Easter Cards

Easter is nearly here so I though I'd better show you a couple of Easter cards.I don't have ANY Easter Stamps!!! Well, except for the "Easter Wishes" greeting from the "Occasional Greetings" Stamp Set. So I had to make do with my punches!

My colour combination came from the Stampin' Up! Colour Wheel.

I have sponged around the edges of the card but it doesn't show up much in the photo. It is only light sponging.

Stamps: Occasional Greetings
Inks: Night of Navy, Sage Shadow
Papers: Night of Navy, Sage Shdow, Blush Blossom
Tools: Small and Large Oval Punches, 1/2", 1 and 1/4", 1 and 3/8" circle punches, scallop circle punch.
Accessories: Soft Subtles brads, sponge, black marker, googly eyes (not Stampin' Up)

This card is one that I made as a make and take at my Upline Liz's meeting last month. It is a half-sized card.

Stamps: Greetings Eight
Inks: Staz-On Black. Stampin' Pastels (chalks)
Paper: Barely Banana, Good Morning Sunshine DSP
Accessories: Bashful Blue 1/4" grosgrain ribbon
Tools: Paper Piercer and Mat Pack, Scallop Circle Punch, 1 and 3/8" Circle Punch, blender pen

Thomas for Toby

My son Toby LOVE LOVE LOVES Thomas the Tank Engine and all associated things!!

So for his 3rd birthday this year (which is on Easter Sunday) I have made him Thomas the Tank Engine party invitations. I got some el-cheapo foam-backed rubber stamps from eBay and got to work.

Now, these foam stamps were HORRIBLE to work with - absoloutely horrid! I didn't realise how great our Stampin' Up stamps are until I went back to cheap stamps! The image is not very deeply etched and is not trimmed nice and close so it was hard not to get those awful ink shadows around the image. It was also really had to stamp it evenly without patchy bits missing. Ugh.


I stamped the main image in Staz-On onto Whisper White. I coloured him in with a combination of markers and inkpads with an aquapainter. I used Ballet Blue, Real Red, YoYo Yellow and Going Grey. Ballet Blue was the closest we have to a Thomas Blue.

Colouring 15 of these darn things was quite a pain by the end of it all! LOL!

I stamped the same Thomas stamp as a background witht he Ballet Blue ink onto the matching Ballet Blue cardstock.

The "You're Invited" comes from the "Cheers and Wishes" stamp set.

Basic Birthdays

Here are some basic birthday cards I made reently for some of my son's little friends.


This one was for Evie. Her party was a Princess/Pirates dress up theme so I tried to make a Princess card for her. I used the "All in the Family" stamp set and got the crown from the now retired "Unfrogettable" stamp set. If I'd had the accessories set that goes with All in the Family, I would have had a perfect crown stamp, but I think this one turned out ok.

I had to use the Stamp-a-ma-jig for this card to line up all the separate stamps of the body parts and crown. Funny story, every time I stamped the left arm it ended up in the wrong place, even though I was using the stamp-a-ma-jig! I FINALLY figured out (after aout the 3rd time) that I needed to turn the stamp over and have a look - sure enough, the piece of rubber had MOVED on the block! I had previously made up image sheets on vellum but because the rubber had moved, it no longer stamped in the same position as the arm on the image sheet!! Ugh. Anyways, I got it fixed up in the end.



This card was for Ilani. She didn't have a dress up theme but her party invitation did have butterflies on it so I reached for the "Garden Whimsy" set. I used the rock'n'roll technique for the butterflies but used a darker marker around the edges of the flower and snail to get a similar effect to rock'n'roll.

Simple Thank Yous

Wow, is this the most neglected blog or what??? Sorry you guys, I promise I will get on top of this and get the blog happening more often.

Here are some simple thank you cards I made last month. This Bali Breeze paper is no longer available but of course you could use the same layout with some of the gorgeous new papers in the new catalogue!

The card on the left is made from a 1/4 sheet of A4 cardstock. The card on the right is a standard sized card - 1/2 sheet A4.

I used the 1 and 3/8" square punch for the card on the right. I layered the 4 squares onto a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock and the adhered to the Apricot Appeal card base. I then pierced a row of holes all the way around with the mat pack and paper piercer. The sentiment is from "Sincere Salutations" and is stamped in Pumpkin Pie ink.

Album In a Day Pics

On Sunday 1st of March our Paper Angels group held the first of 2 Album in a Day workshops at Pine Rivers Bowls Club. The second one will be at Carina on the 15th of March.

We had a lot of wonderfully positive feedback about the day and we look forward to running more of these charity events and all-day events in the future. This particular event was run to raise money for the Australian Cancer Research Foundation. My sister-in-law Bell (who is also a member of my team!) recently lost her dad Garry to brain cancer. Her family have set up a Memorial Fund in his name and it is through this that we are donating all the money we raised.

Here are some photos from the day:

This photo shows the table we set up with samples on display. Everyone was welcome to browse the samples and take photos to use as inspiration later on. There were scrapbook pages, cards and other 3D projects on display.

Here you can see all the lovely ladies working hard on their scrapbook pages. Between the hours of 10am to 4pm they completed 20 6x6 pages for their album!

Here I am with my sister-in-law Bell and my mum Marie who won one of the fantastic raffle prizes. Stampin' Up! generously donated a huge box of supplies for us to use in our quest to raise money for the Australian cancer research foundation. Thanks Stampin' Up!

We had many other wonderful winners on the day. There were 8 of the large prizes like the one you can see Mum holding and also 4 Simply Sent kits which we raffled off.

Here's Bells's mum Julia who won one of the kits! (No, it was not rigged!! LOL!)

In total we raised $632 from our raffles, all of which is going straight to the foundation!

We are also donating 10% of our sales total from the day.

Here are photos of all our lovely ladies who attended this special event. Also pictured are the demonstrators who guided them through it - Jen, Kate, Leonie, Orrell, Karen, Bell and myself.

Not pictured (because she stayed behind the camera all day!) is the lovely Liz Collett. Liz is our team leader, without whom the day would not have been quite the success that it was. Thanks Liz!! Liz will be leading the team in the second event at Carina on the 15th of March where we hope to raise even more money for the Garry Palmer Memorial Fund.

A special photo - Me, Julia and Bell

Scallop Square Birthday

Here's the card I sent to my friends' little boy Hunter when he turned 1 in January. (Check out the baby card I made when he was born.)

This was such an easy card to make. I started by choosing a piece of Designer Series Paper and that determined the colour combination for me. The crocodile image is simply stamped, cut out and mounted with dimensionals.

The sentiment was punched out with the Scalloped Square Punch. The larger, red scalloped square was created with the Scalloped Edge Punch. I will be creating a photo tutorial on how I made this sized one. There is a tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers that shows a different method for creating scalloped squares and rectangles too.

Stamps: Birthday Best, Wild About You
Inks: More Mustard, Wild Wasabi
Paper: Real Red, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, East Coast Prep DSP
Accessories: Nil
Tools: Scalloped Square Punch, Scalloped Edge Punch

And sorry about the large gap in time between posts. Life with small children gets pretty busy as you all know and sometimes this blog just has to take a back seat to all the other things that need to get done in life. Sale-A-Bration is keeping me VERY busy with workshops and getting my new recruits off to a good sart with their Stampin' Up! businesses. Creating and organising the Album in a Day event has also been keeping me very busy. If you'd like to attend the Album in a Day event you'll need to get your payments in ASAP to secure your booking.

February 2009 Newsletter

Album In A Day Event

A Paper Angels Charity Event supporting the Garry Palmer Memorial Fund
(for the Australian Cancer Research Foundation)

Spend a wonderful day with friends creating 20 beautiful scrapbook pages using lots of gorgeous, coordinating Stampin’ Up! products from the new Summer Mini Catalogue.
This class includes an album to showcase all your layouts and is suitable for beginners right through to advanced paper crafters.

Cost is $55 and includes:
• All materials needed to complete the 20 pages for your album (Designer Series Paper, Coordinating cardstock, Styled Silver Hodge Podge, flowers, beads and more from the Pretties Kit, Ribbons and more!)
• Instruction Sheets
• 6x6 Scrapbook Album
• Afternoon Tea, Tea/Coffee (Lunch can be purchased on site at the bistro.)

What to bring: scissors, adhesives, paper trimmer and your photos* (printed at 3x4 inches)

There will be wonderful raffle prizes full of gorgeous Stampin’ Up! product so do bring along some extra money for raffle tickets.

Venues and Dates:
Sunday 1st March - 10am to 4pm
Pine Rivers Bowls Club
Cnr Sparkes & Francis Rds, Bray Park

Sunday 15th March - 10am to 4pm
Carina Leagues Club
1390 Creek Rd, Carina

All proceeds from the raffles and 10% of sales on the day will go straight to our charity.

*Most photo labs will let you print 2 photos per 6x4 page, which will give you 3x4 photos

(This charity is close to my heart. My downline Bell who is also my sister-in-law lost her step-dad Garry to brain cancer just after Christmas. She had the wonderful idea of setting up a memorial fund and raising money for research so together with my wonderful upline Liz we have created this charity scrapbooking day. We hope you can join us and raise some money for a good cause.)

Contact me ASAP to reserve your place.



Sale-A-Bration

Our Sale-A-Bration promotion gives reason for everyone to celebrate! Click HERE to view the gorgeous stamp sets you can receive for FREE!

Customers -- Receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set for every $100 purchase. Contact me now to place your order. I can have it delivered directly to your door!

Hostesses -- Receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set with a $600 or more workshop, in addition to your normal hostess benefits.

I am all but booked out for Febraury workshops. If you would like to host a workshop this month you will need to contact me ASAP and it will have to be held on a weeknight.
Another option is to host a "catalogue party" where you as hostess collect orders from your friends, hand them in to me and you get the hostess benefits. Call me for more details.

Recruits -- Choose any retail stamp set (a value up to $79.95) from the current catalogues when signing up during the promotion.



Shoe-Box Swap Event

*** There are 3 spots left for this fun event! Anyone can come- you can be a customer, a friend, another demonstrator - you do not have to use strictly Stampin' Up! materials in your swap. Contact me ASAP to confirm your place! ***

A Shoe-Box Swap is a fun stamping event where a group of people all design a card and provide the materials and tools to make it. For example, if there are 6 people in the group, each person provides enough materials to make 5 of their card design and provides one sample for the other people to copy. This means that each person gets to make 5 cards on the day but only has to design one card. As you complete each card, you move on to the next “shoe-box”.

There is no cost for this event – it is just for fun!

Date: Monday 9th February
Time: 7:30pm
Place: 15 Coral Pea Close, Warner
What to bring: Your “shoe-box”, a basic kit with scissors, adhesives, etc, and a plate to share for supper

What to include in your “shoe-box”:
You need to supply everything needed for your card design (except for adhesives as each person will bring their own). Please pre-cut the cardstock to all the correct sizes.
For example your box may include: Stamp set, inkpads, markers, punches, an embellishment such as ribbons or brads, pre-cut cardstock, sample card. Please don’t include any difficult or time consuming techniques like embossing as we will not have the time to complete it all. Please keep your card relatively simple. Include at least 1 layer in your card design and at least 1 embellishment.

We will keep this a small group – maximum 6 people so that you only need to provide enough materials to make 5 copies of your card plus your sample card.



Summer Mini Catalogue

The Summer Mini Catalogue started at in December and runs until the end of March. Do you have a copy yet? If not, contact me so I can arrange to get one to you. Alternatively you can view it online HERE.

Team Meeting

If you've ever considered becoming a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, please come along to one of my monthly meetings. You'll meet the other wonderful ladies in my team, do some stamping and have a chat about all things Stampin' Up!

Date: Sunday 15th Feb
Time: 7:30pm
Place: 15 Coral Pea Close, Warner



Product Spotlight - Flower Fusion















These gorgeous felt flowers add a really special something to your cards, scrap pages and other projects. They come in a gorgeous silver tin and you get over 130 flowers in 3 colours - Pumpkin Pie, Rose Red and Old Olive.

I like to use a Rhinestone Brad through the centre - I think the pink ones and orange ones from the Fire collection work well.












Project Corner

A Little Something For You card
Stamps Sanded Stamp Set Yummy Sab Stamp Set	Paper Card Stock Whisper White A4 Card Stock More Mustard A4 Card Stock Old Olive A4 Card Stock Rose Red A4
Ink : Classic Stampin Pad Chocolate Chip Classic Stampin Pad More Mustard	Accessories Buttons Earth Elements Stampin Dimensionals Ribbon Grosgrain Chocolate Chip 5/8 Inch Accents & Elements Flower Fusion
Instructions 1. Stamp Sanded background image in More Mustard ink on More Mustard card. 2. Stamp ‘A little something for you’ image in Chocolate Chip ink on Whisper White card stock (5.5 x 10.7 cm). Ink ‘For you’ with Chocolate Chip ink again and stamp on Old Olive card stock and cut out. Adhere to Whisper White card stock using Stampin’ Dimensionals. 3. Distress left edge of Whisper White card stock and adhere to Rose Red textured card stock (11.5 x 6.5 cm). Tie Chocolate Chip wide grosgrain ribbon around bottom of Rose Red card stock and adhere to card using Stampin’ Dimensionals. 4. Adhere More Mustard button to Old Olive felt flower and adhere to card using Stampin’ Dimensionals.