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 »
Hi there I’m back :). I’ve had a few ‘technical’ issues over the last couple of weeks but hopefully we’re all sorted. Colour INKspiration is a new fortnightly challenge site which I plan to participate in. How it works is that each fortnight they give us some colours which we need to use to create… Read More: Colour INKspiration – CI02 »
Hi there Today is a very special day – Phil and I are celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary :). We are enjoying some time in the South Island at beautiful Te Anau. Tomorrow we hope to go to Milford Sound and do the boat cruise. Here is the card that I made for Phil. I’ve… Read More: Happy Anniversary – 15 Years »
Hi there Well I’m not sure what’s happened to summer but it’s great weather for crafting :). I’ve been busy creating with some of the new products from the Occasions Catalogue. My favourite stamp at the moment is the ‘Beautiful You’ set. This outline stamp lends itself to a number of different ways to colour… Read More: Beautiful You – Paper Piecing Technique »
Hi there I had hoped to post this earlier this evening but we decided last minute to go and see ‘Rouge One’ – the latest Star Wars movie – it was great. One of my favourite stamp sets in the new Occasions Catalogue is a set called ‘Beautiful You’. It’s an outline stamp that you can… Read More: Beautiful You »
Hi there and Happy New Year The weather here in Auckland hasn’t exactly been ‘summer’ weather – especially yesterday – but it was a good crafting day. I have a number of birthday cards to make this month so a colour challenge was just what I needed to make a dent. There’s a new challenge… Read More: Colour INKspiration pre challenge »
Hi there Friends of ours have the same birthday so here are the cards I made for them. I made another card using the Sweet Cupcake stamp set except this time in a different colour combo. I’ve gone with Flirty Flamingo, Blushing Bride and Watermelon Wonder for the ‘topping’ and the ‘base’ is Sahara Sand,… Read More: Sweet Cupcake and Shirt Card – Double Birthdays »
Hi there A friends son and daughter have both had birthdays in the last month. Each birthday I make them a personalised card and little 3D gift box which contains chocolate. It’s about making somebody feel special on their special day and not the size of the gift. The kids all look forward to seeing… Read More: Marquee Messages and Sweet Cupcakes »