Hi there It’s funny – if you hold on to things long enough they will come back into fashion. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back! Over the weekend I helped my neighbour make TMNT birthday invites for Mr 5 – he’s really into them. Then I needed to make a card for a friends four… Read More: Happy Birthday Dominic »
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 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 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 We’ve had another beautiful day here in Auckland – it’s been lovely and warm and we are about to head out for a walk and enjoy the last of the day. One of the guys at work became a dad for the second time – a little boy this time. Here is the… Read More: Whale of a card »
Hi there Tomorrow our friends eldest son turns 8 so this evening I dropped down his card and little gift. Normally the kids are in bed when I go but with it being school holidays they were still up. Mr 8 answered the door and quickly told me ‘It’s my birthday tomorrow’. He was… Read More: Happy Birthday Seb »
Hi there Well here we are on the last day of 2013. It’s been a year of change – some good and some not so good. The positives are I attended my first convention in May and had a ball, I started a new job in July and love it and we paid off our… Read More: Last post for 2013 »
Hi there Well I’m a little bit (well actually quite a bit) behind in my blogging at the moment. This card was given back in May for our neighbours son who turned 3. Can you guess what we gave him as a present? Jake’s a bit little for the Lego set we got so his… Read More: Birthday catch ups »
Hi there It’s time for another sketch from Try Stampin on Tuesday. I’ve used this weeks sketch for a baby card. In the past week two of our staff members have become parents for the first time – and both had girls 🙂 The design of this paper from Tea for Two worked well being cut… Read More: Try Stampin on Tuesday #117 »
Hi there Friends of ours youngest son turns 2 today. He is mad on lawn mowers (and guitars) so I thought I’d make him a lawn mower themed card and something special. I checked out good old Google and this is what I found. A wonderful creation by Lorri Heiling so I just had to buy… Read More: Happy Birthday Dominic »
Hi there Well our summer weather just keeps on coming. Unfortunately we do need the rain as everything is turning brown. It’s that time of the week again for another sketch challenge for Try Stampin on Tuesday. I’ve used this sketch to create a baby card for one of the guys at work who recently became… Read More: Try Stampin on Tuesday # 109 »
Hi there I hope your week is going well. Can you believe it we’re nearly at the end of February – where is 2013 going!! I’ve used today’s sketch for a baby card. Some friends from Church just become grandparents for the first time and I wanted to let them know how excited I was… Read More: Try Stampin on Tuesday #107 »
Hi there On Saturday our team had it’s regular training session. These are always so much fun – lots of catching up, laughing, eating and business help 🙂 Most sessions we do swaps and this time our swaps used products from the new Seasonal Catalogue. Swaps are a great way of getting different ideas for… Read More: Team Swaps – Seasonal Catalogue »
Hi there One of the perks of being a Stampin Up demo are the resources we receive – access to a world wide site for demos to showcase their cards and projects, bi-monthly magazine full of ideas, great tutorials and so much more. Today’s card is a CASE from a US demo that I saw… Read More: Lego Card »
Hi there It’s that time of the week again for a new sketch over at Try Stampin on Tuesday. Friends of ours have just had their first baby so this layout was perfect to accommodate the stamp I wanted to use. It’s such a cute stamp to use for baby cards. It’s hard to tell… Read More: Try Stampin on Tuesday # 94 »