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• 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

• 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

• 22May

  My Swap Convention 2010 Swap Cards

  Cards, Stampin Up, Stamping, Uncategorized 3 Comments

   I thought that I would share with you the swap card I made for Convention.

  I had 4 designs and 20 of each, so a total of 80 cards to swap.

  My first card used Cheers for You and Seeing Spots:

  

  Next I used my favourite Stamp Set - Fifth Avenue Floral and favourite colour combo Pink and Chocolate Chip:

  

  This card I used Circle Circus and Soft Suede and Chocolate Chip:

  

  I also made some with Melon Mambo:

  

  And finally I made a few of these M&M tubes decorated with the Extra Large Bird Punch:

  

  I can not wait to share with you the cards I get back.

  Happy Stamping

  

  Tags: cheers for you, circle circus, Convention, fifth avenue floral, In Colours Stampin Up, Stampin Up, Stamping

• 21May

  A Little Box of Chocolates - Convention 2010 Gifts

  General, Gifts, Stampin Up, Stamping, Uncategorized 2 Comments

  I made this cute little box of chocolates and matching card for Aaron Scott - the Australian Regional Business Development Manager.

   

  I wanted to thank him for all his hard work in making Stampin’ Up! such a fantastic company to work for. Although I do not know Aaron personally at all the Stampin’ Up! functions I have attended Aaron always greets everyone with a cheery smile and a hello.

  I hope he and his family enjoy sharing the chocolates together

  Happy stamping

  

  Tags: Convention, Gifts, 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

• 04May

  Scallop Circle

  Autumn-Winter Mini, Cards, Stampin Up, Stamping, Uncategorized 5 Comments

   I thought I would give my Big Shot Scallop Circle Die a try and make a couple of cards.

  For my first card I cut out 2 circles in Soft Suede then ran them through the Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder. I then joined the circles together with 2 jumbo brads and a piece of ribbon. I decorated the front with the new Extra Large 2 Step Bird Punch

  

  For my second card I place the scallop circle die just past the fold of some Rich Razzleberry card so the front and back were joined together. I used some of the new Cottage Wall DSP and stamps from the Vintage Vogue Set

  

  I hope you like them and Happy Stamping!

  

  Tags: In Colours Stampin Up, Scallop Circle, Sizzix Big shot, Stampin Up, Stamping

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