Monday 26 August 2013

Paper Angels Christmas Card Fundraising Event 2013

It is that time again... Time to come have fun with us Angels and help support Marter Mothers Bereavement program.... We love Christmas and we love to be able to help families in a crucial moment in their lives... book and pay now to ensure you can be a part of one of these FANTASTIC events...

Start time is 10 am and goes all day until 4pm...
Loads of fun projects, fantastic raffle prizes and much much more...
I am looking forward to seeing you there!!!!

email:- naturallyu01@hotmail to reserve your place NOW!!! They fill REALLY quickly!!! ;)

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Wednesday 17 July 2013

You're invited to Make a Statement Digital Tour 2013

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For only $35 AUD, discover a range of inspirational projects, ideas and techniques through project displays and engaging presentations. Just bring your laptop and digital images and follow along in our classes to create your own designer photobook—capturing your own cherished memories! You’ll go home with several complete pages—which you can then print, e-mail or upload to the Internet. Classes are designed for beginners, to provide you with a basic understanding of My Digital Studio software.

Time: August 17, 2013 from 12pm to 4:30pm
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Event Type: seminar
Organized By: Stampin' Up!

Register now..... and receive MDS free!!! 


 

Angel Ave Classes July to August 2013



Like the sound of a class?? Wrong time/Day for you??  
gather 3 or more friends together and have your very own private class.  And if you have requests I am more than happy to accommodate your needs and wishes… Just drop me a line or call me…
July– Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes
Friday 19th … 9.30am… Circle Card – Make a lovely pop up circular card… and a tag in same style.. $15
Friday 19th … 7pm… Catalogue Launch… FREE…. See details above to see how you could get LUCKY!!!
Saturday 20th… 2pm… Catalogue Launch… FREE…  details above to see how you could get LUCKY!!!
Wednesday 24th … 7pm … Stamp n Stack $15
Friday 26th … 9.30am or 7pm… Stamp n Stack $15
Wednesday 31st … 9.30am …Card Organiser…. Make an organiser to put a years worth of important cards in… ready to send so you can get them there on time… Price TBA… ($20?)
August – Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes
Friday 2nd9.30am or 7pm … Card Organiser (see above)
Wednesday 7th9.30am… “BEAUTIFUL” scrapbooking… double page spread… $15
Friday 9th9.30am…“BEAUTIFUL” scrapbooking… double page spread… $15
Wednesday 14th9.30am… Paper Bag Brag book (6 pages and 4 pocket inserts).…. $20….
Friday 16th9.30am… Paper Bag Brag book (6 pages and 4 pocket inserts).…. $20….
Wednesday 21st… 7pm… Rusted…. Learn how to create a “Rusted” ageing technique… $15
Friday 23rd9.30am or 7pm… Rusted…. Learn how to create a “Rusted” ageing technique… $15
Wednesday 28th9.30am… Friendship frame cards… Use your big shot to creat windows in your cards.. we will make 2 lovely square cards… $15
Friday 30th9.30am… Friendship frame cards… Use your big shot to creat windows in your cards.. we will make 2 lovely square cards… $15

PAPER ANGELS Team meetings :-  If you are part of my team or thinking of becoming a part of our team you are more than welcome to come along.. Cost is only $5 and we ALWAYS make lovely projects at the meeting!!!
Liz’ house :- …. Please Email or phone myself or Liz to book….
July –Saturday 27th –2pm… for 2.30pm start
Wed 31st – 10am or 7pm… At Liz’s house
AUGUST  - Thursday 1st August 7pm…. At Angel Ave (Ursula’s Studio)
Wed  28th -10am or 7pm… At Liz’s house
Thursday 29th – 7pm…  At Ursula’s home studio
Saturday 31st – 7pm… At Liz’s house

Tuesday 11 June 2013

Going Going GONE - My Digital Studio - Ording online

Hi all.. It's that time again when the NEW CATALOGUE LAUNCH is happening so sVERY soon... You can feel the EXCITEMENT in the air..... It is truly tangible!!!!! However to make room for new stamps and accessories we have to say good bye to some of the older favorite ones... so if you have a  favorite stamp set that you have not yet purchased you may want to peruse the list so you can make sure that you will be able to purchase it.. and if it is retiring you may want to place an order for it B4 it is GONE for good!!!!....

the two post previous to this one are lists of all the retired items... if you would like to view them on the Stampin' Up! website you can click on the links provided.. these products are UNTIL all sold... so be quick.. If you would like to order your items right away to be sure to receive them you can do so on line now... HOW cool is that????

Retired Stamps
Retired Accessories

Colour Change:- some colours are going.. some are coming back... It's a lovely range of colours.. As always... and very NOW!!!!

 

My Digital Studio
I am loving My Digital Studio... Click on the Link to find out more.. It's all your favorite Stampin' Up! Stamps, DSP's colours etc... in digital format.. they will never retire... you will never run out of your favorite DSP and you can RE-SIZE the images to the size you like!!!!! 

If you would like to try MDS for free you can get the free download for 30days.... have a play and see what you think...  (if you do have trouble with any technical things please call Customer services on 1800 787 867 as they are amazing and can help you with any technical problems you may have...)

Ordering on line...... You will see at the top of the page.... 

"Welcome! Sign in or Create an Account"... Click on this link and you can start the process of being able to order your items on line still as my customer... ....
Fill out all the personal details and when you get to the bottom click YES for "do you already have a demonstrator?"

Pop in my name as your demo... Ursula James from QLD

There is so much more new fantastic news... I feel a little overwhelmed!!! So I am sure that (you) my faithful customers may feel a little... so may specials and Changes always!!! Stampin' Up! is just fantastic and I love all that they offer us crafty people!!!

If you have any questions feel free to email me or call me....

I'll let you know when my New Catalogue launch will be... it's coming SOON!!!! so stay tuned!!!

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Beautiful Creations made with LOVE



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This card was one of those projects for me!!! I made it for all the people who went to a fundraiser for our BEAUTIFUL Liz to sign... As she and her family had suffered a HUGE personal tragedy early on this year.... I really wanted it to be STUNNING just like her... To bring a smile to her face and to convey how much she really is loved... So with a little inspiration from the Lovely Monique's card that I received for my Birthday last year I was able to create this....

At the same time some BEAUTIFUL Stampin' Up! demonstrators from VIC... (not Paper Angels Members... but much loved too!!)  heard about the tragedy and wanted to do something to convey their love and support for Liz and her family too... they arranged to have each one of them make a paper flower and they sent them to me in the post then once I received them all I was able to arrange them in this lovely little arrangement for Liz to keep... What a special SPECIAL thing for them to do!!!
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(I found another thing to do with that brown paper.. if you spritz it with some re-inker and alcohol you can colour it... it was great in this arrangement for the green filler...)

I hope and prey that these lovely paper craft items will bring many blessings to Liz and her family... and the love that went into creating them will fill her home!!!!

Punch Art Chalenge


One of my lovely friends comes to visit quite often and we sit and talk and sometimes craft etc the day away... She is an amazing Milinar (maker of hats etc) and if she comes with a project to do there is always a challenge in it for me...Recently she came with this lovely pirate paper she had found a while ago.. Suzie was in desperate need of some boys cards and what better says boys than a good old pirate theme??? My challenge...(*insert Mission Imposable theme music) If I choose to accept... was to design some Pirate themed punch art...


Skull and Crossbones

Then this cool palm tree....










Then this Parrot.... It took me FOREVER!!! not sure I will want to create this again.. but I am sure I may have a look on the net for someone else' to CASE... it's bound to be easier!!!

Arrrh maties.. I hope ye all ave a greeeeat time a punchin'!!!

BORBAL.... Christmas Decorations

How nice would it be to make your own Christmas decorations every year?... what a cool family time project to do!!!!I'm sure that making them would cost less then buying new ones every year!!! and you would get EXACTLY what you would want!!!

We made these three lovely different Ornaments last year in an Angel Ave class... It was great fun...


The red one is made with Over head transparencies.. or offcuts from laminating that didn't have a picture in them.. ( I went to Office works to get a few things laminated and asked them not to trim them neat... I trimmed them when I got home and kept the offcuts for such a project...)
HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN
1.Cut out your desired shapes (flowers) with the Big Shot....
2.Spritz them all generously (If you mix your re-inkers with rubbing alcohol {I used Isicole} you can make a permanent paint solution that will stay on plastic... and you can add a little champagne shimmer paint if you like.... you will need to experiment with colours..  We found blue did not work as well... Not sure why it must be some kind of chemical science thing)
3.Dry them with the Heat tool... and get them quite hot so that you can shape them.. because they are plastic they will keep their shape... (and laminate is great for that)
4.Arrange them and join them together with a brad
5.Adhere a ribbon and card board circle peice for the hanfigin loop...
6.Finish off with a little glitter glue and you have a lovely new ornament to go on your tree...

The Black and white one was simply using a polystyrene ball, some pins and lots of lovely die cut snow flakes... I think this one is simply soooooooooooo Elegant!!! I's love a whole tree full of these!!!

And the last one is based on the lovely ornament that was on the front of the Sept 2012 - Jan 2013 Holiday Catalogue... I just loved it and had to make it....you need stamps, die cuts, silicone mat, hot glue gun, inks, ribbons and maybe some bling for this one...

The lovely Catherine made these ones...

My Hubbie's DA MAN

My Hubbie is AMAZING!!! He supports my hair brained ideas 110%... all the way.. He always takes an interest in my crafting... even though I am sure he must get bored with it sometimes...

I was a little upset with the fact that everyone kept talking about how hard I am to buy a present for... and Hubbie was quite perplexed as to what he would get me last year for my birthday... as money was tight and he knew I would like expensive things and he would be comfortable and excited to purchase something like a ipad or a new camera or something else techie.. (cause he does techie well)... Anyway one day I cracked it... I said a few stern words and told my whole family that I really wasn't that hard to please.. if they just all (mostly to the children) helped out around the house and cleaned up their messes and made me breckie in bed (on my Birthday) and maybe got to and made some of the things we had been talking about...  like a bedside table and a ribbon rack etc.. well that would be FANTASTIC.... (I had even gone out to IKEA with Master 13 and purchased an old door to attach legs to for a bedside table... and I had purchased from the hardware store some steal rods for the Mr to fix to a ribbon rack.. We had gone to a laser cutting place and gone through their bin of offcuts for the perspex... and I had even handed the materials {several times} to the perspective builders)..... I think the materials all up had cost under $10...

Long story short.. the next couple of weeks were really fantastic... I had a lovely Birthday... and Hubbie went the extra mile and made me this AMAZING +++ ribbon rack!!! I am so spoiled... :)
He even put the Stampin' Up! logo on it and the tag line is on the sides... Lucky me!!!!


I'm still waiting on the bed side table... but you know.. all things come to those who wait.. or go out and do themselves... (building the table is now on MY to do list)

Moral of the story is ... Ask and ye shall receive... 
and the other Moral to the story is... If at first you don't succeed... try try again... (sternly ;P)

Unisex Stamp n Stack

Man I love the Stamp n Stack.... and the One PAGE wonder is the BEST ever technique to teach beginners... and us oldies love it too.. I am forever using a one page wonder class... I NEVER grow tired of it!!! NEVER!!!

This colour combination is to die for too.. it is so non Jenda specific!!!! You could give any of these cards to a man or a WOman...heheh (WO.. cause we are WOnderful!!!! and we appreciate the WOrk that goes into cards and we WOuld cherish it!!) The colours are Gumball Green, Midnight Muse and Marina Mist..... YUMMMMIIIEEE!!!

Hope you like them too!!


Aqua Painting Flowers

In a Thursday class last year we made a lovely card... I taught my ladies how you can emboss with black and then colour with the ink pads and Aqua paint pens from the inside of the pads lid......
It's so cool how everyone had the same kind of things but came up with such different way to paint the flowers or to past them onto the cards.. I love creativity.. change my design as much as you like.... expand your imagination!!! and HAVE FUN!!!

Christmas Is a TIme for Cheer and FUN!!!

 Christmas really is a time for cheer and fun!!! So why not get in there and play a little!!!

I had a few classes with my lovely customers and some "play dates" with my lovely friends (and teammates who are my friends) and we came up with some fun gift tags and cards for the Season...

This little number is FUAN FUN FUN.. the ginger bread man looks as though he is peeking out from a window with all his friends.. soooo cute!!! and if you were in one of these classes as we were making it I had quite a few questions as to where to place the ribbon or the window of Ginger bread men... my answer simply was... "stick it where ever you like..." some people were offended... I'm not sure why??? hehehe (they weren't really.. they were just teasing me for my VERY CASUAL approach to teaching... we always have so much fun at Thursdays Card group!!!)


This CUTE idea of a decorated house was dreamed up by Michelle... we played for ages trying to work out how to make a card look like a decorated house...I'm sure we will perfect it some more in the future... You could make a whole village of houses if you want!!!


These Tags were inspired by someone.. I can't remember who... my memory is quite bad sometimes but at least I remember how to stamp etc... hehe.. I think we may have even done these at a Paper Angels meeting....?? does anyone else remember??? I know I ran a class on them after cause i loved them so much I thought others might like them too...


and finally these cute and easy stamp n stack cards with a Christmas theme...


It's oh so fun to play the day away....in a Stampin' Up! way.... Horaaaayyyyyy!!!!

Baby Brag Booklet

Have you ever wanted to give a LOVELY present and found that money was just too tight??? Well... my focus this year was making Christmas special and beautiful without the price tag...
 
This little baby Brag booklet was inspired by a Stampin' Up! instructional video I watched with a cool technique I used with an embossing folder, brayer adn ink pad...  (click for link Here) And would you believe that it may have only cost about $5 to $8 to make??? but if you are like me and already have all the card stock, stamps inks, embellishments and ribbon... well it costs nothing more than a little time... :)... that makes me very HAPPY!!!

I wanted the journaling to be hidden as I (like many) do not like my hand writing... I think it spoils the BEAUTIFUL page... sooooo the BEST solution is make a pocket and a tag to pull out with plenty of room to journal... so you will have the best of both worlds... personal hand written journaling that will not interfere with the page.... I do believe it is important to have some hand written things from our loved ones as it is a part of them... who they were when they have passed on... so please if you do feel like me and do not like your writing.. DON'T do all your journaling with the computer or symply just not journal at all... Write the story down... and do it in your own hand every now adn then... Your children and grand children (and so on) will be very grateful!!!


I hope this inspires you to make BEAUTIFUL handmade gifts... That cost only time and that capture a little of the "YOU" essence... (in creation and in hand writing... ;P )

Enjoy

Paper Angels Christmas Card Event 2012

Can you believe I did not post this???? I'm not sure how it got lost in amongst my posts...
Although it's been a few months since... Where has time gone???? I CAN still remember that we had a lovely time at the recent Paper Angels Mater Mother Bereavement fundraising events... As always...

We held six events in total and raised a total of around $4000 to go towards for filling our comment to the Angel Baby boxes and other Paper craft projects that we donate to local Brisbane Hospitals. Each year we are able to expand our reach with thanks to Stampin' Up for a generous donation boxes of FANTASTIC products to raffle off.... Also with thanks to ALL our WONDERFUL customers who love to come along, create, laugh and play with us and support the raffles!!!

As the year is going FAST!!! I expect it will not bee too long until we see you all at this years Paper Angels Christmas Card Event....

Mixed Media Art and Stamping

I love that you can use your stamps for so much more than "JUST STAMPING"!!!
Did you know that you can use fimo or scalpty (oven baked clay) to stamp into and use that as an embellishment on your projects??? We did it for this class...


The top left corner and bottom right corners are stamped with the ships log stamp from "The Open Sea" 123032 C Stamp Set and the inspirational greetings stamp... "Go confidently in the Direction of your Dreams" (from the Word Play stamp set -120651 C)
1. First you kneed the clay to make it nice and warm so that you do not have to push into the clay too hard...
2. You roll it out.. or flatten with hands etc ... to desired shape or size...
3. Then you stamp.... note.... you can use Versa Mark to coat the stamp if you like it prevents the clay sticking too much to your stamp.
4. Then you gently peal the clay away from stamp..
And there's your embellishment all ready to bake for 10- 15 mins in the oven... And you have a FANTASTIC original embellishment...

(I added a little something different to make the greeting words stand out a little more when I taught my ladies because I was not satisfied that the words were clear enough... I got them to coat the stamp in Gold pigment ink and that worked a treat.. and bakes in just fine...)

While we waited for the clay to cook we decorated the backing for the art work.. We took some old pieces of DSP (from the scrap draw) and tore it all up into strips... then we distressed it a little and glued it onto a card base to put in the frame... We then daubered some ink around it... (if you wanted to you could add some more stamping to the background... you could use some paint.. you could spritz... really the creativity options are endless...)

Also we took a length of  ribbon and used the re-inkers to dye it our desired colours... (This was an interesting experiment in its self.... it can get very messy!!! and... it can also not work out very well... The good thing to know though is you can always wash (Most) of the ink out and start again if you really don't like it...)

We then cut some of the ribbon in half.... and pulled some threads out to give the fringed look...

Once our clay was cooled we were able to adhere it to our backing with crystal effects...
We also use some broken pieces of jewellery and interesting bits and pieces to our art to add interest.. all bits were adhered with Crystal effects... (This is a great thing to do with that favorite earring that you only have one of or the broken jewellery you have stored in your jewellery box... While the Crystal Effects takes a little while to dry it holds really well and it is TOTALLY clear... )

We had loads of fun creating and playing... It was cool to see the individuality in each work of art...

Here's some of my ladies and their Mixed Media Art work...
The lovely Marj...


Beautiful little Miss Mia and Mummy's work of art... Michelle

Catherine and her awesome effort!!!

I hope you enjoy playing with lots of bits and pieces... Its fun to experiment!!!

Wednesday 24 April 2013

Angel Ave CLASSES April - May 2013

I am offering classes twice a week... Wednesday and Friday classes in the one week will be the same... This gives you more opportunity to attend a class on a day or time that may suit you better...
April – Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes
Wed 24th …9am…    Punch art              … $15
Friday 26th ...10am Punch art              ... $15
May – Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes
Wed 1st …. 9am…     One page wonder, Stamp n Stack    … $15
 Friday 3rd ... 7pm      One page wonder, Stamp n Stack    … $15
Wed 8th …9am…     Scrapbooking           … $15
 Friday ... 10th ....        Scrapbooking         … $15
Wed 15th …. 9am…           TBA               … $15
Friday 17th ... 10am           TBA
Wed 22nd …9am…            TBA                    … $15
Friday 24th ... 10am           TBA
Wed 29th  …9am…            TBA                   … $15
Friday 31st .... 10am           TBA
Looking forward to being CRAFTY with you!!! 

Friday 8 March 2013

Angel Ave CLASSES March to May 2013



It's been a little while... due to personal family issues... but I'm back on board now... I can't wait to start classes again... I've planned the next 3 weeks and have booked in the next couple of months..

Hope to see you at Angel Ave.. xxxooo

Angel Ave CLASSES 2013
Like the sound of a class??
Wrong time /Day for you?? 

Gather 3 or more friends together and have your very own private class.  And if you have requests I am more than happy to accommodate your needs and wishes… Just drop me a line or call me…

March – Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes
Wed 13th …. 9am…           Embellish it         … $15
Wed 20th …9a…                  Scrapbooking     … $15
Wed 27th … 9am            Stamp n Stack       … $15

April – Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes
Wed 3rd …. 9am…                             … $15
Wed 10th …9a…                                  … $15
Sat 13th … 10am                             $25- $30
Wed 17th …. 9am…                           … $15
Wed 24th …9a…                                  … $15

May – Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes
Wed 1st …. 9am…                             … $15
Wed 8h …9a…                                     … $15
Wed 15th …. 9am…                           … $15
Wed 22nd …9a…                                 … $15
Wed 29th  …9a…                                 … $15

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