Hi there Creators, my goodness February is almost upon us!  Classes for Feb are: Wednesday 5th at 10.30am in Laanecoorie, and Thursday 6th 7.30pm in Laanecoorie (my classroom), then the other one is in Maryborough on Saturday 8th at 10am.  Love to have you join us if you can, but if you can't I hope you find inspiration in my offerings here: I'm using a heap of the new goodies from the "mini" and Sale-a-Bration catalogues.  So let's get started! First off the block: this paper is just gorgeous! it's called Best Dressed Designer Series Paper , it also has handbags, and shoes, accessories on other sheets too.  I've teamed it up with my fav new punch: Braided Border Punch , and the Sending You thoughts Stamp set , which has some fabulous sayings, and is a Sale-a-Bration product (you can't buy this one, when you spend $90 on other goodies, you can choose it for free)    Next up:  this one uses the Birthday Jubilee stamp set and matching Jubilee Beau...

Hi there Creators, Well January I'll be back with another one of my "Mega Classes", In Maryborough , this time I'm able to offer it as a mail out class as well :)  At this class you'll be making 20 cards, using water-colouring technique. If you can make it to the class it'll be on 25th January from 10.30am till 3.30pm and will cost $125, however in that you receive, not only making the cards, but 2 stamp sets, one punch, an Aqua painter, extra Designer Series Paper, Subway Lunch and more.....  the product value itself it estimated at around $140!  You'll need to bring with you a D clear block to put your stamps onto  a pair of good precise scissors  If you have it I also recommend bringing your own (so you don't have to wait your turn) - make sure they're marked with your name! Tombow adhesive Black Stazon Ink Pad Stampin' Cleaner Thought I'd mention the fact that everyone who has been to one of my mega classes has had s...

Hi There Creators, Wowsers we're onto December Classes! Which are all a week later so the first classes are Thursday 12 December 10.30am and 7.30pm in Laanecoorie then Saturday 14th, 10am in Maryborough, we're going to have a spot of Christmassy lunch together so if you're coming bring a little something to share.  With Christmas just around the corner, what better to create than Christmas Cards? Card #1: how cute is this stamp set?  #Elfie it colours in so beautifully with the Stampin' Blends (alcohol markers), I've teamed it up with the limited time Christmas Time is Here, specialty designer series paper , gotta be quick to get this DSP! Moving onto card #2: these Stitched Stars dies are fabulous! And it's paired with my favourite set from this holiday catalogue - Itty Bitty Christmas . Card #4 is one I've been wanting to make for ages since I saw the Dog builder punch , and the Sprig punch : Reindogs! lol teamed up with the matching stamp set Ha...

Hi there Creators, Well just recently there was a Stampin' Up! sale and this stamp set Inspiring Iris was on the list, I've admired it for a long time, so I finally bit the bullet and bought it! Oh my goodness it's gorgeous!! I thought it was perfect for #simplestampin' because all you need is paper and ink and you have really pretty simple cards, so here goes..... here's the stamp set itself I teamed it up with the Very Vanilla Notecards and envelopes (nice and easy!) And this is how the cards came out... the bottom one is probably my favorite, followed by the carnation, and in fact out of all the stamps there's only 2 stamps I didn't use on the front of the cards!  not bad going eh? so I used the long pattern on the back of the cards and the only one that didn't get used is the tiny 5 dot flower one (yea go me!  lol) So let me know what you think, which card is your favorite out of these? and what would you do differently? Happy Cr...

Hi there Creators, Oooh it's almost Christmas and for November we're up to 3 Christmas cards 😀 So card #1: I've had my eye on these gorgeous penguins since the beginning of the catalogue and have finally purchased them! They're called "Playful Penguins" , I've also used the fabulous Frosted Frames dies , and also some of Shimmery Crystal effects with the new Ice Stampin' Glitter , I wasn't going to get it, but then I saw someone else's and it's rather cool!  the glitter has a consistency of granulated sugar.   moving onto the 2nd Christmas card....GOLD it's so Christmassy!  I've got the Gold foil cardstock, the new Golden Glitz ink pad ........  And I've used the So Many Stars Stamps and the Stitched Stars dies (which are really amazing)  and fabulously the 2 come as So Many Stars bundle yea for 10% off!   last Christmas card..... this one uses up some Christmas paper scraps, gotta love that?!  I've also u...

Hi Creators, No it's not Monty Python lol, but I thought I'd show you something that I'd been planning to create for a while, then necessity got the best of me! So my family seem to get through quite a few soft drink cans, and it's always seemed a bit of a waste for them all go to off to the recycling bin, and whilst I was trolling through Pinterest I discovered a few things that you can do with them, hence we started washing and saving them up. So how do you take this: and turn it into this? What happened was that one of my husbands friends came over for the weekend and all of a sudden my recliner chair was commandeered lol (which I didn't begrudge) however I do like to put my feet up, so having been saving up the cans I figured I might have enough to have a go at the footstool. Out with the hot glue gun, I'm sorry I don't have any photos of the in between stages, however this is how it goes.... Collect enough cans hot glue them together ...

Hi there Creators, Wow October already tomorrow!  As I usually do I'm working my way up to having 4 Christmas cards in the selection by December, so we did 1 last month, this month we're up to 2 😊 The classes for October are this coming Saturday 5th in Maryborough at 10am, then Thursday 10th at 10.30am in Laanecoorie and 7.30pm in Laanecoorie. (Please note there is NO Wednesday class this month). Ok so onto the cards.....  First up I wanted to use some of the gorgeous new Designer Series Papers, this one is the Brightly Gleaming Specialty DSP, and the Christmas Gleaming Stamp Set I fell in love with everything on page 31, and conveniently enough Stampin' Up! have put it all together in the Christmas Gleaming suite - Yay!  The other Christmas card for the month is this one, again using Designer Series Paper, this time you get a choice either Night before Christmas or Feels like Frost , have to admit I'm loving the Designer Series Papers available at the momen...