is good. My trip to Perth was great and my 40th birthday was the best birthday I ever remember...apart from one or two little things but bah! what ever!

Classes went well over there and I'll be back in August to work a show and quite possibly a retreat...love retreats!

Speaking of retreats that is where I was this weekend, I packed my scoobymobile and set off on a long drive to teach scrapbookers how to "wing it" and experiment with products.

I made a pit stop to speak to WOW about some new product designs...I am really excited about them...and nope it's not chipboard or even MDF...you will love it!

Anyhoo, I had a lovely visit with Suzanne and got her to "change" one of the current designs I had...I should have asked for her to cut dozens because when I showed it at the retreat...the ladies went crazy!

My final destination was a lovely little Aussie town called Wingham 

I taught two classes over two days and met lots of wonderful ladies who made me feel very welcome.

All of the art that they created in my classes was beautiful and they seemed to have great fun playing with WOW chipboard flowers designed by me and my fave glitzy mica products from Lindy's Stamp Gang

I look forward to getting back there again.

Thank you Leisa, Linelle, Kim, Julie and everybody else for letting me "Wing It in Wingham"

flying with seahorse

 

on my flight from Sydney to Perth I took along my sketch book and began to scribble, this is what I created...a seahorse of sorts...not a realistic or true image but instead it is what was in my head, I didn't use any photo or inspiration, and I know it's not what a real seahorse looks like but as I said it is what was in my head...so don't make a big song and dance about the tail being the wrong way or the fins being wrong or the species being non exsistant...because...it's just a drawing and I like it.

I'm leaving on a jet plane...WHAT AM I TEACHING???

Flights of Fancy

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Adorning Crown swap

I thought I would share with you the pieces I am sending to the ladies who are joining me in the Adorning Crowns swap