Convention Swaps 2010 - Stampin' UP! - Sydney Australia -

What a wonderful time we had at convention!!! One of the highlights of convention every year is SWAPS.... It's a great way to meet demos from all over Australia and New Zealand... To have a bit of a chat and pick their brains on their creativity or offer sincere compliments on their efforts!!!..... I just wanted to say how thankful I am to ALL the lovely demonstrators that swapped with me.... I loved coming home and really looking at all of them.. You truly are Inspired to Create and Share at a Convention!!! After all that was the whole them of this years Stampin' UP! convention....
I now have so many wonderful project ideas to replicate and be inspired by I am sure I will be kept really busy for the next year....I have taken some really quick photos of all of my swaps. They are not the best of quality sorry because the wind was blowing fiercely on the day I wanted to take them.. and the light inside was not the best!!! but at least you can get a bit of an idea on what I received. I hope you enjoy looking & being inspired as much as I did!!...

Imagine coming with me next year to convention... 2011 in Melbourne.... for............

THREE DAYS!!!! Wahoo!!!!!

These are the swaps I made.. I had to do a few different ones....
This Boho flower one was inspired from 2008 SU Catalogue... Simple but elegant!!!
This one was inspired by PaperANGELS team member Dianna and her swaps from Regional training this year... Thanks Love.. for the inspiration..

I'm loving this one... It's Tess with Pony wings!!! Done on OHT so that you can reverse the wings.. You could also use Velum if you wanted... for a more muted look... Inspiration was because we are the PaperANGELS... Just got to get in theme and put wings on anything or everything I can!!! or a Halo.. as most of you will see from photos (in further blogs etc) or remember from convention.. I'm the crazy chick that walks around with a bright pink halo on.. Sadly my team were not in "total" theme this year.. it could have something to do with the fact that I dis not supply them with their halo this year... Come on girls where is your TEAM SPIRIT!!!! I will make you do it next year!!! You know I will!!!

Tess proved to be a HIT and was first to go!!! It makes all the devoted time to creating these so worth while.. not to mention the wonderful swaps (as I have said above) I received makes it soooooooooo worth while to go all out and make 100 or so swaps... Can't believe it was one whole week ago now!!! My how time flys!!!

Stampin' UP! Convention - Sydney - Australia - 2010

I just wanted to say....

I had a FABULOUS weekend in Sydney on Stampin' UP! convention and have loads to share with my CRAFTY friends - LIKE.....

HOW exciting is this???
-20% off the starter kit from now until the end of July! That's over $500 in products & supplies for only $259! Imagine being able to purchase your craft supplies at 20% OFF, be part of a great, fun team, earn extra cash, all by becoming a Stampin Up demonstrator. Free stamps, sneak peaks, fun events...what are you waiting for??? Call me!!!

Keep posted for more blogging about convention 2010

May Wedding Flowers

I LOVE Wedding flowers!!! .... This one was fairly simple in the fact that the flowers were required for a photo shoot (done by my friends from Pure Focus) and all the client wanted was a Bouquet of flowers and a button hole..

This picture looks like they were peach in colour but they were actually Pink... And looked stunning with the light green!!

April 2010 Wedding Flowers

I loved working with the Spear Grass.. something a little bit different.. It adds some texture... and interest...... and I ALWAYS love the BLING in the bouquets!!! Muwah.. perfect!!!

Bridal bouquet of Champagne Roses with Spear Grass And Diamante Sprays-

& side view with white satin wrapped stems


Bridesmaids White Roses with Silver Ribbon and Leather Fern....

And Side View... with Silver Metallic ribbon wrapped stems...

Bridal throw away bouquet of Champagne Roses with Spear Grass -

Side view with Satin Bow and Wrapped Stems

Beta Sigma Phi - Facinator Workshop

Last weekend I was blessed to be involved with a wonderful group of ladies who belong to the Beta Sigma Phi an International Womens' friendship network... They do some wonderful things in our community and towards the end of 2010 they are holding a FASCINATING cocktail fundraising event.. They all wanted to make their own.... so they asked me if I could run a class for them.... Man I had my works cut out for me!!! 9 ladies with totally different ideas.. and most of them not so sure how to put keep it together.... It was a SOLID 4 hour workshop.... With me not stopping... My only worry for the day was that I did would not ignore anyone for too long.. As I knew I could not be with everyone all at once... but in true Ursula creative schizophrenic mannerisms... I was able to jump from task to task, instructing each lady how to assemble her individual fascinator....Last week I heard back form Margaret (the wonderful event coordinator) that all the ladies really enjoyed themselves.. and each of them love their creations.... Phew!!! (*sigh... and wipe brow) I've been blessed to make some really lovely friends with these ladies.. and am very grateful to know them...

They were helping me raise funds to go to Singapore with the Queensland Festival Chorus as well.... Through this workshop... Thank you to the lovely lady that really wanted to come but was unable to ... yet still donated to my fund!!!! Bless you all!!! Muwah....

PaperANGELS April 2010 meeting

We made these two lovely projects at our April meeting.. how cool are they???
They both feature something that has been cut using the Big Shot....

This card uses the Magnetic Movers & Shapers (pg. 9 Autumn-Winter Mini Catalogue 2010)
The window in this one matches our Curly Label Punch and Stamp set on page 153 of the Australian 209-2010 Catalogue.....
AND....... This STUNNINGLY CUTE box uses the Scallop Circle Die (pg. 8 Autumn-Winter Mini Catalogue 2010) and what is even better.. is that because it was a rather small attendance being that it was on a long weekend and lots of people had other plans.. well those of us who were dedicated enough (*dig dig.. *wink Wink... heheh) to attend got great blessings!!!! We got 2 Cadbury Picnic bars to fill the box... Yeah for Chocolate... I thought this was a great idea for a cute box for party treats.. and not so hard to make either...

I can't wait to see some variations on this cute design... Alien... Halloween pumpkins etc...

My only problem was Liz made us wait for instructions.. man... It really taught me some patience... argghhh!!! hheheheh

Mass Production with a formula

A very wise woman once said... "The easiest way to mass produce it to come up with a formula"
Thanks Liz.... Always a great source of inspiration... I love ideas.. they really are what keeps the mojo a flowin'!!!
So this 'formula' is where your DSP is cut slightly smaller than the front of your card and stuck on.. Then you change it up with how you decorated with greeting/sentiment and ribbon.....

And this 'formula' is where you cut all your DSP to a measurement and change it up each time you stick some down.. also change greeting /sentiment...

It's great to have a 'formula' to enable you to mass produce the whole years cards at once.. or to make heaps of cards so you can put together some gift packs to give to your friends and family for pressies.... or like me you can sell them.... but be sure that you follow the Angel policy and put a © STAMPIN' UP! on the back of each card... especially if you have used some of their stamps to do pictures or greetings...

Oh you could use this kind of a formula when you want to make MILLIONS of cards for conventions swaps etc!!!... It's not long now till Australia Convention 2010!!! Whoot whoo!!!! Maybe I will be doing something like this??? Who knows???

Cottage Wall Workshop

Last weekend I had the Cottage Wall Workshop... That I CASED From Liz... Picture above.... And my ladies really loved it... They loved it even more when I let them loose with some of my punches and other stamps to put greeting on their cards.... Here's just a few variations that they came up with!!!

Arhhh.. they have been taught well.... heheh (oh I am so humble!!!)
Well done my grasshoppers!!!
While they were doing theirs I chose the same 'formula' to do a mass production of cards to get ready for What's New Pussycat Shopping extravaganza.... This is a great way to make your whole years worth of cards in one sitting!!!! I highly recommend it!!