Christmas is early...

If you look on page 14 of the new Holiday Catalogue, you will see the Bigz Snow Flurry Die. Now you ask what can I do with that, well let me show you...

I created this great Christmas tree ornament using this Die Snow Flurry RRP $45.95. The Background Rosette is made using Pacific Point card stock and the snow flakes were made out of Silver Glimmer paper RRP $10.95  of the 2012-2013 catalogue (page 160).

The next creation was made out of the Bigz Die L Holiday Stocking RRP $67.95 within the 2012-2013 Catalogue (page 193).
Using the Glimmer paper I was able to stick them all together with the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets RRP $25.95 for 12 sheets (12x12 size). with the little stars around the rim coming from the Holiday collection Framelits Dies RRP $51.95 of the Holiday Catalogue (page 16).
If you would like to know how to make these please feel free to contact me.

They are finally here

Yes the wait is now over the new and exciting 2012-2013 catalogue has arrived. It's packed full of new and exciting stamps, accessories and even a few new surprises, one being the new in-colours.

But wait there's more, along with the new and exiting 2012-2013 Catalogue we have the NEW Holiday Catalogue and guess what... it goes from 1st September 2012 - 31st January 2013...WOOW.

If you want to see more click on the images to the right, then click on the contact me and I will come and show you what's new.

" The Open Sea"

On Sunday I had a friend Vanessa come over for an overdue Stampin Up play date. I had been asked by my Mother-in-Law to make a 70th Man's birthday card, and as you could imagine I said to myself "where do a start" But after looking through my stash of stamp sets I landed on"The Open Sea" stamp set and it all went forward from there.

I just love the way it turned out, the colours all blended beautifully and the stamp set worked perfectly for the occasion.

Then after that I decided I would try a nice sweet card with a 3'd flower. I had so much fun creating this card, it took some time for the flower to dry, but with the different shape of the card I thought fitted perfectly to the design.

I Dig You!

 

Well it's been some time since I've posted, but now with my youngest on his way to kindy I have a spare 2 and a half extra hours three days a week, child free. And guess what? I'm stamping.... wahooooo 

 For my latest card I thought I would stick with the basic colors you’d see at school, plus I wanted to make the set "I Dig You" ($51.95 clear mount and $64.95 wood mounted) pop so I stamped the image on white card stock, and I'm surprised by the results.

Plus we have an exciting month with the launch of the New Autumn-Winter mini Catalogue and I have to say its jam packed with some REALLY exciting new product. 

Also this month we are holding our very first Stamp Camp for our stamp club members which Ann and I have been working hard to create some exciting projects for over 2 days. If you are interested in attending please let me or Ann know.

Dinoroar all the way!!

I don't have much time now a days with 2 small children and a busy home life, so once again I have created a card within half an hour for a party my son went to today. I really need to sit down for half a day and create a whole lot of cards for these last minute moments.

This time I was inspired by Paula Dobsons wonderful card creations with her Sponging, masking techniques and her Sepia Silhouette card. I tried it with the stamp set Dinoroar (which I love) and started trying to make the sponging look like hills, but after a while got too excited with this technique and realised it looked like a mix of clouds and hills.

I found by sponging Lucky Limeade with Island Indigo it created this fantastic green that changed to various colors as I kept applying in different areas.

I then stamped the Dinoroar images (RRP $45.95 Clear or $57.95 wood mounted) directly on the card stock with Staz On, then onto a sheet of Confetti White card stock, water colored then cut them out, and lay them on with Dimensionals to give the 3-D effect.

Wedding cards

I had two cards to make today for the same wedding, the first I had time to create and then was given  half an hour to created the second (someone forgot to organise themselves better lol). The funny thing is I prefer the half hour rush job one better then the one I created in advance...

The first card was a little spin on the average wedding card, this Idea was given to my by a friend who lent me the "On The Line" stamp set, which unfortunately is a retired item. Why you say did I post it... because it looks cute!!

The Second card is the one I created with only half an hour to do it in version and because I don' have any wedding stamps (as yet) I created a simple yet I think elegant look...

The Third card I have is using the current stamp set "Dinoroar" RRP $45.95 clear and $57.95 Wood Mounted. This is the first time I've used this set and now I'm hocked loving every minute it's so much fun to create dinosaurs especially with two sons. I chose a slightly different sentiment " Heard from the Heart" RRP $37.95 Clear and $46.95 Wood to the one in the set and this was because it was for my teenage class...

Fun with the Button Buddies Stamp Set

 

I have my first of 4 consecutive classes for a group of Teenagers wanting to learn a new hobbie, what better night to teach them about basic Stampin techniques using Stamps and the Wheels. 

I have created the above card for tonight using the Button Buddies stamp set, $56.95 Clear mount and $74.95 for the Wood set and using the Designer series buttons to accessorise. 

As per our Color Coach Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie are the Creative Combination, however I have run out of Pumpkin Pie so used Tangerine Tango, and I think it looks fab!

Next week we are going to learn about Embossing so watch this space...