Oooooh I love the colours that Kristina has choosen for this weeks challange so I have had a bit of a play and here i
s what I have come up with. The colours for this weeks challange are chocolate chip, close to cocoa, baja breeze (we do not have this colour yet so I used soft sky instead), so saffron and very vanilla. I also used my dauber, sponge and water colour pencils and crystal effects on the eye. I really enjoyed making this card, thanks for popping in to have a look. 
d finished around 3ish. Rachael asked if anyone was interested in sharing a technique or wow factor thing with the rest of the team. I recently found out how to make icicles so decided that may be of interest so I showed everyone how to make them, I will post the photos on my blog soon. We also got shown how to do a wonderful stamping technique by Kelly, and shown a great way to use up your little left over bits of cardstock. Jen kindly taught us all how to make a lovely Christmas cracker, really easy but effective so I will be making a few more of them for Christmas day. Rachael taught us how to make a really lovely card, quick and easy but very effective so I will post that for all to admire as well. Rachael told us all to bring along a stamp set that we enjoy using and any other items that we use often for making cards because there was going to be a challange at the end of the day. We had a choice from 2 groups of colours so I decided to go with Night of Navy cardstock for the background. You then had to include other colours that are found on our Stampin' Up colour wheel. We had 1 hour to complete our challange and then everyone placed a vote for their favourite card, yay I was the lucky winner. I must admit I had some pretty stiff competition, the other cards were fantastic. Anyway here is a photo of the card I made. We finished the day swapping gifts, everyone had put alot of effort into making something using Stampin' Up products so the gifts were amazing. I wanted to take them all home lol, it was such a neat way to finish the day. If you are interested in becoming a demonstrator you are more than welcome to attend one of our training days, contact me for more information. 
One of the classes that I took recently was covering a little diary for 2009 and also making a cute little gift box. It was really interesting seeing the different colours and stamps sets people chose, the end results were fantastic and they all looked so different. These make a lovely Christmas present and the best thing about it is they do not cost alot to make. There are so many really neat stamps to choose from when you decorate up your diary, I decided to use Touch of Nature stamp set. I used the old olive marker to colour in the leaves and the watercolour pencils to colour in the little bird. Watercolour pencils are fantastic because you can blend in the colours easily and get a fantastic result. I then stamped the little bird, shaped it and raised it on the diary for a 3d effect using the Stampin' Dimensionals.
I decided it would be fun to enter a Kristina Werner Challange and real
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enjoyed making a card with colours that I would not have thought about putting together in the past. The challange was to use the following colours Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Bordering Blue, Sage Shadow and Certainly Celery.
sign matching Wedding Invitations, Place Settings/Gift Boxes and Thank You cards. It is such an exciting time when you are planning a wedding and if you are anything like me you want everything to be perfect. These are a few examples that I have made up using black, white and metallic silver cardstock, I think it is a stunning colour combination. The possibilities are endless depending on what type of design and colours you prefer. I have taken the wedding invitation out of the pouch and if you look closely you will notice that the pouch has a half cirlce punched out at the back so it is nice and easy to get the invitation in and out. The little triangle box is 
beautiful and ideal for using as a place setting and you can put a chocolate or other treat inside to thank your guests for joining you on your special day. We had a stand at the Hamilton Garden craft show earlier this year and one of the other demonstrators Anne kindly showed us how to make this little box. The stamp set I used was Figures of Speech which is another very versatile set, the roller I used is called So Swirly. I also used a variety of our fantastic Stampin' Up punches including one of my favourite ones which is the scollop cirlce punch to create the scollop circle used on the invitation and thank you card. I love the Stampin' Up punches because they are 
of a very high quality and easy to use, I must admit I was very excited when they brought out 2 new scollop punches in the latest Summer mini catalogue. Take a look at the new catalogue I am sure you will not be disappointed.
lot of thought I decided that I would make a couple of different Christmas tree decorations. The first one is a lollipop that I decorated using a variety of different Stampin' Up products and the second one is a basket that has 4 small areas that you can put sweets in and hang on the tree. I used the All-Year-Fun stamp set which has a wide variety of stamps that are suitable for most occasions. These are alot of fun to make and look fantastic on the tree or would make a great little gift. 
hey really are adorable. The little tabby one is called Angel and the grey and white one is called Scallywag (he really is a little ball of mischief), they get on really well even though they are not from the same litter. I have enjoyed scrapbooking for years so I could not resist taking this photo as they looked so cute. I decided to scrapbook it for a swap that we were doing within our team and I have had alot of positive feedback about it so I decided I would share it with you. I used the Embrace Life stamp set that is currently available in our Summer mini catalogue, this is a really lovely set and I can see myself using it alot. I coloured the leaves and part of the flowers in using the markers, stamped the flowers, cut them out, shaped them, used crystal effects & glitter on the stamens and then attached them onto the scrapbooking page using the stampin' dimensionals so they had a 3d effect. If you are interested in taking classes I would love to hear from you.
next time getting the camera out. It was a shame that a few could not make it but this time of the year people are always busy with Christmas socials etc but hopefully the next fun event we have they will be able to come along as well. We all had a really enjoyable Saturday afternoon playing different games. I decided that with it being Christmas I would make a few prizes to say thanks to my new found friends for helping support my business by being such loyal customers. The first game we played was Bingo and June was the lucky winner of a litte gift bag that had a double rectangle punch inside (picture below), as it turned out she already had the punch so I swaped it for a voucher, she was really thrilled. It is always nice to win something. The second game we p
layed was a quiz about the Stamipin' Up catalogue and I must admit I was very impressed alot of people got most of the answers, I guess I am not the only one that knows heaps about our wonderful products hehe. Anyway Rayleen was the lucky winner of the little brag book (photo above). I have already made one of these that have photos of my little girl in it and have shown people when I do workshops, anyway I have had alot of comments about it so I thought it would be nice to make one and give it away as a prize. It takes along time to make but when the photos have been added it is well worth the time spent making it. The third game we played was a memory game, I placed 20 Stampin' Up items on
a tray uncovered it let everyone look for about 1 to 2 minutes and then waited to see just how many things they could remember. I was really impressed because 2 people remembered 19 of the items on the tray followed closely by 18 items. I must admit I would not have done that well myself. Anyway with it being a draw between Rayleen and Bev I asked another question and Bev ended up being the lucky winner, she won a set of stamps. The next person to win a prize needed to be dressed in Christmas colours so once again we had a draw this time between Bev and Poppy so after another question Poppy was the lucky winner. She won a lovely little box I made that had a Jumbo Stampin' Up wheel in it. Wheels are so much fun and I am sure that both Poppy and her mum Lizzie will get alot of use from it. The last challange was everyone was given a piece of cream card and then a selection of coloured cardstock, matching inks, Christmas stamps, punches, glitter etc and everyone was left to create their own card that they could take home with them. When everyone had completed their cards they were put on the table and everyone voted for the one they liked the best. It was a really tough choice as the cards that everyone created were all beautiful but finally after alot of thought Karen was the winner. She made a beautiful waterfall card that is in the centre of the photo. When you pull the ribbon down it shows different pictures including Santa, snowmen and sayings, well done Karen. She won a post-it note holder and a $15 voucher.
