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My Furry Friend

Winter is here and we may get some snow today, possibly too windy.

And I am finding it hard to go into my workroom as it doesn’t get much warmth from the heater.

Anyway I have dragged up self into my room and I have been having fun making these cute little Furry Friends

with the “Foxy Friends Stamp Set” and punch.

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I just think these are so cute. I couldn’t stop making them, I made 8…..

now I have to make the others.

You should give them a go….if you are interested in attending a class give me a call

or leave me a message.

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Love You Lots….

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Love You Lots………this is a great little stamp set

and so much fun.

These were also part of my Launch Party Display.

You can earn this set just by HOSTING a Party and earning $250 in sales.

But…..

there’s more

(and its not Steak knives- TV Ads here in Australia used to have adds that “there was more” e.g. steak knives)

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So Contact me today and BOOK your Stampin’ Up! Party

 

Swirly Bird Stamp Set + Swirly Scribbles Thinlits Dies

Have you seen the NEW Catalogue as yet?
If you haven’t have a look, there’s a link to it on the bar above or click HERE
Yesterday I had my Launch Party and I posted some photos of my displays.
Over the coming days I will show you some of the samples I made for my
displays.
Today I’d like you to meet my cute little Owl made from the
Swirly Bird Stamp Set
+
Swirly Scribbles Thinlits Dies

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This cute little guy was CASed from Melissa Bychowski Davies.
He is so “Cute”, I needed a card for a family member’s 70th Birthday and I’m sure he’ll love it.
Another card I made using this set was this card….I had to put on my embroidery’s “Hat” for this one.
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It has taken me a little while to get my head around this set but it is a lot of fun….CapturemAs you can see from the Catalogue page there is still so much more you can do with this.
And I sure as the weeks go on I’ll have more to show you.

 

New Catalogue for 2016 – 2017 is HERE!

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Click on the picture and this will take you directly to the catalogue

This is the Australian Priced Catalogue.

Today I had my Catalogue Launch Party and

it was a lot of fun.

Here is pictures of some of my displays.

Some of my cards have been CASed from the Catalogue and Pinterest.

I will post individual cards up later, I just wanted to get these up to

show you all the fun I had setting it up.

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Hope you enjoy see my photo’s.

There’s a new business opening soon near me…..

I’m so excited….

There is a new business open up here in Moss Vale.

Moss Vale is a quite little farming community (this how I look at it),

its part of 3 major towns Mittagong, Bowral and Moss Vale and then lots of little outlying villages.

And we make up part of an area called Southern Highlands.

Its a tourist area will Berrima being one of its major draw cards.

We’re not far outside Sydney so is always great for a drive in the country.

Well to get back to Moss Vale and new business…..the business is called

“Highlands Handmade”

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And the EXCITING bit is…… I will have my cards and other crafts items there to sell.

So if ever you are down this way call into Moss Vale and call in to see Angus

and have a look at what the locals here can make.

Now!…..it’s NOT open yet, so I will let you know when the doors are open.

SO STAY TUNED!

Just Add Ink #311 Masking

This week the challenge is “MASKING”

The word “Masking ” means to cover with a mask or to conceal.

On my card I have stamped an image on the card and then covered it and stamped again so that I have an overlapping image.

Let me explain this in steps.

Step !. Stamp image onto card stock

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Step 2. Stamp same image on a piece of paper…I like to use a  “Post-it Notes” as this has some sticky on the back to hold it down

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Step 3. Cut out the image on the post-it note staying close to the edge of the image or just on the inside of image.

Step 4. Layer your Post-It Note™ image over the image on your cardstock.

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Step 5.Stamp your second image over your mask.

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This image will appear to be in the background or as I have done here at the

side but coming from behind the first image

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This allows you get two images overlapping without all the added lines you would get if

you just stamped two images on top of each other.

Here is my completed card..

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I love the colours in Hydrangeas, its one of my favorite flowers…

also because they are easy to grow and I usually manage to kill most plants.

I have stamped on to Stampin’ Up! Shimmer paper using Stazon Black and

then water coloured the image with 8 different colours.

Trying to achieve a simlar colours to the ones I used to grown at my back door.

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Global Design Project #035 | Theme Challenge

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Project Life Challenge!

This is so exciting as at the moment I’m so into doing Project Life.

If you have been reading my previous post you would have know that I have been working on my Project Life Album

and that I have completed 2008 and now I’m working on 2009.

I have always taught it is better to work on the recent photos as they are still fresh in your mind.

But I’m finding Project life is great because it is so quick…slip a few photos into pockets

add some filler cards with journaling and its done. So instead of spending hours or days on

one page..I’m completing 4-6 pages a day.

This has made working on past photos really easy.

But…..with this challenge I decided to do something recent, photos from Mothers Day…last weekend.

For Mother’s Day my boys decided to take me to Sydney Drag Way at Eastern Creek.

Some may say “ODD” for Mother’s Day…..but I really enjoy the Drag Races.

I love the smell, the noise and excitement.

Mother’s Day was Ladies Day – Free Entry and I received a beautiful “Rose” .

Unfortunately it wasn’t a great day…a bit wet. Unless the track is dry the cars can’t run.

There was also a lot of smoke haze around from the back burning.

It did stop raining and the track did dry out.

And I loved it……and the boys wanted to go home before me.

These photo’s I took were of moving cars going 180 – 200 k over a mile length course.

So here is my entry for Global Design Project #35

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I have a mix of pocket page layout and a single page layout.

As the photos don’t have a huge amount of colour I added the colour through the back ground papers.

I wanted a “Grunge” look with a bit of colour….well, lots of colour.

I made and stamped my own cards for the pockets to tie it all together.

Hope you enjoy my pages as much as I enjoyed reliving a great day.

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Just Add Ink #310….Sketch!

I really like the sketch that Just Add Ink have given us this week to use…..and

it has given me a chance to do something that I have been plaining for sometime.

Instead of doing a card I thought I would do a Page Layout for my Project Life Album using this

sketch as a part of the layout.

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This is one of my favorite photos of me with my son Hayden,

it was taken last year in February when he joined the Navy.

Hayden doesn’t give kisses very often, so this is one of those special moments caught of film.

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The Project Life pages that I did on this event I have done with a Navy theme and

I wanted something that would go with it but aIso wanted something a little softer.

I had used “Night of Navy” in my original pages and the “Night of Navy” colour way of this paper kept

the theme consistent.

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I used the colours from the background paper to make the flowers from the “Botanical Builder Framelit Dies”

Making the Sketch the “Title Element” of my page.

The circle and the flower petals were sponged to soften the look as well as to add dimension.

 

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Global Design Project #034 | Sketch Challenge

Over the past couple of weeks I have been so absorbed in my Project Life Album that I ran out of time to do a

card for Global Design Project.

So I have really enjoyed jumping back in and coming up with this card.

The Sketch Challenge depicted a card with a wash of colour and a sentiment over the top.

It can be adapted in any way we choose…literally or loosely.

I have a tendency to complicate things

for myself but this time I have tried to stay true to the design.

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I have used three colours to achieve the wash on my card.

Those colours being Mellon Mambo, Pacific Point and Bermuda Bay.

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I have kept this very simple as I wanted the colour wash to be the “Hero” of the card.

The sentiment taken from the First Sight Stamp Set gives a wisp of whimsical to the card.

HINT: In doing the wash allow each colour to dry before adding the next colour.

Something I tend not to do as I have an idea in my head and I want it on paper.

 

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