Hi there I hope your Monday has been a good one – mine was pretty good. A group of us from work went out for lunch today to celebrate the Persian New Year which is called Nowruz. We have a couple of staff from Iran so it was really nice to do something from their culture. I… Read More: Auckland Extravaganza Projects – part one »
Hi there What a beautiful day we’ve had here in Auckland – we’ve been for two walks which was so nice as they had predicted it would be wet today. Yesterday was our neighbours birthday so I ran up this quick card for him. After teaching this style of card at Stamp Camp last month… Read More: Happy Birthday Greg »
Hi there Today we’ve had the Auckland Extravaganza event with about 90 ladies attending. It was a great day and everyone made five projects. This is the project that Narelle and I taught. It’s called a Matchbox Box. This is normally made using the Envelope Punch Board but I changed it so that we used the Simply… Read More: Auckland Extravaganza »
Hi there I hope you’ve had a good week. Tomorrow I’m teaching at the Auckland Extravaganza so I’m madly rushing round getting everything together now so that I can have a sleep in tomorrow morning! This week one of my colleagues daughter has been off school with a head cold – so I thought I’d… Read More: Get Well Hannah »
Hi there Today is my Mum’s birthday – she’s the BEST mum (and friend) in the world. The other week Mum (and Dad) helped me prep the kits for the Tauranga Extravaganza so I thought I’d make Mum a card in the same design. I’ve used some of my favourtie colours and products for this… Read More: Happy Birthday Mum »
Hi there I thought I’d share with you some cards I’ve received in the last couple of weeks from my upline Jacque. It’s so nice to receive ‘snail mail’. These both feature the Note Card and Envelope set. I really love the new scallop tag topper punch – it’s so versatile and adds a quick layer… Read More: Note Cards »
Hi there Back again with another I made in the weekend. I’ve used Summer Silhouette which is a two step stamp set for this card – have you tried two step stamping? Two step stamping is where you image has two parts to it – in this case step one is the stem of the… Read More: Summer Silhouette »
Hi there What a beautiful day it’s been after the wild weekend weather. Hopefully it stays around for a bit longer 🙂 I need to send some ‘thank you’ cards out this week so yesterday I sat down and got creative. I find my craft time very relaxing which I’m in need of at the… Read More: Flower Shop and Hexagon Hive Thank You card »
Hi there Just a quick post tonight as I’m trying to finish off some work birthday gifts and get some baking iced before heading to bed for an early night. One of the ladies at work left a couple of weeks ago to take up a new role in Singapore and of course I had… Read More: Another Leaving Card »
Hi there I hope you have all survived the wild weather today – it’s certainly been wet and windy. Today I’ve been busy preparing for next weekends Auckland Extravaganza – we have five projects for everyone to make but you’ll have to wait until next Saturday to see what I’m teaching. Here are some litte… Read More: 3′ x 3″ Thank You cards »
Hi there I hope my fellow Kiwi’s are ready for the fast approaching cyclone. We’ve made sure things are secure outside and have our candles ready – just in case. This is the second card we made on Wednesday night – this one combines a few techniques – dry embossing, heat embossing and watercolouring. We… Read More: March Stamp Class – Heat Embossed Sympathy Card »
Hi there Last night I held my second stamp class with six lovely ladies 🙂 We made two sympathy cards as was the request from the previous month. The first one uses the dry embossing technique with a twist of resist. I taught the ladies how you can emboss just part of the card allowing… Read More: March Stamp Class – Dry Embossed Sympathy Card »
Hi there Last Friday one of my work colleagues had her birthday and this is the little gift I gave her. I’m in love with the new Scallop Tag Topper Punch. I wasn’t going to buy it to begin with but then I started seeing all these amazing things you could do with it –… Read More: Happy Birthday Kate »
Hi there Last weekend I had the pleasure of teaching a project at the Tauranga Extravaganza. One of the demos’s had to pull out at the last minute due to ill health. Phil and I decided to take the Friday off work and make a weekend of it. The weather was perfect and it was… Read More: Tauranga Extravaganza project »