Can You Believe.....

..That another week is nearly over, and a busy one at that.

I had a Team Meeting in CHCH on Tuesday evening, I love been part of the team it's like joining a great big family when you join up with Stampin' Up! If you would like to become part of the Stampin' Up family email me to join my team.

Monday I was preparing for a workshop that evening, finishing swaps and preparing for the WOW I presented at the meeting.

Here's my swap I made.

Tuesday I drove to CHCH returned the refugee, caught up with family and attended the Team Meeting.

Wednesday I picked up 2 Canaries from Savannah's Godparent's to bring home for the kids. 

They had told me the cage was big, but it was very big. We drive a Nissan Serena, to get the cage in we had to put up the back seats, half turn the middle seat and unbolt the dolly seat and seat beats (major operation, I'm glad Mark hadn't already gone to work, as he was our skillful surgeon ) Thanks Mark.

They are beautiful birds a male and female, Darian has named the male 'McLovit' (don't know were that came from) and Savannah has named the girl 'Sunny' as she is a lovely yellow.

Julie gave us all the seed, grit and nesting materials, Sunny is wanting to build a nest so the kids are looking on with keen interest.

I arrived home an hour before I had to be at School for Kids Club, which I still had to prepare for.

Here's the cards the kids did yesterday, Savannah made these two.

They used Choo Choo Stampset, and had to draw their own track because in the quick turn around I left the wheel at home.

They used Butterfly Prints and Oval All stampsets and the punches to match.

So I was pretty tired by the end of the day.

Today was a beautiful day here so I have spent the day in the garden.

I will show the team swaps in the next few days.

Birthday Card

Here's a Birthday Card I made for Samuel's Teacher last week.

I have used a new stamp set from the 2010 - 2011 Idea Book and Catalogue called 'Perfect Punches'.

It has 6 stamps in the set and there is a punch that matches each stamp.

With this stamp I have used Oval Extra Large Punch.

I have also used Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder which I brayered with Real Red ink, before I put it through the Big Shot.

Supplies List

Stampset: Perfect Punches.

Cardstock: Basic Black, Real Red, Very Vanilla and Newsprint DSP.

Ink: Real Red and Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker.

Extras: Big Shot, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Brayer, Linen Thread, Stampin' Dimensionals and Oval Extra Large Punch.

Box Card

On Friday evening I took part in a online tutorial at Crafters Amonyous.

There was a catch to this tutorial, we had to post photos of the finished card then Tia would email us the tutorial.

Tia Routledge took us through the tutorial step by step in the chatroom.

 

Here's the  box card (open), it was fun to make once you got the hang of all the folds.

 

The front of the card (closed).

I used Sahara Sand, Soft Suede and Elegant Eggplant Card Stock with Vintage Vogue Stamp Set with Elegant Eggplant Ink and I used the XL 2 Step Bird Punch.

After doing this tutorial online I went straight downstairs to my craftroom with my niece Jessica and we made another one straight away. 

This is Jessica's Card, she used Basic Black and Old Olive Card Stock with Baroque Mofits.

Thanks Tia for a great tutorial.

JAI # 34

This weeks challenge is a colour.

My first thought was YUCK!

I'm definitely not a soft pink girl. I haven't got Pretty In Pink Card or Ink, I did have a bit of Pink Pirouette Card from a Assorted In-Colour pack from last year so I borrowed my friends (Liz Thanks) Pink Pirouette Ink Pad.

I had a Sympathy Card to make and thought these colors would lend them selves nicely for it.

I have used 'Every Moment' , 'Thoughts and Prayers' and 'God's Blessings' Stamp Sets.

'Every Moment' is a great Stamp Set for watercolouring.

I have used most of these colours before but  not together, it's good to be out of our comfort zone from time to time.

I'm pleased with how it turned out, even though it doesn't do anything for me. 

My niece Jessica (ChCh refugee ) is staying with us, and she loves it.

The colours are my sisters colours and I'm sure she would like it also.

What do you think?

Supplies List

Stamp Sets: Every Moment, Thoughts and Prayers and God's Blessings.

 Card Stock: Crumb Cake (Kraft), So Saffron, Pink Pirouette and Watercolour Card.

Ink: Pink Pirouette, So saffron, Certainly Celery, Sahara Sand and Stazon Black.

Extras: Certianly Celery Ribbon (retired), Aqua Painters, Big Shot and Perfect polka Dots Embossing Folder.

I will be back tomorrow with another card that I made yesterday, I had a very productive day yesterday.

Till then have a  great weekend, I hope you get some crafting done and some relaxing.

After School Clubs Week 2

I have committed to running an after school club at school every Wednesday for 10 weeks.

Last week we did Father's Day gift and card.

This week we made 'Gods Eyes'.

 

This is a easy craft once you have pattern going, using wool and popicles sticks.

The kids enjoyed this craft and 2 of them completed 2 of them in the time alotted.

There are 7 kids doing crafts for clubs, thier ages ranging from 5 - 12 years.

With this craft it was the younger kids that cottoned on to this  easier than the 2 12 year olds.

They are a nice bunch of kids and pleasure to work with. I'm looking forward to getting to know them better over the 10 weeks

Make 'n' Take

This is the card I got at regional Training last month from Carolyn Young.

 As you can see I have basicly cased this card and used an idea from Bron Heslop also to make this card.

This is the Make 'n' Take we on Saturday.

We used 'For You Flower' Stamp. 

I have punch out the middle of the flower and raised it with Stampin' Dimensionals and covered it in Crystal Effects.
Bron Heslop had done this on here team swaps last month.

I used Baroque Motifs Stamp Set as a back ground stamp.

Supply List

Stamp Sets: For You Flower and Baroque motifs.

Card Stock: Soft Suede, Old Olive, Very Vanilla and Greenhouse Gala DSP.

Ink: Real Red, Soft Suede and Old Olive.

Punches: 1 3/8" Circle and Fancy Flower Punches.

Extras: Crystal Effects, Stampin' Dimensionals and Hemp Twine.

One of the benefits of been a Demo is that you are part of a team, and we get together for meetings and Trainings. We do Swaps and get lots of different ideas from each other.

Now is the perfect time to become a Demo, the New Starter Kits is just Fab, so versatile and effective.

Don't forget that Stmpin' Up will give a free gift of the In-Colour Bundle if you sign up in September.

Contact me today for more imformation on joining my team.

Have a great day, hope you all have the oppertunity to put ink on a stamp today.

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day.
I blogged My Father's Day card a few weeks ago, click here to view.
Hope you are all having a great Father's Day.
Thoughts and Prayers to you all in Christchurch.
I have been in contact with family and friends in CHCH, they are all fine with very little damage.

I have been meaning to make a Post It Note Holder for a very long time now.

I finally got around to it on Friday.

I have used Greenhouse Gala DSP.

I am loving this DSP and can't wait to get my hands on the other new DSPs.

It has some very yummy colours in it, like Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Pear Pizzazz (In Colour) and Daffodil Delight (New Colour Brights Collection).

Both these New Colour are just stunning.

After School Clubs

I'm taking a group of 4 lovely (6 if you include my 2) kids for a Craft After School Club, for 10 weeks.

We started yesterday, and as Father's Day is on Sunday we made a gift and card for Dad.

In this photo they are painting plaster bases for the gift for Dad.

Then they choose stone to represent their family.

The Card came out of a card making book of Savannah's.

They all loved making the gift and card, and were very excited about know what we could be doing next.

As of yet I haven't decided yet, Savannah and I will put our heads together and come up with something.

Here are their gifts that they made.

They just need to write on them 'Dad Rocks".

It's Here!!

The 2010 - 2011 Idea Book and Catalogue has gone live.

It is a fantastic my wish list is very long.

To view the Catalogue online click here.

If you would like your own copy for free contact me, to book a workshop or you can purchase a copy.

Now is the  perfect time to be thinking about becoming a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator.

The New Starter Kit is so veritile and practical (I wish that this kit was available when I joined).

Stampin' Up have just announced any one who signs up as a demonstrator for the month of September, will recieve FREE In Colour Bundle valued at $100.90.

Also Stampin' Up have put together some

'Colour Renovation Colour Kits"

RETROFIT YOUR EXISTING STAMPIN’ UP!® PRODUCTS WITH THE NEW COLOUR KITS!
With all of the excitement of Stampin’ Up!’s colour renovation, you might be wondering what the best way is to update your existing Stampin’ Up! products. Wonder no more! With the new colour kits, you can get all of Stampin’ Up!’s new colours (and just the colours you need) without the expense of replacing products you already have.

So Contact Me today

Field of Daisies

I have had a full day of card making.

I have got 4 cards in the mail today, 3 were cards that just needed finishing.

Here's the card that did from Scratch today using 'Every Moments' Stamp set.

This a great wee stamp set, it's great for colouring and I'm enjoying playing with it.

It is available in the New 2010 - 2011 Idea Book and Catalogue which goes live Wednesday.

 

Supplies List

Stamp Set: Every Moment, Lovely as a Tree and Pocket Silhouettes.

Ink: Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze, Tempting Turquoise, Pacific Point, Not Quite Navy, Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Tangerine Tango, Soft Suede and More Mustard.

Card Stock: Not Quite Navy, Old Olive, Bashful Blue and Whisper White.

Accessories: Brayer, Hemp Twine, Blender Pens and White Gel Pen.

 

This painting called 'Feild of Dasies" painted by Mats Eriksson, is were I got inspiration from.  

I'm very pleased with my attempt.

I hope you are having a great weekend and getting lots of crafting time.

Last Minute Discounts

Stampin' Up have announced

 some additional discounted products to add to the list, so grab them soon as they won’t last long!  If you wish to put an order through me, please drop me an e-mail or give me a ring before Sunday 6pm so I can process before Tuesdays deadline.

Item #	Page	Description	Discount	Discounted NZ Price
116342	42	Big Bold Birthday	50%	$    31.98
116408	100	Seeing Spots	50%	$    17.98
116344	121	Big Deal Alphabet	50%	$    45.98
116208	126	In Color card stock (A4)	50%	$      8.63
105538	127	Bold Brights Stampin' Write markers	25%	$    51.71
105537	127	Soft Subtles Stampin' Write markers	25%	$    51.71
105540	127	Rich Regals Stampin' Write markers	25%	$    51.71
105541	127	Many Marvelous Markers	25%	$  209.96
105550	128	Bold Brights Classic Stampin' Spots	25%	$    37.46
105551	128	Earth Elements Classic Stampin' Spots	25%	$    37.46
105539	128	Earth Elements Stampin' Write markers	25%	$    51.71
105552	129	Rich Regals Classic Stampin' Spots	25%	$    37.46
112042	132	Urban Garden Designer Series paper	50%	$      9.98
112041	134	Bella Rose Designer Series paper	50%	$      9.98
107305	152	Oval Large punch	50%	$    17.98
113692	152	Eyelet border punch	50%	$    17.98
109043	152	Scallop Circle punch	50%	$    17.98
113694	152	Heart to Heart punch	50%	$    17.98
112082	152	Wide Oval punch	50%	$    17.98
112091	152	Scallop Edge punch	50%	$    17.98
113693	152	Full Heart punch	50%	$    17.98
104310	155	Crafters' Tool Kit	25%	$    68.96
112004	AW28*	1-3/4" Circle punch	50%	$    17.98
116629	CO*	Butterfly punch	50%	$    17.98
CO = carryover
AW = Autumn Winter Mini

CHCH Regionals WOW

On Saturday at the Regional Training I was asked to present the WOW.

The technique I showed was Bargello.

Bargello is an embroidery technique using long stitches to create patterns.

But of course we recreate this technique in paper, using our striped DSP great way of using up our scraps.

 

Here are some exsamples that I showed on Saturday.

 

To make this Chervon pattern you need diagonal strip.

I used Washington Apple DSP which doesn't have diagonal stripes, so I made them by cutting 2 squares of DSP on a diagonal making sure you cut them 1 with stripes up and down and the other 1 stripes across.

 

I first saw this Technique on Dawn Olchefske blog, she has some great tutorials go and check out her blog.

 

This pattern you need diagonal stripes also, I had a scrap of DSP and I cut at 45degrees to form diagonal stripes.

I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the new DSPs in the 2010 - 2011 Idea Book and Catalogue, and trying this technique there are 11 DSPs and 9 have stripes.

AB Fab Day At Christchurch Regionals

Saturday I attended the Christchurch Regional Training Day. 

What a Day, it was full on but so inspiring.

Sophie from Aussie, ( Australian Trainer ) was great so easy to listen too, she has given us new techniques to try. There were 4 make 'n' takes for us to do using 'Happy Moments'Stamp Set (out of the new catalogue) which we got free for attending. The stamp set has lots of scope for watercolouring, it was a stamp set that didn't appeal when I first saw it but now that I have a played with it I can see that I will use it.

It was so nice getting together with other demos, and to meet people whose blogs I read and of course the swaps that were swapped.

Here is my swap that I made.

I have used my brayer and sponges to make this card.

Colours I have used are Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, Not Quite Navy, So Saffron and Always Artichoke. Pocket Silhouettes was the stamp set I used.

To get the waves I dragged Baja Breeze and Not Quite Navy Ink pads across the card and added White Gel Pen.

The swaps were great, some using new stamp sets from the new catty. Thanks for sharing your swaps. It such a great way to get different ideas.

It was such a fun day, I will be back tomorrow to tell you more.

50th Celebrations

We had a fantastic weekend Celebrating Timaru Life Church 50th.

Everything ran so smoothly.

My Mum came down for the weekend, and she did all the Saturday morning sports, Hockey and Netball.Thanks Mum. 

That meant Paul and I were free to get the church ready the Meet, Greet time and afternoon tea.

We had 180 register for the weekend and we all had a great time.

Sue excelled herself with the afternoon tea, it was amazing and she had made most of it all herself with a team of helpers.

Dinner was at Sophies on the Bay, we all had a great night, great food and wonderful entertainment. 

Basil was a big hit, and even mentioned Crafty Helen in his show.

I forgot my camera (silly me) so will have to get some of friends.

Thanks Byran for this photo of me.

We all had lanyards with our names and program on, each decade had different colours, which was great.

There was approx 300 at the service on Sunday, coffee and cake ran smoothly, thanks to my team of servers.

In the church we had a fishing net filled with over 200 balloons, which were let down durning the last song.

It was a great way to finish the weekend.

Highlights of the weekend 

Wonderful friends

Basil

Balloons

Great Food

Different Colour Landyards

Great Music

Busy Busy Busy...

Have I have been busy this last couple of weeks.

Timaru Life Church 50th Celebrations are this weekend, so there has been all the last minute details to attend to.

I have been trying to get my swaps done for Regional Training next weekend (21st).

The photo is above is sneak peek to some of the products I have used.

All I have to do with them is assemble them.

I hoping the ink will wear off my fingers before the weekend.

I will show you them after next weekend.

I'm looking forward to the training as it is my first Regional, I'm looking forward to meeting other Demos especially the ones who I know throught there blogs.

I have been asked to do the Wow at Regionals, so I still have to prepare for that as well.

If you are a demo and going to the Regionals next weekend please come and say hi.

I looking forward to meeting you.

JAI # 29 Second Entry

This week at JAI is a Colour Challenge.

This a colours combination that I haven't really used before.

I only had Card Stock in Kraft, Very Vanilla and a teeny tiny scrap of Always Artichoke.

I did have Raspberry Tart DSP which has Rose Red in it and a piece of Rose Red 1" double‐stitched grosgrain ribbon.

So here is my second entry into this weeks JAI challenge.

This is the card I made first but I wasn't happy with it so I put it aside made my card I entered on Friday.

I came back to it and finished it.

I have made this card plainer and changed the sentiment, to make it a sympathy or get well card.

I have used Dimensionals to lift up the Very Vanilla Card Stock with Lovely as a Tree Stamped in Always Artichoke then I sponged the grass area of the stamp and around the edges also.

The 1" double‐stitched grosgrain ribbon which is available in Rose Red, Baja Breeze and Chocolate Chip has got 50% off in the Last Chance List. Remember that they are only available till 31st August or till stocks last.

Click here to check out The Last Chance List. 

Email me today with your order.

Colour Challenge

I achieved my goal of been picked for the Top Picks for JAI Challenge last week.

 

This week the the girls have another colour challenge for us.

Here is my card that I have made.

I didn't have any Rose Red Card Stock so I have used Raspberry Tart DSP instead.

I decided to make a Christmas Card using Lovely as a Tree and Best Yet , stamped and sponged in Alway Artichoke.

I ruffled the Rose Red Ribbon on the left side

I have used Kraft, Always Artichoke and Very Vanillia Card Stock.

Arh Arh Boom Boom

Today and yesterday I have been working on a puppet.

I altered a human puppet pattern, I'm pleased with how he turned out.

He is dressed in a black tux, white shirt, I had 2 nice buttons that have made nice cuff links and to finish the outfit he has a red silk bow tie and hanky in his beast pocket.

I had to explain to my kids who Basil Brush was, I used to love him as a kid.

Last Chance List

We are nearing the end of the current Idea Book and Catalogue.

We have mixed feeling, saying goodbye to some much loved Stamp Sets and accessories.

But excited about the new products in the Idea Book and Catalogue 2010 - 2011.

The Last chance list is here it is a massive list, so click on the link below to view.

Last Chance List

Remember that once these product are sold out they are gone for good and no longer avaible after 31st August.
Some items on the list are been reconfigured like punches and Assorted Card Stock.

So hurry and get your orders to me now to avoid disappointment.


Products now unavailable: -

-  108600 Pg 128 Close to Cocoa Cardstock A4
-  114037 Pg 133 Sweet Slumber Specialty Designer Series Paper 

Products Running Low: -
 - 115860 Pg 78 A Rose is a Rose Stamp Set $77.95
 - 116332 Pg 86 Playful Petals Stamp Set 25% Off $47.21
 - 116428 Pg 105 Totally Tabs Stamp Set $35.95
 - 116412 Pg 121 Short Order Alphabet Stamp Set $91.95
 - 106561 Pg 127 Basic Black Cardstock (A4) $16.25 (Reconfigure)
 - 106552 Pg 127 Sahara Sand Cardstock (A4) $16.25 (Reconfigure)
 - 102996 Pg 128 Real Red Stampin' Around Cartridge $11.25

Just add.... Mans Card

This week at Just Add Ink they have given us a double challenge.

Just Add Ink Challenge #28 is ..... Add A Mans Card and to use these colours.

Are they just gorgeous? I think so.

On Thursday I picked a piece of the retired Parisan Breeze Specialty Paper that was in the Spring Mini last year, I thought that I would do something with it over the weekend then on Friday when I saw what this weeks challenge was I knew what to do straight away, how prefect.

 

I have used the oak tree out of Lovely as a Tree Stamp Set, It is one of my favourite stamps.

The details in SU stamps are so sharp and they ink up so beautifully, just one of the things I love about SU products. 

I also used the happy fathers day stamp out of the Occasional Greetings Stamp Set.

 

On the inside I have stamped the oak tree in the corner and scored a double frame around the edge, then I lightly sponged it.

Hope you have had a great weekend.