STAMPIN' UP! INVENTORY CLEARANCE

Well here's a first ... Stampin' Up! is holding an Inventory Sale.

There is a selection of stamps and accessories selling at a once only special prices and are available only while stocks last or till January 24th ... which ever comes first. Some sets are half price! Amazing bargains! All stamp sets are square cut only so you will need your craft and rubber scissors to trim them.

You can view the selection on offer by clicking on the image below.

Contact me to place your order today and to ensure you don't miss out.

Trish

DIORAMA CHRISTMAS CARD

Every year I make one special card for a friend. Lynne and I have known each other since we were about 17. This year, I have made her a diorama card that I cased from Mel Stampz. Mine is slightly different ... because I couldn't find the little houses paper that Mel used.

 
 

The Christmas Trees are from My Minds Eye and the houses are from KI Memories. Seasons Greetings is from Stampin' Up! ... Many Merry Messages.

It's going to be very hard for me to give this card away ... but I will!

Trish

MY BRISBANE REGIONAL SWAP

Last Saturday was the Stampin' up! Brisbane Regional the last for the year in Australia. It was a relaxing fun filled day with lots of interesting speakers, fabulous demos by some of Queensland's very talented SU demonstrators, a lovely lunch and catching up with friends.

At these events we always make some swap cards and here's what I came up with this year.

These are based on Scraplings but mine are acutally larger, they are more like a bookmark really. I ended up making 30 of them to exchange. It's a bit  hard to see but I've used the fantastic new Butterfly punch from Stampin' Up! currently available in the newly released Summer Mini.

Card stock is Pumpkin Pie, Ballet Blue and Whisper White. The butterfly is three dimensional and this is the part that's hard t see. I've actually stamped up acetate on some of the cards and punched out a butterfly shape. Stamps sets are Butterfly Prints, Flight of the Butterfly, Swirl is from Season of Joy and the background is En Francais. ... can't remember where the little flower is from. Ink colours are Cameo Coral, Pumpkin Pie, Ballet Blue, Always Artichoke and Stazon White. Ribbon is 5/8" Ballet Blue and Linen Thread.

I received some lovely swaps in return and hopefully ... when I get around to it ... I will take a photo of them.

Cheers

Trish

SUMMER IS HERE AND SO IS THE NEW MINI

Good Morning Everyone

Well it's officially SUMMER here in Australia! I have to say that it is a very  pleasant temperature here at the moment around 23 degrees but over the last few days it has been up in the range of 34 degrees Centigrade, that's up around 93 degrees Fahrenheit ... how pleasant .... NOT!!! So summer came a little early this year but then it always done and this is only the beginning!

Along with arrival of summer comes the new Stampin' Up! Summer Mini.

How pretty is the cover! If you would like a copy of your very own, please contact me or if you click here to view all the lovely images online.

As always, you can also email me if you would like to place an order.

Cheers
Trish

CHRISTMAS TREE CARD

Well it's official ... Christmas is definitely on the way. It's the first of December and tonight Chelsea and I put up our Christmas Tree. The family room is still a mess and will be until I leave this computer and go clean it up. No picture of the Christmas Tree yet ... it's just the same as last year .... but it looks just as magical ... I do love my tree.

So here's a Christmas Tree of a different kind. I was inspired by an image I saw in a mag somewhere and this is my version of it using Stampin' Up! products

Isn't it cute! I've used papers from Holiday Treasures and the card colours are Baja Breeze, Whisper White and Chocolate Chip. Punches were Eyelet Border,Star and Large Star and Curly Label. The greeting is also from the Curly Label  stamp set. Ink colours are Old Olive, Ruby Red and Chocolate Chip.

Cheers

Trish

STAMP CLUB END OF YEAR PRESSIES

Hi Everyone

Just got back from a week's holiday down the beach. The weather was fab, the unit was great ... I shopped, ate, drank and caught up with friends, it was wonderful.

But I"m home now and I thought you might like to see the gifts that I made for the girls who were in my Stamp Club over the last six months.

Each of the girls received a personalised mini Visual Art Diary, a hand stamped mini shopping bag and a little parcel of ribbon, a sponge and a selection of all the brads and clips in the catalogues. The above book was for Julie and the paper was from the Bella Rose range.

These books were for Tina and Dina. The paper on Tina's was from Urban Oasis and on Dina's I used Parisian Breeze.

On Sandra's bag I used paper from Tea Party.  You will notice that all the photos were taken in different places. This is because I forgot to get photos of some of the books before I gave them away, so the girls kindly took a photo and sent them to me.

Now this card was for Francie .... who's a pink girl and the paper on this book was Sweet Always.

Now the last book was from Diane, but unfortunately I haven't heard from her as yet, although I did take a photo on my phone but I have no idea how to download it to the computer. So I thought I would show the book I made for my friend Kerrie for her birthday.

 

There were no papers used on Kerrie's book because I wanted to do it in red and purple. The stamps are the Baroque Border standard wheel. and the red spots are from the Polka Dot background stamp.

All the initials are from Lovely Letters and the punches were the Scallop Circle and the 1.1/4" and 1.3/8" Circle Punches and also the Eyelet Border and Scallop Border punches. All ribbons are by Stampin' Up! as well.

I know that the girls liked them and if you would like to be a part of my next Stamp Club, then please contact me to find out when the next Club commences.

Happy Stamping

Trish

HOLIDAY LINEUP

Hi Everyone

Recently I was away on a retreat hosted by the lovely Kim Gavarra, and one of the challenges contained a bag with red card, a sample of the Riding Hood Read Patterns DSP, some natural Hemp Twine, 3 silver Brads and some Riding Hood Red ribbon. Here is the card that I came up with:

Now I never really liked Holiday Lineup until I sat down, stamped it out and coloured it ... I have to say it is a really "cute" stamp set. I just love the quirky expressions on the faces of the snowmen, not to mention the elves and the reindeers. Thank you to Belinda for letting me borrow her set!

Colours used were Riding Hood Red, card paper and ink ... to watercolour. Stamps sets were Holiday Lineup and Best Yet. Also used the small and large tag punches and the Spiral punch.The silver eyelet was set with my Crop-a-dile and a sprinkling of Dazzling Diamonds here and there on the black embossed image.