Week 2 - Deal of the Week - Designer Paper!

This week Stampin' Up! has discounted the price of 5 of their Designer Paper Packs!  This deal runs from Wednesday June 9 to Tuesday June 15!

I know it's a bit hard to read, so click on the picture or go here for a better look at the awesome  discounted prices.

These gorgeous Designer Paper packs are an absolute bargain!  You can order as many as you like, there's no limit.  Orders must be placed with me by Tuesday, 15 June.  Contact me at l_prothero@yahoo.com if you wish to place an order!

Raspberry Tart Designer Paper is my favourite, below are some examples of how I've used it!

Talk to the Animals

And now for something slightly different....a card made without stamps!  I've seen these cards and finally got a chance to make one...a Penguin card!! 

How versatile is the Big Shot Top Note Die?!  Not only can you make things like quilted cards and boxes, you can also make cute animals! 

I've named him Bert. :)

I'll even give you a run down on what I used to make Bert. 

Body: Top Note Die in Whisper White and a piece of Basic Black

Feet: Curly Label Punch in Pumpkin Pie

Flippers/Hands: Large Oval Punch in Basic Black

Nose/Beak:  Large Oval Punch (folded over in half)

Eyes: Circle from Big Shot Die Circles #2 and the white marks are made using my White Uniball Signo (also available from Stampin' Up)

Ribbon: Melon Mambo Polka Dot

Put them all together and you get the cutest Penguin in Queensland! :)  You can also get Bert to hold things, some people have given him a heart to hold, such as this one here.

I've also made a cute Monkey card using the monkey from Fox & Friends. 

This is just a small card and I got the idea off the Stampin' Up! Demonstrator website.  Demonstrator's get all sorts of ideas from Stampin' Up each month, which is very helpful!

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Fox & Friends

Paper: Sahara Sand, Pink Pirouette, Certainly Celery, Whisper White

Ink: Chocolate chip

Accessories: Extra Large bird Punch (for the branch), Melon Mambo Polka Dot Ribbon, 4.4cm Circle Punch, Cropodile, Snail, Sticky Strip.

I recommend you have a go at making Bert the Penguin, its lots of fun and he's so cute!!

Example of Cards using Deal of the Week products

I created a few cards today, a couple of them include one or more of this week's Deal of the Week products. Remember these 4 punches are only $20.12 each, but only until Tuesday! So contact me now if you want to order!!! 

This card was made using the Scallop Square and Scallop Oval punches.

The pennants are made from the Scallop Square.  I got this idea from Kari Linder who made a lovely graduation card.  There's a tutorial on her blog on how to make the pennants from the Scallop Square Punch. 

Stamps: Happy Happy Birthday Wheel, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Classic Stars Wheel

Ink: Versamark, Brilliant blue

Paper: Riding Hood Red, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Kiwi Kiss

Accessories: Kiwi Kiss/Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon, Scallop Oval Punch, Scallop Square Punch, Dimensionals, Linen Thread, Large Oval Punch, Sticky Strip, SNAIL

This card was made using the Top Note Big Shot Die, the lovely Cottage Wall Designer Paper and the Scallop Oval Punch.  I used the 3.2 cm Square Punch to cut out all the paper squares.

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Vintage Vogue

Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive

Paper: Cottage Wall DSP, Very Vanilla, Rich Razzleberry

Accessories: top Note Bigshot Die, Large Oval Punch, Oval Scallop Punch, 3.2cm Square punch, Rich Razzleberry Polka Dot Ribbon, Dimensionals, Rhinestone Brads, Sticky Strip, Snail

Invitation examples

A big thanks to everyone who came to my 2 recent stamping classes!! I hope you enjoyed yourselves. I won't be having any classes in March as I am currently moving from the Gold Coast back to Brisbane at the end of the month and I've only just started packing!!

A friend of mine requested I design some invitations for her gorgeous daughter's christening in April. I whipped these up last night. The invitation stamp set I used, called Introducing, is from the Spring Mini, so you can't purchase it any more, but there is a lovely set in the main catalogue called Please Come that would be great for invites.

Anyway I used the Introducing and Priceless stamp set on the invte below. Cardstock colours are Close to Cocoa, Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss, Very Vanilla and the designer paper is Raspberry Tart.

These two are really simple invitations, which would be good if you have lots of people to invite to your gathering!

Wild About You!

I've had the Wild About You stamp set for a while but haven't had much a chance to use it. It has some very cute animals in it, including this lovely lion.

I coloured him with markers to get the different coloured mane and body. I love doing bows like I've done on this card, I think it makes them look very fancy!

Stamps: Wild About You

Paper: Choc Chip, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise and Summer Sun card stock

Ink: Tempting Turquoise

Accessories: Markers - Choc Chip and Summer Sun, Choc Chip Ribbon, Scallop Edge Punch

Birthday Cards

I made quite a few cards over the weekend. Sunday ended up being a very creative day!

Both the presents and the sentiment are from one of the Sale-a-bration stamp sets called Happy Moments. I also used the Happy Happy Birthday jumbo wheel for the background.

This one caused me no end of grief because I had to make a sliding trap door at the back for the jelly beans to come out of. It's made using the Something Sweet stamp set from the Summer Mini catalogue.

Cards & Announcement

As of tomorrow I will no longer be a Stampin' Up demonstrator. Unfortunately life has a habit of getting in the way of things, so I've decided that this is the best option. I've really enjoyed being a demo and will continue to upload cards and scrapbook pages. On the plus side, it means I get to play a bit more with the retired stamp sets and papers!!

I ordered a few things from the Summer Mini catalgoue a few days ago, which I'm looking forward to the arrival of. Well, more than a few things. :) I can't wait to play with the Something Sweet and Animal Stories stamps, amongst others!

I've managed to get back into the card making groove this week. Below are some examples of what I've been working on.

I've been asked to make quite a few baby cards as there's a lot of babies appearing lately. This one is using the Build-a-Roo set and I used some dimenionals to make the little joey pop out of it's mother's pouch.

Another baby card. I borrowed this idea from someone, but unfortunately I can't remember who! I also did a slightly girlier version with pink and other pastel colours but I can't get it to photograph properly.

Below are two criss cross cards. The first one uses Walk in the Park DSP from the spring mini catalogue. It's no longer current but I love the paper. The Great Friend stamps and flower brad are also from that mini.

This criss cross card uses the lovely Good Morning Sunshine DSP from the main catalogue and the Cheep Talk and Best Yet stamp sets. I used Riding Hood Red and Pacific Point ink and paper.

And here are some cards using the retired Stampin' Up! set Like it a Latte, which is one of my favourite stamp sets.

:)

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:

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

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! :)

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!

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!