Great Friend card

Yet another card using the new Great Friend stamp set. As mentioned earlier, it's one of the stamp sets available in the upcoming Stampin' Up! Spring Mini Catalogue, available August 1. There are also some new brads available in the mini - the lovely flower brads available in 4 colours in the one pack, one of which can be seen below.

Stamps: Great Friend stamp set

Ink: Baja Breeze, Cameo Coral, Basic Grey,

Paper: Baja Breeze, Cameo Coral, Walk in the Park DSP

Accessories: Silver brads, Baja Breeze ribbon, flower brad, dimensionals, glue dots, SNAIL

More Sneaky Peaks

These two cards were made with a stamp set from the upcoming Spring Mini Catalogue, Great Friend. I love this stamp set! They also feature some of the gorgeous corduroy buttons & brads, which come in several colours and the beautiful Walk in the Park designer paper.

I made both cards using the same layout to show how different they can be using different feature colours from the designer paper.

Sneak Peak from Mini Catalogue

I made several cards over the weekend using some new stamps from the upcoming Stampin' Up! Spring Mini Catalogue (available August 1!).

This card is made using the Choo Choo stamp set, the On Track jumbo wheel and the Oval All stamp set. It also features the new oval scallop punch, which is one of many great new accessories available in the Mini Catalogue! I cut out the little steam puff and used dimensionals on them to make them stand out a bit.

Card Recipe:

Stamp Set: Oval All, Choo Choo, On Track Jumbo Wheel

Ink: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Riding Hood Red, Brilliant Blue, Glorious Green

Paper: Whisper White, Riding Hood Red & Brilliant Blue

Accessories: Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Dimensionals, SNAIL

Latest Cards & Stampy Update

STAMPY NEWS

The Stampin' Up! Spring Mini Catalogue will be available from August 1. I already have a copy of the Mini Catalogue and have pre-ordered quite a few fabulous stamp sets and accessories!

Once I have a chance to play around with my new stamps, I will upload some sneak peaks for ya'll! I will also be posting a copy of the mini to anyone on my mailing list, so if you would like a copy, please let me know!

I've been so busy the past few weeks and have had hardly any time to sit and create fun stampy things. Except for the 30 hedgehog thank you cards I created for a someone.

I have an example of one of the cards, this is actually number 31 as I made the card too big, so I kept it. My task was to include the hedgehog from Fun & Fast notes on every card. I am sooo sick of this hedgehog!!!

Card recipe:

Stamps: Fun & Fast Notes, Circle Circus, Short & Sweet

Ink: Versamark, Basic Black & Pacific Point

Paper: Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Pacific Point

Accessories: Tangerine Tango ribbon, Oval Punch, Stampin Pastels, Nestabilities circle and scallop circle, SNAIL, Dimensionals

This card I whipped up last night due to my need to create something that didn't have a hedgehog on it!

I have had this Upsy Daisy stamp set for a while but have had troubles getting a decent image. I recommend using a brayer, helps a lot!

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Upsy Daisy, Occasions for All (hostess set)

Ink: Chocolate Chip & Kiwi Kiss

Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Bella Rose DSP, Good Morning Sunshine DSP

Accessories: Kiwi Kiss/Very Vanilla Satin ribbon, Scallop border punch, Scallop circle punch, 2 different sized circle punches, SNAIL, dimensionals.

June Stampin' Up! Promotion

Stampin' Up! has a new promotion for June and July!

Host a workshop in either June or July (or both!) and if your workshop sales reach $600, you as the hostess will receive an extra $40 worth of free product! How awesome is that!

The normal amount of free product you would receive at a $600 workshop is $70 worth, so with this month's promotion, you would receive a total of $110 worth of free product!

If you are interested in hosting a workshop in June or July, please contact me at l_prothero@yahoo.com so we can organise a date for your workshop!

These are a couple of cards I made recently:

Closer look:

Hey cupcake!

I haven't been posting much lately, life has been rather hectic. First I joined the gym which totally wiped me out and it's kinda hard to be all creative when you're lying on the couch unable to move your arms! And now my dad is in hospital, and will be for some time, so that's going to take up most of my weekends for the next few months!

Anyway...here's a cute card I made with the Party Hearty stamp set, which was free as I earned it as part of Stampin' Up!'s new demonstrator incentive scheme! I actually earned 3 free sets!

I used dimensionals to give the cupcake frosting and candle a bit of 3D oomphiness.

Stamps: Party Hearty & Sweet Little Sentiments

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie & Rose Red

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, Whisper White & Pink Pirouette Designer Series

Accessories: Pumpkin Pie ribbon, Cropodile, Dimensionals, SNAIL

May Scrapbooking Promotion

As some of you may know, May is National Scrapbooking Month and in honour of this fabulous occasion, Stampin' Up! is running two fantatsic Scrapbook promotions.

The first:

Buy any 3packets of select designer paper and receive a 4th package absolutely FREE!!

The designer papers included in the promotion are listed below:

These designer papers are absolutley gorgeous and are only $16.95 per pack! You get 12 papers per pack. To see what these papers look like, check out the Stampin' Up! Catalogue here or contact me for a copy of the catalogue.

The other fanastic promotion for this month is for anyone who wants to join Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator, you can now join for only $150 with the limited time Scrapbooking Starter Kit.

The special Scrapbooking Starter Kit includes:

How fabulous is that! You save over $35 on the merchandise in the Scrapbooking Starter Kit and as a Stampin' Up demonstrator you get all sorts of fabulous perks such as 20% discount on products, sneak peeks at upcoming specials and promotions, income on the products you sell to your clients, access to and endless supply of creative ideas and much more! If you would like to know more about becoming a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me at l_prothero@yahoo.com

April Stamping Class Details

You are invited to my very first monthly Stamp Class!

We will be making 3 cards, using new stamps, designer paper and other great products from the brand new Stampin’ Up! Catalogue!

The class will be limited to 6 people to ensure we have enough room for everyone to work comfortably. Feel free to invite your friends along, just remind them to RSVP by the date specified below.

The class price is $10 and includes all supplies needed to make 3 cards. However, if you are able to, please bring along your own pair of scissors.

Class Details:

Time: 7pm-9pm

Date: Friday, 24th April 2009

Address: Brisbane (contact me for address)

Cost: $10 (includes all supplies)

RSVP: Wednesday, 22 April 2009 at l_prothero@yahoo.com

These are the 3 cards we will be making on the day:

If you are unable to attend but want to have fun stamping with your friends then consider hosting your own Stampin’ Up! Party!

The new 2009/2010 Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalogue is now available which makes it the ideal time to host your own party. As hostess you would be eligible to earn free stamps and product and you would also be given a free copy of the new Catalogue!!

There are many fantastic new stamps, designer papers, In Colours and accessories in the catalogue. You can view the catalogue on-line here or you can purchase a copy from me! Contact me today to book!

New Stamps = New Cards!

I finally got my hands on my new catalogue stamps yesterday!

This one is made using the apple from Tart & Tangy. I stamped the red apple in Riding Hood Red and coloured in the stem and leaf with an Old Olive marker. Which I bought individually, as you can now do :)

Stamps: Tart & Tangy, Short & Sweet

Ink: Riding Hood Red & Old Olive marker

Paper: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip & Old Olive

Accessories: Riding Hood Red Ribbon, Large Oval Punch, SNAIL, Circle Punches & Scallop Circle Punch


Hoot Hoot Hooray!

This one is made using the cute set Owl Together Now. You really need to use the Stamp-a-majig with this one as it's very tricky trying to line everything up right. The background paper is new, it's from the Haiku designer paper pack. I coloured everything in with the old ink pad and blender pen trick! :)



Stamps": Owl Together Now

Ink: Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Brilliant Blue & Pumpkin Pie

Paper: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Haiku Designer Paper

Accessories: Real Red Ribbon, SNAIL, Circle Punches & Scallop Circle Punch, Dimensionals


Birthday Tart!

This is another Criss Cross Card. Directions here. I used the gorgeous Raspberry Tart designer paper for this one.

Inside Card:

Stamps: Crazy for Cupcakes, Circle Circus

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Rose Red

Paper: Whisper White, Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss (plain and textured), Raspberry Tart Designer Paper

Accessories: Pretty in Pink Ribbon, SNAIL, Circle Punches & Scallop Circle Punch, Dimensionals, Round Tab Punch.

Colour Inspiration #49

This is my card for Kristina Werner's Colour Inspiration #49. Lots of lovely colours to play with this week.

I used some of my brand new stamps from the fabulous new Stampin' Up! Australian 2009/2010 catalogue. The main stamps used are Circle Circus. I used the two larger circle punches and some dimensionals to add a bit of 3-Dness to two of the 'flowers'. The flower stems were made with the stem from the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set.

Stamps: Circle Circus & Fifth Avenue Floral

Ink: Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point, Rose Red, Versamark

Paper: Whisper White, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss

Accessories: Scallop circle punch,1 3/8 inch circle punch, 1 1/4 inch circle punch, dimensionals, cropodile, Kiwi Kiss Ribbon, SNAIL

New Cards :)

I bought my new camera yesterday, it's a Fuji Finepix J100. It's so tiny and lightweight! And it takes reasonably decent photos, which is the main thing!

Here's a few examples of the things I've been working on lately.

This is a Criss Cross card, the instructions can be found here. I really like this type of card and its actually quite easy to make and I'm definitely planning on making a few more when my new catalogue designer paper arrives, which will hopefully be before Easter!





View of inside card:



Stamps: Priceless , Short & Sweet
Ink: Choc Chip, Certainly Celery
Paper: Choc Chip, Very Vanilla, Good Morning Sunshine DSP
Accessories: Circle punch, scallop circle punch, round tab punch, SNAIL, Sticky Strip



This is a cute little treat bag that I made last weekend. Instructions can be found here on Julie Buhler's blog. Normally the front flap falls down so that you can decorate the inside front part but I didn't want to do that. It took me a little while to figure out how to put it together, but I am instructionally challenged!




Stamps: Lovely Labels
Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White & Pacific Point
Ink: Riding Hood Red
Accessories: Circle Punch, Circle Scallop Punch, SNAIL, Sticky Strip


This card I CASE'd from Irene Dunn. You can see the original here on her blog.



Stamps: Eastenr Blooms, Short & Sweet
Ink: Rose Red
Paper: Baja Breeze, Choc Chip, Whisper White & Rose Red
Accessories: Scallop Border Punch, Taken with Teal ribbon, SNAIL, Cropodile

It's new Stampin' Up! Catalogue Time!!!

The new Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalogue starts today!!!




There’s lots of beautiful new stamp sets, new In Colours which includes cardstock, matching ribbons and inks, as well as new accessories such as Build A Brads, new glitter colours and chipboard designs, loads of new Designer Papers, several new punches including hearts in different sizes and much more! You can now also purchase markers individually!!

The new In Colours are as follows:

Pacific Point
Kiwi Kiss
Pink Pirouette
Riding Hood Red
Baja Breeze
Tangerine Tango


I don’t have a favourite new In Colour, they all totally rock!! I have used almost all the new In Colours in the past few posts, so scroll down to see some examples.

If you’re interested in having your very own copy of the Stampin’ Up! 2009/2010 Idea Book & Catalogue for free all you need to do is contact me to book a workshop, that way you’ll have the chance to earn some free stamps and products from the new catalogue!! How brilliant is that! Or alternatively I can sell you a copy of the catalogue for $10.

Classes

Just to let you also know I will be starting a monthly class in late April. I don’t have the exact details for you yet, but I will be posting details on my blog in the very near future and if you are on my mailing list, I’ll be sending all the info straight to your inbox! If you would like to be on my mailing list, please send me an email at l_prothero@yahoo.com and let me know!


Here’s another card using some of the new In Colours! This is a really simple card using lots of layers! The inside has a little lady bug stamped in red on the bottom of the card.



Stamps: Garden Whimsy

Ink: Riding Hood Red

Paper: Good Morning Sunshine DSP, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Pacific Point

Accessories: SNAIL

Anyone for a Martini?

Shaken not stirred! Actually I think I was watching a James Bond movie when I made this card.

This one is made with some stamps from the new Cheers to You stamp set, as well as using papers two of the new In Colours, Tangerine Tango and Baja Breeze. The olive is coloured in with Kiwi Kiss ink and the Cheers to You greeting is also stamped in Kiwi Kiss. The background images were stamped using Versamark Ink.




Stamps: Cheers to You

Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Basic Black, Versamark, Baja Breeze

Paper: Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Baja Breeze

Accessories: Circle Scallop Punch, Circle Punch, Chocolate Chip ribbon, SNAIL, Blender Pens, dimensionals

New Catalogue

The new catalogue officially starts tomorrow!!

My camera is dead so I’ve scanned a few of the cards I’ve been working on. Hopefully I’ll have a new camera in a week or two so until then, I’ll be scanning cards instead.

Here’s one card using new stamp sets, In Colours and Designer Paper. I’ll upload a few more later.




The Hi image is punched out with the square scallop punch and I used a couple of dimensionals to make it stand out a bit. I love the birdie paper from the Good Morning Sunshine DSP. So cute!

Stamps: Good Friend & Say It With Scallops

Ink: Pacific Point, Tangerine Tango, Chocolate Chip

Paper: Pacific Point, Baja Breeze, Whisper White & Good Morning Sunshine Designer Paper

Accessories: Mat Pack, Square Scallop Punch, SNAIL

I has a sad! :(

My camera appears to be on the blink! I think it may have died! :(

So unfortunately I dont have any new Stampin' Up! sneak peaks for you! However, the new catalogue...rocks! I finally got my hands on it on Saturday and I have a massively long stamp wish list!

Retired list update

Click here to see which Stampin' Up! products are no longer available or are low quantity! Remember you only have until March 31st to get your hands on these retiring products

The new Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalogue comes out on April 1, and I have several boxes of them on their way to me as we speak!! How exciting!! If you would like a copy of the catalogue, please contact me at l_prothero@yahoo.com to pre-order one, they will cost $10. Or if you would like a copy of the Catalogue for free, contact me about hosting a workshop! You could earn free stamps and accessories!!! Yay!!

I'll be able to get my hands on my pre-ordered stamps and the new In Colours paper and inks, this weekend, so I hope to post a few sneakie peakies sometime over the weekend! Stay tuned!

Colour Inspiration #45

This is my card for Kristina's Colour Inspiration #45.

I actually only used white and black as I don't have any grey. It was rather difficult to photograph due to all the shiny emobssing. The black heart is also embossed.

Stamps: SU Priceless

Ink: Basic Black & Versamark

Paper: Basic Black & Whisper White

Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Gun & the fabulous Embossing Buddy!

Thanks for looking! :)

Retired List Update again!

Click HERE to see the latest update of unavilable or in low quantity products from Stampin' Up!'s retired list.

Remember these products will no longer be available after March 31 as the new catalogue comes out on April 1! So contact me at l_prothero@yahoo.com to place your order!

Also, if you want to pre-order a copy of the Stampin' Up! 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalogue, please let me know. The cost will be $10 including postage. The cataloges will be arriving the first week of April. If you want to get a copy of the Catalogue for free, and maybe earn some free stamps and other fabulous Stampin' Up! product, you might want to consider hosting a workshop instead!

Retired List Update

These items are now unavailable:


Flip Flops
Wild Wasabi Classic Ink Refill
Soft Sky Classic Stamin' Ink Refill
River Rock Classic Stampin' Ink Refill
Purely Pomegranite Classic Stampin' Ink Refill
Earth Elements Eyelets
Soft Subtle Eyelets
Groovy Guava Classic Stampin' Ink Refill
Best Friend Numbers
Mateys Map
Basic Eyelets
Gifts Galore
Garden Annuals
Confetti Simply Scrappin'
Leaf Prints
Bundle of Joy
Short Order Numbers
Blue Bayou Classic Stampin' Ink Refill
River Rock A4 card stock
Ahoy, Matey
Best Friends Alphabet Upper
Soft Sky A4 card stock
Jersey Ribbon Originals
Black Hemp Twine
Bareback
Dasey Field
In Color 12"x 12" card stock
Wild Wasabi A4 card stock
Best Friends Alphabet Lower


These items are in Low Quantity



Theater Ribbn Originals
Soft Subtle buttons
Basics Outline
Earth Elements
*Earth Elements & Neutrals buttons
Gift sacks
By Land
Fishy
*Dad's Day
It's Your Birthday
Antique Brass Hodgepodge Hardware
Everything Baby
Fabulous Flowers
Rough Texture
Speckled
Birthday
Stipple Rose
Classic Backgrounds
Symbols of Solicitude
Forever in My Heart
Rich Regal Buttons
ABC Images
Linen
Beautiful Life
Polka Dots & Petals
Flitting By
Five-In-One Card Cover Envelope Template
*Pockets & Pieces Office Accents
All I Have Seen
Unfrogettable
Purely Pomegranate A4 Card Stock
*Pewter Hodgepodge Hardware
*Light Blue Gingham Ribbon
Rich Regal Eyelets


If there's anything on the retired list you have your eye on, contact me on l_prothero@yahoo.com before everything runs out!!

Colour Inspiration #44

This is my attempt at Kristina Werner's Colour Inspiration #44

Stamps: Priceless and For a Friend

Paper: Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Pretty In Pink & Whisper White

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pretty In Pink & Versamark

Accessories: Choc Chip and Pretty In Pink Ribbon

It was a pain to photograph because I used such light ink for the happy new baby image and I had a lot of trouble getting it to show up!

Retired List

To make room for the upcoming new Stampin' Up! catalogue in April, Stampin' Up! is retiring a whole lot of stamps and accessories. A select number of these products are 25% or 50% off!! This promotion finishes on the 31st of March, but get in quick before they sell out! Because once they're gone, they're gone. The retired list can be viewed here. Contact me to place your order!

Also, I would to thank everyone who came to my first workshop yesterday. I hope everyone had fun!!

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!