Something Saturday - Filled with Happiness Ovals

 Hi There Creators

Today I thought I'd show you a couple of tricks with the "Filled With Happiness" Stamp Set and Modern Oval Punch.  I'm also using the Water Painters ,and Wink of Stella, and as when you use watercolouring you need an ink that won't move with water, I'm also using Black Stazon for my stamping outlines.

Here are the cards I have made up:

I made this one up before the video, if you stamp on spare cardstock you can punch out the middle with the Modern Oval punch and layer it up onto your base card.

Then I remembered to show how to get just the inside image onto a card (or envelope) and if you punch another oval shape with some of the sticky note paper, you can put that on a card, and just stamp the outside of the stamp. 😉

So then I went on to make this card: combining it with the cute Sale-a-Bration set "Cradled in Love", which you can pick for free with a $90 order, Woo hoo!  it's only available till end of February as part of the Sale-a-Bration offering. click the link to see the sale-a-bration goodies.  Also if you join Stampin' Up! there's a rather good deal going on too, check out this link: Join my team.

And then this one uses the outside of the stamp, and some of the other stamps in the set:

It's actually a surprisingly versatile stamp set! (or at least I was surprised by what I could do with it🤣)

If you missed the video here it is:

I hope you've enjoyed this and it inspires you to create too

God Bless love

Heather xox

Something Saturday - Rock & Roll

 Hi there Creators,

Today we're checking out the Rock & Roll designer Series Paper, it's a great all rounder being black & white (check it out with the link above)

Oh and don't forget.....that Sale-a-Bration (SAB) is still going to the end of Feb, which means for every $90 you purchase you get a FREE SAB goody, or if you have heaps you want, you could join my team, and pick $235 of goodies, and only pay $169! plus you get the Glass Mat Studio for FREE or an extra $51 of goodies to pick for free! (making it $286 you can pick and only pay $169!! bargain!)  click the links to find out more info.

Anyway, onto the cards I created with it, after last week I was kind of stuck on my Alphabet A La Mode dies, so kept using them🤣  Oh Plus I also used the new Stampin' Brayer to create a great quick colour for the background so it wasn't the stark white (the advantages of having black & white designer paper!) then I used my Stampin' Write markers to colour in 3 of the guitars (was tempted to colour in more)  then one of my fav stamp sets Biggest Wish to create the big BIRTHDAY.  I like the way the "happy" pops with the Soft Sea foam behind it.

Then as I had my Happy already cut out I thought rather than adding to my rather large collection of scraps, I'd best do something with it!  It wasn't going to show up well enough on the dark coloured DSP, so I figured a bit of vellum underneath works wonders 😃, and as it's kind of hard to stamp onto vellum, I thought it would be better to have the Birthday white heat embossed onto it.  By the way Birthday comes from the matching Stamp set "Rock Star", just a case of only inking up the Birthday bit of the stamp, which isn't too hard to do, or wipe off the excess ink before you stamp.  How cool are the little boom boxes, record players, and tapes? (oh takes me back to my teenage years and taping songs off the radio......)

If you missed the video here it is:

I hope this inspires you to create too, dig out your black & white DSP and colour or brayer it in!

God Bless love

Heather xox

Something Saturday - Let's Go Alphabet

 Hi There Creators,

Today we're checking out both of the Alphabet Die sets that Stampin' Up! have on offer at the mo.

Alphabet A La Mode Dies, and Mini Alphabet Dies, both sets really handy, and if you're a scrapbooker, I'd say they're essential!

Anyway, here are the cards I created this time:

The first card, kind of uses the off-cut piece, and I suggested in the video you could do an anagram of someone's name using it, this one is just a FOR U card 😊 with a few other off cuts I happened to have lying around on my desk.

Then this is the card I made up in the video, I had previously cut the black glimmer paper (quite a long time ago) intending to make up a card like this, which clearly hadn't been used 🤣 can't rush these things!

So, as Sam's birthday is looming at the end of Feb, and he'll be 13 I thought I could make it up for him, his fav colour is "cyan" as he likes to call it (I'd call it turquoise or blue) I've used Tahitian Tide.  No idea what he'll be getting for his birthday yet...... (hopefully he likes his custom made card)

 

 

I also used them in the scrapbook that I've been making (if you're a regular here, you might remember I was doing some last week):

If you missed the video here it is:

Don't forget that Sale-a-Bration (SAB) is still going to the end of Feb, which means for every $90 you purchase you get a FREE SAB goody, or if you have heaps you want, you could join my team, and pick $235 of goodies, and only pay $169! plus you get the Glass Mat Studio for FREE or an extra $51 of goodies to pick for free! (making it $286 you can pick and only pay $169!! bargain!)  click the links to find out more info.

I hope this inspires you to have a go too!

God Bless love

Heather xox

Something Saturday - A touch of Scrapbooking with Beautiful Balloons

 Hi there Creators, 

Well I've been saying that my new glass mat would be ideal for scrapbooking on, so thought I'd better prove it 🤣  Just as a side note it's Sale-a-Bation at the moment (SAB for short) till end of Feb, and you can score yourself one of these amazing glass work mats for free when you join Stampin' Up!  The deets are: pick $235 of goodies, and only pay $169, then get the glass mat studio for free with it (see here: Join my team if you're interested or ask me).

Anyway moving on to the scrapbooking, I can't say I'm an expert at this, it's definitely not my favourite thing, but, I volunteered to create a scrapbook of our Carol service as a gift for someone.  I have these bright ideas sometimes 🤣  Although actually I quite enjoyed making these sheets up in the video and I've had a few more ideas for the pictures with songs connected to the photos.

The first page is this one: not made in video - and as you can see it's remarkably simple!

Then I made this one up in the video, I decided the streamers from the Beautiful Balloons Bundle would look good in the background, and I'm happy I did do that, then some of the balloons to go with it, it's such a fun page with the little kids section of the service.  And by the way during SAB if you order this bundle - as it's $91.75 you get to pick an extra gift for free from the SAB offering - woo hoo! check out what's available in the SAB offering here: SAB goodies

Then the other side of the spread is this one, I've tried to connect up the streamers so it works across the 2 pages.

 

They are fairly basic, although I'm quite chuffed with my use of the Decorative Circle punch to create an interest in the corners of the photo on the blue page.

I tend to think the whole purpose of scrapbooking is to preserve the memories in photo form, and these will also have cards in the gaps, that those involved in the carol service are writing on, so I'm not really big on lots of embellishments, although we'll see how the other pages come out if I get more adventurous!

Anyway if you missed the video here it is:

 I hope I've inspired you to dig out some of your photos, and have a go at scrapbooking too!

God Bless love
Heather xox

Something Saturday - Half'er cards using Trusty Toolbox

 Hi There Creators,

No not half a card🤣  Today I'm showing off the fabulous Trusty Tools Bundle, which just so happens to have matching Sale-a-Bration papers that go with it.  Sale-a-Bration (SAB) is on until the end of Feb, for every $90 you purchase you get to pick for free from the SAB catalogue (check out the whole offering here: Sale-a-Bration items.  Woo hoo!  There's also another fabulous deal when you join Stampin' Up! you get to choose $235 of goodies plus you get the glass mat studio for free OR and extra $50 of goodies in your pack and you only pay $169 (absolute bargain, let me know if you're interested!) or check out this link: Join Now link.   Anyway moving on to my "half'er" cards....

The Trusty Toolbox SAB papers have a heap of tools on a couple of the sheets, which is great, and for a scrapbook sheet they're fine, but round the edges if you're a cardmaker you kind of end up with a heap of "dud" tools (half tools), so I thought I can use those (and show you how to too)

Here goes.....  This first one I made up in the video

Then after the video I moved onto this one (just happened to have the "love you" cut out from the post I did on 30th Dec laying around on my desk), so figured I might just make this one up for my hubbie (now to find a non-suspicious reason to give it to him 🤣)

 And lastly I also had some off cuts bits, so I squared them up and figured it would work to "splash" them over the front of the card, as I did fussy cut all the bits out before the stamps & dies (that I'd forgotten I'd ordered arrived), but some of these tools and the paintbrush are cutoutable with the dies (ooo that's a good word isn't it, "cutoutable"🤣

Aren't they fabulous papers? and the stamp set is really cool that it has "fill" in bits to stamp - check it out with the link above.

If you missed the video here it is: 

I hope this inspires you to create!

God Bless love

Heather xox

Class Cards for February

 Hi there Creators, 

Wow we're 1/2 way through January already!! where did the time disappear to? 

Ok I have 4 cards for you next month all using new goodies, bear in mind that we are in Sale-a-Bration time at the moment (SAB for short) and this means that for every $90 of goodies you order you get to pick a SAB product for FREE - wey hey😍 Check out all the available goodies here: SAB offering.  Or are you tempted by so much that it would be worth joining and getting a continuous discount?  If so there's an amazing deal for people to join: pay $169 and receive either $235 of goodies PLUS the Glass Mat Studio, OR pick another $50 of goodies for your kit, check it out here: Joining Deal

Anyway the class dates are: Thursday 1st at 7pm in Laanecoorie, then Saturday 3rd in Maryborough at 10.30am and Tuesday 6th at 2.30pm (note the new date and time of the midweek, what used to be Wednesday, class)

Here we go.....

I figured everyone knows someone who's musical (or into Rock & Roll), so I created this fun card using the Rock Star Bundle

Next up this pretty stamp from Stippled Roses creates a beautiful pattern.

Then another fun card, I had to use some of the Sale-a-Bration goodies!, I thought it would make a great kids card.

And lastly I know the paper isn't new but it's so pretty, this is the Meandering Meadows Designer series paper which is one of the Online Exclusive packs, with this card the circle on the front is the opening bit, sometimes you just need a card to let someone know you're thinking of them!

Well, I hope you can join us, but if you can't I hope these give you inspiration in your own crafting.

God Bless love 

Heather xox

Something Saturday - Stippled Roses Bundle

Hi There Creators 

Today I thought we'd check out a new Bundle - Stippled Roses (it's so pretty)  I love the smell of roses, and will often "stop to smell the roses" literally if I'm going past some 🤣 they have such a calming scent.  

Did you know that Sale-a-Bration is now on?  If you are purchasing and you're order is near $90 (or multiples of $90) up it a bit, so that you qualify for FREE Sale-a-Bration item/s.  Or if you are popping in a big order (over $500) you'll get extra money to spend, having said that if your order is big, then why not think of joining? When you join you pay $169 and pick out $235 of goodies!  at the moment you'll get either the fabulous glass mat studio for free or an extra $50 of goodies in your order for free, then you get an ongoing discount, (and I would love to have you as part of my CreateAbles team 😁

So, in the video I show a few ways to colour the roses in and direct you to this blog post so you can see what I did with my coloured in samples (as I wasn't sure what to make with them to begin with!)

Here we go...... first up I had 2 mini card bases sitting on my desk, as the mini rose fitted nicely I figured that would do, I've used the "take your pick crafter tips" specifically the rotary perforating tip to create a kind of cool line around the edges of these cards, adds a bit of interest without taking away from the focal point

 

The card above is treated in the same way with the rotary perforating tip, and I've used some of the extra stand alone dies from the set too, and trimmed the roses out of the big rose congolerate stamp

The card below I've left the whole thing together and cut it out with the big die, then added some of the gorgeous Softly Stippled Sale-a-Bration paper behind it (you can choose a pack of this for free when you spend $90 on other goodies till end of Feb)

This next one, again I had this random 1/2 card on my desk, so in an effort to use it I figured I'd have the roses on top and a white cut out of them underneath to write on, I've very lightly stamped the roses onto it too.  Then again, I've used some of the elements of the stamp fussy cut out and stuck behind the white piece.  The gorgeous papers are another one of the Sale-a-bration sets, this time Most Adored Designer Series Paper (again you can pick this set for free when you place an order of $90+)

 If you missed the video, here it is......

I hope this inspires you to create in your space too

God Bless love 

Heather xox