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Cheerful Treat Flip Album

I love these new hostess papers - Cheerful Treat!  Using Concord Crush as the base colour, I've made up a very fun and happy Flip Album using Kelly Slattery's basic design.  Thanks Kelly, for sharing!

I've taught versions of this album a few times now, and always the class gets boggled with how many flips and turns and pages there are.  It's fun!!  Lots of places to put photos and journaling.

 

On the cover we used Blossom Party die cut to layer up some nice flowers and the ladies chose a word from the Word Play set.  I thought this one was nice and general and still fit in with the general mood of the album. 

Next task is to create a 6x6 page for Shelli!  Wish me luck!!

 

 

Stamp Camp 2011 Auckland

What a full and fun weekend!!

Just finished up the Stamp Camp Weekend for Auckland and I slept very well last night!  It was lots of fun and I look forward to the NELSON Stamp Camp this weekend!

Here is my craft space before the camp, all set up and ready for some eager ladies:

And here we are busy busy busy:

I don't want to put up all the projects just yet as we will be doing many of them this coming weekend in Nelson and want a few surprises for the ladies there.

We did do a creative challenge where they were all given a few supplies and 20 minutes to come up with something lovely:

pretty good I thought!

And the last project we did on Saturday was Shelli's lovely fabric brooch, which a few of the ladies really really loved this one and stayed later (babysitting my kiddies I might add) to make more:

And this very special yellow Big Bird one Tracey made me for my birthday.  Ummmmm Gorgeous Tracey!

And thank you everyone for making my birthday morning fun and special!  You were all here for camp so it felt like a party!!

 

 

Double Embossing Card

This card was a lot of fun to make!  We did double embossing and heated ribbon flowers.  I love how the background turned out - several layers but still all quite subtle.

This project was inspired by Stamper Dog's Double Double Card - link below:

This is one of my favourite colour combinations - real red with a pale blue.  Here I've used Bashful Blue.  I used this combo because it could be Christmas - especially if used with the Petals A Plenty (poinsetta) embossing folder.

The background is stamped, dry embossed, and then heat embossed with white ink and clear EP.

Now that rose . . . .

Here is a very good video on how to do this flower.  It takes about ten minutes to do, but I do like the shabby effect.  And it works really well!!  Can't really mess this one up.

Supplies Used:

Stamps: You're a Gem

Colours: Bashful Blue, Real Red

Other: Real Red Satin Ribbon, Whisper White Satin Ribbon, Antique Brads, Adhesive Sheets, 1 3/8 circle punch, Large oval punch, Clear EP, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder

What's On This Week

Tonight Monday September 19th Techniques Class - advanced Embossing Techniques  Birkenhead area 7:30 $15

Friday-Sunday Sept 23-25 Stamp Camp  Three days of stamping fun!  I've had two cancel last minute, so I have two open spaces  $149 Friday 7pm to Sunday noon

I'll post a project post later today - gym and class prep first!

What's On This Week

Monday September 5th New Catalogue Launch!  7:30 pm north shore $15

Tuesday Setpember 6th 12x12 Layout Birthday Theme 7:30 Bucklands Beach

Thursday-Sunday Sept 8-11 Hamilton Quilt & Craft Fair

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Take A Spin Layout

 

This is probably the busiest layout I have done thus far, but Kjirsti loves it and it works with the whole "party" theme.  I've used the new Just Add Cake papers here - and there are a lot of colours in these prints!  I chose to not use the blues and greens so much and still have plenty to work with.

The main embellishment is the Happy Birthday spinner from the Take A Spin stamp set.  Easy to stamp in Early Espresso and just colour in a few of the images for a bit of interest. 

I LOVE the Tasteful Trims die!!  A must.

The small words down at the bottom corner of the layout are also taken from the same stamp.  Can you work out what I have done?

The Title Tag across the top is also from the same one stamp.

I will be teaching this layout this coming Tuesday September 6th in Bucklands Beach.  I'd love to have you attend - please email me to reserve a spot!

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Take a Spin set of four $51.95

Colours: Poppy Parade, Pearch Parfait, So Saffron, Baja Breeze, Early Espresso

Other: 5/16 Neutrals Brads, Just Add Cake DSP, various ribbons, Game Spinner Hands, Blender Pen, chipboard sheets, Subtles Brads, Modern Label Punch, Alphabet Dies, Versamarker, Clear Embossing Powder

 

Welcome to a new catalogue year!

Today is the day we officially launch the newest product release and our new Idea Book & Catalogue.  You can view it online here or order your own copy here.

Last Saturday we had a Fun Day Out here in Auckland and got to see and demonstrate and experiment with many of the new products. Here is one of the projects I presented using the new Take A Spin stamp set:

And yep, the spinner does work!  There is a set of spinner accessories in the brads section to use with this stamp set.  My girls couldn't keep their hands off of this . . .

The spinner face is paper pieced - easy enough to do with just a few snips of the scissors.  And even a boys' card can stand just a sprinkle of glitter.

Bayley liked it anyway.

Have a wonderful day and send those orders in - I will be placing an order first thing today and probably again tonight.

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Take a Spin set of four $52.95

Colours: Baja Breeze, Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi

Other: Just Add Cake DSP, Game Spinner Hands, Daffodil Delight 1/4 grosgrain ribbon, Scallop Border Punch