Simply Said CASEd

Here's another "CASEd" card from the new catalogue.

Stamps: Simply Said
Inks: Certainly Celery, Not Quite Navy, Bashful Blue
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Earth Elements Brads, Flower Designer Brads
Tools: Stamp-a-ma-jig

And here's the original:

Pick A Purple Petal

The idea for this card came from the following picture in our new catalogue:

The catalouge is such a great resource! You can copy the samples exactly or do what I've done here and use it for inspiration. I've copied the layout but changed it a little bit by adding the scalloped border instead of a piece of ribbon.

I also changed the colours. The colour combination was inspired by the Colour Wheel. The colour wheel doesn't have the in colours on it so I substitiuted them in for other colours. The colour wheel suggested a combination of Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive and Pretty In Pink. I swapped the Olive for Kiwi and the Pretty in Pink for Pink Piroutte.



Stamps: Pick A Petal, Short and Sweet
Inks: Elegant Eggplant, Kiwi Kiss
Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Kiwi Kiss, Pink Piroutte, Whisper White
Accessories: nil
Tools: Word Window Punch, Scalloped Edge punch, Distressing Tool (Cutter Kit), 1 inch circle punch

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