Happy Birthday L'ann

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 Today is my friend L'ann's birthday.

Here is the card I made her.

 I made this very quick before I took Samuel to school this morning.

I cased from Julie Kettlewell, thanks Julie.

I love Julie's work, she is a demo in the UK, to check out her blog CLICK HERE.

Colour Combo is Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Poppy Parade and Whisper White.

I have used 'Everyday Enchantment' DSP, which is one of the choices for Sale-A-Bration, it's so nice having a choice of DSP and the Brads and Ribbon Pack.

Every $120 spend earn free product.

I used 'Bring on the Cake and Vintage Vogue' Stamp Sets, The butterfly is from Beautiful Butterflies Die, the circle flowers are from the Owl Punch and I finished it with some ribbon and bling.

Here's an Engagement Card I have made for Elizabeth and Heath who have just got engaged.

It's almost identical as above.

 The Stamp Sets I used are 'Fresh Vintage (SAB) and Baroque Motifs'.

 I have embossed the flourish on the butterfly with 50/50 'Dazzling Diamonds and Clear Embossing Powder'.

I used Basic Pearls on this card instead of Rhinestones.

On the inside I 'Tagastic' Hostess Stamp Set. 

Remember for every $120 spend you can choose a free Product.

Contact me to book a workshop or place an order, so you can earn some free Stamp Sets.

Happy Birthday Dad

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Here's Dads birthday card and gift that I made him for his birthday yesterday.

Colour Combo is Bravo Burgundy, Basic Gray and Whisper White.

 I used 'My Friend and Bring on the Cake' Stamp Sets.

I bought 'My friend' SS with my Dad in mind.

He always greets people by saying "Hello my friend".

I used the Oval Designer Frames Embossing Folder, I stamped the birthday wishes punched out with Xlarge Oval and mounted in on Dimensionals.

 This is the inner.

Here is the 'Post It Note Holder I made him.

I found the tutorial on Pinterest.

It was very easy to made using the 'Scallop Envelope' Die.

I will be making some more of these they will made very good hostess gifts.

One Year On

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One year ago at 12.51pm Christchurch was hit by a 6.3 earthquake.

It was a frightening day, we were shaken badly here in Timaru too.

Paul and I grow up in Christchurch and most of our family still live there.

When finally were able to hear from them all, they were ok, it was a big relief.

My Dad celebrated his 70th birthday last year today.

When I was on the phone with him, we learnt that he was born in the middle of a air raid.

His mother was rushed to the hospital while the rest of his family went into the shelter.

It was story that none of us girls (my 2 sisters or me) had heard before, which we might not have heard if there hadn't been the earthquake.

Kia Kaha Christchurch!

I will be back tomorrow to show you Dads card and gift that I have made him.

Lego Party Invites and Tuesday's Tip

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Here are Samuel's Lego Party Invites I have been working on today.

 Colour Combo is Crumb Cake, Real Red, Daffodil Delight and Pacific Point.

 I used 'On Your Birthday' Stamp Set.

 The lego block is so easy to creative a rectangle and some punched circle easy.

Tuesday's Tip

 My favourite adhesive at the moment is the Tombow Mutli, It has 2 applicators a large and small.

I only use the small end.

You have a little bit of room to play to make sure your layers are in position.

It is best if you store upside down so the glue is where you need it, when I not using it I store in my caddy.

But when I'm using it this the way I store it.

I know some people use a small container like a candle holder.

But this works for me, and I have enough clutter when I'm working.

So why not use a punch to hold your glue.
But don't forget to put the lid on or you will have a sticky mess.

Faith in Nature

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Faith in Nature is my favourite Hostess Stamp Set.

It is a great set for water colouring.

Here is a card, which was the make 'n' take a recent workshop.

 Cathy the hostess had asked for me to use water colouring and ribbon.

Colour Combo is Basic Black and Poppy Parade.

I used 1 1/4" Basic Black Striped Grosgrain ribbon which I attached to the card then tied a piece of Linen Thread, the love the effect of this on this ribbon.

 I used Peach Parfait, Poppy Parade and Lucky Limeade to colour it.

 I you like this stamp set contact me to book your workshop.

Just Add Ink Colour Challenge

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This week over at Just Add Ink they have a colour challenge JAI 105.

 I colours do smoke my tyres, but when I saw them I knew what to do straight away.

I remembered a card that I pinned on Pinterest, the orginal card was made by Jenni Pauli.

I think she is German, her blog is in a different language and looks like it could be German.

 I have used 'Well Scripted (retired) and Precious Butterflies (hostess)' Stamp Sets.

 It was a quick and simply to make.

I used 1", 3/4", 1/2" Circle Punches and Beautiful Wings Embosslits.

I spritzed the front with Concord Crush, because I don't have Wisteria Wonder Marker.

Added some Rhinestones and you have it.

 This is the inside.

Pop over to Just Add Ink and join in all the fun.

Paul's Birthday

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Last Thursday was Paul's birthday (DH).

Here is the card I made him.

I found at card on similar to this on Pinterest.

Catherine Pooler made the orginal card, her dimensions didn't work for the card so I put my take on.

Click here to see Catherine card.

 My colour combo is Not Quite Navy, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla.

I used 'The Open Sea, Word Play and On Your Birthday' Stamp Sets.

 I embossed 1" squares in the Square Lattice Embossing Folder, added some Early Espresso Bakers Twine and a Antique Brad.

I chose that brad because I thought it looked like a compass.

This the inside of the card.

Be My Valentine

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 I have made Paul (DH) a card and dozen red roses today.

 The colour combo for the card is Real Red, Basic Black and Whisper White.

 I have used 'Clearly for you and Pendant Park' Stamp Sets.

 Added ribbon and some bling to finish it.

 I found the tutorial for these roses on Lynn Pratt blog HERE.

 These are made with Real Red and Garden Green card stock, Tasteful Trim Die, Five Petal and Build a Blossom Punches.

In the tutorial Lynn uses garden wire for the stems, but I used 10" bamboo skewers and florist tape because I had these in the house.

Hope you have all had a great day.

Birthday Season

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In our house we are in the middle of the birthday season.

All our birthdays are within 4 months, starting with mine in December, Darian in January, Paul and Savannah in February only 4 days apart then finally Samuel's early March.
Savannah's was a week ago 5th February, we were camping at Mt Nimrod.

 Savannah had her friend Bayleigh came with us for the weekend, she had never cooked sausages on a camp fire before.

Paul and the kids did the walk up the mountain.

 I stayed in camp and worked on my swaps for our team meeting last Wednesday.

 We all had lots of fun playing Monopoly and Uno Card games.

 Here is Savannah's card.
I used Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade and Whisper White colour combo.

 I used 'Fresh Vintage (SAB) and On Your Birthday' Stamp Set.

 The Embossing folder I used were 'Designer Frames and Perfect Polka Dots'.
The ribbon and brad is from 'Everyday Enchantment Ribbon and Brad Pack' (SAB)

Here's the inside.
This is what I made for my swaps for my Team Meeting last Wednesday evening.

Blog Award

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The other day Sharna Russell awarded me with a blog award, to celebrate her reaching 5000 hits on her blog.

Go and check out her blog HERE.

I haven't been very good at blogging lately, so I feel very honoured and it got me motivated to post.

Thanks Sharna.

The rules for this award

* Thank the person who gave you this award

* paste the award to your blog

* Link the person who nominated you for this award

* Nominate as many other bloggers for this wonderful award as you like

* Post links to their blogs

My chosen award recipients are:

Kirsty Brown    kirstyscardnscrap.wordpress.com/

Delys Cram     http://delysc.wordpress.com/

Bron Heslop   http://bronheslop.wordpress.com/

Alison Hydes    http://alison-alisonscrafts.blogspot.co.nz/

Lynda    http://123easypc.blogspot.co.nz/

Mary Fish     http://www.stampinpretty.com/

Fun with Water Colouring

I did a workshop at the end of January, the hostess asked for me do something with watercolouring and ribbon.

This is the card I demonstrated, I cased it from Darlene Devries.

I found it on Pinterest and knew I had to make it.

My friend Irene celebrated here 70th birthday on 31st January so I gave her this card.

I have used Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, Early Espresso and Whisper White Colour Combo.

 I have used 'Flower Fest and On Your Birthday' Stamp Sets.

I water coloured the flowers with Pumpkin Pie, Peach Parfait, Daffodil Delight and So Saffron.

I sponged a piece of White White Card with Pumpkin Pie, rolled 1/2 of it with Very Vintage jumbo Wheel.

Then I sprinkled water over it.

I free handed a boarder in Early Espresso, added some Early Espresso Bakers Twine.

I used Designer Label Punch to trim the edges of the Tempting Turquoise and Whisper white Card Stock, then I sprinkled some bleach on the Tempting Turquoise.

Added the flowers and lastly I added a bit of bling.