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Falling Hearts

16 January, 2012 4 Comments

Firstly, let me wish you all a very Happy New Year!!

My prayer is that you have a blessed and prosperous 2012 and may it bring you more joy than you’ve ever known!

I know its been a while since I posted and I did consider posting earlier however I also needed a break so I took a little me time and have started de-cluttering the house and my body – well that’s the plan at least!

Now I know I’m running really late for the Utah Divas Sketch Challenge from Saturday but I’ve made the card and its been a bugger to photograph but I wanted to share it anyways.

Here is the latest sketch ….

I was going to do something other than hearts but I do have an anniversary to make a card for and Valentine’s Day is coming up in just a few weeks so decided to go back to the hearts and this is what I came up with ….

Falling Hearts

Now I had real trouble trying to get a good picture of this card due to how I’ve made it -  the hearts are actually in an open section strung on some bakers twine.  You will see what I mean by the following picture.

Its not a very good photo but I think you can see how the card works.  Its just a little bit different to your regular card!  Now the trick will be to write inside the card without it showing behind those hearts and open section!

I hope you like my little card and be sure to check out the Utah Divas Sketch Challenge Blog and see what delicacies the other Designing Divas came up with!

Now this week I will be scheduling classes, workshops and clubs for 2012 so if there is something you’d like to learn, a technique you’d like to try or a project you wish to make then please contact me so I can schedule it for you.

Dont forget Sale•a•Bration starts next week so if you havent got your Sale•a•Bration brochure yet contact me and I’ll pop one in the post to you!  You may wish to book your workshop in when you contact me so you too can earn free Sale•a•Bration stamps!

 

 

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Happy Valentines Day

14 February, 2011 5 Comments

I thought today would be appropriate to share these two cards.  Well when I say two cards its the same card just in two different colours.

Yesterday was the Engagement Party for my nephew James and the lovely Kat. It was a wonderful day and the happy couple were just beaming – they truely are a perfect match.

It was also timely that the Challenge blog – Just Add Ink have this week’s challenge as ‘Just Add Love‘

Here’s my card …

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I love the Always stamp set and havent used it in a while and its the perfect set for ‘love’.  I also adore that heart stamp :) Its great for embossing or the direct to rubber technique.  I also added a couple of rhinestones to the image to make it that little bit special for James & Kat.

Here’s a close up of the heart to show you the rhinestones and the layers …

The heart is in two layers and mounted onto the white piece using Stampin’ Dimensionals to give it more depth.

Now I did say I made this in two colours and here is the other card made in Baja Breeze ..

Now I left the decision with hubby and the girls to choose which one to give and the Perfect Plum card was the winner. So at least with making two I still have the Baja one to show as a sample!

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I {heart} Hearts

2 February, 2010 2 Comments

Hello 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 …

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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.

lineuptutorial1 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! lineuptutorial2

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.

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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.

Thanks for stopping by

LeonieSig1

 

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Love Sparkle Sketch

30 January, 2010 8 Comments

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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!!

DSC68I 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 ….
    LeonieSig1
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ESAD Colour Challenge

28 January, 2010 11 Comments

Good 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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Kaleidoscope Treasure Box

21 January, 2010 6 Comments

Hello all … hope youre managing to stay cool if youre in Australia and staying warm for my friends on the other side of the globe.

I’ve seen these Treasure boxes around for a while now and have always wanted to make one! It was seeing all the lovely ones that they lovely Lynda made that prompted me to sit down and create one. Actually its been finished for a little over a week but was just waiting on the butterflies which I never seem to get to so while hubby was playing with routers and interupting my internet service I decided to get those butterflies done!

Here is my finished box …

Isnt it sweet and how much do you love those new Kaleidoscope Designer Series papers in the Summer Mini Catalogue? They are sure getting a workout here at my house!

Now I got the idea for the butterflies from the lovely Kerri Hunter.

They are done using the five petal flower punch and just snipping the top petal off. I’ve then used some (retired) Gold Cord to wrap around the body and use as the feelers. They have then just been attached using the wonderful mini glue dots.

Here is another shot of the box showing the flower on the top of the lid.I’ve just used the large flower from the Pretties Kit then layered Pumpkin and Rose Red flowers from the Flower Fusion kit and a pink rhinestone brad to secure them all together. Its affixed on the lid again using the mini glue dots.

Now here is the box opened up …

Now how cute is that??

Can you imagine all the little goodies you could pop into the boxes? You could pop just about anything in there and I even thought of making one for my daughter and put in little encouraging sayings or notes of love and then roll them up and tie a piece of cord or string around them to secure them.

This would make a great gift for teens with earrings, necklace, bracelet and maybe some chocolate or a lip balm. Or for your favourite crafter and pop in some brads, buttons, flowers, ribbons, chipboard pieces and maybe some dazzling diamonds or embossing powder.

Would you like to make one of these? then contact me today and put your name down for my Treasure Box class.

So thank you for the nudge Lynda and to Kerri for those very neat butterflies.

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Diva Sketch #16

7 February, 2009 9 Comments

Here we are again at another Sketchy Saturday and another challenge for me. You will be pleased to know I remembered ‘not’ to use the Wanted stamp set – see sometimes my brain does function!

Here is the sketch.

Doesnt look too hard now does it? Well its not really and the idea for this card had been bouncing around in my head for a few days – I just hadnt thought of the squares but it adapted well I think.

Here’s my card.

Blue without YouSquares look easy till you start cutting and layering! It was a little fiddly but I think its turned out quite cute.

Now before you ask … that saying is not from any stamp set. Its one I made up and printed out.

    Recipe

Stamps: Love Owl-ways
Paper: Brocade Blue, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Water colour paper
Inks: Stazon Jet Black, Pixie Pink, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories: Bashful Blue grosgrain, aqua painter, dimensionals.

It turned out a little different to the sketch but I think if I did the card exactly like the sketch Alicia would fall off her chair and we cant have that happening now can we???

Have a peaceful sleep as tomorrow is going to be another stinkin hot day again … I am looking forward to Monday as its only going to be 30°C – which is around 90F (for my American friends)

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Flowing hearts

9 January, 2009 10 Comments

When I saw this set for the first time I reconsidered buying it as we dont do much for valentines day here in this household so I wondered how much I’d use this set. Well needless to say I was wrong – just dont tell the kids!

Really we dont need it to be Valentine’s Day to tell those close to us that we love them so going on that theory this set could be used throughout the whole year and not just on February 14!

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I dont think this set has been put away in the last week and I do hope you’ve enjoyed the cards I’ve made using it.

This flower stamp here reminds me of our dandelions (or lawn daisies as my sister calls them) after they’ve flowered and gone to seed.

When we were little we used to pick them and blow the rest of the seeds off and however many were left there was some significance but now it escapes me – I’m sure someone will remember and let me know. Now if you leave me a comment and it is the right answer I will send you a card just like this one – but without my Cherished Teddies (sorry).

I used my markers to just colour the flower & stem then stamped it onto whisper white cardstock. I did the same with the words. If you would like to see how to use your markers more or more effectively then drop me a line and we’ll book you in for a demonstration or technique class

With the flowing hearts I used just the flying hearts bit of the stamp and coloured it with my Rose Red Stampin Write Marker and started stamping from the top right corner of the Pretty in Pink Cardstock piece. I stamped those hearts three times to give the flying/floating look as if they had been blown off the flower.

I have just realised that this card uses just the one stamp from the A Happy Heart set which is in the Summer Mini Catalogue. I’ve just used each part of the stamp separately and spaced out the elements.

I had visioned this card in my mind before doing it and surprisingly it turned out just as I had imagined and much nicer than I expected and I hope you like it too.

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Elegant Valentine

3 January, 2009 9 Comments

Further to yesterday’s post about the sponged hearts I went and added a couple of things to the heart card using A Happy Heart from the Summer Mini Catalogue.

Here’s the before look ….

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Now here’s the new and improved look … with a little bit of WOW (even if i do say so myself)

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Its amazing how just adding a couple of embellishments to a card really lifts it. The hat pin, pearls, clear beads and flower all came from the Pretties Kit and it really should come with a warning as to how sharp those hat pins are when you take the bottom cover off.  I have hat pin wounds to prove it but I will survive!

The “love you” stamp is from the Sealed with a Kiss stamp set from the Idea Book & Catalogue.

Dont forget valentines day is in just 6 weeks so why not email me your wish list – and dont forget to include the Sale-a-Bration sets you’d like and then just tell your hubby, spouse, boyfriend to contact me to arrange your present!  Couldnt be easier could it??

Have a great weekend.

leoniesig1

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A new Heart

2 January, 2009 6 Comments

Well I did promise yesterday I’d share something new so here it is!

I was wanting to make a nice feminine card for valentines day and wanted to use the stamp set A Happy Heart which was featured in yesterdays post. I wanted to show you how you can make very different cards with just the one stamp set and a couple of accessories.

So I went to playing with my heart and ink pads. I tried the ‘rock n roll’ technique and thought no its not what i was after as the edging was too dark. So I was sitting at my desk wondering what else to do when my eyes spied a piece of the stampin sponges and thought oh I’ll sponge around the edge and see what that looks like – and as you know I love the sponging look. Instead of sponging around the edge of the cardstock I spongedheartssponged a deeper colour directly onto the stamp then stamped it onto the cardstock and I just went oh thats nice as I was using Pretty in Pink in the Centre then sponging the Regal Rose on and it was very purty.

I got to thinking what other colour combinations I could use and so I inked up the heart stamp in Apricot Appeal and then sponged around the edge in Regal Rose and went oh wow I love that! Caitie came to see what I was working and then she grabbed the stamp, inks and sponges and went to make some of her own! You can actually make these hearts deeper using a third/darker colour to do just the edges with a small sponge or dauber.

I love some of the combinations she came up with so I thought I’d cut them all out and show most of them to you – so here’s an image of some of the combinations we came up with.She did one using Chocolate Chip and Pink Passion and it immediately reminded me of a Cherry Ripe bar – now don’t ask me why cos I don’t actually like Cherry Ripe’s!

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This is the card I came up with using this technqiue and the heart. I’ve also used the En Francais Background Stamp and Pretty in Pink Taffeta Ribbon.

Its soft and elegant and has the look I was after but I think it needs a little something and while typing this post it came to me – a hat pin and some pearls will set it off nicely and give it that extra wow …. and maybe a little ‘love you’ down the bottom right corner. I will post another photo when I’ve added those pieces.

I hope you like this card and please do try out the sponging technique as I’d love to see what you come up with. You could use it on any stamp that has a solid image/background – the baroque background stamp would look good in this or even the brocade basics stamp set – maybe I’ll email Nikki Stalker and get her to give it a go.

Leave a comment with a link to your blog showing your finished card using this technique and I’ll post all the links on Monday so everyone else can see what you’ve done!

If you’d like to see how this technique is done then why not contact me today to arrange your demonstration – dont forget January and February are Sale-a-Bration months and you can earn free stamps when you place an order of $100 or more or hold a qualifying demonstration.

leoniesig1

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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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Who would have thought …

18 February, 2008 10 Comments

Who would have thought that giving your daughter a mobile phone would have such a lovely result!

Yes I know she is only 10 but there are times when I am 5 minutes from home when the girls are coming home from school – not very often but it does happen – and you really do not know what is going to happen and when do you?

OK so let me tell you what happened last week. I had given Caitlyn the phone the previous week and it was my old pink mobile which i got her a pre-paid card for. It was Thursday and Valentine’s Day and we were coming home from their gymnastics tryout. Caitie pipes up with “when I get home I’m going to ring Daddy and remind him its Valentine’s Day and to get you a present” Well I laughed so hard I had to bring myself back to reality as I was driving the car at the time! I told Caitie that mummy and daddy don’t normally give valentines presents … mummy gives daddy a card and that’s about it. Did I mention that my hubby isn’t the most romantically inclined person? and he rarely buys me presents – I usually do my own shopping at Mother’s Day, Birthday & Christmas. Mind you he did surprise me with an espresso maker & coffee bean grinder and two packs of coffee beans for Christmas. So going back to Caitie, I told her not to waste her money with her card as Dad wouldn’t do that. When we got home I was tired so I did ring him to ask him to pick up dinner – thats as close as I’d get to a Valentines present! Well unknown to me Caitie did ring him and he arrived home with Fish & chips and as I was dishing it out he said ‘oh I left it in the car’ … silly me thought he was talking about his mobile as he’s always leaving it in the car when he gets home and he waltzes back inside the front door and says “Happy Valentine’s Day Honey!!” well my jaw must have dropped ten feet as this is what he handed me …

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So as you can imagine I was (and still am) rather shocked but also feeling very blessed as well. Now remember I said we don’t normally give gifts for Valentine’s? Well I had been going to make some items for hubby to have on his desk at work and apparently he only uses one pen so that meant the caddy would have been a waste of time so I had the coasters covered and thought I’d just make him a calendar however I didn’t have it finished so after the yummy fish and chips I took myself to my table and made two of the coasters into a calendar for him which he assures is on his desk – maybe I should ask for photographic evidence?valcalendar

This is the calendar I made for him … I’ve used the Au Chocolat papers and the saying is from Small Sayings both from the Summer Mini Catalogue. I attached the two coasters using my lovely Bind It All machine and the hearts are die cut using the Cuttlebug with the Cuttle Kids heart dies.

I also gave him a Valentine’s Day card and did it in “non Valentines” colours – meaning no red or pink as this was a challenge for the Sisterhood 8 of the Blogging Stampers group. I quite enjoyed doing the non traditional colours for Valentines day and hope you like them too.

valentine A nice simple card which really does say it all … the verse is from the Love Matters set and again uses a strip from the Au Chocolat papers – both from the Summer Mini Catalogue.

If you would like more information on the products I’ve used or would like to purchase any of the papers or stamps then please do not hesitate to contact me.

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