Archive for July, 2007

My big girl……..

July 28, 2007

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This is my other project for this Friday night………a lovely school shot of my eldest daughter, Caitlin.
This has been done as a 6 inch page and stamped with Scribble This (see our new mini catalogue on the Stampin’ Up! website……….its only available for 3 months………) in Stazon, on Confetti cream cardstock. [...]

me and my lad………

July 27, 2007

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I’m pretty happy with tonights scrapping effort. Friday night is my unwind night, when I make or do something for myself. I made this page with some product I was itchin’ and a scratchin’ to use. This is the lovely brown stripe patterned paper from the recollections paper pack [...]

special card ……..

July 26, 2007

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This was a card I made some time ago for a friend who lost someone very dear to her……….These are always the most difficult to make. This was done by stamping the image from seaside sketches onto vellum using stazon and coloring on the reverse with the markers. The [...]

Make and Take for this week…..

July 22, 2007

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This was my make and take for todays workshop at Sue’s house. This was a nice and easy page but it is visually attractive. We stamped the linen background and the fern stamp from Touch of Nature in versamark inkpad. This helps with adding depth to the image. The next step [...]

OOohhhh what a night…….

July 21, 2007

Last night, I held my first stamp club get together. Everyone congregated at my place and had a fun night stampin, scrapping and chatting. Boy we had fun…….we made a glittered Christmas card using two sets from the mini catalogue…….I’ll post an example when I make one that is straight……..stop laughing Kim!!!
I designed this great [...]

Birthday bonanza…….

July 18, 2007

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This is the card and gift voucher holder(Alisa’s great idea………check out her blog, heaps of ideas) that I made for a friends 40th a couple of weeks ago. I really loved this card (sooooo wished I’d made two!!). It was using all SU supplies, except for the prima flowers and bling [...]

More fete ideas……free stamps and free product……….!!:-)

July 15, 2007

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The last lot of cards I showed you that we have made for the fete are shown below (see post down the page) were coloured in using the watercolour caryons….(my favourite). Remember these are this months special ………..spend $50 and you can pick yourself up a set for 25% discount (this [...]

What to put inside a dark card…….????

July 14, 2007

When making dark cards that you actually want to write inside the card……..it is useful to either put in a sheet of paper that lines the card (like you see in expensive cards you buy in the newsagency) or you can make a tablet to write on using soft coloured or neutral cardstock. I often [...]

Primary school fetes

July 13, 2007

My three youngest children all go to the same primary school. This also happens to be the school where my sister is currently teaching at. When I signed up with Stampin’ Up!, last October, I knew this could be the great opportunity to test the appeal to my community of stampin’ Up! products. We have [...]

3 days to go………

July 13, 2007

Well it has been a great holiday doing ‘nothing’ . You have to laugh when mothers say that……when do we do nothing……..it really means nothing that we would like to be doing……
Well as some of you know, I teach Agriculture and Science to high school kids………sometimes the animals need a bit of a hand and [...]