The countdown is on!

With the launch of the new Summer Mini Catalogue the girls from Marelle's team including myself have decided to share our talents together by sharing one or more inspiring projects to showcase some of the gorgeous new products in the new Summer Mini Catalogue. It will be a great opportunity to have a sneak peak of what will be avaliable in the new mini catalogue. One of the perks with being a demo is you get to see the products before they launch the new catalogues which is always fun because you get to play with new stamp sets that no one has seen yet.

Well I know what you are asking what is a blog hop? Well it's easy all you have to do is come back on the 30th November at 8pm you will see in total 14 blogs which will all be linked to one another to showcase the new Summer mini all you have to do is hop along to each and every link along the way and be inspired with all our projects. Sounds exciting well you can join me and the rest of my team on this date and tell us what you think of all our lovely new projects for the new and upcoming Summer Mini. Only 14 more sleeps to go hope to see you back to see all the action.

BTW: THIS WILL STAY AT THE TOP OF MY BLOG UNTIL THE 30TH scroll down to see my most recent projects.

Pull treats!

I did these pull treats for my open house to show some projects for christmas. I learnt how to do these pull treats from Marelle last year at one of her project classes. I love these pull treats they are so easy to make and it makes the present look so much more prettier. Anyway I have to go but I hope I am still inspiring you. Thanks for stopping by.

Ingredients: stamps: tree trimmings, holly standard wheel, gallery

Inks: real red, baja breeze, kiwi kiss

Papers: whisper white, kiwi kiss ds paper

Accessories: horizontal slot punch, real red grosgrain ribbon.

box in a bag made differently!

I love the box in a bag but the usual ones only fit a small amount of goodies so I decided to change it a little and create the same style bag but to fit our normal sized cards. There were a few issues when making it but I have ironed them out now so when making this box again I won't have the same dramas. I think it looks so cute. I seen these flowers on a few blogs and I just had to make one myself. I first seen it on Karen's blog Luv to stamp and I thought I have to use that flower somewhere but when I create the box I seen it pop up on Dawn's blog. I did the leaves using a large oval and using a 1/2" circle punch to create the leaves which I thought was something different for the flower. It was such an easy bag to create and I just love the ski slope paper in the spring mini catalogue. Anyway thanks again for stopping by.

Ingredients: stamps: hostess level 1, gallery

Inks: chocolate chip, real red, old olive

Papers: ski slope ds paper, real red, old olive, whisper white

Accessories: rhinestone brads, scallop square punch, scallop oval punch, scallop edge punch, large oval punch, 1/2" circle punch, round tab punch, crop a dile, five petal flower punch, real red grosgrain ribbon

Saying goodbye to the spring mini!

I have to say I will be really sad to say goodbye to the spring mini catalogue it has been my all time favourite catalogue. I think I bought almost every stamp set from this catalogue that is how much I love it. In saying this if there is something you are thinking of getting from this catalogue I must remind you that this catalogue finishes on the 30th November so email me you don't want to be disappointed you didn't get it now because there is no guarentee these products will be available in the new catalogue.

One set that I have grown to love is Great Friend. I must admit when I first seen this set I only liked the butterfly but since using it I love everything about this stamp set. You can diversify it to all sorts of occasions.
I had to do a birthday card for a friend and I just had to use Great Friend and some glitter to make it sparkle. It is not one of my best cards but I thought I would share it anyway. I will be back with some more but I am getting the move along from hubby so be back soon. Thanks for stopping by.



Ingredients: stamps: Great friend, letterpress numbers, inspired by nature, little pieces
Inks: old olive, baja breeze, cameo coral, pale plum
Papers: baja breeze ds paper, baja breeze, whisper white, old olive
Accessories: dazzling diamonds, two way glue, scallop oval punch, wide oval punch, sponge daubers.

Well I am back!

I have been so under the weather this past week and I am afraid everything has taken a backseat. All what I had to do last week I had to do this week and everything has just been so over the place but I am back in the swing of things and I have so much to share. I have been falling in love with acetate cards lately I have seen a few around the place and I just had to try one or two myself. Here is what I came up with. I used some of my left over pieces of acetate to do my cards but the photos really don't give these cards any justice. Sorry about the photos they are pretty poor but I was desperately trying to get the photos up for you all quickly.

By the way I must add a big thank you to all those that left lovely messages to get well I really appreciate it. Thanks for thinking of me it is nice to know there are so many people thinking of me.

I also wanted to share some really exciting news I won another So Shelli creative challenge this time for my mini album I only found out a day or two ago so I was thrilled to find out about that too it really made my day since I had been sick all last week. I have heaps more to share so don't go away too far. It is going to be a few posts for today to catch up for all the lost time. Hope you get inspired along the way. Thanks for stopping by.

Ingredients: stamps: sense of time, a wish for peace, snow swirled

Inks: staz on opaque, sahara sand, old olive, chocolate chip

Papers: bella bleu, very vanilla, riding hood red, acetate, kraft

Accessories: chocolate chip brad, scallop edge punch, riding hood tafetta ribbon, blender pen.

Matching box for stamp a stack cards!

I made this box months and months ago but could never finish it. I finally finished it and I decided to use it to put all my stamp a stack cards inside. I love boxes. One of my favourite things to do. I hope you like it. This will be yet another quick post I am only recently getting over a stomach bug and so I haven't been doing all that much in stamping but I hope you are having a better week then I am. I hate getting sick because usually all the family starts crumbling down with me. Thanks for stopping by.

Ingredients: stamps: occasions for all, gallery, lovely labels
Inks: kiwi kiss, riding hood red
Papers: chocolate chip ds paper, riding hood red, kiwi kiss ds paper, whisper white, chocolate chip
Accessories: scallop circle punch, 1/3/8" circle punch, 1/1/4" circle punch, scallop edge punch, corduroy buttons for top of the handle which you can't see in the picture.

Christmas stamp a stack

I seen a beautiful card done by Petronela a while ago and I just loved what she did but I thought I would adapt that card into a christmas card because I know how much people love the butterflies at the moment from the stamp set Great Friend. I love this stamp set and you can adapt that butterfly to all sorts of occasion cards. Anyway I thought I would share another stamp a stack card to entice you. Another very quick post I have so much on this week but I hope you are having a good week. Thanks for stopping by.



Ingredients: stamps: baroque motifs, great friend, season of joy
Inks: riding hood red, kiwi kiss
Papers: whisper white, kiwi kiss, riding hood red, chocolate chip
Accessories: scallop oval punch, large oval punch, sponge daubers, silver brads.