Ohoy Matey!

I thought I would use this holiday time to stock up on some birthday cards suitable for my kids to give out when they go to parties. I kept it pretty simple and quick using the Beware Pirates stamp set.

A few extremes

Teenage boys are soooo hard to make cards for, but when I saw these stamp in the catalogue, I knew it would be perfect to fill the gap in my stash of stamps. I have used Extreme Guitar and Extreme Elements. I just love the splash type stamp in this set.

A Summer Mini Case

When creativity is at a low, its always great to be able to flick through any of the SU catalogues for inspiration. I spend many an hour doing this, and love so many of the samples, but never seem to get around to making them. Well this holidays I have decided to change this, and have managed to make a few this week. Its great fun, and so easy to do. The card above is a CASE from page 6 of the mini. I changed one of the colours, otherwise its pretty much the same.

A {Heart} card and a special

Here's a simple little card I made for Valentine's Day. It uses only the one stamp set called Love Defined. I am not usually a heart sort of girl, but I thought this set was cute because it was not too lovey dovey.

Which reminds me...
The special this month (until the 24th of January) is purchase either the stamp set Sweetheart on page 38 of the catalogue ($38.95 for wood mount or $29.95 for clear mount) or the large heart punch and receive a free pack of heart sweet treat cups valued at $6.50.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all. I hope you and your families have had a happy, safe and enjoyable time over the holidays.
I am in heaven. Sleeping in every day, reading, playing with the kids and swimming in our pool, as well as making a few cards here and there have filled my days. I love it.
The card above is made using a few items from the new summer mini. It could easily become a birthday card with a change of the sentiment. By the time I made this I was completely over the xmas red and green combo....

Tags and Boxes class on Wed 15th at 10am and Sat 18th at 10.30am

Wow, its such a busy time of year.....have you done all your christmas shopping? I sure haven't.

For this class I wanted to make lots of quick and easy boxes and tags to help with your preparations.
You can either use these mini milk cartons on the christmas table or with a small gift in them for someone special. And if you love these little boxes as much as I do, I will have some pre cut you can purchase to make up at home. They won't take long at all. I promise!



Now if you have been to a class here in the last year, you would have probably have seen a sample like this before. It was designed by the lovely Meryl Blacker and was given to me last year. I love it. Again it;s quick and easy to make and would make a lovely addition to anyone's stocking.







I completely cased this cute little santa quite some time ago, and have no knowledge at all who was the original creator. It's a great little pouch suitable for a gift and can be hung on the tree after. I just love him!















Tags always come in handy at christmas time, for those special gifts.















Now this next project is a gift card holder with lots of beautiful black glitter. I love the stuff. I give alot of gift cards so I always like to make them a little special.




Another gift box for you to complete. Again its quick and easy.




This little choc holder would make great gifts at the table, but I am going to use mine atop a present. You could also substitute a tealight candle for the chocolate.


And to finish with another tag using lots of glitter and masking.

If you would like to attend this class to make the 8 samples on either Wednesday at 10am or Saturday at 10.30am please email me to reserve your spot. Class cost is $25 and includes all materials, tools and morning tea.

Another "owl" card

Well, it uses the owl punch and the beautiful new embossing folder from the mini. I just love this texture.

A quick card

I recently held a team training day and showed a few ways to use the owl punch, this was one of them. It uses the owl body upside down to creat an alien. A great card for a kids birthday.

Some huuuuuge specials

Wow, you'll want to check these specials out.

My personal picks:

Teeny tiny sentiments - love these and they really come in handy so many times
The black marker - this was included in my starter kit. It is so nice to write with, and much finer than any I have used before.
Kind Heart- If you ever sell any of your cards you need this stamp. The little Stampin Up words are included on this stamp and need to go on any card that uses Stampin Up products.
A Little Treat - For that price how can you not get it!

Class samples (finally)

Christmas card class for sat 27th and Wed 1st

A thousand apologizes firstly to all for the absence of pictures. You see, the Internet connection on the computer is down (so frustrating) so I can not post the samples here for you even though they are prepared. I am able to post this, as I am doing it from the iPad, but don't have the connection for the camera to get the photos on. Don't you just love computers?
Anyway, the classes are still on. We will be making 6 cards all with a Christmas theme.
One is a wreath card in crumb cake and expresso with a touch of green and red, one is a cute pair of elf shoes, one has a glittery dove in soft shades of blue, another has some stockings hanging on an embossed background, another uses the beautiful flocked papers available this month and lastly a quick Xmas tree with gold and purples.
Class is $25 and includes all materials. The sat class starts at 10.30am and the wednesday one at 10am.
I hope to get you some pictures soon, but can not promise much at the moment.
If you would like to come please email me to so I can prepare a kit for you.

Male 40 card

Here's a simple card I made recently for a lovely customer of mine.

It uses the Expresso sheet from the Neutral stack of papers. (Great value at 40 sheet for $37.95)

The olive ribbon is one of the free rolls you can get with any of the selected bundles on offer through November.