Window Dressing

As promised here are the other two cards

this one has some of the new dsp paper and the cardstock is the new in colour tangerine tango, the brads are from the silver hodgepodge hardware.

The next card is a direct case from the catalogue, I’ve kept my promise to actually look at the samples this year, and there are some great ideas in the new catalogue

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short and sweet today I’ve got to get ready for an all day scrap day tomorrow and I’ve just found out, my son has commandeared my scrap room to study in all afternoon. So it’ll be a rush now. thanks for looking and check out the  updates on the class pages.

More sneak peaks

Here are two cards, I’ve made with a hostess set from the new catalogue, the set is called window dressing, and I love it, brings out the little girl in me!!

I’ve reversed the view for this one, so that you are looking out at the snow, I’ve made it into a chrissy card (never too early to start!) and the dsp is afternoon tea which will be gone on the 31st March, the summer mini finishes then so if you want anything out of there, please contact me, not all the stamp sets have made it into the new catalogue.

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this cardstock is the new riding hood red, I’ve made a couple more but I’ll have to take photo’s tomorrow and post them, they haven’t scanned well. I really like the new in colours this year.  Let me know if you are coming to the launch I still have a few places left.

Lots of cards

At the weekend I spent sometime making up samples for my launch, but I couldn’t show you then, because first the camera batteries died, then the internet went down, and I can’t get on the computer before wednesday, so here you are, I’ve got quite a lot, so may have to put them up over the next day or so, depending on whether the net stays up, (isn’t it frustrating!)This card arrived in the post today from Sue, I visit Sue’s site regularly and I’ve added her link so you can pop over and have a look at her site in a moment!

Cute eh, I’ve been making my cards for the launch from the fresh cuts set, and I’ve made quite a lot! what fun,

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I’ll show you the close up’s on April the 1st which is the day the new Catalogue begins!!! how exciting, don’t forget to book into the launch, see the info below.

I’ll leave you with this very sad piccy, I couldn’t belive I got so close to a wild koala, why didn’t it run up a tree, the behaviour was so unnatural, I thought it looked a bit sick, so I went home and got some water for it and it drank, and drank, and drank, about 2 litres in all, the poor thing was so dehydrated, that’s a dry creek bed you can see behind him, all the neighbours are now watching him to make sure he doesn’t get this way again, so if you live close to a nature reserve keep a look out for the wildlife and give them some water please.

ps just realised I’ve cased a couple of cards in the piccy above, so acknowledment goes to sue, for the 3rd card in the first row, the second card in the second row, the first card in the first row is from the catalogue, and the second card in the last row is one from Denise, but you need to go and look at the originals they are much better!

Launch with Easter theme

At my launch of the new catalogue, we will be embracing an easter theme so here is a sneak peak of the things we might make.

by the way this is also the challenge Roz set us last week, it’s a colour challenge lavender lace, green galore, and passionate pink. another one

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if you can’t make it to the launch (details in blog below) then pop over to this site, where I found a fab video on how to make this cute basket.

http://monicas-passions.blogspot

in case that link doesn’t work just google Monica Gale she is from the uk.

new catalogue launch

A quick post to announce the new catalogue launch taking place at my house on the 5th April between 1 – 3pm. Please rsvp to reserve your spot so that I can have enough goodies lined up. (door prizes, etc) a sneak peak of some of the exciting new stamps is below.

actually there isn’t any new stamps on the layout, but look at the gorgegous new dsp.  below I have used a flourish from a new hostess set, you will just have to wait a bit longer to see anymore as I’m Really busy making samples!

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can you believe that it is the first time I have used the Priceless set on here? I can’t, it’s the first time my en francais  background has seen ink though, and don’t you love the new pink card stock, so soft.  Anyway off to  make more samples, one of the items we will be making at the launch, will be very useful for easter so hope to see you all here.

Can you guess

where I got the idea for this layout??

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if you guessed  page 51 of the 2008-2009 iB&C you are correct, I have converted the card map into a scrap map and am really pleased with the result. The catalogue is very useful for these sort of ideas, I also keep my old one’s for when I need inspiration, even though we have had this one for a year, I’ve only just started looking at the cards and layouts, I’m going to be paying more attention with the new one! The blog candy prize is going to the only two people to comment, so Sue and Helen thank you and you will shortly receive a little surprise. I’ll leave you with this thought today, How many photos have you got of your immediate family? My answer is a dismal ONE can you belive it, one of us is always behind the camera- so if any of my family reading this has a photo of Manny, Kay, David and Alex I would really love a copy!

Goodbye Bodacious bouquet

One of my favourite sets is going, it’s so versatile I’m really going to miss it, however I’m holding onto it, I will still get a lot of use out of it on my scrap pages! Here are a couple of cards to say goodbye to it, the first card I made for the Elite Challenge and Mum’s birthday

I decided to try something new on this one, I used the rock n roll technique where you ink up the stamp with a light ink, and roll the stamp on a darker ink pad, creating a two tone, love it, will have to try this more often, and the solid stamp is perfect,  I’ve also 3d the images to add a bit more interest, there is some sponging happening, and the colours are old olive, apricot appeal and pumpkin pie.  Next

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a bit more plainier but I’ve glittered  the I in birthday and the little bits in the middle of the flower, colours are elegant eggplant and more mustard, I love these two colours together. Hope you have enjoyed, I’m stuck at home resting and getting a lot done so will have some others for you shortly. Time is running out to vote in the candy blog below, if no-one else votes that means my sister and Sue are going to be winners! so get voting.

Big Bold Birthday

My sister showed my this fab card using the Big bold birthday set, she has used the kissing technique (you ink the main stamp in a light ink, then ink another stamp in a darker ink and press the two stamps together,) she has used the other  smaller stamps in this to make a pattern on the cake icing which is usually just plain.

a closer look at the cakes

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don’t they look delicious.  This set is NOT retiring and has a lot of potential as you can see.  I’m holding a class on march 21st for more details check out the class page, and the total at the moment for the bushfire appeal is $58131 what a great effort! Don’t forget to vote see post’s below. I’ll be back later in the week with some samples that we will be making in the class.

last four ginger blossom

Here are the last four ginger blossom cards

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I can’t believe that I’m not sick of this paper yet, anyway there you have them, now is the time to vote for your favourite, on the 11th March I’ll be choosing someone at random and they will get a bit of blog candy. Happy voting.

really sorry ladies

i’ll get the last 4 cards up asap, unfortuntely the computer and I have a virus, it took us all afternoon yesterday to rid the computer of it’s horrible virus, which our ip provider told us was clogging up their servers! and I’ve been at the doctor all afternoon too, having chest xrays and blowing in machines wouldn’t be so bad but all I want to do is sleep, so hopefully the pc and i will be better tomorrow (we haven’t virus checked my external harddrive yet so can’t get the other 4 up today) thanks for being so patient.