Dashing Towards Christmas

This card uses one of the a la Carte series of stamps – Dasher. I just love this stamp.  We also used Lovely As a Tree set for the background. This is a lovely, simple easel card. You can see it open, below.
The sentiment is from the Welcome Christmas set and coloured using Chocolate Chip. I hope you like this card share. Don’t forget to leave a comment or contact me for more information.
It’s the last days of the Dress Up Christmas promotion. It ends 30 November, so contact me about your order today.

A Swinging Christmas Card

Here’s another card I made at Leonie’s.
Now, this one looks difficult but is quite easy (especially when Leonie does the cutting for you :)) The picture above shows the front of the card closed ready to mail.

This view shows the card open so you can see the window part that ‘swings’

When you open that card out, this is what you see. Another clever card that doesn’t take too long to make. You also just have to love the Stampin’ Up! stamp sets and markers. We used the markers to colour the sentiment stamp.

Season of Joy stamp set
Christmas Classics
Season of Joy is part of the ‘Dress Up Christmas’ promotion where when you purchase Season of Joy and the So Swirly wheel you will receive a free roll of ribbon. this promotion finishes 30th November so be sure to contact me before Tuesday

It’s Almost Christmas Time

I went to Leonie’s today and we made 4 lovely cards. I will share them with you over the next few days.

This card was so much fun to make. Lots of measuring and Leonie came up with some unique measuring units – “dingy” thing 🙂 Just as well we understood what she was referring to.
The centre of this card slides up and reveals a message beneath.
Isn’t that clever? A great card to make for someone special.
Recipe:
Contempo Christmas stamp set
Christ is Born stamp set
Jolly Holiday designer series paper
Cherry Cobbler
Very Vanilla
Old olive

Blog Award

I received this award from my friend Wendy P. Wendy gets around a lot. Wendy was born in New Zealand, then moved to Queensland, back to New Zealand where she thought she was settled. Then there was a move to Victoria (so her DH could get work) and now they’ve moved to Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.
The rules for this Award were to tell you 10 things you’d probably not know about myself and to pass it on to 10 more Beautiful Bloggers.  So here goes:
  1. Most people know my favourite colour is blue, however after 31 years of marriage DH thought it was purple!!
  2. When I was younger I was a Brownie and then a Girl Guide. 
  3. Also when I was younger I was in the Girls’ Brigade and was awarded my Staff Sergeant Stripes and gained my Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
  4. My middle name is Jane.
  5. I love going to crops and camps with my friends
  6. I like travelling and hope to do some more in the future
  7. I love making things and hate watching TV if I haven’t got something to keep my hands occupied
  8. I still love my job, 36 years after I told my Mum I’d never last 5 years
  9. I don’t want to live in a house boat or a winnebago 🙂 (DH’s solution to early retirement)
  10. I don’t like suspension bridges – you know those ones that wave about when you’re on them?
Now I’d like to pass this award onto:
Pop along and visit their blogs.


My Business Launch

Sunday was a day of mixed feelings. Sunday was the 2 year anniversary since my Mum passed away after being struck down with pancreatic cancer. I was up at 4.30am to head off to Cobbitty Markets. It was a day of mixed blessings, rain, shine and lots of shoppers.  I also stayed up until 3am making little gifts and ensuring I had everything I needed for Sunday my business launch. So guess who slept in and didn’t get to the demo as early as I had wanted 🙂 
My lovely friend Leonie was waiting for me after her long trip from Campbelltown to Kellyville – she’s a gem and also my upline.
Leonie prepared 2 lovely make and takes as well as walking us through the catalogue and talking to us about the new Summer Mini Catalogue which goes live on 1st December here in Australia.
These are some of the bag in a box that we made – don’t know who owns the coffee cup 🙂 These are easy and great to make as they make versatile gifts for any occasion. You can fill them with a myriad of things – chocolates, ribbon, chipboard etc
This is Karen and Lesley. Karen’s waiting while Lesley was in deep concentration. Just in front of Karen you may be able to see the card we made.
Here are the 2 Margarets. Some of the tape adhesive proved more challenging than making the project.
The above photo shows you the little boxes I made and filled with chocolate as a thank you for attending. The ladies also received the template for the box so they could make more if they need too.

Hint When making such items use the red sticky strip tape as it’s strong and helps keep these lovely little projects together.



Upsy Daisy Card

I love this set of stamps as you can use it for so many different occasions or celebrations.
Recipe:
Stampin’ Up® Night of Navy ink pad
Stampin’ Up® Soft Sky ink pad
Stampin’ Up® Upsy Daisy stamp set
3D foam mounting squares
Ribbon

I like the effect of using the lighter blue ink as a background with the darker blue looking like foreground. The ribbon I found in one of those cheap everything type stores and it’s actually light blue on half and dark blue on the other side. Down the centre of the ribbon is a large sort of running stitch. It’s too wide for this type of card so I used some double sided tape and folded it in half and adhered it to the card with the dark blue on the bottom. I think it has a lovely effect and of course when I tied the bow I made sure the darker blue was facing out so it could be seen. It was an easy to make card and a bit of fun too.
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Manhatten Flower Textured Impressions & Stampin’ Up®

This is a card I made with Leonie at our Stamp-A-Stack. I just love this embossing folder by Stampin’ Up®. Clean and simple but very elegant. This card also used the polka dot Rich Razzleberry ribbon which is being retired this month. Check out Leonie’s blog for more inspiration and to purchase any supplies you may want or need. Leonie can be contacted here .
Below is a copy of what Leonie has on her blog about how to make this card
Recipe:
Stamps: Occasional Quotes (new Level 3 Hostess set)
Paper: Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry
Ink: Rich Razzleberry
Accessories: Big Shot, Manhatten Flower Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Large Oval Punch, Scalloped Oval Punch, Rich Razzleberry Polka Dot ribbon.
This card is so very easy to do and can be used to suit any occasion by simply changing the sentiment.

The sentiment comes from the new Occasional Quotes stamp set which is a new Level 3 Hostess set in the 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalogue which you can access through my Stampin’ Up! website.

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Paper Flowers using the Crimper


Recipe:
·        1″x12″ strip of patterned paper
·        1 x 1-1/4″  Circle
·        Strong Adhesive
·        Eyelet Border Punch
·        Paper Crimper
·        Brad or Button for centre.
Method:
·        Punch eyelet border along strip of 12 x 1″ patterned paper
·        Crimp the strip of patterned paper – run it through the crimper about 4 times to make the strip quite pliable to work with
·        Cut circle from base cardstock and cover with strong adhesive – about 1 ¼” diameter.
·        Attach one end to the outside of the circle.
·        Folding as you go, work around and around the circle with the piece of crimped patterned paper.
·        When finished your flower should cover the circle entirely

·        Attach either a brad or a button to secure it together & then add it to your project

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Medallion Stamp with Top Note Die

I went to my friend Leonie Schroder’s for a Stamp-A-Stack, using  Stampin’ Up® products. I love doing these classes as you always come away with 9 beautiful cards – a great afternoon’s work.
We used the lovely Medallion Stamp with these 3 cards as well as the Top Note Die. Leonie showed us a neat trick with the Top Note Die – run 3 sheets of card through the Big Shot and then to get the Top Note Die so it’s a little smaller than the original, just cut along the perforated line that the die leaves when cut.
We made 3 of these cards using different colours. 
 You could use them for any occasion. I chose the Birthday Wishes sentiment stamp.
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Medallion Stamp meets Butterfly

Recipe
Stamps: Medallion, All a Flutter, Occasional Quotes
Inks: Versamark, Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette
Paper: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Basic Black
Accessories: White Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Stampin Sponges, Stampin Dimensionals, Aqua Painter, Rose Red Stampin Write Marker

I love the Medallion stamp. We stamped it on the white card with Versamark and then embossed with white embossing powder. After that we sponges over the image with ink. The Butterfly stamp is gorgeous and we stamped that using Stazon black ink. We used Aqua painters to apply the ink and then cut around the butterfly and adhered it to the card using dimensionals. The sentiment is coloured with the Stampin’ Up® water based markers in two colours. It’s important to remember to hugh on the stamp to ensure it’s wet enough to stamp on the card. This is such an elegant card and again could be used for many occasions.
 

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