PRINTOUT!

Is an evening celebrating independent magazines, with some great speakers to boot. Conceived by Steve Watson from STACK in partnership with Jeremy Leslie.

Ala Champfest I s s u e 3 was involved in this fantastic evening that took place last week. Amongst great magazines and great people.

Speakers

Rob Orchard | Delayed Gratification

Tim Hayward | Fire & Knives

John L Walters | Eye Magazine

Keep an eye out for more to come..

First image kindly borrowed by Jeremy Leslie's ever-knowledgeable blog, MagCulture.

The rest below thanks to Steve!

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Issue 003 nestled with very good company....

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

it has been a while since i posted something but i still around. in my country there is this saying: weeds never die, hehe. that's me!

Happy Mother's Day

5.5" by 3.75"

anyway, i had no idea of what i was doing here, lol, but i knew i wanted to use at least once, the kate's abcs cart.

the mushrooms you will find on page 57----cut them at 3.25".  

the butterfly is from the same page and was cut at one inch.

this frame is from sizzix and the awesome greeting is from mps. 

i love this font.

oh! the dry embossing was done with the script texture folder from cuttlebug.

a bit of inking, a bit of bling.

 

something a bit different but not bad at all :P. 

I hope you guys are doing well.

 

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remember, this saturday is national scrapbooking day (NSD) and robyn will be celebrating with ideas, challenges, giveaways and new stamp releases. mark your calendars so you do not miss all the fun. 

i really enjoy participating in the different challenges and  hope you do too.

love you all!

*_*

Stitching by lamplight

Managed to finish an embroidered sample last night - will make into a shaped swatch. I am quite pleased with the results - this fits into my "revolutionary" colour way - with blazing reds and oranges with blacks, greys and blues.

Re-post

Sometimes you read something on another blog and you just have to re-post it. That's it.

Found on Paul Mittleman's blog on Honeyee (we've said it before, but really, get on it).

Investigators have traced more refugees who were helped to escape Nazi Germany by the fearless boss of Leica cameras. Ernst Leitz II, who ran the Wetzlar-based optics business after his father's death in 1920, risked his life to help around 80 Jews and other persecuted people flee Hitler's regime.

The Royal Wedding

Everyone's been talking about it - and why shouldn't they? It's quite exciting - there hasn't been a 'royal' wedding in quite some time. 

Kate and Will. Such an elegant couple. I've never seen a good photo of Kate and she is actually quite stunning. Not to mention her sister Pippa who nearly stole the show. She even has a Facebook Appreciation Page for her arse. Work it girl.

Kate and Will can be found on all types of merchandising - some companies have really gone for it and probably made quite a good profit. Mugs, plates, tea-towels, key-chains and even ashtrays.

Some favourite items are :

- a mug I spotted in a store in the Cotswolds with an image of Kate and Harry (instead of her um, fiance, Will)

-a poster spotted at Nelly Duff Gallery reading 'Kate Loves Willy'.

-a commemorative plate with Kate rolling her eyes.

 

BBTB2 Preserves Apple Core Challenge

It's Monday AGAIN! How time flies! Our BBTB2 challenge this week was chosen by our fabulously talented and pretty darn sweet, fearless leader, Heather. Her pick is the apple core from Preserves. WOW, ANOTHER cart I don't have (sure seems like I've got them all) and to be honest, I almost blew this one off coming off a birthday trip and all and I was a little off my game, but just 'cause it's YOU, Heather... Anyway, I used CricutSearch.com to pull up apples and lo and behold there was somewhat of a core on Give a Hoot. It was part of the border feature and didn't have any layering but I decided to see what I could do in DS. First I made a shaped card using the shadow of the apple from then on, who knows. I stretched and skewed and hid contours up the ying yang to get a size that fit correctly on my base and layered images until I managed cut a core and some peel. The center part is from George and the seeds were the result of some additional manipulation of one of the cuts from Give a Hoot. The adorable worm is from Create a Critter and the sentiment is from the Cuttlebug Everyday Greetings Card Making combo.

Sorry there's not as much layering as usual. I actually had an additional apple layer under the worm originally but when I decided I didn't like the first base color I chose and cut the whole thing over, I decided that layer didn't add to the design and I chucked it. Not quite as much detail, either, but DH was itching to go to the wine festival in town so... Now go be inspired by the rest of the DT's fabulous creations HERE and remember, we allow some artistic license if you haven't the cart in question. Oh, and if you're having a rough Monday, scroll down for a laugh.

Mission Workshop x MixtMeat

Mission always come up with great videos to promote their bags. Not that they need to - the products do speak for themselves, but it's great to see.

The latest video is made by the guys from London-based trick riding group MixtMeat. These guys are loads of fun and quite good at what they do - which shows in the video.

I want to get me a Rambler now...

Rambler Roll Top Backpack // Pikey Science from Mission Workshop on Vimeo.

There is also this old Paris edit .. Directed by Jeremy Halkin which we love love love.

MISSION WORKSHOP IN PARIS from Bicycle Store on Vimeo.