Loaves and Fishes Papercrafting Fundraiser Day

Hi Everyone,
just putting up here the flyer for the fundraising day I am holding for the Maryborough Loaves and Fishes Community Meal, don't forget to book your place! before the 3rd April for the Early bird discount! it should be a fun interesting day (lunch provided too).

In case anyone can't read the payment details, please pay into my Commonwealth bank account BSB:063509 A/c 10287362 (Heather McCarthy)  and make sure you put a reference of your name, so I know who has paid!  Thanks

I really look forward to seeing you there, do contact me if you have any questions.
God Bless love
Heather xox

Cards for April 2017 Classes

Hi Everyone,
I have the class cards sorted for April, although I have an extra, so I need your help deciding which ones to use! Class dates in April are Maryborough Saturday 1st April at 10am, and Laanecoorie Wednesday 19th April (owing to School holidays, there's no Bendigo class and the Laanecoorie one has been pushed back a week)  Anyway.........
Here is the line up:
 Card#1 uses the Tree builder Punch and Sprinkles of Life Stamp set

Card #2 uses the Medium Star Punch and Marquee Messages Stamp set

Card #3 uses one of my newest purchases!  The Dragonfly Dreams bundle (stamps and thinlits)

Card #4 uses, again one of my newest purchases!  Special Reason bundle (again Stamps and thinlits)

 Card #5 (last one) this one uses a stamp set I don't think I've used in a while!  Crazy about You, it has a heap of great words in it, so potentially if you didn't want to make an Easter card there's heaps of alternatives!

So.... tell me what you think! if you have any preferences :)

If you can't make it to either class in April I hope these inspire you to create in your own space!

And if you'd like to book a party/join my Craft@Home group/join Stampin' Up! or any other questions, do get in touch.

God Bless love

Heather xox

My First play with Special Reason Bundle

Hi Everyone,
well I thought I'd share quickly my first play with my new Stamp set and Dies, Special Reason Stamp set, and Stylish Stems Framelit dies (Special Reason bundle)

With this card I have used the 2 flower dies to cut out from the face of the card, although I have to admit they didn't "pop" in the way I thought they would, I tried adding coloured card under them, but the only one that really popped was black and that wasn't quite the impression I wanted (black flowers - lol), so after stamping all over the card, I decided to daub over top of the cut out pieces, which seems to have worked ok.  I ended up adding Vellum under the cut out's  so you could write in the card without it showing too much.  It's probably not my absolute favourite card, but it's growing on me - lol, what do you think?

I'll try and find some more time soon to play with it again....... watch this space as they say

I hope it inspires you to create

God Bless love
Heather xox

Picture to Page Kangaroo Flat #p2pcrafts

Hi Everyone,
Well Picture to Page show is over for us here in Bendigo again for another year!
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say Hi, the door prize was won by a lady called Lorraine from Bridgewater.
 I thought I'd share a couple of photos, I've already shown you the classes we were doing, so here are the Make&Takes we helped people create over the 2 days: On Saturday we had these 2 little cards going, that people could choose which they created for free.

 

the 2 above cards were made with the new (only available till the end of March) Reverse Words Sale-a-Bration stamp set (spend $90 on Stampin' Up! goodies,and you could pick this stamp set for FREE), and also the really cute Bookcase Builder Stamp set.

The Make&Take card for Sunday was this one, using the Beautiful You Stamp set and the Delicate Details Sale-a-Bration stamp set (again only available till end of March, and again could be yours for FREE with a $90 purchase)

Oh and it's hard to tell but we did use the Ombre Calypso Coral Pad to stamp the Delicate Details lace"y" stamps.
And here we all are at our Stampin' Up! Stand from left to right, Valerie Peacock, Rosalie Fitzmaurice, and Me (Heather McCarthy).  Thanks for all your help on the Stand ladies😊

 

I hope these photos inspire you to create

God Bless love

Heather xox

Picture to Page show 2017 classes

Hi Everyone,
This weekend (11/12 March 2017) is the Picture to Page show in Kangaroo Flat
Rosalie and I will be doing classes at 11am and 1pm they will be limited to 6 per class, so if you want to do one, come and book it as soon as you arrive!
Saturday's classes will be:
11am: this Beautiful Decorated Notebook and matching card (with me) $15

 

1pm: this amazing Tarnished Foil Embossed Card (with Rosalie) $10

Then Sunday:

11am: This cute Chicken Fancy fold box card (with me) 2 photos for this one, so you can see the outside and inside, the numbers you'll pick yourself, or "21 again" $10

Then lastly at 1pm:

This Pretty Carousel Hexagon Box (with Rosalie) $10

Look forward to seeing you there, if you can't make it but would like instructions/an unstamped kit, let me know, and we'll work out a cost for you.

I hope this inspires you to create

God Bless love 

Heather xox

Cards for Classes in March 2017

Hi Everyone,
Wow hasn't February gone fast?!
I have worked out what we're doing in March, and here they are......

 So, this first card uses the Sale-a-Bration "Inside the Lines Designer Series Paper", you can get this paper for FREE, when you purchase $90 of goodies at the moment (till the end of March)

It also uses one of the sayings from the "Suite Sentiments" Stamp set, great set of sentiments!

Next card is this one that uses the Sunshine Sayings stamp set, there is a heap of different words to use, so if the ladies don't want to say this, they can use other words (if you want to check out the stamp set, just click on the words in my text)












Up Next I just lurve the Moroccan Designer Series Paper, so here it is used for the butterflies (punches Elegant Butterfly and Bitty Butterfly)

 

It also uses the Stamp set "Birthday Bright"

Then last of all.......

I think this is my favourite card for the month! which is slightly ironic as it's pink and pink is really not my favourite colour LOL!
It uses the absolutely gorgeous stamp set "Beautiful You", and also another one of my fav's "Timeless Textures".  Also incorporating the Playful Palette Designer Series Paper for the paper piecing.


What's your favourite card from this selection?

Oh, and due to a request from one of the ladies at my evening class, at the evening class the ladies will also have the option to do a reflection technique card too (see below), either instead of this one, or just as an extra, (fee $3.50), if you know you're coming to my evening class let me know what suits you best 😊

My classes in March are:
Wednesday 1st March, 10.30am in Kangaroo Flat
Saturday 4th March, 10am Maryborough
Wednesday 8th March, 7.30pm Laanecoorie


If you can't make it to any of my classes, but would like to learn how to make any of these cards, do let me know.

I hope I have inspired you to create too.
God Bless love
Heather xox

CreateAbles Team Morning

Hi everyone,
We had our CreateAbles team morning this morning, which was fun. As there was only 3 ladies they all ended up with a raffle prize :)

Val taught us how to make this really cute little
Handbag/box, thanks so much Val, I'll have to have
a go at it! (we all took notes!)





























I showed a spot of "how to use Project Life's Photo organising system", as I said to the ladies, I really don't get on well with Scrapbooking, as I find it uses more time than I have available, to do 3 photos, and nobody really admires it to the full extent of the amount of work I've put into it (if you get my drift!), so this I can do quickly/easily and at the very least my kids admire it! I plan to finish off this one and create one for my parents (as I'm terrible at remembering to send them photos) and once I've got one sorted the 2nd will be a synch!
So here's a couple of my pages, Josh's 11th Birthday (son #2) and Sam (#3) peeling carrots, shows you how easy it is to take your 4x6 photo and cut it in 1/2 or in 6th's to fit into the pockets😊

 Lastly we created our Make'n'Takes, I'd seen a really cute card using the chickens and a chicken wire stamp, however lacking the chicken wire stamp, I worked out a different way using the Hexagons Dynamic Embossing folder . And me being me, actually the card ended up completely different! it was fun to do a bit of watercolouring.

When my phone decides it has enough charge to video again, I'll aim to do a video for the chicken card, so you can see how's it's created.
If you'd like to be part of my team, and have the opportunity to come to my Team meetings and do this "in the flesh" just ask me about it, or check out the tab above, about joining my team.  Sale-a-Bration goes till end of March and during this time when you join you get 2 extra free stamp sets on top of the already amazing joining deal!  Trust me 20% off your goodies, is sooo worth it - lol!

Anyway I hope this has inspired you to create,
God Bless love
Heather xox