I had alot of fun making this really neat little mini coaster album box of our little girl, the 4 sides slide in and out. I decided to use the parisian Breeze textured designer paper from our Spring mini catalogue, I love the colours in this paper. I also covered the butterfly and stamped our girl on paper from the same pack. The flower has been covered using the Good Morning Sunshine DSP because I wanted to use a different colour. The stem and leaves have been inked and then I finished it off using my trusty dauber. I used the round tab punch to make it nice and easy to pull out the side pieces. It took a while to make but I think it was worth the effort. You can put 8 photos on the little box because you turn the box over and the bottom side has been decorated as well so it is a double side box. I hope you like it as much as I do.


 

Stampin' Up! have done it again but this time the Promotion is running for ALL OF JULY.  There are some fantastic stamp sets that have 20% OFF.   If you currently do not have a catalogue click on the catalgoues on my website (on the right hand side) and view them.  Take advantage of the fantastic promotion by placing an order OR you could book a workshop during the month of July where both you and your friends will be able to enjoy these fantastic savings.

This weeks Just Add Ink challange 23 is to use DSP (designer series paper) so thought it would be fun to take part.  I have painted the flower using crystal effects and reinkers and love the way it has turns out.  I hope you like it and thanks for popping in to have a look.




 

I had such a wonderful time at the training day that Jacque held in Auckland last weekend, here is a photo of our team, these ladies truely are awesome.

We all learnt some new techniques and got to take some fantasic projects home that we had made.   Delys who is a multi published scrapbooker did one of the presentations, our team Sponge Queen Paula taught us a couple of different techniques using a sponge (her work is beautiful) and Ann and Julia shared some of the exciting things they learnt at Convention.  They all did so well, just goes to show what a neat group of ladies they are that they are so willing to share their knowledge. 

Jacque also shared some of her knowledge with us and then recognized us all for what we have achieved in the last year.  It was so neat to see so many of my friends had done so well.  I was really spoilt because I got a beautiful bunch of pink roses for being the top Demo in Jacques team, it really was such a lovely surprise and exciting that I was amongst so many of my friends.  Congrats to Karen who was runner up and Delys was 2nd runner up yay.  Check out the badge Jacque gave me to put on my website, it is on the right hand side under classes, pretty cool aye.

If you would like to join in the fun and become a hobby or business demonstrator give me a call or send me an email.  Stampin' up! have a fantastic promotion at the moment that you can join for only $299 WOW what a bargain.  I look forward to talking to you soon and answering any questions you have.

You are going to love the Deals of the Week 4, this week you get to purchase some of the fantastic rhinestone brads or ribbons at crazy prices but you can only purchase them for this fantastic price until Wednesday 30th June.

Since I had a little bit of spare time I decided to make a card for the Just Add Ink Challenge 22.  I must admit this is not a colour combination I have ever used before so it really got me thinking, anyway this is what I came up with.   I sponged the background using tempting turquoise and kiwi kiss, thanks for teaching me this wonderful technique Paula.

The Deal of the Week is just getting better and better.  This week you can get up to 50% off the following Stamp Sets.  Only available at this price until the 22nd June so phone me now to place your order.

I have been asked by a few people lately to make a nice bright childs Birthday card so this is what I came up with.  I coloured the image in using the watercolour wonder crayons and blender pens.  When I taught it in the class recently everyone could pick which stamp they liked from the Pun Fun set.  It was a easy but fun card to make, I hope you like it.

I just wanted to share with you one of the projects I taught in my class recently, it is a double pocket gift card holder pouch.  This is an ideal pouch that you can make up yourself, pop a gift card inside and then you have a wonderful gift for that hard to buy for person in your life. The inside is made by cutting an envelope in half and then you have 2 little pouches, 1 for the gift card and 1 for writing your message on. 
 

I also wanted to share a picture of what my little girl Natasha (aged 6) decided to make up when my back way turned.  She decided rather than making it into a gift card holder she would make her own stand by threading card thru the slots and turned the little flowers into faces, I thought it was adorable and soooo creative, what do you think?


 

This is such a neat idea that Pauline Laing made for her swap at Convention, edible heart lollies, yes she made them all herself (300 lollies).  These lollies are stamped (with a very clean stamp) using food colouring as the ink.  I will have to hide these from my little girl otherwise they will be gone in 2 seconds flat.