I hope you have had a wonderful Christmas and you are ready to start this year full of energy and excitement for whats to come.
I had a wonderful Christmas with my family, Christmas Day at home and Boxing Day traveled to my parents in Mudgee.
I received for Christmas a “Selfy Stick”…my goal for this year is to get some video’s made to post on here….
So I must get working on some new projects….can’t sit around all day.
Have a great New Year’s Day!
I Would like to wish you all a
and a
Thank you for coming along on my Blogging journey for 2016
I pray that you have a SAFE and Joyous Christmas season
Here is a few of my Favorite cards that I competed in 2016
This is a FUN little Christmas Decoration that I have been making for the past 3 months and selling in a local shop – @Highlands Handmade and they have been very good little sellers. they use up all that left over sheets of Designer Series Paper. Not suitable for card stock as it is too heavy.
I saw this originally on Pinterest as Scandinavian Fabric Stars and thought if it can be done in Fabric …I can do it in Paper. so with a few minor changes here it is.
The Instructions can be found in my Tutorials or Click the link below.
paper-stars-or-scandinavian-fabric-stars
Another new stamp set by Stampin’ Up!
This is one of those fun sets..
Your EVERYDAY HERO could be your Dad or your Mum, your brother or sister or it could be a friend. This stamp set covers it all. It gives you 2 different body images (one standing the other flying), a male head or female and as you can see a few background images as well.
This stamp set would be great for a teenagers Birthday…Boy or Girl.
I have added a bit of fun to the card by making it into a spinner card and giving it a “comic” feel.
This is stamp set in another set that will be available on 4th January in the Occasions Catalogue.
Here is a short video of it working, I hope you enjoy.
i hope you are enjoying my Blog as much I have in bring it to you.
Please feel free to leave a comment, love hearing what people think of my work.
This week Global Design Project have given us a Sketch Challenge.
To get a bit of an idea to what you could do with this sketch check out what the team has done. Also have a look at some of the other entries….maybe you could give it a go.Click on the Sketch above and it will take you to this weeks Challenge page at GDP.
You don’t have to be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator to give this a go, use the link above and have a look at the Guidelines.
Now…my card for this weeks challenge.
I have fallen in love with the Stampin’ Up! Watercolour Pencils that will be available in the coming Occasions Catalogue. Don’t forget to contact me to receive your free copy plus the Sale-A- Bration catalogue.
These Watercolour pencils are in our Stampin’ Up! colours unlike the ones we had a few years back. So they match all our products beautifully, just one of those wonderful things that Stampin’ Up! is known for……………….There co-ordination!
The image I have stamped onto Shimmery White cardstock with Memento Ink. The Shimmery white card stock can be used for watercolouring …I have found that you need to let each layer dry a little before adding more colour and blending. As it can still pill a little if the area has been over worked. So I always do a small part at a time then come back and add more colour.
Also sometimes I will use 2-3 colours of pencil in one area before coming in with my Blender Pen…the colours will mix a little and blend in well.
I hope you have enjoyed my little card as much I have in making it.
Contact me to find out more about the Watercolour Pencils..they are a must and will make any watercolour project so much easier to achieve.
Below you will find a list of all the products used, just click on them and it will take you directly to my Stampin’ Up! Store. The only product not shown below are the Watercolour Pencils as they won’t be avilable to purchase until 4th January…so I’m sorry you will have to wait…but it will be worth it!
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What do you think of some of the NEW products that will soon be released?
I’m having so much fun with them..
This little Chick is all dressed up and ready to party, with her feathers all preened and her best pearls around her neck…what more does a girl need.
Now if you too would like to have a play with these great products then there’s 2 ways you can do this.
Hi guys, welcome again to my Blog.
I hope you have a lovely weekend, I did. On saturday night we had “Carols at the Lake”.
I live near a beautiful little town called Mittagong and its in the Southern highlands about an hour from Sydney. In not far the center of town we have lake called Lake Alexandra. Were there’s ducks, turtles and other wild bird life…..its a man made lake. It was used for water for the engines hauling coal to Fitzroy Iron Mines over 100 years ago. A very pretty spot with bush surrounding it….every second year we have carols down at the lake and it is so wonderful.
In January Stampin’ Up! will be releasing their new Occasions Catalogue and in this they have re-introduced watercolour pencils. Isn’t that wonderful…I couldn’t wait to get my hands on them. So I made sure I ordered them in my pre-order. You see as I demonstrator you get to order the new product early. So if your interested in joining me then that’s one of the bonus you get…
So I also had to get a stamp to colour in…..I couldn’t resist it. Its so cute!
We all love babies don’t we…I do and now my boys are all growing up. I’m allowed to think they are cute because I can just hand them back..
Think I’d better show you what I have been playing with today.
This is such simple cards.
Welcome again to my Blog.
Last week I started working on my Hello December 2016 project Life Album and sharing that with you.
Have you started yours yet?
In my blog last week I stated that “Today I started sorting my cards and planning where I’m going to place them…but I know this will change as I work my way through December.”
It didn’t take long to start changing things, once I printed some photos. You have to stay flexible if you are doing your album this way…I am following a page plan that was shown to me by another Demonstrator. I like the look of the finished album but I think it would be by far easier to put in you photos first and then your cards as your are working with your photo’s rather against them. Doing it the way I’m doing I’m making the photos fit rather than finding a page that fits the photo.
The recommended steps to follow are.
But I’m going to keep going with what I have and see where this takes me.
I always work with “post it notes”…as events happen I write it down and stick to the page where its going. this way when you print your photos you know what page to put them
Print your photos as you go…its a lot easier to remember what happened 2-3 days later than 4 weeks down the track.
Stay flexible to move Pocket pages around to suit photos
I couldn’t resist it!
I really enjoyed working this this weeks Global Design Project Colour Challenge #065, so much I had to do another card.
I had this card in mind the other day but I hadn’t received my pre-order for the Occasions Catalogue as yet, so I had to wait.
Well my order is here and so is the stamp set I so wanted share it with you.
Now this stamp set is one that has had to grow on me. At first I didn’t really like it that much but then seeing what others had done , it very quickly became a “I MUST GET”.
The stamp set is called “Hey, Chick”, it’s a Sale-A-Bration set and you can get this stamp set FREE when you spending $90.
Its a fun and it will be interesting to see how its going to be used. I think it will also be good for a “Hen’s Night”, what do you think?
I have used the same technique with this card as I did the last one, stamping the image with the Early Espresso Ink and used my blender pen to move the ink about. But this time I have used some Real Red on her breast, head, tail and Crumb Cake on the feathers as well. After doing this I still felt this little chick needed some sparkle to bring her to life…so why not a bit of bling. Us girls can never have too much “BLING”, can we!
So there is just a touch of Gold Wink of Stella!
The back ground of this card I stamped with all the Chick images…now she looks like she is talking to one of the other girls.
To keep to the earthy country feel to this card (with Bling of course) I wrapped the card front with Real Red Bakers Twin and Linen thread.
Anyway hope you like my card, have a great day!
Good Morning…
Welcome again to my Blog.
Its Global Design Project time again and this week is a
“Colour Challenge”
What a great colour combination with 2 very strong colours.
As soon as I saw this I knew what I wanted to do and these colours work with this seasons Christmas papers from Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper (DSP).
My favorite stamp for this Christmas has to be the Merry Mice…they are just so adorable.
This card is a very simple and quick card to put together.
Base – Crumb Cake 10.5 cm x 29.6 cm (1/2 A4 cut length wise), scored 14.8 cm
Early Espresso 10 x 14.4 cm
Candy Cane Lane DSP 9.5 x 13.9 cm
Crumb Cake 5 x 13.5 cm
Real Red 8 x 10 cm
Shimmery White 8 x 10 cm
Anther simple card to be sent to someone special for Christmas.
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