Nautical Journey Class

I can't believe how fast time flies, it's almost the end of February.  There were so many wonderful things I wanted to do with the products from the Summer Mini Catalogue, and I have done quite a few of them... But one in particular I haven't done yet.  A class with a masculine feel to the projects using the Nautical Expedition Suite of products.  Well I finally managed to put the last of the projects together and here they are:

You may recognise the Happy Birthday card, as it's one I posted not so long ago for a sketch challenge.

 The box is a CASE from Melissa of Bee Devine Designs you will need to scroll down her blog to see the original Scallop Square box she created.

The last card I felt was for giving someone the world... you'll see what I mean.



The class will be held on:   

Saturday March 24th 10am,              Monday March 26th 7pm

The Class Fee is $10 and includes all products and light refreshment. Please RSVP 3 days prior to class date, I will take late RSVP's but only if space allows. 

Cheers and Happy Stamping

Coming Soon - Autumn/Winter Mini

Oh My Gosh, I am super excited!!! the post man just delivered me a lovely surprise.  I've just received the Stampin' Up! Autumn/Winter Mini catalogue.  It is so gorgeous, I've been drooling over the beautiful new stamp sets, paper, big shot products and accessories.  I am so looking forward to sharing the new catalogue with you as of April 1st. 

As with each new Catalogue demonstrators get the first peak of new products a month before customers.  This way we can pre-order the "oh so many" hehehe stamp sets and accessories to design some pretty cards, scrapbook pages and other papercraft items to show to customers.  This is one of the many perks of being a demonstrator plus the wonderful discount we receive on our orders. 

So if you'd like to be a demo and share in some of these perks now is the perfect time to chat with me about the opportunity.  For Sale-a-bration Stampin' Up! have a promotion where you can get your Starter Kit for $249 which is valued at more than $610 of products.  You also will get to choose any stamp set you like from the Idea Book & Catalogue or the Summer Mini Catalogue for FREE.  Contact me for a chat about the how joining the Stampin' Up! family can work for you.

Friends, Fun & Laughter

I've stepped outside my comfort zone on my next project for a couple of reasons.  Number 1 it's a scrapbook page and number 2 it's using yellows and oranges.  Now if you haven't guessed I'm not a scrapbooker by nature, it's something I do every now and then and I must admit I find it a bit daunting.  Going from a 10.5 x 14.8cm card front to a 30.5 x 30.5cm scrapbook layout is a bit daunting.  But it's good to try something new... at least that's what they tell me.  Also Yellows and Oranges, so not my normal colour selection.  But these colours Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie so fit the photo and DSP I chose.  So have a look and let me know what you think?

Project Recipe:
Stamps: Lovely Letters Alphabet
Ink:  Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi
Card: Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Just Add Cake DSP
Big Shot etc: Scallop Square Duo Die
Punches: Modern Label
Accessories: Matt Pack, Piercing Tool, Brights Brads, Sponge Dauber


Cheers

Stamp Club February

Earlier this week I started to showed you the Lion Easel Card we made at February's Stamp Club.  There were two more cards we made in February.  The first was our technique card for this card we used the Baby Wipe Swipe Technique to create our over the water sunset.  It's a great technique for backgrounds and is pretty easy although you may need a little bit of practice I did.

When I stamped my image I used the stamp-a-ma-jig and stamped the ship twice in the same place to give me the depth of colour so that I could see the ship easily over the sea that was also Not Quite Navy.  Simply set up your stamp-a-ma-jig and stamp the image using the guide and then reink the stamp and stamp again without moving the guide.

Project Recipe:
Stamps: The Open Sea, You Are Loved
Ink:  Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy
Card: Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Pumpkin Pie, Glossy White Card Stock
Big Shot etc: Top Note Die
Punches: Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border, Owl Builder Punch
Accessories: Stamp-a-ma-jig, White Bakers Twine, Pumpkin Pie Brads, Pumpkin Pie, Baja Breeze and Not Quite Navy Re-inkers, Piercing Tool and Matt Pack

The third and last card we made was part of our monthly challenge.  This months challenge was to do a girls card for a girl up to 7 years old.  I've used very girly colours and the gorgeous Flirtatious Specialty Paper to make the card especially girlish.  You could use this card for an older girl as well, it's just so pretty and cute.  Have a look and see what you think...

Now in class I gave the ladies the option to bling up the little flowers using the Silver Glimmer Paper from the Summer Mini.  This way you can give your special girl diamonds or pearls... what girl doesn't love a bit of bling.  My card shows the pearl option but both look equally lovely.

Project Recipe:
Stamps: Create a Cupcake, Curly Cute
Ink:  Melon Mambo, Pretty In Pink, Wisteria Wonder
Card: Melon Mambo, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White, Flirtatious Specialty Paper
Punches: Eyelet Border Punch, Cupcake Builder, Itty Bitty Shapes
Accessories: Basic Pearls, Piercing Tool (to pick up pearls), Concord Crush Stitched Poly Ribbon, Dimensionals

Monday Mojo

Hi All, hope you've all got a bit of Monday mojo like me today.  Usually Monday's are my least favourite day of the week, it's a bit hard to let go of the weekend and get back into the swing of the working week.  But I've changed my mind this evening as my mojo is going strong tonight.  I've designed a new card for an upcoming class/workshop I'm holding using the Nautical Expression DSP and The Open Sea stamp set from the Summer Mini... I will post more details and some photo's soon.

However tonight I'll show you one of the cards we made at last month's stamp club.  This stamp club was so much fun, they all are but this one seemed extra fun as we added a musical element to go with the first card as shown below...

As you can see it's an easel card, these cards are so much fun to make.  I can't believe I waited so long to make one, I mistakenly thought they were tricky.  As you can see we feature the Spice Cake DSP and have used a co-ordinating ink colour for the main image and sentiment. 

The Lion from Zoo Review was our inspiration for our musical addition, everytime I see this lion I can't help but sing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" or the Wimoweh song by Solomon Linda.  I also keep humming "Leo the lion is the king of the jungle".  Some of the ladies said it reminded them of Kimba the White lion, so I googled it in class and had a YouTube of the theme song playing while we stamped... it was so enjoyable and a lovely evening.

Project Recipe:
Stamps: Zoo Review, Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Ink:  More Mustard
Card: Early Espresso, Whisper White, More Mustard, Spice Cake DSP
Big Shot etc: Scallop Circles #2, Circles #2 Dies, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder
Punches: Word Window, Modern Label
Accessories: Dimensionals

Summer Splash Birthday

Hiya All

Hope you're having a great week.  Mine's going great I had the Fun Time Scrapbooking Class earlier this week (hi ladies **wave**) which was a lot of fun.  I've also had a quick visit from my parents, it's always lovely to see them.  I also managed to squeeze in a trip to the dentist :O(  but it all went well... yay.  So it's my nephew's birthday next week and I've been working on making a birthday card for him.  Here's what I came up with today:

I so love how this has come together, nice and bright and great for a boy.  To make a girl version simply change the Pacific Point to Melon Mambo or Concord Crush.

Project Recipe:
Stamps: Summer Splash, On Your Birthday
Ink:  Pacific Point, Lucky Limeade
Card: Pacific Point, Lucky Limeade, Whisper White
Big Shot etc: Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder
Punches: Owl Builder Punch, Cupcake Builder Punch
Accessories: Lucky Limeade Organdy Ribbon (SAB Everyday Enchantment Ribbon & Brad Pack, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Two Way Glue

*Note SAB stands for Sale-a-bration

Cheers and Happy Stamping

Part 2 of Creative Weekend

Hope you all had a great Valentines Day!  Mine was good I enjoyed a lovely lunch with a friend... no real surprises but hey that's okay there's always next year.  So let's step away from romance for a moment, well actually lets check out a slightly romantic sunset card I made up over the weekend.

I had a lovely friend lend me her Scallop Square Dies to play with as I don't have these yet...  Hi Peggy :O) thanks for lending me your goodies I had so much fun playing with them... I will return them very shortly.  I thought seeing as I was just playing I would have a bit of a go with my brayer.  This is a great tool to create backgrounds with and one I sometimes have a little trouble with...

I'm not 100% happy with the layout of this card it's missing something but I'm not sure what... That's okay I'll just keep playing...

Project Recipe:
Stamps: Just Believe
Ink:  Old Olive, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Basic Black
Card: So Saffron, Old Olive, Whisper White
Big Shot etc: Scallop Square Duo Die, Petals a Plenty Embossing Folder
Accessories: Brayer, Old Olive Marker, Old Olive Satin Ribbon

Creative Weekend

Hi All

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend.  I had one of those rare weekends with little on, well apart from the groceries and usual chores... lol there's no escape from them.  So for a change I had a chance to chill out read, watch some TV and you guessed it play, which is a rare treat.  It seems that every time I pick up a stamp set I design a card for a class or monthly club get together.  Which is great I love creating and designing, but it was so lovely to just play around with some of my stamps and goodies with no end goal in mind.

What I came up with was a couple of cards which are a little bit out of my usual, especially in colour schemes.  I featured citris tones, yellow's, oranges, reds and greens... don't worry I'll tell you the real colour names shortly.  I really want to improve my watercolouring skills, so played around with some markers and blender pens to come up with this creation...

I am quite happy with how it came out, although I still think I need some more practice.  I must admit it's not a hardship I find it soothing to do watercolouring.  If you like it have a go with some of your markers and a blender pen.  I did base my card on the Sketch Frenzy Friday Challenge from January SFF012012, check it out here Sketch Frenzy Friday 20 Jan 2012

Project Recipe:
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, French Foliage, Curly Cute
Ink:  Peach Parfait, Poppy Parade, Black Stazon Ink
Card: Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait, Very Vanilla, Watercolour Card
Big Shot etc: Scallop Die, Petal Cone Die
Punches: 2 3/8" Scallop Circle
Accessories: Peach Parfait, Pumpkin Pie, Poppy Parade & Sahara Sand Markers, Blender Pen, Sponge Dauber, Pumpkin Pie Grosgrain Ribbon

Have a great week and Happy Stamping :O)

A Quick Card

Oh what a week and it's only Tuesday...  Just a few little drama's this week as you can probably guess.  They are putting in footpath in front of my house which is a great thing.  But wouldn't you know it I get home yesterday and cannot get in my driveway, they blocked it off with the framework for the concreting to go in.  I had to go round the block and through my neighbours driveway and across the verge to get in my drive.  Needless to say not a great way to end Monday afternoon.  Even worse was the timing I had ladies coming for Monday night stamp club all expecting to be able to park on my lawn or in my drive... woopsie.  Thanks to my ladies last night and tonight for being so wonderful and understanding.  I still can't drive on it today but all should be good for tomorrow.  But enough of the drama and on with the cards... 

While I was waiting for my ladies to arrive last night I had a quick look at some of the blogs I visit and one was the Sweet Sunday Sketch Blog.  Yep you guessed it I found another sketch to use... so here's the card I mostly whipped up before class, with a little sponging and adhering during class wink.

The Sketch Challenge is number SSSC151 which you can check out here Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 151.  I might even have done this one in time to participate in the challenge, yay.

Project Recipe:
Stamps: The Open Sea, Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Ink:  Not Quite Navy, Crumb Cake
Card: Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla, Nautical Expressions DSP
Big Shot etc: Circles #2 Die
Punches: 1 3/8" Circle, Spiral Tab Punch (retired)
Accessories: Sponge Dauber, Dimensionals

Field Flowers for Mum

Here is the Birthday Card I made for Mum's Birthday earlier this week.  I used the Field Flowers stamp set because my Mum absolutely loves flowers and gardening.  She has this amazing garden at home I don't know how she does it, time and patience I guess.

Project Recipe:
Stamps: Field Flowers
Ink:  Old Olive, Wisteria Wonder, Concord Crush, Crumb Cake
Card: Concord Crush, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake
Big Shot etc: Vintage Wallpaper DSP
Punches: Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border
Accessories: Sponge Dauber, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Wisteria Wonder Ruffled Ribbon, Basic Pearls, Dimensionals



I did CASE Mum's Birthday Card from a fellow Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Terri Mongeon from the US.  I have changed the colour scheme and not used the accessories that Terri did, but you can see my card gain lots of inspiration from Terri's.  Here is a link to Terri's original card so that you can check out her gorgeous work  Stamping with Terri.