Fancy Favour Box

I have only recently purchased the Fancy Favour Die...so glad I did! The base of this box is done in Pretty In Pink..the outer layer is Very Vanilla embossed with the Elegant Lines embossing folder..the tag was stamped with the tag stamp in Punch Bunch...This would make a great baby shower favour

Elegant Lines

This is another card for challenge 107 over at Late Night Stampers...It's a super easy one ! Embossed the top piece of cardstock using the Elegant Lines embossing folder which was then stuck to a white card base. The sentiment is from Heard from the Heart and the heart image is from the Priceless set...a quick card in under five minutes...my kind of card lol

Another birthday card

My beautiful middle daughter Jodie is turning 27 this week and I wanted to make her a birthday card using Early Expresso because I luuurve that colour! I have used the elegant lines embossing folder and the stamp sets are Great Friend and Notably Ornate. I have also used a bookplate from the hodgepodge hardware (you have to be special to get one of those!) , some pearls and Early Expresso satin ribbon..Hope she doesnt read my blog before tomorrow..haha

Recycled Treat Holder

Hi Everyone! I don't know how people manage to update their blogs on a regular basis, I seem to run out of time...but here is a simple offering for today..

This little treat holder is made from the packaging from my Stampin' Up! clear block....I cut designer paper to fit inside and also cut a piece of window sheet the same size as the paper to act as a barrier between the lollies and the designer paper.It will stop the colour rubbing off the  lollies and ruining the paper..The  front is stamped with Staz On ink (leave the block inside the packaging to do this so the  plastic doesnt buckle when you try to stamp) . I half filled with lollies (since I ate the rest!!!) then added a stamped image from the level 2 stamp set Apple Blossoms. Its finished off with some Daffodil Delight ribbon...

Since you are already here I will show you a few simple cards I made last week..I am loving Marina Mist, it's such a pretty blue. The stamp set used for this one is Great Friend and I embossed the background with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder

This is another very simple card using the Elegant Lines embossing folder, Beautiful Wings embossilit and teh very pretty Scallop trim punch...That's all for now I am going to try and post at least once a week from now on...in an ideal world lol

ESAD Bigshot Bloghop

Hi everyone, here we go again with another fantastic ESAD bloghop, this time featuring projects with the Bigshot...I hope you enjoy everyones projects and you are inspired to try some of them for yourself...but first..

What is ESAD?
ESAD stands for Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators and it is an online group just for Australian and New Zealand demonstrators for Stampin’ Up!
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 its 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 hope you enjoyed  Pauline Bennets wonderful creations.....here are a few of my own

 

This turned out pretty cool considering it was made from mostly recycled materials...This candle centrpiece would look pretty on wedding tables...I started with a base made from a cardboard circle from an empty ribbon spool which I covered with alfoil..The leaves were cut from coke cans with the Leaves #2 die . I have embossed some of them with the Elegant Lines embossing folder. I used a hot glue gun to arrange the leaves over the base...the actual candle holder part is the bottom of a coke can and I added a bit of bling. The butterflies are Wonderful Wings embosselits and I used Vellum cardstock for those and added some bling to their centres

 

Those butterflies are soooo pretty...love em!

                                   

Sticking with the wedding theme, I made this bride card using a template I found on Jan Tinks blog. The Elegant Lines Embossing folder reminds me of beautiful bridal fabric.Her bouquet is made with a scalloped circle punched from vellum cardstock. The roses are actually quite small...I punched some 1 3/8 circles. I just cut them into spirals and rolled them up...I didn't use the whole circle, I just cut off the excess when the roses were as big as I needed.

I have to thank Jane Norrish for teaching me this wonderful technique..it's called double embossing and it looks so effective. The Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder was brayered with versamark, then the designer paper was placed in the folder and run through the Bigshot...It was then heat embossed with Black embossing powder..I then added the Wonderful Wings butterflies.

Last of all a simple dress up job..I got this memo block at the junk shop for $1...what a bargain...I added a few butterflies and leaves just to tizzy it uop a bit..that's what I love about the Bigshot, it's so vesatile..not only for cards but to make everyday items look a bit special!

Thanks for stopping by ...you are off to visit Vicky Were to see what she has in store for you...Happy Hopping!

...if you would like to be in the running to win some Blog Candy.. or as I prefer to call it ..reader rewards, here's what you do

To  qualify you must visit every blog and leave a comment on each one
Once  you  have commented on each blog email  Leonie at leonie@stamp-a-latte.com and advise you have done so
This is only open to customers (ie. demonstrators do not qualify)
There will be at least one aussie and one NZ winner..

(just in case you get lost or there is a broken link I have included a list of all participants)

1.  Nikki Sadler - http://www.inkyart.com.au
2.  Angela Purdie - www.kintakards.webs.com
3.  Richelle Fletcher - http://stampinwithrichelle.blogspot.com
4.  Shirley McAvoy - http://stampingelephants.wordpress.com/
5.  Carole Stedman - www.carolestamping.com
6.  Carol-Ann Torrie - http://queen-of-scraps.blogspot.com
   
7.   Sherylee Tutt - www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/sherylee/blog
8.   clare mcilhatton - www.crafty-cow.com
9.  Andrea Buckland - http://creatingcardswithandrea.blogspot.com/
   
10.  Susan Joyce - http://www.catsinkcorporated.blogspot.com/
    
11.  Ann Gerlach - www.discover-ink.blogspot.com
12.  Dani Fender - http://danifender.blogspot.com
13.  Bron Heslop - www.bronheslop.wordpress.com
14.  Charmaine Black - http://www.l-ink-edtopaper.blogspot.com/
15.  Pauline Bennetts - Pauline Bennets
16.  Bev Watt - http://stampinovation.blogspot.com/
17.  Vicki Were - http://www.stampinvickistyle.blogspot.com/
    
18.  Jo Weedon - http://www.scrapandstampin.blogspot.com
19.  Kim Conway - http://kimconwaycards.blogspot.com
    
20.  Jane Norrish - Http://www.janenorrish.com
    
21.  Jacinta Argent - http://jacintascreations.blogspot.com
22.  Monique Fielder - http://stamping-with-moni-q.blogspot.com/
    
23.  Jan McAnulty - http://cardcaperswithjan.wordpress.com/
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