Helping a Special Little Girl......

One of the things I love about being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator is the capacity of the Stampin' Up! community to all pull together to help another. Now we are all pulling together to help a special little girl called Lara May. Lara is the daughter of a fellow Elite demonstrator Madonna Dunn. You can read Lara's story HERE

To help raise money for the specialised equipment Lara needs, we are running a stamping event called We Stamp for Lara. The details are below.......

If you would like to join in, the Paypal button is above. You will be emailed the invitation for the forum closer to the date. If you aren't able to participate but would still like to donate, there is also a donate button under the blinkie in my sidebar

Thanks in advance and hope to see you there!! 

Dress Up for Christmas - New Promotion!!

Yay!! Another promotion and one with EXCLUSIVE product even!! From now until 30 November you can get FREE ribbon (choose from 4 designs) when you purchase a Christmas Bundle or host a $550 (before shipping) workshop!! There is even an EXCLUSIVE Designer Series Paper pack that cannot be purchased separately!

Check out the bundles and details below. To see the ribbons and get more details click here or click on the flyer over on the side ----------->

The Fine Print
•There is no limit to the number of bundles a customer can purchase. For every bundle purchased, the customer may choose another spool of ribbon.

•Bundles and free exclusive ribbon are only available while supplies last. If any of the components of a bundle run out of inventory, the bundle will not be available to order. If any of the free ribbons run out of inventory, customers may choose another free ribbon.


Contact me today to order your bundles or book your workshop!!

Birthday Invitation Share.....

Hi Everyone

Long time, no blog!! Sorry, about that. Been a busy time here and I just haven't been able to keep up with everything. I have been making wedding invitations, birthday invitations and goodies to sell at the 4 fairs in 4 weeks I am doing in November!! So you can see why I have been busy :)

I thought I would share the invitations I did for my Dad's 60th birthday which is coming up next month. I needed something simple as I had so much on, but I also wanted it to be effective. I like the colour combination for a classy male invitation :)

So here it is......

It was a pocket card with the party details printed on the insert (as below)

Stamp Sets: None!!!

Cardstock: Basic Black, Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, Love Letter Designer Series Paper

Accessories: Scallop Trim Border Punch, 1-1/4" Circle Punch, 1-3/8" Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Big Shot, Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Sizzlits, 5/8" Black Satin Ribbon, Round Tab Punch, gold brads

Enjoy the rest of your week everyone, I am busy packing for a much-awaited scrap weekend this weekend. Can't wait!!

Jingle Bells!!

Hi Everyone!

I am in the midst of making cards to sell at some fairs I have coming up in November and I have started on Christmas Cards - Only 3 months to go!!

My mission is to use up all my retired bits and pieces so this seemed like a good way to get rid of some ribbon, lol! You can use any ribbon really, which makes it a great design (it was inspired by a card by Ann Craig). I really like the colour combo too so you may see a few more cards in these colours!

Stamp Sets: Delightful Decorations, Season of Joy

Carstock & Inks: Riding Hood Red Cardstock, Old Olive Cardstock, Whisper White Cardstock,

Riding Hood Red Ink, Baja Breeze Ink, Old Olive Ink

Accessories: Retired Ribbon, Star Brad

Enjoy your week :)

Regionals Swap

I promised several people at Perth Regionals that I would post my swap and how I did it, I am sorry it took me so long but better late than never!!

This is the card I gave out as my swaps for Regionals, you may recognise it as being similar to a previous card I posted. It was inspired by that card, but I changed a few things......

So, the technique I used was Faux Embossing. To do this, all I did was stamp the Medallion on my Baja Breeze cardstock in White Craft Ink. I then lined up the image with my Stamp-a-majig and moved it slightly down and to the right and stamped the image again in Baja Breeze ink. Easy!!

The ribbon was done by putting a line of sticky strip accross the bottom of the card and then ruffling the taffeta ribbon accross it. The finished ribbon made me think of a wedding garter, hence the card being a wedding card!!

For the sentiment, I made my own Modern Label by cutting the top and bottom off a scallop oval.

Hope you like it, I am quite fond of this one - even after making 25 of them!!

Just Add Ink #35

Its been a while since I have done a Just Add Ink Challenge, I have been so busy! Tonight I felt in need of some direction, so I headed to JAI to see what the Challenge was. This week it is a Theme Challenge...... Just Add Sympathy. I haven't made one of these for a while (which in this case is a good thing!) so I struggled with where to start. I decided to use a set from the New Catalogue called 'Just Believe'

Its a really lovely set which could fit many themes.

When I stamped the main image I decided to try a shadow effect. I stamped the main image and then straight after lifting the stamp moved it very slightly to the left and stamped again. Its hard to see in the photo but it gives it a lovely shadow.

I have also used some of the New In Colours! Expect to see more of these colours, they are YUMMY!!

Stamp Sets: Just Believe, Occassional Quotes (Level 3 Hostess Set)

Cardstock & Ink: Concord Crush Cardstock, Pear Pizzazz Cardstock, Bashful Blue Cardstock, Whisper White Cardstock, Concord Crush Ink

Accessories: Scallop Trim Punch, Wide Oval Punch

Enjoy your Sunday :)

Hoot Hoot Hooray!!

Hi Everyone!!
So I finally got my goodies this week and spent all day today playing with them!  I am completely in love with the Two Step Owl Punch. There are so many different ways you can use it, not just owls! I will do some more playing and come back another day with more examples.

Today, I made a card for a set of twins who are turning 1. It is their party tomorrow and I thought it would be a great excuse to get out the Owls! It also uses two more lots of goodies from the New Catalogue, the Scallop Trim Punch and the Designer Series Paper Patterns Stack. The DSP Stack is particularly good value, 40 sheets of excellent quality double-sided paper for $37.95!!

Stamp Sets: Tiny Tags

Cardstock & Ink: Bashful Blue Cardstock, Daffodil Delight Cardstock, Chocolate Chip Carstock,

Whisper White Cardstock, Real Red Cardstock, Pear Pizzazz Ink

Accessories: Two-Step Owl Punch, Jewellery Tag Punch, Scallop Trim Punch,

Dazzling Diamonds, White Gel Pen, Linen Thread

Hope you like it!