Stampathon Fun!!!

On Saturday Nerida and I held another successful Stampathon.  Thank you to everyone who attended, we hope you had a fun day creating while raising money for an amazing cause.

This time around we chose to donate the money we raised to the One Hundred for 100 Campaign.  You can see more details about the amazing work Kristi is doing here.

These are the projects we made on Saturday.

Our next Stampathon will be mid to late October and will be a Christmas Stampathon so if you enjoy having a day out crafting and meeting great people then watch out for the details to be announced!!!

Family Fun Day Lara Primary School

In February Lara Primary School held their Family Fun Day and this year it included market stalls.  Here are a few photos from my market stall.  It was a very hot day, but we survived!!!

The next card was one of Paige's favourites.  It was made using one of the Sale-a-bration sets.

Cardstock: River Rock, Rose Red, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla

Ink: Early Espresso, Rose Red, Gumball Green, Bashful Blue, Summer Starfruit.

Stamp Sets: Aviary, Feeling Sentimental (SAB) and Curly Cute.

More products promotion

Get $60 more if you host a workshop with total sales $400 or more.
Join Stampin' Up! and get an extra $60 for your starter kit!! That means you pay $169 and choose $295 worth of products for your starter kit. If you want to know more contact me or visit my demonstrator website here.

MDS and Online ordering

Well MDS has arrived in Australia!!!! Are you wondering what MDS is and what all the fuss is about??

MDS stands for My Digital Studio and as the name suggests it is a digital software program.  As I have never done "digital" scrapbooking before I was unsure what all the fuss was about.  But then I started playing with the free 30day trial version and very soon decided to spend the $24.95 and purchased the full version.

You may have noticed my "new look" blog!! I made it myself!!! Well the blog header anyway. Yes I used MDS to create my new blog header (note I am very proud of my first effort) and it didn't take very long at all.

Here are a couple of other quick projects I have whipped up with MDS

The other exciting thing that has arrived in Australia is online ordering.  You can now order Stampin' Up! products directly from me online.  The important thing with online ordering is you need to select a demonstrator to receive the preferred price.  If you order online without nominating a demonstrator you will pay more for your products.  You can order from me by clicking the link on the side "shop now" or by going to my demonstrator website here.

Colour Refresh

They say change is as good as a holiday!!! So lets start with a change of Colour!!! Yes Stampin' Up! are having a colour refresh and below you can see the colours that are retiring and the new colours we will see in the upcoming 2013/2014 Catalogue (due to start 1st July 2013)

You may have noticed there are some returning in colours which is great and some new colours to the Australian market.  If you are interested in purchasing any of the retiring colours I suggest you do so ASAP as we have been told the retiring colours are only available while stocks last and I believe quite a few of the reinkers have already sold out.

Best time to be a part of Stampin' Up!

This is definitely one of the best times to be part of Stampin' Up! either as a customer or a demonstrator.

It's Sale-a-bration time!!!  As a customer you will receive a free product with every $100 you spend.
If you have ever considered becoming a demonstrator now would be a fantastic time to join as you will receive 25% more product with your starter kit.  Yes that's $294 worth of product for $169.  Please contact me to take advantage of these great offers.

This card is made using some new products from the Seasonal Catalogue (see link on side for full catalogue).  The lovely new Honeycomb embossing folder and the new designer builder brads.  The other products used are from the 2012-2013 Annual Catalogue (Beautiful Birthday stamp, Patio Party DSP and Labels Collections Framelits)

New and Exciting

Well the new catalogue has arrived and it is packed full of wonderful new and exciting products.  There is a link on the side for you to view the new Annual Catalogue.

And if that isn't exciting enough the Holiday Catalogue has also arrived....and all I can say is WOW!!! Click on the link on the side to see for yourself.

As you can imagine with new stuff to play with I have a few cards to show you.

 This Birthday card uses a new stamp set Memorable Moments, new DSP Floral District. Carstock - Whisper White, Daffodil Delight and Rich Razzleberry. Big Shot accessories - Beautiful Wings Embosslits and Labels Collection Framelits.

 This one was a boy's 7th Birthday card using a stamp set Googly Ghouls and DSP Howlstooth & Scaringbone from the Holiday Mini.  Cardstock Very Vanilla, Tangerine Tango and Basic Black.

 The 2 Father's Day cards used the stamp set French Foliage. The Woodgrain embossing folder and Early Espresso Core'dinations card stock are from the Holiday Catalogue.  Colours used are Summer Starfruit, Gumball Green (both new in colors).

Finally this is one cased from Connie Collins. The zig zags are cut from the Tasteful Trim die cut.

My next post will be info about our upcoming Christmas Stampathon on October 13th.