You may know that May is (Inter)National Scrapbooking Month and I’m celebrating! I have some great specials this month to help you in your scrapbooking (and cardmaking) projects.
– Alphabet Soup: All Alphabet sets 10% OFF p121-123.
*$35.95 sets now $32.36, up to sets $79.95 now $71.96
– Cheap as Chips: On Board Chipboard 10% OFF p146-147 *$23.95 now $21.56
– Pack a Punch: Buy any large punch at $30.95 and receive 40% OFF a smaller price punch.
*$11.50 punch = $6.90 +S+H $12.95 punch= $7.77 =S&H
* These prices do not include Shipping and Handling.
These specials are only available through me. I can ship anywhere in Australia. Offer ends 31st May.
There has been a lot of lovin’ in blogland lately, if you haven’t noticed. Last week I received a lovely ‘Beautiful Blogger Award. Yesterday I received a ‘Sunshine Award’ from my good stamping buddy and team mate Andrea. Gee, Thanks Andrea!!!! It really brightened my day.
Don’t you just love that bright orange flower. It’s enough to brighten anyone’s day. I’m just going to pass this onto 2 bloggers today.
Leonie – My convention roomie and stamping buddy!!! Leonie’s husband suffered heart attacks a couple of weeks ago. It has been a very stressful time for them but he will make a good recovery. I just wanted to brighten her day. Pop on by and say hi to Leonie.
Tanya – Always encouraging and very busy on our ESAD forum. Take some time for you Tanya!!!
But, I want to give all of you, my lovely blog readers, the Sunshine Award. I appreciate you stopping by, I love your comments. I hope you leave feeling inspired or encouraged! Thanks for stopping by and don’t be scared to leave a comment and say HI!
I have seen these Tri-shutter cards around blogland recently and have been wanting to make one. It was my Sister-in-Laws 50th Birthday last week so I thought it would be a good time to make this special card. I first made this red one but when it was finished I found it was a bit too pink for her liking. So I made another one up.
I have used the Pink Flamingo DSP. This is a great way to use up those little scraps you have lying around. The greeting label was cut with the Big Shot and the Tags die. The centre was punched out with the Wide oval punch. I didn’t have a 50th stamp so hand wrote that. I punched out some butterflies, first from Rose Red card and then some from the DSP and sponged the edges.
The leaves were punched with the 2-step Bird Punch and the flowers punched out with the Boho Blossoms punch. You can see a close up of the flowers here.
After I punched the flowers out, I sponged the edges with Rose Red ink and then adhered them together. I added a drop of Crystal Effects to create a centre dot.
So, here is the other version.
I have used Night of Navy as the base card. The DSP was from the Baja Breeze Patterns paper and Urban Garden. These are really fun cards to make and impressive when they open it up!
I felt very honoured this morning. I have received a “Beautiful Blogger” Award from Leah. I have to say I really don’t deserve it. I have been a very “bad” blogger lately. I have had issues with my computer again. It was sent back to the shop and we got it back yesterday. We have had to reinstall everything! But, at least they backed up everything and we didn’t lose a thing! Thank Goodness. So, now I hope to be back to regular blogging and maybe deserve this award!!
Thank you so much Leah!!!
Now, to I need to pass it on to 10 more beautiful blogs. In no particular order, these are 10 blogs I visit often and inspire me. Some of you lovely ladies probably don’t know I stalk you. 🙂 Thank you to you all. There are so many others I could award this to though.
Just stopping by with a quick post. These are the projects we will be making at my Mother’s Day class this week. If you are in the area, why not come along? I have a few places left.
When: Friday 30th April, 7.3opm in East Corrimal.
Cost: $15 to make both these cute projects for Mum for Mother’s Day or change the greeting for a friend. RSVP: ASAP.
I’m back, did you miss me???? You probably didn’t even realise I had gone. LOL Well, I have the computer back now. I can’t say it is working fantastically still. We will have to see how things go. This last week I realised how much I get done when I’m not wasting, spending time on the internet. It has been school holidays so we have had some fun family times together, we have had our roof replaced so we had no water and power for a day, but I have been very creative. I will show you all the projects eventually. You will have to wait some time to see my convention swaps though. 4 weeks to Convention! I’m so excited!
I wanted to show you the Make and Take from the workshop the other week. My lovely hostess wanted ‘Pretty and Pink’. I wanted to use the Big Shot and some of the other lovely products from the new Autumn Mini Catalogue. So, here is the card they all got to make.
Card: Regal Rose, Rose Red, Certainly Celery, Whisper White.
I ran a piece of Regal Rose cardstock through the Big Shot with the Dots Textured Impressions Folder and added this to the front of the Regal Rose base card to create another layer. The flowers were stamped on scrap paper inking first in Regal Rose and then rock and rolled in Rose Red. They were cut out and raised up with dimensionals.
So, is it Pink and Pretty enough?????
Of course, I stepped it up. Here is the stepped up version.
I added some Regal Rose Grosgrain ribbon and a clear button. I threaded some Regal Rose ribbon through the button. The text was stamped on scrap card and punched out with the Large oval Punch and then a scallop oval punched out with Regal Rose. I added some dots with the white gel pen. There you have it! Hope you like!!!!!
Stop by again soon and I will show you some of my other new creations.
Aren’t computers great! At your fingertips is a wealth of information and you can chat to people from all over the world. Then when they die, life stops!!! Our computer has been dying a slow death for some months now and we have been backing everything up on discs. Well, I think our computer has died now. I’m hoping it will recover! We took it in to the computer doctor today to see the prognosis. I am so lost without it. Fortunately, we have the laptop but I don’t have any documents or photos on here at the moment ….. and where is the mouse??? LOL
So, I can’t show you any new creations at the moment. I hope to get things sorted out shortly. So, bear with me. Take some time and visit my past creations. Here is a photo of my first card I showed on my blog from February last year. Can you believe it I missed my blog-iversary!
Don’t forget to come back again soon. Happy Stamping!!
ESAD are having another round showing some great projects using products from the Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue. These will all be by different demonstrators from the first round. As in the first round you can go in the draw to win some Blog Candy. Below is the link to start this Blog Hop. Start your journey there. Leave a comment at each blog and then email Sharlene at (stampwithsharlene@hotmail.com) to say you have visited everyone’s blog and left a comment.
Are you ready to start??? Grab yourself a cuppa and settle in for the journey. Head over to Kristines’s when you are ready.
Firstly, I want to thank everyone who has stopped by my blog in the last few days with the ESAD Autumn Mini Catalogue Blog Hop. Thank you for all your encouraging comments. I can see everyone will be getting their Circle Scissors out now!!! LOL I hope you were inspired by all the lovely creations on the Hop!
On Sunday I took some time out from preparing for upcoming classes and workshops to do some stamping for ME!! That is a very rare thing for me to do. It was so nice to stamp something just for the fun of it!
I inked up my new clear mounted set “A Little Treat”. I have seen on different blogs creating a sky by sponging and I have been wanting to try it for some time. I thought it would work well with this set. If you want to see how to do it just pop over to my good friend Andrea and see. I just used 3 scallop circles for my clouds. I really like the effect the sponging creates. I love sponging it is so relaxing!!! I sponged the sky on 2 different Whisper White card pieces.
I stamped the tree from “Thoughts and Prayers” in Old Olive ink to the bottom of the smaller White pieces. I stamped the basket firstly on Ruby Red card in Ruby Red ink and then on Chocolate Chip card with Chocolate Chip ink. I cut the different parts out to create the coloured basket. I adhered this to the smaller Whisper White card. I layered them onto the larger whisper White and then to the Ruby Red base. I stamped the greeting from “Sincere Salutations” on Baja Breeze Patterns DSP and punched a circle with the 1 3/4″ circle punch. I sponged the edge of the circle with Chocolate Chip ink and adhered this over the basket to create the balloon.
A fun project!! I hope to get to use this set again very soon. It works so well with the Treat Cups too.
The next leg of the ESAD Blog Hop will continue tomorrow (7th). I will put details up tomorrow for you to join in. There is more blog candy up for grabs, so don’t miss out.
Welcome! If you have just come from Jane’s blog on the ESAD Autumn blog Hop, then thanks for stopping by. If you have just joined in then enjoy!!
You better go and 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 cyberstamps 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 here to join our wonderful group.
Here are my projects to show you today. I am using the beautiful Cottage Garden DSP and Stamp Set and the Circle Scissors.
Firstly, I want to show you this cute Circle pocket. This was one of the projects we made at my Autumn Mini Launch last weekend. I found this idea some time back and stored it in the back of the vault to use sometime. I can’t remember where I first saw it.
With the Circle Scissors it makes life so much easier. I cut a 14cm circle with the circle scissors from Old Olive cardstock. Score it across at 4cm, this is your bottom score line.
Turn the circle 1/4 turn and score it at 2.5cm and 11.5cm. When scoring these lines, check the bottom score line is horizontal or you will have a crooked pocket!!!
Scoring the circle at 4cm.
1/4 turn, score at 2.5cm and then along at 11.5cm.
Turn the circle over and stamp the side sections as desired. Turn back over and fold up on the score lines. Place snail adhesive or sticky strip on the bottom flap before folding up.
Decorate as desired. I added a belly band using the Rich Razzleberry cardstock and Cottage Garden DSP. I stamped the flowers from the Cottage Garden set. This is a great 2-step stamp set. First I stamped the solid image in Orchid Opulence and then the outline in Rich Razzleberry. I did this twice, cut them out and layered them up. I added some Dazzling Diamonds with the 2-way glue and mounted it with Dimensionals.
I made up a quick Love Note size card to fit. I used the other gorgeous images from the Cottage Garden set, and the text from ‘Short and Sweet’.
My next project is a circle bag. I first came across these here on Kim’s blog. I was so amazed how small they were though when I made one up. They are about 11cm or 4 1/4″ high. They are so cute!!
Cut 2 x 14cm circles with your Circle Scissors. I used the gorgeous Cottage Garden DSP. Cut off 2cm from the bottom of each circle. Before any assembling, punch a circle from the top of the circles to create your handles. (Believe me it is sooooo much easier to do this first. I learnt the first time!). I used the 1 1/4″ circle punch. I also punched out 2 circles with the 1 1/4″ circle punch from Old Olive cardstock and punched around these with the scallop circle punch.
Here is what you should have.
Kim used a lunch sack inside her bag, but I didn’t have any so I created a box.
Cut cardstock 17cmx12cm. On the 17cm side scored at 4cm and 13cm. On the 12cm side score at 4cm and 8cm. On opposite sides cut up to the score line. This is how it should look.
Add adhesive to the flaps and fold up. To adhere your circle pieces on, place Sticky Strip to the long sides of the box. Do one side at a time. Place the circle down with right side down and line up the bottom edge of the box with the bottom edge of the circle, and adhere. It is so much easier doing it this way than lining up the circle onto the box. Turn over the box and repeat on the other side. Add your handles and tie up with a bow. I used some 5/8″ Old Olive Grosgrain.I added a tag using the Big Shot ‘Lots of Tags’ Die. I sponged around the edge with Rich Razzleberry and stamped the greeting and flower from ‘Short and ‘Sweet’.
PS. In my rush to get this out I forgot to show you the finished bag. DOH!!!
Here you go!
The cute little circle bag, with the Big Shot Tag from 'Lots of Tags'
Side view of the bag!
There you go! I hope you enjoyed these creations. It might be time to stock up on the drink and chocolate before you move on with your Blog Hop journey. You could be a while! You will now move on to Juliette’s blog. Don’t forget as you visit each blog to leave a comment. Then email Sharlene at stampwithsharlene@hotmail.com to be in the draw for some blog candy.
A Stamping Journey 
