Love Letter mini meander book

 One of the stamp-a-day projects.
 A sheet of 12" x 12" DSP , scored  at 3",6" & 9", turn & score again at these measurements (you should have 16 squares). With the cutter in place cut one side of the DSP on the 3" score line down to 9" (use your measurements that are on the track of a fiskers cutter) do this on the 9" score line as well but on the 6" score mark, score up to 3". Mountain valley fold every 3" square, starting from the bottom right hand 3" square. Lots of variations & tutorials can be found online, just google meander book.

 I punched out the centre of a few of the pages with various SU! punches & used them throughout the book to embellish, (the full heart used on the cover). I like the Curly Label punch used as tabs for the pocket pages. "Artistic Etchings", "Bliss" & "Punch Bunch" (Sale-a-bration stamp sets) were used & colours are Riding Hood Red, Basic Black with Very Vanilla, Soft Suede was used to sponge over for a vintage appeal.

Wanted 6x6 page

River Rock, Blue Bayou & Purely Pomegranite are the colours I chose for this layout, & of course "Wanted" stamp set.

Stampin' Up! Convention 2008

Well I had a wonderful time at convention in Brisbane last weekend. These were the make-n-takes - I especially love the scrapbook page (just need to add a special photo) -maybe of us in our new home? I have ordered the Outline Alphabet after using it on this page. I can see Fun & Fast Notes being my most used set as it covers alot of occassions, & is, as it's named, "fun & fast" to create a card!

all in the family

Last month we lost our Australian General Manager, Dave Abbott, to a rare blood disease. Dave was only 41 and left behind his wife and three young children. Stampin’ Up! being the incredible company they are have just released the stamp set called ‘All In The Family’ in Australia to raise money for Dave’s family. 100% of the proceeds of the sale of this stamp set worldwide will be donated to Dave’s young family - not just the profits but 100% of the sale price worldwide…. now that’s a company with heart!
Now is the time to buy this extremely versatile stamp set. All In The Family is available from 1st November to 30th November 2007 for $73.95 - however in order to help you out and to sell more sets for the Abbott Family, I will forfeit my commission and drop this price to $59.15 plus postage & handling. E-mail me now on petronelah@optusnet.com.au to order.
Here’s a handy link to a lady in the US who demonstrates using the All In The Family set with the Stamp-a-ma-jig (stamp position) - it’s a video tutorial and quite cool to watch: http://kwernerdesign.com/blog/

40th Birthday 12x12 page

I had to use the gorgeous Recollections paper & matching "Wild Rose" stamp set. The rose accents I stamped & cut out (fluked the two step stamping on the larger flower, but this set is definately one to use with the stamp-a-ma-jig).

First Haircut

I had a lot of fun doing this page using "Scribble This" stamp set from the NEW Spring mini catalogue (page 10-11), the tones of green with black are striking, I used a small cello bag to hold the hair & a business card from the Salon.

I love the cello bags & have put them to many uses, I will post some of these soon.