I have arrived back from Bali and I will fill you in on the details soon, but I had to pop in to let you know about a special that Stampin’ Up! have just announced….a massive sale. Check out the prices of these items… just email me or give me a call to order. All items are available whilst stocks last, and I also want to offer you 15% off all of our items for the remainder of December 2009. Again just drop me an email and I will place the order for you.

My email is tidbold@optusnet.com.au

ok, I’ll be back with more about Bali soon,

A couple of weeks ago a  few of us girls headed off to “Cloudland” a very popular cocktail bar and nightclub in the Valley in Brisbane, for our friend Sues birthday. So of course I had to make a suitable card. My gift to Susy was a cocktail so I included a voucher she could use.

The “Cheers to You” stamp set was the perfect choice for this one. It has a choice of different cocktail images to join from. I have started with a Pink Passion base card, added some Pink Flamingo DSP, some punched circles of Only Orange and Summer Sun. I have stamped my image with black Staz-On and coloured it with my blender pen and ink pads. Finally I finished it with a drop of Crystal Effects on the olive and some dazzling diamonds glitter on the the drink and umbrella.

Inside I have included a voucher for a free cocktail of Sue’s choice and a little cocktail “token”. Sue loved it and all the girls thought it was very cute! Now I know you also want to know how the night went, well it was a Hoot!!! We had some lovely cocktails, a great dinner, and we even met and had a photo with Dave (Hughsie) Hughs from the “7PM Project” in channel 10. Overall the night was awesome, and we will definately be back at Cloudland another night.

Till next time, happy stamping.

Hey there everyone,

I am back with some more Christmas cards for you. I originally made these for the last stamp a stack class, but the girls all saw them before I had a chance to hide them…so I had to make up some more. But at least I get to share them with you all here.

1. Tree Trimmings

This card was really popular with everyone. The base card and bauble & greeting stamp are all riding hood red. The DSP is ski slope and the card is finished off with some choc chip cardstock and the branch from Bird on a Branch stamped in choc chip.

2. Holly Jolly Santa

This one was inspired by a swap card I recieved by the very talented Marelle Taylor. I just gave it a christmas twist. I do love this santa, although not all of my customers like to have to cut him out so much, haha. I have used the Santa from A Holly Jolly Christmas, and the greeting is from Punch Pals. The colours all come from the Ski Slope Dsp, baja breeze and real red.

3. Wake Skating Santa

 Well when I saw the Seasons Surfin’ stamp set in the spring mini, i knew it would be perfect for my family, with all the wake surfing my boys do behind our boat it is definately a favourite around here! This card has a base of riding hood red base card and taffeta ribbon, some pacific point cardstock and of course some whisper white cardstock. I have coloured the image with my blender pen and an assortment of ink pads, and finished it off with a bit of dazzling diamonds glitter and two-way glue pen.

So I hope you liked them. If you would like to book in for my final Stamp a Stack, it is on this coming Saturday afternoon, the 14th of November at 3:30pm. Then if you are having a great time, you are welcome to stay for PMS that night. Just give me a ring or send me an email to book in.

till next time

Happy stamping,

Hey Everyone,

I had a Christmas Stamp-a-Stack on Friday and I thought I would share with you the cards that we made.

Number 1 is an Ornament card.

   The base card is Riding Hood Red, with some Holiday Treasures DSP, Highlights of Choc Chip and the main stamped panel is whisper white. The stamp sets used are Baroque Motifs stamped in Old Olive, the greeting is from Snow Swirled and stamped in choc chip, and finally the ornament is from Tree Trimmings and stamped in Riding Hood Red and mounted with Stampin Dimensionals and accented with Stampin glitter and the 2 way glue pen.

Card 2 – Paper Pieced

This one was surprisingly quite popular. I know that sounds weird, the surprising bit, but I wasn’t sure what the girls would think about it. I have used the tree from Seasons of Joy, stamped in old olive, and the greeting is from Many Merry Messages, and is stamped in Riding Hood Red. The paper piecing is a combination of Holiday Treasures and Ski Slope DSP’s. The ribbon is Riding Hood Red taffeta.

Card 3 another Christmas Tree Card

This one has a base card of Baja Breeze. It uses the greetings from Best Yet Hostess set stamped in Real Red, and the Christmas tree is from Holly Jolly Christmas stamped in Old Olive, and the Swirl is from Season of Joy, stamped in Baja Breeze. The DSP is ski slope, and finished off with some real red wide grosgrain ribbon.

I hope you’ve enjoyed these cards, and I will back with some more Christmas cards soon. Now if you would like to come along to another Stamp-a-Stack I’ve still got a couple of places left in my Saturday Class on the 14th November at 3:30pm – 5:30pm and then you have the option of staying on for my PMS night. You must book, so give me a call or drop me an email. The cost for the Stamp-a-stack is $20 for 9 (3 each of 3 designs) cards with envelopes.

till then happy stamping,

The Flower Power Simply Sent Card Elements kit has tempted me for a very long time. One of my wonderful customers Kerry had succumbed to the temptation but I was holding off, not sure why, but for once I was resisting temptation. Well I’m sure Stampin’ Up! must have known this was the only product of theirs that I didn’t own, and hence, made it the WCMD special. So of course I couldn’t resist a bargain. The special only has one week left to go, so I hope I can tempt a few of you and that this special might encourage you to also purchase it. If at the end of this post I have tempted you, just give me a call or pop me an email and I will be happy to place an order for you.

These Kits come with everything to make 3 each of 3 designs, including the ribbon, brads and buttons, AND full instructions. The cards come together so quickly as all of the elements are self-adhesive. However, I have never been very good at just following pre-set designs so I thought I’d see what else I could come up with. So here goes, I hope you like them.

Now all of these are made basically with comes in the kit. All I have added is a few brads, some whisper white cardstock and some extra ribbon.

These two that follow use the kit products with the stamp set “Bird in a Branch”. I am loving these colours together.

Even after making all 10 cards, I still have 1 and 1/3 sheets of the patterned paper left! I am so excited. Normally when I buy kits like these I am scared to use them in case they run, silly really, but there you go. And that’s why I am so excited, I still have soooo much left to play with.

I hope you’ve enjoyed these, and remember to get 20% off the matching stamp set, just order before Saturday.

till then, happy stamping,

Wow – this is amazing, I think this must be the record number of posts in a row….and I am even posting when I say I will, awesome. Anyway, enough rambling here are the circle circus cards I promised. This is a stamp set that I have had for ages but haven’t played with nearly enough, so during my PMS class on Friday I had a chance to have a play with it.

The first is a male card that uses the colours Basic Gray, Whisper white, pumpkin pie and Kiwi Kiss. The greeting is from the “On your birthday” stamp set.

This is a female card, and the colours are again basic gray, tangerine tango, tempting turquoise and kiwi kiss. I love how changing the colours and adding a different embellishment changes the whole look.

Now, the following three are all female cards, using Cameo Coral, Tempting Turquoise and Summer sun. I love this colour combination together. With the first two I have used a piece of Pink Flamingo DSP. These also have some dazzling diamonds with the two way glue pen, but it doesn’t really show up in the photos.

 I hope I have been able to show you the versatility of this set. I am sure I will be playing with it again, soon.

Till next time, happy stamping.

smiles,

This is my final post about WCMD…I wanted to share with you a couple of the prizes we gave away.

We made a few different Pizza Boxes to give away. This one is a christmas pizza box. A cute little box with 5 Christmas love notes and envelopes inside. This one uses the Spotlight on Christmas stamp set, Baja Breeze, & Riding Hood Red cardstock with some ski Slope DSP. The best thing about this set is that alot of our punches work with the stamps, like the large star here.

I had fun with these little handbag totes. They are filled with a set of 5 gift cards, perfect for Christmas gifts. This one is made using Riding hood red cardstock, ski slope DSP and the Spotlight on Christmas and Winter Post stamp sets. It is highlighted with old olive cardstock and ribbon. Again by using punches it comes together so quickly. I have used the scallop border punch, the cute and curly punch and the square punch.

This one is made with old olive cardstock, and a combination of spotlight on christmas, and snow swirled stamp sets. It is finished off with riding hood red cardstock that has been scallop punched, and a piece of riding hood red striped ribbon.

So I hope you liked these prizes and I promise we will have more next stamp day.

Till then I will be back soon, with some cards that I have made using the circle circus set, so stay tuned.

Take care and happy stamping

When I was at our SU convention earlier this year, I enjoyed looking and photographing, all of the wonderful display boards that they have there. These boards display cards and scrap pages from the designers in the US home office as well as local demos. One of the cards really caught my eye and I have wanted to do something with it for a while. So I finally sat down and created my card based on the one that was at convention. After completing it, I realised it was a great design that could be used for both a male card and a female card. So here they both are, I hope you like them.

This is the male version. Using Basic Gray, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze and Sahara Sand. The stamp set is Good Friend and the greeting is from Family Phrases. I have also used a piece of Urban Garden paper and a snippet of Kiwi Kiss striped Ribbon.

And here is the female version. I have used the same stamp sets, with the colours being Basic Gray, Regal Rose, Pretty In Pink and Pink Pirouette, and some Pink Pirouette striped ribbon. I have added some rhinestone brads to the centres of the stamped image.

I hope you like these comparisons and can make your own variation of this card layout. Let me know what you think…

till next time,

happy stamping,

Ok here they are – the christmas cards that we did at World Card Making Day.

First, a christmas tree card using the Punch Pals set. The colours here are Kiwi Kiss, Elegant Eggplant and Rose red. The scallop oval punch adds a nice touch.

Second, this is a bit of a favourite, using the Snow Swirled stamp set, and the joy stamp from the spotlight on Christmas. The main colour is Riding Hood Red, with some ski slope DSP, a bit of old olive, choc chip and baja breeze. I hope you like it.

Third is a card designed by Kym Byrne, I’m sure she is happy for me to share it with you. It is so striking in real life! Kym has used the tree trimmings stamp set, with the extra wide striped ribbon from the Spring Mini catalogue. Add some choc chip, a bit of old olive and a base card of Riding hood red and wallaahh, you’re done!

Finally, I have 3 tags to show you. I am on a bit of a tag rage at the moment so you can be sure you will be seeing more soon.

I am hoping these line up neatly. Anyway from left to right…the first tag uses Spotlight on Christmas, in old olive and riding hood red with a scalloped bottom edge of whisper white. The middle tag the Punch Pal set and our wonderful markers, in real red, old olive and Not quite navy. The tag on the right uses is made from Pacfic point cardstock with a kiwi kiss highlight, and uses the Winter post stamp set .

I hope these have given you some inspiration for your Christmas cards & tags.

I’ll be back tomorrow, with a card that I have done two ways….

till then, happy stamping.

Hey There,

I promised a couple of posts ago, that I would post some photos of the World Card Making Day event at my home earlier this month. It was such a great day, that we are already planning another. I’m sure once you see the photos and the cards that we did you will be as keen as we are for another day.

Now if the cardmaking isn’t enough to tempt you, check out the homemade cupcakes  made by Nicki and Kym and Kym’s famous danishes. These were both super yummy.

Yet again, my wonderful mum and hubby did the rest of the catering. These two make the best sandwiches in the world.

Yep, we did make some cards as well…..

This is one of the male cards, using the Teachers Pet stamp set, with the Definitions alphabet. The colours are old olive, choc chip and the Windsor Knot DSP’s.

Wow, I know it is such a surprise to see one of my favourite sets was used, Just Beachy is soooo cool, I just love it. It works wonderfully here with the Urban Garden DSP, and Not Quite Navy. The greeting is from the It’s your Birthday stamp set.

Have you had enough yet??, theres some more to come tomorrow, so make sure you come back and check out some Christmas cards and tags.

till then,

Happy stamping,