I want to thank all you for entering my blog candy give away. There were some guesses that I am really interested in trying to see the results!!

OK is the suspense killing you well I’ll get on with it for you…..I have numbered the entries for my little comp and random.org has chosen the winning numbers for me. Here is a screen dump of the winning numbers or you can click here and see where I have saved the PDF of the screen dump….couldn’t get it to appear here!! Silly computers!!

Drum roll please dummmmmmdummmmmmdummmmmmm

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

5	2

Timestamp: 2009-06-30 10:48:44 UTC

So that is (2) Lynda and (5)Yvonne so if you could both e-mail me with your snail mail addresses I can get your goodies out to you. Lynda you won the Fifth Avenue floral class and Yvonne the Felt flowers are all yours!!

So for the rest of you would you like me to tell you how I did it???

It was the wax resist technique I used and here is the instruction so you to can do it at home.

First cut a piece of wax paper bigger then your cardstock and crumple it up. Ensure you know which side is the waxy side! Uncrumple it slightly but don’t flatten it completely.

 Put a piece of clean scrap paper on your ironing board and place your glossy card stock glossy side up and your crumpled wax paper wax side down on top of it and then a piece of clean scrap paper on top. Iron briefly!

Next brayer your gloss cardstock with your chosen colour, I have used pale plum. You need a few coats ensure you ink your brayer up well! Buff off with a tissue.

How easy was that? If you don’ t have a brayer you can always sponge your cardstock and buff with a tissue. Then you just have to complete your card.

I had a few people e-mail asking how I did the flower and thought I’d share that as well as again it was super easy!

First stamp your image on your pale plum cardstock in basic black.

Then take a sponge dauber and ink it up in elegant eggplant ink and gently dauber around the stamens in your flower.

Then crystal effects the stamens and add a very little bit of glitter and tada your done!

Put it all together and this is what you get….

I hope this post wasn’t to long for you and thanks for playing along and sticking with me!

Night night all

Do you need another day?? I can tell you that no one has guessed the technique I’ve used yet. I’m working on a tutorial and an other sample so I’ll give you till 9pm tomorrow night to have another shot! I really really want to give these goodies away so come on ladies don’ t be shy!!

Speak soon

Hey all,

Hope you are all having a great weekend, I know we have been super busy we have been clearing out DS’s room and the kids toy room it has been very cathartic. You can now actually see what toys they have and hopefully they can be put away when they are finished with! (Who am I kidding??)

OK so for the blog candy….. I figured as I have finally made it to 100 readers and nearly 18000 hits I thought it was time! So here goes. A little quiz for you-

Take a look at the card below and leave me a comment telling me what technique I have used and what colours??* I’ll use Random.org on Monday evening to draw the winner from the correct entries!! 

So what do you win??? Well I have 2 prizes to give away the first being a tin of felt fusion flowers and the second being a class kit for a box and 4 cards we did the other night using 5th Avenue Floral.

 With instructions of course!!

Best of luck, I’m off to bed it’s far to late for my liking and I’ve got more clearing up to do tomorrow! Fun and games.

Chow for now

* Open to all Australian residents and non Stampin' Up! demonstrators.

Hey there,

As I said I really love the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set and have been enjoying playing with it. When I went to Canberra for the Stampin’ Up! convention I was amazed at the beautiful autumn colours of the trees. And of course as I’m such a photographer I’ve got photo’s to show you! NOT!!! Sorry.

Coming from Brisbane you don’t see those sort of colours in trees very often so I was inspired to make a card with those lovely colours. This is what I came up with….

I don’t really like it that much something is not quiet right, the image I had in my head and how it turned out are 2 different things but such is life hey! I think it’s OK but that’s about it if you’ve got an idea how to improve on it leave me a comment and I’ll give it a shot!!

Right best be off as I’m off on a Teddy Bears Picnic today with DS 4 and he is taking the biggest bear imaginable I will try and take a photo if I remember so I can scrap it. I must start taking more photo’s!!

Have a great day and see you soon

But I have finally managed to get in and do a challenge of Keesha’s. I know I said that was my goal to do all the challenges but life has just been getting in the way of stamping again! This weekend alone I have had 2 kids birthday parties to attend, a workshop to do and we had PMS (Pizza, Music and Stamping) here and it’s only Sunday lunch time!

Anywho enough excuses the challenge I was talking about is a sketch challenge……

I had to make a boys card for this mornings party so thought I’d kill 2 birds with one stone so this is what I came up with.

As you can see I have turned the sketch over and have used the Loads of Love stamp set. I got this set in my starter kit when I very first joined up and I must admit is has been very under used! The main reason being I don’t colour very well!! So I thought I’d pull it out and give it a work out! I actually used my chalks to colour it in and found it much easier!

You can’t tell by the picture but I did thump and bump the base card in Not Quiet Navy so it has added texture IRL.

Right best run I can hear small children yelling at a naughty dog in the rumpus room and no doubt some discipline is needed. (both children and dog!!)

Speak soon

Today has been quiet a lazy day! I was meant to go to Nicki’s to do my Book Of Me page but wasn’t feeling real well so stayed home and manged to get a snooze! It was so nice, the house was quiet and I took the phone of the hook! I think I may need to schedule more of these into my weeks as I feel recharged and ready to go rather then frazzled and unable to concentrate! 

So before I shoot off to swimming lessons I thought I’d pop in with a card I created recently using the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set.

When I first saw this set I thought yeah that’s nice but quickly skipped on to all the other goodies there is in the New Catalogue, but as per usual seeing other peoples creations have made me have a second look!! SO after convention and receiving heaps of swaps made with this set I decided it needed to be added to my collection!

This is one of the first plays I managed to have with it, it’s such an elegant stamp don’t you think?

The colours are - Choc Chip,  Old Olive and Rose Red. I have also stamped the background with the swirl from Baroque Motif in versamark(that never ceases to be a favourite!)

What do you reckon of the photo? I followed this tutorial that I found on Marelle Taylor’s blog and I think it has made the world of difference to my photo! I am always apprehensive about my photo’s as I take them so late at night and the colours never quiet look right and it’s always so dark and gloomy which is I’m sure why I don’t post as often as I would like!

Righto must fly places to be kids to organise!!

Cheerio

But I like it all the same!!! Here is a card I did this month for tech class, it’s collage stamping. Which is basically layering of stamps on each other to make your own background paper giving it a vintage look.

I am rather happy with how it turned out even if I had to do it 3 times to make it that way! Luckily I had started prepping early and this was the first card off the starting block!

See told you I’d be back sooner rather then later! Hopefully I can pop back in again with a little give away I’ve almost made it to 100 readers so I’m planning something special so watch this space!!

Speak soon

Things have been bedlam here of late we have had so much going on it’s so not funny! There doesn’t seem to have been a spare moment, I have been trying to get on here for days. So I’m sitting here on the couch on my laptop, with the fire going watching Gray’s Anatomy and thought there was no time like the present and it’s way to cold to venture downstairs tonight!!

So just a quickie as I still haven’t been able to find the lead to upload the photo’s I have taken recently but I had a few of some more pressies I have wrapped. The first was for my Aunty who turned 60 about 3 weeks ago. If you haven’t already guessed I love Fifth Avenue Floral so here is the wrapped pressie……..

And here is a close up of the card

This stamp set is super easy to make a gorgeous looking card and not only to I love the set but I also love these colours together. It’s Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss and Basic Grey! Mmmm love it! Even if I do say so myself!

Next is a pressie I wrapped for my DS’s 4th birthday which was the 2nd of  June although he managed to celebrate it for an entire week not bad for a 4 year old!

I originally designed this card for a Downline workshop class that I do monthly, I always make girl cards and thought I best demo a male card so here is is! I love the cupcake it is so cool and also so hot right now and Jack’s just loves cupcakes, I’m always being nagged to make them with him, even if we have a batch in the tin!

I promise really promise to try and be more regular in my posts! But have you seen the great special we have running this month and next…if your party’s sales are over $600.00 you as a hostess get an additional $40.00 in hostess benefits. So if you haven’t already booked a party give me a shout and I’ll book you in!

See you soon

Here is another card that has been in my stash for a while to be photographed this is by the lovely Lisa Ryder, whom I meet at convention this year and was lucky enough to spend some time getting to know her! Now as far as I can tell she doesn’t have a website but if I find out different I will point you in that direction!

How sweet is she to send me such a gorgeous card. Thanks Lisa. (and really I’m not scary! honest!)

Right best be off to pack for my workshop this afternoon. Have a great day and hopefully you have all stayed dry!

Speak soon

I always have this little stash of cards that I really want to show you but I never really get around to doing it but tonight after being prepped for my 2 workshops this weekend…yeap you read it right I am actually organised for my weekend parties I thought I would photograph a couple of cards. I bought a new camera the other day so see if you can tell the difference with my photo’s. I must say though it is super easy to upload to my computer. Still annoying to photoshop but such is life!

OK enough waffle here are the cards….here is the first it’s by one of my downline nieces (second level) who I have just recently had the pleasure of meeting. She was so nice and sent me a birthday card and I had never even met her!

How cute is this?? You can see some more of Rebecca’s gorgeous work by clicking here. Do check out her divine fudge recipe cause I can vouch it is darn good! I just love the cup cakes stamp set I want to use the wheel oh so much that may be my very own challenge next week!

Then here is a fabo belated birthday card an other of my downline (daughter if you will). Jan knows me well as she has used the upsy daisy stamp set, glitter and pink….. all of my fav things!! She also bought with her the most devine cup cakes! Lucky I’ve got 1 months before convention again, I’d have no hope fitting into my dress again ATM!!

The daisies are all glittery IRL I think the photo is OK but doesn’t do it quiet justice!!

Thanks guys you made me feel very special!