Warratahstree Art and Creative Inspiration

 I have to say, I am fairly tech savy when it comes to comptuers, social media and IT security.  I have even helped family and clients recover their computers after computer viruses. I have helped family members recover after being scammed.  Today, I was totally unprepared to be a VICTUM of a scam!!  Yes me who tells people NEVER give out credit card details or personal details over the phone, was caught in that sticky web of fraud!!!   photo credit: Neal. via photopin cc   How did I get caught in this web you ask? Well, I was looking for Networking groups in Linkedin for women in Small Business.  I nievely thought that Linkedin was free of fraudulant advertisements.  I saw an advertisement for Networking for Women in Business.  As I have only just begun my business, I thought networking online and gaining business contacts in the corporate world for corporate events would be a great start.    I filled out my email details and...

 I have been so busy lately getting ready for my next market stall.   I am trying to be organized this time around and have enough interesting stock on my stall.   A few weeks ago, I told you about my new way to make cards faster and more interesting using a Gelli Plate, Gelli Plate Printing.    Well, I am finally got to make cards from the pages I printed using the Gelli Plate.  Here are a few of the pages and the Cards I made.    Now to get started on the magnets I have been making from maps and the left over paper..... Happy Blogging; Tracy

Last year I started blogging on a weekly basis and made it my goal to talk about all the hints and tips on holding a market stall.   Well, I think I want to start 2014 with stock management, and time management.  How do these 2 things fit together in the scheme of things you ask?                                                                     To take advantage of the Christmas season last year, I booked 5 market stalls in 3 weeks from mid November to mid Dec. That does not sound to bad some of you say.  Well, being a newbie at all this, not having a lot of stock, unsure about my target market, and being a one person show, I was just a TAD over committed!  I started my Christmas stock design and making in Oct.  After each market I was spending the whole time restocking and d...

  Last year I started teaching Social ArtWorking.  I wanted to teach canvas pa inting parties and found the Social ArtWorking painting parties were perfect for what I wanted to do.   This week I had a class of 6 girls, aged 6 yrs.  They were the quietest 6 yr olds I have ever met.  I am not sure if they were concentrating so much on their paints, or scared of the new environment or what.     I kept asking them are you having fun and I would see smiling faces and shaking heads.....OK It must be the new environment and the scary lady teaching the class, lol.  They all painted the most beautiful paintings.  What a great job don't you think?  Social ArtWorking is a great canvas painting system to teach all ages and I am having so much fun teaching adults and children.

Happy New Year to you all. It has been SOOOO long. I started a new business and was so busy I had to take time off from blogging. So much was happening I could not find the words to blog. I have missed you all and most of all I have missed visiting all the amazing blogs I have seen since starting my blogging journey. To start off the New Year I am in design mode. One of the designs I wanted to make more of are cards like the Tardis card below. I have been creating cards like this using sponging techniques. I do a whole A5 page at one time. It takes me about 30 min to create one page. I happen to be watching a scrapbooking show I have recorded. On that show they demonstrated a Gelli plate that is used for printing. The method they showed was sooo much faster than my sponging, inking, and masking. It got me thinking about how I could use this Gelli plate to create my card backgrounds. I went on a Youtube search to see how other's use this Gelli Plate. I ...

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