Grandparent card

I had a request from a friend to make her a Grandparent card. I have this Grandparent verse stamp from Verses Rubber Stamps and thought it would be perfect for this card. Then I had to think of what to do with it. lol
Mmmmmm, not knowing whether the baby to be is a boy or a girl, I decided on the Tea Party dsp from SU. I used the matching set Playful Petals to stamp around the Top Note die piece in the colours matching the dsp. Sponged around the edge with Almost Amethyst and cut a backing piece for the top note die in Almost Amethyst. The lace I had in my stash and the pearls are from Kaisercraft.
Mmmmm don't think it needs any more on it, çause I want the verse to be the feature and the rest just to highlight that it is for a baby.
What do you think?

Thanks for looking,

Scrapbooking!!!

I'm here, I'm still around, just haven't got any pictures to show you at the moment but I can tell you what I've been up to. lol
Believe it or not....Scrapbooking. Every three months, the Creative Memories consultants in Mackay district get together and organise a mammoth scrapbooking weekend with prizes etc etc. Quite a few of my friends go to these days so I booked into the Sat session 10am to 4pm but by lunch time I hadn't done any scrapping, too busy being social eg laughing, talking, having coffee, you know the sort of thing.
So since there was some room left I booked into the night session too.
I had a ball, didn't get home until 10.30pm Saturday night but it was sooooo worth it. Scrapbooking has never been my 'thing' but I turned up one day at the Ilbilbie classes and really enjoyed myself. So I started a Calendar Album, which is now nearly completed to the end of April. At this stage I have kept with the Creative Memories products but once I get some sort of grasp on the subject I thought I could branch out and use my Stampin' Up and other brands stash.
While I was in Canberra I took over 500 photos so I thought they would make a lovely album once completed.
I did finish some yesteryear cards on Friday for the Tourist Centre. My cards in there are getting low.
The next couple of days are write offs as far as my cardmaking goes though, maybe Wednesday.
Thanks for visiting.

Bella Blue wedding card

Well this is my latest card. One of my girlfriends wanted a wedding card so here it is. I wanted to use vellum and the Bella Bleu papers together. The hatpin is from the pretties kit and the ribbon is kraft taffeta ribbon.
Hope you like it.

Thanks for looking and I hope to be back with another card tomorrow.
ETA - I forgot to add that I got the inspiration for this card from the SCS gallery.

My Convention Swaps

I thought you may like to see the swaps I made for Convention. I was worrying that people wouldn't like them but I managed to swap all 116!!! I was so surprised. Thank you everyone.
Probably for next year I would make more, well I say that now with all good intentions. lol

Convention in Canberra

Well at long last here I am. Picked up my computer on Wednesday afternoon. It's brain was faulty....yeah, I know, no smart comments please. pmsl Apparently it's an unusual problem and it would happen to be my computer that it happened too. Oh well, fixed now. Tony had to isolate every component of my computer to find the problem. Too complicated for me.

Now onto other things, this is the first real chance I've had of sitting down and looking at people's blogs, checking emails and uploading the photos I took while I was away, all 552 of them!!!

You may have noticed I've changed the photos on my blog, now you can see me and not a bird!!! Good on ya Debbie and Mandy!!!! lol

I had a ball in Canberra sightseeing and attending SU Convention. In the time I had, Tuesday afternoon 'til Thursday lunchtime, I managed to visit Cockington Green Gardens, Federation Square, the Australian War Memorial, the Royal Australian Mint and the National Museum of Australia. There was so much I could have done but unfortunately I ran out of time. There is definitely another trip to Canberra planned this time taking OH. I certainly am going back to the War Memorial because there was so much to see and I couldn't see it all in the time I had.

Thursday afternoon was spent trying to catch up with Debbie Pamment and after that with Jane wandering around the Canberra Centre, with me knocking over a dummy, Jane throwing her mobile phone away and us trying to catch up with Venessa, Kim and everyone - moving targets. rofl Yep, lots of fun and Jane and I were in stitches laughing. We had drinks and laughs in the restaurant of the Waldorf with Kim, Venessa, Chrissy, Jenny, Alice, Martyn, Debbie, Judy, Brenda and Charlie, then we all went out to Hogs Breath for tea. Sorry if I've missed anyone out in that list, there were so many people to meet.

Convention started on Friday morning and it was full on straight away and continued right through until Saturday evening. It was wonderful to meet people I only knew from my blog and the demo groups. I enjoyed the make and takes. It was great just to sit and have a play. All the talks were very inspiring and I especially loved the general sessions where we saw stamping techs, wows and lots of other things demoed. Wonderful. Shelli's presentation was fantastic.

I also enjoyed Nicki Tidbold's presentation on male stamping because I have a family of males too.

Here's some photos.

Jean my upline and Jane my room mate.

Debbie Pamment and I. This was on the second day and coffee was available, YES!!!!
Great fun to meet you Debbie, another House Mouse lover.

Mandy Schiller and I. It was wonderful to meet Mandy and we had a great time on Thursday night.

The room all dressed up and ready for us!!!

Me on Saturday night, trying to see what I've just taken on my camera. Can you tell what the problem is, yep, no glasses!! rofl

I so much wanted to meet Chris who helped me with sightseeing info for Canberra. We texted each other but then we were straight into the second day of convention and that was it.

So ends convention for another year. All ready for Sydney???

Thanks for looking and I'll be back with my swaps.

I'm baaaacccckkkk!!!!!!!

Well I arrived back from Canberra on Sunday afternoon. I've unpacked, washed and put things away. It was rather sad coming home in a way, 'cause I had such a good time down there with my sightseeing and then the Convention, but was still pleased to see my family including the animals.
I've got photos to show you all but can't do it yet as my computer isn't ready until tomorrow. I'm using my OH's laptop at the moment. Better than nothing. lol
So watch this blog!!!!

Very excited!!!!

Hello all, I'm so excited. My bags are packed and I fly out tomorrow for Canberra. Stampin' Up convention starts on Friday but I am going to do some sightseeing. I'll be back on Sunday but won't have any computer access until Tuesday. My computer is going in for an overhaul.

All my card swaps are done, 116 of them. Considering on Good Friday I didn't have any finished, I don't think I've done too badly. I decided on Saturday afternoon that I had done enough. Yesterday afternoon I spent ironing and deciding what clothes to take and packing it all. It's really really cold in Canberra, well, really really cold for me coming from North Queensland where we still have the air con on and are wearing summer clothes!!!!!! So I've packed all the warmest things I could find. lol

Anzac Day was on Saturday and in the morning, we had a yearly parade here in Koumala. The CWA ladies always do the morning tea after the march so we were quite busy. Our parade is always well attended and it's wonderful to see everyone marching.

Have a great week everyone and I'll be back, hopefully, next Tuesday with photos of my swaps and 'gasp' maybe a card!!
Bye........

I'm better

Hello all,
I'm back on deck but now bogged down with Convention swaps. Hoping to make a card on Tuesday which is the first free day I have and actually the only free day I have before I fly out on the 28th April for Canberra.
Take care everyone.

I'm here

Sorry everyone who looks at my blog. Nothing to post at the moment. I'm crook so I'm not cardmaking for the time being.
Hope to be back on deck soon.
Bye.

Rustic Rooster

The new Stampin' Up catalogue for 2009/2010 is due out April 1st. In it is a level two hostess set called Rustic Rooster. I love this set.
When I saw the colours of KWerner Colour Inspiration, I thought of my new Rustic Rooster set straight away. The sketch I used is Kerin Sylvester's Thursday Sketch Challenge week 6.
Stamps used were Rustic Rooster, Sanded and a For You out of It's Your Birthday. The paper is called Good Morning Sunshine. I used my button and thread touch on the wide ribbon.
We are going out for tea tonight so I'm off for a lie down.
Take care all.