Party Hearty Stampin' Up! Style

I have some more cards to share using the Party Hearty Stamp set.... I used a little glitter on the candle flame, Crystal Effects on the "icing" of the cupcake and while it was still wet I placed some glass beads into the Crystal Effects.  Once Dry the beads are embedded beautifully in what looks like glossy chocolate icing.

Don't you just love the way the Stampin' Up! Trio Flower Punch matches the Kiwi Kiss Designer Paper beautifully!

Colours used were Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss and Chocolate Chip

I tried to create a set of cards that can be used for both men and women, boys or girls, hope you like them!

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Fifth Avenue Floral Stamp Set and Pocket Silhouettes

This is a really simple yet elegant card using the Fifth Avenue Floral Stamp set, I have used Shimmer Paper and embossed it, teamed it up with a Close to Cocoa Stampin' Up! Inkpad, a few nestabilities to create the frame and Very Vanilla Cardstock...

We made this card and the one below in our  regular Wednesday Stamping Group which I teach every Wednesday at 9:45am.  If you would like to attend, so that I have a kit available for you kindly contact me beforehand as our group is growing very quickly and bookings are essential. The colours used are Kiwi Kiss, Not quite Navy Card Stock and Baja Breeze and Not quite Navy Ink pads.  Urban Garden Designer Paper by Stampin' Up! was used to bring the whole design together.

I have quite a few photos to upload over the next few days, so why not subscribe to my newsletters, there is a link on the left hand side of the page, and you will receive emails directly everytime there is a new update.




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Quick and easy Trendy Trees Cards

I have two very easy cards to share with you using the Trendy Trees Stampin' Up! Stamp set.  A real fun set of stamps when using the Stamp -a-ma-jig

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Have a nice weekend

Hi Everyone, just a quick update that I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth, just had a lot on this last week. Hubby went overseas for 5 days, daughter came back from camp, a few appointments. Signed the kids up for Mini Athletics (and sat there watching them until 9pm last night!!) etc. etc. we all lead such busy lives don't we! Will get back to uploading a few new cards this weekend :) Have a nice weekend all!


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Soccer Card

A quick soccer card to share. I didn't use any Stampin Up! stamps for this card because I had to use whatever I had on hand that would work with the ideas that I had in mind. We needed a Thank you Coach Card for the two very dedicated coaches who have been training our boys during the soccer season. Just thought I'd share :) - I did use Crystal effects on the soccer boots and the top layer of the grass to make it nice and shiny. The "filmstrip" I created using the spiral punch as well as a 1 1/4" square punch.

Also notice I have finally managed to place my watermark on this photo! Pat on the back for me, although I am not so sure that I will be able to remember how I did it for my next upload, lol, slowly I'm working out a few more features in Photoshop CS4.

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Crazy for Cup Cakes Stamp Set

I designed some very pretty Birthday cards today for our Stamping Group that I teach every week. This week we had 5 ladies attending who had never stamped before in addition to our usual stampers (Hi Ladies :) I can't believe we need three whole tables for all of us now!

It did prove to be a challenge as there were quite a few steps involved in these cards but everyone managed beautifully. It really gives me such a happy feeling when I see the look of excitement on someone's face when they discover stamping for the very first time and the are so proud of their achievements!

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Free Stampin' Up! Ribbon Bundle Promotion

From 1-30 September, you can get an exclusive Ribbon Bundle* FREE when you spend $100 on any Stampin' Up! products or host a $600 workshop.

****Ribbon bundle includes ***

9.1 metres each Certainly Celery 5/8" poly-twill ribbon and So Saffron 5/8" grosgrain ribbon.

Both of these ribbons are not in our current catalogue, so this will be your only opportunity to get them....let me know if you "need" to order a few items so you can take part in this great offer which is only valid for this month.

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