Hi there When the Occasions Catalogue was first released I totally discounted the ‘That’s the Tag’ bundle on page 23. That was until my downline gave me some sample tags. It was then added to my next order. This bundle is so much better in real life. I had fun using one of the dies… Read More: More than just tags – Timeless Tags »
Hi there Last night I held the last of my March card classes so now I can share what we made. At our Stamp Camp last month one of the teachers showed us a card that used the Black Magic technique. I had never tried this technique so decided to give it a go. This… Read More: Black Magic and Waterfall Cards – March Card Class »
Hi there Yesterday was my Mum’s birthday but this birthday was no ordinary birthday – it was her 80th! What an amazing milestone to reach. I wanted to make her a special card to remember her special day and this is what I came I created. Her favourite colour is blue so I went with… Read More: Floral Phrases Happy 80th Birthday »
Hi there Today is a very special day – my Mum turns 80! Happy Birthday Mum 🙂 You are such an inspiration to me and so many others. You continually give of yourself and have been the best role model a daughter could have. I love you heaps. I can’t show you the card I’ve… Read More: Colour Inkspiration – CI05 »
Hi there I really like the Special Reason bundle (stamp set and framelits) in the Occasions Catalogue. The images are great and so are the sentiments. Some of the sentiments are ‘Happy Birthday’, ‘Congratulations’ and a really cool one ‘There’s no special reason for this card …’ ‘…except to let you know how special you are!’… Read More: There’s no ‘Special Reason’ … »
Hi there I had a play the other day with the new glimmer paper that is part of the Sale-A-Bration FREE products range – it is so nice. It comes in 6″ x 6″ sheets and you get four sheets of three colours – Sweet Sugarplum, Mint Macaron and Bermuda Bay. For this card I’ve… Read More: Special Reason for a zero »
Hi there I hope you’ve all managed to stay dry today. It was definitely an indoor day. I put my ‘indoor’ time to good use and cleaned my craft room. It had got to the point where there was no room on the desk – and not much on the floor either! Here are my… Read More: Creative Inkers March Extravaganza Projects »
Hi there Today we held our team Extravaganza event – its a full on day but so much fun. Tomorrows task is to unpack and take photos of the five projects that were taught – so check back tomorrow to see what we taught the ladies. If you missed out on todays event don’t worry… Read More: Colouring “Inside the Lines” »
Hi there I’ve lost count of the number of wedding anniversary cards I’ve made in the last two months – but it’s been a few. This one is fancy fold using the Gate Fold technique. I started with a normal card base but rather than score it in the center I scored two side panels… Read More: Gate Fold Wedding Anniversary and Wedding Card »
Hi there It’s been a very relaxing weekend – enjoying the sunshine, reading my book and entertaining some overseas guests. I haven’t done any stamping this weekend but that’s OK. My monthly card classes have started again for the year and here are the first two projects the ladies made. They have to make some… Read More: Bloomin’ Love and Beautiful You – February Card Class projects »
Hi there Life has been a bit busy this past fortnight with workshops, card classes and stamp camp that I almost missed entering a card for the third Colour INKspiration challenge. On my way home on the train I was trying to think which stamp to use that would go well with the five colours… Read More: Colour INKspiration – CI03 »
Hi there I recently needed to create two milestone birthday cards – one for my 90 year old aunt and one for a 100 year old lady I’ve never met. For these cards I’ve used the Number of Years stamp set and coordinating Large Number Frameltis. My colour combination is Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Rich… Read More: Milestone Birthdays – 90 and 100 years young »
Hi there Well I am now a qualified First Aider for the next two years :). It’s always good to have this training and thankfully I haven’t needed to use it in real life. January through to March is Sale-A-Bration time at Stampin’ Up! For every NZD$110 you spend during this time you get to… Read More: Tasty Trucks – Tacos or Ice Creams? »
Hi there Last month I participated in another challenge site – Casing the Catalogue – which is run by Stampin’ Up! demonstrators. For this challenge they were casing pages 4 – 7 from the new Occasions Catalogue. I don’t have any of the stamp sets from this suite but decided to use the layout from… Read More: Casing The Catalogue – CTC110 »
Hi there Back again with some more creations from last month. Do you have stamp sets you haven’t used for awhile? I do and Celebrate Today is one of them. So off the shelf it came and got re-introduced to ink 🙂 I needed two cards so created the same design but swapped the colours… Read More: Celebrate Today – Seb and Sam »