Breast Cancer Awareness Offer

Special offer for joining Stampin' Up!

Now you too can become a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and make a difference! For every person who joins the Stampin' Up! family between 1 October and 31 December 2009, Stampin' Up! will donate $5 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation (AU) or The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.
Plus, until 31 December 2009, you'll also receive a FREE pack of Raspberry Tart Designer Series paper and a Pretty in Pink Classic Stampin' Pad to help you get started!

The starter kit is already great value so this is the cherry on top ! If you'd like to talk about joining up just drop me an e-mail and we can chat.

I'm a Great-Aunt

Well my niece has had a lovely little baby girl called Ava. I'm looking forward to visiting tomorrow to have a cuddle. I managed to get this card done today at a monthly get together with stamping friends and borrowed a camera (and photographer-thanks Lee) to share it with you. I have cased it from a card created by a Canadian Stampin' Up! demonstrator Andrea Walford's (awesome blog, check it out)

I have used the Baroque motifs stamp set, Orchid Opulence and Old Olive ink & card along with oval & circle punches. The flowers are prima and of course I had to add a little bling. I was quite happy with my version. I hope it makes the new mum smile.

Spring Mini Up and Running

Stampin' Up! has released it's new Spring Mini Catalogue. You can click on the picture on the right to get a look or contact me and I will send one out to you. There are some lovely, fresh stamp sets and papers as well as some Christmas sets so we can make an early start on our cards and avoid the last minute panic to get them finished (wishful thinking on my part).

There were a couple of sets that took my eye straight away. Great Friend and Just Beachy were my first purchases along with Oval all and the Scallop Punch as well as the Walk in the Park papers (love these!).

I'm trying to post a couple of cards that I have made with these sets but my #!@! camera refuses to work. So I will wait till DH gets home and hopefully I can get it done tomorrow.

Thanks for visiting, Vicki.

Baby Boom -Part 2

Here's another baby card that, when I saw it, I had to make .

I have used Baja Breeze cardstock and Designer Series Paper along with Apricot Appeal cardstock and ribbon. The baby's face is just a circle that I drew a face on and his/her hair is a piece of frayed Chocolate Chip ribbon. The blanket is made with a scallop that I cut using a Nestabilities die in my cuttlebug. This one took no time at all and looks great I think.

Thanks for visiting. More soon.

Baby Boom

My niece is having a baby shower on Saturday and I needed a card. I don't have many baby stamps in my collection (something I need to fix I think ) so I went trawling the net to find some inspiration. Well I found dozens of card that I loved so I have made 3 and will decide which one I will give on the the day.

First off I have to show this one. How cute is this. It's called a gel card and you use a zip-lock bag with some hair gel in it. There is a tutorial here and the card I CASEd is here (but I must say I like mine better!).

I've used patterned paper from the Baja Breeze Designer Series Paper layered on Pink Pirouhette and Baja Breeze card. The flowers are Prima flowers from my pre-Stampin' Up! days.

I'm happy with how this one turned out. I'm sure it will make my niece smile.

I will share some more cards soon.

Happy Stamping.

More Cupcakes

Well I don't know what's going on with the calender but it sure does seem to be skipping days here & there. I think I just lost the whole of June !!!!

I have hardly had a chance to update here but I'm determined not to let it go completely. So let today be the start of the rest of the year.

Here is a card using the set called "Crazy for Cupcakes". I'm finding this set really useful for boys, girls and adults too.

I showed a card before using just the balloon stamp. This card is using the cupcake stand for a pretty girls card.

Colours used here are Apricot Appeal, Close to Cocoa and Pretty in Pink as well as Whisper white. I have used the Oval punches and some matching ribbons and I have added some glitter to the cupcake tops (I don't think that shows up too well in the photo).

Hope you like this one and hopefully I will have more to show you soon.

Inspirational Blog

Check this out!! There is a blog that I look at ALL the time.

This woman is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Her name is Michelle Zindorf and you can find her at
http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/

She posts detailed tuorials every couple of days on creating really special cards. Works of art. I finally decided to give one a go and I am so happy with the result.

It was challenging but well worth it.I can't wait to have a go at another one. As Molly Meldrum would say 'Do yourself a favour" and get over there and check out her blog. She has a tab at the top pointing to all of her tutorials.

What a generous woman.

This card uses the stamp set called "Voila" which is a chef with some different things to put on his platter. The colours are Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White cardstock with Kiwi Kiss, So Saffron, Always Artichoke & Basic Black inks.

Lots of sponging & inky fingers but good fun.

Happy Stamping.