Friday 22 December 2017

Stampin' Up! Sale-A-Bration Party Pandas rubber stamps of cuteness!

Hi I'm Courtenay from Australia and I have a little obsession with Pandas, even my Christmas Nursing scrubs are made from Panda fabric - Thank you Stampin' Up! for supporting me by bringing out a super CUTE stamp set that's FREE! yes a FREE one with Pandas.
Party Pandas is free with a qualifying purchase during Sale-A-Bration 3rd Jan - 31st March 2018 and available in all Stampin' Up! markets so check out a Demonstrator in you country to see how to qualify.
Australian customers that place an order between 3rd Jan till 31st March need to purchase $90 worth of product from any available catalogue or the Clearance rack and you can pick this baby as your free gift, or one of the many other great choices.



Do you agree? Super Cute!
These are 4x4 inch cards that I made for my nieces' birthday recently - not only are they cute but also very easy to do. I think you will fall for these little guys as well. Let me show you some close ups.




Thanks for popping in - till next time Happy Stamping!


Courtenay
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Saturday 16 December 2017

Stamping from the Heart - SBTD Blog Hop December 2017




Welcome to our monthly SBTD Blog Hop - did you love Lindsay's Hug-in-a-mug as much as I did? If you have hopped on over from Lindsay's Blog in Colorado - well welcome to the sunny - stinkin' hot Australian summer time here!

For this hop we are Stamping from the heart and this could cover so much - every time I make a card, send a card or wrap a gift part of my heart is there? March sees my In-Laws Celebrate their 50 year wedding anniversary so I am already planning and creating towards that - there's party favours, decorations, a card to give them, gift wrapping and the cake! 


So today I'm sharing the cake toppers I have made - being March as you can imagine the cake is not made yet but we are planning already. My In-Laws are very traditional and have asked for a quilted cake with roses on it - might have to see about that one as quilting a cake is a bit out of my league. Either way this topper will look smick!

I have also made 5 table toppers for the guests tables - the easiest way though was to show you them in a pot with some greenery.


50 years together married that's a big achievement and something they are mighty proud of - this is a gift from my heart to theirs.


 

 
These measure approximately 10.5cm across or just over 4" - I cut 2 strips of DSP 12x2" then scored them at every 1/2 inch using the Simply Scored Scoring Tool  (on one side I scored all the 1/2 inch lines and then turned it over to score the inch marks from the other side to make valleys any peaks when folding). To stick it all together the glue gun was my friend -it is very fast to set and that's what I needed!

There will be more goodies to come as the big event gets closer but for now thank you for visiting me and lets go back across the globe you go to visit Tashana and see where the hearts have taken her.

http://www.honeybeesstampinghive.com/2017/12/from-heart-sbtd-december-2017-blog-hop.html
Participant list  
 
1.  Rachel Pine                  
2.  Karie Beglau                  
3.  Judi Anderson                  
4.  Susan Simpson               
6.  Lyndsay LaRae Carara                  
7.  Courtenay Heuston  - You are HERE
9.  Carly Middleton                     
10. Sharleen Luciano             
11. Vicky Thompson - returning next month
 
 Wow these used more goodies than I realised - this is my pictorial list! Add a trimmer and adhesive (Hot Glue Gun) then you are good to make your own.

Courtenay
 
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Saturday 9 December 2017

What's in my Stampin' Up! Big Brown Box?

On the first day of Christmas the preorder period started, a new Stampin' Up! catalogue was coming to town for the New Year and let me say I was excited.  On Stage Local in Melbourne had wet my appetite for all the new lovelies that were coming and it was difficult for me to stick to my budget! between you and I - I went a weeee bit over - so glad I had some free product credit to use.

So it arrived and I posted a teaser photo on my Facebook page of just a Big Brown Box and it got a fair bit of curiosity happening on my page.

Have you seen the new catalogue yet? Get your Demonstrator to send you a copy once they have them in their hot little hands - there is a heap of lovely stuff in there!

 

Not much room for brown paper in this box. There was new scallop circle punches, shimmery embossing paste, stamp set & framelit bundles, Divine DSP, 2 new kits and a stack of Catalogues made this one heavy box!

 
The True Gentleman Suite - classic bold patterns. Red Rubber Stamp set and Tailored Tag Punch bundle. Gentleman buttons and 1cm Corduroy Ribbon In Night of Navy make the perfect accompaniment to this suite.
 

 
 

The Myths & Magic Suite - a glittery world of mythical creatures and magic (my Miss Eilish’s must have Suite in the whole Catalogue) and I do agree with her. Its divine!
 
 
Magical Day red rubber stamp set - bundled with Magical mates Framelits.
Oh the Specialty DSP with Iridescent glittered designs on one side with all occasions imagery on the other is perfect and is a great match Specialty Myths & Magic Washi Tape and Glimmer Paper.


 
Now I just need to finish my Christmas cards, prepare for my last Creative Cuppa for the year and then I can get playing with these new goodies!
So till next time - Happy Stampin'
 

Courtenay
 
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Friday 8 December 2017

Watercolour Christmas Card in Old Olive

 
Just popping in to share this super quick Christmas card with you.
 
The Watercolor Christmas set is retiring so I'm trying to get as much use out of it as possible before its no longer available. I love the font Stampin' Up! has used on this set.
 
 
 
In Australia its only 17 sleeps to go have you sent all your Christmas cards out yet?

 
 Shopping List

 
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Saturday 2 December 2017

Santa’s Sleigh Festivities - GSF Blog Hop


 Welcome to the December GSF Blog Hop - we are celebrating the festive season with festive projects to share. We are hopping all about the world from one side of the globe to here in Australia then back again - Did you see Marieke's project how amazing are those decorations? Some people are super clever aren't they? 

I decided to have a play with the Merry Music Specialty DSP, the pizza boxes and Santa's Sleigh. I water coloured the trees very lightly so that the DSP didn't balls up like wet paper can do.





So the inside of the card got the same treatment but be frugal with the water on the Whisper White card as its not really a fan of being super wet.

So lets head on across the world with the press of the Next button and visit Angelique  to see the divine famed art she has to share with us.
https://stempelkeuken.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/festive-celebrations-gsf-bloghop.html



2. Rebecca Urban
3. Libby Dyson
4. Jan Musselman
5. Lisa Ann Bernard
6. Karie Beglau
7. Amanda Farlinger
8. Kimberley Anne Morris
9. Tricia Butts
10. Amanda Bates
11. Kristie Neal Walthall
12. Anastasia Radloff
13. Erica Jones
14. Jenn Charles Curtis
15. Marieke Bart
16. Courtenay Heuston
17. Angelique Stempelkeuken
18. Sarah McDermott

 The shopping list!
Courtenay

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