ESAD Holiday Blog Hop

Welcome to the ESAD  Holiday Blog Hop! for 2014  whether you started with my post or you arrived here from the very talented Debbie Lamb make sure you continue by clicking on the link in each blog and you will enjoy a fabulous round of 19 projects 

 

What is ESAD? 

ESAD
Stands for "Extra Special Austrlasian Demonstrators" and it is an on-line group just for Australian and New Zealand Stampin' Up! Demonstrators

We love what we do & love to share with our customers, friends, and wonderful blog visitors. We also share what we love in our ESAD Demonstrator community, through swaps, challenges, sharing knowledge, ideas & friendship, and we're always there to help and support each other.

So if
you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand, then please feel free to leave me a comment with your Email address and I'll contact you with information on how to join our wonderful group.

Now onto my project I have made 4 cards, The two below are in traditional Christmas Colours  Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla with some Gold added. I have sponged the Embossed Very Vanilla mat with Crumb Cake, the Cherry Cobbler piece under the Snowflakes is embossed with the Snowflake Flurry Embossing Folder.
Each card has two pieces of the Venetian Lace to give the impression that it is wider.

Festival of Trees

 

Snowflakes cut from Snowflake Card Thinlets Die 

Stamp set: Festival of Trees,  Letterpress Winter, 

Ink:  Crumb Cake, Versamark  

Card stock: Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Bushed Gold,
Other: Big Shot, Magnetic Platform, Snowflake Card Thinlets Dies, Delicate Designs , Filigree Frame and Snowflake Flurry Textured Impressions Embossing Folders, Heat Gun, Venetian Crochet Trim, Basic Rhinestones, Gold Embossing Powder, Embossing Buddy,  Stampin Distress Tool, Stampin' Sponge, Stampin' Dimensionals, Tombow Multi Adhesive 


The next 2 cards are in Lost lagoon and Pear Pizzazz the colours in Stampin' Up!s fabulous All Is Calm Specialty Designer Series Paper. On the Lost lagoon card I have used the Coastal Cabana Blendibilities to colour the Basic Rhinestones, I didn't colour the ones on the Pear Pizzazz card to show the difference between plain and coloured Basic Rhinestones. The tags are made with Vellum card stock then embossed with the Snowflake Flurry Embossing Folder and added a tag of Whisper White card stock under.

All Is Calm Lost Lagoon

All Is Calm Pear Pizzazz

Stamp set: Good Greetings, Sassy Salutations

Ink:  Lost lagoon, Pear Pizzazz, 

Blendibilities: Coastal Cabana 

Card stock: Lost lagoon, Pear Pizzazz, Vellum, Whisper White,
Specialty Designer Series Paper: All Is Calm
Other: Big Shot, Snowflake Flurry Embossing Folder,  Scallop Tag Topper Punch, Basics Rhinestones, Frosted Sequins, All Is Calm Washi Tape, Old Olive 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon, Whisper White 1/4" Cotton Ribbon, Stampin' Sponge, Stampin' Dimensionals, Tombow Multi Adhesive  

I hope you enjoyed looking at my project you can now hop onto Christie Kunkel and check out her fabulous project. Don't forget to leave a comment for each blog as I am sure they would all love to hear from you. 

Weekly Deals 24th - 30th September

There are some great Weekly Deals this week  we have a fabulous variety from Paper piercing packs to Framelits and My Digital Studio, they are such a great price check them out below email me with your order or if you prefer go to my Online Store to have a look and put an order through straight away.

A Quick Tip: Very Vintage Buttons

I thought I would share a quick tip with you today, you may have already seen this on Pinterest or in fact on a blog, I love the Very Vintage Buttons in our Catalogue but I also love to heat emboss my Very Vintage Buttons so far I have heat embossed them with Gold and Silver and will try a few other colours as well, This is the one I embossed with Gold Embossing Powder. I have also coloured the Rhinestone with our Blendibilities. All you have to do is place your Button onto the Versamark Ink Pad push it down so it gets covered in Versamark then place the button into your pot or container off Embossing Powder remove it and place onto a board, hold it down by placing a toothpick through one of the holes and heat with your Embossing Tool. then add to your project with a Glue Dot.

Weekly Deals 17th - 23rd September

There are some great Weekly Deals this week from 17th- 23rd September a couple of my favourites this week are the Decorative Window Box's and the Wooden Elements Embellishments, what a great price check them out below email me with your order or if you prefer go to my Online Store to have a look and put an order through straight away.