What's in the bag?

Hi Everyone,
thought I'd share with you what I gave my latest team member.

This is the card I made for her, and a little gift I created, if you'd like to find out what's in the bag, join my team LOL.
If you join before the end of July (today) you can get a heap of extra goodies for FREE!!
Check out my link above for all the details:  "Join my Team" :)

God Bless love
Heather

July CreateAbles Team afternoon

Hi Everyone,
thought I'd just share with you what I taught my CreateAbles team ladies today (for those of you who are part of my team and weren't able to join us I am uploading instructions, and more photos for you on our team facebook page)
Anyway on with the blog post!  I taught them "Step" cards; side step and middle step
Here is the "Side Step":

We used the new Carols of Christmas stamp set and thinlits (love the cute little deer!)

The second card is a Middle Step card;

this one we used the Birthday Delivery bundle, cutting out some of the images from the Designer Series paper with the thinlits.  The little girl facing forwards, and the cake are from the Designer Series Paper (also the background blue dotty paper) and the back of the girl and the flowers are stamped then coloured in.

Jenny Stewart also taught us how to make a Zig Zag card, and I showed the girls how to use the embossing paste, and spritz colour over top.

We had a fun afternoon, with a lot of laughs!  If you are interested in joining my team, do check out the link above; "Join my Team, the CreateAbles", and bear in mind till the end of July, there is extras that you receive when you do join!

I hope this inspires you to create
God Bless love
Heather xox

Having some fun with Embossing Paste

Hi Everyone,
as I was scrolling through one of the Stampin' Up! related Facebook pages the other day I came across a beautiful card by Juana Ambida made using the Embossing paste, she was saying that as the embossing paste is white, we know you can colour it using re-inkers, but to do that is a bit messy, and the paste does dry fast, so then you don't have long to use it.  Her blog post was showing how she'd spritzed colour onto the paste (check it out here).

I really liked this idea, so here are my first versions :)

 By holding the stencil onto the cardstock, you can add the paste, then I've spritzed using a few drops of re-inkers, and topping it up with Isocol (which is an alcohol based rub, dries fast!) then you remove the stencil and Voila! the one above uses Melon Mambo and Pumpkin Pie, the one below uses Garden Green and Dapper Denim.  They still need to be left somewhere to dry for 5 - 10 minutes, but I love the texture you get on the card, and the vibrancy of colour that you can achieve (if you add enough re-inker)!

I did take a couple of close ups to give you a better view too:

you can see the texture it creates with these 2 photos above, and below I thought you might like more of a close up of the "hooray", which is gold heat embossed onto vellum, as I thought white cardstock would be too stark over top, this at least shows a little of the colour through.

To use the Embossing paste, you'll need to have stencils the ones I've used are Pattern Party Decorative Masks, and you'll also need something to spread it on with, I've used the Palette Knives, and lastly to spritz on top of mine I've used the Stampin Spritzers (which happily come in a pack of 2!) although I think I now may need more........ lol  Oh and lastly when you do use the paste, clean up everything immediately after, I just used a few baby wipes as I wasn't near a sink, but it washes off easily.
Don't forget for this month of July every $90 you spend will earn you a $9 "bonus days" gift voucher to use next month, it gets emailed to you, so don't lose your emails!

I hope this inspires you to create
God Bless love
Heather xox

Ideas for July's classes

Hi Everyone,
I missed out doing Christmas in July with you all, so I thought we could do a Christmas in August instead!, So here goes, I need some input with these, as we'll need to pick 4, and I'd rather they were chosen by you who are coming!
 #1:this one is for sure, because I really love it! and it shows you the baby wipe ink pad technique it uses the new Carols of Christmas stamp set, wow the sayings/fonts in this set are amazing!

#2 this one is growing on me, I wasn't sure that I liked it much when I first did it, but it does show another technique - Versamark resist, with the new/old Glossy White Cardstock. The stamp sets I've used are: Watercolor Words (always makes me cringe spelling colour that way lol) and Star of Light.

#3 Not sure if this is too busy, I really like it but then I'm prone to these colours lol!, and not sure if you can tell but the star in the middle is embossed with gold again using the Star of Light Stamp set Oh and the music notes in the background are the new Sheet Music Background Stamp, every time I see the saying "Star of wonder star of Night" my mind starts singing, so figured very appropriate with the musical notes lol!

#4: Oh Yes we're back to the Carols of Christmas stamp set and framelits this time, how cool are the cut out sky scene and the trees?  Oh and I don't know if you can see, but I've added sparkle to the trees in the form of Wink of Stella Clear.

Moving onto card #5, again I'm not sure how I feel about this card, I wanted to use up the trees that were cut out from the last card, but I'm not sure if the whole thing is a bit too white? what do you think? it does use the same saying as #2, so we can't do both of them!, Again the star and the saying are from the Star of Light Stamp set

#6: this card made me laugh, I just couldn't resist portraying Santa as a Chef, so it uses the ultra cute Stamp set Birthday Delivery and my little Santa, has gold mini sequin trim on his outfit, would have liked white, but didn't have anything I could think of:(  Oh and the saying and cute holly sprigs are from Oh What Fun stamp set

Ok, we're there!  as I was going to add one more, but realised it uses the same stamp as #1 and we're definitely doing that one! lol.
So, now I need you're input, which are your favourites?  Oh, and did you know that the blue writing in these posts are links to the product so you can see what else in the stamp set etc? - although I do recommend opening them in new tabs or windows, so you can carry on reading the blog!

Well that's it from me for now, please let me know which ones you like (hopefully at least 4 appeal!)
I hope it inspires you to create,
God Bless love
Heather xox

Something I made for some friends

Hi Everyone,
thought I'd share something that I made up for some friends of mine who have got engaged and moved house, they had their housewarming today, so I can now post this (as they've now got their pressie, and I didn't want to spoil the surprise (just in case!)

Anyway this couple are into something called Steam Punk (which I had to google to make sure I got it right - lol)
Here is the card I made them: the large heart is cut from Copper foil cardstock, then heat embossed with Copper, Gold and Silver, I love the effect it gives!

have to admit feeling very gratified when Trish opened the card and said Oh cool, Steam Punk!, boded well for the presie - lol
And here is the pressie, (very hard to get a good photo of I have to say!)  it's a framed piece using vanilla cardstock, an embossing folder that I had, had all the cogs and wheels on it, then heat embossed with copper, gold and silver, then the hearts cut out with the Sweet and Sassy framelits.

 

bit of a close up of the saying a the bottom of the piece

this photo shines a bit better :)

They both seemed to like it so that was a relief! 
I hope it inspires you to create too.
God Bless love
Heather xox

Carols of Christmas

Hi Everyone,
Well excitingly Stampin' Up! have released a new stamp set from the upcoming Holiday Catalogue ahead of time, and it's called Carols of Christmas, Demonstrators can purchase it immediately or anyone who decides to join, will get the stamp set for FREE with some extra free goodies too (on top of the normal joining deal, $235 worth of your choice of goodies for only $169!) check out more info above on the "Join my Team" tab.

Anyway on to the stamp set and matching framelits, and what I finally had the chance to create today!

this is the first card I created, I just had to try out the framing thinlits, and the flower thinlits, then the saying wouldn't fit in lol, so I then had to cut that up to fit it in!
Next up:

These trees are cut out of the card, and I've layered Pear Pizzazz cardstock under it with Clear Wink of Stella painted on top to give a sparkly effect (oh and here's the saying stamp all together!)
Then I moved onto this card:

but I wasn't 100% happy with it, and realised that it needed........

Another die, to cut moon and stars out of the top of it! (and while I was at it I figured the trees that were cut out of the 2nd card could be attached to this one) what do you think?
I love the sayings in this set!  there are also dies to cut out the ornaments, flower, and leaves! Come 1st August this will be available to everyone, so if you're interested in the set, let me know!

So, tell me, what's your favourite out of these cards?
I hope it inspires you to create,
God Bless love
Heather xox

What did I take on holiday?

Hi Everyone,
thought I'd share with you what I took on holiday, as I really HAD to have my craft in some way with me - lol!
I was excited to fit it into a Coles freezer bag....

Unpacking the bag we have all these (plus photos and my 2016 calendar)

Yep that's right a spot of photo organising!  and Yea I finally finished off 2016!  In the bag was my Stampin' Trimmer (up the back) a few packs of Photo pocket pages, some of the (old) Project Life cards, and stickers (now Stampin' Up! offers Memories and More packs that have cards and stickers all in)  there's my album (6x8" size) I find this size manageable! and my "essentials" pack (paper snips, journaling pens, snail adhesive, tombow adhesive, and Tear and tape adhesive)

So here are some of the pages I made up.......

Once I'd made it all up,  I discovered that actually it didn't all fit in the album, so then I had to order another album for just our holiday to Hervey Bay, which I finished off decorating today, here it is :)

Ok, next to start on printing out 2017 photos!  If you want to have a go at photo organising let me know, and we could get together, I'd love to start up a photo organising club if anyone else is interested? 

Well I hope this inspires you to get your photos off your computer/phone/storage, and get it into an album where everyone can see them (my kids love it!)

God Bless love

Heather xox