A Lovely Surprise

I had a lovely surprise today. I have had a super busy week and had a few minutes to sit down today to update my Blog. I logged on to do a posting and found a comment from a lovely lady who is a fellow demo and is super creative. Check out Kerry's blog site and admire her fabulous creations.

Anyway, Kerry has nominated me for an award! I was blown away and feel very honoured and it put a little cheer into my day so thanks Kerry.

I have had many moments this week where I have said "I love my job" and it is so nice to know that others enjoy what you do also.

Now I get to share the love and pass this Award onto other talented people who inspire me. This is what is required:

Put the Sunshine Award on your Blog and/or within your post.

Pass the Award onto other Bloggers.

Link the Nominees within your post.

Let them know they have received the Award by leaving a comment on their Blog.

Share the love and link the person who gave you the award.

Now for some of the people who inspire me and believe me this is difficult as there are so many:

Liam

Dawn

Thanks again Kerry and now I will have to come back to do a posting as it is way past when I should have gone to bed tonight

Week 2 Class Projects

This week we made this wonderful Back Pack. I got the idea from a talented US Demo, Paula Goff. They are fairly easy to make now that someone else has done all the hard work, thanks Paula, and really cute. They would make a great teachers gift with some little treats in them.

I used Rich Razzleberry card and ribbon along with Cottage Wall DSP from the new Mini. The flower is from Cottage Garden also in the new Mini.

I am looking forward to having some spare time to make a few more of these. I wan't to make some in 'boy' colours also.

We had time to make this cute little gift tag as well. I used the Perfect Polka Dot Embossing folder in the Big Shot which gives a great textured effect. The paper is from Cottage Wall DSP and the stamp from Cottage Garden. This was layered using the small and large tag punch with a bit of twine. The tag was mounted with Dimensionals.

Another Birthday

My son is going to a birthday party tomorrow so of course I had to make a card. Just Jawing seemed like an appropriate set to use for this one.

The colours are Not Quite Navy, Sahara Sand and Very Vanilla. I distressed the edges to give it a grungy look and used the 'Friends' wheel over and over to continue the grunge look in Sahara Sand.

The letters are from Schoolbook Sherif and have been punched with the small and large tag punches. The eyes have been punched with the small star punch. I have mounted half the letters with dimensionals.

I should have made two of these so I had a spare for another birthday but that would have been too clever.

Medallion Birthday

I was a very slack friend on Monday and didn't wish a good friend Happy Birthday. What makes it even worse is I actually saw her briefly on Monday night and it had totally slipped my mind that it was her special day. Bad Friend!!!

We are going out for lunch today and I have put together this card and Voucher Wallet for her and yes there will be a lovely surprise in the Voucher Wallet also.

As I have stated once or twice, the Medallion stamp is my new favourite. I think Melon Mambo might be my new fav colour also.

The card is Melon Mambo, Silver and Very Vanilla. I used Melon Mambo ink and the Silver Encore Ink to stamp the image and then cut it out. Yes even I cut sometimes as most know how much I try to avoid it. Of course there must be Bling so a Rhinestone brad had to be included.

I used the same inking technique for the wallet and added a bit of lift with the Eyelet border punch. The ribbon is some I have had laying around but thought it looked extra girlie and then the hat pin and beads are from the Pretties Kit.

I have to go as lunch is calling and I have been playing all morning and no chores done.

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boys Overalls

I am so in love with this little overall suit at the moment this is the 3rd card I have made. This one is using Night of Navy, Riding Hood Red and Whisper White card stock. The sailing boat is from Lifes A Breeze. I used the Piercing tool around the pocket and added a little Riding Hood Red striped ribbon. The 'buttons' are the small star punch with a pewter brad in the centre.

I am going to have to find some time to come up with some other patterns as I only have so many people I could use this type of card for.

Off To The Ball

After my day of pattern making and avoiding my ironing, (I did get some done) I sat down and flicked through some magazines and came across an article on "The Little Black Dress" that is a must have in any girls wardrobe. It gave me an idea for another pattern so I got to play again!

Now this is not quite the little black dress that everyone would have in their wardrobe but it was an obvious design for a card.

I have used Basic Black to the dress and Whisper White for the lining. The hem line has been punched with the eyelet border punch. It may be difficult to see in the photo but I stamped the Polka Dot background with Versamark and used Clear Embossing Powder to give the appearance of patterned fabric. A little bit of Whisper White Taffeta ribbon and you can't have the ball gown without bling so I added a Rhinestone brad and flower from the Pretties Kit to dress it up.

This is another project without much stamping but now my mind is racing as to what other patterns I can come up with.

Catching Up

As I haven't been very diligent with my postings lately I haven't updated you to the Blog Candy winners of the recent Blog Hop that I took part in.
Congratulations to Paula Fuller and Lisa Martin! I am sure that you have all your goodies by now and hopefully you are enjoying creating with them. Thank you for taking part in the Blog Hop.

I would also like to put a request out to all my visitors. I get to see that people are checking in on my Blog from all parts of the world and I would love to hear from you. It would be nice to hear how you found my Blog and get some feedback. Don't be shy, leave some comments!!!

Now seriously, I have to attack my ironing before it takes over my house.

How Cute Is This

Well today I was faced with updating software on my computer, ironing, paperwork, filing or creating. Now that might seem like an easy choice to some but as hard as I tried to do my ironing, creating won out ( ha, as if).

This project was inspired by a photo I had printed out several months ago and when I attempted to attack my filing I came across it. (See there are some bonuses to attempting to doing my chores.) All I had was a photo so I had to turn my hand to pattern making which was more fun than I thought but did slow down my productivity a little. I am sure my ironing could have been finished but!!!

I used Pretty In Pink and Whisper White card stock and some of the Pretties Kit. I have made it so that you only need one sheet of A4 card for the little overalls and then a bit of co-ordinating trim.

I did a boy orientated one also which I will post a little later. I can't do too many posts in one day as you need time to get over the shock that I am actually posting and there is the ironing waiting. Now all I need is lots of friends to have some babies so I have an excuse to make lots more of these. Any takers?????

Class - Week 1

It was so good to get back to classes after the holidays and to catch up with everyone. I was happy to see that some of you had done some creating over the break even though I didn't.

I wanted to start the term back on an easy note so these are the two projects we did this week.

Every woman loves shoes and handbags right, so that was my inspirtation.

There wasn't a lot of stamping done but we got to use the Big Shot and the gorgeous Polka Dots Embossing Folder and I think that Melon Mambo might be one of my new favourite colours. We also played with the Sizzlits 4 Pack Tag Dies which if you have the Big Shot are great value at $39.95 as you get the equivelant to 5 punches!!!! Now if that isn't insentive to get the Big Shot - I don't know what is. After all I had to have it just so that I could have the Manhattan Flower embossing Folder!!

The "Friend to Friend" is from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments set in the new Catty and this is also a great set as it covers so many occassions.

A bit of the beautiful new Polka Dot Grosgrain ribbon in Melon Mambo to set them off and tadaaa! What do you think???

Next week we are making a wonderful little "Back pack" using Rich Razzleberry, Cottage Wall DSP and Cottage Garden stamps so don't miss out and book your spot now! See you soon.

Class Times

I have had a great holiday and looking forward to classes returning. The first class this term is on Tuesday 20th April. My class times are on the right hand side column of my Blog. The only change I have made this term is I have added a day class to Wednesday and taken the Friday day class off.
I hope that this doesn't inconvenience too many of my wonderful customers but it was a necessary change to streamline my week. Classes will now be:

Tuesday: 10.00am - 12 and 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Wednesday: 10.00am - 12 and 7.00pm - 9.00pm

For the first class we will be doing a Girly Theme with a Shoe orientated card with a matching Handbag card. You will get to use the new Big Shot along with the gorgeous new colours in the Autumn/Winter Catalogue.

Give me a call or email to book in and I can't wait to catch up with everyone and hear and see what you have been up to over the break.