Breezin by …

Tomorrow I’m off down south for a Stamp A Stack with a lovely group of ladies. These ladies like both card making and scrapbooking so I always tailor their Stamp A Stack to suite both. They will make one 12×12 layout and 4 cards – two of two different designs.

They use the Stampin’ Up!® Idea Book and Catalogue as it was designed – as an idea book. They will go through all the samples in the book and decide which they want to do and tonight I’m sharing the cards they’ve chosen. They have chosen the two cards at the top of page 75 -  I have altered them ever so slightly as I dont have the Kindred Spirits stamp set and I’ve change the chipboard to using the cardstock instead.

In previous years the recipes for each card have been listed in the back of the catalogue and idea book. This year they have used those pages to give us a few more stamps and accessories and have placed the files for the recipes on the Stampin Up Website with the Catalogue. You can download the recipe file with or without the images.  You can find the files here

Here are the recipes for the two cards ….

This card is made from a 6×6 base so finished size is 6×3 inches.

Recipe:

Stamps: Upsy Daisy, Frames with a Flourish
Inks: Not Quite Navy
Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Whisper White
DSP: Urban Garden
Accessories: Stampin Dimensionals, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Paper Snips

This is a very quick and easy card to make and really suites any occasion.

Recipe:

Stamps: Circle Circus, Eastern Blooms, Pocket Silhouettes
Inks: Not Quite Navy
Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White
DSP: Urban Garden
Accessories: Paper Piercer, White Grosgrain Ribbon, Stampin Dimensionals

This also makes a quick and easy card as I think the longest bit was cutting out the circle and ring.

I am looking forward to catching up with the girls again tomorrow as we always have a good time when we catch up and stamp together.

I’ll be back tomorrow to show you the layout they will be making.

Thoughts Box

You might remember the little 4×4 Desktop Box set I shared the other day using the Upsy Daisy set.  Well since I finished that I wanted to make one of these sets for our standard A6 cards and then the June Colour Challenge was announced for our ESAD (Extra Special Australian Demonstrator) Yahoogroup so thought I’d combine the two!

The colour challenge set by Alisa was to use

• Chocolate Chip
• Creamy Caramel
• Cameo Coral
• Ridinghood Red

Here’s my little Desktop Organiser.

I’ve used the above colours and the lovely Thoughts and Prayers stamp set, Friendly Words Stampin’ Round and a couple of our awesome punches to make this cute little boxed set.

The template for the box came from Paper Trey Ink Timeless Templates. Although you have to pay for the templates there they are all very well formatted and come with pages and pages of design ideas and all for just a mere US$5 so money well spent – well I think so anyways. I did have to adjust it slightly to fit our cards in it. Lauren has many more templates to choose from as well.

Here is the full set that I made consisting of the box, cards and envelopes.

As you can see this makes a great present and you can change the set just by using different greetings and colours. I can see a few of my hostesses getting one of these sets when they hold their next demonstration.

Here’s a close up of one of the cards so you can see them in closer detail

I’ll be running a class for these desktop organiser’s during July so please contact me as soon as possible to reserve your spot or if you can get at least 5 friends together I’ll come and run the class at your house.

I am also offering a special bundle along with this class for the month of July and August ….

Desktop Thoughts Box Bundle – valued at $111.85 for just $100

• Thoughts & Prayers stamp set
• Eyelet Border Punch
• Chocolate Taffeta Ribbon
• Earth Elements A4 mixed cardstock
• Cameo Coral Stampin’ Write Marker
• Creamy Caramel Stampin’ Write Marker

So get on the phone or email me today to arrange your class or book in for mine.

Sweet Tote

Today I travelled down the big hill to run the Sweet Tote class.  I love meeting with these ladies every couple of weeks as they have not only become lovely customers but they’ve also become great friends – I love that about Stampin’ Up! as running the classes I do I have made so many new wonderful friendships so Stampin Up! is not just stamping but friendships we build along the way.

Here’s the gorgeous little Tote we made today – and complete with Chocolate Wafer Fingers! The handles are made from the 5/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon and inserted through Jumbo Eyelets inserted using the Crop-a-Dile.

This is one that I made from a tutorial from the lovely Becky Roberts and you can download the tutorial for this Tote-ally Awesome Tote here.

It was Becky that I got the tutorial for the mini backpacks a little while back so she really does have some great ideas and wonderful creations on her blog.

On the side of the tote you see here there are 3 little pockets which you can put all sorts of treats in or gift cards or vouchers. I have the Chocolate Wafer Fingers in the two outside pockets and a pack of tic-tacs in the middle pocket.

Turn the Tote around and we have one long pocket.

In this pocket we have a covered long post it note pad and a biro/pen which we screwed the end of and inserted some matching Sweet Always Designer Series Paper and tied some co-ordinating ribbon around the barrel of the pen.

Open the Tote up and we have a four cards – two of two different designs.

There are two sections made from acetate which hold the cards in but with the acetate being clear its not so easy to see.

Although there are a few ‘fiddly’ bits all the ladies were very happy with their finished Tote and I know that whoever they decide to give it to will love it immensely!

We had lots of fun today and I’m back there again on Monday for one of their Stamp A Stacks.

Till next time …..

Diva Sketch Challenge 36

Here we are with another Sketch Challenge for Utah Divas International group.

Utah Divas International is a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator only group and is full of talented and helpful demonstrators and open to all demonstrators worldwide. Since being a part of Utah Divas International I have met many wonderful ladies and have become good friends with some of them.

They are always there with helpful advice on techniques, ideas and the occassional prayer when any of the members need it. Its a great group to be a part of so if youre a demonstrator and think you’d like to be a part of Utah Divas then please drop me a line or join through the blog by clicking on the Utah Divas badge in my sidebar.

Now onto my card for the challenge.

This must be one of the quickest cards I’ve ever made from start to finish! Although I’ve been wanting to use my Pun Fun set for ages but always seemed to be busy with other projects I decided today this is the day to ‘have a blast’!

I have been asked a few times lately for cards for young boys. Now you may not realise that both my children are girls so doing the ‘boy’ thing doesnt come as freely to me as the ‘girl’ thing.  So I’ve gone with bright bold colours here with the red, blue and yellow and think this fits into the boy theme rather well – hope you do too!

Here’s what I used ….

Stamps: Pun Fun, Classic Stars Jumbo Wheel
Paper: Good Morning Sunshine DSP, Real Red, Ballet Blue, Summer Sun, Watercolour Paper
Inks: Stazon Jet Black, Ballet Blue Classic Ink Pad
Accessories: Watercolour Crayons, Aqua Painter, Stampin Dimensionals

I do hope you like today’s card and go visit the Utah Divas International blog to see what the other girls have done with this sketch.

Now I’d better be off and make up the kits for tomorrow’s class!

Birthday Box

Good Morning all!

Yup its another ‘fresh’ morning here in Sydney – well I suppose it IS winter and I’m roolly hanging for Spring!

I was warmed yesterday by the preview of the upcoming Spring Mini Catalogue which will start 1st August. Now I must warn you that you will want everything in there like I do – its a gorgeous Mini Catalogue so you’d better start saving your pennies now! You’ll also want to make sure you book your workshop in for August too so you can then get some of the goodies for free! Spots will fill fast so best work out a date today and contact me to arrange your demonstration.

Now onto today’s share …

How sweet is this little box of cards? This box contains 4 cards measuring 4×4 and as shown below the cards are done in four different colours.

They are all done using the Upsy Daisy stamp set. I have used two tones of the same  and just using the different colours and matching the ink pads to the cardstock in the same colour. Easy as!!

Colours I’ve used are

• Pretty in Pink/Regal Rose
• Apricot Appeal/Tangerine Tango
• Pale Plum/ Perfect Plum
• Bashful Blue/Ballet Blue

I will be running this as a class in July and August and offering a kit to make this set as follows …

Upsy Daisy Desktop Organiser Kit – $55.00

• Upsy Daisy Stamp Set  $33.95
• Soft Subtles A4 Cardstock pack  $14.50
• Whisper White A4 Cardstock   $13.50
• Instructions to make box -$5
• Ribbon Pack  (value approximately $10)

This pack is valued at over $70 so the savings are yours!

Book in for this great class and receive the instructions for the box for free!

Email or Ring me today to book in to this class at my house or get 5 of your friends together and I’ll come to do the class at your house. Be quick and get in before my diary is full.

Friends

Well its another chilly Sydney winter day here with the temperature just 7.5C (45.5F) so I hope its a little warmer where you are! No doubt my new little gas heater will be keeping me warm today!

As you may have noticed my blog looks a little different this morning and I hope you like the changes. I have been told that a change is as good as a holiday however I think I might like to try the holiday just once! I still have a little ‘tweaking’ to do so hopefully it wont take too long before I’m happy with it.

I know I havent posted in over a week and I apologise for that. I’ve had some health issues and been busy with classes and workshops and these two things have impacted on my time for creating and blogging. If anyone out there has some good time management tips then please feel free to share them with me!

Here is a card I cased from Splitcoast Stampers last week.

I do love how this card turned out and it really is very elegant and very easy to do. Its done using the Friends 24-7 Stamp set and the Friendly Words wheel and really could be given for any occasion at all. There is some sponging involved in this card and really it wouldnt be a card from me if it didnt involve some sponging or daubering somewhere!

Recipe
Stamps: Friends 24-7, Friendly Words Stampin round wheel
Paper: Bravo Burgundy, Brocade Blue, Very Vanilla
Inks: Bravo Burgundy
Accessories: Brocade Blue Stampin Write Marker, Pretties Kit (half pearl), Very Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon, Eyelet Border punch, mini glue dots, stampin sponges.

Here is another of the same card. This time I have included the bird stamp from Friends 24-7 which has been stamped and cut out and layered using dimensionals.

This is actually what the original cased card had however I find that leaving the bird off makes this card just as elegant and sometimes ‘less’ is ‘more’.

I do hope you like this card and would love to show you just how easy it is to make so why not email or ring me today to book your demonstration in? We still have the extra bonuses for Hostesses to the end of July so there’s still time to take advantage of this wonderful promotion from Stampin’ Up!®

Sweet Hearts

I have been working on a present for a special friend for her birthday. Once I get all the ‘pieces’ made I will share the gift but for the time being I thought I’d share one of the cards I’ve made to include in the gift.

Well Ok I made two cards the same – well they are the same apart from the brads used and the flourish from Baroque Motifs.  I thought I’d make two so I could pop one into the gift and have one as a sample for my Stamp A Stack folder.

I love using the Always stamp set and I dont think you could go wrong with anything you made using it!

Recipe:

Stamps: Always, Baroque Motifs
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Sweet Always DSP
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose
Accessories: 5/8″ Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon, Brads, Sponge Daubers

This is a very simple card to make and would love to show you how to make it. Ring or Email me today to arrange your demonstration or class at your home with your friends. Remember during June and July you have the opportunity to earn bonus free products once your demonstration sales reach $600 or more.

Diva Sketch Challenge 33

Wow can you believe we are up to #33 already? and can you believe I’ve done two posts within 24 hours?? well wonders never cease do they!!

Here is this week’s sketch.

When Alicia first sent me this sketch I did have that “what on earth do I do with that??” thought but then I got to thinking and yes I do know that can be very dangerous!

I had just mounted my Dreams du Jour set and its such a gorgeous set and this is the card I came up with and yes it seems those naughty Cherished Teddies have snuck into another photo! They can be so cheeky sometimes. (OK yes I’m tired – I’ve spent the past 24 hours on a friends blog and have had very little sleep)

Recipe:

Stamps: Dreams du Jour
Paper: Pink Pirouette, Kiwi Kiss, Very Vanilla, Bella Rose DSP
Inks: Basic Black Classic Ink, Ridinghood Red
Accessories:  Very Vanilla Taffeta ribbon, Scalloped Square Punch, Nestabilities, Big Shot, Dimensionals, Watercolour Pencils.

This too was a very quick and easy card to make so hope you like this one too.

Now it really is time for bed – I did tell Kerri that I was going to bed nearly 2 hours ago so just dont tell her ok? If you’d like to check out Kerri’s new blog you can see it here and while you’re at it dont forget to check out the Utah Divas Blog too as they have a new header as well!

Someone really has been busy this week

Till next time

Simply Sent Card Elements

This card was actually made for two challenges last week.

First challenge was the Sketch Challenge #32 with the Utah Diva’s blog using this sketch.

The other challenge was with the Aussie Demonstrator Only group – ESAD and a colour challenge set by Alisa. We really do have some very talented demonstrators in Australia as was evident from all the cards that were made for this challenge.

The colours for this challenge were Perfect Plum, Rose Red, Old Olive and Whisper White.

As I flicked through the catalogue for inspiration I came across the Simply Sent Card Elements Flower Power kit and noticed it had all those colours so I decided to use this kit for my card. Although my card had More Mustard in it too so didnt quite fit the challenge but thats ok.

These kits are wonderful for making quick and easy cards – this card here took me all of ten minutes to make! The kits also have enough materials to make nine cards so at $30.95 (plus shipping & handling)  for nine cards its quite a bargain!

Here is what you get in the kit.

As you can see you get everything you need – all you have to do is buy some adhesive and youre done! It comes with brads, ribbon and buttons and the die cut sheet is adhesive so all you have to do is peel and stick! Couldnt be easier!

You might remember last year we had the Simply Sent kits which included the kits like the above plus a stamp set and inks or markers, etc. Well we still have a couple of those kits but to make some more affordable the kits have been separated into the ‘elements’ and the ’stamps’ and each ‘elements’ kit has a coordinating stamp set and the one for the flower power set is the Wow Flowers set which is a set of 4 stamps for just $24.95 (plus postage & handling) and here is a picture of the set so you can see just how well it all coordinates.

If you look at my card you will see I’ve used the round Happy Birthday stamp to embellish my card with the addition of a rhinestone brad.

As a special offer to my blog readers I am offering a pack including Flower Power Card Elements, Wow Flowers Stamp Set and a Snail Adhesive for $68 – that means you dont pay any shipping or handling! So thats a saving of $5.95 to you. If you’d like to take advantage of this offer then please ring or email me as this offer expires on 15th June, 2009 so you’ll need your money to me by that date.

Now I’m off for a Latte and to do some more creating!

Tri Shutter Christmas

Wow thank you all so much for the awesome comments on yesterday’s Tri Shutter Rose card. These cards really are fun to make and as you can see from yesterday’s card they make a really lovely ’special’ card to give to someone special.

As promised here is the same Tri Shutter card but done in a Christmas theme.

This one has been done using the Holiday Treasure DSP and the Wish for Peace stamp set. I’ve also thrown in my favourite tree from Lovely as a tree and the christmas greeting from Gods Blessings  to do the third panel.

I’m really loving the Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red and Old Olive combo for Christmas cards at the moment.

Recipe:

Stamps: A Wish for Peace, Lovely as a Tree, God’s Blessings
Paper: Very Vanilla, Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Mellow Moss, Old Olive, Ruby Red, Holiday Treasure DSP
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, Mellow Moss, Creamy Caramel, Baja Breeze
Accessories: Sponge Daubers, Paper Trimmer, Bone Scorer, Two Way Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds, Paper Snips

Here is the card showing all three panels

Here is a close up of the dove – love this dove stamp!

He looks so cool stamped in Baja Breeze and covered in Dazzling Diamonds!

I do hope you like this card too – a word of warning though – they can become a little addictive so dont say I didnt warn you! Stampin’ Up! make it so easy for us with the Designer Series Papers matching our stamp sets so well and all the colour combinations are done for us so the hardest part is deciding which paper or stamp set to use and the rest is easy!

Have a great afternoon – must be time for a cuppa hey?

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