Heritage Page Catch Up

Just a quick post to add the list of products used in my Aunt Lillian Heritage Page, I forgot to add it to the previous post as stated, oops.   Once I started listing I was really surprised by just how many things I had actually used.

Prima, Printery Collection – Signature; Kaiser 6 ½” Paper Pad, Black and White Timeless – various pages; Tim Holtz Distress Stains – faded jeans, tea dye & picket fence; Tim Holtz Distress Ink -  vintage photo, pumice stone; Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks – Cranberry & Lettuce: Ingvild Bolme Chalk Ink – vintage pink, olive vine; Prima flowers; Kaiser flowers; Tim Holtz Swivel Clasp & Philosophy tag: Kaiser Rhinestones - Clear; Copic Pen  - B97 Night Blue; Brads, butterfly, key, leather thong and lace from stash.   Ingvild Bolme Distress Tool; Tim Holtz Alterations Dies – Vintage Valise and Sewing Room; Big Shot.

Whew, its amazing isn't it, all of that on one little page

Enjoy Art Every Day

Love Deb xo

Busy Days

I've had a couple of busy days at the craft table.    Firstly I finished my 3rd tag for the Soul Scrappers Project 52 Challenge, see separate posts for these. Then I finished a set of Easter Cards for an Easter Card Swap with Aussie members of Soul Scrappers, I'll have to work out how to embed links so you can pop over and check these sights out.    I will share photos of the Easter Cards once the challenge is complete.


My third project was this beautiful mannequin

This was offered as a class at Paper Flourish back in September last year, I missed the class, but the fantastic girls at PF made me up a kit and supplied a couple of photos, the following photo is the original designed by Mandii Van Brussell.

Mine varies slightly from the original, I just had to grunge it up a bit, the look on Georgia's face when she saw me screw up the beautiful piece of paper I started with was priceless.

Project 4 was for a card club challenge at, dud da dah, Paper Flourish.   This months challenge was "Outside the Square" ie no square or rectangle cards.  I used a Spellbinder die in my Bigshot to create a cute shaped circular card, while fishing through a stash box I found these paper flowers that I had made 6 months ago, and turned them into cards as well, so 4 "Outside the Square "cards complete.

The final completed project was a page for my heritage album, at Christmas time my sister Lis, gave me some copies of some family photos.   Lis has been slowly working her way through Mums 20 plus photo albums, our Mum passed away almost 5 years ago. I didn't mean that as a dig about the time taken, just to let you know when Mum died.

All of the photos are fantastic, but one really attracted me and I've been thinking about it on and off.  On another fishing trip through a stash box I found some lace from my Mums craft stash and my page grew from that.

My page, see below for products used

Great Aunt Lillian May Letch 1906 - 1984

The lace from Mum's stash, a bit Grunged now lol

Of course I didn't work on these one at a time, I was jumping back and forth from one project to another.    I also worked on some gifts for Pay It Forward 2012, and some cards for the gift shop.

Whew, I'm bushed from typing it, but feel great to have completed these things

Bring on tomorrow

Enjoy Art Every Day

Love Deb xoxo

The First and the Latest

Hello All,

I thought I would share a little of my Scrap Booking history.I first learnt about Scrapping in December of 2002, (I think I'd heard of it before, but didn't realise exactly what it was), I was browsing through a magazine in my doc's office and came across an article on OTP (Off the Page) Scrapping.The author was using her scrapping skills to create framed art works.

Later that arvo I was given some photos of my beautiful step-daughter Skye at her formal.  Well as soon as I saw them I knew I had to have a go at this scrapping thing.
Here it is, I took it out of it's frame to photograph it.

At the time I was into Folk Art, so I pulled out my painting supplies and went for it.

I used Jo Sonja Acrylic Gouche and Crackle Medium to create the background.   Traced around some cups and plates to create the frames and painted them with Jo Sonja's.   Then used a stencil to hand cut the title and painted it.

Personally I think I did a pretty good job after reading just one article.

SO that was it, I was hooked, I started buying and borrowing Scrap Mags and slowly taught myself about this wonderful craft.

My eldest daughter, Annie turned 18 in 2005, I made photo banners for the party, lots of photos and little quips( I now know this was journalling) about her life.   After the party I turned the banners into a scrap album, after that I started albums for holidays, our wedding, my heritage, my two younger daughters, and yes, I'm still working on all of them lol.

Late in 2005 I attended my very first class, with the amazing Lorraine Knight, a very talented artist and my eyes were really opened to the scope of this craft.

Now 6 and a bit years on I think I'm evolving into quite a talented Scrapper, I still have lots to learn, and I take regular classes at Paper Flourish (I'll add a link to their site in my side bar), it's a fantastic shop with extremely talented teachers, at a recent class we created this page, designed by Janine Kozcwara.

My lovely Stevie at Kindy.

When I got home from class I used the left overs from the kit, and some of my stash, to create a partner page for it.

Luckily I own the spellbinder die that we had used in class.

I had some doilies in my stash and inked and Glimmer Misted them to match.



A matching title from the sticker sheet ties the two together perfectly.

And I still have enough left overs from the class to make at least a half a dozen cards.

I hope that you agree that I have come quite a long way, and I hope you enjoy coming back to my blog to check on my continuing creative journey.

Enjoy Art Every Day

Love Deb xox





FInally My First Post

SO I'm finally writing my first post.   I've been putting it off and it just dawned on me why.   I was worried that nobody would be interested in what I had to say or share.   It doesn't matter does it, this blog is firstly and foremost for ME.  A place to record my thoughts and feelings and display my craft.

So "Who the hell is Deb Williams?" you may ask.

Well, I'm 45 years young, I'm very happily married to Mick, we have been together for over 20 years.   We have 3 beautiful daughters Rhiannon Kate (Annie), Stevie-Lee ( Stevie) and Georgia - May ( Bubby), who you will all get to know if you decide to make my blog a regular place to visit.

I live in Elizabeth, South Australia, and have for most of my life, I spent a few years travelling with my parents as a child, and moved for work in my late teens, early 20's, but Elizabeth is home, my friends and family are here.

I've had a few different jobs over the years, nursing, receptionist, canteen manager, customer support officer and a few others.   At the moment I am aiming to start selling my paper craft items, I make tags, cards, mini albums and many other off-the-page products, I LOVE IT, and would really like to start selling and making some money to feed my habit lol.

I'm signing off for now, I'm going to dig out some photos so that I can show you the story of my crafting journey

Enjoy Art Every Day

Love Deb