I am Leonie and I'm an Independant Stampin' Up! Demonstrator in Sydney, Australia.Sale A Bration Spectacular Update
By · CommentsWell what an awesome day Saturday was at our SaleABration Spectacular!
We had 46 people come for the day and we all had lots of fun and all the ladies worked hard making all those projects we’d set up for them – they made 8 projects in all and with quite a few going home with door prizes or raffle prizes!
Here is a slideshow of how things looked before everyone arrived ….
Here are the make n takes that I made for the day ….
There were 8 make n takes in all and the other six were created by my lovely fellow demonstrators – Lisa, Jossleen and Clare. We had some make n take kits leftover so I managed to grab a couple of kits so I can make up the make n takes too. Now I have some of my kits left over so if you’d like a kit for the above make n takes then please email me with your address and I’ll post them to you.
I do hope those who were there on the day had as good a time as I did!
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Busy Busy Busy
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Just a quick note to apologise for not having anything to share for a couple of days – I’ve been busy, busy, busy making samples and make n take kits for the Sale A Bration Spectacular this Saturday. Its going to be an awesome day full of make n takes, demonstrations and lots of fun – we’ll be showing you stamping, scrapbooking and boxes – we will also be demonstrating techniques and Stampin’ Up! tools and products.
How cool is that flyer??
This is what we delivered to approximately 200 letterboxes last month.
We have more people coming than I anticipated so if you still want to come you’d better contact me today or tomorrow. The first 50 to put their name down will receive a wonderful show bag (or loot bag as I call them)! They are full of all sorts of goodies.
So if you’re not doing anything this Saturday why don’t you come along?
We are raising funds for the Macarthur Dementia Care & Support group oh and I still have raffle tickets for purchase if you want to be in the running for some awesome prizes! We have 7 raffle prizes all up so a good chance to win a prize!
I {heart} Hearts
By · CommentsHello and I do hope you’re having a wonderful Tuesday!
You might remember the card I made for the ESAD Colour Challenge the other day – well I did like the card but I thought that it would look better in Pink & Brown tones … so here it is …
Here’s my recipe …..
Recipe:
Stamps: I {heart} hearts, Vintage Labels (Sale A Bration set)
Paper: Close to Cocoa, Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla
Ink: Close to Cocoa, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette
Accessories: Stamp-a-ma-jig, Soft Subtle brads, Trio flower punch, word window punch, Mini Glue Dots.
I think its a nice pretty feminine card don’t you?
Now I’ve had many people ask me how I work out the size of my layers for my cards and usually I just add 5mm to the size of the layer above however here is a great habit to get into the practice of doing and its using the grid paper from Stampin’ Up!®
When I first started as a demonstrator in 2006 I couldn’t see the use of the Grid Paper and thought it a waste of money – these days I wouldn’t be without it! It is such an invaluable tool.
I stamped my hearts onto the vanilla cardstock then to work out the next size layer I need I just place it in the bottom corner of the Grid Paper and move it to how much of a border I want around it.
This way I have the exact size I need as the Grid paper has the centimetres and millimetres on it! 
So now I know the exact size that my Pink Pirouette layer needs to be.
Then I do the same thing with that layer to determine the size I need for the Close to Cocoa layer.
Now I have my layered piece ready to attach to the rest of my card.
With this layer I raised it using the Stampin’ Dimensionals. This gives the card depth and dimension. I’ve then added the embellishments to finish off my card.
I always use mini glue dots to attach buttons and have never had a problem with them falling off – those mini glue dots will hold anything together!
Now don’t forget the I {heart} Hearts stamp set is the set that for each set sold Stampin’ Up! will donate funds to the Red Cross Haiti Disaster Relief so contact me today to place your order and help these poor people.
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Winners are Grinners!!
By · CommentsJust a quick note today to announce the winners of a couple of recent challenges I’ve had here.
Firstly …. for the ESAD Sale A Bration Blog Hop
Thank you to each and everyone of the girls who were in the Blog Hop – we all managed to get our posts and links working with just a couple of minor hitches. So thank you so much and your projects were just awesome (insert applause)
Now another huge thank you to all who visited each blog and left a comment! It was a huge blog hop with 41 blogs involved so I thank you for your patience and making it all the way through! I had 43 ladies email me to confirm they completed the rounds so its my pleasure to announce the following as winners of our blog candy ….
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Donna Zammitt
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Keegan Rigby
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Charmaine Black
So ladies I’ve sent you an email tonite so please send me your mailing address so we can get your candy in the mail!
Also, last week I announced a colour challenge I put to the girls at my ESAD-SU Yahoogroup and shared the card I made. The cards made were all awesome! and I thank you all for playing and am happy to announce the winner of the card challenge is the lovely Cathy Clarke from Queensland.
So congrats Cathy youre card is now on the home page for the ESAD-SU Yahoogroup and I’ll have a little something in the mail for you this week. This is Cathy’s gorgeous card
I will be back tomorrow with a card and a mini tutorial so make sure you pop back for that!
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I heart …
By · CommentsLook at me – back again and four days in a row!
I have some very exciting news to share with you today – well to some its no longer news but I’m still over the moon about it! This past week I received an invitation to join a new Scrapbooking Forum and thought to myself ‘well I did say at Christmas I wanted to do more scrapbooking this year’ so off I went and joined.
A day or so later I get a message from the forum owner (Erika Martin) and she asks me if I’d like to be on the Soul Scrappers Design Team!! Well after picking myself off the floor I did check with her first to ensure she had the right person and she said YES!!! Soooo I said Yesssss too! Its a huge honour to be asked to be on a Design Team for someone who does such awesome scrapbooking like Erika!
The forum is such a great place to be a part of and I’m still amazed at being on the Soul Team! They’ve already had some new challenges posted to the forum and they look really good – there will be sketch challenges, technique challenges, theme challenges and also some for Digital Scrapbooking. Now the one posted this past week that I wanted to have a go at was the “About Me Challenge” from Erika.
I originally was going to start with a brown theme and baroque motifs however after pulling out umpteen different Designer Series Papers I opted to go with colours that match my photo’s and couldnt work out a title for me so I figured for a page about me I should share the things I love so I immediately thought of the Love Sparkles Simply Scrappin kit – if you remember I used this for yesterday’s Utah Divas Sketch challenge card.
I couldnt get a patterned paper to work from the kit so I went through my stash (and believe me this took some time!) I opted for the pretty floral paper from Candy Lane Desiger Series Paper pack.
I love these hearts!
The adhesive die cuts that come in the Simply Scrappin kits make any layout look good! I’ve torn vellum to go behind the “I heart …” letters just to lift and make them stand out better. All the things I love were printed and cut up and I put the small adhesive die cut hearts on each one.
Its been so long since I’ve done a layout it was good to sit down and play with photo’s and paper again – I even found the little photo printer we have and the photo paper without much searching which is a good thing considering we’ve just moved furniture around in the house and this is a sure way to put something in such a safe place that it can never be found again! I’m sure you know what I mean.
Now if you’d like to do more scrapbooking or even learn how to do it why not come and join Erika’s new forum at Soul Scrappers or just click on the Soul Scrappers banner below or over in the sidebar on the right.
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Love Sparkle Sketch
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Hello and welcome to another Saturday Sketch from the Utah Divas International Group.
I love Carol’s sketches as you would know if you’re a regular visitor to my blog.
Now when I first saw today’s sketch I thought it wayyyy too busy but I’m pleased with the card I’ve made. –
Oh and guess what??
NO STAMPING!!
I do hope you like my card.
I have had the Love Sparkles Simply Scrappin kit for some time and have wanted to make a whole array of projects with it and thought today’s sketch would be perfect and just traded the circles for hearts.
I am allowed to do that – Carol said so!
I love the colours and everything in this kit!
The Simply Scrappin kits are a great purchase! They have so so much stuff in them you can make so much.
Each pack includes ….
- eight 12×12 sheets textured card stock (2 each of 4 colours)
- 6 sheets double sided patterned paper ( 3 each of 2 different designs)
- 6 sheets Adhesive Die Cuts (2 sheets of 3 different designs.
- So as you can see its great value!
- Now don’t forget to pop over to the Utah Divas International Blog to check out the other projects the Design Team there have created – now they are all in USA so you may need for them to wake up before their projects are uploaded.
- Now I’m off to do some scrapbooking – yes you read that right!! Me scrapbook and I’ll have some exciting news when I upload that layout! So make sure you pop back.
- Thanks for stopping by ….
Coaster Calendar
By · CommentsWell yesterday my big girl didnt last long at her first day of High School – I had to pick her up after 2 hours as she was feeling rather sick – too many nerves I think but today she’s back and so far so good 
She’s made new friends and can you believe there are three girls in her class all with the same name! Hopefully today I will have the whole day to myself!
This calendar is one that I started before I went away on holidays – I had hoped to give a few as Christmas presents but that wasnt meant to be as I just had too much to do before we left. I can still send them on as ‘just because’ gifts.
So here’s the cover
Here are all the pages that make up the calendar
As you can see I’ve tried to make the months in colours that suite the season they are in – not always easy when most things Christmas have snow on them and well Christmas in Australia is rather hot!
I hope you like this little calendar and I will be running a class for this on 25th February and as my house is small places are limited to ring and book in today!
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ESAD Colour Challenge
By · CommentsGood Morning all …. well today is going to be a big day – My oldest has her first day of High School so no doubt that will be a whole new adventure for all of us! Miss 10 starts 5th Grade – and mum has a day all to herself!!
I want to thank everyone who managed to survive the Saleabration Blog Hop on Monday – it was huge and we had so many new visitor and comments. Now you can still do the blog hop to be in the running for the Blog Candy as this closes on Friday. You can start here and will need to leave a comment on each blog then email me to advise you finished and I will put your name into the draw for the Blog Candy. Now be prepared as there are 41 blogs involved so you’d better go get a cuppa and some bikkies! I promise next time it wont be so big!
I have set a colour challenge to all the girls on ESAD and thought I’d share it with you too in case you wanted to join in.
Make a card, 3d item or scrap page using the following colours ….
Here is my card for the challenge ….
It’s actually a case of a card that the gorgeous Shelli Gardner (Stampin Up! CEO) demonstrated at Leadership recently in USA. I’ve used the lovely new “I {heart} Hearts” stamp set – this is also the set to purchase help raise funds for the Haiti Disaster Relief fund. I love this set – it coordinates so well with the Stampin’ Up! heart punches.
Now if youre playing once your item is finished upload your project to your blog or online gallery like flickr or photobucket then come back to this post and leave a comment with the link to your project to be in the running for the prize. I should have known the first time I use Mr LInky it would go MIA – I cant even get their site to load so my apologies for that.
You have until 31st January to create and upload your item and I will announce a winner – the lucky winner will receive a small prize in the mail.
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Sale A Bration Blog Hop is here!
By · CommentsGood Morning everyone!
I hope you’re ready for the ESAD Sale A Bration Blog Hop! Better go grab yourself a cuppa as you’ll be hopping for a while!
What is ESAD you say?
ESAD stands for Extra Special Australian (and New Zealand) Demonstrators and it is an online group just for Australian and New Zealand demonstrators for Stampin’ Up!
We so love what we do and not only do we love to share it with our customers, friends and wonderful blog visitors but we share our love for what we do with each other as Demonstrators. We run swaps, challenges, tutorials, product know how and cyberstamp and we are always there to help and support each other when its needed.
So if you are a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand then please feel free to click on the button below to join our wonderful group.
Now before I share my project with you I also want you to know that if you do make it around to all 41 Blogs involved in today’s Blog Hop and if you make a comment on each one you are then in the running for some Extra Special Blog Candy. The demonstrators from all over have donated blog candy for this blog hop and if you are the lucky winner you’ll be getting all sorts of parcels and you will truly think that Christmas has come early this year and that you’ve been a very good girl (or guy)! Now if you do get to all and comment on all the blogs shoot me an email with your name and email address and then everyone who has also visited and commented on all the blogs will go in the drawer for the ‘extra special’ blog candy. Last time Lynda Shrimpton was the lucky winner and just loved all her little surprises however this time we will have 3 blog candy winners so please enjoy the trip and dont forget to leave comments cos we really do love having people comment on our blogs.
Now onto my project …..
I love all the stamp sets that are available in the Sale A Bration Catalogue and chose to pre-order the Vintage Labels to use and make samples to share with you. Last November we had Regional Training with Stampin Up! in Sydney and it was there that one of the demonstrators recommended making classes using our Notecards so thats exactly what I’ve done.
Here is the set I created.
I created a box which holds 5 Notecards and envelopes.
Th
e box is a new creation of mine which was inspired by an item in my bathroom – its amazing what we get our inspiration from sometimes hey?
The base is done using Old Olive cardstock and I’ve used Bella Rose Designer Series Papers to complete this whole set. I’ve also used a build a brad to embellish the closure and the closure is secured by a velcro dot.
All the cards are completed using the Notecards available in the 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalogue, Rose is a Rose stamp set, Vintage Labels Sale A Bration Stamp Set and the Bella Rose Designer Series Papers with coordinating cardstock.
Here are the cards
I do hope you like this little set as much as I loved making them. Now remember to leave me a comment and your next stop on the blog hop is the blog of the lovely & talented Linda Craven.
Dont forget to send me an email at leonie@stamp-a-latte.com to advise when you have completed the blog hop … winners will be announced 31st January.
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Sketchy Hearts
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Its Saturday again and time for another Utah Divas International Sketch Challenge from the lovely Carol.
Now I didnt see the word ‘top’ until I was cropping and resizing the sketch but then thats like me isnt it? to change or turn or do something to the sketch – Carol would think I was ill if I didnt change it in some way, shape or form!
I wanted to make a card using the “I {heart} Hearts” stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalogue as its the one that Stampin’ Up! have chosen to help the Haitian Disaster Relief. With every sale of this stamp set from now until 28th February Stampin’ Up! will donate $2 to the Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund.
Here’s my card …
I hope you like it as much as the girls do.
I used three of the hearts to make a collage background and layered the saying over the top using vellum to give the background a muted look. You may also notice the sentiment stamp is one you havent seen as yet? Its a stamp from one of the upcoming ‘free’ Sale-A-Bration sets.
I love being with Stampin’ Up! and always know that when a country or area is affected with a disaster like this Stampin’ Up! will always find a way to help just as they did last February for the Bushfires that ravaged Victoria, Australia.
Now in addition to the $2 from Stampin Up! anyone who purchase the “I {heart} Hearts” stamp set I will donate my commision on this set and if you purchase the heart punches at the same time (either of them or both) I will donate my commission on those heart punches as well.
So contact me today to place your order and help raise funds for these poor people in Haiti.
Dont forget to pop over to the Utah Divas Blog and view the other cards made by the Sketch Challenge Design Team.
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