Butterfly Basics garden collage

I have a huge backlog of cards that I have made and not blogged, so my aim over the next few weeks is to catch up a little with them. This is one from my team meeting in January, each meeting we always get to do some stamping, this one featured the beautiful new Irresisitibly Yours Specialty Designer Series Paper that you can get FREE during Sale-a-bration either with a $90 spend or by joining my team. I teamed it with the beautiful new Butterfly Basics set which has a matching stamp set & dies (if you purchase it as a bundle you save 15%).

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I am loving the Irresistibly Yours Specialty Designer Series Paper as you can sponge it or spritz it to make it match any project that you are working on, so versatile and useful!

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Here is a close up of the butterflies, the wings have been popped up and the rhinestones have been coloured with Blendabilties to match the project. If you have ever wondered about joining Stampin’ Up! please don’t hesitate to contact me and I’d be happy to have you come along to the next team meeting so you can see for yourself what it is all about and chat to the other lovely people in the team, no obligation, I just feel it’s better for people to make informed decisions.

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Weekly Deals March 25 – 31st

here are some simply fantastic Weekly Deals this week – with 25% off the Envelope Punch Board, card stock, designer series paper and more! Seriously $23.96 for an envelope punch board is cheaper than what I paid for it and mine gets used for so much more than just envelopes – here are the christmas crackers we made using it (well actually I cut the size of the card stock and my 8yo made the crackers with the envelope punch board).

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More options for Sale-a-bration……..

I have wonderful news, since the Blendabilities are no longer available as  Sale-A-Bration redemption items, Stampin’ Up! has made more items available to redeem for free! All items are whilst stocks last.

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The other Sale-a-bration items can be viewed here and here.

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Inspire.Create.Share invitation

Each year in the South Pacific there is an annual Stampin’ Up! event where hundreds of demonstrators gather for 3-4 days to share ideas, get product and business training, be inspired, participate in swaps, participate in a service project, enjoy the product playground and generally have a terrific time. I am fortunate as a senior manager to get 4 days (managers and above get an extra day) and get to attend the event for free (saving me a cool $445 – just one of the many perks of being a demonstrator – you also get free stamp sets at the event and the chance to win door prizes, do make and takes and a lot more!).11036310_862936537081395_3339122620344679084_n

This week in the mail I got this hand stamped invitation from Head Office to attend the managers event. Now all hand stamped mail is exciting to receive, but these are particularly so as they generally feature BRAND NEW PRODUCTS! How many new products can you see on this card?

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If you would like to join me on the Gold Coast for the event as a guest or as a demonstrator please contact me as tickets are going fast – so fast that over 50% sold in the first 24 hours! If you would like to read some FAQs about joining my team and becoming a demonstrator then you can do so here and until the end of the month there is the bonus of choosing an additional kit from the Occasions Catalogue OR two Sale-a-bration items as well as the normal $235 worth of product that you choose for just $169.

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Gorgeous Grunge U Rock

I got asked to make a thank you card recently for a teenage boy who is really into music and has volunteered to be DJ at our next school disco, do you think this card fits the request?

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I know, the washi tape has been retired, but he’s a teenage boy how appropriate are skulls? There are a couple of other current washi tapes that would have been suitable, but I don’t own them (yet!). When I cut glimmer paper with framelits I do tend to cover it with wax paper before putting it though my BigShot as I don’t want the cutting edges to be abraded by the glitter.

 

 

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Crazy About Hello You Thinlits

Occasionally I get real mail in my mailbox – not bills, not begging letters from charities, not unsolicited stuff from real estate agents, but REAL mail and there is simply no better mail than a hand stamped card is there?

Well last week I got this beautiful card in my mailbox and it made my day! Thanks so much for thinking of me Julie.

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I love the tag made with the angled tag punch and embellished with a dainty organza ribbon. I can’t say 100% how Julie cut her thinlits, but for the thin detailed words, the butterfly basics thinlits and similar ones I use one layer of dryer sheet between the bottom acrylic plate and the card stock and a layer of wax paper on top of the card stock, but I only run it through my BigShot once. If you’re not sure check this video out to get the idea (at about 2min 50sec onwards) :


I am not sure if you can see that the card has a cool funky fold and opens like this:

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You can see it better from above, how cute is this card? I love that it is made using my favourite colour – blue!

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The sentiment is from Crazy About You and if you buy the thinlits and stamp set as a bundle it is 15% off.  Thanks so much for sending it to me Julie, I think I might be CASEing the fold in the very near future!

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Gorgeous Grunge Colour Challenge

I joined in a colour challenge recently and I really struggled with the choice of colours (hence why it would be called a challenge right!). However not to be daunted I crafted on regardless…..ohh and if you are wondering what the “We Stamp For Lara” is – this is a month long interactive tutorial group where fro the princely sum of $45 you get 30 PDF tutorials as well as an interactive FaceBook group that gives you weekly and one the spot challenges.11041806_10205780351485010_8359473904137147160_n

Since I was out of my comfort zone with colours, I went straight for my favourite stamp set – Gorgeous Grunge……..

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I like the randomness of the splatters – the variation in colour was achieved through stamping a first and second generation image (or stamping twice without re-inking). The small circles were from the top of the angled tag punch.

I am looking forward to the challenges over the next few weeks from this group and if you want to join in even though it’s underway you will get sent all the already published tutorials.

 

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New Sale-a-bration rewards are coming!

So just in case TEN exclusive rewards and a dozen different Blendabilities sets for FREE during Sale-a-bration aren’t sufficient choice for you from March 1st there will be FOUR more exclusive items to chose from!

For each $90 increment of spending you can chose one item or if you join my team you can chose two items all for FREE, but only until March 31st!

These new items are just lovely and are perfect for so many different occasions. Here are a couple of ideas, I love the stitching detail on this card.

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How awesome is it that the butterfly stamp can be punched out – what a time saver!

 

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It’s easy to add colour to the designer vellum with Blendabilties, and how cute is the addition of a couple of sequins – really makes the card special.
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If you want to learn more about Sale-a-bration, want to get together with some friends and have a creative session, seen a technique or product you would like to know more about, contact me and I’m sure we can organise something very soon. Alternatively if you would like to get your craft supplies at a discount and have your own craft business, and get two Sale-a-bration items (or one Occasions kit) for FREE why not join my team – come along to my next team meeting on March 5th and see what joining SU! looks like.

 

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Skylanders Terrafin & Spyro meet Blendabiltities

So my cherub need two birthday cards recently at short notice for two brothers aged 9 & 13 who are both Skylander fans…….right…….what’s a Skylander? All I can say is YAY for Google. I found some outline colouring page images, resized them and printed them onto Whisper White card stock with my printer. Then I coloured them in (referencing another Google image on the character for the colours of it) using the Blendabilities which you can get for FREE during Sale-a-bration!

The first character chosen was Spyro.

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The second was Terrafin.

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Inside the gift of choice was actually cash, although I just put a gift card in for photography reasons. I made the whole inside front panel a half sized pocket and stamped it with the new B.Y.O.P. (by your own present) stamp set.

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The results passed the triple boy test and all were happy……….I have a request for three other characters at the moment, so will no doubt be making more Skylander cards over the next month! If you haven’t used the Blendabilties for shading you can check out a short video of how to use them here:


If you’d like to request a Skylander card for your special cherub – leave me a comment and I will see what I can do.

 

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You Brighten My Day stepped up

I am loving the variety of Sale-a-bration stamp sets and accessories that you can get for free this year! I used one of the sets, You Brighten My Day, the Best Day Ever ribbon and some of the gold foil on the Weekly Deals this week at 25% off to make a simple version on the white notecards and a stepped up version of this card.

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The larger tag part is made using the Ornate Tag Topper punch and then shaped with the Project Life corner rounder to give a nice Pool Party blue border to the note tag punch. The light bulb I stamped twice and coloured with the Daffodil Delight Blendabiltities, fussy cut and popped up with a Dimensional which you can see better in the photo below.

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The stepped up version had a pennant flagged piece from the Lullaby designer series paper, an extra Crushed Curry layer and highlighted with small stars from the Confetti Star punch.

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