Team Training Night

Last Friday night I had my team meeting for the launch of the New Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue. Here are the projects we made. I demonstrated how to use the new Simply Scored and the beautiful new Framelits Labels Collection. We also used the gorgeous new stamp set Apothecary Art. I found ideas for these cards here, here and here. All have tutorials.
For the first time we decided it would be fun to make some swaps and start getting in the spirit for Convention coming up in May. I was really impressed with all the swaps that the girls put together.
Here is Denise's Swap - another card using the framelits and the Simply Scored.
Here is Judy's Swap - using the cute Tea Shoppe Stamp set.
Here is Jenny's Swap - an awesome punch art card, great for masculine cards.
Here is Liz's Swap - another one using the framelits and Apothecary Art stamp set.
And here is Jeniece's Swap - cute little 3D folded dresses, great for parties.
I will come back tomorrow and post pictures of my swaps :)
If you are interested in joining my fabulous team, simply email me for a free information pack to be sent to you. It's not too late to make the most of all the bonuses of joining during Sale-a-bration, call me today.

I'm Gorgeous!!! (Apparently LOL)

The lovely Tanya Bell nominated me, yes ME and my blog for a gorgeous blogger award. WOW, what an honour. Thank you soooooooo much. I dont know that I am quite in her league but I am blushing all the same.

As with most blog awards there are a couple of things I need to do …

* Thank the person who gave you this award (Thank you, thank you, thank you Tanya)

* Paste the award to your blog (tick)

* Link the person who nominated you for this award (tick)

* Nominate as many other bloggers for this wonderful award as you like (tick)

* Post links to their blogs (tick)

So here is what I came up with....
Jo Eades
Chris McLucas
Andrea Buckland
Andrea Lowcock

I hope they like their new awards :)

Birthday Fairy Card

Earlier in the year I signed up for a birthday fairy round for the year where every month you send birthday cards to the people celebrating their birthdays. When its your birthday everyone sends one to you. It is organised through the ESAD group I belong to for demos. Here is the card I made approx. dozen of for my recipients for Jan & Feb.
Here is the collection of cards I received for my birthday early last month. What a great collection. I will continue to post my cards that I make throughout the year for the birthday gals.

Baby Wishes Book

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.

Baby Shower Time AGAIN!!!

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.

SAB projects

I made these ages ago for my team meeting back in January but forgot to post them. These are all made using the fabulous collection of products available for this year's SAB promo. Click here to see the brochure. You can choose from stamps, gorgeous papers or ribbon/brads this year and I am loving the LOT! Don't get upset, there is still time to order so you can get some of these for FREE. Just place your qualifying order before the end of March and you can have some too. Call me or email me today to place your order and I can have it delivered straight to your door :)

Stamp Club Projects February

This month, our first one back for the year, we focused on a technique called faux embossing or dry embossing as it is also known I think. I used this technique a few years back on this card here when I demonstrated the technique at a craft show. As it is Sale-a-Bration too, we used some of the stamps, paper and embellishments on offer for this years promotion. There really is a great collection in the brochure this year. Click here to see it. This technique is so easy to do and looks super effective, if you didnt know better, you really would think it was embossed!!!

ESAD Sale-a-Bration Blog Hop!

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

www.beyondinkstamper.com

5. Christie Krunkel

www.christiescreativecorner.blogspot.com

6. Jane Norrish

www.janenorrish.com

7. Nicole Derendorf

www.nicolederendorf.com

8. Jacinta Argent

www.jacintascreations.blogspot.com

9. Leonie Schroder

www.stamp-a-latte.com

10. Alisa Tilsner

www.alisatilsner.com

11. Keryn Campbell

www.kerynscards.blogspot.com

12. Sharlene Mayer

www.magpiecreates.com

13. Madonna Dunn

www.madonnadunn.com.au

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

www.bronheslop.wordpress.com

18. Felicity Fernandez

www.stampinwithflick.blogspot.com

19. Michelle Grech

www.stampmeshell.wordpress.com

20. Kelly Nelson

www.kellysstampinspot.wordpress.com

21. Louise Layton

www.inkyloulou.com

22. Yvonne Walker

www.yvonnescreativecorner.blogspot.com

23. Kathryn Ruddick

www.katlodesigns.com

More Wedding ideas....

You may remember the wedding collection I posted last month, well I have been putting together some other ideas using the same black and white theme.
I got the idea for this funky folded invite here. I have used the new wedding stamp set Marry Me and embossed it with black embossing powder. The scallop oval has been embossed with the vintage wallpaper folder with the Big Shot and then sprayed with vanilla shimmer smooch spritz. I have given her an engagement ring using a rhinestone and a little glitter on her veil edging and for her tiara. The flowers around the edge come from the set You are Loved and the inside invite uses the Love Blossoms wheel and the trim is using the dotted scallop ribbon border punch.
I also did an alternate cover for the pocket invite I posted last time. This one uses the textured Vanilla Cardstock with the belly band using the lace border punch, some black satin ribbon and an antique brad.

2011 Christmas Cards

This year I decided to do two designs, both taking a little longer than expected but at least they are now done, here's hoping people actually receive them by Christmas day :)
The first one uses a technique called ribbon weaving, perfect for a wreath I think. You can see a tutorial here. I used 1.5 metres of Garden Green grosgrain ribbon for this one. I have used the glitter paper for the berries and an antique brad for the door handle. The door has been stamped using the Woodgrain background stamp. The sentiment comes from Curly Cute, I really love that set. The second one (inspired by this card) is a Big Shot overload - man I love that machine! I have used the tulips embossing folder for the outside, the tasteful trim die for the pattern piece at the bottom, the two tags die and the perfect pennants die with the welcome christmas stamp embossed with cherry cobbler. The sentiment comes from Snow Swirled. And finally I have punched a star from the red glitter paper. I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Stamp Club Update

My Stamp Club recently finished up for the year and I realised that I had not posted October's projects either so today you will see what we did in the last TWO stamp clubs for the year. Firstly, in October we focused on Christmas and here are the two cards we made. I taught my members the Partial Embossing technique using the petals-a-plenty folder. Tutorial found here. One of my fellow demos (thanks Jane) taught me this technique at a show earlier in the year and I thought it would be perfect to save up for this card. The other card uses some of the new folders in this years catalogue and the new embossing powder in Cherry Cobbler. I also used the Letters to Santa DSP and the new Stocking Punch. 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.

Wedding Collection - ESAD Summer Mini Catalogue Blog Hop

Welcome to my blog today for a special event - the ESAD Summer Mini Catalogue Blog Hop! You may have come from Christie's blog if you are doing the hop, make sure you click on the link at the end of the post to see more of our creations at the next stop.

What is ESAD? ESAD stands for 'Extra Special Australian Demonstrators' and it is an online 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.
So what have I got for you today? It is a cute little wedding collection including an invitation, favour and place card. I got this cute idea from my friend Madeline Morcelo, she originally designed this as a gift card wallet (it was a project part of an Inkspirations4U Summer Edition) but I thought it would make an awesome wedding invitation. I have used the new You are Loved Stamp set and matching Love Blossoms wheel from the New Summer Mini Catalogue relelased TODAY. It is intended as a Valentine's set but I think it works really well for weddings too. I have also used the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch, the Neutrals DSP, Black Satin Ribbon and Scallop Oval punch. The favour was made using the Pillow Box Die. I cut it using cardstock vellum through my Big Shot. I then used the Parlor Prints Background stamp with VersaMark and embossed with black embossing powder. The hearts were hand cut on the belly band of the invite. I have used envelopes (cut off at approx. 5") to create the pockets and punched the half circle with the 1" circle punch. These hold the invite in the top and then the acceptance and registry info in the bottom two pockets. You could have as few or as many pockets as you need.Here is another collection using the same stamp set and wheel. This time I have created an invitation with a matching favour using the Fancy Favour Die and a place card (dont look too closely at my horrible handwriting) with a trim using the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Punch. This collection was inspired by Yvonne Campbell. Thanks for visiting today, now you can head off to Jenny Hayward's blog to see what she has been up to. Thanks for joining in the fun of the hop......

Swap from Regional Conference

Here is the swap I made for the recent Stampin' Up! Regional Conference in Melbourne. I wanted to use some of the new products in the upcoming Mini Catalogue being released on December 1 (yes this is your sneak peek) and these include the new glimmer paper, and the Postage Stamp Punch. There are lots more beautiful things that you will love and great timing for Christmas. I also do gift vouchers if you would like them for friends and family. If you would like me to send you a FREE copy of the Summer Mini Catalogue, just drop me an email with your address to felic77@hotmail.com.
I wanted to have a Christmas theme for my swap and I thought the glimmer paper would be perfect for this. I have also used the top note die in the background as well as the itty bitty punches and triple layer bouquet punch for the bows on the presents. The presents are punched from the GORJUS Mocha Morning Specialty DSP, it has some beautiful papers in it that have flocking, not sure if you can tell from the pic (it's so nice to touch). Thanks for visiting today. There will be more sneak peeks coming next week PLUS I have a super surprise on December 1st so dont forget to come back and visit again soon.

Baby Mania

It seems I am surrounded by babies recently so I must make baby cards to keep up. Here is a boy and girl version of a card I CASED from cant remember where sorry. Some of these things are retired on the girl version but the boy one uses some cute images from the new Baby Bundle Stamp Set. I have used my Big Shot letters and large Scallop Circle Die. I used my Circle Scissor Plus to cut the inner circle and the Polka Dot Embossing Folder for the background.

November is a BIG DEAL!!!

If you glance over the pages of my blog, you would see evidence of the Big Shot on nearly every project. Why? Because I love it so much and am, dare I say, "addicted". If you have ever thought about taking the plunge and getting one of your own....now is the time. November is Big Shot specials month. There is a special starter bundle plus a great selection of dies and embossing folders all available at 10% off. PLUS the extra bonus from me is lots of creative ideas to use your machine once you get it. So dont think about it any longer, think of the all the gorgeous gifts for Christmas you could create for all your friends and family, and who doesnt love receiving a handmade gift? This special is only available until November 30. You can email me at felic77@hotmail.com or phone on 0414400841 if you would like to order your very own. Click here for more info.

Inkspirations4U project

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.