NEW Spring Mini & Starter Kit Promo

There is a New Spring Mini Catalogue that begins on the 1st of August and all I can say is WOW I Love it. I have just ordered a heap of mini catalogues today so if you want a copy just send me an email or give me a call and I will post one out to you for FREE. I have also ordered heaps of goodies from the mini catalogue in my demonstrator pre-order so when I get those (hopefully at the end of this week) I will use them to make up a few samples and post them on this blog.

If you have been to the Stampin' Up! website (www.stampinup.com.au) lately you would have noticed that from the 1st of July till the 15th of August the Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Starter Kit is on special. During this time you will get $25 off the Starter Kit - Over $560 worth of Stamping and Business Supplies for only $299.

Here are a few pieces of information about joining up that you may not know:

1. You can be a hobby Demo. You don't have to hold workshops, you can simply sign up to get your products at a discount.

2. There are no yearly fees and no penalty for leaving SU. To remain active all you need is to have sales of $500 per quarter (3 months). These can be made up of your own purchases but if you have friends or family who love SU products that is an easy target to achieve.

3. If you sign up during July you don't need to make the $500 minimum until the end of your first full quarter which would be the end of December.

4. Your first order over $300 within 45 days of joining gets you a 30% discount.

5. You can tailor the Starter Kit to suit your style. You choose the stamps, colours and cardstock that are included in your kit, (as long as they are of equal or lesser value to the ones in the kit example). So if you have a wish list as long as your arm why not sign up and get great products at a discount.

If all this sounds interesting to you feel free to contact me for more information. digitalfox1975@hotmail.com

Another Purse Album

I had so much fun making the last purse album that I just had to make another one. (The link to where I originally saw this idea is on the post for the last one). I made this one slightly different and made it more like a book on the inside.
This is made using Stampin' Up! products, (except for the Creative Memories Circle Cutters and the velcro dots from Spotlight).
Cardstock - Kraft, Really Rust and Old Olive.
Designer Paper - Fall Flowers (p134).
Punches - Handheld 1/16 Inch Circle, Slit Punch (to make the scalloped edge), Scalloped Circle and the 1-3/8 Inch Circle (p142).
Other - Crop-A-Dile (p145), Pretties Kit (p144), Sticky Strip, Snail Adhesive (p148), Cherished Memories Rub Ons (p141), Jumbo Eyelets Pewter (p145), Rhinestone Brads Ice Circles (p145), Old Olive wide grosgrain ribbon and Groovy Guava double stitched ribbon (p146).

This is the view from the back. The Crop-A-Dile make it easy to punch the holes for the eyelets and set them. I also used it to punch the holes in the scalloped edge.
Here is the inside. It is blank now as I am still deciding what photo's to put in it. I just realised that I didnt use a single stamp or ink pad for this album, I will have to use some on the inside so they don't feel left out.

I HAVE SCRAPBOOKED !!!!!!

I want to shout it from the highest mountain! I have finally had the time to complete a scrapbook page and I couldn't be happier. So here it is, I hope it is worth the wait! I was so impressed how well the colours all came together. This is my gorgeous little boy on his first day of PreSchool this year. This page has been done using 99% Stampin' Up! products. The only thing I used that wasn't SU was my album because I use Creative Memories Albums and the Creative Memories Circle cutters.
The SU products I have used are:
Cardstock - Old Olive and Not Quite Navy textured CS, Soft Sky CS, Chocolate Chip CS, Not Quite Navy CS and Old Olive CS.
Designer Series Paper - Spring Break
Stamp Sets - Linen and Office Accoutrements
Ink - Not Quite Navy and Old Olive
Punches - Scalloped Circle, 1 1/4 inch Circle, Large Star and Star
Other - On Board Lots of Letters, Sponge Daubers, Snail Adhesive, Soft Sky Double Stitched Ribbon and Old Olive Marker.

I coloured the chipboard letters with my sponge daubers and my ink pad then inked up my linen background stamp and pushed the letters into it for some texture. (note: Use darker colours when you ink chipboard as lighter colours don't show up as well). The word "day" was traced from the outline of the chipboard letters then cut out and also stamped with the linen stamp.

So what do you think? I am happy with it but I think I am a little biased because it stars my gorgeous little man :).

Bling Card

Here is a card I made back in May for my Niece for her birthday. I added the bling to the card by using the 2 way glue pen (p148) on the icing of the cupcake and the centre of the flowers and then I sprinkled Dazzling Diamonds (p148) on top then just tapped off the excess back into the container. The designer paper is from the palete of prints pack from last months promo and the stamps are from the level 2 hostess set "Cause for Celebration" (p21) and "Occasional Greetings" (p121).

New Office Furniture

Hi all, I am finally over my cold and feeling much better. I thought you might like to see my new office furniture that we bought on the long weekend! I just love that I can now have all my supplies and accessories within reach, organised and tidy.

This is where I keep my tools, accessories, albums, kits, markers, ink spots, ribbon, punches, embosing powders and packs of cardstock both 12 X 12 and A4.

On my desk I have my large cutter, my laptop and my ink caddy with all my large ink pads. Under my desk I have my 12 X 12 patterned paper, scrap pieces of cardstock (organised in the Stampin' Up! colour families of course) and scrap pattered paper storage. My work files are in the clear box.

I have all my stamp sets here. All but two of the sets on the top shelf are background stamps. Can you tell that I love background stamps?

Well now you know where I work, (ahem...play).

Opps Missed a Day

I was trying to post something in this blog everyday but yesterday I was sick. Well today I am still sick but I just had to show you the wonderful RAK I received yesterday from my friend Amanda. (RAK stands for Random act of Kindness). It is amazing to me that my friends always seem to know when I need them. So often when I really need a friend to talk to they will ring me or drop round unexpectedly. Well yesterday it happened again. First of all I got a call from my good friend Colleen. I was feeling horrible in the morning and her phone call cheered me up and got me through the day. Then in the afternoon another friend Amanda dropped round to give me this wonderful card and some yummy cupcakes. Now neither of them knew I was sick so it was just typical of my friends just knowing when I needed them. Thanks guys, your the best!The cupcakes were as yummy as they look!

Another RAK that I have received lately was from my good friend and downline, Zarna. She sent me an awsome magnet which says, "A clean house is the sign of a lazy stamper". Every stamper needs one of these. I will have to take a picture of it when my camera batteries recharge but it is just the coolest thing. Now when the house looks like a bomb has gone off I can look at the magnet and be assured that I am not a lazy stamper! Thanks Zarna!

Male Birthday Cards

Here are a couple of male birthday cards. I have to admit I find cards for males so much harder to do than cards for females but here goes nothing.

This was one of the cards that used for my April workshops. I have used the Sanded background stamp (p 108), Wanted (p 64), and Occational Greetings (p 121) Stamp sets. The patterned paper is from the Outlaw pack (p 134) and I have used the large star punch (p 143) with really rust cardstock and then stamped the star out of the Wanted stamp into it and popped it up with dimentionals. I stamped the horse from the Wanted set directly onto the patterned paper with Basic Brown Ink.This is a card I made back in April for my brother's 30th Birthday. I have used the Outlaw designer Paper (p 134) again because the colours are great and it works well with male cards. I have stamped the ute image from Loads of Love stamp set (p 44) onto the paper then cut it out and then stamped it again on the cardstock and stuck the patterned paper ute on top and coloured the bits left over with my markers. The sentiment has been stamped using the Lovely Letters alphabet (p 125), the Rough Edges Mini alphabet (p 126) and a retired number set. I will be back tomorrow with a girl card with some bling!