Hi there And Happy New Year – I hope your had a great New Years’ Eve and the New Year is off to a good start. We had a very relaxing NYE which was really nice – watched the ‘Lego’ movie :). Yesterday we went for a picnic to Woodbridge Gardens in Coatsville – the gardens were… Read More: Bloom with Hope »
Hi there We had a great day out yesterday walking part of the Rail Trail through the Karangahake Gorge. It was such a beautiful day with heaps of people out biking the trail. After our walk we visited a nearby waterfall then headed to Kaiaua for fish and chips – yummy. Today’s card was for… Read More: Happy Birthday Angela »
Hi there I hope you all had a lovely Christmas – ours was very relaxed spending time with the family. The tree and all the Christmas decorations are now packed away and I’ve made a start on cleaning my craft space ready for the New Year. I started on the cupboard and found a plastic… Read More: Happy Birthday Elise »
Hi there Merry Christmas everyone. For those of you with children – I hope you weren’t woken too early 🙂 Over the last 25 days our neighbours two little boys (4 and 2) have been coming up each night to open an Advent Calendar box. It has been so much fun watching them as they… Read More: Merry Christmas »
Hi there I recently had to make a leaving card for one of the ladies at work. She loved my Wondrous Wreath card in a non Christmas layout so I replicated it for her leaving card. This card is made using a 12 x 12 sheet of card stock and with a few cuts and… Read More: Wondrous Wreath Leaving Card »
Hi there I thought I’d take a break from Christmas Cards and show you some of my creations using the lovely Blended Bloom stamp set and Blendabilities markers. This is one of the first cards I made using the three shades of Coastal Cabana Blendabilities. I started with the darkest around the edge then moving… Read More: Blended Bloom – Coastal Cabana »
Hi there What a day – I know it’s Spring but the weather today has been more like Winter. I’ve had enough of all the wind and rain – roll on Summer. Yesterday our friend’s son turned 6. I was going to make him a Sweet Treats Cup card but had made his older brother… Read More: Suspension Card »
Hi there For those of you not in New Zealand, this weekend is our Labour Weekend. It’s the first long weekend we’ve had since the beginning of June. Traditionally this is the weekend you get out in the garden and start planting the summer veges. It has certainly been the weather for it today –… Read More: Bloom Cupcakes »
Hi there Yesterday my nephew turned 20 (not sure where those years have gone!). I wanted to make a fun card for him and here’s what I created. To create my background I’ve used the Dots Decorative Mask and matched the inks to the M & M’s inside the sweet treat cup. As you know… Read More: Sweet Treat Cup Card »
Hi there I’m a bit late showing you this but this is the card I taught the other week at my card class. The theme was ‘a card for a boy’. This could actually be for anyone – just change the colours to suit. I didn’t have any DSP that was appropriate for a boy… Read More: Sweet Treat Cups »
Hi there Back again with the second Make & Take we made on Saturday. This project uses the new Kraft Grid Journals on page 200 of the Annual Catalogue. I was fortunate to be in one of the winning Prize Patrol groups and won six of these – thank you Stampin’ Up! We have again… Read More: Kraft Grid Journals »
Hi there I got busy last night doing baking and other domestics around the place that I forgot to do my blog post! So without further ado here we go: This was the first Make & Take that we completed at our Regional Training event last Saturday. It uses the new Petite Cafe Gift Bag… Read More: Petite Cafe Gift Bags »
Hi there Yesterday we had our Regional Training Day here in Auckland. It was lots of fun and great to catch up with my fellow demos (esp those from out of town). We were asked to make name badges before we came so at 10:00pm on Friday night I started making mine! And this is… Read More: Yellowbear Name Badge »
Hi there First of all ‘Happy Fathers’ Day’ to all the men out there – I hope you’ve all had a great day. We had a lovely afternoon tea at my parents to celebrate the men in our family. A special ‘Happy Father’s Day’ to my Dad – he’s the best and is such a… Read More: Gift Bag and Altered Notepad »
Hi there Yesterday we celebrated my SIL’s birthday (her actual birthday was last Tuesday) and this is the card and gift I created for her. The card uses the lovely Hostess set ‘Bloom with Hope’ and I’ve coloured it in with my Blendabilities. I wanted to make a fancy fold card so have gone with… Read More: Bloom with Hope and Gift Box Punch Board »