Stylish Blogger Award

Look what I got!!!!!!!! A Stylish Blogger Award from Sandybeaches. Thank You.

As part of receiving this award I have to link back to the person who awarded it to me. Go here to check out Sandybeaches blog. She does some fabulous colouring and makes lovely cards. I don't know where she finds the time.


Then I have to tell you eight things about me (that is the hard part).

So, eight things about me:

1 I am very indecisive, it takes me ages to decide about things. ( I'm sitting here thinking should I write that!!)

2 I eat way too much chocolate.

3 I would love to loose 10kgs, (#2 isn't helping with that).

4 I make cards almost everyday.

5 Most mornings I have breakfast at the computer and check out emails, the Stampin' Up! demonstrators site, Inklings forum and my favourite blogs.

6 I enjoy reading a good murder book. At the moment I am working my way through Michael Connelly's books.

7 I watch Home & Away.

8 Our two girls don't live near us, one in Fremantle and one in England, but I love to catch up with them on Skype. It's so good being able to see them, makes them seem so much closer.

Finally I have to send the award on to 8 other blogs that I have discovered recently and leave them a comment to let them know.

Here they are in no particular order: Diane at Colour me Happy, Heather at Bits & Pieces, Cath at Ink Paper Embellish, Becky at Inking Idaho, Tania at Time for Me; Time for you, Valita from Valitas Fresh Folds, Tana at Artistic Times and last but not least Marelle at thINK spot.

Thanks again Sandybeaches, and good luck this afternoon with the softball grand final. I will be thinking about you girls and have my fingers and everything else crossed.
Have a great weekend everyone.


Janice

Happy Birthday Trish

It's my friend Trish's birthday today and we have just been out for dinner. Here is the card I made for her. I used the level one hostess set Birthday Bakery. I stamped it in Whisper White ink and embossed it with white embossing powder Then coloured in using my markers. The cardstock used is Crumb Cake, Pink Pirouette and Early Espresso. Plus some DSP from the Neutrals collection.



Thanks for looking.

Janice

Sale a Bration - Time is running out!

Only three and a half weeks left to take advantage of the Sale a Bration offer from Stampin' Up! Place an order now and get a FREE stamp set, choose from the four great Sale a Bration sets.

Phone me or send an email to place your order.

Have a great weekend.

Janice

Lattice Card

Tonight is Stamp Club and we are making a lattice card. I saw this card made by a SU demo by the name of Valita. She is a very clever lady and comes up with some fabulous designs. So thank you to her for this idea. The colours I've used are Always Artichoke, Peach Parfait and Whisper white (flowers before sponging). I used the Boho Blossom and the Five Petal Flower punches and the Very Vintage jumbo wheel. The butterflies are from the Beautiful Wings Embossilits Die and I've added a bit of sparkle by spritzing the flowers and the butterflies with Gold Shimmer Spritz.

We are making the same card and a box to put it into at the technique class next week. This card would be too bulky to put into an envelope so a matching box with a belly band is just the thing to present it in.



Hope you like it.

Janice

Kimono Kids

After seeing the comment on my last post from Sandybeaches, that reminded me of another card I have made recently. This is a birthday card for my daughter. She and some friends are heading off to Japan this weekend, and she will be celebrating her birthday over there. So I borrowed the Stampin' Up! set Kimono Kids from my friend and neighbour aka Sandybeaches. Thank You!!!

Have a great weekend everyone.

Janice

Finally some photos!

Here are some photos of the Stamp a Stack cards for February. I did actually hold a Stamp a Stack during the school holidays for a group of ladies who can't make it to my Tuesday night classes. These are the cards we made then, and what we are doing next week. You might notice in the first photo there are actually six cards. That's because the pink cards are the same bits and pieces and I gave everyone a choice of which one to make. Originally I made the wedding card, then I thought not everyone would use a wedding card, so made the alternate as well.

Here are the next five cards:

I tried to make them all quite varied, so that they will suit lots of different people and different occasions too.

Here are pictures of the cards we will be making for the March Stamp a Stack. The first set of cards uses a very simple but effective technique called Inlaid Embossing. You simply punch out a shape stick it onto another piece of cardstock and put it through the Bigshot (or Cuttlebug) in an embossing folder. See the card below for a close up of this technique.




The second lot of cards I used a wheel on all except the top right hand card. I just didn't have another wheel that seemed to look right for this design of card. So I used Pocket Silhouettes. I also used various punches to decorate the edges. I hope the ladies who have booked in for my Stamp a Stacks are going to like these cards!


I have to say that I am impressed by myself, being so organised as to have two months of Stamp a Stacks sorted out already!!

Thanks for looking everyone, I hope you like them.

Regards,

Janice

Sale A Bration

Wow! Sale a Bration has snook up on me. I was just sitting down to eat my breakfast, glanced at the calendar, and it suddenly hit me. 25th January! Sale a Bration starts today! Yay!

If there's anyone out there that doesn't know what that is go here and check out all the details. In a nutshell it's - spend $100 on Stampin' Up! products (not including postage), get a FREE stamp set. Spend another $100 get another FREE stamp set. There's no limit to how many FREE stamp sets you can get. Host a workshop, or place an order that the total product sales are $600 or over, you guessed it, another FREE stamp set. There are four gorgeous Sale a Bration stamp set to choose from. This is the best time of the year to stock up on all those things you are running low on, or to start making that wish list a bit shorter.
Sale a Bration runs from today 25th January until 31st March. Contact me if you would like to place an order or if you have any questions.

I will be back soon with a few photos. I've been busy trying to get organised for a few card classes and stamp a stacks, before school goes back.

Thanks for looking.

Janice