Last day of Sale A Bration

Before it's over I wanted to post these super quick & easy creations that use some Sale-A-Bration products.
The first is a 3x3 card using "Banner Blast" Stamp set & coordinating Banner Punch, one of my favourite choices from the Sale-A-Bration products on offer. I also used "Hardwood" background stamp, some Gold Bakers Twine & Gold Sequin from the current Occasions Catalogue.
The second  project is a 3 1/2" square piece of Sweet Sorbet DSP, this pack has been great, I used a couple of the other prints in this pack on Teya's invites here. Anyway I used my envelope punch board & scored the 3 1/2" piece at 1/2 an inch, continuing to turn the DSP & score using the previous score line as my guide to get the 2 3/4" x  1/ 1/2" I needed to wrap a Cadbury freddo frog that you buy in a share pack, I rounded 2 corners like for an envelope & tied with some Sweet Sorbet twine -another free SAB choice, love how thick this twine is. I also used "Starburst Sayings" stamp set & coordinating Starburst Dies from the Occasions Catalogue. You have until 30 June to get Occasions catalogue products but only until tomorrow to get SAB freebies, for every $90 order you get to choose a free SAB product. Call or email me if you would like to place an order or go straight to my online store here.

Tea For Two DSP dream

I finally covered this wooden word dream for Teya that I purchased some time ago with the oh so pretty "Tea For Two Designer Series Paper" (129311).
I painted the wood except the front with an acrylic paint I have in my paint stash called Pink Petal.
I also used to embellish the Ribbon & Buttons from SAB, a Tea Time Trinket (129326), Bitty Butterfly (129406) & Elegant Butterfly (127526) punches, a little thread of Calypso Coral Bakers Twine (125573) & some Basic Rhinestone & Pearl Jewels. It measures over 12" long which is why the m has the polka dot paper on it & the pearls hide the join, same with the d, the join is covered with the ribbon. It needed little added as the paper I chose had lots of interest & colour.

Christmas Ornament pop out

A cute little gift to give this Christmas, perfectly packaged in the Petite Purse. I did them in 3 different stamp sets but all equally as beautiful. "Lacy & Lovely", "Delicate Doilies" & "Snowflake Soiree" (Holiday catalogue). The pic below shows what they look like open, the "Delicate Doilies" one I made last year & it just has a wooden bead but the other 2 have Vintage Faceted Buttons & the "Lacy & Lovely" one has an addition of a Designer Ribbon slide, this looks really nice IRL. They look difficult to create but are really easy & "super stinkin cute"! love this saying the US demo's use, LOL. 

Here is the video tutorial that I originally followed last year, Enjoy!

A note card box bag gift set with a selection of coordinating cards. You can find the instructions here for the bag (go to instuctions & click on sweet Shoppe Suite class), so grateful to Chiaki, she shares alot of fabulous tutorials, so a big thank you to Chiaki for your time & effort in creating these.
Comfort Cafe DSP with matching inks & CS. A few stamp sets & accessories used. I just love the left over Doily Die on the top of the baby card & am loving the Voila's Lace Builder wheel on the thank you card. Summer Starfruit is my favourite new in colour & is so in at the moment! The Birthday card is a case of the card on page 35 of the catalogue. I will be making a few of these filled with cards for many occasions using the thank you layout for Christmas gifts this year & will make a larger one to fit our standard size cards. You can find the instructions here for the bag

Stampin Up! Fabric

How adorable are these tissue pillow covers & what a lovely little gift it makes paired with a matching card. This card has paper Blossom Punch flowers punched from the co-ordinating Beau Chateau DSP, a little different from these that are fabric.

I died some Victoria Crochet trim using Marina mist re-inker on this one -just add 6 ish drops to some water in a plastic zip lock bag (enough to immerse), squish it a few times then squeeze excess from lace before removing from bag with tweezers & hang to dry.
I found a free tutorial so easy to follow for the tissue holders over at Barb Stamps.



















The headband uses the gorgeous Twitterpated Fabric & has a suffolk fabric flower, gathered Pleated Ribbon & Twitterpated button attached. I learnt how to cover headbands & make the suffolk puffs with Di. Not bad for my second one, thanks Di.

Birthday Card Book

 I have 2 more places available for my class in Sydney next Saturday & this is what we will be making, (ex the cards in pic). Each page has a pocket to pop cards into & has January - December which is where you write the Birthdays of who will receive cards. The inside back cover has an envelope attached for postage stamps.
Once you have made one of these you will be inspired to fill it & will be organised!
Makes a beautiful thoughtful gift.
Thank you Jane for the inspiration.

SU! Fabric Pin Cushions

 With Christmas just around the corner, we need to start on those handmade gifts & these are perfect for that. Timeless Portrait & Beau Chateau fabric with the Scallop Square Bigz Die & in between the 2 pieces of fabric I have added some felt & matching buttons, real easy sewing here! The triangular one was a bit more tricky & uses 4 pieces of fabric, I have a few more versions to try. Also in this pic is a Timeless Portrait fabric Fun Flower bookmark, these are also easy & a great gift to give with a book. I'll be making some more so I will show more detail on how to make those when I do.

pocket full of kusudama flowers & bookmark

 My favourite DSP would have to be Pocket Full of Posies & I just had to see what every sheet looked like folded into a kusudama flower. These flowers are pretty easy to make, a little time consuming making 1/2 a dozen, LOL. A wonderful step by step tutorial to follow here. My only tip is to use sticky strip with DSP, this is the strongest adhesive I believe.

A simple corner book mark with a Kusudama flower attached. Each petal is 2" squares of First Edition Specialty paper, this DSP is thinner than the basic DSP we have so it's perfect for folding the flowers & snail adhesive has kept it together but be sure to burnish together well.

Eat Chocolate purse

A cute little bag just the perfect size to fit whittakers share pack chocolates & so easy to make view Frenchie's tutorial here.



I have used my "Eat Chocolate" stamp set so much, both in classes & for gift giving & wanted to show you some of my favourite creations using it. I love it & I hope it makes it into the new catalogue along with the Decorative Label punch (both available in the current mini). I also used the Scallop & large Oval Punches & the flower from itty bitty punches (carried over from the Summer mini). Green House Gala DSP, Baja Breeze, Early Espresso, Pear Pizzaz & Whisper White CS to match, Silver Brads a little pearl. I love the two tone effect on the chocolate;  I inked it up in Baja Breeze ink then I used a sponge dauber with Early Espresso ink on it to apply just on the bottom of the image. The frame around the stamped image is also from "Eat Chocolate" stamp set, I just used a marker to ink up only the frame.
The chocolate slider I made for Emma on my team. I used some DSP to wrap around the lindt chocolate block with an extra cm length for the bottom which I crimped. The ribbon is wrapped around the chocolate which makes this an easy slider. There's a sneak peak in this pic of a new punch we are getting in the new Idea Book & Catalogue -just a couple of months away! I need to start inking up a few more current stamps in the meantime.....

This waterfall card is better IRL, it has the faux mother of Pearl technique for the background (Gloss CS that has Shimmer paint pounced on it using some rolled up cling wrap then brayered over once dry) a simple but so effective technique that was in our Demonstrator Impressions magazine a couple of months ago. Colours are Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip & Whisper White.

Yum Yum Balls

Little Homemade gifts for Christmas that look as good as they taste. These delicious Baileys yum yum balls are sure to please. I've used medium cello bags that hold 6 loose balls in a polka dotted cupcake patty & for the cute little chocolate polka dotted foils I used a large cello bag & that fits 12 balls. Stamp set is "Bella's Bloom" which I coloured with Choc Chip, Ruby Red & Old Olive markers.

Love the Polka Red Ribbon in the Summer mini -I'm on my second roll already!

Recipe for Baileys Yum Yum Balls;

• 2 cups crushed plain biscuits
• 1 cup coconut
• 2 tblspn cocoa
• 1 can condensed milk
• 2 tblspn baileys

1. Mix all the ingredients together thoroughly.
2. Shape into small balls & roll in White grated chocolate or extra coconut.
3. Chill for at least 30mins before serving.

it's all about the packaging

This is how I packaged my gift for Stamp INKstincts Christmas Grab. I did some Christmas shopping at Alanna Hill & of course had to keep the bag with the Red Satin Ribbon, all I did was cover up the logo with the Merry Christmas on both sides, the other side I forgot to take a pick of but it had "Tree Trimmings" baubles stamped on that.

Ingredients for card;

"Frames With a Flourish" & "Many Merry Messages" stamp set. (how good do these look teamed together)  Whisper White, Very Vanilla & Real Red CS, Real Red ink, Cnr Rounder Punch, 3/4" Polka Dot Ribbon (New). You will need the SAMJ for this card, sticky strip for the Ribbon & mini glue dot for the bow. I loved this card so much that I have made a dozen for my Christmas cards this year, I find it hard to stick to the 1 design, lol.

Chocolate Lindt slider

These make great gifts this Christmas & are so easy but look complicated. We made these in my recent Christmas Gift Giving classes & everyone loved making them So here are the instructions: Cardstock measures 14cm x 12.5cm, Score along 14cm side at 1cm, 6.5cm, 7.5cm & 13cm.

Score the 12.5cm side at 1cm on the bottom only.
Stamp or wheel the entire piece on one side. Cut the base on at all 4 score marks to the 1cm score mark & removing one 1cm square completely then fold each score line. Adhere Sticky strip along one side & along the bottom & assemble the box.
Punch a slot at the top of the box on both sides together & in the centre to thread the ribbon through. Decorate the front of your chocolate slider. Here is another design.

Enjoy!

Fifth Ave Floral gift box

I covered a shoe box of Teya's that I had in my stash of great box's to keep! & one day decorate, well the day came for this shoe box & it was the perfect size for Helen's 50th Fifth Ave Floral invites to be sent in, below is a pic of the invites assembled & the stamped envelopes to match.

bookmark

A bookmark made in minutes! The ribbon is 26cm long & I used staples to attach the 2 scallops to the ribbon, simply fold the ribbon in 1/2 & place a scallop on either side -line them up keeping the ribbon as high to the scallops but not poking through & staple all together, this bookmark clips over the page so it's important that you don't staple to low either. Stamp your monogram on white cs in Wild Wasabi ink & punch out with the 1 1/4" punch, you will also need one on the reverse, so stamp another monogram or as I did use a background stamp like "En Francais", layer these onto Regal Rose 1 3/4" circles & onto the Wild Wasabi scallops. Here are some other ideas to use.