Afternoon fun

I spent this afternoon at a workshop with a group of 8 lovely ladies. They are line dancers and following their morning of dancing and then lunch, it was down to a couple of hours of cardmaking.

Stamp Sets:     Just Believe, Bring on the Cake
Cardstock:     Whisper White, Pocketful of Posies Designer Series Paper, Pretty in Pink, Rich Razzleberry (love this colour!)
Inks:                Pear Pizazz, Rich Razzleberry
Accessories:    Itty Bitty Punch set, Basic Pearls, Scallop trim border punch, corner rounder punch

Another easel card which I love making

Stamp Sets:          Fifth Avenue Floral (this is such a popular stamp set), Always Elegant, Confetti (this is a new set which consists of a group of background stamps - as a number of the ladies hadn't stamped much before, I wanted to show them what they could do. Therefore, there's not much showing, but we used the darling little dots stamp in the set)
Cardstock:           Elegant Eggplant, Rose Red, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla
Inks:                     Elegant Eggplant, Basic Black, Rose Red
Accessories:         Basic Pearls, Mat pack

I wanted to show the ladies that you don't need only Christmas paper for your cards.

Stamp Sets:           Snow Swirled, Short and Sweet, Dasher
Cardstock:            Pocketful of Posies Designer Series Paper (this particular patterned piece in the set is in Calypso Coral - gorgeous!), Riding Hood Red, Basic Grey, Whisper White
Inks:                     Calypso Coral
Accessories:        Top Note Bigz die, Basic Rhinestones, Circles No.2 Original die, Punches -Scallop Circle, 1 1/4" circle, 1 3/8" circle, daubers for sponging around whisper white cardstock.

Tomorrow I'm off to spend a couple of days with my fabulous Upline Jacqui who I'm sure has lots of goodies in store for us; apart from coffee, chatting and maybe more chatting!!!! Maybe a wine or two thrown in for good measure!
Sorry Dennis, you'll probably be glad to see me go on Thursday and then you can get back to 'normal'!!!! LOL

Thanks for visiting
Cheers,
Sue

Happy New Year

Hi everyone, and welcome to 2011.

Hubby and I spent Christmas with our younger son David and his lovely partner Claire, while our older son Justin was having fun kite surfing over in W.A. We missed him like crazy of course, and will make up for his absence on his return.

Recently, a friend hosted a card class along with 7 other lovely ladies and the following are the cards they made on the day.

Materials used:

Cardstock: Kraft, Soft Suede, Whisper White

Stamp set: Just Believe

Inkpads: Soft Suede, In-Color Pear Pizzazz

Ribbon: Pear Pizzazz ½” stitched-poly ribbon

Punch: Designer label – large

Accessories: Sponging, Hodgepodge Happiness stamp set (Summer Mini)

Hodgepodge Hardware, silver brads

Materials used:

Cardstock: Night of Navy, Whisper White

Inkpad: Pacific Point

Designer Series Paper: Blueberry Crisp

Stamp set: Pocket Silhouettes

Materials used:

Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Glossy White

Stamp set: Upsy Daisy

Inkpad: StazOn Jet Black, In-color Peach Parfait

Other: Sponging

Punch: Scallop Trim border

Designer Series Paper: Peach Parfait from In-color Patterns DSP stack

We have a room in our home that has been a ‘nothing’ type room and quite dark. One of our sons had it as a bedroom years ago and we jokingly referred to it as the ‘cave room’. Recently a builder friend made a window type opening in one wall to enable more light in and open up the room, and what a difference it has made. It is situated right next door to our computer area and my craft room, and is just like an extension of that area. I call it my ‘studio’ which will enable me to conduct classes here at my home, although I am still very happy to come to you. I can accommodate up to 6 ladies or even 1 or 2, your choice. Phone or email me anytime.