All good things must come to an end!

I have just got home from convention!
I had heard so much about convention over the 7years I have been purchasing Stampin' Up! products. Now as a new demonstrator I am understanding the who ha, feeling blessed I got to be here, and kicking myself I didn't join sooner. (Isn't hind site wonderful) I have made new friends, got some wonderful ideas and most if all have a goal to ensure I am joining in the fun next year.

So the short and curly version -
We got free stuff, made some great projects and saw some awesome presentations so I am inspired but exhausted!

Good night sleep tight

Ready. Set. Send. From Stampin' Up!
Price: $19.00 product no 133384
Shop HERE
Everyone loves receiving handmade cards. Now you can give them without the fuss of making them, and benefit a great cause at the same time. With Ready. Set. Send. cards we've already done the work of making the cards for you, and for every kit sold, Stampin’ Up! is donating $10 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation! Just grab a card, write a quick note, and off it goes. Your friends and family will love your handcrafted cards, and you can know that you are making as difference by donating to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Box includes: * 5 birthday cards * 5 thank-you cards * 10 Whisper White envelopes

There's a new catalogue coming (insert happy dancing) - My question is who wants one earlier than the 1st of July release date? I can have one delivered to your door around the 10th of June, so who wants one? To get one all you need to do is spend $50 in my online store using the hostess code 3X7MMX39 or place an order with me before 28th May and I will sort this out for you.
Order HERE

Happy Mothers Day

Wishing all the mums a beautiful day.

Its Wednesday - new deals today!

Pop over to my shop to put your order in.

The Dauber

What difference can a Dauber make you ask?

 

They can be used for different techniques from the basic spot application to applying a fine colour highlight to the edges of card to give a sense of depth.
I have created some examples to show you the difference a dauber can make.



 

No Dauber

Dauber to highlight edges

 

Here are 3 cards same idea as a starting point and the final card is the one I am most happy with.

 

Ingredients:

2013-2015 In Colour Cardstock and Ink Pads

Honeycomb embossing folder

1cm stretched ruffle trim

Bitty Butterfly punch

Extra Large Oval punch

Tea Lace paper Doilies

Chalk talk stamp set

Framelits - labels collection

Pearl basic jewels



Weekly deals 9-15 April

Weekly deals

Weekly Deals with Stampin' Up Start this week.

Each week in April Stampin' Up is bringing you new specials so check back each Wednesday to see what they are. You can find this weeks specials HERE

The Deals (2-8 April)

Item	Description	Retail Price	Sale Price
125577	Large Pearl Basic Jewels	$8.95	$6.71
126847	Midnight Muse 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon	$15.95	$11.96
126845	Raspberry Ripple 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon	$15.95	$11.96
126846	Summer Starfruit 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon	$15.95	$11.96
123224	Wild Wasabi Stampin' Emboss Powder	$8.50	$6.38
118764	Vintage Trinkets	$9.95	$7.46
129872	Mom, I Love You Digital Ensemble (digital download)	$10.95	$6.57

Final Sale-A-Bration wave

About to put my final order in for this SAB - will miss the beautiful DSP but a bit excited as it means there's a new big catalogue getting closer.

What's your favourite stamp set?
Mine is Gorgeous Grunge product no 130514 and it can be found HERE

Did you know that if you buy stamps or DSP for your MDS the items never retire or disappear? How great is that!

So with all that said what do you think you could guess what beauties are going to retire with the new catalogue?

Easter sewing

My paper snips are down and I have fabric scissors in my hands. With 8 kiddies in the family that is potentially a lot of chocolate this Easter so I have decide that the gift from us will be a small egg with this cute little guy!

He is 14 inchs tall from his bot to the top of his floppy ears. Personalised with each of the kids names and their favourite colours I think he is going to be rather popular. I'm looking forward to taking a photo of them all together before they get handed out.

The pattern is from Dolls and Daydreams - they have a heap of super cute stuff if you want to search from them in Google. Sorry can't link from my iPad to my knowledge.

Summer Starfruit challenge

A colour that's growing on me - Summer Starfruit, not a colour that I would jump straight to as my real favourites are the Brights.
From the 2012-2014 In-Colour collection it is proving to be a great base colour for me. It compliments the DSP (Designer Series Paper) that you can get free with $90 during Sale-A-Bration time. I will be sad to see this paper go at the end of the month the picture in the brochure really doesn't do it justice.

 



Two cards made with Summer Starfruit cardstock and Sweet Sorbet DSP.

Featured Stamp set Perfect Pennants and the burlap ribbon from the occasions catalogue.

Summer Starfruit also compliments the High Tide DSP, Birthday Basics DSP and Soho Subway DSP
Happy cardmaking



School photo scrapping challenge!

We all love (insert sarcasm here) school photos! Usually the uniforms are colours we love to hate and after so many years if it was once our favourite colour - well that changes.
I have 3 daughters so that's 3 layouts a year (or would be if I was up-to date) and in my case that's lots of green and yellow.
Primary school we have a choice of uniforms - green, white and red check dress (super special that one) or bright yellow / gold colour top with green trim and a green skirt that you never see in the photo. Moving onto high school - goodie some variety - nope not here high school top (since you don't see the skirt) is a lovely pale lemon colour - well it was before I washed it!
So my challenge begins - I have last years photos and a bucket load of sketches, 5 great scrapping buddies and a whole weekend. Not a bad combination this should work in my favour? here's what I came up with sorry about the funny angle -

I only got one school layout done :( I just couldn't face the primary school ones again.

 

Products I used.

A full piece of Early Expresso Cardstock 12x12 - note to self this is a great colour and goes with everything so must get more.

Soho Subway DSP 130140 I cut the letter piece down by 1/2 inch on 2 sides to give me a 1/4 inch boarder all the way around

Stampin' Up doesn't have a star punch currently (fingers crossed for some framelits with the next catty) so those little beauty's are fussy cut then tied with the bakers twine. the top star has a button from the Naturals Designer Buttons set.

The Year 7 title tiles are made using the large oval punch 119855, cut down to give the shape, each are tied together with bakers twine. Oh to make the tiles a little stiffer I punched 2 pieces of cardstock to pop underneath the DSP. The letters were printed in reverse onto the cardstock then fussy cut.

The 2012 is made using the Typeset Alphabet Bigz 127553

Chevron ribbon, Burlap trim and chevron timber embellishments can be found in the current Occasions Catalogue - love it.

The best bit is I have heaps left over for some blokey type cards and other full pieces for the year 8 photo! Cant wait.

 

A quick note - remember Sale-a-Bration finishes at the end of this month. If you would like to take advantage of the great freebies on offer don't leave it to the last minute. If you have been thinking about joining Stampin' Up remember you can now get $255 worth of products for $169. But wait there's more - you will also save 20% discount on your products!

Pop on over to my shop to purchase your goodies or email me if you would like to join my team bagsthatone@hotmail.com

 

 



Water Colour DSP

Another scrap page using the beautiful water colour DSP this time.