Its almost the weekend!!!

Yay it's Thursday night! I only have to work half a day tomorrow, so it's practically the weekend!! I'm loving watching the Australian Open at the moment. Except it's really messing with the amount of sleep I'm getting! I love watching Roger Federer, he's so amazingly good!


I'm very excited as I just made my first SU order as a demo!!! It was all for me, which is even better! I spent a small fortune, but thats ok. I turned out to be mostly paper and ribbon and I ended up with quite a few sets of free stamps thanks to Sale-A-Bration. For every $100 you spend, you can choose a free stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue .

There's 4 sets to choose from and I ended up getting 8 free sets! So I ordered 2 of each. That may give you an indication of how much I spent on my order! Naughty me!! :)


The Sale-A-Bration special ends on Febuary 28, so there's plenty of time to save up to get some freebies!

Due to the fabulous hostess perks that SU gives as well, I ended up more than doubling my ink pad collection! I also ordered a Crop-o-dile which I'm sure I'll have lots of fun with. Oooh I can't wait til it all arrives. I'm also looking forward to being able to spend more time playing with the demo kit this weekend. I'm going to try to master watercolouring the Load of Love pick up truck.


I also have some good news on the non-SU cards that my Mum's been selling for me. She's only showed them to 2 people so far and i've already sold $22 worth, which is pretty good as they're only priced at $2-$2.50! So about 11 of them. And she mentioned it to another friend of hers who has put in an order for $50 worth!!! So I have to make at least another 25 cards sometime soon. I wonder when I'm going to fit in time to sleep?!

Happy Australia Day!

Happy Australia Day!


I've been spending some of my day making some cards with my new Stampin' Up! goodies! I've been having lots of fun with these over the weekend and I made 2 cards today which I am quite pleased with. I made a couple on Saturday but I'm not 100% happy with them. I also attempted a box which definitely needs work!

All products are Stampin' Up! except for the ribbons. I did do my first few stay put bows which turned out quite well.


Card 1 - Stamps: Fun & Fast Notes & Itty Bitty Backgrounds. Paper: Pink Passion, Whisper White, Yo Yo Yellow and Confetti Simply Scrappin. Ink: Basic Black & Versamark. Other: Stampin Pastels, Blender Pens, Misc ribbon.

Card 2 & 3

Stamps:Loads of Love, Itty Bitty Backgrounds. Ink: Real Red, Basic Black, Brilliant Blue and Pixie Pink. Paper - Confetti Simply Scrappin, Whisper White, Brilliant Blue, Tempting Turquoise, Pink Passion, Versamark. Other: Misc ribbon, blender pens & Aqua pens

Card 4 - Stamps: Fun & Fast Notes & Itty Bitty Backgrounds. Paper: Whisper White, So Saffron & Ballet Blue. Ink: Basic Black & Versamark. Other: American Craft ribbon, Blender Pen, and Stampin Pastels

Card 5 - Stamps: Greetings Galore. Paper: Taken with Teal and Yo Yo Yellow. Ink: Basic Black and Versamark. Other: Stampin Pastels, Blender Pen, Misc Ribbon.

70th Birthday Card

This evening I did a fairly quick card for my Uncle. He turns 70 on Monday.

It's kind of an odd looking card and probably not very masculine but I'm going through a lime/brown/pink phase at the moment!

I used my cuttlebug numbers folder on the green paper. The green paper is basic grey, the blingy 70 is American Craft thickers and I used my nestabilities for the circle and scalloped circle. I have no idea who made the ribbon or the brown background paper!

The other thing I did tonight was figure out to put a watermark on my photos. I was worried I would need fancy photo editing software and I couldn't find my copy of Corel Draw so I did a bit of googling and came up with the instructions for creating a watermark using MS Paint! The tutorial can be found here. It's so very easy!

It's a lovely long weekend here in Oz and I'm so excited about getting to play with my new SU stamps tomorrow!! The weather is filthy hot at the moment so I'm very glad that I will be spending most of the weekend at my mum's place, as she has air conditioning! I intend to spend most of Saturday mounting my stamps and watching many episodes of Midsomner Murder (mum's addicted!) on DVD! :)

Stampin' Up! Goodies!!!!

So my Stampin' Up! Demo kit arrived today!!!! Unfortunately I have everything delivered to my mum's place as she's retired and therefore home more than I am. And she lives in Brisbane!! So I have to wait til Saturday to get my hands on all my goodies!! Oh the agony!!

I'm hoping to get a couple of cards done over the weekend so I'll post those here when I get back home to the coast. I'm so glad my kit arrived before the weekend, it's Australia Day weekend which means we have Monday off work!! Yay! More time to stamp!

I watched this video today on Michelle's blog, detailing how to make a stay put bow. Very informative. Unforutnately I don't have a hole punch or a cropodile. The cropodile is on my wishlist though!!

I'm also hoping to get involved in some of the Color Inspiration challenges posted on Kristina Werner's blog. I love stamping/scrapbooking blogs, they're so informative and pretty to look at!

Teddy Bear Cards

I've managed to do a few more cards. I am not putting any sayings/words on these cards as my mother intends to sell them to her friends and they have requested blank cards so that they can send them for any occasion. It makes things a bit more challenging when you can't add a saying or greeting.

Here's a close up of one of them:

I'm still very new to the whole using ink pads and aqua pens to watercolour, but I'm getting the hang of it and I love it!

This is the other card I made with a blue catepillar.

Cards n stuff

I'm about to become a Stampin' Up! demonstrator! I sent off my contract yesterday so now all I have to do is wait for my demo kit to arrive! I can't wait!!! Lots of lovely stampy stuff!!

I've been on a card making binge over the past week or so. And here are some of them:

These butterfly cards have the image stamped on the paper and then a cut out identical image placed on top so that the body is covering the background body but the wings are flappy outy. For want a better term!


This is a Gatefold card. I've never made one before but it turned out ok! The ribbon ties up to close the card.

This is a christmas card I made a few weeks ago for my friend. Its one of my favourites!








I finish my 4 weeks holiday tomorrow and I'm not very happy about it! I dont really want to go back to work on Monday. I'm going to miss staying up late and sleeping in late! Thankfully next weekend is a long weekend so I'll have an extra day to recover from working.