Requirements:

Organza Ribbon, Satin, chiffon, (material or ribbon that is soft and fluffy)

Decorative Brads

Cotton and Thread

Cardboard & circle punch

Instructions:

1. Cut a strip of ribbon, satin or chiffon approx 30cm by 6cm.

2. Fold over the end of the material, then fold in half lengthways.

3. Then using a running stitch, go along the bottom of the material till you get to the other end.

4.  Then carefully fold in the end and stitch right to edge.

5. Now carefully pull stitch and gather material to form a circle.

6.     When gathered up, slightly overlap ends and stitch together.

7.     Now punch a circle from cardstock, a bit smaller than your flower.

8.     Place the circle on the back of your flower, and add a decorative Brad through the front and through the cardstock. 

Notes:  If using satin, you may want to overlock along raw edges before using.

You can use this method on different widths and material to achieve different size flowers. Finer materials give a fluffy looking flower.

You may want to put a bit of glue, like scrapdots on your card circle to hold the flower in place. This also makes the flower a bit flatter.

A big thanks to Tracey Manderson for her write up!

Now - we want to see you put this to good use so have a go and post on your blog then leave a comment here with a link to your so we can see all the different ones you come up with.  If you don’t have a blog you could put it up in the gallery on our forum.

Check these out!

Kim Kendell

Tracey Manderson

Kellie Harrison

Kim Jeffress

Well girls we are looking at moving very soon, in the next couple of weeks hopefully. We want to be up and running asap and ready for the Christmas rush - which isn’t too far away.

So we are planning a HUGE weekend of our official opening and have some very special things planned.  At this stage the date is Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st October.

Firstly it will be part of our fundraising for “Girls Night In” So we will be having a big crop night on the Saturday night.

We have organised to have a very talented scrapbooker coming to teach for the weekend - Sherry Mendoza.
This is her blog http://sherryscreations.typepad.com/sherrys-creations/

And if your thinking I know her name from somewhere this is where she works:
http://www.scrapbookingmemories.com.au/

What Sherry doesn’t know about scrapbooking isn’t worth knowing! She’s talented and creative plus lots of fun and I’m sure you’ll all learn so much from her.

We plan to have a day class on the Saturday and a shorter class on the Sunday morning. These are currently being organised and I’ll be putting up details later. If you want your name to go down on the list please let me know and PM or email me.

If your from out of town and need accommodation let me know

and this is her stunning LO that we are going to lift 

So come join in the fun and enter you layout to the challenge

Friday 13^th August - Crop Night

6pm till midnight

Saturday 14^th August – Forster Crop

6.30pm till midnight

Holy Name School, Forster

Plus demo’s and a class 3 Layouts – 2 sets to choose from

Toddler boy or girl. 

$20

Monday 16^th August – Card Making

10am till Midday

Tuesday 17^th August – Pick a Pack Day

Choose from various packs and make layouts or cards – your choice

10am till 2pm

Monday 23^rd August – Christmas Club

10am till Midday

Christmas club is back and its card making time!

Bookings are required for all ScrapAWhile events

contact us on 6551 7776 or email alita@scrapawhile.com.au 

Tarrah McLean set the challenge for this one -  This month I have a challenge for you to scrap a layout with the colour combination of brown, blue with a little cream/white if you like.

Here are the entries:

Jessica Morales

Nikki Love

Karen Jarman

Julieanne Cremen

Gwenda Pullen

Rachel Wilson

Elaine Pitchell

Dianne Maddock

And the winner is Rhonda with this great entry!

Here are the Design Teams examples

Tarrah McLean

Kim Jeffress

Kylie Symons

Tracey Manderson

Tarrah McLean gives us her top 3 ideas and tips

When any of your punches get blunt, sharpen them by punching through some foil a couple of times.

If you don’t have the glimmermist colour that you want then use some watered down paint in a spritz bottle, might not have the glimmer but it gives a good mist. You could add dome glitter to it though if you have any.

Keep tags and buttons off new clothes, they look great as recycled items on your layouts!!