While the kids are away.............

The children have been at their Granparent's in Bendigo this week for a holiday, so I have been playing!!! Well I have been working also, but I found time to play with my brayer. It was lots of fun.
I did a workshop last night for my good friend Anita, and as she is an expert stamper I decided to show off some brayer techniques. Judging by the oohs and ahhs I think they enjoyed it and learnt something new.

This first picture is the make and take we did. It is an emboss resist technique which my up upline demonstrated at the Melbourne regionals.
I have used the Eastern Blooms set from the Summer Mini.

These ones are when I was playing with the brayer at home so I didn't look too much like a novice at the workshop. Again I have used the Eastern Blooms set.

I am going to Bendigo tomorrow to collect the children and while I am there I am doing a workshop for my Aunty and her friends. They have never seen Stampin' Up! before therefore I have come up with a fairly simple design for the make and take.
This is using the Priceless set and the Fall Flowers DSP. I hope they like it!!


This one I am going to demonstrate water colouring. I have used the Embrace Life set and the Ginger Blosssoms DSP both from the Summer Mini.
I have finalised details of my February Class.

Date: Tuesday 10th February 2009
Time: 7:30pm
Project: 3 Glitter Techniques
Cost: $6

If you are interested in coming along please contact me ASAP as places are limited.

2009 Calendar

As promised here is my 2009 Calendar. The January page shows what each calendar page looks like.
I have had trouble up loading all the photos so hopefully you can get a reasonable idea what I have done.
The pages are 12"x12" so therefore at the end of the year I can put them straight into my scrapbooking album. I have used lots of different stamp sets, colours and accessories so I am not going to list them all. If you would like to know specific info on any layout just ask and I will give you the details. Everything used is Stampin' Up!





















































































































































































































During the year I will be holding Calendar workshops and am planning a calendar weekend retreat at Sewjourn (more details to follow when I finalise a date), so if you are interested in making your own 2010 calendar let me know so I can keep you informed on dates etc.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful festive season.
The start of a new year is an exciting time and Stampin' Up! like to celebrate with Sale-A-Bration.
I am doing a mail out of the summer mini catalogue and the Sale-A-Bration catalogue today so if you are on my mailing list they should arrive in your letter box soon. In the mean time you can click on the images below to check out these catalogues on line.



So what is a Sale-A-Bration? Well during the months of January and February customers, hostesses and new recruits are rewarded with free stamp sets.

As a customer when you purchase $100 worth of Stampin'Up! products you can choose one of the Sale-A-Bration stamp sets free. There is no limit, therefore for every $100 you spend you can choose a free Sale-A-Bration set.

As a hostess you may also qualify for free Sale-A-Bration stamp sets when you hold a workshop with total sales over $600. With a $600+ worshop you may choose one Sale-A-Bration set in addition to other hostess benefits. When your workshop total sales reach $1200 you may choose a second Sale-A-Bration set and then a third set with sales over $1800.

If you join Stampin'Up! as a new recruit during the Sale-A-Bration promotion you can select any stamp set (to the value of $79.95) from the 2008-2009 Ideas Book and Catalogue free.

This is a fantastic promotion so don't miss out on the opportunity to get free stamp sets. If you wish to host a workshop during the Sale-A-Bration contact me to arrange a date.

I have been busy over the past week making my 2009 calender and am pleased to say I managed to complete it before the year started. I will take some photos of it and post my creation here really soon. It was so much fun making the calender, it has inspired me to do some calender making workshops this year. I will post the dates and details once I am organised.

Also this year I am going to start a stamp club. This will be a club with 10 people where you commit to spending $30 a month for 10 months and then take it in turns for hostess benefits. When it is your month for hostess benefits you may choose to also host a workshop and increase your hostess rewards, but you are guaranteed at least level 1.

The new year has obviously given me lots of inspiration as I am also planning on monthly workshops at my place the first one will be in February so keep an eye out for date and details.

Please feel free to contact me if you wish to go on my mailing list or are interested in any of the above.

Well I am going to be quite busy and am really looking forward to sharing all these exciting things with you.

Last minute Christmas cards

T'was the night before Christmas...................and I have finally finished my Christmas cards!!!
These two I actually finished yesterday, but only delivered them today.
They were made using the TLC (Technique Lover's Challenge) from splitcoast last week. Using the 2 different size tag punches to make these lovely stars or flowers.


Again I have used the simply scrappin kit Winter Bright. Stamps used on the first one are from lovely letters. I think the silver hodgepodge finishes it off nicely.












The stamp used on the second one is from Many Merry Messages. The glitter in the centre of the flower is the chunky sprinkles from the summer mini. It is the first chance I have had to try it and I am quite happy.






Well the children are out of the bath and very excited wanting to get ready for Santas visit tonight.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas with your family and friends. Looking forward to a wonderful 2009.

Teachers gift tags

I found this ornament on Splitcoast and decided to try one. It was so easy I made more and am going to use them as gift tags for the kinder teachers presents.



















These ones have been made using the simply scrappin kit Winter Brights.

It is basically squares layered with the base square 3.75" x 3.75",
then 3.5"x3.5", 3.25"x3.25", 3"x3", 2.75"x2.75",2.5"x2.5" and the final square is 2"x2". I have put a jumbo eyelet in the top and threaded ribbon through.

Hopefully the kinder teachers will like them.

Christamas market 2

This is my market stall. The Lara CFA Christmas market was held last Saturday. The weather was kind, it didn't rain, it wasn't too hot and the wind only came in short gusts.
I was really pleased with the interest I had for Stampin' Up!
It was a great experience being on the other side of a market stall and although there wasn't the crowd of other years it was encouraging to see so many people in Lara interested in stamping, card making and scrapbooking.
It is certainly something I will do again next year. And also thanks to those friends who came along just to say hi, it was nice to see so many familiar faces.

It is difficult to believe it is December, but it is great to see people (especially children) getting into the Christmas spirit. If you are on my mailing list you should have received your December newsletter with the great December specials. If you have not received it yet let me know or if you are not on my mailing list and would like to be please contact me

Christmas market

Well I have one more day to finish getting organised for the Christams market on Saturday morning. My husband kindly made a display board for my cards and I have filled it with examples of Christmas cards.


Anyone who knows me well will appreciate how far outside my comfort zone I was with this group of cards below. I believe red and green are the only traditional Christmas colours and it doesn't snow in Australia at Christmas so I usually stay away from snow flakes. But.......this group of cards has been made using the winter bright simply scrappin kit (which is on special next month - more on that soon!!) And wow I think they look great (even if they have some non traditional colours in them)!!!
I will try to take some photos of my stall at the market (but then I may also be run off my feet with customers!!!) and let you all know next week how I survive my first market.

Oh some other great news the Stampin Write individual marker special has been extended until 14th December. I will update all the new specials and the release of the summer mini early next week.