On a Roll!

Hello! I hope you're enjoying your weekend.

Here is yet another double page layout I have managed to complete despite it being school holiday time. My girls and I have managed to enjoy quite a bit of crafting in between all the other school holiday activities.

This layout is of Demi's first day of preschool...





Isn't she the cutest thing cute?

For this layout I used the now retired Certainly Celery DSP teamed with the gorgeous Petal Pizzaz stamp set. This set is not only a fabulous set for making greeting cards but it also simply perfect for making embellishments for scrapbooking pages, as you can see here. I stamped the flowers and leaves in Pretty in Pink and Certainly Celery, cut them or punched them out, pierced gold brads through the flower centres and voila! So effective. The sentiments are from the Level 1 Hostess Set, Best Yet and the now retired Live Your Dream set.

Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with two cards, one of them in the same theme of this layout, so stay tuned!

By the way, I apologise if this post looks like it's all crammed together, but for some strange reason, Blogger doesn't seem to acknowledge my paragraphs, or it wants to put in huge gaps between my paragraphs. Grrrr!!!!

Fifth Avenue Floral Scrapbooking Layouts

I can't believe I missed posting these layouts of our visit to Sydney Wildlife Park that I did some time ago! It must be because I haven't been myself lately. I feel like I've been running around like a headless chook. With the building of the new house, the girls & all of their activities, I just can't get my bearings...whinge, whinge, whinge... But I did have a little 'me' time yesterday during the Mother's Day class I ran at my home yesterday. We made some of those gorgeous flower pot cards, very similar to the one I posted a little while ago (just scroll down to have a look) and a matching gift tag.


Anyway, onto the first of two double layouts...





I just love the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set! Unfortunately, the paper and River Rock cardstock I used have now retired, as is the Live Your Dream stamp set from which I used the little butterfly, but I still use them as these layouts are for my personal albums.


I hope they inspire you in some way.

Card Folder

Here is a lovely gift folder inspired by a tutorial by Makeesha Byl that you can see here.

I made it some time ago but I never got around to posting it. I can't believe I did that because it's one of my favourite things that I've made!

Anyway, to make it I used the Live Your Dream and Short & Sweet stamp sets, Always Articchoke, So Saffron, Bashful Blue & Very Vanilla cardstock, Le Jardin DSP, Always Artichoke, Bashful Blue & So Saffron ink pads, window punch, and gold brads. I think that's all.

Have a great day!

40th Female Card

Here is a card made for a friend turning 40.

For this one I used Whisper White, Soft Sky and Blue Bayou cardstock, Sprink Break DSP, Blue Bayou and Sofy Sky inks, Botanical Blooms and Live Your Dream stamp sets, Blue Bayou ribbon, oval punches and half pearls. I think it turned out very pretty.

Goodbye to some retiring items

It has been a while but I'm back with a couple of cards we made during a class today. I tried to incorporate some retiring items.

Here is the first card, made using the Live Your Dream stamp set and the matching Afternoon Tea Designer Series paper from the Summer Mini Catalogue which is available until 31st March. Colours used were Chocolate Chip, Whisper White & Groovy Guava.

Next is a card made using the Big Bold Birthday stamp set,the Spring Break Designer Paper, Whisper White, Blue Bayou and Pumpkin Pie cardstock, Blue Bayou, Pumpkin Pie and Soft Sky ink.

Luckily, this stamp set will not be retiring but the paper, the Blue Bayou and Soft Sky coloured items, together with all the other In-Colour items, will be. I'm really sad about this as I only recently "discovered" them, having become a demonstrator last August. Not to worry, the new In-Colours look just as delish. Not long to wait now - the new catalogue comes out on 1st April!

Quick little gift bag

Just a really quick post for a really quick, last minute, walking-out-the-door gift bag.

I have a whole bunch of these brown paper bags. Firstly, I adhered some pink cardboard letters that I had in my stash. Then, I simply stamped images from the Priceless stamp set all over the bag in Pixie Pink, then made a simple gift card using some scrap Non-SU oatmeal card. I added some curling ribbon & voila!

Oh, I also stamped the journalling lines stamp from the Live Your Dream stamp set inside the gift card (you can just make it out in the photo), to help guide my daughters writing.

I have been madly working on the invitations for my daughters' birthday party, and on the little gift cards to put on their lolly bags, hence the lack of posts. I do have to make a couple of cards soon, though, so keep an eye out for those.

Catch you soon.

Turning Teen

Here is a card for our niece, Deanna who is turning thirteen tomorrow.

I used:

Stamps: Garden Whimsy, Live Your dream, non-SU number stamps

Cardstock: Afternoon Tea Designer Series Paper from the Summer Mini catalogue, Groovy Guava, Sahara Sand, Whisper White

Ink: Groovy Guava. Sahara Sand

Other: Oval punches, half pearls, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, corner rounder punch

Well, it sure has been a while!

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas with your loved ones and I hope you're all geared up for the New Year. May 2009 be a safe & happy year for us all.

One thing I know is that 2009 will be a busy year right from the start. We have at least ten birthdays, weddings and other parties that come to mind, in January alone! Help! And here are some cards to start us off...

Firstly, we have a birthday card for one of Mia's school friends made using the Garden Whimsy, Think Happy Thoughts and Live Your Dream sets, and the now retired Summer Picnic papers. Also used were Whisper White and Black cardstock, Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black ink, circle punches, and a non-SU number stamp set and non-SU half-pearls.

Secondly, is a card for another of Mia's school friends. This card was made using the Just Cricket and So Many Sayings stamp sets, Basic Black ink, and Whisper White, Sahara Sand and Basic Black cardstock. Also used were the window punch, silver brads, circle punches and a non-SU number stamp set.

More "Live Your Dream"

I recently bought some of the "In Colour" ink pads & cardstock to go with the new Afternoon Tea 12 x 12 papers, and I just had to use them! And I had to use them with my favourite Live Your Dream stamp set.

Firstly, I made this one using River Rock and Soft Sky.

For this next one I used River Rock with Groovy Guava.

My verdict? I love the In Colours!

Live Your Dream - Double Scrapbooking Layout

As promised, I have completed another scrapbooking layout.

Left side...


Right side...

This layout was completed using the Afternoon Tea Designer Series Paper (loooove it!) and the Live Your Dream stamp set (loooove it even more!) from the new Summer Mini Catalogue. Some stamp sets are perfect for scrapbooking and this is definitely one of them. Also used were Chocolate Chip and Whisper White cardstock, Chocolate Chip ink, Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon, twine, large tag punch and silver brads. I think that's everything.

I'm really happy with how it turned out.

So Swirly, So Versatile.

I just love my So Swirly jumbo wheel, simply because it is just so versatile. You really don't need much else when you use it and you can create so many different moods just by changing colours. Take a look...

Firstly, is a birthday card made using the wheel with Whisper White, Elegant Eggplant, Sahara Sand, Elegant Eggplant grosgrain ribbbon, the butterfly from the new Live Your Dream stamp set and three little half pearls on the butterfly. The sentiment is from the So Many Sayings hostess set, punched out with the window punch. I also used the piercing tool.

Next is a Christmas card made using Whisper White, Ruby Red, the flower from the In the Spotlight hostess set. Again, the sentiment is from the So Many Sayings hostess set and has been punched out with the window punch. The piercing tool was usedin the bottom right-hand corner.

By the way, if you love any of the hostess sets, ask me how you can earn them.

Lots to Show You!

Well, I have lots to show you today!

Firstly, my bad habit has kicked in again, so here you have three cards which I have made with the Live Your Dream set. They are all pretty much the same with just some subtle differences. The colours I used were Old Olive with So Saffron, Bravo Burgundy and Pumpkin Pie. I also used half pearls or brads as embellishments, and the piercing tool.

Next are some cute little tags that I made to embellish some Christmas pencils that Mia gave out as Christmas presents to her Kindy classmates. They were made using Real Red Ink, Real Red and Always Artichoke cardstock, the snowflake from the In the Spotlight hostess stamp set, the small circle punch, the two sized tag punches, and either white or Always Artichoke grosgrain ribbon.

Mia loved them & so did her little friends.

And finally, I have a little note card made using the Dashing Designer Paper, the Priceless and Think Happy Thoughts stamp sets, and circle punches. I also snuck in a non-SU number '6.'

Quick and easy!

Thanks for visiting!

More Commotion

When I make a card that I like, I have a bad habit of making multiples of it. Here is my bad habit in action, using the Ocean Commotion set:

Again, the seahorse and seashell have been heat embossed using Versamark & Chocolate Chip inks. The background seaweed was stamped using Versamark ink & the seaweed behind the seahorse was stamped in Bashful Blue.

Live Your Dream!

Another card = another post. This time a card using the Live Your Dream set, again, from the the so-to-be-released Summer Mini Catalogue. This is one of my favourite sets. I know I say that often, but this set is truly gorgeous. Love it, love it, love it!


Colours used were Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive and Whisper White. The flowers, butterfly and bird were cut out and popped onto the card with dimensionals. The flower and sentiments were embellished with gold brads. But I couldn't stop there! I covered a little note book to match. Beautiful little gift set, me thinks. You?

Andrea.

This is a card I made for my Upline, Di Barnes for all that she has done for me since joining SU! in August. She is wonderful and so is her work.

The card was made using the Ocean Commotion set and the sentiment from the Live Your Dream set, both coming really soon!

The background was stamped with Versamark ink, the seaweed in Bashful Blue, and the seahorse and shell in Versamark, followed by Chocolate Chip & then heat embossed using clear powder. I must say that I'm really happy with it and I hope Di really likes it. Just quietly, I felt a bit of pressure to impress - ha ha!

Well, take care and enjoy your afternoon.

Andrea.

Christmas cards galore!

Hi everyone!

Some of us girls got together last night for a Christmas card "jamming" session - is that the right term? Well, whatever the correct term is, we had a fun time. I made these five cards yesterday (while Demi napped) to inspire the girls, and to satisfy my urge to use most of my new goodies that had arrived in my order the day before. They replicated the origami tree card (tutorial can be found here http://flowerbug.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/11/origami-christmas-tree.html) and then used different concepts from the other cards to create their own card.





Thanks to Anna S, Sandra & Helen!