Live Your Dream and Eastern Blooms

Well here I am with three more cards. These are the cards the girls are going to make at tomorrow's workshop. Please see note at bottom of this post re the card sketch I used. I made two versions of the Eastern Blooms card using Felt Fusion Flowers and Bali Breeze DS Papers. Hopefully this will eliminate any worries I'll have of running out of Felt Fusion Flowers. lol The other card uses Live Your Dream and the Afternoon Tea DS Papers. I've also used the new Rose Red and Chocolate Chip wide stitched grosgrain ribbon. carousel notes and Silver Hodgepodge hardware. A bit of variety.

I have to get the kits made up now, so will be back later to add the full recipes.

Thanks for looking.

Bali Breeze cards - Taken with Teal, Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Whisper White c/s, Bali Breeze DSP, Old Olive & Rose Red ribbon, Felt Fusion flowers, Old Olive brads, Silver Hodgepodge and Rose Red, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Choc Chip markers.

This card used Afternoon Tea DSP, Choc Chip, Groovy Guava, Soft Sky, Very Vanilla c/s, Carousel Note, Crop-a-dile, Live Your Dream stamp set, Choc Chip marker, Choc Chip dble stitched grosgrain, Choc Chip, Groovy Guava and Wild Wasabi ink and the new Scallop Edge punch.

Edited to add credits etc. The card using the Live Your Dream stamp set was inspired by two cards I found while blog surfing, this one and this one. Thanks to both ladies. I found this sketch while I was blog surfing and now I cannot remember the blog I found it on. Would anyone who knows this information please let me know so I can give credit? Thanks.

Kristina Werner's Colour Inspiration #32

Woo Hoo, I've managed to get the colour inspiration done early. Thanks for the challenge Kristina. Red Riding Hood isn't in Australia so I tossed up between Rose Red and Real Red. Real Red won.

I embossed the flowers in white on Real Red cardstock first then popped them up on different levels of dimensionals. For the metallic I used Brushed Gold and to give the extra sparkle that is in the inspiration picture, I used the glue pen to go over the un embossed areas of the flowers then added Diamond Dust glitter. The greeting is a white rub on from the Hidden Garden range of rubons available in the New Summer Mini. The stamp set is Eastern Blooms, again from the Summer Mini. I've also used the Dashing DSP to bring in the Very Vanilla colour and Real Red grosgrain ribbon.

Edited to add - The Real Red base card has been stamped with the branch out of Eastern Blooms in Real Red. I felt it needed just a bit of pattern.

I hope you like it and thanks for looking.

Carousel note chocolate box

This is going to be the quickest post. There's a huge storm about to hit and it's as black as the ace of spades out there.

I'll edit this later to add the recipe. Hope you like it.

Edited to add the recipe.

Wild Wasabi carousel note, Afternoon tea papers, Wild Wasabi/Groovy Guava/ Chocolate Chip inks, chocolate chip marker, scallop edge border, round scallop and 1 3/8" round punches,

sticky strip, Wild Wasabi/Chocolate Chip c/s, Live your dream stamp set. I sponged a bit of Chocolate Chip ink around the edges of the carousel note. The reason being çause I had to cover something else that didn't work. lol

Kristina Werner's Colour Challenge

I thought today I would try Kristina's colour challenge. Here it is. What do you all think?

Recipe: Close to Cocoa, Elegant Eggplant, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Whisper White cardstock,

Versamark ink, white embossing powder, Ocean Commotion and Think Happy Thoughts stamp sets, Scallop, 1 1/4", 1 3/8" round and scallop border punches, White Taffeta ribbon, dimensionals. All products by Stampin' Up.

Thanks for looking.

Ten Little Santas

Here they all are!!! I didn't have a sleep after all. I've altered my Santa a bit by adding a beard. I did use Stampin' Up black buttons on two of them but there wasn't enough of the right size.
The rest have the punched circle raised on dimensionals for their buttons. Seven of them are for the girls in our Sarina craft group and the other three are cent sale prizes for CWA. I was going to add Diamond Dust on their beards but decided not to because even though they will have wrapped lollies or some form of consumables in them, a little Diamond Dust goes a long way. lol
What do think of the revamped Santa?
Thanks for looking.

Five More!!!!

Yep, made five more of the box bag thingys today. All for cent sale prizes. That takes care of Saturday's quota, then I have to do next month's CWA quota.

The Stampin' Up warehouse is having problems getting our orders of Dashing DSP out to us so to save what Dashing papers I have, I used Wintergreen. Now even though green is my favourite colour, I haven't really jelled with these papers. Whilst making these, I was running through my head what could be used to brighten them up. Real Red, of course. So here they are....all five of them. Photo Shoot completed. lol No Freddo frog needed today. I'll fill them with wrapped lollies or something like that. I hope there's enough light in the pic.

What I used - Wintergreen DSP, Sage Shadow, Certainly Celery, Always Artichoke, Real Red and Whisper White c/s, round tab, 1 3/8" round, slot and round scallop punches, Real Red ink, Real Red grosgrain ribbon and sticky strip.

Thanks for looking. I'm off for a snooze now. Woke at quater to five this morning, couldn't sleep so decided I may as well get up and go to work. Now I'm tired. lol

Two projects!!!!

I have another workshop to do in early December and also Christmas parties to attend that require secret santa and cent sale prizes, so I played today with a box bag and a workshop project. Yep, I know, these box bag things aren't new to most of you but to me they are. I haven't made one before so off I went. I had seen somewhere in the gallery on SCS one of these done as a Santa. That's what I wanted, just the thing. Edited to give credit to the person who gave me the inspiration. I had the best time making this project. It was really simple even if at first the thought of the sticky strip fazed me. lol

Here it is, what do you think? I've changed the colours from the one I saw in the gallery. I liked the black and red combo.

Recipe: Cardstock - Black, red textured, brushed silver metallic

Accessories - Round tab punch, 1 3/8" square punch, NEW scallop border punch, 1/4" and 1/2" round punches, horizontal slot punch, black grosgrain ribbon, sticky strip.

I actually did my Santa box bag after my Carousel note freddo box.

Again I had seen this while surfing SCS gallery and blogs. Edited again to give credit to http://www.learntostampandscrap.com/ for this idea. I altered the scoring measurements slightly. This little box fits a Freddo Frog just nicely. I had a Freddo to put in it, then ate it. rofl Come time to photograph the box, no Freddo. Had to send my son down to the shop to buy a Freddo for the photo shoot. pmsl

Recipe: Cardstock - Soft Sky carousel note, Afternoon Tea DSP (new summer mini), Chocolate Chip, Whisper White

Stamps - Live your dream (new summer mini)

Ink - Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi

Accessories - Round scallop punch, 1 3/8" round punch, sticky strip, dimensionals.

The ladies at my next workshop will be making different versions of these depending on who gets what colour Carousel note is in their pack. So what do you think?

Thanks for looking.

Made it!!!!!

I'm back!! Here is a card I made using one of the new sets out of the Stampin' Up Summer Mini

catalogue. I love the owl. Using the card pictured in the catalogue as inspiration, this is what I came up with. Hope it doesn't look too 'cheapy', if you know what I mean.

OK, recipe.....
Stamps - Love Owl-ways, Daisy Field wheel

Ink - Chocolate Chip

Cardstock - Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Notebook DSP, Soft Sky, Summer Picnec DSP

Accessories - Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Real Red, Chocolate Chip markers, Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon, large and small oval punches, Stampin' Pastels, Dimensionals

Thanks for looking and hope you like my owl.

ETA: Revamped my owl. Using Summer Picnic DSP I paper pieced the hearts, dimensionaled some and glued others to represent fallen flowers. Thanks to Jean for telling me that the bottom of the card looked too flat. I wasn't sure about it, thought it looked to Kindergartenish. Thanks Jean. I think it looks heaps better now.

Friday's workshop

Hello everyone.

Just to let you know that I'm still around. Another workshop on Friday just gone. The ladies made 3 cards (I was again feeling generous). Ten were at Friday's workshop and they loved the cards. I made two of each card as samples to put on the table. It was much easier for them that way....no asking "Who has the real card?" lol

I emailed Kylie and asked her if it was ok to case her gorgeous card for the workshop. She was so pleased that I loved her card.

I used the flat backed pearls out of the Stampin' Up Pretties kit instead of the Kaiser pearls. It was the first time I had used my Pretties kit....I think çause it's so gorgeous I didn't want to use any of it. lol The ladies enjoyed embossing and also using a glue pen (non SU) for the Diamond Dust on the Christmas Tree. So I helped out Anne with sales of Glue pens too. lol

So to summarise: Stamps - Season of Joy, Cardstock - Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Old Olive, Certainly Celery DSP, Ink - Old Olive, Versamark, Accessories - Silver embossing powder, flat back pearls in white and cream from the Pretties kit, certainly celery wide grosgrain ribbon and Dazzling Diamonds glitter. Non Stampin' Up item was the Quickie Glue Pen.

The next card was a remake of one I did for a swap using Tart and Tangy out of the Spring Mini.

I revamped it by using some ribbon, just to give it that little extra something.

The colours of the striped grosgrain ribbon Stampin' Up have this year are absolutely gorgeous. I love them. In my opinion the white with the Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi and Bashful Blue just make the colours so fresh. This card was chosen also because I wanted to showcase the Stampin' Write markers. For this month, 10th to the 30th November these markers are available to be purchased singularly for $4-95 each. Great idea. Stampin' Up rubons are also 20% off with a $20 order as well. Quite a good deal. Consequently I used white rubons on the cards. So what I used.....Stamps - Tart and Tangy, Cardstock - Whisper White, Real Red, Wild Wasabi, East Coast Prep DSP, Ink - Garden Green (for the apple), Accessories - Garden Green & Real Red markers, Eastern Elegance & Perfect Day white rubons and Real Red striped grosgrain ribbon.

I hope to have a play with my new goodies that I received last week from the "NEW" summer mini catalogue which is full of fantastic yummy stamp sets, papers and punches, all to be released to customers on the 1st December. Not long to go!!!!

I've also booked my trip to Canberra next year for Stampin' Up's 2009 convention. My OH and I decided that it would be worth my while to go down earlier to be able to fit in a trip to the Australian War Memorial. That is first on my list of must sees. I really want to be able to put a poppy next to my cousin's name on the Roll of Honour. Then because I spent so many years working in banks, I would like to see the Royal Australian Mint. I was very nearly going to stay another day too after convention but decided that my family (including Larry the bird) would be missing me by then. Well I hope they will be. lol I actually enjoyed sussing out the places to stay and printing off maps of where I want to go. There is a Hop on, Hop off day and half day tour available that I think I may do as well, don't know yet. I'll be able to potter around to my hearts content. lol

As well as Canberra, I'm off to Brisbane on the June long weekend for the Scrapbook and Papercraft convention. Air fares at the mo are cheaper than I paid this year so I figured I would book my travel and accomodation and then it would be done and out of the way. All I have to do then is pack and GO!!! Woo Hoo.

Hope I'll be back later today with a card creation depending on how the rest of my day pans out.

Thanks for looking in.