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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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Sale A Bration Spectacular Update

9 February, 2010 4 Comments

Well 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!

Thanks for stoppin by

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Busy Busy Busy

4 February, 2010 2 Comments

 

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.

 

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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!

LeonieSig1

 

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Winners are Grinners!!

1 February, 2010 1 Comment

Just 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 ….

  1. Donna Zammitt

  2. Keegan Rigby

  3. 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!

Thanks for stoppin by

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Sale A Bration Blog Hop is here!

25 January, 2010 80 Comments

Good 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.


Click to join ESAD-SU

Click to join ESAD-SU

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.

The 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.

Thanks for stoppin by

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Announcing Sale A Bration Spectacular

11 January, 2010 3 Comments

If you are a Stampin’ Up! customer you will know that each year after Christmas Stampin’ Up! has a Sale-A-Bration and this year it begins on January 25th and goes until 31st March, 2010.

A couple of local Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators and myself have got together to arrange an event as our “Sale A Bration Spectacular” – this is the first of these types of events I’ve done and I’m a little excited and anxious to say the least!

If you are local to the Campbelltown/Macarthur area or dont mind a drive you are hereby invited to come along and enjoy the day with us.

When: Saturday – 6th February 2010

Time:  11am to 4pm

Cost: $25 or $20 if you book & pay before 21st January

Where: Ambarvale Re-Creation Centre

65 Woodhouse Drive, Ambarvale Map

We will have ….

  • door prizes
  • free showbags
  • card challenges
  • demonstrations
  • make n takes
  • raffles (so start saving those gold coins!)
  • displays

Funds being raised are for Macarthur Dementia Care and Support group.

We will be having samples on display for cardmaking, stamping, scrapbooking and gift making.

There will be special bonuses for those ordering, booking a demonstration or bringing a friend along on the day.

So go mark your calendar now and contact me to reserve your spot!

Thanks for stoppin by

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Blooms for a Friend

6 February, 2009 7 Comments

I want to aplogise for not posting for a few days. The heat here has been horrid and I’m not  coping too well with that and my health has been a bit iffy too so now I’m back on all my supplements for the Fibromyalgia and hoping this will help matters. Being so hot and unwell it meant everytime I sat at my work desk I just couldnt think straight – this is what they call “brain fog” and yes its a medical term and those suffering from depression or fibromyalgia will know what I mean.

Blooms for a FriendI arranged to have lunch with my upline Tracey today as we’d missed catching up on her birthday this past week. I had a little bag of goodies for her and made her a card using the gorgeous Sale A Bration set Botanical Blooms.

I fell in love with this set since I first saw it in the Sale A Bration catalogue and have been eager to use it but the ‘fog’ was killing me so I am glad that I finally got a card done with this. This card was inspired by a page I’ve made for a calendar which I’ll show you over the next few days.

I liked the page so much I converted it to a card and I just love this friend sentiment from the Occassional Greetings stamp set. It just says it all and love the mixed fonts they used to create it.

This set is also a 2 step stamp set which I’m highlighting in my technique classes starting on the last friday of each month with the first being 27th February. I hope you can join me as I love to share different ways of doing things with stamping and card making. So ring or email me now to book your spot!

We had a lovely lunch being entertained by the lovely Eliza who I’m sure doesnt stop from the time she wakes up to the time she falls asleep!

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A Happy Heart

1 January, 2009 1 Comment

Smiley from millan.netFirstly, let me wish you and your family every blessing beyond your dreams for 2009!

I had a very quiet New Year’s Eve well until it hit midnight and everyone in the street decided to start their car horns, they own fireworks and yelling at the top of their voices! Or maybe I noticed it more as I was suffering from a headache.

Although I did have a lovely day when my dear friend Libby came to visit and do some stamping – it also meant we got to christen the new extendable horn table I got from my favourite Scrap Shop at a lovely discount. We had a great fun day of card making and stamping although we did try to convince my girls that it was ‘our’ play date not theirs! Smiley from millan.net

Libby wanted to learn how to use the Stamp-a-majig which wasnt a problem showing her how to use it – love that tool and everyone really should have one!

brightluvuI had half prepared a card using A Happy Heart stamp set and East Coast Prep Designer Series Papers for Valentine’s Day.

Now the East Coast Prep papers are not my usual colours or style but I’d bought them in error and figured I should challenge myself to use them rather than to send them back but boy what a challenge!

Here is the card I made – its a tad bright hey?? and not my usual browns, purples, pinks and blues I usually do hey?

The colours used in the East Coast Prep DSP pack are Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, More Mustard and Wild Wasabi so I tried to stay within these colours. I’ve also used the Tiny Mosaics A2 Cuttlebug folder with my Big Shot on the tempting turquoise paper and it gives it a great texture and depth.

I stamped the main image in Real Red then layered the images with Stampin’ Dimensionals in various colours and trust me getting dimensionals on the back of those crosses are very fiddly!

brightluvu-closeupI’ve used twill over the Wild Wasabi layer (which was scalloped with the Scallop Border Punch from the summer Mini Catalogue) and stamped directly onto the twill with the Wild Wasabi Classic Ink and cut out and layered the red heart with the dimensionals again.

This picture shows the raised images – well a little bit. So it gives you a bit of an idea how the dimensionals give depth to the card.

While Libby was here she made a card too using the same papers so pop over to her blog and have a look – she also left me with a nice order so she could take advantage of Sale-A-Bration which started today and goes till the end of February.

Click on the Catalogue below or the one on the left of my blog to check out the sets you can get for free for every $100 order or email me to see how you can get more FREE stamp sets.

Come back tomorrow to see the other card I made yesterday and a new way to stamp images I discovered the other night.

leoniesig1

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