Hi Everyone, Well, there is a new Challenge over on the INKspiration Facebook Page !  As my aim is to join in with as many as possible, I had a spare moment or two today, so here we are! I have an aim to go through all my stamp sets and use them all my at least twice!, as I'm finding that  a lot of them I used heaps when I first got them, and now they've made their way to the bottom of the pile, and kind of get forgotten about, in preference of the new and shiny!  I still love this stamp set "Garden in Bloom" though! Oh I'd better tell you what the challenge is! So the challenge is to use these colours: Wisteria Wonder, Soft Sky, Mint Macaron, Whisper White and Garden Green.  My plan was to watercolour on shimmery white cardstock, umm didn't go so well!  So instead I watercoloured on watercolour paper, used the Decorative Label Punch for the saying, and created this:   which I like, but as I'd also used Stazon black and the new gorgeous

Hi Everyone, Wow we're almost at the end of January!  So here are my class cards for February, class dates are Wednesday 1st Feb at our new home in Kangaroo Flat - Rosedale (10.30am), Saturday 4th Feb in Maryborough (10am), and Wed 8th Feb in Laanecoorie (eve). My mum reminded me that it's Valentines day in Feb, when I was on the phone to her yesterday, so I thought we'd best do something "Valentinesey" but as I'm not big on Valentines day, this one can be dressed up for the occasion, or just for a good friend:   I love the copper foil, and I'm pleased with the way it turned out I think the copper pairs nicely with the Cherry Cobbler colour (felt I'd better use a red for the occasion - lol)  the spots in the background are from one of my favourite Stamp sets " Gorgeous Grunge "And this saying is from " Suite Sentiments " it has some fabulous sayings in it! Ok moving onto the next card:   Yes this one does seem to be 3 ca

Hi Everyone, Well I have been meaning to get into my craft room for this challenge for a week and 1/2 now, finally made it.... YAY! I'm really pleased with this card, quite simple, and I think it'll be in my teaching next month! So without further ado here it is:   The "brief" was to create a card using these colours, although I haven't used all of them (and I've substituted Blushing Bride for Flirty Flamingo)  I'm still quite chuffed with it!   You should be able to click on the icecream photo to check out what others have been doing over on the INKspiration Facebook site. You might be wondering what I've used?  Well the ink colours are Sweet Sugarplum, Peekaboo Peach, and Flirty Flamingo,  then I've taken one of the gorgeous new Lace Doilies , and used it as a mask with the 3 different colours, just daubing them over it, then moving the doily and doing the same again, till the background is covered.  Then I've taken the lovely Sale

Hi Everyone, I thought I'd have a go at the GDP challenge again this week, which is a colour challenge I saw someone's handbag when I was at work the other day, and the button just made me want to have a "go at it!, then I remembered about the handbag cards I used to make when I first started  with Stampin' Up! we used to use various punches, and folded over the top, and they made really cute little handbags. After checking out my available punches I decided to go bigger......and judging my the reaction from my ladies at my Wednesday evening class it was worth it! The button is actually made from Silver Foil cardstock , with TipTop Taupe underneath, and a Delightful Dijon cross from the Festive Flower builder punch .  The Handbag card itself is made using the largest Lots of Labels framelit. Umm this could end up being a Class project, or a video.......... Thanks for reading this, and do check out the other Global Design Project

Hi Everyone, Well this morning was our monthly team meeting as it's January a lot of folks were away, so in the end there was 3 of us! - and I remembered to take some photos - Yay! We did a spot of training on the Stampin' Up! levels first, and checked out the reports on the website, hopefully it made more sense now to Val and Marg :) Then I did a little "Show and Tell" on how to use your thinlits and framelits to emboss instead of cut, (you'll see a video on using thinlits here: video on embossing with thinlits ) I used a framelit too to create this cute card:   Then we moved on to the Make and Takes first up using the new Balloon Adventure Bundle If you have one the catalogues it's all on page 5 (if you'd like one let me know!) I've also used the Party Animal Designer Series Paper and the Emerald Envy Taffeta Ribbon and the Party Animal Embellishments (they're so cool!) Oh except for the Candle Border Punch !which is on page