Happy New Year everyone! Hasn’t this weather just been delightful! So here I am once again procrastinating! I should be planning for up coming classes or at least taking a photo of something I have made to upload but there is so many other things to get done and I always feel  guilty about starting something new as there is so much sitting waiting!

One of those things is to get all my retired stamp sets from the last 2 years onto e-bay!! I have boxes of them just sitting around! Well it’s your lucky day…the weather is not the best and I can’t take good photo’s for e-bay so I’m going to list them on here first and see what I can get rid of and you’ll hopefully benefit as I’m selling them at rock bottom prices!!

Sale-a-bration 2011

So Happy for you $5 - clear mount 1 stamp used

Sweet Summer $8 - clear mount unmounted x 3

Hostess sets 2010 / 2011

Occasions for All $10

Live Like You Mean it $10 - wood mount, unmounted brand new x 3

Love and Care $15 - clear mount

Fast and Fabulous $15 - clear mount, mounted but unused

Bella’s Bloom - $10

Tart and Tangy - $10

Hello Again - $10

Strength and Hope $15

Eat Chocolate $15 - Clear mount unmounted brand new

Nursery Necessities $30

Just Jawing $25

Wagon full of fun $30

Scribble this $35

Frames with a flourish $35

Occasional Greetings $30

Pun Fun $25

Fun and Fast notes $25

Big Deal Alpha $35

Simple Birthday Thanks $15

Always $30

Schoolbook Serif Alpha $50 - mounted never used

Jumbo Outline Alpha $45

Razzle Dazzle $15

Fresh Cuts $15

Only Ovals $15

Time to Party $10

Wanted $15

Full Calendar $20 - Brand New unmounted (wood)

Cute and Curly $10

Party Hearty $25

Cheap Talk $25

Garden Whimsy $20

Life’s a Breeze $25

Business Boosters $25

Eastern Blooms $20

A Happy Heart $20

You and Moi $10

A Little Birthday Cheer $15

Great Friends $15

One of a kind $15

Friends 24/7 $25

Jumbo Wheels

Lots of Dots $8

Scribble $8

Standard Wheels

Water Colour Joy $5

Perfectly Pretty $5

Scary Skulls $5

Forever Flowers $5

Ribbons

Daffodil Delight Pompom Trim $8 - full roll 4.6m

Daffodil Delight Taffeta $8 - Full roll 9m

All stamp sets are used and may have some ink staining on some of the wood blocks, this in no way hinders their use. They are also wood mount stamp sets unless otherwise noted! I am happy if you are local to come pick them up or I can arrange to post out to you!

They will be posted in either the 500gr or 3kg prepaid satchel wrapped in bubble wrap at $6 or $10 respectively! I am happy to combine postage on multiple sets!

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me I”m hoping they won’t be around long so I can get on with some other jobs!

You will notice I have also updated my side bar with the current mini catalogue and the Sale-a-bration catalogue so click over there -> to have a look what’s on offer!

Classes are resuming soon and I am now off to write a newsletter so if you subscribe to my newsletter watch your inbox for it, if you don’t sign up over there -> for it too:)

Thanks for looking!

Just a quick reminder if you want to come to the Christmas Card stamp a stack on Thursday night please let me know as soon as possible so I can prep for!

Can’t wait to see you all here!

Afternoon all,

Just a super quick one as it’s my 12 year wedding anniversary today, so best not spend to much time here but wanted to let those know who have been asking there will be a tech class on this Thursday (6th) at 7.30pm. Please let me know if you can come along. There are some great specials this month and I will be back tomorrow with all the info once the kids are at school.

So sad the holidays are over but only 9 weeks till the Christmas ones start:)

Hope to speak soon

During September, you can join the Stampin’ Up! family as a demonstrator for only $169! The limited-time mini Starter Kit, valued at over $310-comes with the high-quality products listed below:
$169 Mini Starter Kit

• Easy Events Clear-Mount Set*
• Pennant Parade Wood-Mount Set*
• Basic Black Classic Stampin’ Pad
• Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad
• Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin’ Pad
• Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad
• A4 Smooth Card Stock Assortment
• Just Add Cake Designer Series Paper*
• Chocolate Chip 1/2″ Scallop Dots Ribbon*
• Notes Cards (20)
• Clear-Mount Block C
• Blender Pen (1)
• SNAIL Adhesive
• Business supplies

*New to the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalogue

Or, if you want the full Starter Kit, you can get it 20 percent off during September only! That’s over $610 worth of premium Stampin’ Up! products and business supplies for just $231.20! See what’s included in the full Starter Kit here.

Join Stampin’ Up! in September and get brand-new products for just $169! Plus you can then buy new goodies from the new catalogue at a discount! You can not get better then that!!

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!

Stampin’ Up! new catalogue is just around the corner which means heaps of awesome stuff is retiring! Which is oh so sad!

Stamps:
Cheers to you
Friends 24- 7
Choo Choo
Garden Whimsy
Sanded
Full Calendar

Card stock
Rich Razzleberry 12 x 12
Marina Mist 12 x 12
Bashful Blue 12 x 12
Early Espresso 12 x 12
Night of Navy 12 x 12
Very Vanilla 12 x 12
Chocolate Chip 12 x 12

Punches:
Star Punch
Photo Corners Punch
Spiral Punch
Small Oval Punch

Accessories:
Antique Brass Jumbo Eyelets
Metallic Eyelets
Pewter Jumbo Eyelets

So if there are things on the retired list that you don’t want to miss out on get your order in to me as soon as possible! Not sure what’s going?? Click here to see the updated list!

Now what would a new catalogue be without a launch?? Not much hey?

Click on the flyer to make it bigger!

Your registration of only $50 includes:

. A gorgeous new 2011-2012 Idea Book and Catalogue!
. All materials and supplies required to make 8 projects (bring your own adhesive and basic toolkit such as scissors, bone folder and paper trimmer)
. Light lunch, afternoon tea and Tea/Coffee/H2O (cold drinks will be available for purchase).
. A ticket in our lucky door prize draw (Raffles will also be available).
. The option to buy retired Stamp Sets from our collections.

It will be a fantastic day, I hope you can join us!

Get a group of friends together and contact me to book your places!

I promise to be back to give you a little run down of retreat, of course there aren’t many photo’s but does this surprise you?

Click here to view the retired list

There is so many gorgeous sets going and some are discounted between 25% - 40%. You better get in quick because at these prices they won’t be around long!!

Also if you would like to reserve your very own copy of the NEW Idea’s Book and Catalogue e-mail me now! Just $10 pick up or $15.95 delivered!!

Hope to hear from you soon!

I’ve just jumped on to my site for inspiration and can’t believe how long ago I posted and what an awful card I’ve left at he top for so long! lol!

I’m only on briefly as I have class to prep for this evening and of course I still have one more card to design and prep! Ooops it’s only 4.35 so plenty of time!! Things have been crazy as per usual around here. Retreat preparation is in full swing and I’ve been working pretty much full time in my day job as well! Kids are back to full on gymnastics and are in still adjusting to the loss of their best friend and neighbour! Soo fun fun fun!

I best run I’ve done enough procrastinating, but thought I’d pop up another card I like a lot more using Awash with Flowers! I do love this set now I’ve been playing with it. I must have taken this photo ages ago in the hopes of popping it up for you guys. Hope you like it.

Hope you have a good evening.

Speak soon

Good evening all,

I tell you it has been a while since I have sat and just created and boy does it show! LOL! Have you ever been in that situation where you haven’t made a card for awhile and you try and try and nothing seems to come together?

Well that’s what I’ve been doing tonight and well I’m done and am soooo not happy with the results but if I don’t pop it up you may think I’ve forgotten you all again!

Not impressive hey?? Oh well it’s the best I’ve got at the moment but I’m making it small so it doesn’t look quiet so pitiful! Glad the girls gave you some more inspiration! I’d like to say a huge congratulations to Jan for winning this months colour challenge!

Hopefully making Jackson’s birthday card tomorrow night will prove more of a success! Perhaps I’ll even pop back on and post it! I also plan to list some old stamp sets I have lying around so keep your eyes peeled for some second hand specials!!

Hope you have a great day tomorrow I’m off to work again, which I must say I am really really enjoying it!

I have a confession to make I haven’t made my sample! Ooops! My plan was to come home after work this afternoon and whip one up! But alas it was not to be, it would seem someone has shared their sore throat with me and I am feeling a little worse for wear so spent the afternoon on the couch doing homework with the kids! So you have another day to vote on the cards below!! Come on ladies let me know which is your fav!

Perhaps tomorrow! But while I’m hear quickly I will let you know 2 things…. The first is that I have finally done a newsletter if you click here you’ll be able to read! There is a little boo boo in there though, technique class is on the 6th of June not the 9th. Sorry think I may have been looking at the May calendar when I was setting dates. Well that’s my excuse and I am sticking to it lol!

The other thing is the great new hostess special Stampin’ Up is running at the moment, Hold a $450 workshop (including GST and shipping) between now and 30 June 2011, and earn an EXTRA $70 in hostess rewards! This is in addition to our regular hostess benefits. That’s right–we said that the qualifying workshop amount includes GST and shipping. This is the first time we’ve included those in the total, making it even easier for you and your hostesses to achieve the EXTRA free products! Cool huh? Please contact me soon if you want to book in as my diary is filling up fast!!

Have a great night and I hope to see you tomorrow afternoon, even if it is only the new specials of the week!

Good evening all,

I hope this post finds you all warm and well! The cool weather has arrived here in Brisbane and I have even had the fire on a few times of late! Things are busy as usual here, we have the school fete tomorrow which promises to be very exciting and I start a full time contract on Monday which promises to be terrifying lol!

Now on to the stamping….. well it seems my monthly stamping challenges are bimonthly so far but I have a new one for you to vote on!

This months was a colour challenge and was inspired by this card Louise Sutton demonstrated at team meeting last month.

So our colours were

So I had two lovely downlines enter this time but just to make your life interesting they have made a few cards for you to pick from!

The first group of cards are by Amanda

The next 2 cards are from Jan

So there you go some awesome inspiration for you as well as a job! Don’t forget to leave me a comment and let me know which card is your favourite! Both the girls assure me they struggled with this colour combo but I think they both did an absolutely brilliant job what do you think? Don’t forget to pop over to their sites and leave them some comment love:)

Would you like to play along well you can! Use the Linky at the bottom and you can show us what you came up with!

I’ll be back on Tuesday to let you know the winner and show you my card.

Have a great weekend.

Are you ready for another weekly bonus offer and this one is a ripper!!

Now is your time to stock up on your favourite accessories! Make sure you get in early so you don’t miss out!

This week’s deals:

Item Page Description Regular Price Sale Price 119750 137 Daffodil Delight 5/8” (1.6 cm) Satin Ribbon $16.95 $11.87 119963 137 Certainly Celery 3/8” (1 cm) Taffeta Ribbon $12.95 $9.07 109112 139 Square Fire Rhinestone Brads $19.95 $13.97 109113 139 Square Ice Rhinestone Brads $19.95 $13.97

Who doesn’t love bling and pretty ribbons?  I know I do that’s for sure.

My special offer to you this week is two fold and is in conjunction with the promo I’m going to talk about below!!  Simply ring and book a work shop with me this week and one of the above deals of the week will be yours for free when I turn up to do your workshop!!*

Remember, there is no limit to the number of Deals of the Week items you may purchase and both of these deals finish Tuesday 24th May at 11.30pm.

Extra Hostess Benefits ….

You may be aware there was an annual Stampin’ Up! Convention last week in Melbourne. Unfortunately I didn’t get to go this year but they announced a wonderful new promotion just for our hostesses!

When you hold a Workshop between 23rd May and 30th June and your party sales total $450 or more you will receive a bonus $70 in Hostess Benefits! How cool is that??  So instead of $40 to spend you now have a minimum of $110 to spend! Plus as an extra bonus from me your choice of items from this weeks deals of the week!

So if you’d like to take advantage of both of these awesome deals contact me to book your workshop in.

Speak soon

* Parties must be booked by 11.30pm Tuesday 24th May and held between 23rd May and 30th June 2011 to be eligible for both incentives!

Finally it would appear that my internet is back up and running properly….well this blog post will be the true test but we’ll see!!

This is just a quickie to let you know about the specials Stampin’ Up! are offering this month, you may have seen some adds in a few of the papercrafting magazines they have begun Deals of the Week again!! Which means each Wednesday they will release a new range of specials and I might even throw in an added bonus for you as well!! {a bit of an apology for being so slack of late}

This week’s deal is

What great specials for those of you with a Die Cutting machine, but for those of you who don’t have on my additional offer to you is a 20% discount on purchasing your own bigshot*!!

These deals will only be available until close of business next Tuesday evening (17th May 2011) so make sure your orders are with me before then.

To order just email me.  Fingers crossed all things are functioning properly!!

Don’t forget to check back next Wednesday and see what fabulous specials Stampin’ Up! will have for you then!

Speak soon

Over the last few months I have been privileged and excited to be awarded 2 different awards from 2 different fellow Stampin’ Up! demonstrators.

I must admit to being very slack in accepting these awards and passing them on to other inspiring papercrafters, all my computer drama’s have conspired against me, but it seems all good now so here they are!! I have to say it an honour to have these award bestowed upon me. The first one was passed on to me by the lovely Gwen Bloomfield, thank you so much Gwen it truly is an honour!

There are several conditions that need to be met upon accepting this award and they are:

1. Thank the person who passed this award onto you - so a big  big thank you to Gwen.
2. Share 8 things about yourself,
3. Pass the award onto 8 bloggers
4. Contact them and tell them about the award

Wow 8 things about me?? Really that’s a bit scary.

1. I have been married to my ever tolerant husband for nearly 12 years. He does an awesome job of helping me out with all my classes and events!

2. We have 2 gorgeous children 1 boy and 1 girl.

3. We are both Aries and are yet to kill each other lol!

4. I will have been a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator for 5 years this coming April, and still love it.

5. I’ve gone back to work part time as a Teachers Aid and am really enjoying it.

6. I’m a real home body and love spending time with my family just pottering around at home.

7. I don’t do mornings well and should probably try and go to bed a wee bit earlier!

8. I really love my life there is nothing that I would change (well other then winning the lottery and seriously don’t we all wish that lol)

The next one was awarded to me by my friend and fellow Stampin’ Up! addict Amanda Saffery, thanks Amanda! Luckily this one does not involve me telling anyone anything about myself! Again thanks for that Amanda lol!

Now I have to pass on these awards to those that inspire me, I believe I am going to have to take the chicken’s way out as I have tried for the last 4 days yup you read right 4 days to choose blogs to pass on these awards to.  Can I just say they are plentiful,  and I’m going to pass it onto all the girls over in my sidebar as they  constantly keep me inspired especially when my mojo deserts me which seems to be happening more and more often. I will quiet often be sitting here a little stressed at an impending class or workshop with no idea what to do and I jump on my blog, follow my links and check out what all these wonderfully talented girls are up.

So if you are looking for inspiration jump on my blog and check them all out you’ll be glad you did they are all super talented and each has a unique style all of their own that just scream CASE me!! (but remember to give credit lol)

Right I am posting this once and for all no more saving to come back to later. Again thank you so much to Gwen and Amanda for passing on these awards and thank you to all my sources of inspiration you guys rock!

Well it’s probably past time to announce the winner of my sketch challenge for my downline, it was a tough call and I want to thank all of you who took the time out to vote as well as to those who left some comment love for the girls! But before we move on I thought I’d show you mine!

Now my photo is a bit dodgy as it was so grey and gloomy over the weekend and I was trying to get it organised in advance….don’t fall off your chair those who know me lol!

It was actually a card I used for this months technique class. I am really happy how it turned out it looks much better IRL honest!

So who’s the winner you ask well after tallying the votes the winner of this months Challenge is ANN!

Congratulations Ann shoot me an e-mail and let me know what you would like!

I best go I have spent the better part of the last few days trying to sort out my internet and have ended up having to purchase a new modem and router, (thanks Mum). So I’m hoping my internet dramas will be over now. If you have sent me an e-mail lately and I haven’t replied I do apologise I have a gazillion to get to and plan to over the weekend.

Have a good one everyone.

Well hello again!

Twice in the same month that has to be a first in a little while! It’s just a quick post tonight as per usual I am a day late and I want to attempt an early night as we have a big day tomorrow as my DD is competing in the zone 6 swimming carnival for the first time so it will be a loooong day!

So why am I here well I need a hand, I’ve begun a monthly challenge with my downline and I need a hand to judge the entries. Can you help please???

So here is the sketch they were working with…..

And here are the entries I received….

This little beauty was created by Ann

This gorgeous creation is the first entry by Jan and here is number 2

And my final entry is from Bec and it’s gorgeous to!

So what do you think?  Tough hey? Just leave a comment and let me know which one you like best. I’ll announce the winner on Friday so it will give you all a few days to decide. You can click on their names so you can go and check out all their other fabulous creations too. I might even make it back earlier with my go at it!!

Feel free to have a go yourself and leave a link in a comment so we can all go and check out yours!!

Have a good night