This month in classes, as well as doing our art journal covers, we've been trying Faux Silk Technique.

One of the cards we're making is this one:  Here's the Baja Breeze version.

Scuse my fingers - bit tricky to photograph!  Here it is opened.

The other option is the Riding Hood Red base card.

Once again its a little tricky to make out the crushed silk look on the main panel - rather hard to capture on camera. 

If you'd like to try this technique there's space left in my Wed 26th Aug 7.30pm class.  Phone 0417 377 057 or email [email protected] to book one of the remaining spots.  Class details here.

Out Of The Office!

And now I'm off to finish packing!  My newsletter ladies and class regulars already know (because I've been raving on excitedly!) that I am heading off to Noosa tomorrow for 5 days of fun. 

A big big BIG thank you to my upline Claire Daly.  Not only has she been such a great support over the last 18 months since I joined Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator, but she earned the Incentive Trip this year and invited me along to be her guest.  How lucky am I?!   THANK YOU!

5 days of warm weather and the fabulous company of Claire and a whole bunch of Stampin' Up girls.  I don't think I can still quite believe that I'm actually going.

I'm feeling just a tad guilty about how much I'm looking forward to 5 days of just organising myself - no housework, school runs, meal preparing, diary checking etc etc.  Claire and I have a deal - she won't call out in the middle of the night 'I HAD A BAD DREAM AND I CAN'T GET BACK TO SLEEP' if I promise not to run away and hide when its time to clean teeth!  Other parents of young kids will relate I'm sure :-)  Think we're both looking forward to a few days of relaxing.   Parents don't get many opportunities for a little holiday from being mum or dad hey!

But I'm sure I'll also be looking forward to my 3 smiling faces greeting me at the airport on Sunday afternoon too. I'll have to store up a lot of cuddles to last 5 days, 4 nights and I think I'll especially miss that last tuck in of the kids I do at night before I head to bed.  There's something about watching sleeping children isn't there and tucking them in safely at the end of a day.  Nice to know they'll be well cared for by their terrific hands on dad (who has taken a few days off to hold the fort at home.)  A big thank you there too.  A supportive husband makes starting a home based business that much easier and I'm very grateful.

Oops - this is turning into a bit of a soppy post! 

ANYWAY - so I'm officially 'out of the office' between Wed and Sunday.  Will be back with lots of pics to share.

In the meantime I've set up some posts to share a few things with you while I'm away so if you're missing me (hee hee) stop by here over the next few days!

Cheers, Sue