Hi there Who loves ice cream and what is your favourite flavour? Mine is Rum and Raisin from Ollies Ice Cream Parlour in Royal Oak. With summer just around the corner there will be a few evening walks in this direction! My ice cream below is a triple scoop – mint, strawberry and chocolate –… Read More: Sprinkles of Life – Who loves Ice Cream? »
Hi there Yesterday I held a workshop with 10 lovely ladies – we had a great time crafting (and talking). The card I taught was CASED from Chris Slogar – check out her blog. I fell in love with this layout as soon as I saw it and just had to recreate it. Thanks Chris for doing… Read More: All Ye Faithful – Manger style »
Hi there As mentioned in yesterday’s post I had some ‘bits’ sitting on my desk and have managed to recreate yesterday’s card. I’m not quite sure if you can see in the photo but ‘Mary and Joseph’ have been heat embossed – my favourite technique. A Stamp-A-Ma-Jig comes in handy when stamping a sentiment. I used… Read More: O Come All Ye Faitful »
Hi there It’s finally here 🙂 The new 2015 Holiday Catalogue is now available and filled with great products and project ideas. The first stamp set to make it to my wish list was “All Ye Faithful” on page 20. I’ll have some samples to show you on Sunday (after my workshop) but in the… Read More: 2015 Holiday Catalogue has arrived »
Hi there Last week I held a class for a group of ladies wanting to make a start on their Christmas cards. Where better to look for inspiration than the catalogue. I’m really glad that the annual catalogue has a Christmas section again with sets that have carried over from the last Holiday catalogue. I… Read More: CASEing the catalogue – Christmas cards »
Hi there It’s been a great indoors day today – I finally managed to create a card for our team swaps next weekend using products from the upcoming Holiday Catalogue (due out 1 September). With Fathers Day the first Sunday of September we decided to make our Fathers Day card this month. Both cards have… Read More: Fathers Day Cards – August Card Class »
Hi there Thought I’d get a post in now before we head to our neighbours for fish and chips 🙂 For last months Extravaganza I needed to make some cards for my display board so I had a look through our bi-monthly demonstrator magazine – Impressions – for some ideas. My mojo was running a… Read More: Celebrate Today Ballons – CASEing cards »
Hi there It’s never easy creating a sympathy card but I found this design by Margaret – it’s so lovely the only thing I changed was the colour combo. Here’s a tip I found out (the hard way) over the weekend. For any die that is horizontal feed it through the Big Shot vertically as in… Read More: Butterfly Basics Sympathy Card »
Hi there I hope you’ve had a good weekend – ours was very productive. A couple of months ago Mercury Energy had a promotion where you could choose a date and you wouldn’t be charged power for the whole day:) So we booked in the 1st of August and made the most of it –… Read More: Awesomely Artistic Brick Wall »
Hi there Here are the other four projects that the ladies created on Saturday. First we have two 3D projects – a birthday surprise box and a gorgeous ‘Tiffany’ bag Our last two projects are cards – a corner flip card and a cool card featuring our new corrugated paper I hope you have enjoyed seeing… Read More: Extravaganza Projects Continued »
Hi there On Saturday we had our winter Extravaganza event with 100 ladies – it was a fun day. Each lady made five projects during the afternoon. This is the project that I taught with Jacque and Kath using my new favourite set – Awesomely Artistic. It’s got a number of techniques in here –… Read More: Creative Inkers Winter Extravaganza Projects »
Hi there I hoped you enjoyed yesterday’s card. When a new catalogue comes out we often end up forgetting stamp sets that have ‘carried over’ from the previous catalogue so I decided to use a ‘carry over’ stamp for my second card. I haven’t used Six-Sided Sampler as much as I thought I would so… Read More: Six-Sided Sampler – July Card Class »
Hi there I hope you’ve had a good weekend – I’ve had a very productive and social weekend :). Out for dinner Friday, breakfast with a friend Saturday morning, afternoon tea with my SIL (highly recommend a visit to Olaf’s in Mt Eden) and out for dinner again tonight! In amongst all this social butterflying… Read More: Watercolor Wings – July Card Class »
Hi there I’ve had something on every night this week which has meant no time to blog. This is a card I made last month using the new set Build A Birthday and the new Triple Banner Punch – LOVE this punch. I’ve managed to use all the new In Colors on this image :).… Read More: Build a Birthday Cake »
Hi there Well the rain is really starting to fall here in Auckland – I think I might head to bed early tonight. Nothing like being tucked up in a warm bed with the rain falling on the roof. Last week I received my Impressions magazine in the post. This is a magazine that Stampin’… Read More: CASED cards from Impressions Magazine »