OK as I mentioned before my DD (7) put in a request for a “Just Jawing” card for her birthday party she had today so I set to work last night! The party was for one of her good mates from school who loves super hero’s and skulls so she settled on red, black and gray as her colour scheme and I thought I’d give another of Keesha’s challenges ago to boot!

This week Keesh has given us a sketch challenge…..using a big oval eek!!

And here is what I came up with!!

Not what I would call my usual style but I have been using this set and style more then anything else of late….as I’m sure you can tell but I promise this is the last one! It has been really fun doing the grungy look!

No card for a gift is complete without matching wrapping paper so here is a photo of the lot!!

I was going to use my scary skulls wheel on this card as well but could not find it……I searched and searched for about half an hour and could not work out where  it disappeared to! I found it a little later on (you know about 12.30) when I went to hang the washing out! I had accidentally scooped it up and put it through the washing machine! It seems to have fared OK but still has black ink stains, hmph does nothing clean them off??

It was so nice to see how excited Jess was when she saw it this morning, and even nicer when the little girl didn’t want to rip the paper and asked if she could keep it. Ooooh it makes it so worth while doesn’t it?

OK that’s me have heaps to do before bed tonight as I’m hoping to catch up with a friend for an early breakie tomorrow morning!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Here I am again! Surprised?? Not at much as I am lol. We are having a child free day here! Can you believe it?

My bestest mate dating back to highschool and her hubby have taken out the kids to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary so hubby and I are home alone! It’s a very unusual and I feel kinda lost to be honest. Can you tell it doesn’t happen very often!! I hope they are having a lovely day.

Anywho you came here to check out my card didn’t you? Well Keesh has set us a great colour challenge this week.

Here you have it, how nice are these colours?? I had something in my mind as soon as I saw it but for some reason the image in my brain did not seem to make it to the paper!

But here is what I came up with anyway!

What do you think? How do you think I could improve it? Would love to hear what you think!

Right I’m off to go and check out some new lounges, tiles and various other things for when the reno starts.

Have a great Sunday

One of my favourite things is to make cards with matching packaging for gifts and today I had 2 parties for my darling son so this morning I set to work making some cards and gift wrap!

It seems that all the boys at this age are no longer into Thomas the tank engine or animals but instead skulls and pirates and Ben 10!! So here is what I came up with, I am really warming up to this stamp set and my darling daughter (7) reckons they are totally awesome and has put her order in for one for her party next weekend!

Here’s the first one….

And a close up of the card

And now for the second one….

And a close up of card 2

These are not my normal style of card but I had heaps of fun making them and I’m really happy with how they turned out. I have actually had a bit of time of late to just make some cards and have a bit of a play and it has reminded me of why I became a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator in the first place!

If you’d like to hear more about becoming a demonstrator don’t delay as this is the month to do it!  Stampin’ Up! has a great deal this month, you can become a demonstrator for just $259.00 how fabulous is that?? In your starter kit you receive over $560.00 worth of goodies! If you are interested contact me now.

I’ve been working on another of Keesha’s challenges as well so check back tomorrow to see how it turned out!!

Have a great weekend

I can’t believe I have managed to play along with 2 of Keesha’s challenges and she’s not even here to see!! I was prepping last night (yeah I know I said I was going to do it yesterday but I did all my tax paper work instead) and I was stuck on a design for one of my techniques… we are learning how to do the rolled flower. I remembered Keesh had done a sketch challenge this week so thought I’d use that as my layout of for my card!

So here is Keesha’s sketch this week…..

A nice clean and simple sketch if I do say so myself! And here is what I came up with! It’s more sparkly in real life as the flower has a bit of crystal effects painted on it and dipped in some glitter! Mmmmm pretty!!

Keesha has also done up an awesome tutorial in the same post on how to ruffle your ribbon so I thought why not I might just add that in to!! I lurve a ruffled ribbon at the moment!!

Right best get on as I have 5 kids today……(just making sure I savour my peace and quiet tomorrow), and I still have one more card to create for tonight and I need to tidy the rumpus room from all our holiday fun!

Enjoy today if it’s your last day of holiday.

School holidays that is! I can’t believe two weeks have flown by so fast! We have had an absolutely fantastic time as a family and spent lots of time together and catching up with some great friends. But it’s time to get ready to get back into the routine that is a school term and that was kicked off yesterday when Jackson had a birthday party to attend with one of his “big” mates from school!

This friend of Jackson’s is quiet literally head and shoulders taller then Jackson (which really isn’t hard!) but they just love to play together and they look so cute together.

Anywho I digress! We have had the invite for a while and it was a skull one so Jackson wanted the packaging to match! Mmmm I think I may have created a monster here!!

Of course I wasn’t sure which way to go as I’m not a huge fan of scary skulls for littlies so with a bit of inspiration from here, this is what I came up with….

Here is a close up of the card! I’m pretty happy with how it turned out and Jackson was over the moon with the finished results!!

Sorry the photo’s aren’t to great but as usual I was meant to be there by the time I was finishing these up yesterday afternoon and I was late as per usual! But Jackson was over the moon with the results!

I’ve had the Just Jawing set for a little while but have barely used it but it would seem my kids are getting to the age that skulls are all the rage! Scary hey!

Righto best run I’m going to try my hand at being organised and getting my things prepared for Technique class tomorrow night today!

Enjoy your Sunday

Here are the awesome projects we made at the Red Nose Day fundraiser!

Here is Bec’s card she designed using Pun Fun. How cute are these animals!!

Next we have Lou’s card! I just love Fifth Avenue Floral it’s such a go to set for me!! Lou has used the layout from front of the catalogue doesn’t it look great!!

Next is my card! It’s a masiculan card using Wanted. I’ve done something similar years ago but it’s a nice simple card to make. The base is Natural Ivory…..yes we do sell that and no it’s not confetti cream! (Long story…..Of course my order for the event took longer then normal to get here so we were stressing about prepping the rest of the packs and the girls were not convinced we even sold Natural Ivory as it wasn’t in their stash!!  I’m sure there has been a run on this colour after our evening as it will be now lol!

And then we have Linda’s gorgeous card holder to hold all the cards we had created on the night! Awesome hey! Notice we kept to the red theme!

We are already organising our next big day! It will be for the release of the NEW catalogue and we are planning on holding it on the 4th of September so keep your eyes peeled for details!

See you all soon

Yes I know it’s twice in one day (don’t get used to it) but I am getting myself organised and thought I would drop in and tell you about something not really stamping related although there is a stamp involved lol!!

My neighbour Sharon has just started a new business selling home made luxury soap! Now I have been lucky enough to have tested some of these beauties and they are just divine! I wouldn’t get the chocolate one again though as I wanted to eat it every time I had a shower, seriously it smelt good enough to eat lol!

So if you like good soap hop on over and check out her site…..

Don’t they look good enough to eat! And see the name on the soap it’s been stamped on! See there was a little stampin’ involved!

Enjoy the rest of your day and don’t forget to sign her guest book while your there!

Well amongst all the school holiday fun and getting ready for retreat in August I have had some time to sit down and create a few cards!! I really haven’t had time in ages to create just for creatings sake that  I found my mojo had disappeared….whoosh just gone completely! So I jumped on Keesha’s site to find out what challenge she has going at the moment!  Even though she is a million miles away in Canada she doesn’t disappoint!

She had a colour challenge going and check out these colours!! They are my colours if I do say so myself!!

I thought I would challenge myself a little more and try and use some of the stamp sets that are on special at the moment and no doubt haven’t seen ink in a very long time or never!! Can you guess which one has never ever had ink on it!!! Click here to check out which other stamp sets have been discounted this month.

Here is my first card! I wasn’t overly happy with how it turned out which is why i decided to try again….I was really struggling not using the Cottage Wall DSP and cottage garden stamp set!! I lurve them both so much!!

And here is my second card. I have cased the layout (sort of) from Teneale I didn’t have a really nice saying to pop on the oval so I had to work with what I had…..bear in mind it was about half one in the morning as I was stamping this bit! If it was earlier I would have done it again and stamped it a little lower. Again I’m not completely happy with how this turned out but I was really happy to have created something!! Now to just go and enter it into Keesha’s challenge.

So which one do you like best?

I better run as I have 4 kids today and it’s so nice to hear them playing so nicely with each other but no doubt they will start to get hungry very soon.

Have a great day everyone!!

I finally figured out how to download my big camera on to my laptop….(I’ve had the laptop and camera for quiet sometime but usually I download onto my desktop save onto a stick and transfer to the laptop) I thought it was about time I worked out how to do it directly on to the lappie. So here I am only a week and a bit after the event filling you in!!

Firstly I want to thank everyone who attended I hope you had as much fun on the night as we did! How much did we raise you ask?? Well we blew our anticipated $1000.00’s out of the water we raised $2406.04!! Isn’t that awesome.

Stampin’ Up! supplied us with heaps of goodies to raffle and auction off!

Here are our raffle prizes, we had a first and second prizes. The generous people who attended also donated some goodies for sale or auction, we had jam, cookware and gorgeous chocolate trees. Can you believe someone also made everyone who attended a cupcake and packaged them up in a cute little box as a thank you! Sorry no photo of that. Come on you have to be impressed that I even managed to get a few photos I had to borrow the one above from Linda as I didn’t get a photo of the raffle hence why she is missing from the photo!!

Here is our silent auction tables!! We raised over $735.00 alone with just the silent auction!!

Here are a few action shots of the ladies in full swing! On the night we made 3 cards and a little pouch to hold them in. We all donated the products we used for these projects to the cause. Which enabled us to maximize our fundraising efforts!!

I will try and take some photo’s of the projects we did tomorrow and post here for you to see! It’s to late and dark tonight!

Night night all

Ok this is my third try this morning to get this post up I have had it all pretty with pictures of the specials and everything but it’s just not playing my game!

I know I know I’m late with this weeks deal of the week but it is most definitely worth the wait! I promise but you’ll have to wait just a little longer while I tell you what I’ve been up to!

My partners in Crime, Bec, Louise and Linda have been madly planning and prepping for our Red Nose fundraiser on Friday night! If you can’t come along but would still like to make a donation to this really worthy cause please click on the link over there -> it will take you to our official Sids and Kids fundraising page. We are aiming to raise $1000 on the night. And I can assure you, you will not go away empty handed. We have the most amazing raffles, silent auctions and our lucky door prize will definitely take your breath away! We also have some none stamping items up for grabs that have been donated by some gorgeous people!

I’ve also been working all week and had my big girl home sick with hubby yesterday! So as always my world is busy busy busy!!

OK so your really here to see what goodies Stampin’ Up! has to offer this week aren’t you? Well to tell you the truth this one is my all time favourite….you know me I love a good bit of bling well this will not disappoint!!

Check these out!  (sorry not pictures only the grid but hey we all know how gorgeous the brads and ribbon are don’t we??)

I hope you all have a great rest of the week and I hope to see you all on Friday night!!

I can’t believe a whole week has gone past since my last post! Ooops! I haven’t really had much of a change to stamp of late as things have been so busy but we have just had the most gorgeous weekend away at Murphy’s Creek again. All be it freezing but was so glad I could spend some time with  family and some special friends amongst such a busy year!

I am paying for the weekend away now though with heaps of washing to do and I picked up a cold while I was away….lucky aren’t I?

Anywho you came to see what special Stampin’ Up! was offering this week well it’s a goodie!!

You can purchase any or all of the below stamps for up to 50% off the regular price! Seriously how cool is that

I will be placing an order for all of this weeks special at 8.30 next Tuesday night so if you would like any of these stamp sets let me know by then!

OK I must fly as I have my 3D class on tomorrow night and I need to get prepped for that as well as the Red Nose Day Fundraiser on the 25th of June . I have space left at both of these events so if you would like to join us please let me know as I would love to have you come along.

Have a great Wednesday everyone.

Stampin’ Up! have once again got a fabulous deal of the week for you all…..It’s one of my favourite things to be honest paper!!

So here is the deal……

So do you want see what they look like? Well here they are:

First we have Haiku DSP

Pink Flamingo DSP

Tea Party DSP

Raspberry Tart DSP

And finally Sweet Slumber DSP

How cute are they seriously I know I will be stocking up on these! I will be placing an order Monday evening at 8.30pm for this deal so if you’d like to get your hands on some of these lovely papers to add to your stash contact me to get your orders in!!

Have a great rest of the week and I look forward to hearing from you all.

Good morning all!

Recently Stampin’ Up! announced the upcoming colour renovation and just yesterday on our demonstrator website there was the following up date……

“With our recent Colour Renovation announcement, we have experienced an increase in demand for some of our retiring colours. We need to clarify that beginning now, all retiring colour products are available only while supplies last. As we run out of retiring items, you may notice that they are no longer available in OEX. This does not refer to items that go on backorder; these orders will be fulfilled. While our Australian and New Zealand markets have not run out of any retiring products, we may before the new catalogue begins on 1 September.”

So what does this mean for you guys?? Well if there are any colours in the below list that you can’t live without I’d suggest you purchase them now and not wait!! I’d hate anyone to miss out!!

Right best fly have a workshop this afternoon and am actually prepping for my technique class on Tuesday night! I’ve still got a few spots left if you’d like to join me!

Have a great Sunday everyone

On Saturday it was Jacks little girlfriends birthday and he took great delight in picking a present and a bow to go on top of the gift! So of course I had to make a card to match the purple bow he picked!

The pair have been friends since they were about 9 months old and although they don’t see each other much still enjoy playing together when ever they can! I hope she liked her card and her pressie. I didn’t get a chance to take a photo of the wrapping but it was basically the above flowers stamped all over it. Jacks got to help which he loved!!

Right I’m off again as it’s my babies birthday tomorrow and I have a cake to ice and pressies to wrap!

Have a great night all!

As I mentioned last night Stampin’ Up! are doing deals of the week throughout the month of June, we will be bringing you a new deal every week!

With the Deals of the Week, you’ll get up to 50 percent off a selection of products from the 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalogue!

This week’s deals:

Contact me know to get your deal of the week!!!

Best get ready for work have a good day!