Hi there Here’s a close up of the first three cards. This was a fun project to make and I love the font used for these sentiments. For the first card I covered a clear block I with all the sentiments and stamped in one go – so much easier and word by word. For… Read More »
Hi there Well it’s been an ‘indoors’ day here in Auckland – great for crafting. A friend popped round this morning and I helped her make 20 birthday cards for her colleagues at work – she is now set for the year. Todays project is one I created last year but ran out of time… Read More »
Hi there In November last year I attended the first ever OnStage Local event held by Stampin’ Up! This event replaces the annual Convention which used to be held in Australia. It is now being held twice a year (April and November) and the first Local one was held in Auckland, Melbourne and Perth for… Read More »
Hi there Today’s post is a combination of products – a new stamp set from the Occasions Catalogue, a piece of DSP that has reitred and a stamp set you can get for FREE from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue when you place an order over NZ$110.00. The sentiment is from the stamp set Party Wishes and… Read More »
Hi there We’ve just got back from seeing the latest Star Wars movie – very cool and a great way to round up 2015. There are just a couple of hours left of 2015 – what a year it has been. We’ve had our ups and downs this year that we hadn’t expected but I… Read More »
Hi there I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas Day. I’ve been a bit of a ‘bookworm’ since Christmas hence no blogging 🙂 I have now finished my book and last night even managed to have a play with some of the new products due out 5th January – which isn’t that far off.… Read More »
Hi there Getting my post in early today as we are going to head to Franklin Road and check out the Christmas lights tonight. Last week another friend had her birthday and this is the card I made for her. I CASED it from this one I shared last weekend. I used the same layout… Read More »
Hi there Today’s card was a year in the making – no it didn’t take me that long to make it but the recipient requested it after his birthday last year. Check out last year’s birthday post to get the story – at the bottom of the post. His mother sent me a photo of… Read More »
Hi there It is nice hearing the rain outside – the garden is so dry and it’s not even full on summer yet. This week seems to be the week to have a birthday. On Monday friends of ours celebrated their birthday’s – like us husband and wife share the same day. They can never… Read More »
Hi there Today a very special family friend celebrated a special birthday milestone which called for a special birthday card :). So my crafting fingers got to work and here’s what they created: I used the same style of card I taught at last months Creative Inkers Extravaganza but changed the stamp set to create… Read More »
Hi there Yesterday our friends daughter turned 3. I don’t have any little girl stamp sets but did receive a new set at last month’s OnStage which I used to create this cute card – thanks to Kelly Kent I was able to CASE her card. I did add faces to my ballerinas and also… Read More »
Hi there A couple of months ago my brothers eldest turned 21 and I forgot to blog the card I made for him! (I hadn’t downloaded it to the laptop). Most of us find masculine cards hard to create – try a ‘special’ birthday – that’s even harder. I happened to spot this design on… Read More »
Hi there I hope you’ve had a great day – I have :). This afternoon I got together with a lovely group of ladies and we made 5 projects – 3 cards and 2 boxes. I’ll try and take photos of them this weekend and share with you next week. As I’ve mentioned before my… Read More »
Hi there Wow – I can’t believe its been a week and half since I last did a blog! I’ve had a couple of busy weeks prepping heaps of card kits for a community event that went really well plus my usual monthly card classes – so I haven’t had much ‘down time’ to blog.… Read More »
Hi there I’ve just realised I haven’t shown you the second card we made at card class last month! (here’s a link to the first card in case you missed it) I’m really loving the versatility of Awesomely Artistic. Here we’ve used it for the Spotlight Technique (CASED from Iina). All the images are stamped… Read More »