Bliss

I received my new FREE sale a bration stamp set in the post this week, called Bliss, and I must say i love it, so I decided to head over to CASE study this week and see what this weeks muse(Mercy Kerin) has on offer.
Here is my card:

Pear pizazz has been inked in pear pizazz, crumb cake C/S has been firstly inked in crumb cake then in pear pizazz.  Bliss was stamped in pear pizazz, then versamarked and clear embossing powder used to give the word a bit of shine.

Details:

Stamp Sets: Bliss (FREE Sale-a-bration set)
Ink Pads: Pear Pizazz, Crumb cake, versamark
Cardstock: Pear Pizazz, Crumb cake, Soft suede


Tools: Paper piercer, sponges, stamp a ma jig, heat tool
Other: vintage brads, twine, clear embossing powder

Fun and fast note

I love this little bird from fun and fast notes, so I decided to combine it with a large birdcage from the stamp set Aviary and pop it onto a thank you card, in my dry sense of humour, the bird is thankful for being out of the cage lol. The "sky" is lightly sponged in bashful blue, to take away the starkness of the white, and the pink background has been stamped in pink pirouette using the stamp Bella toile.

Details:

Stamp Sets:  Fun and fast notes, Aviary, bella toile background stamp, curly cute
Ink Pads:Pink Pirouette, bashful blue
Stampin' Write markers: Pink pirouette, pretty in pink, Rose red, crumb cake, bashful blue, marina mist
Cardstock:  Basic black, Pink pirouette, whisper white,
Punches:Scallop trim border

Other:blender pen, black taffeta ribbon, sponges, glue dots, snail.

Happy 60th

I needed a 60th birthday card for a MM this weekend, and found a perfect card to case from PCL.  My mojo has taken a major holiday along with me this week I think, so I find this site terrific for when I need a card quick, and I love the result, flipped it on its side, added the 60 instead of the large butterfly and was done.

Here is the card that is on the site but flipped onto its side, lovely isnt it?  This one has gone to someone who hosted us for dinner on the weekend as a thank you.

Hopefully my mojo returns soon, and am hoping this mini trip away restores it, will be back to my own cards shortly.

Details: ALL Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Always
Ink Pads: Crumb cake
Cardstock: Baja breeze, Crumb cake, chocolate chip
Punches: Scallop trim border
Tools:  Big shot machine, butterfly embosslit die
Other: Basic pearls

Thank you with watercolouring

I hope everyone in Australia had a fantastic day off yesterday for Australia Day, I am camping (yes again!! lol) atm, so enjoyed a bbq lunch with lamingtons for afterwards.  So i thought I would share another CASE from PCL, I have changed the stamped image and the sentiment too but this card was too gorgeous. I love the satin bow, the small amount of watercolouring and the striped DSP from the hostess level 1 paper pack is just beautiful on this card. And yep, still building my thank you stash :)

All products are Stampin' up!

Love is....

Ok, Debi and I have been trying to organise an ATC swap for months and it just hadn't happened, so we finally sorted out a time, and Debi thankfully picked out a theme which was trio of valentine/love, very appropriate for the month of February, and that was our deadline to have it out by.  Ok, this did not end up where it started in my head, but I am quiet happy with it, Its light and fun and just a little whimsical. I hope you liked it Debi.

Details:

Stamp Sets: life definitions, enfrancais background, too terrific tags (retired)
Ink Pads: riding hood red, basic black
Cardstock: very vanilla
DSP: love letters
Punches: small tag punch, heart to heart punch
Tools: paper piercer, file for edges of dsp, cutter kit for edges of rest of cardstock, big shot machine
Other:  hearts and brackets original die, clear rhinestone brads, white gel pen,  piece of tulle, 2 prima wings,

Happy Australia Day

Happy Australia Day Everyone!!!!

and happy birthday to my SIL Julie

The best part of being an Aussie are the things we love best!

 Good Ole Aussie BBQ

 A true Blue pair of Thongs

 Beautiful Beaches, Beautiful sunsets and of course Skippy the kangaroo

And who can forget Lamingtons, chocolate of course!!!

So from my family to yours, We hope you have a fabulous Australia Day, Eat, Drink and be Merry!!!!!

Yay - Its SALE-A-BRATION TIME

One of the most fun times in our Stampin' Up! Calendar is?

SALE-A-BRATION

WHY???

FREE STAMPS thats why and who doesn't love Free stamps, I know I do.

Click on the catalogue below to view or print a catalogue for yourself of  the four free fantastic sets on offer this year.

 So how do you get one or all four of these sets in your hot little hands you ask??

*Place a customer order of $100 before postage with me and receive 1 FREE sale-a-bration stamp set of your choice from the catalogue above, spend $200 before postage and receive 2 FREE stamp sets of your choice from the above catalogue and so on.

*Host a workshop with me and once your workshop reaches $600 you as the hostess will receive a FREE stamp set   If any of your guests at your workshop spend $100 before postage on their individual order during your workshop they are also entitled to 1 FREE stamp set per $100 they spend.

See how fun this is? AND the stamp sets this year are the best I have EVER seen!!!!

These stamps are all new designs and are only offered during sale-a-bration, you will NEVER get these sets in a regular catalogue AGAIN.

Are you thinking about joining the Stampin' up! family? Would you love to join my team Basic INKstinct either as a hobby demo, or even as a career, well then if you take that step during Sale a bration you will get to choose a stamp set out of the MAIN Idea Book and catalogue FREE (up to $79.95) If you are thinking of joining, then now is the best time of the year to do it.

Email me today to place your order or book a workshop before 31st March so you don't miss out on this fabulous special.

A thank you

You will see some more thank you cards coming this week as I build up my stash to send out to my customers, I like to have some on hand ready.  This next card I have cased from Andrea Walford, well actually its on the Paper Crafters Library, I have changed DSP, stamps and ribbons but it follows the same theme.

Details:

Stamp Sets: curly cute, Just believe
Ink Pads: Peach parfait, stazon black
Cardstock: Whisper White, basic Black
DSP: Sweet and Sour specialty
Punches: Scallop Trim border punch
Other: Black grosgrain ribbon

A blushing bride thank you

I wanted to create a card in pink tones for a nice change, not too often do I get to do "pretty" so I take every opportunity, team that up with a thank you sentiment, and I have another card for my stash.  I chose to play along with the sketch over at Just Add Ink.

Details:

Stamp Sets: Curly Cute
Ink Pads: blushing bride
Cardstock: very vanilla, blushing bride
DSP: Hostess level 1 DSP pack
Punches: modern label punch
Tools: big shot, top note die, nestabilities
Other: crochet flowers(retired), blushing bride grosgrain ribbon, pink brad (retired)

Prize giveaway winners

Hello everyone, the winners of my prize giveaways are:

1. Yvonne

2. Amanda

3. Birdie

4. Ju

Congratulations to you all :)

If you ladies can please email me with your details I will get your stamp set out to you, and thank you for taking the time to leave a comment.

 

A flower for you....

Ok I know these flowers have been around for ever, and its been in my to do file for ages, but I have a layout I want to put these on so I have done a mini tutorial for those that may have not seen them before:

You will need:

scallop circle punch

tombow glue

DSP or cardstock

Embellishment for centre ( I used the vintage brad - love love these)

punch out 8 scallop circles

I used a stampin around roller with black ink and the music note wheel on very vanilla cardstock

Put aside 1 scallop circle, then with the remaining scallop circles fold in half, then half again, then half again

On the remaining 1 full scallop circle cover in tombow glue (Snail will not do the trick with these)

start layering each folded piece around the scallop circle until they are all placed.

It should look like this:

Let Dry.

Once dry, add a brad or whatever embellishment you choose to the centre and your flower is done!

If you choose DSP its a lot finer then cardstock so your flower will look more flatter, it still looks great, I just needed the chunkier look for what I needed, usually though would use DSP 

Happy Stamping!

Melissa

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A spritzer or two?

This is the first time I have used my spritzer (gasp) and I have had it for so long, so thought I would try it out on another layout. A customer wanted layouts using the tag punch, so you will see a few layouts filter through while I try and get a PERFECT layout lol. (Is there such a thing).  Anyway I have spritzed the background in certainly celery and crumb cake. I have then stamped the inner flower from Green house garden in pink in spots on the background.

The larger flowers have smaller embellishments in the centres ie a button, a twine bow, and another stamped smaller flower.  The leaves I have hand drawn veins on them once punched out with the 5 petal flower punch.

The  tags have been stamped, spritzed and have a solid mat background. All very bright and summery.

Details: All SU

Stamp Sets:Greenhouse garden, Life definitions, word play
Ink Pads:so saffron, marina mist, pink pirouette, rose red,
Markers: Certainly celery, crumb cake,
Cardstock:Marina mist, certainly celery, whisper white

Punches: 5 petal flower
Tools:Cropadile, stapler, big shot machine
Other: timeless type alphabet die, soft subtles buttons, twine, glue dots,

Amour.....

Another challenge I haven't done for ages is over at Inkspirations, so I took the opportunity to do another 12 x 12 layout using Keesh's Sketch. Here is the layout :

 My layout

mini tags on the side of the photos are for journalling

This also fits the challenge over at Paper Cutz Challenge this week - tags

Details:

Stamp Sets:  Enfrancais background, Artistic etchings
Ink Pads: Basic black, Riding hood red
Cardstock:Basic Black, Confetti cream
DSP:  Love letter
Punches: Large tag punch, 1 3/4" circle punch
Tools:cutter kit, Stapler
Other: Striped grosgrain ribbon, vintage brads, shipping tag, sponges

Monochramatic layout

Here is a monochromatic 12 x 12 layout.  I love the simple elegance of Black and Very vanilla together, its such a beautiful combination.  It also fits the challenge this week at JAI which is just add monochromatic, this layout is also a layout I am doing for an upcoming class which the hostess requested to have tag punches for journalling incorporated into the layout, I also needed to keep it simple as there are different levels of scrapbookers attending, some fairly new, this way the more experienced ones can adapt it as they wish.

Its hard to see but there are little pearls on the full flowers of the stamped image, each little tag has an eyelet added, and the bottom of each tag has been punched with the scallop trim punch.

Details:All Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Elements of style, Monogram sweet
Ink Pads:Basic black
Cardstock:Basic black, Very vanilla
Punches: Small tag punch, Large tag punch, scallop trim punch
Tools:Cropadile
Other: Eyelets, pearl basics, Black taffeta ribbon

January 2011....

I am a fan of getting one scrapbook layout done each month about that month just gone, it is a beautiful way to document your life story and the important or not so important(but fun) things you do along the way.  So have decided to join the 12 months of 2011 group over at Crafters Anonymous and give it a whirl.  Now I did have great intentions last year to do it, but it fell by the wayside, but have started scrapbooking a lot more recently which is my first love, and I have a few upcoming scrapbooking classes which is making me get off of my butt to do them lol.  If you are interested in any classes, please feel free to drop me an email, or if there is anything you like, I may be able to make it up for you in a kit.  Ok so for the month of January we went camping as you know, so its dedicated to that:

The large white flowers have been inked in craft very vanilla (NAH), and the medium flowers have been inked in marina mist.

The title has been covered in crystal effects.  The clouds have been inked in bashful blue and marina mist.

Details:

Stamp Sets: French Filigree Background stamp, Loads of Love, Loads of fun(NAH).Rainy days (retired)
Ink Pads:Versamrk, Marina Mist, Real red, going grey, basic black
Cardstock:  Marina mist, Crumb cake, Very vanilla, going grey.
DSP: Blueberry crisp
Tools:Cutter kit, Big shot
Other: Timeless type alphabet die, crystal effects, white gel pen, sponges, clip assortment, twill, corduroy brads(retired), white flower packs,