blaacraft

¨ I live in wonderful Adelaide, South Australia, home to fantastic festivals and wonderful wines - where it takes 20-30 mins at the most to get anywhere. I am a mother to 3: 2 girls (17 & 10) & a boy (16)

For a quick visual overview of what I like, my pinterest boards are always up to date & accurate!

http://www.pinterest.com/BelindaAchatz

I do mixed media/scrapbooking, stamping, art journalling, collage, card making, wet-and-needle (dry) felting, some jewellery making. I love ATC's.

motifs/patterns/crafts influenced by Middle Eastern culture/Turkish/Indian/Nepalese...think Turkish/Islamic tiles (LOVE them), Indian motifs, paisley scripts religious iconography, esp non-Christian, eg Hindu gods mythologies from across the world/Joseph Campbell's work having lived in France, I love anything French...the more obscure the better....

I have always been interested in strong women figures in history/art history like:

Queen Elizabeth Ist anything Elizabethan/Henry's 8 wives Frida Kahlo Jeanne d'Arc/French History

I love anything Tim Holtz & Ranger branded things, stamps especially stampers anonymous, Stampotique, Chocolate Baroque, the Octopode Factory

butterflies peacocks native Australian flora and fauna pandas standard poodles (bigger is better!!...lol) seahorses

I love Schitt's Creek, Umbrella Academy, Lucifer

I love also British Comedy - Monty Python esp

I also like & collect:

Paper napkins for collage vintage photos, ephemera old manuscripts/musical scores old children's books from my mothers era - eg '40's

Colours - my absolute favourite is GREEN in any shade/hue

I love ­ombre / gradients I also love any reds, turquoise & aqua I love monochromatic schemes especially vintage whites & creams

nature colours - dusty red, olives, umbers, browns

vintage dusky pinks only - NOT lolly pink

I prefer Shimmer & shiny rather than glitter & bling eg Twinkling H2O's

I DO NOT like & please do NOT send me:

small pieces of patterned paper &/or cardstock- I have tons!!

ribbon

Stickers

Loose sequins/scatters

anything cutesy,

teddy bears

Disney & other licensed stuff

Hello Kitty / Kawaii

bling overload

and PLEASE no magazine cut-outs!!!! I think these are worse than stickers! I have been disappointed recently with some swaps where people have cut out pictures from either junkmail/catalogues or magazines and stuck them on, added a touch of coloured pencil & it's finished. I put a lot more work into my swaps and I expect the same. Thanks