A little bit of fun

Hi everyone.

Tuesday evening has come and gone, but I hope all the ladies enjoyed themselves at the launch party I hosted. Thank you all again for coming along, and I do hope you enjoyed the evening. I know a few of you went home with little 'goody plates' for your hubbies! Hope they liked their little gifts! My M.O.T.H. is working away this week, but never fear I have saved heaps for him for the weekend!

Below are a few of the photos I took beforehand. Don't forget you can click on the photos to enlarge them.

I have to admit that I did CASE a few of the ideas from our new catty, but altered them to my taste.

I usually dress this 'tree' for my barbeque area at Christmas but thought it would make a lovely 'in-color' flower and butterly bush!

I am just loving the new Button Buddies stamp set. It has heaps of possibilities and gives me a chance to use some of those gorgeous SU buttons.

If you're not very confident as a card maker or want to buy a gift for a non-cardmaker, why not look at purchasing one of the Simply Sent kits as pictured here. They have everything required to put together 8 gorgeous cards.

If you look very closely on the bottom shelf of my china cabinet, you can see (barely!), the platter of gorgeous patty cakes that I cooked and iced (thanks so much to my sister Doreen for her clever flower creations and teaching me how to make them). Silly me, I completely forgot to take a photo of the table with all the yummy food for supper but realised when I had downloaded this photo, that at least you could glimpse my efforts!!!

If you would like to purchase a 2011-2012 Idea Book and Catalogue, place an order with me, or book a class or demonstration, or just pop in for a coffee and chat (now everyone knows that's a difficult thing for me!!!!), just call or email me anytime.

Thanks for visiting,
Cheers,
Sue

New Catalogue Launch evening

Hi everyone. Bet you thought I'd gone walkabout!!

Still here but have been as busy as a 'lizard on a log', as I've been conducting classes and had  my sister and brother-in-law visiting from Canberra (she makes the best patty cakes ever!!!). They have gone North for a week and are returning for a few days next week on their way home. I so love having her visit and would love it if they lived closer although it could get us into all sorts of mischief as we both love our craft.

While here she taught me some basic cake decorating tricks and I can't wait to try them out.
Speaking of which, I am hosting a catalogue launch evening here tomorrow evening, which has been keeping me very busy preparing.
I have 18 lovely ladies attending and apart from viewing the brand new catalogue and some of the products, I have a raffle organised plus door prizes as well as refreshments which I have prepared.
Hopefully, I'll get some photos organised and post them in the next few days.

Thanks for visiting,
Sue

Spotlighted Triptych

M.O.T.H. and I today attended our local Bentley Art Prize which showcases local artists including oil paintings, charcoal drawings, photography, scrapbooking to name a few. We have a wonderful assortment of artists in and around our community, and it was so difficult to decide on our absolute favourites.
When we returned home we enjoyed a welcome coffee in our backyard listening to the birds, and it was then I decided to come in and make a card. I had been thinking of a triptych painting I really liked at the exhibition and thought I might replicate the idea in a card. I had also seen a lovely card made by Linda Hellier and here is my version.

Thanks for visiting.
Sue

Cardstock: Basic Black, Poppy Parade

Stamps: Medallion, Heard from the Heart, Vintage Vogue

Stamp Pads: Whisper White Craft, Basic Black

Other: Assorted circle punches, Poppy Parade 1/2" Stitched-Poly Ribbon, Basic Rhinestone

Bid a Fond Farewell

We all need to say goodbye from time to time, and now is that time at Stampin'Up.
To make way for new and exciting products, it is necessary to retire some products.

Click HERE and you will be able to view the Retirement List.

Products are only available while supplies last, so contact me to place your order.

I will update the list as time goes by.

Stampin' Tess

I've owned this stamp set for some time and just hadn't played with it until now.
I sprinkled Olive fine supernova Stampin'Up! glitter over a piece of  Multipurpose Adhesive sheet for the background behind 'Tess' and used the Scallop trim corner punch.

I stamped her onto Whisper white cardstock and coloured her with our SU markers. I then stamped the bag onto DSP, stamped the wording which is also part of the set, using the Stamp-a-ma-Jig, cut out the bag to look like she's holding it, layered it onto Whisper White with Elegant Eggplant as the card base.

 Now I've 'played' with her, I can see such potential with this great stamp set.
 She is part of an 11 piece stamp set which you can of course purchase from me. Wouldn't your daughter love this set to play with?

Just a Little 'Two Step'

Made this card for a class recently and had to share it with you. I have always loved pink and grey together so decided it might go nicely on a card. Haven't really used too much of the  SU Basic Gray cardstock, but think it looks pretty. What do you think? I totally love the Lap of Luxury Designer paper along with the little leaves sizzlits die (it can be used for so many layouts, either cards or scrapbook pages).

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Whisper White, Lap of Luxury DSP, Old Olive

Stamp Set: Flower Fancy 2-step set

Other: Little Leaves Sizzlits die, Circle Scissor Plus, Scallop Edge Border punch, Dazzling Diamonds glitter

Big Shot Hints

Was just reading through some papers and came across a couple of interesting hints for the Big Shot.

1. Flip and rotate your cutting mats so that you get even wear on them Not flipping and rotating can cause your cutting mats to buckle and eventually break. (and a number of us have seen this happen, haven't we!!!!)
2. When using Bigz dies and multiple sheets of cardstock, use the crease pad plus two plastic pieces of shim. The shim does make a difference.
3. Use your dies to create a stencil from acetate. Leave plenty of room around the image, then place it over your cardstock and sponge away. A great way to create backgrounds.

Thanks heaps Angela!
Hope these hints can be of help to you. If you'd like to ask any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.