"Green Tara Goodies"

Check out all these fantastic flowers new from Green Tara and most will be available to purchase from me at www.scrappersgarden.com.au in a few days.

Now if you are a Prima Marketing fan like me these flowers will convert you into a Green Tara junkie. With such amazing colours and ranges now available you can't go wrong, to top it off they are a fantastic price.



"My new toy"

I recently went to the penrith papercraft show with hubby in tow I spent way to much and hubby even more than me lol. I used to own a Klic n Kut when I had my store but I sold it due to size and it was just a little to technical for private use. But I have wished over and over again I hadn't sold it, I do have a cricut but hate being limited and not be able to slightly change images etc. So my lovely hubby brought me the new Klic n Kut Zing its a smaller version of what I had can do almost everything the other one could AND IT JUST ARRIVED, now off to find a spot on my desk to have a play. UMMM need to give the 17mths old something to do first lol.



THE COLOR ROOM &

ONCE UPON A SKETCH

This week I needed a little help to get motivated so I headed over to see this weeks Color Room Palette, so not the colours I would normally use but why the heck not. But to beef up the challenge I thought I would check out the Once Upon A Sketch site I have been hearing about and ended up combining the two challenges to really get me thinking.

I manged to find a blue & purple flower paper from MM that I had in my stash for at least 3yrs, added some blue misc paper and added purple embossed paper from Coredinations dots range.

I painted the background with white paint that I had watered down and added a few drops of glimmer mist and allowed it to run. I also glimmer misted a paper doily.

Flowers are from Green Tara and Manor House leaves from Green Tara

Hidden journalling tag with Green Tara ribbon

The Color Room Palette

Once Upon a Time Sketch & Challenge

We would like you to create a layout based on this quote. You can interpret it ANY way you like. There is no wrong or right way to interpret this quote but your layout must incorporate something from this quote AND the sketch below. Please make sure that we see some sort of journalling on your layouts and please tell us where your journalling is . Hidden journalling is perfectly fine.

Nana

Well that word finally came true yesterday, so at only 39yr I became a Nana to a beautiful baby boy named William, Son for my eldest Jessica and her partner Scott, congratulations and well done he's beautiful and a big boy at 9p 3oz thank god for a c-sec lol.



A perfect timing photo to share of Imogen



Miss Shyanne turns 12, only one more year and I will have another teenager, Boy I'm feeling somwhat old.



Another cake made by me.... the request was a big blue cupcake with little cupcakes.

Green Tara DT October

“Building The Family Castle”

By Linda Thompson

Welcome this time around I thought I would bring a little summer into our Spring. I spotted these wonderful little beach themed charms from Green Tara & had to do something with them.

I painted the charms white and once dry sanded some of the paint off leaving the indentations with paint it gave them a more worn and weathered look.

Taking the Natural Jute ribbon I made a bow, I snipped the ends with scissors and then used my fingers to lightly fray the ends and added some white paint to age it a little.

I choose 2 colours in the cobweb ribbon and instead of cutting it I just ripped it apart this helped to fray the edges and give me random sized pieces. I used a texture paste with sand as the base on the page and pushed the pieces of cobweb ribbon into the texture paste here and there leaving some sticking up while others lay flat.

I wanted a big yellow flower but I didn’t have one so I used a mustard Damask flower from the new range and added some white paint to soften it a little as the gold didn’t quite work. Using a selection of other flowers including 7cm petals, roses & spring flowers adding a little white paint to the darker coloured flowers.

Adding a little string finished off the top of the page and a few random mini flowers thru the page.

Green Tara Products Used

Natural Jute Ribbon 15mm CODE: RB17Nat15

Metalic Sea Charms CODE: SCh25

Damask 8cm Fabric and Organza Flower Mustard CODE: XF9225Mu

Cobweb Coffee 10m Roll CODE: RB6772Co

Cobweb Ivory 10m Roll CODE: RB6772Iv

Spring Flowers from Packs "Allamanda" Green CODE: IF2A1a - Periwinkle" Green
CODE: IF2P1a - White/Yellow/Orange CODE: IPA12b

1.5cm Flower Pale Blue CODE: FDVPB

1.5cm Flower Gold CODE: FDVGo

Cherry Blossoms 2 Tone Blue CODE: FLC22BPB

Cherry Blossoms Blue CODE: FLC22B

7cm Petals, Liquid CODE: FDS021Liq

Gardenia Turquoise CODE: FDV054Tu

Gardenia White CODE: FDV054Wh

Mint Apple Blossoms CODE: FDV044Mi

Roses Lime Green CODE: FDR003LG

Roses Turquoise CODE: FDR003Tu

Paper String Liquid CODE: PSLiq

Extra Products used

Prima & MME papers, Thickers, Creative Imaginations alphas, Heidi Swapp plastic alphas, Kaiser paints, Texture paste with sand.

“Making a Splash”

By Linda Thompson

Thought I would put some colour into the day, here I have used a couple of the new ribbons along with the new Laurel flower.

The Laurel flower wasn't quite the color I wanted so I sprayed it with glimmer chalk in yellow and added a little blue to the edges so it would blend in more with the colours of the page. I have also sprayed a couple of the other flowers to give a blue gardenia red tips & a red apple blossom sprayed with yellow softens the colour.

Using the new organza flower ribbon I trimmed one side close to the flowers to use as a decorative border.

I created a big bow using the new organza polka dot ribbon, I found the white dots were to bright so I soften them with some yellow spray then lightly wiping with a tissue removing the colour from the ribbon but it still stayed on the dots.

Taking a red flower spray I twisted it around a cup to create a circle. I then used enough rat tail cord that went around the same cup twice and added ribbon stiff to it, once dry I was able to twist it around the flower spray and crate 2 circles the same size as the spray.

Green Tara Products Used

Laurel 8cm Silk and Oraganza Flowers Cream/Yellow CODE: XF9218CY

Red Apple Blossoms CODE: FDV044R

Turquoise/White Apple Blossoms CODE: FDV044Tu/W

Cherry Blossoms White CODE: FLC22Wh - sprayed orange & yellow

Cherry Blossoms 2 Tone Blue CODE: FLC22BPB

Gardenia Turquoise CODE: FDV054Tu - sprayed yellow and given red tips

Gardenia White CODE: FDV054Wh - sprayed orange and blue

1.5cm Roses Blue CODE: FDR003B

1.5cm Roses Lime Green CODE: FDR003LG

Light Brown Roses 2cm CODE: FDR006LB

Organza Flower Wire Edged Turquoise/Lime Green CODE: RB326TuLG

Rat Tail Cord 50m roll Red CODE: RB1204R

Flower Sprays Red CODE: PFSTR

Extra Products used

Bo Bunny papers & chipboard word, thickers, MLSB alphas, Glimmer mist & Chalkboard.

Thanks for stopping by see you next time Linda xxx



Yippeeeee

My page below for the Color Room received a feature spot on their site, I couldn't be happier. Great news for a first attempt.

The Color Room



My first attempt at a Color Room Palette

New Green Tara Flower in green

Prima Flower & Green Tara Roses

Papers - Kaiser, webster, Prima & DCWV, Texture paste with flakes, Kaiser paint, dew drops ink, Flowers - Petaloo, Prima & Green Tara, Alphas - Heidi Swapp, Adorn it, Lil Davis, Misc - doily, white flower stem & buttons.

'Slip Slide'N & Carefree'

Green Tara Spring Flowers



Fancy Pants papers, glimmer mist & chalk, misc chipboard circle, dew drop inks, Thickers, Basic Grey Alphas & Green Tara Spring flowers

Another birthday (s) roll around, this month we have 2

Briony turns 10 with her home made Bumble Bee cake



And it's my 39th birthday and my beautiful 16yr old daughter Coral-lee made me my very own birthday cake.

Green Tara September DT work

I brought a set of 3 lamps quite cheap from Target a few months ago thinking I would just get something better at a later date, but while turning them on one night it came to me like a light bulb, I could alter them.

You could create this 2 ways, doing it the way I did which I must admit was a little hard but I found it easier to judge what it would look like at the end. Or you can decorate your paper while it is flat on your table and glue the completed item to the shade frame.

Starting with some paper I wrapped it around the lamp, it didn't quite go all the way around and I ended up with 2 joins so I just made sure they were both close to the back of the lamp and tried to match the paper up as best as I could, I used 450 quick dry glue to attach the paper directly to the shade but you could remove the old shade and attach the paper to the metal frame.

Using one of the wide laces Green Tara has on offer I glimmer misted them to create the perfect colour and attached it to the top of my shade I left a small part overlap the top of the frame to cover up the edge of the paper and give it a neater appearance, as it was a small side table lamp you would often see the top.

Then picking out my flowers, all Green Tara of course. I started arranging them using a removable adhesive, this allowed them to stay put but also make it easy to remove to move them around, once I was happy I glued them on once again using the 450 quick dry glue.

Then added pieces or ribbon, a small cut off from the lace, one of the new Green Tara Butterflies and paper swirls, then beaded trim to the bottom and finished it of with Green Tara silver sprays and the new Green Tara Silver Diamante Trim.

I left the stand alone as I want to add a wooden base but you can match flowers and embellishments down the stand and to the base.

Green Tara Products Used

Wave Silver Diamante Trim 10m CODE: RBY25 - Used around the bottom edge.

12mm Round Silver Diamante Trim 10m CODE: RBY36 - I cut this up and added 3 here and there.

25mm Lattice 10m roll White CODE: RB6735Wh - I used a few pieces of this trim here and there.

23cm Silver/Acrylic Teardrop Spray, Smoke CODE: XB30526S

15cm Flower/Leaf Spray,Green/Gold CODE: XB28557GG

Gold Paper Leaves 3.5cm CODE: LA15Go

Copper Paper Leaves 3.5cm CODE: LA15C

White Paper Leaves. 3.5cm CODE: LA15Wh

White Paper Leaves 2.5cm CODE: LA12Wh

Rain Forest Velvet and Organza Butterfly 3cm Bronze CODE: XP0780Br

Poppy 8cm Organza Flowers Ivory 12 pcs CODE: XF9212Iv

Tutu 5cm Organza and Pearl Flowers Lime 12 pcs CODE: XF9227Li

Tutu 5cm Organza and Pearl Flowers Ivory 12 pcs CODE: XF9227Iv

Camellia 8cm Paper flowers Peach 12 pcs CODE: XF9219Pe

Gardenia Ivory CODE: FDV054Iv

Gardenia Peach CODE: FDV054Pe

Gardenia White CODE: FDV054Wh

Ivory Apple Blossoms CODE: FDV044Iv

Cherry Blossoms Cream CODE: FLC22C

Cherry Blossoms White CODE: FLC22Wh

Light Brown Roses 2cm CODE: FDR006LB

1.5cm Roses Green CODE: FDR003Gr

1.5cm Roses Lime Green CODE: FDR003LG

New Green Tara Design Team

We have eight new faces & four returning from our original team.

So without further ado, let me introduce you to our new team,

who will start on 1st October

May I also take this opportunity to thank everyone

who took the time to apply.

New Green Tara Design Team

Heather Jacob Australia

Kim Price Australia

Kelly Foster USA

Rachael Funnell Australia

Vicky Varvadouka Greece

Shona Keehn Canada

Mariemily Canada

Natasha Naranjo USA

Returning DT

Mistra Hoolahan Australia

Linda Thompson Australia

Jan Rankine Australia

Di Garling Australia (Team Co ordinator)