Garage sale Retired Stampin' Up Merchandise

The WOW paperKRafters are holding their first craft market/garage sale this coming Saturday from 3-5pm.

WHERE: Marina View Primary School Hall, West Harbour 97-99 Marina View Drive. Free parking & entry. We'll have goodies to buy for Christmas plus our retired stamps, ribbons, DSP - the majority reduced to clear.

Pat Blayney is going to be there with her fabulous Christmas cakes & chutney's marketed under "Mrs B" - she is a regular at the Craft Markets around town & her stuff alone is worth the trip.

A Tutorial on How to mount your Stamps

When you have mounted your stamps onto the wooden blocks do you have trouble lining up the sticker with the stamp .
Well here is a great Tutorial on how to mount your stamps using the Stamp-a-ma-jig, watch this video and then try it believe me it works.
 Thanks Ilina

Bird Box and Tags

I first made one of these box's at my Fabulous Upline Karens,  So I decided I loved it so much I would have a class for my Ladies. Needless to say when I showed it to them they loved it. It sure does involve lots of punching as there are 12 tags . I purchased the Tutorial from Jenny Moors but just changed the Designer Paper and card stock colour to current ones.

Stamp set: Tiny Tags

Ink: Soft Suede

Card stock: Peach Parfait, Pear Pazzazz, Poppy Parade, Soft Suede, Whisper White

 Designer Series Paper: Sunny Garden

Other: Punches:- 1 ¾” circle, 1 3/8” circle, Boho Blossum, Two Step Bird, Five Petal Flower

Medium Jewellery Tag, Handheld 1/16” punch

Piercing Tool & Mat Pack

Clear Rhinestone Brads & Silver Brads

Peach Parade Poly Stitched Ribbon

Two Way Glue Pen, Glue Stick

More Fabulous Team Swaps

Two more swaps I received from our WOW team training

Sarah is one of our Newest members to the team and has used Contempo Christmas and Heard from the Heart,  the decorations have also been embossed 

The next card was made by Claire Hardman the only stamp on this card is the message on the front from Many Merry Messages. Claire has used Punches for the curtains and the tree is sponged using a template for the shape

Aren't I lucky to receive all these fabulous cards from my fellow WOW team mates

Dressing Up for Christmas October / November Special

Wouldn't you just love to get some free Ribbons, which are not available in our Idea Book & Catalogue. So from today until November 30th if you order any of the Christmas bundles  you earn one free roll with each bundle and/or host a $600 workshop you earn an extra roll for free as well.

In the Welcome Christmas Bundle is a  Specialty Designer Series Paper

Christmas Cocoa

Create beautiful packaging to fit any Christmas gift or card with exclusive products from Stampin’ Up!

Click HERE to see all the details & the ribbons in closer detail.

 

More Swaps

I have shown you my Swap I made for our WOW PaperKRafters team training last Sunday, well here's a few more I received. The theme was Christmas

This Side Step card was from My fabulous upline Karen

                                 I love it,  Delightful Decorations is one of my favourite Stamp Sets.

The next one was made by my friend and sideline Debbie with the Sparkly and Bright stamp set isn't the Santa just so cute, another set to add to my wishlist. 

Judy  is another Friend and sideline and used the Two Step Bird Punch and the Perfect Punches set to make this card  

I love punchart its time I did some more.

I will post some more cards in the next couple of days

Embossing Glossy Card

This is a sample of one of the cards my lovely ladies made at class on Monday evening, I used a sponge Dauber to add Frost White Shimmer Mist to mine

But their card had one difference, Glossy Cardstock, here is a sample of what the Glossy Cardstock looked like after we embossed it by putting it through the Big Shot  using the Vintage Wallpaper embossing Folder

doesn't the embossing look fabulous it really made the pattern stand out.

Delightful Decorations Swap

On Sunday the WOW PaperKrafters had  team Training, this month we had training at my place in my Stampin Studio here is the card I made for our team swap,  I decided to use the Delightful Decorations set which is one of my favourite sets  it also has a matching Punch.

For the Decorations I mixed a few drops of Frost White Shimmer with a few drops of Pacific Point  then put this mix straight onto the stamp with a sponge dauber, with just a few drops I stamped and punched out about 16 Decorations, by mixing the shimmer paint and reinker you get a paler and shinier image. 

Stamp set: Delightful Decorations, Christmas Greetings

Ink: Pacific Point

Cardstock: Pacific Point, Whisper White

Other: Frost White Shimmer Mist,Ornament Extra Large Punch, Eyelet Border Punch, 

Big Shot, Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Elegant Bouquet,

Dimensionals, Sponge Dauber,  Tombow

A Blue Card in so many ways

A blue card in more ways than one I made this card and couldn't decide which stamp to use on it, in the end I decided that it was such a pretty card that the Happy Mothers Day stamp  from Occasional Greetings matched perfectly with the Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder.

Stamp Set: Occasional Greetings

Ink: Tempting Turquoise Reinker, Pacific Point

Cardstock: Pacific Point, Whisper White

Textured Impressions Embossing Folder: Elegant Bouquet

Punches: Scallop Circle & Boho Blossoms
Other: Circle Ice Rhinestone Brad, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon, Brayer,

Paper piercer, Stampin Sponge, Glue Stick

Now you may be asking why is it a blue card in so many ways, well  #1 My Mum isn't with us anymore,

#2 its not Mothers Day, #3 The stamped image is smudged as it got a couple of drops of rain on it  (or maybe a couple of tears) but I am sure my mum would love it anyway. When we first lost my Mum to Cancer 41/2 years ago just before Mothers day my eldest daughter naturally went and bought her a Mothers day card as she always had (they were very close) then suddenly realised what she had done, but she still took it up to mum's garden at the cemetery and after 4 1/2 years she still takes her a card or flowers for any special occasion.
So even though its not Mothers Day lets all remember our Mum's.

Its Snowing

I wanted to have a go at making a shaker card, I have used the new colour Cherry Cobbler this is the colour for my Christmas cards this year. I had a play around with the Square Scallop  Punch to get the frame.

Stamp Set: Lovely as a Tree

Ink; Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede, Old Olive

Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla

Other: Acetate Sheet, Square Scallop Punch, Modern Label Extra Large Punch, Blender Pen

Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, 2 Way Glue Stick

 Snail Adhesive

The next card I am going to make will be a Spinner Card make sure to come back and have a look, I will be making these in one of my classes, if you would like to come along and make them email me here