Supporting SANDS

Every year I support a close friend of mine in her SANDS fundraising event. At this event we purchase card and other paper project kits and get creative to raise money for Stillborn and Neonatal Death Support group. We also have an opportunity to win raffles (kindly donated by Stampin' Up!) and generally have a really fun day.

As I attend this event as a participant (rather than the demonstrator) I enjoy learning new projects and designs that I may not have normally attempted, and today was no different.

We started off using the Snow Place stamp set and matching thinlits. A great set that you can really have a little bit of fun with mixing and matching the accessories. I don't yet have this set, so it was great to have a go (and yes it is now on my wish list)


These cute little characters mixed with the Hearth and Home Thinlit and Softly Falling Embossing Folder creates a fun wintery effect.

Using the colours Bermuda Bay and Marina Mist also help create the wintery fun feeling as well.

One of the guests today said she may just add in a sun in the corner with some sand and send it to her friends in the US. Now that is how you could blend Aussie and America Christmas weather.








The next project we focused on was a range of Butterfly creations, using the Watercolour Wings stamp set, Bold Butterfly Thinlits and Butterflies Thinlits. We also had different card folds including two gated cards, a gift card holder and double fold which helped show just what can be done.

The colours are all from the 2015-2016 in colour range....Tip Top Taupe, Watermelon Wonder and Mint Macaron, and look really nice together.

The last project was the hanging star. Cutting 12 stars using the Star Framelits (the second largest size) with the smallest star cut inside. I used Pear Pizazz yardstick as I am going a green theme for Christmas. We connected each one anyplace a little battery operated team light inside it.  This is one project that I wouldn't necessarily have made, but now I know how, is one I will definitely re-create again.

There were also a few other little fun creations that I'm not sharing just yet, as some of you reading this may just receive them as a small Christmas surprise.

If you would like to participate in an event like this, or even hold one yourself, contact me to see how I can help you.

A weekend of workshops!

As we head into Christmas our lives become busier than normal, and this weekend was no different. I had three events over three days. 

The first was my Goodstart group on Friday night. We created 6 different projects (yes ambitious) and had a lovely time sharing this together.

Here are just some of the projects we created - 

Then on Saturday I helped one of my Downline team members at a class. Head on over to my Facebook page to have look at some of the cards that I made to share at that event.

And today I joined my Upline to hold our very first Card Buffet. We created a few designs each for our guests to make. Here are my three designs.........

The first was using the Happy Scenes stamps and Hearth and Home dies.

We embossed the Chocolate Chip card in the brick folder, stamped the wintery Happy scenes image behind the sponged window frame. Delicately we then wrapped some Mint Macaron dotted lace trim around as the trimming on the window.












Next was the Calypso Coral and Smoky Slate Delicate Ornament card. This was one of the favourites from the guests, with all bar one preparation kit used.  The You've Got This background stamp just set off the die nicely.















My third design used the joyous reindeer from the Jolly Christmas stamp set. A layered card with the first layer embossed with Decorative Dots folder, the second layer was stamped in Island Indigo with the Brushstrokes background stamp, the final layer had the Jolly Christmas Reindeer inside a 2-1/2" punch. The circle was rolled in Early Espresso (to match the reindeer) to provide some dimension. The believe stamp was cut using the word window punch.











After the fantastic feedback received about the Card Buffet, we will be holding a Birthday Buffet early next year to align with the Occasions Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration. If you would like to be kept up to date about this or other events make sure you subscribe to my newsletter by clicking on the link.

While the weekend was super busy, I really enjoyed helping my friends create some wonderful Christmas cards and I hope to help you do the same to at your own event soon. You can click here to organise hosting an event.

On Stage! One to celebrate.

Celebrate good times come on!

Well we sure did. This weekend I had the pleasure of attending the first ever On Stage! Stampin' Up! event in Melbourne, where we celebrated with other demonstrators the upcoming wonderful offers at Stampin' Up!

This is one of the newly designed events for Stampin' Up! While we were celebrating in Melbourne, other On Stage! events were held in locations all over the world, with the main On Stage Live! in Brussel. It was fantastic to share the messages and offers across the world at the same time.

All demonstrators were invited to attend this event, where the upcoming 2016 Occasions Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration information was released as a sneak peek.  Yes, I said sneak peek - which means, I can't share anything with you YET.

But what I can share with you are the swaps I created for this event. We have an opportunity to share ideas with others through swapping creations. So for this event I used the Sheltering Tree stamp set.

To make these cards, I stamped the trunk image with the archival black stamp pad. Then I used markers from the Brights collection and randomly coloured in the leaves stamp. Before stamping the image, I spritzed the stamp which gave the image a watercolour look. I then used a variety of Brights colours to stamp the sentiment "Thankful for you" from the same stamp set on the bottom of each card. I must say, they turned out very pretty.

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I will be sharing some of the ideas from the swaps I collected on my Facebook page over the next week.

The event also gave me an opportunity to spend some time with friends old and new.

If you too would like to see what the Stampin' Up! events are all about contact me to discuss how you can join my team and come along with me next April to the Gold Coast event.