Stampin’ Up! are having an inventory clearance. It has already started, so look through the list below and see if there is anything you’d like. Some items are up to 50% off! Send me an email if you would like to order anything. The sale goes until Jan 24, so get in while you can and pick up some bargains. Click on the image below to see the larger, readable page.
This is a birthday card I made for a good friend of mine who recently moved to Melbourne. It was her birthday just after she moved. I used a stamp from the new set For Everything from the Summer Mini. I really like this set! I stamped the flower flourish in Perfect Plum three times, then coloured in with blender pens and in Stampin’ pads.
Card Recipe:
Cardstock: Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Inks: Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Certainly Celery
Stamp Sets: For Everything, Upsy Daisy (Birthday Celebrations)
Others: Blender Pens, Scallop Edge Punch
Thanks for looking!
Have a great night tonight ringing in the new year.
Hello, sorry I haven’t posted anything for a while. The lead up to Christmas was busy and computer time was hard to find, let alone time to stamp! Here are some handbags I made in early December. A friend of mine suggested we try and make the handbag from page 65 of the Idea Book and Catalogue. We didn’t make one exactly the same, but it’s close. I actually made three of these, one for my sister Caro, one for a workshop and one for a future hostess. Here they are:
Cardstock: Pink Pirouette textured cardstock, Rose Red, Whisper White Inks: Rose Red, Pink Pirouette Stamp Sets: Boho Backgrounds, Eastern Blooms Others: Pink Pirouette 5/8" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Rhinestone Brad
Cardstock: Perfect Plum Inks: Perfect Plum Stamp sets: So Swirly Jumbo Wheel Others: So Saffron Ribbon (free in September), Flower from Pretties Kit, So Saffron flower brad (from Spring Mini)
Cardstock: Lovely Lilac Textured Cardstock, Whisper White Inks: Lovely Lilac Stamp Sets: Baroque Motifs, Eastern Blooms Others: Pink Pirouette 5/8" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Half-pearl from Pretties Kit
I’m really happy with the way these turned out and they are actually really quick and easy to make! I’ll be making more of these in the future.
The Summer Mini Catalogue is here! So many things to add to my list of things to buy. The first set I bought was the For Everything set. For some reason it just grabbed my attention straight away. The following card was made for my Grandmother to say thank you for sending birthday cards for myself and Josh the last few months. People like receiving thank you cards, but my Grandmother is a bit of a stickler for them. It’s rude not to send her one. She loves flowers and being spring/summer I was drawn to the bright colours. I like the colours used on the cards on p.13 of the mini catalogue, but changed them slightly to be bold brights. I have since received a thank you phone call from Grandma to thank me for sending her a thank you card. : )
Card Recipe:
Cardstock: Gable Green, Pink Passion and Whisper White
Inks: Basic Black, Gable Green, Pink Passion, Temping Turquoise, Yoyo Yellow, Lavender Lace
Stamp Sets: For Everything, Best Yet (Hostess Set).
Others: 1-1/4″ Circle Punch 1-3/8″ Inch Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Matt Pack, Paper Piercing tool, Certainly Celery 1/4″ Grosgrain Ribbon
Thanks for looking!
I’ve been busy over the last few days preparing for a Stamp-a-stack this coming weekend. My main problem is I can’t decide which card to make. I’ve made so many over the past few weeks, it’s so hard to decide. Then I have them picked and I find out how many guests are coming and I think that maybe I should do one that uses a stamp set that I can borrow from my upline, so that we have 2 sets available on the day. Only to find out that we don’t have that many Christmas stamp sets the same, certainly not the ones that I had picked to use. So it’s back to thinking…. could I do the same design, but with different stamps, do I design yet another card, are the cards too complicated, and so on. Maybe over time this gets easier? The more stamp-a-stacks you do, the less thinking you do about them?
Anyway… here is a card I made for my cousin and her husband when they had their first baby earlier this year. They had a beautiful little girl, Lillian, and this was one of the first cards that I made.
I keep changing my mind about these colours. The Bold Brights was the first colour pack that I bought. However, I go through periods when I think that they are just too bright. I guess it really all depends on what stamp sets you are using, who you’re making the card for, and what the occasion is. There is a new stamp set coming in the summer catalogue that I used yesterday to make a card. I used bright colours and it looks fantastic! I’ll post it a little closer to December.
Card Recipe:
Cardstock: Pink Passion, Lovely Lilac, Gable Green and Whisper White
Inks: Pink Passion, Yo Yo Yellow, Lovely Lilac, Wild Wasabi (retired)
Stamp Sets: Garden Whimsy, Priceless and Warmest Regards (retired)
Others: Dimensionals, 2 way glue, Dazzling Diamonds
Thanks for looking!
Sorry I haven’t posted anything recently, I’ve had a really busy few weeks. I’ve got lots of cards to get ready to post. I going to try to come back over the next few days and get some of them posted.
This is a card that my friend Kelly made. It’s for a couple who are celebrating their 50th Wedding anniversary. It’s based on a card we found on SCS here. I love the original card, love the colours and really love the ribbon (which we don’t have here in Australia). I like what my fiend Kelly did to tie in the gold colour that represents the Golden wedding anniversary. Baroque Motifs flourish is embossed in gold in the background, before the top layer with the square from the same set is added. It is stamped in Ridinghood Red (I think). Gold ribbon came from Kelly’s stash, it’s not Stampin’ Up!
I can’t believe Christmas is so close. I went to K-Mart today to lay-by some sleeping bags for the kids. It’s the first time Anna has seen me lay-by something, and she was most upset that we had to leave them behind. I’ve really only just started my Christmas shopping, which is a little scary! My major problem is ideas. What do I get everyone??
At least my Christmas cards are all going to be made early. Now to write on them all. Here is a Christmas card I made for a future Stamp-a-stack. I bought this stamp set because one of my regular stamp-a-stack attendees requested we use it, and it really does reflect the true meaning of Christmas. I really wanted to use the Riding hood red 1 1/4″ Striped Grosgrain ribbon that’s in the Spring Mini, but I just couldn’t work out where to use it, so in the end I just left it off. I will keep thinking though and see if I can come up with any ideas. 
Card Recipe:
Cardstock: Confetti Cream, Riding Hood Red, Garden Green, VeryVanilla
Inks: Riding Hood Red, Garden Green
Stamp Sets: Christ is Born
Other: Scalloped Edge Punch
What a weekend! I spent Friday afternoon swimming for the first time this season, Josh (my 2 year old) crying for 90% of the time. I don’t know what he didn’t like. He loves his bath and shower and loved playing under the sprinkler on Wednesday. Friday night we had a family dinner for my sister Mels’ 27th birthday. Saturday morning I raced off to a craft stall before heading into the city with my sisters and mum for High Tea at the Swissotel. It was a belated baby shower for my sister Carolyn who had Freya earlier this year. Freya was 4 weeks early, and Caro was in hospital for 4 weeks before she was born, so we missed out on doing this pre-baby. I had never been to high tea before, and as a non tea or coffee drinker, and not a big fan of pastries, or any really fancy food I was a little nervous. It’s a lot of money to pay if you’re not going to eat or drink much. I would highly recommend the Swissotel for High tea. The staff were so helpful and so ready to serve. It buffet style and the food was excellent! Sandwiches, hot pies(I think chicken was inside), chessecakes, profiteroles, lemon meringue pies, creme brulee, chocolate mousse, sponge cake roll, scones, and then there was the chocolate fountian with a variety of fruit, mashmellows and cake to dip in. All you can drink tea (for the tea drinkers), juice and water. What a feast!!!
Here are a few photos to make your mouth water.
And a couple of photos of my mum and sisters being silly. We were hidden away in a little alcove area, with gorgeous chairs and a curtain we could pull across to give us privacy if we wanted it. I loved the red wall behind Caro below!
I’d love to experience this again. It was so much fun!
I mentioned earlier that we had dinner for my sister Mel and her 27th birthday. Her birthday is tomorrow, but she lives in Wagga and was returning to Wagga last night, so we had it early. Here is the card I made for her. Mel’s favourite colour is red and she is very musically talented, and I had purchased the stamp set Elegant Notes before it retied last April because it was so elegant and had beautiful music related images. I gained inspiration from speedystamper although I made a couple of changes. I didn’t have the DSP that was used in the card, so I made my own patterns. I also didn’t have any whisper white ink (tragic I know), so I couldn’t outline the oval with the treble clef in it. I ended up taking the tied ribbon off and just had a piece of flat ribbon tucked under the red oval. I felt that the tied bit was just too over the top for Mel. Thought she’d prefer a simpler ribbon usage.
Card Recipe:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Real Red
Inks: Real Red and Versamark
Stamp Sets: Elegant Notes, Friends 24-7, Season of Joy(tiny flower), On Your Birthday (inside, not pictured)
Others: Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon, White Embossing Powder, Curly Label Punch
Thanks for looking!
What a wonderful spring afternoon we’ve had today. Sun, a little breeze and fun with the kids in our backyard. It’s been wonderful. Earlier in the year we turfed a portion of our backyard. It now looks fabulous. We still have a bit to turf, and a garden to finish, then the yard will look fantastic! I spent a lot of time playing in the backyard as a child, so I wanted a backyard that my kids could play in, lots of grass for soccer/football/running games. Lots of room to ride bikes. It’s great!
Anyway, here is a card I made last week for my husbands cousin who got engaged earlier this year. I’ve been a bit slow in making it. I had in my head what I wanted to do, just needed to get together with someone who had embossing gear, as I don’t have any yet. My good friend Kelly came to visit for a card making day and we both got some embossing done. I have embossed En Francais in clear. I have since learnt that you cannot stamp over an embossed image, it just doesn’t work. I had to go back and start the card again. I stamped the big stamp from the Baroque Motifs set in Bravo Burgundy, then stamped En Francais in versamark and embossed in clear. I used my Pretties kit for the first time, adding some half pearls on top of the ribbon.
You can see the reflection from the table on the card, it’s not some special technique. : ) I added some very vanilla to the inside because I really wanted to use the stamp Wishing you a lifetime of love, and it’s hard to write nicely on the dark card. I’ve used silver or gold pen in the past, but it can look tacky. Here’s a look at the inside. Again you an see the sun reflecting off the table.
Card Recipe:
Cardstock: Bravo Burgundy and Very Vanilla
Inks: Bravo Burgundy, Versamark
Stamp Sets: Baroque Motifs, Occasional Greetings, Life’s Special Moments
Accessories: Bravo Burgundy 5/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon, Cream halfback pearls
Thanks for looking!
