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A Little Baroque

4 July, 2010 3 Comments

This past week I’ve been busy getting my emails and Google reader up to date – cant believe I had over 700 posts I hadnt read!  Can you believe its now down to 3?

In my ‘reading’ I did find some gorgeous cards and projects to inspire and case.  Now when you do case a card or something you’ve found online the ‘proper’ thing to do is to give credit to the person who inspired you.  In today’s case this card is one I cased from the very lovely Lynda Shrimpton.  Lynda is an avid blog reader – I know this cos not only does she frequent my blog but those of my demonstrator friends and she always leaves the best comments! Thanks Lynda :)

Isnt this a great card??

Now I did change the colours somewhat as I wanted to use this as one of the cards for today’s Stamp A Stack.

Recipe

Stamps: Baroque Motifs, Weathered background, Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Inks: Sahara Sand, Close to Cocoa
Papers: Close to Cocoa, Naturals Ivory
Accessories: Stampamajig, Sponge Daubers, Stampin Dimensionals
Technique – Shadow Stamping

If you look closely at the card you can see a faint shadow on the swirl. This is done by using the two inks – one light and one darker and you definitely need to use the Stampamajig to place the second stamping.

If you love this effect and would like to see how it is done why not book in for my Technique Class or have me come show you at a Workshop in your home.

Now I have some sad news …..

As you know we have the colour renovation happening when the new Idea Book & Catalogue comes out in September (not long now) and some of our beloved colours are being discontinued. Now while Stampin Up! have tried to keep up with the demand some of the colours will be gone early due to demand and everyone ordering and the first item to go is Close to Cocoa A4 Cardstock.  So while the full packs are no longer available you can get it in the mixed Earth Elements pack but again this is only while stocks last.

So please if there is any other retiring colour cardstock, inks, markers or refills you ‘need’ get it early before its too late!

Have a totally blessed Sunday!

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Autumn Days

29 May, 2010 6 Comments

I hope you’ve been enjoying the bits from Convention I’ve been posting. Today I’m taking a break as its another Sketchy Saturday – Utah Divas Sketchy Saturday that is :)

This is this weeks sketch …

Now I thought to myself that I hadnt really changed anything on Carol’s lovely sketches for a while so it was time to alter it in some way so I rotated it.  Sorry Carol couldnt help myself once I realised!!

I have to say I loved making this card!  As soon as I saw my lovely friend Lisa making her Convention swap card I knew I had to make one with a grassy theme.  I knew what I wanted to do once I saw the sketch and rotated it – I just had to find a saying to go with it. So after searching the Idea Book & Catalogue I found one that I think fits.

Here is my card ….

I’ve used the wonderful Autumn Days stamp set. Now when I first saw this set I thought  “oooooo I like that” but then thinking about it wondered if I’d use it much but I’m happy to say that yes I do use it a bit. Its an awesome set for those man type cards and also ones for doing landscape stamping too. The Pheasant that comes with it is rather nice too!

The sentiment I used is from the Dreams du Jour stamp set – another I wondered if I’d use much which I have!

The patterned paper comes from the Autumn Traditions Designer Series Paper pack.

This is a very simple card to make and I’d really love to show you just how easy it is so ring me or email me to book your demonstration in! June and July are already filling up so you’ll need to be quick! Or why not sign up and become part of my Stamp A Latte Team and I’ll help you with your launch demonstration and you get to keep the sales and the bookings!

Now its time to skip along to the very lovely Max’s blog to see what she’s made. You can also check out all those on the Sketch Design Team over at the Utah Divas International Blog.

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Convention Swaps

26 May, 2010 4 Comments

One of the joys and highlights of Convention is swapping.  Its amazing to watch – and the chatter … wow! There’s nothing quite like making a swap and then realising that you’ve been talking to this person online for the last 12 months or so!

Here are the cards I made for my Convention Swaps …

This is one of my favourite cards and its been a hit with my customers too!

I actually made this card for my ESAD-SU Secret Sister back in March so havent been able to show it until now and the tulips are made using the very lovely Extra Large 2-step Bird punch available in the Autumn-Winter Mini Catalogue.

Recipe
Stamps: Cottage Garden
Paper: Cottage Wall DSP, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Old Olive, Lavender Lace, Pretty in Pink, Apricot Appeal
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Perfect Plum, Lavender Lace, Pretty in Pink, Apricot Appeal
Accessories: Big Shot, Top Note die, Little Leaves sizzlits die, Polka Dot Impressions folder, Scalloped Oval Punch, Extra Large 2-step bird punch

This is my second card and its done using Pocket Silhouettes stamp set. This has to be one of the best value stamp sets and can literally be used for anything!

Recipe
Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes
Paper: Not Quite Navy, More Mustard, Whisper White
Inks: Sahara Sand, Tangerine Tango, Not Quite Navy, Old Olive
Accessories: Stampin Write Markers, Always Artichoke Grosgrain Ribbon

I’ve used the masking & sponging techniques on this card. I cut a rectangle out of a scrap piece of paper to create the ‘window’ then sponged it in Sahara Sand. I then stamped the leafy image in the same Sahara sand ink. It gives a dimensional look dont you think?

Here is my last swap card ….

Dont you just love the Tote-ally Tess set ??  For this card I’ve renamed it Totally Onie as it has all of my favourites on this card – Rich Razzleberry cardstock & ribbon, Cottage Wall DSP, Stamps and of course – coffee!

Recipe
Stamps: Tote-ally Onie Tess , Sip by Sip
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Cottage Wall DSP, Whisper White
Inks: Rich Razzleberry, Jet Black Stazon, Orchid Opulence, Chocolate chip reinker, Going Gray
Accessories: Rich Razzleberry Polka Dot Grosgrain ribbon, Aqua Painter, Stamp-a-majig, Stampin Dimensionals

I’ve used the Paper Piecing technique for the Tote and used my Ink pads to watercolour with the aqua painter. I must say Tess was rather popular with the swappers.

Now here is a picture of all the swaps I received …

Now I did come home with some swaps of mine so if you would like one of my swaps then send me an email with your address and I’ll pop one in the post to you.


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Soul Scrappers Technique Challenge 9

6 May, 2010 5 Comments

I do hope you are having a good week and you’re all busy buying lots of lovely goodies for mum for Mother’s Day this Sunday – you haven’t forgotten have you??

Dont stress if you have just give me a call to arrange a gift voucher and receive a bonus $5 on top of what you pay for mum! She’ll love you forever … and so will I!!

Now onto the Technique Challenge for the Soul Scrappers forum ….

I thought this week I’d look at frames – well not because I need to get my eyes checked but I have this really lovely stamp set called Frames with a Flourish and it gets so neglected. <awwww>  So I pulled it out this morning and thought well lets see what different ways we can use it. I am sure you have those ‘frame’ sets or dies in your stash that you just ‘had‘ to have yet rarely use.

So first off I thought that I could use that dotty fancy frame as a pattern on my background so came up with this ….

I’ve just used the stamp to create the pattern on the background Pretty in Pink piece and stamped in Regal Rose. It works quite well with the staggering of the images I think.

I then took the square floral frame from Frames with a flourish and stamped it in Regal Rose onto Whisper White. I think cut around the frame and then sliced it in half diagonally.

Then using the two corners I attached them to my photo and used them as photo corners.

I then layered the photo and the photo corners onto a Pink Pirouette mat so that you wouldnt loose the photo corners into the background.

I’ve then stamped the dotty frame onto Whisper White and created my page title with that piece and here is my finished layout …

Its a little cute dont you think?? so is that kid!

I even attempted a ‘boy’ layout ….

What do you think? does it pass??

I’ve used the circle frame from Frames with a flourish and the party hats come from Party Hearty stamp set.

Now stamps arent the only things we have frames in. There is also now our lovely Big Shot and all the awesome dies. Here is a layout I’ve created using the Top Note die …

I’ve used the die to create the Journalling box and also the photo descriptions and just switched the colours around on each of them.

Well I hope you’ve liked what I’ve done for the challenge and feel free to have a play yourself and either post your creation over on the Soul Scrappers Forum or comment on this post and insert a link to your blog post or online gallery. I do have a little surprise for the Challenge Winner soit could be worth your while to have a play and enter.

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Introducing Phillipe …

17 April, 2010 10 Comments

Welcome to Saturday and another Utah Divas International Sketch.

I love this sketch!

It has so many opportunites!

I’m not sure what it is about sketches but they just get my creatives juices flowing. I’ve sat here during the week (staring at my new ink pad storage unit) trying to think of ideas to create with the new stamps I received – free stamps too!

Some of you may be unaware that while you can earn free stamps during Sale A Bration we too can earn free stamps as Demonstrators. You can earn sets for signing up new demonstrators and for the total amount of Sales you do during the Sale A Bration period. This year I earned 3 free stamp set which arrived on Thursday and I’m really looking forward to putting them together and creating some more this week.

Here is what I created for todays sketch

I’ve created this card using the new Autumn Days stamp set from the Autumn-Winter Mini Catalogue.

I’ve had quite a few requests for Sympathy or Thinking of You cards of late so I thought this one would fit that category.

I dont have any of the Autumn Traditions Designer Series Papers but loved the colours they used to I just used the swatch in the catalogue to choose the colours of cardstock and inks to use. I also replicated one of the patterns of the papers in the DSP pack using my stamps and inks. This is the leaf strip on my card.

I also received my Soft Suede Cardstock and Ink this week and I must say I loved working with this colour this morning and I can see its going to be a new favourite and whats even better is that it wont be retiring come September! Gotta be happy about that!

I love all the elements of this stamp set with the wheat, grass, leaves, pine cones and of course Phillipe – the very splendid pheasant!

So now that I’ve introduced you to Phillipe its time to skip along to the next blog in the Utah Divas International Sketch Design Team being the very splendid Lori Ames blog to see what she’s created this week.

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One for the boys ….

22 February, 2010 3 Comments

 

Hard to believe its been 2 weeks since our Sale A Bration Spectacular and there were so many gorgeous Make n Takes on the day I was sad I didnt get to sit down and do any. So while we were packing up I managed to grab a couple of the packs and when I got home I realised I only grabbed two so I’ll have to get onto the girls to grab the rest and make them up.

I pulled one out tonite to make and it was one from Lisa and its a card using Natures Nest.  Now when I pulled it I realised I didnt have a photo of the sample card so I thought I’d pop over to her blog and alas it wasnt there.

I did follow the instructions in her kits but I did make a few alterations of my own.

ArtichocTurtleHere’s my card ….

I just love this card and I know Lisa wont mind me making the alterations. I love the colours in the card – very earthy and rather masculine. I even managed to christen my curly label punch!  The sentiment is from the Sale A Bration Vintage Labels set.

This is a great quick and easy card and I’d love to show you how to make it so why not  contact me today to arrange your demonstration. I do have a couple of spots left in March so you can still benefit from Sale A Bration. 

During Sale A Bration you can earn free stamp sets! Earn a free stamp set for every $100 you purchase and if you would like to be the hostess at a demonstration then you have the opportunity to earn more free Sale A Bration sets as well as earning the free Hostess benefits you’d normally get for holding a demonstration.

Sale A Bration finishes on 31st March so ring and book in your demonstration today or place your order.

Thanks for stopping by ….

LeonieSig1

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Utah Divas Sketch Challenge #71

20 February, 2010 14 Comments

dsc71It seems we’ve arrived at another Saturday and yes that means another sketch challenge from the lovely Carol. 

Simple enough hey? and look …. a circle!! I just had to use my Circle Scissor Plus for this challenge and I know I’ve done a few circles lately but I love that Circle Scissor Plus so much and it makes circles so so easy!

DSC71GrassHere’s my first card ….

Yes you read that right … I did say ‘first’ card.

I love the Inspired by Nature Set and wanted to do a ‘grass’ card for a while and hopefully it has a bit of a manly feel to it.

I originally just had the En Francias stamp on the background layer but thought it looked a bit plain. Well my trusty Baroque Motifs helped fix that!

I do hope you like this card – I’m not totally sure about it.

Now while doing it I thought how nice it would be with the flowers from Inspired by Nature so I had to give it a go.

DSC71PlumI’ve missed using my purples of late so grabbed them in the markers to colour the flower direct to the rubber of the stamp.

Its the same as the grass card but just in different colours and using the flower stamp.

I like this second card a lot more than the first however I do feel that some of that can be attributed to the use of eggplant and plum cardstocks and markers.

Now from this week we are doing something a little different with the sketch challenges. Usually I direct you to the Utah Divas blog for the other ladies on the design team however from this week there will be a link at the end of our posts directing you to the next design team member.

So without further a do I am happy to guide you over to Lorie’s blog. I met Lorie through Utah Divas group and since then we’ve become good friends – maybe its the passion we both have for stamping and chocolate – who knows!! Enjoy doing the rounds of the Utah Divas Sketch Challenge Team!

Thanks for stoppin by ….

LeonieSig1

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Diva Sketch Saturday

5 December, 2009 7 Comments

Here we are again at another Saturday and that means another Sketch Challenge. Mine is coming a little late as my dear husband decided we needed to go Christmas Shopping – ugh 3 weeks before Christmas and its not pretty!

Here is this week’s sketch …. DSC60

An interesting one to say the least! I thought it was upside down so I turned it around and made this card …

I wanted a bit of a manly card and thinks this fits the bill.

I love the shells of Seaside and made a collage of them for the main image then stamped the greeting from God’s Blessings over the top in a darker colour.

DSC60The shells on the very vanilla piece are done in Creamy Caramel after being stamped off first. The greeting is stamped in Chocolate Chip.

I’ve then taken the little shell and inked it up in versamark and then Chocolate Chip and embossed it so it has a shiny look to it. Cut it out and then adhered it with stampin dimensionals.

Instead of affixing the stripes on the base like the sketch indicates I’ve just stamped the shells in two lines in versamark.

Due to the versamark ink being faint I used my Stampin’ Pastels to bring out the colour of the shells on the base card.

I do hope you like this card – it was a quick and easy one to make and one you could use for a sympathy card or to lift or encourage someone or just let them know you care!

Dont forget to stop by the Utah Divas International Blog to see what the other ladies have done!

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Timely Sketch Challenge

22 November, 2009 7 Comments

Time … well thats something that I dont have a lot of lately! DSC57

These past couple of weeks have been very busy for me and I’m grateful that after consulting my diary last night that I have a quiet week coming up. Maybe I’ll be able to find some time to do some Christmas Shopping or maybe I should just give everyone stamps??

Yesterday I attended Stampin’ Up! Regional Training in Sydney and I had the best time – I even managed to get all the make n takes made – the first time I’ve done this at a Stampin’ Up! event since joining. We used new stamps from the upcoming Summer Mini Catalogue and they are very cute to say the least and I’ll show you those projects during the next few days.

Here is this weeks sketch and here is my card …

DSC57I wanted to do a masculine card as I wanted a card to send my dad for his birthday.  Living over 1000 kilometres from my parents and sister make it hard to see them as often as I’d like so I like to make their cards a little more special.

I love the Sense of Time stamp set and havent used it as much as I’d like and I love collage stamping so I thought I’d combine the two for this Challenge. If you do like the Sense of Time stamp set then you’ll need to purchase it by the end of November as the Spring Mini Catalogue finishes  and this set will no longer be available after 30th November.

One of the requirements for this week’s sketch was to use window sheets but since we dont have them here in Australia I couldnt use them. Maybe we will get some in the Winter/Autumn Mini Catalogue due out in April 2010. I’ve seen lots of lovely things made with them and hope we get some too so we can play with them too!

This card has a few different techniques – Masking, Collage, Pastel (chalk) popping and sponging – all the things I love to do!

If you think you’d like a go at collage stamping then I would just love to show you how I do it so why not contact me for my Collage Class or Technique Class or I can come and do a demonstration for you and your friends. I guarantee you’ll all have a great time and enrich those friendships you already have.

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Diva Sketch Challenge 55

7 November, 2009 12 Comments

DSC55I hope you are well .. its been a busy week this week with preparing for a Stamp A Stack for last night that had 17 ladies coming! So yes that means lots of card stock being sliced and diced. Then it was up early today to go and pick up a friend from the airport – never a dull moment here!!

Its Saturday and time for another Sketch Challenge from The Utah Divas International group.

This is another of those sketches that just has so many possibilities. It could be used for any theme and any stamp set. As I said before I’ve been busy cutting lots of cardstock this past week and packing it all into kits I was happy when I remembered I had a few images I’d done at the team weekend at Leonie’s in Kiama Downs.

dsc55-brayeredtreesLeonie had showed us how to  make this image with embossing, brayering and sponging.

She’d been playing with her brayer a bit and it was great to have her share this technique with the girls there.

Recipe:

Stamps: Trendy Trees
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Very Vanilla
Inks: Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Not Quite Navy
Accessories: Embossing powder, Sponges, Oval Punch, Wide Oval Punch, Brayer
Techniques: Brayering, Sponging, Emboss Resist.

I do hope you like this card – it is a little involved but the end result is so worth it dont you think? This card could be used for any reason when you need to let someone know you’re thinking of them.

Now if you’d like me to show you how to create scenery using your inks, paper and stamps then I’d love to come show you! Ring or Email me today to book your demonstration in!

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Autumn Leaves

12 October, 2009 3 Comments

I know we have just got into Spring but I do love the colours of Autumn!

I started this card while I was down visiting Leonie Newman last weekend. I’ve loved seeing what all the ladies in the USA have been making with their new sets and thought I could do similar using the oak leaf from the Lovely as a Tree stamp set.  So after everyone had left on the Saturday and we’d polished off the pizza we headed back downstairs and I created the background piece. I didnt have extra cardstock with me so I left the construction until I got home and yesterday was the first day I’d had a chance to play with it.

autumnleavesI inked up the leaf in Mellow Moss then using daubers I daubered on some Really Ruse and More Mustard then stamped onto Very Vanilla cardstock. Now I stamped that leaf randomly over the whole piece reinking for each leaf. After I had enough leaves on the Vanilla I sponged randomly over the leaves with Mellow Moss, Really Rust and More Mustard to blend the leaves.  I then sponged around the edge of the cardstock in Creamy Caramel – I find this is the best colour for edging and giving it an aged look.

On another piece of Vanilla I did the stamp with the leaf and stamped it just the once after stamping it off. Then stamped the sentiment from Thoughts and Prayers over the top in chocolate chip.

I used my markers to colour in the little acorn stamp and then punched it out and layered it on chocolate chip and finished the card off with some 5/8″ chocolate chip grosgrain.

I do hope you like my Autumn card and its just another use for the wonderful ‘Lovely as a Tree’ stamp set.

We are off visiting with friends today – its our regular ‘school holiday get together & catch up’ so hopefully all the girls will play nicely and quietly!! Like thats gunna happen!!

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Diva Sketch Challenge 45

29 August, 2009 8 Comments

I hope youre all having a wonderful Saturday!

You can tell summer is on its way to Sydney as we’ve had a few warmer days the last week or so and last friday I saw the sure sign of smoke from a bush fire.  Lets pray we have nothing like the fires that hit our country last year – it was heartbreaking to see so many not only with out homes but the loss of life as well.Sketch45

Onto this week’s sketch!

You will notice, as I did, that there are no circles in the sketch this week!  Thanks Carol ;)

Its another great sketch with many possibilities but I have been wanting to do a gate fold card for a week or so now – probably due to watching too many of Beate’s video tutorials!  I was also lent the Unchartered Territory stamp set by a customer as they wanted some ideas for using it after purchasing it.

uncharteredgatefoldclosedAs you can see I have moved the sketch elements around a little and interpreted that centre strip as a join. Thats what is so great about sketches that everyone that does the same sketch comes up with different ideas and no two card look the same.

I’ve used Kraft cardstock as the card base and attached strips of the stripe paper from Parisian Breeze Specialty Designer Series Paper pack.

The boat stamp has been coloured using the Stampin’ Write markers direct to the rubber and then stamped onto very vanilla cardstock. I’ve then just chalked in the sails and water and put a little yellow around the sun to give it the hot summer hue.

The sentiment is stamped in Chocolate Chip onto Very Vanilla cardstock and both of these Very Vanilla layers have then been layered onto Baja Breeze and Chocolate  Chip Cardstocks. When I’ve attached these two panels I’ve put sticky strip just on the back right hand side of the boat panel so the left side is free to open up. I’ve then attached the sentiment panel using Stampin Dimensionals to give a little room for the top left corner of the boat to slide under to keep it closed – like a latch on a gate.

Here is whats inside …

unchartered gatefoldI’ve place a square panel of baja breeze in the centre of the inside of the card then attached a Very Vanilla piece on top. When I stamped the boat I inked it up with the markers again then stamped off once onto scratch paper and then again without reinking onto the bottom left. I’ve also done the same thing in the top right but just using the seagulls from the lighthouse stamp in this set. I’ve then daubered around the edge in Baja breeze.

This card was very quick and very easy to make and I hope the ladies like it on Monday at class. I think I might keep this one to give to my hubby for Father’s Day which is next weekend here in Australia.

Have a great night and remember its important for the whole family for you to have your own ‘me’ time and just do what you want to!

singlelattesig

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