3G technique - Golden Glue Globs! :-)

Hi all, well I didn't quite get time to take photos and make a proper tutorial so hopefully my written explanation will do for now!

I'd already posted this on my Stampinwithbec Facebook page so apologies if you are getting this twice.

*Using the tip of my scissors, I fold over a mini glue dot into quarters and then lift it off and put it onto the cardstock, kind of squishing it up. I did this to about 8 or so glue dots in the centre of the flower.


*Make sure you leave a little bit of room between each scrunched up glue dot. 

*Pour gold embossing powder over the glue dots and tip off the excess.

*Heat with heat tool to melt the embossing powder. This also melts the scrunchy glue dots and helps them form more of a rounded shape!! Don't heat too long or they will really melt and flatten out.

I hope you enjoyed hearing about how to do this and I would love to hear back from you if you try it out yourself!

Oops, forgot to mention that the name suggestion for this technique came from my mum! :-)

Christmas Cards 09

As promised, here are some photographs of the hand made cards I received at Christmas:

Didn't everyone do a great job?? As you can see, the tree from "Season of Joy" was popular again - definitely one of my favourites!

I'll be back again soon with a Baptism card for my nephew Xavier.

More Quick Christmas Cards

Stamps: Season of Joy

Inks: Real Red, Old Olive, Whisper White

Paper: Real Red, Old Olive, Dashing DSP

Stamps: Crazy For Christmas

Inks: Real Red, Old Olive, Close to Cocoa, Summer Sun (Markers)

Paper: River Rock, Real Red, Dashing DSP

Quick Christmas Cards

Hi all!

I had a lovely card making session at my friend Robyn's house on Thursday. Her friend Catherine was also there and we managed to get quite a few cards made! Robyn's little boy Dominic and my eldest boy Toby kept each other amused the whole morning while the grown-ups stamped!

Here are some of the cards I made on the day. I made doubles of most of them - might as well make 2 at the same time I say!

Stamps: Season of Joy

Inks: Purely Pomegranate

Paper: Purely Pomegranate, River Rock, Whisper White, Holiday Harmony DSP

Accessories: Purely Pomegranate stitched ribbon, clear rhinestone brad

Tools: nil

Stamps: Season of Joy

Inks: Real Red, Old Olive

Paper: Old Olive, Real Red, Whisper White

Accessories: Clear Rhinestone brad (from Pretties Kit)

Tools: nil

Stamps: Polka Dot background, Happy Christmas Mate, Season of Joy

Inks: Close to Cocoa, Old Olive, Real Red

Paper: Water colour paper, Very Vanilla, Dashing DSP

Accessories: nil

Tools: aquapainter

Stamps: Season of Joy

Inks: Real Red, Old Olive

Paper: Real Red, Old Olive, Whisper White

Accessories: Rhinestone brad (from Pretties Kit)

Tools: nil

Stamps: Crazy for Christmas, Season of Joy (sentiment)

Inks: Purely Pomegranate, Always Artichoke, Summer Sun, Close to Cocoa

Paper: Kraft, Purely Pomegranate, Whisper White

Accessories: nil

Tools: aquapainter

Stamps: Season of Joy

Inks: Always Artichoke

Paper: Purely Pomegranate, Holiday Harmony DSP

Accessories: nil

Tools: paper snips

Pine Rivers Christmas Card Workshop Update

What a fantastic day!

We began our day by making 3 of the 6 Christmas cards. We had nearly 40 ladies in attendance, with a demonstrator on each of the 5 tables to guide them.


Liz's table - our illustrious leader!
Jen's table
Orrel's table
Fiona's table
My table!


When they had a spare moment, the ladies were able to go over to our displays and check them out for ideas and even take photos.

Lunch was lovely at the bistro downstairs. My husband and 2 little boys even came up to join us for lunch.

After lunch we returned upstairs and the ladies were able to purchase tickets in the FANTASTIC raffle prizes. Stampin' Up! gave us some lovely donated product to help us with our charity fund-raising. The prizes included cardstock, stamp sets, ribbons, ink pads, embossing powders, punches and more! Thanks to Ursula (one of our demonstrators) for teaching me to wrap and decorate the prizes. The bowls club also donated some meal vouchers for us to raffle.

Ursula also helped out by being our general "gopher" and also creating more of the name cards and foot print cards for our charity. To read more about our charity please click HERE.

We also had lots of entries in our Card Competition. Entry was $1 per card, with all proceeds going directly to our charity, just as the money from the raffle tickets did. Firt Prize was a Simply Sent card kit and the 2 runner up prizes were cardstock, ribbon and a little stamp.
We then continued making the remaining 3 cards. My group of ladies beat me back from from lunch and had started without me! Clever things! Here they are, and look - my chair is empty!

Afternoon tea was provided next, followed by the announcements of the competition winners and raffle winners. Can you believe my own mother won 1st prize in the card competition??? Well done Mum. And no, I did not do the judging! LOL! That was left to the lovely Ursula as she was unbiased at this event.Kim
Helena

Mary
Libby
Yvonne


And here's Marie (my mum) who won the card competition. She's away on holiday at the moment but once she gets back I'll ask her for a photo of her winning entry to show you here.

Carina Christmas Card Workshop

I had a fantastic time on Sunday at our Carina venue for our Annual Paper Angels Christmas Card Workshop! (There will be more photos to come once I receive them from the other demonstrators.)






We all had a ball making our cards and giving out raffle prizes. We raised over $700 for our charity (Mater Mothers Bereavement Support Program) in the raffle tickets alone!
The raffle prizes were amazing - huge baskets of Stampin' Up! product including punches, cardstock, inkpads, Pretties Kit, stamps and more!

There was also a card competition with first prize being a Simply Sent kit valued at over $80!

You'll also see more photos after our Pine Rivers venue this coming Sunday.

If you are interested in attending, we still have a few spots available at our Cleveland and Macleay Island venues on the 1st and 9th of November. Contact me ASAP to book.

Merry Layout

This is the final layout in Julian's baby album - a Christmas layout.

I used the Simply Scrappin' Kit "All The Trimmings" to make these pages.  The page on the right was copied almost exactly from an example on the front of the kit - why reinvent the wheel?

I then made the page on the left to match.  The Simply Scrappin' kits make scrapbooking sooooo easy!  This was the quickest of all the layouts in this album.  

I still have heaps and heaps of cardstock and embellishments left in the kit that I can use for my own Christmas layouts for my son and even to make Christmas cards with for next year.  I have a document with instructions (and pictures!) on how to make cards from this kit.  

Contact me if you are interested in purchasing the kit and I will give you the instructions as well.

Stamps: A is for Adorable, Everyday Flexible Phrases

Inks: Night of Navy, Real Red

Papers: Simply Scrappin' Kit "All The Trimmings" (Night of Navy, Brocade Blue, Real Red, Whisper White, Blue dots, Red Stripes)

Accessories: Navy and Bluebird Grosgrain Ribbon, Red Gingham Ribbon

Tools: Square punch

Gift card holders

Here's another little item I've been making as Christmas gifts over the last few weeks. These gift card wallets are really easy to make and you can make 4 from one sheet of 12x12 designer paper.

I got the idea and instructions HERE.



Paper: Holdiay Thyme
Accessories: Buttons

Christmas Boxes

Well once again it has been a few weeks since I last posted anything on my blog - sorry everyone!

I have actually been stamping things, I just haven't had a chance to take photos and write up descriptions until now.



Here are some cute little explosion boxes I made with the Holiday Thyme papers Stampin' Up! recently had on sale. You can find a tutorial for these boxes HERE at the Splitcoast site.

Stamps: Terrific Tags (hostess only)
Inks: Old Olive, Bravo Burgundy
Paper/Cardstock: Old Olive, Bravo Burgundy, Holiday Thyme papers
Accessories: Wine grosgrain ribbon, olive organdy ribbon
Tools: Horizontal slot punch, Fiskars paper trimmer with scoring blade

Peace~Joy~Love

Another one from the Christmas Stamp-a-stack. You don’t even need an actual Christmas stamp set for this one!

Stamps: Greetings galore (tree), All Year Cheer (words)
Inks: Cranberry Crisp, True Thyme
Card stock: Cranberry Crisp, True Thyme, Confetti Cream
Accessories: Moss gingham ribbon
Tools: Paper piercer and mat pack,

Crazy for Christmas

Another quick and easy Christmas card.

Stamps: Crazy For Christmas
Inks: Old Olive, Basic Black, Stampin’ Pastels
Card stock: Old Olive, Bravo Burgundy, Whisper White
Accessories: none
Tools: Blender Pen

Merry Mellow Moss

This is a card I used at my Christmas in July Stamp-a-stack. It’s quick and easy and you can get 4 from a 12x12 piece of cardstock.



Stamps: Holiday Spirit, Only Ornaments wheel
Inks: Mellow Moss, Ruby Red
Card stock: Mellow Moss, Ruby Red, Very Vanilla
Accessories: none
Tools: Stampin’ around handle, distressing tool

Snowflake Joy

I borrowed the gorgeous ‘The Snowflake Spot’ stamp set from my friend Sheridan a little while ago and this is what I came up with.

I stamped some of the smaller snowflakes as a background by stamping off once or twice first to get a very pale colour and then stamped some in “full strength”. I stamped the large snowflake with Vintage Violet stamping off once first. The JOY was stamped “full strength. I actually fluked getting it dead centre but you can always use your stamp-a-ma-jig to get it just right.
The ribbon is white grsograin that has been coloured with Almost Amethyst chalk. I used the sponge dauber to wipe the chalk along the ribbon. I added some Dazzling Diamonds to the centre of the snowflakes.

Stamps: The Snowflake Spot
Inks: Almost Amethyst, Vintage Vioet
Card stock: Whisper White, Vintage Violet
Accessories: White Grosgrain Ribbon, Stampn’ Pastels (chalks), Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
Tools: Sponge Dauber

I'm back...kinda...

Hi everyone,
I'm so sorry this blog has been so neglected. I have the best of intentions but...I have been really sick for the last few weeks. I am suffering a bad case of pregnancy nausea! (Yay but not yay at the same time)
I hope to be well enough soon to stamp something to put on the blog for you all. At the moment I'm just focussing on getting through this Saturday at the big Christmas workshop at Carina.
Here's a sneak peak of some of the cards we'll be doing that day. Perhaps I'll be able to post the instructions for them later as a tutorial. Should be lots of fun!


These 2 cards above were designed by my wonderful upline Liz.

This card was CASEd from "stamptramp72's" gallery on SplitcoastStampers.