The countdown is on!

I now have less than a week til my first SU workshop! I'm really looking forward to it! At this stage there will be about 9 or so people attending.

Anyway I've been doing a few more samples to take along with me.

Some boxes/containers:

Cute little love note card with the seahorse from Fishy Friends.

This is a little box with the Loads of Love truck. I'm going to wrap up some yummies in a cellaphane bag and tie a little ribbon round that and have a tag hanging off the ribbon and put it in the box.





I've also done some scrapbook pages as well but I can't be bothered trying to photograph them :)

I ordered a few more Stampin' Up! things the other day, including the Priceless stamp set. This is one of the stamp sets that is being promoted for the Bushfire Appeal. It's a win/win situation really...I get a very good excuse to buy more stamps and 50% of the price is given to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal! I also ordered a few more types of ribbon...it appears I am addicted to it!

BUSH FIRE APPEAL!

Stampin' Up is helping out victims of the awful Victorian Bushfires that have been occuring over the past week.

From 12 February through 31 March 2009, Stampin' Up! will donate 50 % of the retail value of all sales from a select group of 10 stamp sets to the Australian Red Cross Victorian Bushfires 2009 Appeal.

Here is a list of the Bushfire Appeal sets:

* Looks Like Spring – Page 76– Price $58.95

* The Snowflake Spot – Page 27– Price $39.95

* Bodacious Boquet – Page 80– Price $58.95

* Polka Dots & Paisley – Page 46– Price $35.95

* G’day Mate – Page 115– Price $35.95

* Be Happy – Page 51– Price $39.95

Priceless – Page 105 – Price $48.95

Seeing Spots – Page 89– Price $29.95

Baroque Motifs – Page 98– Price $39.95

Live Your Dream (Summer Mini) – Page 3 – Price $55.95

*These sets will appear on the upcoming list of retiring products, so they will only be available for the Bushfire Appeal--while supplies last.

There's been an email going around with photos of some of the Koalas that have been affected by the fires. They too have lost their homes, and some have been severely injured. This is a very rare sight normally, but it's been happening a lot over the past few days - people are able to get close enough to the Koalas to give them water. I've included a couple of photos that I got in an email of the adorable cuddly survivors of these horrible fires.

I love this one :)

If you would like to help out the Bush Fire Appeal by buying some of the Stampin' Up! stamps as listed above or maybe holding a workshop to help raise funds in some way, please email me at l_prothero@yahoo.com

Such a busy weekend!

I've spent most of today sitting in my little craft room/library making cards and I even managed a bag too! I'm exhausted!

This is the grand total of this weekend's crafty shennanigans:

10 cards and a Bag-a-lope. The bag isn't finished yet, I'm waiting on my scallop edge punch which is backordered.

Piccies galore!!

I had the unfortunate experience of waking up at 5am this morning. After a while I decided I should get up and go for a walk. I took my camera along just in case, as I there are often pelicans and other interesting birdies around at the crack of dawn along the broadwater. Didn't see any today, however I did see this:

Goodness gracious great yellow balls of fire! Or something like that! The sky wasn't really yellow, but the camera seemed to think it was!

I received my newest order of SU stamps today. They arrived at my mum's place on Monday and she dropped them off at my place for me today. I got some great stamps, ink pads, paper, ribbon and tons of other stuff.

I did another version of a card I did last weekend, the only difference being I used pumpkin pie ribbon at the bottom.

This one I kinda CASE'd from Cannie Hunter's blog. Stamp: Eastern Blooms. Ink: Choc Chip. Paper: Old Olive CS, Choc Chip CS, Whisper White CS, Sahara Sand CS and Confetti Designer paper.

I used Sahara Sand & Whisper White CS on this card, Confetti stickers, Celebrate You stamp from the Figures of Speech stamp set, which I coloured in with Stampin Pastels. I used my lovely new circle scallop punch as well!

This card is made using Taken with Teal, Night of Navy and Whisper White CS, Fishy Friends stamp inked in Brilliant Blue ink and I used Brilliant Blue ink and a blender pen to colour in the image. I also used Fishy roller stamp which was inked using the Versamark stamp pad. I used Purely Pomegranite ribbon.

My first workshop is being held at my lovely mum's place on Feburary 28! I have to get crackin on my examples and demo stuff!! And from what I've heard, at least 2 people are probably going to book workshops on the day too!

I've done some more cards this weekend and even managed to create a cute little pillow box today. I did have a go at a large bag that turned into a disasterous mess and ended up in the bin. Luckily, I remembered to use old patterned paper and didn't destroy any of my good stuff.

These are the two little bags I made last week:

I used the Fun & Fast Notes hedgehog stamp and the Greetings Galore heart envelope on these. I am totally in love with that hedgehog! These were fairly simple to make and turned out ok. I used my Perfectly Pretty roller stamp in Real Red on Whisper White cardstock. Non SU ribbon on the bottom. Red cardstock for the handle. The hedgehog bag uses Whisper White, Taken with Teal, Sahara Sand and Pixie Pink cardstock. I used the Stampin Pastels to colour in the images and blended with a blender pen.

This cute little pillow box was so easy to make.

All supplies were from the Simply Scrappin' Confetti kit, including the little gift sticker. The sticker is matted on Rose Red textured cardstock which also comes with the kit and pop dotted so it stands out a bit.

On this card I used my cuttlebug texture plate on the red cardstock. I used my versamark pad and the Itty Bitty Background stamps on the brown cardstock. Non SU ribbon. Real Red ink and the enjoy stamp is from the Lovely Labels set.

Loads of Love stamp set again! I really like colouring in the truck! I used my versamark pad for the background Loads of Love greeting.

I doubt I'll get any more cards done this weekend, I have to get some ironing done :( And the Australian Open mens final is on too! Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal! Should be a great match!