Thank You Card - From Us ALL!!

I made this card for someone at church for at least 25 people to sign.. The lady that I made it for is very sentimental... She loves to hang on to things.. Sooooo... I thought that if I made the card a normal size but put it together like a booklet she would be able to hang onto it a little more easily.. I had a lovely time making it!!! It really wasn't that hard when I got into it... I stamped all the images with Versamark and coloured them with Chalks... I gave it the antique look by rubbing a stamping spot around the edges... I tore out all the sections for people to write their messages on, and sign...I used some nice words and phrases to make more accents... And I used the oval punches to make other embellishments... I also used my Crop-A-dile... (Cropping tool with a dile to make holes exactly the same distance in) It's new (to me).. And I love it!!! It cuts through tin and thick card so easy!!! I cut at least 4 cards at once...

As you can see here I made the front of the card very 3D... by using Dimentionals.. either single or double layered... then I bent the ferns to give them the 3D look as well...

Here are pictures of what the inside of each page looks like... As I said.. I was really happy with the results!!! I may even do it again!

Storage Inspiration

One of our Paper Angels Team sent me this email the other day... It is lovely to get feed back... And great to see what your ideas inspire in others!!! Well Done Leonie!!! And Thank You!!!

Opps i accidentally deleted the photo.. will get it back sorry

"Hi Ursula,
I was reading your blog and saw your idea about using the colours from the old catalogue to help organise your stuff. I loved the idea... what a fantastic way of being organised. So you inspired me to organise my card stock using the same idea. I was up late cutting out the tabs... and this was the result. I'm very happy. Thanks you so much for your great idea!Leonie"

Now I was wondering what the little stamp was that Leonie had used on the tabs in front of the colour swatches.. but then I discovered as i zoomed in... that it was letters.. hehe.. "BB" for Bold Brights etc... Dats cool!!!

Paper Angels 3rd Christmas Card Workshop

Double Click on image to read more clearly the details... Be sure to book ASAP.. as it is filling up.. Carina is already FULL!!!


MORE FABULOUS THINGS- to look forward to on the day...

Wonderful raffle prizes, including hundreds of dollars worth of wonderful Stampin’ Up! Product – 100% of all these proceeds will support our charity.

Customer Card Competition – Bring along a stash of your favourite cards that you have made and for $1 per card entry you are invited to share them with other card enthusiasts. 1st prize is a hamper of Stampin’ Up! Products – 100% of all these proceeds will support our charity.

Learn new designs and techniques, whilst enjoying the company of friends.

Some of our venues operate well-catered bistros, which will be available for you to purchase lunch. How about “An Island Escape” to Macleay Island with the opportunity to dine at The Blue Parrot Cafe as featured on the Great South East – all food venues and the hall are easy walking distance from the water taxi, there is also the option to BYO lunch and have it on the beach.
The Paddington venue is BYO lunch.

Displays will be available to photograph, including great home décor and Scrapbooking projects.

We will also display the memorabilia that we are creating to support the Mater Mothers’ Bereavement Program and if you are a speedy card maker, we will have a DIY station set up, where you can help us construct some pages and name cards for the Mater to use.

Ordering Opportunities will be available at all venues and dates, with 10% of all product sales supporting our charity.

Springwood Carnival

I had a stall at the Springwood Carnival in Late August... It was a lovely day.. not particularly busy.. but... I took some things with me to do... and soon i will be putting on here what i have been up to... It's a lovely little scrapbook for the boys..

This is a picture of the set up for the stand... Thanks to Liz again.. it looked really professional...

Sophisticated Canvas Stamping

This is another one that I put together for the ladies to have a choice... It's something a little more sophisticated .... but they loved the Butterfly one so much that we went with that... As this was my first try at being all 'grown up'... it was not quite right.. I messed up the colour on the brown part so I had to paint over it.. then the gold needed touching up... so it looks a little messy.. but it's another idea of how to use your stamps... All embellishments were bought from the bargin shop... the black on the flowers is Over Head Transparencies (OHT's) stamped with Stayz On... they are then attached with a blingy brad from the Prettys Kit... through the canvas..

Canvas Stamping Class

Today was the canvas stamping class... It was a lovely little class.. we were able to spend more time creating another canvas to go with the one I had originally planed for the class...

We ended up making them white boards for Family messages and Birthdays...

Missy and Sandra did a great job too.. We all did something a little different... It was a great day..

Missy's

Sandra's

My New Recruit is TALENTED!!!

Melissa is my new recruit.. and she is amazing!!! She has a natural talent that is like awesome!!! We had a stamping night this weekend and stayed up till all hours to create some cool stuff... I loved her cards that she came up with for her Christmas in July type workshop... How beautiful are they!!! I asked her if I could take some photos... Just so I can brag!!! and so I can CASE!!! Love How Stampin' Up brings talented crafty people together!!!

More BIG Bye-Bye We Love You Cards

It's always a challenge to decorate the BIG cards.. They are about 50cm by 80cm on the front.. so it takes a lot to decorate!!! It's a bit deceptive when you look at this picture.. but if you look in your catalogue at the level 3 hostess reward stamps (Time Well Spent pg. 23) that I used you will get a better picture of the actual size of it... I coloured in the flowers using my Aqua pens and my water color crayons. Still my favorite medium to use in colouring!!!


I used Kinda Glitz to do the glitter.. just because of the time factor.. I needed to give them away an hour after i finished making them and I wanted them to sparkle!!! Bling is always good!!! but I discovered that if you want to use Crystal Effects and your Dazzling Diamonds you can use the Heat tool to speed up the drying process.. I kind of knew that already.. but you know what I mean when I say I discovered it... It just came to me.. like a revelation.. brilliant!! hehe.... the butterfly's are on velum again.. and the glitz on the vase is using a cake decorating technique.. cant remember the name of it but you see it on marzipan icing wedding cakes and the like... It's just random squiggly lines... cool effect... I think..

This next one I used my Stampin' Spots (pg. 130 & 131, 2008/09 Idea Catalogue).. All I can say is YEAH for the Stampin' Scrub!!! (pg. 149, 2008/09 Idea Catalogue) Especially when you are doing the alternating colours with the lettering... I used the spots for inking the Happiness (pg92) stamp... and for the big letter "U" then I used my Aqua pen to blend the colours in a little... could have done that a bit better but it worked ok... next time I will blend the purple down I think ... see if that works better...



I used the Heat & Stick Powder and the Dazzling Diamonds Glitter to put on the card flower and heart... I also use Kinda Glitz to add a bit of bling to the Happiness stamp...

I think people really love a handmade card... It shows you really do love and care for them... It's a gift from the heart!!!

Stamping on Canvas (September Class)

This is what I am thinking about doing for my September the 13th Canvas workshop... This is my first attempt at canvas stamping.. I think it looks ok.. I woke up at 5am this morning with some ideas going through my mind.. and the stamps that I dreamed about were out on loan.. so I changed my inspiration and just experimented.. with other stamps... I will have a play some more and come up with some more designs..


These would make a great inexpensive pressie or dress up a child's room beautifully... With the price of canvas at the bargain shops these days anyone can have the expensive taste of an interior designer .. and do it on a shoe string budget!!

Christmas in July 2008

This weekend I had my Christmas in July workshop.. It was a great success... everyone that came loved it and was keen to do more.. they were even talking about getting together to make boxes to match each of the 10 cards that we made so that they could give 10 people from work lovely little boxes with matching cards and something inside like chockies... I though it was great idea... and would make for a very impressive inexpensive gift!!

This was the box we made

And here is the 10 cards....

Colour Organisation

I purchased the Color Caddy a few months ago.. I was so excited.. You so know that you are addicted when you get excited about getting all the colours in the rage!!! Now because I forget which colour is in what range... and I forget the names as well most of the time... well I cut up last years catalogue and laminated the colour range swatches from the back of the catalogue... and glued them on the side of the Caddy... It is so awesome in helping me remember where they go.. now I have them sorted out all the time...

The other thing I did just recently was bought a whole lot of filing storage containers to organise my card stock... I used the same sort of idea as the Color Caddy in cutting up last years colour swatches.. but this time I wanted them to go across.. so I used the ones in the frot of the catalogue... I laminated them and stuck them on with sticky tape... I put 3 colours in each file which worked out perfectly as the colours are in sets of 3... How easy does that make things now??? Oh I LOVE organisation!!! It is such a great thing...

Flutter Bye's

I made another good-bye card... With this one I wanted an Oriental look.. with the red black and white.... I wasn't really sure what I was going to do after that though.. all I knew was I wanted some butterfly's to look like they were flying away...

I stamped the butterfly's onto the black card stock with Whisper White ink and then with Stayz-on ink on some Vellum... to make them look like they were standing up I cut a small strip of dimensionals and stuck it to the center of the butterfly then bent up each wing so they were standing quite high... I got stuck at this point... so I left it for a couple of days... and when I came back to it I knew what to do to finish it off.. in a way that I would be happy with..

I water coloured the flowers using a rose red ink pad and squeezing the center of it when it was closed to get ink on the lid and picked up the ink with my Aqua painter.

Digital Scrapbooking

I started Scrapping on the computer.. It's no where near as much fun as touching and feeling all the products.. and you have to find someone with a A3 printer or spend mega bucks to have it printed into a 12 x 12 book.. But it is definitely something else to add to the repertoire..

I was inspired by my lovely friend Bobby.. her blog is one of my links...Traveling Mum... take a look.. she is so inspirational!!! She has done heaps of computer scrapping!!! And they are all so lovely... (You may need to double click on the images to see them better..)

(please tell me if there is spelling mistakes... I sometimes over look them... and I would like to get it right especially if I am going to spend mega bucks in getting them printed into a book!!! One day.. YES..... One day I will.. .. I appreciate all help!!! )

This month’s bookings and Purchases Rewarded...

Again I am rewarding my customers this month.. all bookings made and all purchase over $50 will be rewarded with one entry into the wonderful bag full of goodies... I have some lovely card stock.. decorative paper, Borders, pre-stamped card, a black stamping spot, some Hostess booking stamps and some other really nice stuff... you should be able to have a load of fun with this lot!!!

So book a workshop.. receive one entry.. spend $50 and receive another entry.. spend $100 and receive 2 entries!!! the more you spend the more entries... Wahoo... All of your customers at your workshops held in June will be eligible to enter as well... so that is extra incentive for them to book a workshop or spend!!! As well as all the usual freebies... Like a new 2008-09 catalogue... A stamp.. and all the lovely demo items from the workshop...

Photo to come..... raining too hard today!!! ;) hence the blogging...

I will be drawing it at the end of June... stay tuned to see who won...

When a stamper wants to do something creative but not with paper.....

I wanted to have really creative nails... so this is what I came up with.... Loud and obnoxious!!! My husband hated it.. hehehehe.. I live for that.. then I know most women will like it!!!

Stamping on Ribbon

I made this card for Liz.. It was her Birthday in May... And being that she is like my (up Line.. she hates that term...) Inspiration and I am often impressed with her stuff... well I had to do something GOOD!!! and different... I came up with this.. I can't remember where I saw the idea for the cute ribbon but it was inspired by some picture I saw.. I though 'I can do that with stamps'... all I did was inked the flower up and stamped it onto the ribbon... Then I thought that I would make it look a little shiny so I re-stamped it with versa mark and added some Dazzling Dimonds to clear embossing powder and embossed them...

To get the stamp the 4 different colours on the Happiness stamp (pg 92) I inked them up with the stampin' spots... (pg 128 &130)

And lastly I wanted to have all the diamond shapes a little blingy too!! So I used some mini glue dots (pg 148) and put them in the middle of the diamonds and pored on some Dazzling Diamonds (pg 148)... and pressed it in real good to make sure it was blingy enough for my liking...

I think the effect was a good one... I will do it again some day... heheh

Dying with Ink Refills

For this months Training we 'Paper Angels' were taught some techniques of dying the beautiful flowers in the Pretties Kit (pg 114 in the 08-09 Idea Catalogue), ribbon and tags... We did these three beautiful 6in X 6in pages... I liked them so much that I've decided that I will use them in my own scrapbooking... Which is 12 X12 so I added 2 of them to a page... with a bit of the Baroque Motifs (pg 98) swirly stamp in each corner...


Our Challenge this month was to go home and use some of the techniques we learned to create our own version of scrapbook pages... I had a little time this week and decided to play and I created these.. These pages are great to use half a 6X4 photo in.. you can get them printed 2 to a 6X4 photo these days... and it should cost the same as 1 photo... so not only do you save on money that way it is a great idea for a mini album.. Like a granny brag book.. or a Hens night memento... something the kids can take to school for show and tell... Priceless memories!!!!


I used the re inkers (pg130-131) to put colour on my Brayer (pg 150) then I rolled it onto the Happiness stamp (pg92).. this gives the rainbow effect... I used the re inkers to put some colour in a snaplock bag with some water to colour the ribbon, the tags and the flowers... I used the Sticky Strip to do the Dazzling Diamonds border (both on pg 148)... And then I accented a few things with Crystal Effects (pg 194)... I so love the Pretties Kit!!! I love the bling.... It's so much fun!!!!!

* Hint if you print your photos in black and white you can use any colour combo!!! They will all go with black and white... Yeah....

Brisbane Stampin Up Convention 2008 Swaps..... I recieved

Winner Of April Prize

Congratulations to Annette Johnston... All those who ordered in April and booked a Workshop received a free 08-09 Ideas cataloge and an entry into this fabulous prize...

Merci Stamp set, Almost Amethyst Ink Pad and Some card board.... Yeah!!! Everyone loves to win!!! Especially stuff for free!!!

Stay tuned for more give aways and if you want to recieve your own new Ideas catalogue be sure to book a workshop...

Retirment Flyer (double click to view)

Letter for Retirement Party

Hello All,

I wanted to let you know about the Retirement party… Every year Stampin’ Up have several stamp set that will go into ‘Retirement’ …. Our Fabulous group the ‘Paper Angels’ are holding a wonderful event called a Retirement Party… It will be a great day full of creativity and fun…

It will be held on Saturday 15^th March [Council Election Day] at 10am – 4pm at the Carina Leagues Club costing ONLY $35….. for 20 GORGEOUS cards….

*I have the above blog with the flier and all the details that you can print out and place on the fridge!!!!… If you would like a list of the retired stamp set just let me know.. I can email them to you... This will be the last time you will be able to purchase any of these stamp sets… They will be discounted from catalogue price.. Wahoo…for the discount... boo hoo for retirement :(

*Also on the Day if you place a $100 order you will receive a

1. A free 2008-2009 ideas Catalogue… no need to hold a workshop to get it.. be one of the first in Australia to view and own your own copy!!! Wahooie!!! Yip Yip Yeah!!!

2. And 20% off of the purchase of off the Forget Me Not Keeper…. Pg 147… Which will be great to put the 20 GORGEOUS cards that we will be making on the day!!!!

The only condition to this is you come to my house to pick up the order as I am expecting that there will be loads of ladies taking advantage of the savings… And getting caught up in the excitement of the NEW Idea Catalogue… I know I will be excited to get mine… then highlight the ones I like… make my wish list and start working towards it!!!!!!!!!

If you have any friends who you think might like to come also they are more than welcome..

*I need to know numbers by SAT 1st of MARCH….. So please act soon.. as numbers are limited…

*You can pay for the registration ($35) by credit card or direct deposit into my bank account.. please call me or email me for details… Also on the day if you would like to pay for your order in these ways that would be fine too. If you would like to pay by money order or cheque that would be fine too…

We had a meeting yesterday and we made all the cards that we will be making on the day…. And let me tell you … YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!!!! They are so beautiful!!!! I have attached a photo of them.. now you can't see them all cause' I couldn’t fit them into the one photo… Well I could... but there needs something to oooh and arrhh over on the day... As you can see there is REALLY VALUE for MONEY…

Please RSVP….. ASAP….

Looking forward to ‘Getting Crafty with you!!! ;)

Love Ursula

Pocket card and Pop up Chockie box

This pocket card is a lovely design to be making out of our Designer Series Double-Sided Paper... because they are double sided they look fantastic already.. I didn’t have any designer paper so I decided to use a piece of A4 card stock and stamp it with a Wheel stamp... Then I went back and added some Pixie Pink ink which was applied by using a dauber.. then I used some selected stamps out of the hostess rewards, (Springtime Stems) to introduce more colour and dimensions.. I like the design, we learned at our Paper Angels meeting you could use the pocket for gift cards, vouchers, Movie or Show tickets or a letter....



This is also a design we made at our Meeting... I love it cause it is SOOOOOO easy.. just a peice of cardboard that is folded over a little wider an longer than the chocolate bar itsslef... an wahla.. you have a chockie pouch!!! the ribbon is holding the chockie in adn when you untie it you putll on the ends and the bar comes out with it... You could also put show tickets gift cards etc in this lovely creation....



I loved the chockie pop out pouch that I decided to use it for a work shop and because it was close to valentines day I thought it would be nice to give my ladies in my workshop a chockie for valentines day... It was a hit!!!

If you are wanting to use some metalic paper like the one on the back of the tag on this design... but you have none.. try using your Vrsa Mark and Embossing powder... then punch out the rquired shape... It's a lovely little something new....

Scrapbook Page & Matching Card

Just to show the versatility of stamping... I wanted to put these couple of scrapbook pages up with their matching cards.... You can change any design to suit a card or to suit a scrapbook page!!!!


This one I have used Heartfelt Thanks & Beyond the Basics stamp sets.. It is very simple yet effective.. I have coloured in the hearts with Stampin' Pastels (pg 126, 07-08 idea cat) and blender pens (pg 144)... I also used the Tag Punch (pg 140)

This one here was one that we completed in a training session in 2007. Using Simply Said & Petal Pushers stamp sets...

The Stampin’ Round Wheels create beautiful page borders!

If you have a larger border to crate you will need a Stampin’ Round ink cartridge(pg 127-129& 141 for blanks of 07-08 idea Catalogue). This will allow to go for a much further distance then just inking your wheel with the ink pads. You will get almost eight inches from the ink pad but with the cartridge you could do borders on all your walls in your home and still keep going!!! What a wonderful invention… I always say that a women using the products invented these tools…. I don't know how true this statement is.. but I like it!!!

I had a to make a large card for 20 odd people to sign… So the Stampin’ Round Wheels(all designs fund on pg 151 of 07-08 idea Catalogue) are perfect for this… Obviously I did not use Stampin’ Up card stock for my A1 size card…. But all the materials used in the making of the card were Stampin’ Up!!!

1. You need to place some ‘post it’ notes on the corners of your card on a 45° angle. This will allow you to have a corner much like the corner of a picture frame. To make sure your border is straight you can use the ultra handy Stampin’ Around Wheel Guide (pg 141 of 07-08 idea Catalogue).

2. Remove post notes and place over the border you have just stamped.

Move Wheel Guide and stamp edge again.


3. Repeat step 2, twice more to finish of border.

You now have a lovely border around your card. And it looks great!


Colouring in
1. To add more detail you can colour in with your Water Color Crayons and Aqua Painter (pg 144 of 07-08 idea Catalogue). I love this medium as you do not have to be accurate at all!!! It is so relaxing and fast!!!

2. I random scribbled to make the colour on the background…from side to side in a diagonal direction… You have to load the Aqua Painter many times to get a good coverage especially when the card is so big!!!


3. You can also use your crayons to outline things or colour in with like a normal crayon.. although I wouldn’t recommend that you do that too often as it does use much more…. And then there will be less to pain with!! I used the Wheel guide to line the inside of the border just to give it a little more definition.

4. To do the letter “U” I dunked the Water Colour Crayons in a little container of water and coloured directly onto the rubber stamp surface… In a patchwork sort of random design… before stamping with this you need to check that all the crayon is a little wet.. If it is not then a light sprits of water or re-dunking the crayon and going over will help to get a great colour print… then cut the letter out with a 3mm border…. This gives a great unique design every time!


5. Just to finish off the person I was making it for is beautiful… and very girly.. she (like me) loves all things with BLING!!!! So to give it that extra Bling effect I used some Kindy Glitz… Not a stampin’ up product….. but I am sure if you wanted to use some Heat & Stick Powder or the 2- Way Glue Pen (pg 142 of 07-08 idea Catalogue)and some Dazzling Diamonds (pg. 145) you could achieve a similar result.


Just for interest… If you know there is a large amount of people to sign a card you could think of picking a colour theme and have them pre write their messages.. so then you can decorate the inside of the card… as I have here… It is also a great way to use up some of the scraps of design paper you have left over…