My project has been posted on Inkspirations4U today, get on over there and check out the fabulous project site, it's not too late to join for this round. I have designed a handbag using the new edgelits - totally love these :) I have also used textured baja breeze cardstock and the Attic Boutique Designer Series Paper along with some Twitterpated buttons. I decorated it with some chantilly trim, an antique brad and the Tiny Tags stamp set.
I recently held my annual Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue Launch and it was a great day full of fun projects, prizes, yummy food and creative time together. Here are the projects we made. I also made a gift for all my attendees but I forgot to take a photo of them - silly me :(
The second card was CASED from here. The scented embossing powders are so yummo, I loved smelling them all arvo as my guests worked on their cards :)
All enjoyed a great day, am looking forward to Convention now, only 57 days to go, gees better get cracking on my swaps and projects for product playground...thanks for visiting today.
Here is the Baby Wishes Book I mentioned in my earlier post. I designed it for the recent Inkspirations4U but I made it for my friend Stephanie's baby shower. I got the idea for the things to include as wishes from here. I have used the petite pocket die and the two tags die - you all know how much I love my Big Shot :) I made a spine for the book using the new scoring tool (yes the Simply Scored is coming next month!!!) Once again I used the Nursery Nest DSP, it worked so well for her owl theme. I have a FREE pass available for the next round of Inkspirations4U, simply comment on this post and you will go into the draw to win. (Winner will be drawn using random.org) Winner will be announced on Saturday.
My lovely friend Stephanie just had her beautiful baby boy Quinn and it occurred to me that I didnt post the collection of goodies I made for her. I made another one of my fabulous diaper cakes. It was so good this time knowing it was a boy plus I had a theme of owls so I went to town creating all this. 
This cake was a whole tier larger than the ones I have made before with a whopping 136 nappies! I used the Nursery Nest DSP to decorate it. I filled it with lots of essentials including onsies, dummy, wraps, wash cloths, brush/comb, baby oill, soft toy, teether, singlets and lots more.... She totally loved it :) 
The invites were a modified version of an invite I made a while ago for my SIL. Check out her cake, isnt it awesome! (No I didnt make this, I'm a crafter not a baker LOL)
We also made the favors using the petal cone die (very similar to my baby shower ones) and I decorated some jars of baby food for one of the games like I did for my SIL too.
Here is the card I made for her - isnt it cute!
I made the prizes similar to my baby shower once again and simply modified the banner I made for mine and stuck some owls on it. It was a really great day. I also made her a baby wishes book but I will talk about that in my next post.
Well here we are again, are you ready for another fabulous ESAD blog hop? I hope so because this one will rock your socks off! If you haven't seen the beautiful products on offer in this year's SAB brochure and already fallen in love with them, well you sure will after this little journey. You may have arrived here from the very talented Bron Heslop's blog if you are already doing the hop, make sure you click on the link at the bottom to head on over the next blog. We all have been busy creating some great projects to inspire you. Firstly......What is ESAD?
ESAD stands for "Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators" and it is an on-line group just for Australian and New Zealand Stampin Up demonstrators.
We so love what we do and not only do we love to share it with our customers, friends, and wonderful blog visitors, but we share our love for what we do with each other as demonstrators. We run swaps, challenges, tutorials, product know-how, and cyberstamps, and we are always there to help and support each other when it is needed.
So if you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand, then please feel free to click here to join our wonderful group
I have created a wall hanging organiser for you today using the GORJUS Everyday Enchantment Papers, the Ribbon/Brad pack and the Fresh Vintage stamp set. I got this idea from the talented Tammy Maxvill on 'UStamp Oh My Word Edition 2011' .I purchased this frame from IKEA (love that place) and used some cork sheets in the bottom left panel to create a 'pinboard' using the brads. The ribbon is used in the bottom right panel to place photos, notes reminders etc... The top right panel uses the scallop envelope die (cut twice and made a box out of them) to hold receipts etc..and the top left panel is your 'tear-off' calendar for the year's important dates. I have embellished the frame with some die cut butterflies in Poppy Parade and embossed them with clear embossing powder. The floral image from the Fresh Vintage stamp set has been stamped on the calendar and the notes using the markers. Thanks for visiting today :-)
Here is a list of all the participants in the hop just in case you get lost along the way....now you can head on over to Michelle Grech's blog to see what she has been up to. Have fun!
1. Sherylee Tutt
www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/sherylee/blog
2. Juliette Chapman
www.juleskraftikrafts.blogspot.com
3. Alison Barclay
www.gothdovedesigns.blogspot.com
4. Corina Beyer
5. Christie Krunkel
www.christiescreativecorner.blogspot.com
6. Jane Norrish
7. Nicole Derendorf
8. Jacinta Argent
www.jacintascreations.blogspot.com
9. Leonie Schroder
10. Alisa Tilsner
11. Keryn Campbell
12. Sharlene Mayer
13. Madonna Dunn
14. Joanne Kechagias
www.Joannekechagias.blogspot.com
15. Pauline Bennetts
www.paulinebennetts.com/stampede
16. Monique Fielder
http://www.stamping-with-moni-q.blogspot.com/
17. Bron Heslop
18. Felicity Fernandez
www.stampinwithflick.blogspot.com
19. Michelle Grech
www.stampmeshell.wordpress.com
20. Kelly Nelson
www.kellysstampinspot.wordpress.com
21. Louise Layton
22. Yvonne Walker
www.yvonnescreativecorner.blogspot.com
23. Kathryn Ruddick
More recently this month we did some special cards using the telescoping technique. You can see a tutorial for this technique here. All my ladies loved both lots of cards and some used them as their Christmas cards this year for the their family and friends. Lastly, in addition to the telescope cards we made, I put together this cute little snowman (thanks to Becky Roberts for the idea) It used a battery operated tea light candle for his nose - isnt it cute! Due to the success of my stamp club and many requests to join I now have two clubs running for next year. Thanks for visiting today.
I am very honoured to be a designer for Madeline and her team over at Inkspirations4U. This round had a Christmas theme and this time I decided to create a Christmas Card Organiser. I included a template for recording the cards sent and received over the years. It was super cute and had pockets made from full sheets of DSP to keep your cards in ready to send. I used the Big shot for the letters and decorated using the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch and the new Vanilla Velvet Stitched Ribbon. Thanks for visiting today.
Ok I know its been a while but I have a VERY VERY good excuse....I am happy to announce that our little baby William was born late July and hence I have been a little distracted of late. Motherhood is FULL ON! However, I am glad to be back in my craft room doing some creating. I have recreated this gorgeous cute box from one of the projects created by Martha Lucia Gomez over at the latest Inkspirations4U. I am a designer for this group that is run by the fabulous Madeline Morcelo. I put this project together to showcase some of the beautiful new Designer Series Papers, Stamp Sets and Big Shot Designer Frames as well as the gorgeous new seam binding all from the NEW Idea Book and Catalogue just released this month. The paper on the front panel is from the new Mocha Morning Specialty Papers, it has flocking on it and I soooooo love it! Can't go wrong with butterflies if you ask me, this little beauty comes from the new Creative Elements Stamp set. If you too would like to recreate this beautiful box, come join the Early Fall Edition of Inkspirations4U and enjoy many other great project ideas. Look forward to seeing you in there.
What a great way to spend the long weekend here crafting and creating. UStamp is having a FREE event this weekend. A lot of the talented designers have put together various projects for all of us to download. I fell in love with Lorri Heiling's project as soon as I saw it and I knew the perfect opportunity to use it. Two of my friends have recently moved into new places they bought and I thought these would make lovely housewarming cards.... Lots of punches used here plus my Little Leaves Sizzlit for the Big Shot. So get along to Lorri's blog and get hopping and you too can create these cute cards plus dont forget to check out all the other creative designers :)
On the weekend we had my baby shower and what a great day it was. It has taken me a couple of days to recover but it was so worth it. You may recall the invitations I made for the event, well in keeping with the theme I made the baby shower favors, the prizes, a banner and I am yet to do the thank you cards.... (now you know why I was so exhausted).
Don't worry I had help....
Recently one of my friends from work (who is also in my Stamp Club) celebrated her 40th Birthday. I wanted to make her something special and I remembered that she mentioned earlier in the year that she wanted to learn how to make an Accordion Album like in the Current Stampin' Up! Catalogue and Idea Book on p.115. I thought I would try one out and make one for her instead. So I asked her what her favourite DSP was and away I went to work. I had lots of fun creating this and found Kylie O'Brien's tutorial on her blog very helpful. Colours used include Concord Crush, Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla and of course the Lap of Luxury DSP (her favourite). I also used some Big Shot products, cant really make much these days with using my Big Shot, I love it so much. I used the emblosslit buttons, the scallop envelope die, the beautiful wings bigz die, various embossing folders, top note bigz die, blossom party bigz die, scallop square punch, photo corner punch, itty bitty punches, and my letters sizzlits. Thanks for visiting my blog today.
