Product shares

Posted on September 15, 2012 by admin

With all the new gorgeous designer series paper (DSP) and ribbons in the new Annual and Holiday catalogues if you are like me – you want it all NOW!!! However the reality is – like me, you haven’t won Lotto – so how do you get everything without melting your credit card? The answer is simple, join one of my product shares – these allow you get a large enough sample of everything to make a couple of cards or a scrap layout without the big financial outlay.

For example if you join the DSP (designer series paper) share for $50 you get a 6″x6″ piece of every new DSP in both the Annual and Holiday catalogues (except for the Festival Prints DSP as that is 11.4cm x 16.5cm in size). If you went to purchase this in their full packs it would cost you well over $400!

The ribbon shares give you 1m lengths of each of the ribbon colours, except for the Bakers Twine which is a 2m length of each colour. So if you are interested in joining one or all of the product shares just email me gerlach@iinet.net.au with your choice and once each share is full, I order the product, split it up and give it to each of the participants – too easy!

Don’t forget to stop by tomorrow for some awesome ideas from some super talented Stampin’ Up! demonstrators for some blog hop fun!

 

 

 

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Open Sea Shaving Foam

Posted on September 14, 2012 by admin

This was the other card we made in class this week for the shaving foam technique, we also did faux patina, but that’s another post! Here are some of the pieces of card stock prior to being made into the cards, love how every single sheet is unique!

I was so excited when Open Sea made it back into the main catalogue, we’re not a nautical family, but I have always lived relatively close to the ocean and love it when the old sailing ships are in port.

Stamps: Open Sea

Ink: Night of Navy, re-inkers Not Quite Navy, Marina Mist & Bashful Blue

Card Stock: Glossy White, Whisper White, Night of Navy, Not Quite Navy

Accessories: White Bakers Twine, gold brads, Dimensionals, spritzer, 3/4″ circle punch, 1 1/4″ circle punch, 1 3/8″ circle punch

Non SU!: Shaving foam, kebab skewers, paper towel (lots)

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Shaving foam Lovely as a Tree

Posted on September 11, 2012 by admin

We had a lot of fun in class today – we made shaving foam backgrounds! These are pretty easy and fun to make and every single on is unique! Honestly I was SO excited when I saw that this stamp set wasn’t retiring from the new catalogue, it has to be one of my all time favourites and not only has it not retired, Stampin’ Up! has released it in clear mount now too!

This shaving foam background was made with only two re-inker colours and the edge of the frame lit die cut sponged with Old Olive ink. I am loving the new Festive Paper Piercing Pack that co-ordinates so well with our Labels Framelits – another winning combination from Stampin’ Up! in my opinion as it gives the project so much detail with no added bulk or expense!

Stamp: Lovely as a Tree

Ink: Old Olive, Black Stazon, Cajun Craze & More Mustard re-inkers

Card stock: Gloss white, Early Expresso, Old Olive

Accessories: Labels Framelits, Big Shot, festive paper piercing pack, paper piercer, stamping sponge

Non SU!: shaving foam, skewer

 

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Baby shower wish cards

Posted on September 10, 2012 by admin

I made some cards a few months ago for a friends baby shower – the guests were to write in them what they wished for the mum to be and the baby. I made each card different and as they were written in, they were placed so as to decorate the room. There were 20 different cards in all & as the babes’ gender was a surprise they were a mix or male/female/neutral to suit guests thoughts!

As it turned out she had a wonderful baby boy & both are very happy and healthy!

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Dinoroar birthday

Posted on September 7, 2012 by admin

This was the card I made earlier this year for a 6yo boys birthday – not sure why I didn’t blog it – time anaemia! Anyways it’s using one of my favourite stamp sets, as soon as I saw this last year I was so excited – I also love water colouring so it was a perfect set for me!

Stamps: Dinoroar

Ink: Black Stazon, Garden Green

Card Stock: Water colour paper, More Mustard & Garden Green

Accessories: Houndstooth  embossing folder, labels collection framelits, water colour pencils, blender pen, Dimensionals, SNAIL, stamping sponges.

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Clockworks engagement card

Posted on September 6, 2012 by admin

I made an engagement card recently for a lovely girl at Crafternoon who after many patient years of waiting to be asked by her partner recently became engaged. Needless to say the occasion warranted a card at the very least. Congratulations Penny – thanks for sharing your wonderful news with us!

I used the stamp set we got for free at part of attending our Regional Stampin’ Up! event recently – I am loving the texture and dimension of this set.

Stamps: Clockworks, Loving Thoughts

Card stock: Whisper White, First Edition DSP, Real Red

Ink: Real Red, Soft Suede & Basic Black

Accessories: Full heart punch, small heart punch, linen thread, basic rhinestones, Dimensionals, stamping sponge.

 

 

 

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Lovely as a Tree Reflection Technique

Posted on September 5, 2012 by admin

I CASEd this card a while ago from the super talented Michelle Z. she did hers with a brayer and I used stamping sponges for mine as I prefer the detailed control – don’t you love how you can get the same effect using different items. I think the most challenging part of this was adding the white gel pen highlights and not getting them to look like white blobs!

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree

Card stock: Basic Black, Soft Suede, White gloss

Ink: Basic Black, Bashful Blue, Soft Suede & Early Expresso

Accessories: Scallop Circle Bigz die, Circle Scissors Plus (cutting the circle, but you could use the new 3 1/2″ circle die), Dimensionals, silver brads, paper piercer, SNAIL, 1 3/4″ circle punch (moon), stamping sponge, white gel pen.

Non SU!: Post it note

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Tool Time Scrapbook Layout

Posted on September 2, 2012 by admin

Happy Father’s Day! My boys are totally into tools, the workshop/shed and building things, hence my need to create a tool themed scrapbook layout. By chance it also fitted the theme of the Only Scrapbooking challenge this month!

 

The whole layout was inspired by a tool belt my husband wears and when you lift out the yellow screwdriver and the measuring tape there are extra places for photographs and journalling on the reverse side where I added a Very Vanilla panel.

The pages were pretty simple after I worked out the template for making all the tools (which took me quite a while!), lots of sponging, hand stitching with the Stampin’ Write marker pen. If you like this layout why not join us for our next scrapbook class check my latest events list for details.

Stamps: Woodgrain

Ink: Chocolate Chip & Basic Gray

Card stock: Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, brushed silver, Basic Gray, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, Daffodil Yellow & Very Vanilla

Accessories: Stripes Textured Embossing Folder, stamping sponge, Word Window punch, 1″ circle punch, 1 1/4″ circle punch, 3/4″ circle punch, 1/2″ circle punch, 1 3/4″ circle punch, itty bitty punch, corner rounder punch, paper snips, Tombow Glue, SNAIL, 2 3/8″ scalloped circle punch, Simple Letters Alphabet die (retired)

 

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Heartfelt Regionals Thank you card

Posted on September 1, 2012 by admin

I got a beautiful thank you card from the Heartfelt Regionals Event in Perth recently – was such a lovely surprise and best of all it showcased some new products which we can now all order! Don’t you just love the texture that the Simply Scored added to the heart – so simple and effective. The faceted buttons in the centre of the new butterfly and the butterfly punch were some of the first items on my order form the new catalogue – they are so beautiful!

Stamps: Papillion Potpourri, Elements of Style

Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Midnight Muse

Card stock: Whisper White, Raspberry Ripple & Sahara Sand

Accessories: Linen thread, elegant butterfly punch, hearts collection framelits, Dimensionals, Crystal Effects & scallop rectangle clearlits

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Two new catalogues & product shares!

Posted on August 31, 2012 by admin

Yes we now have not one, but TWO new Stampin’ Up! catalogues! So many new things in them, loving the price reductions on card stock, punches, adhesives, Big Shot dies and other items!

and the other Holiday catalogue:

 I also have a number of product shares happening for the two new catalogues, so if you want to get your hands on everything for a fraction of the cost check out the product share details here. I can’t wait to start showing you some of the items I’ve made using the new products and new in-colours over the next few weeks. If you live locally and want to come play with some of the new products and join int he fun I have a catalogue launch party on the 8th of September with details here.

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