Paris Dream Mini Album/Journal is looking for a new home!!

I am finally ready to share this project that I have been working on. The lovely Jennifer Bishop of Dreamzetc invited me to join her as a guest designer. She sent me a lovely parcel full of her beautiful paper designs and other goodies and this is the result.

If you would like to visit Jennifer's Etsy shop HERE and see all of the digital designs, please tell her I sent you!

I used an upcycled ring binder as the base, so it will be easy to add extra pages and photos. The base was covered with old book pages, tissue and lots of lovely distress inks, stains and paint. The Distress paint in Antiqued Bronze and Tarnished Brass are my favourites on this - they give a lovely rich sheen.  

For the embellishments I used old game pieces and paper from Dreamzetc with glossy accents to adhere and coat the top.

Inside there are lots of tucks and pockets and rich and luscious pages for your photos and stories of your trip to Paris (whether real or planned!)

I have a video flip through here, if you would like to look.

I would love to share this with one of my lovely subscribers and if you would like to enter the draw leave a comment below. No anonymous comments please. 

If you would like an extra secret entry, pop over HERE to Pinterest and follow me and then pop back and leave another comment to let me know. 

I will also be including followers who leave a comment on my instagram HERE and also on Facebook HERE

Good Luck and 

Thanks for visiting 

xx Michelle

Great Plans

I had great plans over the weekend after a terrible week, I planned to shock my youtube subscribers by catching up on all my videos. One a day for three days - great plan - the first one went so well - uploaded without a problem but I have spent the rest of the weekend trying and failing to upload the second vid.
My fabulous birthday present of an idiot proof camera - the bloggie - which in theory is supposed to be for idiots like me - is not working - I am going to ruin some poor techies day by ringing them!!! No email - I want to speak to someone!!! Whoever answers that call is going to wish they didn't after they try to explain what - An unexpected error is - It is not unexpected to me - I have seen this message many times and I have only had the camera less than 1 month!!
I did manage to upload the vid of my Altered Letter Stand - I love this and have been trawling the junk shops in the hope of finding more. I think I cleared out all of the good stuff in the last creative burst! But the fun and frustration of junk shops is you never know when or where you will find something  fabulous!

Here is the link to my Letter Stand

I hope you enjoy it and I hope your computer is your friend today.

Thanks for visiting

xx Michelle

Happy Birthday to me - Leibster Blog Award

What a fabulous present I got for my birthday - the Liebster Blog award. 
I was awarded this from the fabulous Kit of PaperKitz.

The Liebster Award takes it's name from the German word
meaning Beloved, Dearest or Favorite.

It is given to bloggers who have a small following - under 200 followers.

As part of the tradition it is passed along to 5 bloggers that have
motivated and inspired.
To accept the award you must:
1. Link back to the person who gave it to you and thank them
2. Post the award to your blog
3. Give the award to 5 bloggers with less than 200 followers
that you appreciate and value.
4. Leave a comment on the 5 blogs to let them know that they have been offered this award.

I am so flattered and thrilled and will be trawling through my favourite blogs to find my absolute favourite five - this could take a while... alot of research and inspiration is required ... no housework possible until this mission is completed!!

I found Kit on You tube and love her channel so much I tracked down her blog - you will love her too
visit her at ...

http://paperkitz.blogspot.co.nz/
http://www.youtube.com/user/Paperkitz

I have been distracted inspired by her channel and have made a couple of her gorgeous little books from one sheet of 12 x 12. Photos to follow - apparently my camera is exhausted - that is seriously what is says!!!! I am recharging all batteries and will be back in full production shortly!!

I am so behind on my videos and blogging - I will try and update daily to catch up! We have been experiencing technical difficulties and I will explain more in my next blog.

Hope you are all well and having fun playing!!!
Thanks for stopping by - see you soon
xxx Michelle

I Love Graphic 45

Can you guess why??
I have been stalking the graphic 45 blog every day to see all the new and exciting products that I will soon be justifying! Yes I know I already have paper, and I have trinkets ....but not these new ones - I have to have them! My wish list is now ridiculously long but there is something that won't be on my wish list, because I won - yes - I did - I won one of four daily prizes! I screamed so loud my family thought I had seen a mouse! (Yes - it is a ridiculous thing to be terrified of.... but I am.)
Here is the link to todays post just in case you missed it.
http://g45papers.typepad.com/graphic45/2012/01
Thank you Graphic 45 - I can't wait to get my goodies!

I have had a fabulous busy week and I have 3 projects nearly ready to show you - Hopefully tomorrow.

Wishing you are all having a fabulous day.
xx Michelle