Happy Birthday Karen plus another a sneak peek

Here is a Birthday card I made for (my Upline) Karen Rogers. 

It is made with some of the new In Colour Cardstock, Ink and Ribbon that will be available in the new Autumn-Winter Mini Cataloque which will be launched tomorrow.  I will upload the link for the new Mini Cataloque tomorrow. Be sure to check it out.

There are 32 pages  full of  absolutely fabulous products:

Stamp sets, Wood mounted plus unmounted Clear

Clear Mounting Blocks

12 x 12 Cardstock

New In colour Cardstock, Ink and Ribbons

Designer Papers

New style punches

The Big Shot and Accessories including some exclusive Dies and Folders

Hostess Sets

  I just love this colour.

Classic Stars Birthday Card

Today was my Niece Jeans Birthday.  I wanted to make her a card as she loves stars and the colour purple, so I decided to use the Classic Stars Jumbo Wheel, I wasn't quite sure what to do so googled Star cards I saw one Narelle Hodges had on her blog and it was perfect for what I wanted to do so I cased it. Thank you Narelle. We had a lovely roast pork for dinner and my older daughter Bex made a Chocolate cake for Jean, this is the first time she has made a cake probably since she was at school  (I'm usually the one to make the cakes)  and it was sooo good. We lit the candles etc and of course the two children had to have a turn at blowing out the candles as well.

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Cardstock:  Lavender Lace, Lovely Lilac, Whisper White

Stamp Sets:  A Little Birthday Cheer, Whimsical Words,

Jumbo Wheel: Classic Stars 

Ink:  Lavender Lace, Lovely Lilac

Other:  Large and Small Star Punches, Silver Brads, Dimensionals, Glue Stick

 

How to make Rhinestone Brads sit flat

Here is a simple little trick.

 Do your Rhinestone Brads sit flat or do they look like this one when you have used them to embellish a project.

BEFORE...

This is how it will look
AFTER...

You will need a pair of flat nose pliers.

1.  When you look at the Rhinestone Brad there is a triangle under the base of the brad,
this stops the brad  from sitting flat.

2.  Take the Rhinestone Brad and place it in your flat nose pliers as shown above

and squeeze the feet as close together as you can.

3.  This is what the brad will look like when you have finished.

Ghosting on vellum

This card is done with a technique called Ghosting on Vellum. you brayer ink  all over a piece of Vellum and while the ink is wet stamp a “dry” bold image onto the wet Vellum and the stamp picks up the ink and creates this lovely soft reversed image. Let this dry then glue a piece of whisper white card to the back of the vellum  I totally cased this card from Sylvie Drader.
Stamps:  Inspired by Nature, Sincere Salutations
Ink:  Chocolate Chip, Really Rust
Cardstock:  Close to Cocoa, Really Rust, Whisper White, Vellum
Other:  Chocolate Chip 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon

Razzle Dazzle and another Sneak peek

 Here's a pretty little card the stamp is from Razzle Dazzle in the Summer Mini Catalogue, I just love it, but it's about to retire so if you would like to order this set  email me before you miss out.
What do you think of  the cardstock colour and can you guess the technique I have used if so leave me a comment.

Slider Box with a little Sneak peek

You have already seen part of this little 3" x 3" box but only the open draw with some flowers in it, instead of adding a little card to the top I have added a small easel card, do you like the two branches with leaves these are punched with our new Extra-LargeTwo-Step Bird punch which is in the  new Autumn mini catalogue to be released on April 1st.

Stamp Set: Flight of the Butterfly, En Francais

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette

Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White

Other: Filligre Brad, Rhinestone Brad, Soft Subtle Brad, Boho Blossoms Punch, Eyelet Border Punch, Extra-Large Two-Step Bird Punch, Scallop Circle Punch,Stampin Sponge, Snail Adhesive, Dimensionals.

Kumeu A&P Show plus some pretty handmade Flowers

Come and visit us at the Kumeu show this weekend to say hello,you can also try your hand at making a small make and take card, we will also have some of our wonderful  creations made with Stampin' Up products,  we will be there all weekend.

Megan Mcdonald has  a tutorial on these flowers, I made large and small flowers, they are just so easy and each one turns out differently.

Here they are out of the draw with a couple of other colours

Card slider Box plus

These are what two of my lovely ladies made at class on Saturday.
A card Slider Box, a Swing Top Card plus a gift card
I purcahed the card slider box class instructions from Jenny Moors

Stamp sets:  Happy Moments, Whimsical Words
Ink:  Baja Breeze, Black Staz on, Close to Cocoa, Pink Pirouette
Cardstock:  Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, Lavender Lace, Pink Pirouette,  Very Vanilla, Whisper White
DSP:  Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette
Other:  Acetate, Certainly Celery & Old Olive 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon , Flower Fusion Too, Rhinestone Brads, Scallop Circle Punch Soft Subtles Brads, Water Wonder Couler Crayons Bold Brights,

WOW Team Easter Swaps

The WOW PapeRKrafters had team training on Sunday the theme for our swaps was Easter .

Inside each Treat Pouch was a marshmallow egg.

I cased these from Monica Gales utube tutorial

Stamp set: A Flower for all Seasons, Happy Everything,

Occasional Greetings, Something Sweet, Sprinkles

Ink: Almost Amethyst, Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Pacific Pont,

Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Riding Hood Red,  White StazOn

Cardstock: Almost Amethyst, Baja Breeze,  Pacific Point,Certainly Celery,

Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Regal Rose,Riding Hood Red,

Very Vanilla, Whisper White

DSP: Baja Breeze, Candy Lane, Pacific Point,  Sweet Always, Tea Party,

Punches: large & small Tag Punch, Word Window Punch

Other: Cellophane Bag, Dimensionals, Rhinestone Brad, Silver Brad,

Snail Adhesive, White Taffeta Ribbon, Tombo Adhesive,

But alas I couldn't be there the reason for this was my family all drove down to Hamilton Gardens for a birthday picnic for my gorgeous little Grand daughters 3rd Birthday then we all drove over to the Hamilton Zoo Park for the afternoon, a fun time was had by all. Here's the cake I made for Olivia, she is going through a Tinkerbell stage.
 

Ingredients: Chocolate Cake, pale pink and pale green Butter Icing

Tinkerbell decal