Stampin' Up - It has arrived!

Hello Everyone,

Such excitement always surrounds the arrival of an order of Stampin' Up Product. When the BBB (Big Brown Box) arrives I just can't wait to open it and see all the fun new goodies I get to play with. Come June 1st you can too just contact me to find out how.

Before I start making and showing you all the fun things with the new goodies I'm going to show you a couple of creations with some of my favourite retiring products.

I don't know about you but I get motion sick, not as bad as my Dad and baby Brother mind you but I still have to sit in the front of the car and I'm not good at flying either. Well let's just forget going on rides at Luna Park, Movie World or Sea World.  I need calm rides like the carousel. 

In this card I used the gorgeous stamp set Carousel Birthday with Cupcakes and Carousels Designer Series paper and embellishment kit. Along with soft sky, very vanilla and calypso coral card stock.

In the area of Melbourne that I live if you get up early enough on a clear crisp morning you might just be able to see the hot air balloons rising up in the distance from the Yarra Valley, it is a beautiful sight to see them. Maybe one day I will get up the courage to have a ride. I'm not sure my tummy will cope so I have never done it! But they are very beautiful and at times my husband has been at work so early that he has seen another lot of balloons in the city fly by his office window. Nothing more gorgeous!

This gorgeous card design I CASEd from one of the Art with Heart team members Alisha Watson, very simple and very effective with the great products from Stampin' Up! 

For this card I have used the Lift Me Up stamp set bundled with the Up and Away Thinlits Dies to make the fantastic balloon overlay in night of navy card stock. I also used Soft Sky and Whisper white card stock. Smoky Slate, Soft Sky and Night of Navy ink as well. 

With this card I have used the Lift Me Up stamp set again and it reminds me of all the hot air balloons flying by in the early mornings. This card can be easily made with whatever stamp pads that you have on hand and some bakers twine. A great thank you card for a male friends.

It is a fantastic set and Thinlits bundle so make sure you get it while stocks last before May 31st just contact me to find out how.

Hope you all have a lovely day. Thank you for sharing some time with me today.
Take Care.

Stampin' Up OnStage in Sydney

Hello Everyone,

Recently I was fortunate to be able to go to Sydney for the Stampin' Up OnStage Local event. It was a wonderful time and we has such fantastic weather. The event was held a Luna Park and we could see it from our hotel window. How lucky were we?

Here is a view from our hotel room. Isn't it gorgeous?

Here is the view by night out out window, just stunning!

Here I am with some of the lovely ladies from the Art with Heart team having fun at OnStage in Sydney!

The lovely Caroline Manwaring from country NSW. She and I became little friends! We laughed about how nice it was to have someone close in height to ourselves!

Here we are with Jan Collins from Queensland.

These gorgeous ladies from the Art with Heart team sat with me for the  day. Catherine Proctor, from Sydney, Caroline Manwaring, Jan Collins and my room mate and flying buddy for the weekend Kate Morgan. Catherine Proctor was amazing and came and picked us up from the airport and drove us around the whole weekend. Thanks so much Catherine!

At the OnStage events in April Stampin' Up launch their new annual catalogue that will be available to customers from June 1, 2017. If you want to get your hands on a copy don't hesitate to contact me.

While we were at OnStage in Sydney we had many fantastic presentations but I can't possibly show them all to you but here is a taste of the new in colours for this year. Oh My Goodness! Can't wait to get my hands on these ones!  Left to right from the top Lemon Lime Twist, Fresh Fig, Powder Pink, Tranquil Tide and Berry Burst. Gorgeous! The Lemon Lime Twist reminds me of being a teenager in the '80s. It is sure going to bring a pop of colour to our projects!

I have a most Gorgeous Cousin going through her second bout of breast cancer at the moment with such grace and dignity and I was so happy and overwhelmed when this new stamp set Ribbon of Courage was demonstrated for us. I can't wait to get my hands on this most beautiful stamp set to be able to make her a card like this. Of course you can make it is all different colours for many different struggles that your friends and loved ones are facing.

Hope you all have a lovely day. Thanks for sharing some time with me today.

Take Care.

Stampin' Up Obsession

Hello,

What is your obsession?
Well at a recent dinner for my daughters ASD social group, Different Journeys, they were asked to dress up in their obsessions. My daughter used to love Dr. Who. Still does to some degree and watches it with her dad but at the moment she is really into Japanese Anime. So of course she had to go dressed as one of the characters.

We decided to go as a casual Totoro it was easy to put together and she looked great:

The parents could dress up too and were actually encouraged to get in on the fun as well. I couldn't quite work out what I was going to do so well you guessed it I attached a lot of the cards I have made using Stampin' Up products to myself and went dressed up in my obsession of card making with Stampin' Up! What could be better than that I ask you?!!!

Here I am trying it on before we leave to see if it will work. Just a bit funny but the other parents thought it was not too bad! What do you think?

Hope you all have a lovely day. Thanks for sharing some time with me today
Take Care.

Some More Scrapbook Fun

Hello and welcome.

Today I want to share with you what I have been doing in the way of scrapbooking in the past 3 weeks. I have been participating in the Amazing Race at Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia. We have been having so much fun but if you would like to join in it is not too late just head on over for all the details.

Week 1 we had to do a page before we left Australia or task this week was to use Aussie Slang, an Australian flag or animal and a scallop border punch to represent the big iconic structures or Australia.

For the LO I used all Stampin' Up paper and although you can't see it in this photo I have also stamped the background in the new Illuminate Glimmer Watermark Stampin' Pad ink it is gorgeous. I have also punched out the butterflies in the new butterfly punch and the new comfort care DSP. To do the Rosettes I used my hot glue gun with the Silicone Craft Sheet that you can find on page 31 of the  Stampin' Up Holiday catalogue.

For this next layout it was our First Detour and we had our letter home blown away so we had to do a LO or 3 card set using the criteria of an envelope, stamp or hidden journalling, I chose hidden journalling.

Again I have used all Stampin' Up paper and buttons and ribbon. I have used different DSP with a hexagon punch that I have from Creative Memories. I have made the pin wheel using the hot glue gun and the silicon mat to make it so much easier to do. The hidden journalling is under the photo which you pull down with the ribbon. The photo of is of us on top of the Mountain in Langkawi after going up in the cable car. It was rather a scary trip.

The next LO is our stop 2 Asia and I got India for my country in Asia. The criteria was to use at least 2 bright colours, have a busy LO and some gold on the LO somewhere.

I have used the new In-Colours from Stampin up for my bright colours not only for the background but also for the flag banner. To make the trunk of the tree I have used the new Textured Impressions Embossing folder with the core'dinations card stock. Once you have put this card stock throught the big shot in the embossing folder you can sand off the top to reveal the inside colour to give added dimension. The Gold is the new champagne glimmer paper from Stampin' Up. There was always mist in Malaysia when we were there so it seemed fitting to have the mist in the background which I just sponged on with the white craft ink. The lovely elephant had a very boney back so it was father hard so I was glad for just a short ride. LOL!

Hope you have enjoyed these pages and are inspired.

Take Care

Sharon

Scalloped Flower

Hello,

Glad you joined me today. I have been playing with my glue gun and the new silicone craft mat from Stampin' Up.

I was looking for a flower for a project and I knew I had come across one and luckily I was able to find a video tutorial on You Tube by Mindy that teaches us how to make these great flower. Make sure you have a look at the video you can find it here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsvscDb6t00

I have used Stampin' Ups scallop punch and you need to punch out 7 for the bottom layer, 5 for the middle layer and 3 for the top. I have used our gorgeous Designer Series Paper to make these ones. 

Here is the top and Side view of the flower

If you would like to look at the Mat you can find it on page 31 of the Stampin' Up Holiday Catalogue. The buttons are not Stampin' Up but they have some great new Naturals Designer Buttons that would look fabulous on these as well (I just don't have mine yet and I couldn't wait to try the flower Page 176 of the Annual Catalogue click here).

They are super cute flowers and would be great on scrapbook pages and cards

Hope you get a chance to make these flowers

Take Care

Sharon

Amazing Race

Have you heard the news? Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia is holding an Amazing Race! The Top 50 Amazing Race will be covering 7 continents and 15 countries in just 12 weeks!

You will have 7 countries to visit with your choice of tasks (challenges) along the way, but beware of the detours and road blocks!

They realise some people won't be able to play along for the entire 12 weeks so they have a plan for you too! (more details will be given closer to the date!)

Sign up for the Top 50 Amazing Race will be open from August 1st and the race will begin on September 1st!

This is one race you will not want to miss!

Hope you come along and join in the fun

Take Care
Sharon

I'm Back

Hi Everyone,

Yes I know it has been way too long since I have done any posting so I am going to try and be a bit more regular.

 To start off this return to my blog I would like to tell you of the wonderful day I had on Saturday at Stampin'  Up's Heartfelt day. I went as a guest of my friend Claire Day who is a Stampin' Up demonstrator. We had lots of fun getting our hands on the product tables to have a go at the new stuff coming out on September 1st. There were demonstration as well and the 3D flowers were great as was the card with the new glitter paper. We got make and takes as well. But I think my favourite thing of the day was the classes. We had 4 classes Decorations, Cards, Packing and wrapping paper and handmade gifts so many great ideas and the presenters were absolutely fabulous.

Here are a few shots from the day of inspiration: All are done by the lovely ladies at Stampin' Up

Christmas place mat and coaster

These were great cards just and example of the many that were shared with us on the day.

How great is this wreathe by Sophie

More decorations by Sophie

These are the 3D flowers by Jessica Williams

It was really a lovely way to spend the day if you would like to go in Brisbane, Perth or Sydney check out Claire Daly's blog and you will find some details there. There was so much inspiration I just wouldn't be able to put it all up here.


Now for a something from me that I have done this year that just hasn't gone up yet.

These next couple of things I did for Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia

This card was one that we had to do for the cyber crop and we had to have a playing card on it. I quite like how this one turned out.

For this next page I had to use primary colours large lettering and some bling. I decided to do something a little different for this one and it turned out ok.

Well I will be back again soon with some more fun stuff hope you are all well and that you have fun being crafty!

Take Care

Sharon