It's well known that Friendly Plastic is a great medium for jewellery making but being such a light weight modelling medium it's especially suitable for card making and scrapbooking too. There are many techniques that are suitable to incorporate into your paper crafting projects such as marbling, stamping and moulding. In mid September I'll be demoing and teaching a workshop at the Stampin' Daze Rubber Stamp Club in Brisbane using a couple of these techniques which we'll use to create the focal piece on a card front. I'll be offering two colour alternatives: an all occasion card in girlie pink........... ...... and for those of you who want to get an early start on your Christmas cards, a green version. The choice is yours. Please pardon the slightly blurry images. My trusty little point-and-click Ricoh camera is having a little stay in camera hospital at present and I've used an unfamiliar camera to take these photos. The images simply don't do the card......

Brrrr..... it's been a cold winter here in South East Queensland. Yes, I know, I know, we have no idea what cold is here in our little corner of the world, but then, we are not geared up for cold weather. Night time temperatures have regularly hovered just a few degrees above zero and that's pretty chilly when you don't have any heating. But spring is not too far away in the southern hemisphere and to banish away the winter chills, I've decided to bring spring forward a month and let the butterflies take flight in search of spring blossom. My butterflies are all breaking free of their chrysalis - their winter nest, so to speak - in search of all the wonders or spring..... blossoms, love, sunshine. Yes indeed, warm sunny days. I'm looking forward to those! The base of my butterfly chrysalis is a Pavlova Magic container. Now you have to be an Aussie or a Kiwi to know what that is. Pavlova is kind of like our national dessert and we both lay claim to having invented i......

If you keep up with my blog you'll often see blog candy featuring my latest resin bangles but today I offer you something a little different. Yes, they are still bangles, but not of the resin kind. You see, I picked up these awesome wooden bangle blanks some time ago and I've been longing to do something with them and at last I have some to share with you. Pretty jazzy, aren't they? These are just a couple that will feature in an upcoming class in August so if you're interested in learning how I made these then check out my class schedule at Mill Lane Studio to make a booking. These 2 samples are just a teaser for the workshop. I'm working on more using different techniques at the moment - they'll be uploaded at a later date!...