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Happy Easter Saturday to you!

Its Saturday so that means another Utah Divas Sketch Challenge and boy was this weeks one a challenge!

Well the sketch in itself wasn’t hard to do but the challenge this time was to do Iris Folding. Now I love most things with paper crafting and card making but Iris Folding is not one of them – but I did persevere.

I wanted to stay with the Easter theme so thought a Iris Folded Cross would be good – well until I couldn’t find a template but the lovely Ruthie came to my rescue. I ended up drawing my own cross and used the pattern Ruthie sent me.

So here’s my card …

what do you think??

I’ve used the lovely Bella Bleu Designer Series Papers with Not Quite Navy card stock. I couldn’t help myself but use the Eyelet Border Punch as it is one of my favourites and just adds a touch of elegance.

I’ve used a build-a-brad for the centre focus on the cross and used the small flower from the Bella Blooms stamp set.

I have purposely left off a greeting. This way you could use this card as an Easter card or a Sympathy card.

I do hope you like what I have done – I suppose the Iris Folding looks OK but not sure I’d make too many using this technique.

Now its time for you to skip along to Lori’s lovely blog to see how she interpreted the sketch.

Happy Easter to you!!

Today I am sharing with you the second March card I received from my ESAD Secret Sister. Every three months on ESAD we run a Secret Stampin Sister program which you send cards and little handmade gifts to each month and then a larger gift in the last month. Its a lovely way to spoil others and you dont know who you are receiving from – only who you send to. Then there is a big reveal at the end of the three months.

How nice is this card??

I love the delicacy and elegance of it!

The set used is Eastern Influences from the Idea Book & Catalogue. They have also done the ‘Faux Silk’ technique. The combination of this technique and the images and colours used makes it so feminine and elegant.

Such a pretty card and I thank my Secret Sister for this – I love love love it.

I thought I’d also take this opportunity to tell you about a new page I’ve added to my blog. If you look at the page menu across the bottom of my banner you will see a new tab – “Kits for Sale“.  This is where I will list any kits I’ve made up and havent used so this gives you the opportunity to get one or two of my kits if you arent local to me to attend my classes.

The kits will come with all the cardstock, papers, ribbons and embellishments you will need to complete the project – you will also receive my instruction sheet. So make sure you check there from time to time to make sure you dont miss out on anything!

I do hope you have a Happy and Safe Easter Holiday and manage to take some quiet time where you can remember and be thankful for the sacrifice Jesus made for us by dying on the cross. Sometimes we get so caught up in the commercialisation of our celebrations we forget what we are really celebrating.

God Bless you this Easter and always!

Today’s share is the last from Monday’s Stamp A Stack in which I was asked for ‘Easter cards for kids’.

This is a very easy and simple card and one that you can give to anyone just by changing the colours and designer series papers.

Recipe:
Stamps: Greetings Eight, Occasional Greetings.
Paper: Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, Whisper White, Regal Rose, Brocade Blue, Morning Sun, Tea Party DSP, Washington Apple DSP
Inks: Jet Black Stazon, Brocade Blue, Regal Rose, Morning Sun
Accessories: Circle Scissor Plus, Ribbons, Stampin Dimensionals, Watercolour Crayons, Aqua Painter, Scallop Circle Punch.

I also showed my ladies how to use your Scalloped Circle punch to create scallops on larger circles. This way you only need the one punch and the ‘know-how’ to use it for larger circles.

I got this idea from the lovely Marelle Taylor and this is how you do it ….

I have punched a 1 3/4″ circle and I want to put a scalloped edge around it and as you can see from this picture that our scalloped circle punch isn’t big enough to do so.

So what we need to do is to punch two Scalloped Circles and punch another circle in the centre – I’ve used the 3/4″ punch here

using your Paper Snips cut right through between a scallop and then from the centre and on every second scallop snip to within a couple of millimetres of the scallop and do this all the way around your scalloped circle. I am hoping you can see the pictures OK to see what I’m talking about! Then on the second scalloped circle cut to how many you need to fill up the scallops.

Using your fingers spread the sections out being careful not to spread too much as they can brake off.

Then take the circle you want to scallop behind and place small sections of Snail Adhesive behind and then spread your scallops around ensuring they are even and have the same amount showing on each one. Once your finished you can then attach to your project or to ensure the scallops dont fall off punch out another 1 3/4″ circle to attach behind to keep it all secure.

So how easy is that??

Now you dont need to buy umpteen scalloped circle punches for each size circle you want to scallop – you just need the one!

As a special bonus from me to you I am offering a bonus just for my customers …. when you spend $60 with me from now until end of March I will give you a free Sale A Bration stamp set.   I have a few spares here so happy to reward my customers in little ways like this so email or ring me today with your order and payment details.

Thanks for stoppin by

If your house is anything like mine then it tends to look like a Cadbury shop at Easter time!! We always say we buy too much and we wont buy so much next Easter but we always do!

I am going to try and buy just a couple of eggs and maybe throw in an iTunes or giftcard from Target or Big W or similar. So I might still ‘spend’ the same amount but make the gift a little more useful.  All I have to do is think chocolate and I put on a kilo! so doing the giftcards will be much better for everyone involved! Or maybe I’ll buy everyone a Gloria Jean’s giftcard and they can take me out for coffee!

Anyway … onto the card ….

I have borrowed this set from my lovely downline Jossleen for today’s Stamp A Stack. You’ll probably notice that the colours in this card are not one’s I’d normally choose but wanted to make a ‘boy’ Easter card for today’s Stamp A Stack and think its turned out quite well.

Recipe

Stamps: Loads of Love, Loads of Love Accessories
Papers: Pacific Point, Whisper White, Kiwi Kiss, Good Morning Sunshine DSP
Inks: Jet Black Stazon, Pacific Point, Basic Gray, Going Gray
Accessories: Stampin Write Markers (to colour eggs & sentiment), stapler, staples, Bashful Blue Grosgrain, Stampin Dimensionals, Small Tag Punch, Tag Punch

Hope the ladies like this one today!

OOOO did you know that Easter is just 3 weeks away?? yup so you better get your lists to the Easter Bunny so he (or she) can spoil you this Easter. Actually thinking about it the Easter Bunny must be a ‘she’ cos could a he really be organised so well and get so many eggs to so many people at the same time? no I dont think so either!!

Firstly let me thank everyone for their messages and prayers for my husbands cataract surgery last week. He’s had some discomfort yet is amazed at how he can now see many things he just couldn’t see before. He still has to be careful with his eye and there is still lots of healing to be done. So please keep those prayers going.

Its Saturday again so that means another Sketch Challenge from the Utah Divas International group.

This one has many possibilities however as I have a Stamp A Stack on Monday and they’ve asked for ‘kids’ Easter cards I figured I may as well use the sketch for one of the cards.

I have also used my punches to create the ‘bunny’ and I followed the instructions by Amy Celona which you can find here.

As you can see there is minimal stamping on the card – just using the Egg Hunt Stampin’ Round and a Teeny Tiny Sentiment from one of the upcoming stamp sets in the Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue which starts 1st April.

I do hope you like this card and I encourage you to ‘hop‘ onto the next Diva with her creation for this sketch which is Lori

Now dont forget to hop around all the blogs for the Utah Divas International Sketch Challenge Team.  You will find links to the next blog at the end of each post like I’ve done here.

With Easter in early April I was asked by one of my Stamp A Stack groups to make an Easter card. I dont have ‘Easter’ sets as such so started looking through my Stamps for a set to use.

Here is my Easter card which I’ve used the Wagon Full of Fun stamp set  from the Summer Mini Catalogue.

It is a great set for a few different occasions and its a great one for water colouring or colouring in.

The eggs I’ve stamped straight onto Designer Series Papers then just coloured the patterned part of the eggs with my Stampin’ Write Markers.

Can you see the clouds in the sky??

I followed the tutorial from my good friend Gretchen Baron’s sponged clouds tutorial on her blog and if you’d like to know how to do the sky then I’m more than happy to come and do a demonstration to show you and your friends just how easy it is! 

I am starting Technique Classes in March with the first one being on 10th March. Places are limited so please make sure you book in early.

The wagon, eggs and duck are all cut out and mounted onto the grass/sky layer. Oh and a trick to cut out the wheels was to use my handy dandy 1/4” circle punch – they fit perfectly!

I do hope the ladies enjoy making this card today!

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Happy Easter Sunday to you!

I do hope youre having a relaxing Easter Sunday and not gobbling all your chocolate eggs down too quickly like my youngest did – she is a little over the chocolate right now! I’ve only had one piece and already my head is starting to hurt!

I have seen so many gorgeous cards made with Pocket Silhouettes so when I saw it was in our new Idea Book & Catalogue I just had to have it – and its a bargain at just $33.95 for 6 stamps!

Here is a card that I’ve had on my desk in various stages over the past week.

I dont normally do Emboss Resist and I’ve seen a few doing this technique lately so thought I’d have a go too!

I’ve sponged the background in Kiwi Kiss and Baja Breeze after stamping and embossing the silhouettes. The Background on the Pacific Point card is the Friendly Words jumbo wheel which makes an awesome background. The sentiment is from the Level 1 Hostess set Best Yet which is reason enough to hold a demonstration! It has six great sayings in it which I’m sure you will see here throughout the next 12 months!

When I had finished the card it looked a bit bare in the top left corner so I went looking for a butterfly to use and can you believe I dont have one set with a nice little butterfly in it so I’m just going to have to remedy that!

I have Priceless which has a whimsical larger butterfly but that wouldnt have suited this card so I grabbed my retired Live your Dream set and just used that butterfly until I work out which set with a little butterfly I should get!

I stamped the butterfly once on Pink Pirouette and once on Baja Breeze cut them out with my awesome paper snips and mounted them on with the thin edging from the wonderful Stampin Dimensionals so it gives the impression they are in flight.

Here’s a close up of the butterflies so you can see what I mean.

Hope you do have a lovely (and safe) Easter weekend and make some lovely memories with family and friends!

I’ve been busy taking out all my old DSP papers and putting in the new ones as well as taking out the old In Colour Cardstock and putting in the lovely new In Colours.

Now I have a mountain of retired DSP and In Colour cardstock and scraps that needs a new home so if youre after some please contact me as hubby is sick of all the boxes everywhere

I made this card the other week for the make n take at a demonstration. My hostess asked for Fresh Cuts with bling so thats what she got!!

You cant see the bling too well in the photo but the small flower from the Fresh Cuts set is stamped in Mellow Moss then covered with glue from the 2 way glue pen and dazzling diamonds sprinkled all over.

We had to wait for it to dry before we pierced a hole in the centre then put a rhinestone brad through the centre – we also put the brads backs through the white note layer to secure it firmly and as we have a Mellow Moss layer in the middle of the card you cant see the back of the brad.

Inside the card we stamped the ferny leaf stamp down the right hand side of the inside of the note as you can see here.

The mellow moss piece is stamped with the collage image and then adhered to the inside of the card as shown so you still have the right side of the note to write a message on.

The taffeta ribbon is tied around the card so it covers the start of the mellow moss piece and is knotted at the front of the card.

The sides of the mellow moss insert and front of the fresh cuts are both torn on the right hand side so when the card is closed you can see the three layers of the card.

This last picture shows the three layers and you can actually see the centre flower a bit better here.

Now I’d better get back to my sorting so I can then make some more cards and samples to share with you!

Dont forget to check out the retired stamps I have for sale on my Stamp Clearance page and remember I now have all this Designer Series Paper to clear out as well.

Have a great Easter and remember a balanced diet is one with a chocolate in each hand!!

Last week I shared a couple of items that could be used to give easter gifts in and today I want to share with you the little Easter Baskets I made for giving.

How cute are these little baskets?

I followed the tutorial on Dawn’s blog and they are super easy to make! They take just one 6×6 piece of patterned paper and a strip of cardstock and two brads.

Although these baskets look small they still hold quite a few small Easter Eggs.

Now you could also use these for other occassions other than Easter – you could pop in a bath bomb, lollies, jewellry, stamps or anything small enough to fit!

I will be making a few of these with various goodies inside for sale at the Mothers Trade Night at church on 24th April.

They are super cute and easy enough for kids to make too!

Have an awesomely blessed Easter as we remember and celebrate the crucifixion and  resurrection of Jesus Christ and all that means and brings to our lives.

Well its nearly ‘that’ time again! but we all know its coming … as soon as the christmas decorations come down in the shops out comes Valentine’s Day and when thats done I am sure they just take off the hearts and stick on bunnies or rabbit ears to the displays!

Now dont get me wrong I do love Easter as we celebrate the wonderful gift God gave us and His sacrifice for us. I also love chocolate – which could be my undoing this year as I’ve now been going to Weight Watchers for a couple of months and have so far lost 3.2kg so I’m very happy with that but so dont want to put it all back on over Easter! Mind you 3kg is A LOT of chocolate!

A recent hostess asked if they could make something to give a gift for Easter in and I immediately thought of the treat pulls I made last year for the coffee sachets.

So I went to work and made one to suite the very yummy Kit Kat bar in.

Did you know that one Kit Kat (4 fingers) has 5.5 points in them on the Weight Watchers Plan? That’s 1/4 of my daily allowance – still its no match for one slice of Banana Bread from Gloria Jean’s – it has a whoppin 26.5 points in ONE slice!! and you thought it was a good choice hey??

Ok … back to the Treat Pull for the Kit Kat

How cute is this ??

You pull on the ribbon and it actually pulls out the Kit Kat.

This is very easy to make and I’d love to show you how – just book in a demonstration and I will make one at your demonstration – dont forget that the hostess gets everything I make on the day!

I’ve used the It’s Beautiful Stampin Round wheel and the Greetings Eight stamp set which is in the new 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalogue.

Now for something a little different again I made a tall 2-4-6-8 Box.

Now you could pop small easter eggs, smarties, M&M’s or Jelly Beans inside this one and it just ties up with a ribbon at the top.You could even pop in some ribbons, hodge podge hardware or brads inside. Hey even money would work!

Easy As!

I took a piece of whisper white cardstock and just used the flower from Simply Said and stamped it all over in four different colours. Assembled the box and tied with the wide Grosgrain Certainly Celery ribbon.

Now these are not Easter only treats – you could use them any time of the year by just changing the stamps and colours you use.

My girls are taking one of the kit kat pulls to their teachers for Easter – so yeah they make great teacher’s gifts too!

Hope you like these little boxes and I’ll see you next time – have a great night!

As the 2008-2009 Idea Book & Catalogue finishes tomorrow I now have a list of my retiring stamps for sale on the Stamp Clearance page. So have a look there and see if there is anything you must have – make sure you contact me as soon as possible as they wont last long!