Frangipani cupcake invitations

These are the invites I made for my daughters' birthday party in March.

We decided to have a frangipani party. I had bought the cardstock before I became a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. As it was quite expensive, it would have been a waste not to use it. I did use the Big Bold Birthday stamp set, though, with Basic Black & So Saffron ink pads. Love that stamp set! The little ceramic frangipanis were adhered using Crystal Effects.

I have made matching gift cards for the favour/lolly bags, which I will post soon. Stay tuned!

My very first Blog Award!

A huge "thank you" to my lovely Upline and extremely talented lady, Di Barnes for giving me my very first Blog award. Don't just take my word for it - see for yourself just how talented she really is.

I believe that I'm supposed to forward this award to others, so here goes:

Makeesha Byl

Karen Thomas

Chantelle - Chantelle's Stampin Place

These ladies are just so great at what they do that this is probably just one of many awards but I just had to pass it on to them. The work these three ladies do is unbelievable, and the fact that they manage to do such wonderful work, although being mothers to young children, just inspires me no end.

Thank you for selflessly sharing your work.

Rockin' & Rollin Garden Whimsy

I'm pretty sure that's the name of the technique I've used to make this card:

Firstly, you ink the stamp with the lighter colour, then you roll the edges of the stamp in the darker colour. I've used my newly aqcuired Regal Rose and Basic Grey that arrived this morning.

Stamp sets used: Garden Whimsy, So Many Sayings, Polkadot.

Other: Window punch, Grey tafetta ribbon, half ribbons.

Thanks for visiting!

Hubby's 40th invitations

Here is one of the very many invitations I made for my husband's 40th birthday.

I used Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip and Bashful Blue cardstock, and Bashful Blue and Chocolate Chip ink with the Ocean Commotion stamp set. I used the paper piercer from the tool kit on the top left corner.

Now I'm off to enjoy a couple of hours on my own, as Mia has gone back to school and Demi is now at preschool. A nap, maybe? Sounds good.

2000 Blog Hits!!!!!

Oh my gosh!

I have reached 2000 hits on my Blog! I can't believe it!

Thank you so much to all of you who take the time to visit, and especially those of you who leave me such motivating comments. Please keep coming back! I hope you gain some inspiration and ideas for your own projects.

Thank you again.

Andrea.

Embrace Life in Certainly Celery

Here is the card & gift wrapping I made for my sister-in-law's birthday. I used the Embrace Life stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalogue, the So Many Sayings Hostess Set, the Yummy stamp set from the Sale-a-bration promotion, and Certainly Celery Designer Series Papers.

If you have any questions, please ask.

Bye for now.

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

Ocean Commotion Layout

Hello everyone & a Happy New Year to you all!

Here is a 12 x 12 layout to commemorate Mia's school swimming carnival.

I love the fishies but they took forever to cut out!

Here are the supplies I used:

Cardstock: Whisper White, Apricot Appeal, Blush Blossom, Bashful Blue

Paper: non-SU striped Paper, a strip of light blue, polkadot Summer Picnic paper

Ink: Apricot Appeal, Blush Blossom

Other: Circle punch, gold brads

Thanks for visiting!

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!

Congratulations Mia!!!

What a proud day we had yesterday. Not only did Mia win a trophy for "Most Improved Swimmer" during the school swimming program, but she also brought home the most amazing school report.

Well done to my gorgeous girl. She has worked very hard during her first year of school so it was all very well deserved.

I can't believe Mia has just about finished Kindy and Demi will be starting preschool in a few weeks! Where has the year gone?

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.

Our 2008 Christmas Card

After um-ing and ahh-ing about whether to make our Christmas cards or ot this year, I finally just bit the bullet, got the photos developed, and made them - well twenty of them. Some hand written ones snuck in there too. Anyway, here they are....

Not much stamping on them - just the Polkadot background. The colours used were Sahara Sand and Real Red. I printed the little messages on my computer, punched them out with the small oval punch and mounted them onto large punched out ovals. The flowers are non-SU flowers that I had in my stash. I didn't have enough red flowers to make all the cards with so I used white ones on some cards. One regret - I should have printed the year on them. Oh, well.

If you received one, let me know what you think.

Bye for now.

Summer Picnic Scrapbooking Layout.

I've had a whole bunch of photos developed lately so expect a few scrapbooking layouts over the coming weeks. I always do double page layouts, as opposed to single pages. That's just the habit I got into and I like the way they look in an album. Here is the first one of Mia's dancing concert...

I used Summer Picnic papers from the now retired Spring Mini Catalogue and the Hostess Stamp set, In the Spotlight with Bashful Blue and Old Olive cardstock and inks. I purchased two lots of these papers and now I regret not having bought more. They are so lovely. I hope they make a re-appearance in next year's catalogue.

Little Creations

I haven't had a chance to make anything lately, what with a school mass, dancing concert, Christmas shopping, etc, etc, etc, but I did get my 'fix' by helping Mia and Victoria make some cute little cards. Here they are...

...and here are their creations...

Demi joined in too!


She started off with all the same materials as Victoria and Mia, but somehow she ended up with...well...er...this...

Too cute!

From the Garden

Can you tell how good I am at this Blogging stuff? - NOT! I just found an old post that in actual fact, I never posted! Well, here it is now.

These are some cards I made with the hostess set, From the Garden.

Enjoy!

As if all these special offers and promotions weren't enough, the The Single Stampin' Up! Marker promotion has been extended until 14th December!

Purchase individual markers for just $4.95 each! Click here to view details.

Contact me at arthur_andrea@optusnet.com.au for more details to to place an order.

The Summer Mini Catalogue is Here!

That's right! The Summer Mini Catalogue is here and it's filled with some wonderful products on offer until 31st March 2009.

Contact me to obtain a catalogue or click here to view the catalogue online.

Click on the links below to view projects made with items from the Summer Mini Catalogue:

Ocean Commotion

Time For You

Live Your Dream

Take care!

Tying up Christmas!

Tie up your Christmas shopping with 20% off 12 selected items when you spend $20 on any catalogue items!!! Wow!

Click here to see a list of the reduced items.

Be quick as this offer is only valid from 1st to 31st December. Email me at arthur_andrea@optusnet.com.au to place an order.