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• 28Jul

  A Day Full of Birthdays!

  Birthday, Cards, Friends, General, Gifts, Occasions, Off the Page, Stampin Up, Stamping, Uncategorized 4 Comments

  Can you believe that we have 3 friends celebrating Birthdays today!

  The first birthday we will be celebrating is Archie’s best friend Zara’s 5th Birthday. She is having a party this morning with a jumping castle and I am not sure who is more excited Archie or Zara. Zara is madly in love with Zu Zu pets at the moment so we got her one. Archie wanted to have a pink cupcake card so I made one and of course some matching paper.

   

  I also wanted to make something special for Zara so I amde her this 12 x 12 Canvas to remember thier recent Farm visit the went on with their Kindy.

  Archie helped me to pick out the photos and I kept with the pink theme. When Archie woke up the next morning after I created it he said “WOW Mum she is going to love it!”

  

  It also happens to be Zara’s Mum’s Birthday today as well.Since we were going to their place for the party I thought I would make her a little gift as well. I made her a bag full of cards and envelopes as well as a matching gift box. I like to refer to these boxes as my Indulgents packs as I fill them with some lovely flavoured teas, chocolates and a relaxing face mask. Of course I had to make a birthday card to match.

  

  Lastly my very dear friend and fellow demonstrator Rebecca from Heart and Craft is also celebrating her Birthday today. I have made her a card and matching Gift Bag topper to hide her gift. I can not share her gift with you yet as I won’t be seeing her until this afternoon and I do not want to spoil the surprise

  

  Happy Birhday to each and everyone of you! I hope your day is full of love,laughter and happiness.

  Happy Stamping

  

   

   

  Tags: Birthday, Canvas, Cards, Crazy for Cupcakes, Gift bag Topper, Gifts, Stampin Up, Vintage Vogue

• 11Jul

  Vintage Vogue

  Autumn-Winter Mini, Cards, Friends, Stampin Up, Stamping, Uncategorized 4 Comments

   Vintage Vogue is one of my Favourite Stamp Sets from the Autumn Mini Catalogue. I am really hoping that it makes it into our new Stampin’ Up! Catalogue in September. I decided to ink it up and make a couple of cards.

  The first card I made is one that cased from Sarah-Jane Kae. You can see her card here. Like me Sarah-Jane is a huge fan of Pink and there is plenty of pink in this card:

  

  Supplies:
  Stamps: Vintage Vogue 
  Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla
  DSP:  Candy Lane

  Ink:  Pink Pirouette, Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip
  Ribbon: Certainly Celery Wide Grosgrain
  Misc: Stampin’ Dimensionals, Very Vintage Jumbo Wheel, Nesstabilities, Big Shot Machine, Brads

  I thought that I would make a non-pink card next.

  I had a few kits left over from our Autumn-Winter Catalogue Launch so I thought I would change the card slightly and use them up

  

  Supplies:
  Stamps: Vintage Vogue 
  Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Not Quite Navy, Kraft, Soft Suede   Ink: Not Quite Navy, Soft Suede, Versa Mark
  Ribbon: Soft Suede polka dot
  Misc: Stampin’ Dimensionals, Brads, Eyelet Border Punch, Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder, Big Shot Machine, Very Vintage Jumbo Wheel

  I am really happy with both these cards and I made up a few of them ready to send to some friends and loved ones!

   

  Tags: Autumn-Winter Mini, Stampin Up, Stamping, Vintage Vogue

• 04Jul

  Everybody Needs Good Friends!

  Autumn-Winter Mini, Cards, Friends, Occasions, Off the Page, Stampin Up, Stamping 3 Comments

  

  I was lucky enough to have a girl’s Night Out with 2 of my closest friends on Friday Night. We do not get to out much these days as we have 8 children between the 3 of us, but when we do we always have a great time. These 2 friends mean the world to me and I wanted to make them a little gift to help them get through the rest of the holidays. I just love this template from Papertry Ink. It is called Tucked Away and you can print it staright onto your cardstock and cut it out. I filled both of the boxes with some flavoured Tea and yummy chocolates.

   

     

       

  Love you GIRLS and I am looking forward to our next night out!

  

  Tags: Gifts, Stampin Up, Stamping

• 03Jul

  More Convention 2010 Gifts

  Blogging, Friends, General, Gifts, Occasions, Stampin Up, Stamping 1 Comment

  Author’s Note: I am not sure what happened to this post. I had it scheduled for while I was away at Convention and for some reason it got lost in cyber space. I had forgotten all about it until it turned up in my Drafts Folder tonight????? Not sure what is going on but thought I would share it with you all anyway

  Over the years I have made some lovely friends who are fellow Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators. Sadly many of them are not going to Convention this year but I am fortunate that I will be catching up with some of my very dear friends.

  I wanted to make them a little bag of goodies to thank them for their friendship and late night chats via the Internet.

  The first person I am very excited to be catching up with is Nicole Stalker.

  I first met Nikki at last year’s convention and ever since she has been a great source of inspiration. She often leaves me the loveliest comments on my blog. Here is her little gift bag:

   

  Next I made a bag for my Secret Sister Round 3 - Claire Harrison. As many of you regular visitors would have seen Claire has been absolutely spoiling me over the past 3 months and I can not wait to meet her and thank her in person for all my beautiful gifts.

  Claire LOVES elephants so here is her little gift bag of goodies:

    

  Finally Kerri Donski is a relatively new friend of mine. She recently shared with me her instructions to make an awesome little gift box to hold some Dove Chocolates. I promised her a handmade gift in return. Now Kerri is a girl after my own heart her favourite colour is pink and she just loves the colour combo of Pink Pirouette and Close to Cocoa (or chocolate Chip).

  So here is her goody bag:

    

  I will be back soon with some more until then

  Happy Stamping

  

  Tags: Blogging, Convention, Gifts, Secret Sister, Stampin Up, Stamping

• 01Jul

  Secret Sister

  Friends, Gifts, Stampin Up, Uncategorized 1 Comment

  One of the biggest highlights for me at Convention this year was meeting my Secret Sister from ESAD (Round 3).

  

  I was so lucky to have Claire Harrison as my sister and WOW did she spoil me. If you visit my site regularly you would have seen her ealier gifts that she sent me, also Claire has a fantastic blog and you can see it here.

  Claire and I spent quite a bit of time together at Convention. She is so talented and I had a heap of questions I wanted to ask her about her creations and some of the techniques she had used. I also recieved my final gift drom Claire and boy she certainly left the best to last.

  

      

   

  Claire made me a Card Organiser using one of Stampin’ Up!’s 6 x 6 Linen Post Albums.

  Each month has its own decorated sealed pocket to place cards into. On the front of each month there is a place to write down any significant birthday/anniversaries. Surely now I will not forget anyone’s birthday!!!!!

  Thank you so much Claire - you were the best ever Secret Sister.

  

  Tags: Convention, ESAD -SU, Secret Sister

• 30May

  Underbelly - Dark and Manly

  Birthday, Cards, Family, Friends, Stampin Up, Stamping, Uncategorized 9 Comments

  Every Sunday Night I look forward to 8:30pm to get my weekly dose of the TV series Underbelly. Now I don’t know if it was the dark seedy content of this week’s episode or the fact that I needed to make some male birthday cards, but while watching this week’s episode I manage to make 6 male birthday cards. (3 designs 2 of each).

  

  I went for the colour combo of Basic Black, Basic Grey and Going Grey. I am quite pleased with how they turned out and they will be put to use next month when we have about 5 male birthdays in our family.

  Here is a close up of each of the cards:

  

  

  

  Happy Stamping

  

  Tags: Cards, circle circus, Stampin Up, Stamping

• 20May

  Convention 2010

  Blogging, Friends, General, Gifts, Off the Page, Stampin Up, Stamping No Comments

  I know I have not been blogging much lately but I have been very busy getting organised for convention.

  I leave today at 1pm and I am so so so excited.

  I thought over the next couple of days I will share with you some of the things I have made for swaps and for my friends who are also attending convention.

  First of all I thought Iwould share with you the little gift I made for my roomies - Steph, Lou and Rebecca.

  Ever since convention last year where we all purchased the beautiful Raspberry Tart pencil case at Memento Mall, I have been wanted to make the girls a matching Notebook. Well 1 year later I have finally done it. To go with their notebook I made each of them a bag Tag so we don’t mix up our Convention bags and a little M&M cello bag tube decorated with the extra large 2 Step Bird Punch

  

  Anyway I hope the girls like them. I will be back tomorrow with some more gifts

  

  Tags: Convention, Raspberry Tart DSP, Stampin Up, Stamping

• 20May

  My Secret Sister - April Gift

  Blogging, Cards, Friends, General, Gifts, Stamping, Uncategorized 1 Comment

  Here is the fantastic gift I received from my Secret Sister for April. OMG!! What an AMAZING!

  Inside was a beautiful hand stamped card and a 2 wrapped parcels. Each parcel was wrapped in a gorgeous linen tea-towel and they were both held together with some raffia - just beautiful.

  

  

  But the surprise was yet to come as I unwrapped each parcel my jaw just dropped and then tears started to well in my eyes. Each parcel held a beautiful hand created personalised album for each of my children.

  

  

  

  I am just so touched that my Secret Sister would spend so much time to create such a personal gift. It sure was a lovely early Mother’s Day Gift.

  

  Tags: Secret Sister, Stampin Up, Stamping

• 19May

  Better Late than Never

  Birthday, Cards, Friends, Stampin Up, Stamping No Comments

  I just wanted to pop in a show you this gorgeous Birthday Card I recieved in the mail today. Yes I know my birthday was a month ago but for some reason this lovely card decided to take a very long detour before arriving in my mailbox.

  

  The lovely Jill Joicey made me this card and I just love it. She knows how much I love pink and didn’t she do a great job with the butterflies.

  Thanks Jill - see good things come to those who wait!

  

  Tags: Birthday, Stampin Up, Stamping

• 02May

  Birthday Gift Gifts and Cards Part 3

  Birthday, Cards, Friends, Stampin Up, Stamping, Uncategorized No Comments

  Here are some of the cards that I received from some of my friends/fellow demonstrators

  

  Diane - Stampin’ Up! in Oz

   

  

  Kris - Steph Stampers

   

  

  Tania Kitto - ESAD-SU

   

  

  Amanda- Steph’s Stampers

   

  

  Carol - ESAD-SU

  and finally here is my Beautiful Birthday card from my Secret Sister

  

   

  

  Tags: Birthday, Secret Sister, Stampin Up, Stamping

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