Found these beautiful cards on Pinterest…Do you ever go and check out what others are doing?

Its great for Ideas…just make sure if you copy a card or CASE then give credit to the designer.

https://au.pinterest.com/pin/213921051030910016/

https://au.pinterest.com/pin/73746512628861516/

https://au.pinterest.com/pin/66005950769682376/

What do you think of this….loving these the more I see them….

https://au.pinterest.com/pin/256564510002804249/http://

Other Highlights….heard yesterday my No: 2 son will be home for a week from this weekend….he’s in the Navy and is attending ADFA- Australian Defense Force Academy. Haven’t seen him for about a month, so that will be exciting. This photo was taken last year…shhh! don’t tell him I put this up. he hates it when I do…LOL!

Have been back at the pool….swimming lots of laps….trying to get fit.

At the pool this morning…its a great indoor pool.

Have tearing my hair out this week decided to chase up some family tree branches…oh what fun…NOT!

But is it interesting….Yes

Am I addicted….YES!

I did these pages many years ago and the lady on the left is my Great Grandmother Catherine Jane Eade…I have spent days looking for details on her parents and grandparents.

Two things hinder this search…

1. Were looking into mid to late 1800’s…that’s a long time ago…
2. Here heritage is Australian Aborigine (so I have been told…by Great Aunts from my Grandmothers Family who knew her) and information is sketchy.

Anyway hope to talk to some of my mothers cousins over coming months to see what they can tell me.

Well that’s it for this weeks highlights…jump onto Pinterest you may find some interesting stuff. Check out my page while your there.

Who loves great fun cards with movement….great for kids…well great for anyone really!

Here’s a video by Stampin’ Up! showing you how easy it is to make one of these fantastic cards

Remember all the components of these cards came be purchased through me HERE

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Have decided to have a “Weekly Highlights” once a week.

Sometimes I may have lots to share sometimes not much. These Highlights may be from Stampin’ Up!

or from my own life.

So here goes, I hope you enjoy!

This week……

Last night I was wonderfully surprised to find that I was in the Top 5 in the Colour INKspiration Challenge I did last week.

On Monday I also received 5 beautiful cards from a card swap I was involved in.

Stampin’ Up! will be releasing 3 new item s for Sale-A-Bration for you to earn. These products will be available from the 21st February until the 31st March. What do you have to do to receive these…

spend $90 or more and choose 1 Free item from Sale-A-Bration.

This week I have also decided to go back to the pool and start swimming again.

Not the nicest photo of me…but here I am, about to get in the pool.

Also last week I did another You Tube video Watercolour Wings- stamping on candles…so check out my You Tube Channel by going to the Tab above

Hope you have enjoyed my Highlights

Keep Stampin’

Sorry…folks but this week I have been oh so SLACK!

But this is what I have been doing…..

The other day I was offered the chance to have a one off Market stall at Moss Vale Night Time Markets on the Saturday 28th January. I spent an hour or two thinking about it and decide OK lets to do…the problem being that’s this weekend less than a week to organise. Well with my skates on…I’m off..

Make a list….I’m not a list maker…..post-it notes every where.

Business Cards – Give away Done

Gazebo, Table, Chair – Organised for me

Cards…packaged, Priced – Done

Yesterday finished off the January Birthday Cards and they have been sent…forgot to photograph…Blast!

Do you want a card for your Birthday…contact me with your Birth Date and address and I’ll send you one.

But heres some happy mail I did receive from a Stampin’ Up! friend Alisa Tilsner, isn’t it a beautiful card I’m feeling so lucky.

Did I mention that my son is in Cambodia with the school and having a great time.

He’s been visiting different place learning about there life and customs. They have a sister school which for years the students have been visiting and raising money for them. yesterday they went there and taught the children for a day…they taught them about Australia – where we are and our animals. And played soccer against a couple of school teams, apparently the Cambodian kids practice all year looking forward to there visit……Cambodia WON!

Trust my son to play with glasses on!!

Anyway he gets back same day as the markets….good thing that’s AM and markets PM…..hope plane isn’t delayed.

So please forgive me for not posting …

see you on the other side of this week!

February’s Class is going to based on these Dyes and Stamp set.

If your interested in this class, check out my class dates in the Events Tab above and give me a call and book your spot.

This is going to be so much fun, I can’t wait. So in the meantime have a look at this video by Stampin’ Up!

Mmmmm!….don’t these colours look beautiful together..there fun, fresh cool just like those iceblocks.

So the Live, Laugh, Love from the “Laying Love” really suited the Image and colours

This weeks challenge by Colour INKspiration is to make a card/project using at least 3 of these colours.

I couldn’t resist I had to use all of them.

I saw this technique on You Tube and really loved the effect it gave, so I thought OK, I can do this no problems. This is the result of my second attempt…

the first one straight into the bin and there went my last piece of Watercolour paper.

So after going to bed and sleeping on the idea…( do my best thinking in bed or in the shower ), I gave it another try.

I had to do it before getting showered and dressed this morning.

This card is what I came up with. With my first try I just layered my water and painted with watered down ink…NO!

But “NO” watercolour paper….next best thing is Shimmery White Cardstock.

I stamped the sentiment in VersaMark and embossed with Black Embossing Powder.

Using a small/fine paint brush I painted clean water where I wanted the first colour to go – Blushing Bride, working with one colour at a time.

I didn’t dilute the ink, I just painted it on and let the water already on the cardstock move it about and dilute it.

I did this right along ..one colour at a time…painting with clean water and then adding the colour.

I did go back and added more water and more colour where I wanted more depth of colour or movement.

I’m really pleased with the result.

But then how can you do this at home or in a class?

So out came “Gorgeous Grunge”

Still using all the same colours I stamped the largest “Splatter” stamp over lapping the colours a little.

Then with the Basic Black Ink I stamped the sentiment, the colours are bold and bright and still a lot of fun.

But I didn’t stop here…I then tried it again, this time “stamping off” some of the colour before stamping onto the cardstock, to give it a softer tone.

All of these cards where stamped on Shimmery White Cardstock, the last two cards could have been done with using the Whisper White Cardstock as there was no water involved.

Here are all three cards so you can compare them…Give it ago , I would love to see what you come up with.

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Here I go again another challenge, I think I’m becoming addicted to these…

But then who’s complaining?

I’m NOT! But my family maybe slightly…Opps!

This is the first challenge for 2017 – CTC110 -CASEing the Catty Challenge.

For this Challenge I had to take inspiration from pages 4-7 of the 2017 Occasions Catalogue Party Animals.

So here’s my Inspiration…

Now as yet I don’t have this great stamp set so I have used another from the Occasions Catalogue and here is my card.

The white embossing really “POPS” on the Tangerine Tango.

This is a simple card to do and would be great to do at a Stampin’ Up! Party.

If this is card you would like to make then contact me and Book a Party!

Have started making videos and my first being on Fussy Cutting…this can also be found on my You Tube Channel  so look me up