Mountie

This is the double page layout I did for Darian's first day at high school. The kids at Mountain View High School are nicknamed Mounties hench the title for the page. Darian had his first day of lessons and got his timetable today, Thursday and Friday were fun days getting to know everyone. He is enjoying it all so far.
Supplies List:
Card Stock: Handsome Hunter and So Saffron.
DSP: Washington Apple.
Extras: Round tab Punch and On Board Timeless Type Chipboard.

Happy Birthday Paul

Today is my husbands birthday, this is the card I made for him using Vintage Labels Stamp Set one of the SAB stamp sets you can earn free when you spend $120. Paul has had a nice day, we had friends over for tea to help celebrate.
Supplies List:
Stamp Set: Vintage Labels SAB
Ink: Chocolate Chip.
Papers: Washington Apple DSP, Riding hood Red and Close to Cocoa.
Extras: Large Oval Punch.

Savannah's First Layout

This Savannah's first completed layout. Savannah did this page on Saturday at the Scrapathon with some help from me. She had done a page by herself before this page, but has decided after working on this page with my help that it wasn't complete.
The photos are of the kids playing in the Opihi River north of Timaru. She choose a paper that suited the photos. We framed the photos with Old Olive and Close to Cocoa card stock, then placed a strip of Chocolate Chip edged with the eyelet border punch. For the title we used the @ out of the On Board Timeless Type Chipboard, she painted it, then sprinkled Dazzling Diamonds on it. Liz helped her cut out the rest of the title using her circut machine in Old Olive card stock, then we sponged using Chocolate Chip Ink Pad the river then shadowed the letters it looks very affective.
I think she has done a great job, she is very pleased with the result. She has started a train mini album for Samuel for his birthday it is looking good so far. I will show it to you after she has finished.

Scrapathon

Yesterday Savannah and I had a whole day scrapping together at Artfull Crafts Scrapathon. We had a fantastic day, It was Savannah's first go at scrapping, she is well and truelly hooked. She completed a page and a mini album, sorry no photos as yet the light hasn't been good for photos today.
I completed a double page layout of Darian's first day at high school and a page of Savannah when she was 6 years old. I spend a lot of time helping Savannah and I made up welcome packs for mainly music 40 in total.
I will try and get some nice photos tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Savannah

Today is Savannah's 12th Birthday.

She has had a nice day. Homemade pizza for tea and Ambrosia favoured Ice Cream cake for afters.

There was a parcel waiting for her after school from her Godparents. Inside was the most beautiful outfit which Julie bought back from India.

The beading and gems on it are just glorious. 

The colours are just beautiful, right out of the Bold Brights colours, Tempting Turquoise and Passion Pink. I have used a lot of these colours in my cardmaking lately. 

Her birthday card that I made her matches this outfit. I will post it on Sunday as I didn't get around to taking a photo of it.

Savannah and I are going to a all day crop tomorrow, it is part of her birthday present. 

I have got lots to get done so I will show you them all next week. 

Have a great weekend.

Darian's First Day at High School.

Darian our eldest boy started at Mountain View High School today.

I have been a bit emotional today. My baby is now a young man, he has the world at his fingertips. 

He looks very grown up and handsome (We are very biased) in his new uniform.

I was feeling very much like I felt when he first started school at 5 years old. Knowing that he has lots of decisions ahead that he has to make, like choosing the right friends, deciding to study well use his time wisely etc. We have a great relationship and will be there for him when he needs us.

We just pray that he gets in with the right crowd, and he can stand up for what he believes in and doesn't just follow the crowd. 

I had the camera out this morning and took lots of photos, checked them on the computer then took more to get the right photos for scrapbooking. He was a bit annoyed with my photo taking but didn't mine to much and was great-full I wasn't taking them at the school gate, I did go back to school and get photo of the school gate after all the kids were in class.

Bra Card

This a card that I made at our November Team meeting.

Sadie demonstrated this card and we all made one. Thanks Sadie they all looked great.

To make this card you use Word Window, Large Oval, Scallop Circle Punches.

I stamped the word Giggle out of Warm Words Stamp Set as the bra ended up been double D.

Supplies List:

Stamp Set: Warm Words.

Card Stock: Pumpkin Pie, Blush Blossom and Whisper White.

DSP: Haiku.

Brads: Pumpkin Pie Circle of Fire Rhinestones.

Savannah's Invitations

Savannah is 12 on Friday.

This is the Invites we have made for her friends.

I have used the Scribble This Stamp Set.

I cased this from Jenny a Stampin' Up demo in the UK.

Supplies List:

Stamps Set: Scribble This.

Card Stock: Lovely Lilac, Pixie Pink and Orchid Opulence.  

Ink: Pixie Pink and VersaMark.

Extras: Clear Embossing Powder, Clear Rhinestone Brads.

Waterfall Album

I have been making cards for about 20 years, I only started scrapbooking in the middle of 2008. I'm not very confident in this area, I have enjoyed what I have what done so far.

When I started, I went back to when Darian was born (1996) and been working my way up the years. When I got to 1998 (Savannah was born) I started working on both Darian and Savannah's pages. I have got to 2001 when Darian started school, and haven't done much more lately. When Samuel has seen me scrapping he has asked where he is, as I haven't reached 2005 I hadn't done any of his, so in the middle of last year I did 2 pages of his. 

My goal for this week was to work on a mini album.

   I first saw a waterfall album on Roz Begbie blog and she had a link to Delys Cram I had to have a go, there samples are just beautiful. I was too impatient to wait for Delys to email me the instructions. So with a lot of playing with scraps of paper, I worked it out and I am thrilled with the results.

Samuel is 2 years old in these photos, He was very pleased with the album.

I have left room for some journalling.

 These photo's where taken on 12th September 2007 at Don and Anne's house. They have a very large garden on the hillside of MacAndrew Bay Dunedin, there are thousands of Daffodils. Our house group would visit every spring, we always made a day of it and had lots of fun. This was our last spring before we moved to Timaru.

I used Petal Pizzazz Stamp Set another one of the six stamp sets I got free.

 

Supplies List:

Stamp Set: Petal Pizzazz.

Card Stock: Old Olive, So Saffron, Riding Hood Red and Whisper White.

DSP: Washington Apple.

Ink: Riding Hood Red and So Saffron.

Extras: Eyelet Border Punch, Old Olive 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon, Clear Rhinestone Brads and Brads out of the Hodgepodge Hardware.

Rose is a Rose

Rose is a Rose Stamp Set is another one of the six stamp sets I got free.

It is beautiful 2 step stamp set. You stamp the big rose first, then use the Stamp-a-ma-jig too, with the top stamp to give your rose the dimension. I have stamped the rose in Riding Hood Red, then I stamped VersaMark and put Heat & Stick Powder then Dazzling Diamonds.

I made this card for Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #58 (MTSC58).

Supplies List:

Stamp sets: Rose is a Rose and Warm Words.

Card Stock: Riding Hood Red, So Saffron, Whisper White and Washington Apple DSP.

Ink: Riding Hood Red and VersaMark.

Extras: Heat & Stick Powder, Dazzling Diamonds, Heat Tool, Sponges and Eyelet Border Punch.

If you would like to know more about 2 step stamping or any of the products used and how you can get free Stamp Sets.

 Email me or phone 03 686 2891.

School Books

It that time of year again when school books need covering. Some of my friends think that I'm mad because I love doing them.

This year Savannah has stamped on to tissue paper using Scribble This, Rose is a Rose and Fifth Avenue Floral Stamp Sets, then I have covered them in clear coverseal.

She has done a great job. I have always done our schools this way, it works out a lot cheaper and are easy to spot their own books and for the teacher also.

Here are Samuel's books

Samuel doesn't go to Montessori on a Wednesday, so we stamped his book coverings,Wednesday project.

He turns 5 early March and is very much excited about going to school.

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He has used the Choo Choo (retired) and Animal Stories Stamp Sets. He wanted to use all the stamps in the Animal Stories set so I sponged some oceans for him so he could use the whale out of the set.

He has made a fabulous job his books look so good.

Darian's Birthday Cake

It was Darian's (our eldest) 14th Birthday last Wednesday. On Saturday he had 3 mates over for pizza and a sleep over. He is very much into Stargate at the moment, his Youth Pastor lent us the complete Stargate series  

10 series in total, he has finished watching them and now is asking about Stargate Atlantis.

He had an Ice Cream Cake, I have a great recipe and it always goes down well. I decorated it with coloured cream and was put back in the freezer to freeze.

I attempted to make it look like a Stargate, he was pleased with the result.

Ice Cream Recipe.
Whip 500ml of cream, fold in tin of condensed milk then fold in 2 king sized Crunches crushed with rolling pin. Put in to silicone mould and freeze.
You can put in any filling, I have sometimes put in marshmallows, block of chocolate broken into pieces.
Savannah (daughter) has asked for her birthday cake next week to try putting berries and marshmallows so it like a ambrosia. Which I think will be very yummy.
The recipe was for a Ice Cream Slice, My Sister found in a magazine.
To make into an Ice Cream Slice you line and Tupperware Square keeper (or square cake container) with Malt Biscuits spread ice cream mix over biscuits and put another layer of biscuits on top and freeze.
Very Very Yummy

Just Add Ink

Just Add Ink is a new site set up by Australian and New Zealand Stampin' Up Demonstrators, who will be showing us what they love and inspire us. There will be weekly challenges, be sure check it out and partake of the challenges. This weeks Challenge is a colour challenge.

Here are the colours it can be a any project using these colours.
So here's my colour challenge JAI1

This Card is a View Master Card. I have made it for NZSU challenge also. You move the wheel to  the different images. I have used the ribbon through the Basic Large Grommet, it looks great I don't know why I have only just started to used them before now.
Supplies List:
Stamp Sets: Cheep Talk, Happy Moments (SAB).
Card Stock: So Saffron, Taken with Teal, Whisper White.
Ink: Chocolate Chip and So Saffron.
Extras: Rose Red 1" Double-stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Basic Large Grommets (Summer Mini) and Dimensionals.

All wrapped up

Last Thursday was Jacob Rosoe's 4th Birthday. Jacob is Samuels best friend.

We went to The Warehouse and bought him Thomas Tank Engine puzzle and card game.

This the wrapping paper Samuel made using the Choo Choo stamp set (retired).

He made a great job, the paper looked so good. This is the present all wrapped up.

We are going to do something like this for his school book coverings.

Bloomin' with Beauty

Today Samuel had his first day back at Montessori, he only has six weeks left then he will be off to school.

I managed to get down into my craft room and made some cards.

I have used Bloomin' with Beauty Stamp Set. This is one of the 6 Stamp Sets I got for free for achieving the goal of sales in the first 6 months of been a Demonstrator. If you would like to know more about been a demonstrator email me, you can earn stamps for free also. Now's a great time to join.

Sale-A-Bration starts on Monday 

25th January - 31st March.

1. Spend NZ$120 and earn one free Sale-A-Bration set of your choice.

2. Host a workshop of at least NZ$700 and earn one Sale-A-Bration set in addition to the generous hostess benefits.

3. Join Stampin' Up! during Sale-A-Bration and choose a free stamp set (valued up to NZ$93.95).

I made both these cards for Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #57.

On this card I used Jumbo Grommet out of the Summer Mini Catalogue, the one below Rhinestone Brads.

This my first attempt at water colouring with our ink pads and blender pens, I'm very pleased with the results.

Supplies:

Stamp Set: Bloomin' with Beauty.

Stock Card: Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White.

DSP: Pink Flamingo.

Ink: Basic Black, Pixie Pink, Pacific Point, Old Olive, Baja Breeze.

Extras: Basic Jumbo Grommets (summer mini), Rose Red 1" Double-stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Sponges, Blender Pens and Snail.

Supplies:

Stamp Set: Bloomin' with Beauty.

Stock Card: Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White.

DSP: Pink Flamingo.

Ink: Basic Black, Riding Hood Red, So Saffron, Old Olive, Baja Breeze.

Extras: Small Clear Rhinestone Brads, Rose Red 1" Double-stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Sponges, Blender Pens and Snail.

Interducing....

I would like to introduce you to my latest creations. I have made these puppets for our church.

 Paul (husband) is one of the puppeteer.

During the week that Savannah and Samuel were in Christchurch. Paul and I made this new puppet stage, they had been using our lounge curtains over a pole on a pair of screens. It will be so nice not to have to take down our curtains everytime they do a performance. The stage is a 3 tiered, made up from old velvet curtains.

I look forward to seeing them perform in it on the 17th and 31st January @ Life Church Timaru, Morgans Road 10am you all welcome if you are in Timaru..

 This is Angus Jock McDougal.

 My sister Sandra named him when she saw me making him said with hair like that he had to be Scottish, so hence the name.

This is Jenn.

Jenn is very trendy, her hair is blonde with pink and purple highlights. She has a nose stud and large silver earrings and pendant. I made her top out of a small scrap of fabric and am very pleased with the result.

I enjoyed making both these puppets, there is about 40 - 50 hours work in a puppet. Both these puppets are rod arm puppets, you get a feel of the character of the puppet as you are making them. the church now has 4 puppets plus Paul's own puppet a human arm puppet, the first puppet that Julie (friend) and I ever made in 1998. He is named Lance Caster ( named after Lancaster Park, Canterbury's rugby stadium just after it changed to Jade Stadium, now AMI Stadium)

All 5 puppets.

From left: Lance, Erin, Jenn, Fraser and Angus.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you all!

I hope you had a fabulous Christmas and a great  New Year.

We had a great Christmas and New Year.

I had all my family come to our place for Christmas.

There were 13 round the table for dinner, we put the tables in the conservatory so we could all fit. We bought one of the tables from my craft room upstairs and put it in the dinning room to put the dinner on so we could all help ourselves. After dinner we opened all ours gifts, we were all very spoilt. It was a very late evening we didn't finish opening presents till about 10.30pm (dinner is always at teatimes as my sister works in a rest home and didn't finish work till 3pm, then she had to travel to Timaru from Christchurch). They all stayed the night and travelled back to Christchurch on Boxing day, taking Savannah and Samuel back with them. They had a great week at Granny and Grandad's. Darian had to stay as he had the paperun to do. We had a great week as well just the three of us, Darian did his own thing most of the time and Paul and I were able spend time together without kids (bliss). New Years Eve the 3 of us went down to Caroline Bay Carnival, there was concert and the rides and entertainment till midnight then there was fireworks. It was a fabulous evening Darian found some of his school mates and spend the night with them, We enjoyed the concert and the time to ourselves. On New Years Day we drove Christchurch, we stayed at Mum and Dad's and all came home on Monday as Darian and Paul both had work on Tuesday. We had great time and caught up with Paul's family while we were there.

This the triangle name place boxes that Savannah and I made for the Christmas table.

Supplies List:
Card Stock: Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White.
Stamp Sets: Winter Post.
Inks: Versamark and Pacific Point.

Hive of industry today.

I haven't fallen of the face of this earth.

 It is only this week that I have been feeling better again, it was very draining I was always tired.

I'm glad school has finished for the year. Darian and Savannah finished Thursday 10th and Samuel finished today.

We had a visit to Christchurch on Tuesday and stayed the night at Mum and Dad's, came home on Wednesday as Samuel had Montessori on Thursday.

My Dad is Santa at the Hornby Mall, as long as I can remember his dream was when his beard is white he would give up work in December and be a Santa in a mall. He has been Santa for 10 years now and loves it every moment of it and has lots of great stories to tell. The kids visited him on Tuesday and had the photo taken with him. On Wednesday  Mum took the kids and Jessica (cousin) into town on the bus, They went to see the Ballentynes window display and then went  to the Cathedral  and put presents under the Christmas Tree.

I met my to 2 sisters at the Hornby Mall, we went and had our photo taken with Dad (aka Santa), then we had lunch together without children. It was great we have never managed it before. I was able to get some more Christmas shopping done.

Today had been a real hive of activity Savannah (11 years) has been stamping on candles for her Christmas presents, she has used the snowflake stamp out of the Winter Post Stamp Set and stamped using Pacific Point, Real Red and Pixie Pink. She has done a fantastic job and everyone will love them.

I have been at the other table making cards and boxes for Christmas presents.

This set of 4 cards are made using For Everything Stamp Set.

Supplies List

Card Stock: Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, So Saffron and Whisper White.

DSP: Washington Apple.

Inks: Riding Hood Red, Old Olive and Baja Breeze.

This Set I have used the Butterfly Prints Stamp Set and the Butterfly punch.

Supplies List:

Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, Close to Cocoa and Whisper White.

DSP: Baja Breeze.

Inks: Chocolate Chip and Baja Breeze.

I made matching boxes for them to go into. I made tags using the Butterfly Prints and Punch.

We had a great day with Christmas Carols and stamping what could be better.

Going Live today

The New Summer Mini Catalogue goes live today.

Jam Packed with wonderful new products, Including stamp sets (butterflies, hearts, flowers and more).

Ribbons, buttons, punches, Designer Series Papers and a fabulous new tool.

To download a copy click on the Summer Mini Catalogue in the sidebar.

If you would like a hard copy for bedtime reading email me and I will get you one.

I have had fun playing with my pre ordered product from the Summer Mini.

The DSP are just fabulous, I love both, but I think the Tall Tales DSP is great, so great I have pasted one of the pages on to a canvas which will eventually make its way onto Samuel's Bedroom wall.

I painted the sides of the canvas with chocolate and olive paint, them pasted the page to the canvas. I cut out the large hot air balloon and trees out of the second page and mounted them with Stampin' Dimensionals.

I used the 2 Way Glue Pen and Dazzling Diamonds on the balloons, trees and some of the flowers and put some clear Rhinestone Brads in the centre of some of the flowers.

I am very pleased with the results, how could you cut up a page like this one.

It will look great in Samuel's room after I have stopped showing it.

If you would like to know more about these product, book a workshop or place an order email me.