A flower pot for a friend.

Hi To all you fellow blog surfers out there, I just thought I'd show you what I made for my last hostess, I used spring showers designer paper from last years SU catalogue, it is however available this year, even though it isn't in the current catalogue so if you want some just contact me or your closest Stampin'Up!® demonstrator and you will have some in your hot little mits very quickly! Anyhoo, back to the flower pot... I found the template for this via SCS, it was done by a very clever lady who goes by the name of Qbee "thnk you Brenda" I followed her instructions and "Hey Presto" a cute little flower pot, I stamped some flowers from the "Time well spent" level three free hostess gift, sprinkled on some heat and stick powder followed by some beautiful dazling diamonds glitter, mounted them on dimensionals and decorated the pot with them. I also made a tag with the same set and attached that to the pot with some "Pretty in pink" gross grain ribbon. Inside the cello wrap were some yummy marsh mallows. This was given to my lovely hostess along with the three items which I demoed on that day. I will have to make some more of these cute little pots as everyone thought they were adorable. Hope you like it too, Oh well off to bed, inky hugs from me to you :-)

A special belated birthday card

Hello again, I thought while I was uploading Baroque motis cards, I would show you this one which I made for my good friend M for her birthday, I was late in giving this to her but it was made with lots of love. I saw one similar on SCS a site which I spend far too much time on! So thank you to who ever inspired me. It was the first time I inked up this wonderful flourish and I fell in love as soon as I saw it hit the card stock, which is River rock by the way, another of the new in-colours that Stampin' Up! released this year. I stamped the flourish in Choc Chip over the top of the fisrt stamping of river rock to give it that shadow effect. " sorry you can't really see it very well in this photo" and the flowers are in choc chip and some in River rock, they are raised on dimensionals with a little brown crystal in the middle of each one. I sponged this card with choc chip ink and added a piece of choc chip gros grain ribbon down the side. Enjoy.

Pearl Anniversary.

Hi All, I hope you are enjoying a lovely weekend. I have had a really full on week, I went to the craft fair two days in a row with three of my very good friends and we had a great time watching demos and spending all our pocket money! We booked in on one of Suze Weinberg's melting pot classes and had an absolute blast making some jewelery items out of UTEE " ultra thick embossing enamel" I will now open up my melting pot which I confess to owning for over a year and never using! " I know..Disgraceful!" Anyhoo on Saturday we were invited to celebrate our good friends S&S's 30th wedding anniversary at the Burswood casino, we all had cocktails to start with, followed by a magnificent feast in the Atrium resturant where we all ate far too much but thouroughly enjoyed ourselves. I made this card for them using the new Baroque motifs set which I really love, I used Choc Chip ink on a pearlised card stock layered ontop of Choc chip and very vanilla CS. I attached two fresh water pearls along with a little man made pearl in the center of every flower which is raised on dimensionalsand also along the ribbon, the gros grain ribbon is also Choc chip. I stamped the word Cherish which is from the same set and punched it out with the window punch, it's also raised on dimensionals, I finished it off by writting a note inside using the wonderful art of caligraphy. I hope you like it. take care and stay inky!

"Boat loads of love"

Here's a picture of a card which I made for my dad in the UK. He had to have a small op recently, so I made him this card to cheer him up. He loves his dogs and of course anything to do with boats, so I managed to put his two favourite things on one card by using the new "Boat loads of love" stamp set and the accessories set for "loads of love" from Stampin'Up!® I used the new in-colours, Groovy Guava and Blue Bayou, hope you like it, Thanks for visiting.

Get ready for some Stampin' Up!®

I know A few of you already know that I took the plunge and signed up with the American company called Stampin'Up!®. Well untill now I haven't been brave enough to put any pictures of my new venture here on my blog space, I thought I might ease you all into it slowly, so I will endeavour to upload some pics tonight or tomorrow. You have been warned! I hope that you will continue to peruse my blog and take a look at what has taken over my life "in a good way". I have found a renewed enthusiasm in stamping and I'm enjoying playing with lots of colour and dare I say it...Pretty things. I know some of you will be quite shocked at what sort of things I'm now doing, but I am having so much fun with all the new Stampin'Up!® products that I have acrued over the past couple of months, from doing demos, in-home parties and classes, so I'd like to share my fun with you. I am still holding classes at home and have great fun doing that and going out to demo in friends homes. You can find a link to the current Stampin'Up!® idea book and catalogue on the right in Blogology, or clicking here: www.stampinup.com.au There is a special promotion on at the moment for the month of May and if you spend $35.00 in the catalogue you can purchase a beautiful 48 page 6x6 pad of double sided designer paper, ideal for using on cards or scrapbook pages, the price of this gorgeous pad of papers is just $12.95. You can see the sample of this on the web site or give me a call or e-mail me to arrange a convenient time when we can get together for you to see one in the flesh! I can take orders at any time and you can even pay by credit card now, which makes things even easier for you. If you would like to have a small get together with some friends and watch me do a demo of three different items, followed by you and your friends having some fun stamping and making something to take home, looking through the idea book and catalogue at all the stamps, inks, papers, card stock and lots of accessories including tools and ribbons galore. Contact me to arrange a party, or just have a catalogue party, where you take some books to your friends, family and contacts. Let them enjoy looking through the goodies and just ring or e-mail me with your order, it will all be delivered staright to your door, along with a free stamp set and money to spend in the catalogue depending on totals spent. I will give you a free catalogue, which normally retails for $12.95 plus P&H, or a wonderful classic ink pad of your choice if you already have a catalogue, I always include a special hostess gift too. So what are you waiting for, give me a call and find out what goodies you can have. If you think you might like to join in on the fun of being a demonstrator like me, then I can help you get all the information you need to get started, I will also help you with building up your stamping techniques by inviting you to a monthly get together at my house, where you can enjoy learning new ideas and great tips for demos whilst being in a relaxed atmosphere. I do hope you enjoy looking at some of my new cards and projects which have been made using the wonderful Stampin'Up!® products, I will also continue to play with my old stash of goodies, so keep visiting and let me know what you think of my new style! Cheers for now and thank you for reading all this post, you deserve a cuppa now.

Twelve Tags of T!M swap

Here is a sneak peak at one of the twelve tags I made for a swap, I belong to a stampers group called Stampgropers here in WA, we meet once a month and exchange ideas and swaps etc. It is an online group for West Australian stampers and is made up of some very uba talented ladies with a wealth of craft knowledge, not only in the stamping area but in jewelry, felting, glass, moulds,beading, just to mention a few. It's a very dynamic group and everyone is very friendly and generous with their advice. One of the many talented people who belong to this group "G" volunteered to host a swap in which we would make twelve tags using one of the techniques that Tim Holtz displayed on his blog over the Christmas months, we had to choose one of the techniques and make twelve tags {not Christmas themed} and in return we will receive twelve different tags, which will be bound together. This is the tag I made for the swap and I can't wait to see all the others. I used alcohol inks to stain the beads and ribbon, as well as the background card which I stamped with archival ink. have fun, thanks for your visit.

Water colour class

The last class I held here was a water colour class, we used both Lyra water colour crayons and water colour tube paints. The crayons were used for the two cards and the tubes were used for the little ATC's, as you can see the depth of colour really varies with the two different mediums and they each have there own uses. I personally prefer the crayon technique and use it quite often for different projects. I have recently started playing with my Stampin' Up! water colour crayons and they work beautifully for this technique too, I'll upload some pictures of some cards I'm doing for a swap with the use of those soon. Hope you enjoyed looking and thanks for visiting with me.

My friends birthday

We were invited to my friends birthday bash and we all went to a restaurant at the Burswood casino called Yu. It was a lovely evening full of laughs, good food and good company. I made this card for her and she really loved it. Thanks for visiting with me.

Crackle Class

Here's a couple of projects that we had fun making in one of the crackle medium classes here at my house. Everyone had fun and we were very lucky with the crackle mediums drying before everyone went home, I also taught this class with my other group of talented ladies in Perth, both classes were a success and I think we will all play with this medium again in the future.