Flower stamps

mmm, today my niece was here with my daughter and I decided to organise my stamp collection. After a few false starts I decided on a - Alphabet stamps, b - birthday, kids and Christmas stamps, flowers, then word stamps including phrases and then multi purpose stamps sets that have lots of different stamps in them. The most stamps I had were by far FLOWER stamps sets!! I kinda new this but it still blew me away the actual amount that I actually do own. Oh well. I love em!

Christmas Cards

Here is a card I made after I looked at Kristina Kwerner's website. Of course I was days late to do the challenge but it really inspired me to do something! Its using the Season of Joy stamp set - not just for Christmas hey! The colours were pumpkin pie, rose red (I think), sage shadow and whisper white.

And here is another creation using the instructions from Makeesha Byl's web site! Thanks Keesh. It is a CD pouch and we will be making one of these at my Christmas workshop on Tuesday 18th November at 730pm. Contact me for the details! We will be making some other projects too.

Thursday night (20th November @ 730pm) is the Christmas Card workshop which will be focussing on making easily replicable cards that you can glam up if you would like to!

Finally, Saturday will be the card organizer that I am going to finish off and show you soon, so check back for a sneak peak! Cheers, Helen xx

Anyone Up for A Challenge

Hi everyone

I'm planning on doing something that a lot of bloggers are doing! A colour challenge!! So once a fortnight I will offer a challenge to anyone who wants to play along...If you email me a photo of your card or layout I will post them on here and we can see what people can do!

Check out the photo of the colours opposite! This is from a new shower curtain package...Nice colours and they got me inspired. I will post my creation soon. The colours are tempting turquoise, soft sky, river rock, certainly celery and very vanilla. You can use any similar colours of course.

Crazy Christmas Chaos

Yes, I know I am very naughty. Life is just so busy right now and with Christmas looming it will only get much worse! So I am having all my Christmas craft sessions next week! I will probably do one more too when the new minicatalogue comes out too.

Session 1 Gift Tags, CD holders, Tuesday 18th November 730pm $10 for 3 projects

Session 2 Christmas Cards Tuesday 20th November 730pm $10 for 3 cards and suitable for all experience levels.

Session 3 Gifts Plus Saturday 22nd November 2-5pm Cost is $25 and includes a cool card centre for yourself or a friend. This price includes your 3x3 cards, full size cards and gift tags. You are welcome to bring along your own cardstock and patterned paper or you can use mine. This photo is from Dannies Designs, a really cool website that I got the idea from. Contact me via email or here to register for one, or all of these classes! hels42@bigpond.com

Stampamajig

Hi everyone. This is a Stampamajig! I really like the name of it. It is a handy little gadget to have around. If you like perfection you will like this tool. My next workshop is October 20 and you can come along and try this for yourself. It starts at 730pm and you will make a project and can practise this for yourself. I'm at 37 Lady Douglas Way, Karratha. Contact me on 91 431 573/0418914293. The cost is $5.
This month Stampamajig is turning 20! There are some great stampsets to be had!
Have a great week and happy stamping.

Spring Fever

Hi everyone. How are the school holidays going? Everyone, except Deb can answer that! Being in Broome excludes you Deb!
I have been going mad with cleaning, organising and just have labelling to go! My craft stuff has been sorted, the good stuff saved and the not so good ditched! I've moved all my craft stuff out of the lounge area into the alcove behind breakfast bar. Hopefully this will improve my creative flow. Certainly makes the lounge look more spacious.
Happy Birthday Stampin'Up!
Well, I'm off to see what else I can clean out or throw out!

Stampin'Up! Regional Event September 13th 2008

Yes, don't fall off your chair! I finally downloaded my photos tonight from last weekend so I can publish them here!! The pink card on the left is 3 little cupcakes made from the tab punch. You fold them in half. I then punched doublesided paper for the top of the cake to look like 100's 1000's and highlighted some of them with crystal effects and dazzling diamonds. Thanks for your great idea Sherylee!
The surfing santa is a slider card using the word window punch. A bit complex to explain but I think it was on Tami White's blog that Annette told me about. Thanks Netty!
The scrapbooking page was made using the spiral punch. Love that punch. I stamped the letters using versamark on basic black cardstock and the big deal alphabet and cut them out. The embellishments were also made from punches - the scallop punch. You punch out the image then stick onto a post-it note and punch it again. I used the black journal pen along the left and bottom side to journal about this day.
The scallop card was made using doublesided paper. A circle is punched out using the 1 3/8 punch, then the slit punch is used to create the scallop.
The other scalloped image was a boo boo! I was a bit tired and grabbed the 1 1/4 circle punch and the slit punch wouldn't fit!!! So I punched another circle and then trimmed it a bit to make a little mini album! Cherita pointed out if you were trying to do this you could use a tab punch and it would be a lot easier! Very true and I will try this now I liked the outcome! I decorated the spring flowers paper with the 1/2 pearls from the fab Pretties kit, stick them on with crystal effects.
The other card with the fish from the Life's a Breeze I used the slit punch again to make the waves. I've used crystal effects to make the fish glisten which you can't see here.
Well, hope you are still awake! If you would like more info, or would like to order any of the things I've talked about then please leave me a post!