Deals of the Week - May 2011

Are you ready for some weekly surprises? You may have seen our ad in the May issue of your favorite crafting magazine letting you know that throughout the month of May, we are bringing you a new deal on our exclusive products every week! Check our website every Wednesday in May, and get up to 40 percent off a selection of incredible products from the 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalogue! 

There are no limits to the number of Deals of the Week you can purchase and no minimum purchase is required.* Now is your time to stock up on your favorite products!

Be sure to hurry and purchase each week's deals early on so you don't miss out! When the new week's deals start up each Wednesday at midnight, the last week's deals are over . . . forever!
This week's deals:

 Click on Picture to go to Stampin' Up's Web page for DEALS of the Week...

Please contact me ASAP if you would like to take advantage of these FANTASTIC specials!!!

Hand Made Wall Art

It was Hubbies Bros Birthday recently and we decided that it would be nice to have a hand made gift for him... What better than having all of us with a hand in making it????

Grab a canvas paint the background and have everyone in the family paint their hands then place them on the canvas... Whalah... Definitely something that is literally HAND MADE... heheheh...

I only wish I had have done it years ago when the kids hands were smaller!!!!

We chose simple black and white and gray because it is kind of modern... and we thought it would go with the minimalistic design style of their house.... I think he liked it....  We had FUN doing it!!!

If you wanted to use some Stampin Up! stamps on your canvas you could always do that too!!!!

Happy Creating!!!!

April - May - June Classes 2011

April – Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes

Friday 29^th – BIG SHOT CLASS– 7pm – 9.30pm. Come learn new ways to use your BIG SHOT. Cost TBA

May – Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes

Wednesday 4^th  – BIG SHOT CLASS– 9.30am – 11.30am. Learn new ways to use your BIG SHOT. Cost

    TBA

                Friday 20^th - Stamp and Stack –

10am Start or

7pm Start-

Come along and make 8 cards. Please book in for this one and be sure to state that you would like to participate in the day class or the night class… Thank you…  Cost $15

June – Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes

Saturday 4th - STAMPIN’ UP! Convention INSPIRED Projects – project TBA closer to date… 7pm – 9.30pm Come along and make a wonderful project that has been inspired from recent SU Sydney CONVENTION 2011.. Cost TBA

Friday 17^th - STAMPIN’ UP! Convention INSPIRED Projects – project TBA closer to date… 7pm – 9.30pm Come along and make a wonderful project that has been inspired from recent SU Sydney CONVENTION 2011.. Cost TBA

Saturday 18th - STAMPIN’ UP! Convention INSPIRED Projects – project TBA closer to date… 7pm – 9.30pm Come along and make a wonderful project that has been inspired from recent SU Sydney CONVENTION 2011.. Cost TBA

Punch Art at it's finest!!

Can you believe that these BEAUTIFUL roses are made from Card stock.... Punched out with the Owl punch and the Large Scallop circle punch??? After hearing about how fantastic these are from Robyn I just had to do a Google search to see if I could make them too... Cause you know PUNCH ART is here to say at the moment!!! They are really beautiful and the possibilities are endless... They are a little bit fiddly but I would not say they are hard... If you would like to make them please take a look at this instructional video... It's how I learned...

Happy Crafting...

Love Ursula

21st Birthday Cards

Last week after all the guests had left from our second catalogue launch, I hung back with Liz and we had a bit of creative time together... Liz had a customer that wanted a card design for 21st Birthday's as her daughter will be attending loads this year.... so we made these lovely cards... with a oval punch and a scallop border you can created these fantastic catering trays....And of course we have used the new Cake punch and the lovely Birthday stamp set in the new Autumn/Winter mini catalogue....

Then we came up with this lovely 12x12 scrapbook page card below... It was inspired by a design we were shown at a convention a little while ago... you score the 12x12 page in quarters and then cut one length of the quarters... Then you fold it so it creates a booklet... We then used sticky strip to stick the 2 middle pages together and we put in a CD case so that your card can be a present too... On the front page you can place a photo and in the back one you can write your birthday message... It would make a FANTASTICALLY BEAUTIFUL Birthday card and present all in one!!!

To create this Catering Cake Tray we embossed some grey card stock with silver embossing powder and then punched it out.. It gives the card stock a really authentic silver vintage look...kind of like hand beaten pewter... It's quite lovely... It was the result of desperation of wanting some silver card stock and not having it on hand... Isn't it awesome when your creativity is challenged and you can use it to come up with something that is perhaps even better?!!!! I am sure these cards will be a huge hit!! Beautiful even...

Happy Creating...

Love Ursula

Punch Art - Class

At my recent Punch Art class we made these lovely creations... I asked my ladies if they wanted to make some punch art and put it on a lovely card... But they insisted that they would love to make the instruction cards with the Punch Art on them so that they could remember how they were created... We were having such a great time that 7pm soon turned into 11pm.... But wow look at the results.... We made these 6 instructional Punch Art cards... I love the internet and doing Google search for Punch Art... There are SOOOOO many clever people out there.. It is so inspiring!!! Love Love LOVE-ing Punch Art at the moment!!!!

Special mention MUST go to Carroll for her AMAZING Crocodile!!! OH MY GOODNESS.. How freeking CUTE is he??? AMAZING!!!! Everyone who sees him just wants to make him!!! My 11yo Son came to my studio in the morning to look at what we had created the night before and he just had to sit down then and there to make one of these for himself!!! Check out Carroll's Corner by clicking HERE...

It's also been a BIG hit at Bayside Craft on Tuesday this week!!!

Paper Bow Belly Band

Recently I wanted to wrap a present really lovely for a dear friend of mine.. It was her birthday and she ALWAYS spoils everyone else on their Birthdays... so I really wanted it to look extra special... I made her a couple of fascinators because she LOVES them... and really wanted the outside of the box to be just about as exciting as the inside...

How I did it...... I took some DSP and cut it into 3cm x 7cm strips. (ten of them) folded them over to create the cone shape and then glued them together in a bow like fashion...  Whalah... and instant BEAUTIFUL bow that PERFECTLY matches your Belly Band....

Happy Creating..

Love Ursula

Mother's Day Cards for Troops

These are just some of the Mother's Day Cards for Troops some of our craft group and customers came up with... They will be sent off to the troops serving overseas in the next couple of days so that they have time to write in them and send them back to their Mothers for Mothers Day... Bless them for all that they do for us and our country!! And bless their Mothers for raising them!!!

There was about 100 in the pile we pulled together.. Thanks to all those lovely people who donated their time and talent... And card stock to create these special touches of love... Bless you all!!!!

Margaret made these lovely cards above with a new technique we learned at our last Stamp n stack class!!!

The cards above were really quickly put together by myself with the DSP and the card stock and Margaret finished them off with the lovely embellishments and the stamped messages...

The cards below are made by me using the one sheet wonder technique... where you take one sheet of white card stock stamp it to make it look like a background page and divide it up to make up to 8 cards... It's an AWESOME way to mass produce cards that are similar but different....

And some Punch art never goes astray.. sunflowers by me and DSP and little flowers by Barbara

Don't you just love it when your scraps can be turned into something truly lovely!!! That's what Margaret and Barbra did with these ones....

and some more beautiful cards by Margaret and Barbara....

These cards were made by Rebecca.... She is AWESOME with scraps!!!

And this pile which some were duplicated were generously made by KNEG Card craft group... There were about 10 of us there and we managed to produce about 40 cards on the day.. Fiona's Hubbie was there and even managed to produce a few cards himself....

I was so impressed with these ones... Made by one of our lovely Craft group ladies (Monique)... They are so beautiful and elegant!!! PERFECT for someones Mum I am sure!!!

The lovely Lynda made these ones.... She does such beautiful work!!!!

And Barbara made these one's they are all in the style of paper tole... where you cut out one image several times and reduce the size each time... Then adhere each layer with dimentionals to create a more 3D effect...

Thank you once again for all your lovely work...

Love Ursula

Easter Class - 2011

 

This is what was created for my Easter class... 3 cute little bunnies on a card with fluffy tails.. Inspiration for this one was from the internet somewhere... I remember seeing it ages ago.... on several blogs...  Also we made this FANTASTIC little basket - template was given to me from Fiona (KENG craft group)... Aaron was a dear once again and used his engineering skills to draw it up for me so that I could easily print it out onto the card stock... His quote was... "I knew I studied for a reason.. It's good to see that I can use my skills to help you craft!"... He loves it... Helping me is a pleasure ^_^ ... He is a perfectionist too!!! And that makes all his templates work.. PERFECTLY!!!!  Once this one was cut out we stamped with the wood-grain background stamp to give it a more authentic pick-nick basket kind of look. The white bunnies tail was coloured by using corresponding chalks or ink pads... (HiNT - If you do use ink pads be sure to give it time to dry as it does not stick well if it is not dry.. and it falls off and it makes a dirty mark on the bunnies bottom.. which does not look too good... If you get my drift??? I have one card here that looks very Australian Sheep looking... :)

PaperANGELS Team Meeting - March 2011

For the last 2 months meetings we have been making this wonderful little flip booklet of techniques. Each month we do 3 more to add to it.. What a FANTASTIC tool to help give inspiration and to take to customers to see what kind of things they might like to learn... I have done a technique class or two over the years but I must admit that having them on this fantastic little calendar stand makes it easier to flick through them and it just looks pretty... I may just start a techniques class of my own soon!!! Stay tuned.....

As an added bonus in March Liz showed us this lovely page... She had recently had the privilege of compiling and designing a memorial album for one of her husbands work colleagues who's wife recently passed away... In 2 days she managed to create a fantastic album that is truly a treasure!!! The design was so fabulous she wanted to share it with us... I am so glad she did!!! The sugestion was to have some photos and some space for people to write messages for the family to remember their loved one by... And Liz came up with a fantastic way to keep the beautiful messages but hide them also if they were too personal to always share.

As we were at a meeting we created an 8"x8" replica page... The Panel in the middle folds down and you can place more photos on the inside of the DSP... This is where people can write a personal message too... Perfect to hide very personal messages.. or if people are like me and have MESSY writing.. well that can be hidden too and not wreck the page!!!

This whole situation started some great discussion about creating an "All about me" album... Sometimes if feels rather strange making an album about yourself.... Like you are totally conceited or something... But through our discussions we realised that it is a FANTASTIC thing to do. As you get to put things in there that really mean something to you whilst you are able to enjoy it.. And while other members of the family are able to enjoy it with you. It could create many bonding opportunities.. and help family's grow together....

So why not get a group together today adn create one of these FANTASTIC albums so that your treasured memories can live on... and maybe your wonderful group can add something to your album that will uplift you when times are trying... It is lovely to read touching thoughts and uplifting things about your charactor when you are feeling down... It gives you that extra boost to carry on!!!

Love Ursula

4 Baby Class

How GORGEOUS are these cards????? They are TOTALLY inspired by Dianna (PaperANGELS team) She is the AWESOMEST of Awesome!!!! Her creations are just so lovely and I love looking at her blog/web page.. She is soooo inspirational... She makes me look good... I will keep her around!!! heheheh....

Yet again another reason why I love Stampin' UP! and why I love being a Paper Angel.... People are so willing to CREATE ~ INSPIRE ~ and SHARE.... I believe it is what makes the world go round!!!

Thanks Dianna!!!

Click on this link to take you to Dianna's Tute for these BEAUTIFUL cards...

Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue Launch -2011

If you were unable to come you missed out on making these two lovely little cards, Fantastic chin wag, yum yum nibbles, great laughs and a really lovely time!!!  But have no fear... There is another opportunity to attend at Liz's Studio on Sunday 10th April @ 2pm... Pop in anytime between 2 and 5pm and enjoy the NEWness of everything and we guarantee you will have a FABULOUS time!!!.....

Lucky Door prizes... Lovely Nibbles.. Cute projects... and great company....

Black and White Wedding

One of my friends got married recently and his Dear Mother (who is TOTALLY Awesome.. Jill) made all these lovely Bonbonaries, name place cards and serviette rings.. She did such a BRILLIANT job, I just had to save them and take a photo to share with everyone....Wish I could lay some clame to saying that I helped her.. but she is a machine and did SOOOOOOOO much of the wedding herself!!!! She is loving the BIG Shot which played a great part in these lovely creations!!!

Bless you my dear dear friend!! xxx

BAYSIDE CRAFT GROUP 2

These are just some of the fantastic things we have been making at Craft group in Show and tell weeks...
Then Liz shared with us this top card which was inspired by Dianna (Paper Angel's member), Kim Taught us the pink flower and Dianna (craft Group) taught us how to make the little rosette.

Marjourie shared this card with us. It's a really lovely design and quite easy to do!!...
It's wonderful to have a get together often and receive inspiration from others...It's fantastic to share with these wonderful women in so many ways... Something I look forward to each week...

Here's a couple of links to Liz's Blog for other things we have made at Bayside Craft.

Needle Books

Craft Group Sharing Day

Thank you Tuesday Craft Group

Punch Art

Although Punch Art has been around like FOREVER.. I have not really gotten into it... I may have dabbled here and there but never been totally obsessed with it!!! I have been trying for years to make some great instruction cards to give examples of some punch art.. but it has never really taken off.. Til NOW....

With Bayside Craft Group and KENG Craft Group both wanting to do Punch art once a month I am REALLY lucky that I get to do it twice a month now.. And I have created so many wonderful things in the last month!!!! These are just a few of the Punch Art designs I have Goggled for and printed the images for over the last year or so... And finally I am able to say and prove (sorry for bad photo) that I have done some punch art....

With all the Stampin' Up! punches the possibilities are limitless!!!Cards, Scrapbooking embellishments, book marks and so many other cute things can be created with ones of these FANTASTIC little creatures!!!

I have even found that my children are LOVING the instruction cards as it makes it really easy for them to copy the designs and have a FANTASTIC time Punching together... (the non-hurting kind of punching for a change.. hehehe) And my craft ladies love it just as much in fact they insist that punch art be a definite monthly class!!!

What are you waiting for get too and discover the ART of Punching for yourself!!!!

Love Ursula

'Elegant Soiree' & 'Newsprint' DSP Scrap Page

I am LOVING this Beautiful layout that I recreated at one of Liz's Crop nights last month!!! (CLICK TO GO TO LIZ'S BLOG) I loved it so much that I though my ladies would love it just as much... So I planed a class around this fabulous shabby chic textured and layered Scrapbook page...

One of the great things I LOVE about Stampin" UP! Designer Series Paper (DSP) is that one packet all goes together PERFECTLY!!! It makes the Scrapbookers task of page lay out and coordination so much easier.. Plus we have all the inks embellishments card stock etc that also coordinates with the DSP's.. what more could you ask for???? 

Although we used retired DSP we still created wonderful layouts with brilliant results. LOVE LOVE LOVE!

What I love about the BIG SHOT is that when you make your chip board letters you no longer have left overs!!! You can cut out EXACTLY the letters you will need... Yeah... So while the initial layout for the Die cut is a little 'x'ey the SAVINGS over the years will be phenomenal!!! I love to hang onto all the card board backings of the DSP packs... I also hang onto any other bit of packaging that may have chip board embellishment potential.... It's a great savings!!!!!!

Happy Crafting...

Love Ursula

Bleaching Technique

At KENG - Craft - Card Class last week we made this card .... It uses the Bleaching technique.... The ladies loved it because it meant that even if you do not own a lot of the matching ink pad colours you can still get a cool background look.

To create this effect yourself all you need to do is use thick liquid bleach (like Domestos) on a wet one to create a temporary bleach ink pad... ink up your stamp with the temporary bleach ink pad... then stamp onto a darker coloured card stock.... Watch the magic happen right before your eyes as the colour starts to disappear when the bleach dries... It's quite cool.. Kind of like the secret lemon writing letters I am sure most of us have done as a kid....

This technique is great for cards but I personally would not use it for a scrapbook page.. As I would fear the bleach might react with any photos you may have on the page....

The Bleach does not affect your stamps as long as you clean them off right away... Be sure when cleaning the  bleach off DO NOT use your Stamp and Scrub as it may affect the fibers... Just use another baby wipe...

Happy Crafting

Love Ursula

PAPER ANGELS Events and Training Meetings… April - June 2011

PAPER ANGELS Events and Training Meetings…

BAYSIDE CRAFT GROUP….  Begins for 2011 on Tuesday - Jan 25th….

(Continues EVERY Tuesday in school term) FREE (contributions for morning tea are always welcome)

Join a fun group of ladies who meet each week during school term, to socialize and craft in between talking! Bring along your own project to work on or help someone with their endeavours. The first Tuesday of each month, you will have the opportunity to help us restock our Mater Angel Footprint Cards for the hospitals. The second Tuesday of the month will be Punch Art themed, whilst the third will be a 'sharing' day where people may choose to demonstrate their favourite tool or technique to the group. The fourth week will double as the venue for the 'Big Shot Club' from 10-12am. Everyone is most welcome to bring whatever craft they like and the weekly 'suggestions' are just designed to help those who might like some direction.

MARCH

Angel Ave Demonstrator Meeting

Saturday 26^th – 7pm -9pm $5

SOUTHSIDE DEMONSTRATORS MEETING

Wednesday 30^th -  7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Paper Angels Demonstrators are invited to attend a 'Creativity Based' meeting, where you will produce make & takes that you can use at your own workshops or to simply to spark your own creativity at home. COST $5

APRIL

NORTHSIDE Demonstrator Meeting

Wednesday 13^th – 7-9pm  $5

Angel Ave Demonstrator Meeting

Wednesday 13^th  – 7pm -9pm $5

SOUTHSIDE DEMONSTRATORS MEETING

Saturday 30^th -  2 PM - 5PM Paper Angels Demonstrators are invited to attend a 'Creativity Based' meeting, where you will produce make & takes that you can use at your own workshops or to simply to spark your own creativity at home. COST $5

MAY

NORTHSIDE Demonstrator Meeting

Wednesday 18^th – 7-9pm  $5

Angel Ave Demonstrator Meeting

Wednesday 4^th  – 7pm -9pm $5

SOUTHSIDE DEMONSTRATORS MEETING

Wednesday 25^th -  7PM - 9PM -  Paper Angels Demonstrators are invited to attend a 'Creativity Based' meeting, where you will produce make & takes that you can use at your own workshops or to simply to spark your own creativity at home. COST $5

JUNE

NORTHSIDE Demonstrator Meeting

Wednesday 8^th – 7-9pm  $5

Angel Ave Demonstrator Meeting

Saturday 4^th – 10am -12pm $5

SOUTHSIDE DEMONSTRATORS MEETING

Saturday 25^th -  2 PM - 5PM - Paper Angels Demonstrators are invited to attend a 'Creativity Based' meeting, where you will produce make & takes that you can use at your own workshops or to simply to spark your own creativity at home. COST $5

Angel Ave CLASSES.... 2011 - March to June

Angel Ave CLASSES

March – June2011…..

I have had a few requests to run classes on other times/days. If you like the sound of the classes that I am running and let me know you would like to come I can advertise for another day/date. Or 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

Thursday 31^st – Mothers Day Cards for Troops…  9.30- 11.30am @ Kingston East Neighbourhood Group (KENG)… Please come along and DONATE your time to making cards that will be sent across to our troops that are serving our country at this time…. COST… Free (please bring some scraps that you might have and some adhesives and Basic tool kit) BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL through KENG Inc on 3808 1684

April – Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes

Saturday 2nd –   4 Baby – 7pm – 9.30pm Come along and make 4 lovely little Baby Cards.. Cost $12

Tuesday 5^th – Easter Fun at KNEG Craft Group– 9.30am – 11.30am – BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL through KENG Inc on 3808 1684 … Make 3 Easter LOVELY Items… Includes Easter Eggs!!! . Cost $15

Wednesday 6^th – 4 Baby – 10am – 113.0am Come along and make 4 lovely little Baby Cards.. Cost $12

Friday 8^th  - Punch Art – 7pm – 9.30pm – Come along and Make some lovely Punch Art Animals.. Turn them into Cards or Bookmarks or Scrapbooking embellishments… (All punches and Card stock Supplied) …. COST $10

Friday 15^th - Easter Fun– 7pm – 9.30pm – BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Through me.. … Make 3 Easter LOVELY Items… Includes Easter Eggs!!! . Cost $15

Friday 15^th - Easter Fun– 9.30am – 11.30am – BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Through me.. … Make 3 Easter LOVELY Items… Includes Easter Eggs!!! . Cost $15

Friday 29^th – BIG SHOT CLASS– 7pm – 9.30pm. Come learn new ways to use your BIG SHOT. Cost TBA

May – Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes

Wednesday 4^th  – BIG SHOT CLASS– 9.30am – 11.30am. Learn new ways to use your BIG SHOT. Cost

    TBA

                Friday 20^th - Stamp and Stack –

10am Start or

7pm Start-

Come along and make 8 cards. Please book in for this one and be sure to state that you would like to participate in the day class or the night class… Thank you…  Cost $15

June – Please BYO Basic tool Kits and Adhesives to all classes

Saturday 4th - STAMPIN’ UP! Convention INSPIRED Projects – project TBA closer to date… 7pm – 9.30pm Come along and make a wonderful project that has been inspired from recent SU Sydney CONVENTION 2011.. Cost TBA

Friday 17^th - STAMPIN’ UP! Convention INSPIRED Projects – project TBA closer to date… 7pm – 9.30pm Come along and make a wonderful project that has been inspired from recent SU Sydney CONVENTION 2011.. Cost TBA

Saturday 18th - STAMPIN’ UP! Convention INSPIRED Projects – project TBA closer to date… 7pm – 9.30pm Come along and make a wonderful project that has been inspired from recent SU Sydney CONVENTION 2011.. Cost TBA

Community Craft Groups…. This year I have been asked to run a weekly card making group at Kingston East Neighbourhood Group… It is called the KENG Card group – This class is run every Thursday from 9.30am to 11.30am during the School term.. It is organised by the Kingston East Neighbourhood Group Inc. We make one card and have a hot cuppa & a lovely chat and catch up with a wonderful group of ladies… Who are encouraged to bring Lots of show ‘n’ tell.  Bookings are essential please phone KENG on 3808 1684. COST $2

Mini Catalogue - Autumn/Winter 2011 Launch

It's HERE!!! Our new Autumn Winter Mini Catalogue... And might I say that it is TOTALLY AMAZING... there are so many fantastic products in this one that I am EXCITED.. If you would like to view it on line CLICK ON THIS LINK.....

I am combining with the Lovely Liz to hold a Mini catalogue launch on 2 different days.. COST is $5 you will receive your very own catalogue and make 2 Mini cards.... View heaps of the products from the catalogue and get to play with them if you like too!!!

Also We will have HEAPS of sample cards on display... Which you are more than welcome to take photos of so you can then go home and recreate them!!!

Dates are :- Wednesday the 6th @ 7.30pm @ Angel Ave
And Sunday the 10th @ 2pm @ Liz's Studio

Please Call Myself or Liz to book in... Ursula 0410 602 916   - Liz 0448896001

Masquerade - Mask

I've been commissioned to make another Mask for a Masquerade themed party.... The theme of this one is Black & White with a dash of colour.... The Mask base was chosen and I went on to decorate accordingly with black and white bits a pieces.... It's very therapeutic to do so....

It's fantastic how flowly ostrich feathers are and how romantic they look. Of course you have to have a bit of BLING to finish off the look with a beautiful Gold AB Swarovski Crystal button for the center piece in the black bow. 

I hope that these lovely teenagers have a fantastic night at their brilliantly themed Party!!!!

Eye Patch - Fashion Statement #3

Palsy of 6th Nerve in the right eye looks like this..... It turns inwards causing double vision.



When you try to focus on the outside.. Your eye just wont move... But hay it's a cool party trick.. It really groses some people out... I love it.. It is definitely one advantage to having this problem...



This is what I am seeing at the moment... It is quite annoying.. but when I cover the right eye... I can see much better.. Judgment is still a little bit weird and I am still getting used to the one eyed-ness of it all..... However all is well if I just take it slowly..... then my "disability" is no were near as noticeable to either myself or others.. I can like fool myself that there is nothing wrong....

When there is more detail and colour that I have to take in then it gets very confusing... Like yesterday Master 8 ran through a solid object... I told him he has super powers... He was stoked with that.. and then on his way back to the play ground he ran into the building I said he ran through... Hehehehe.. Little joker!!!

Sometimes it gets on top of me... And I get annoyed, frustrated and MAD!!! Yesterday was one of those days for me.... I had a very very low day... Feeling EXTREMELY sorry for myself. Feeling icky... Ugly ... and YUCK and trapped, because of having to wear eye patches which limits my social life, and eye/brain stimulation... It gets awfully tiring having just the one eye to process everything.. I find sometimes my brain will not shut off at night time and it takes me HOURS to fall asleep.... Ever since I can remember no matter what was going on in my life I have always been able to fall asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.... (Much to the disgust of my husband... Who has NEVER had this pleasure.....) So back to the point... Yesterday I was just down right bummed!!!

With new resolve this morning I arose with a goal in mind.. I have had a design for a new eye patch in my mind for a long time and after I prepared for this afternoons workshop I decided to get the creative juices flowing and make a LOVELY eye patch to make me feel more BEAUTIFUL!!!!! ( I recently saw "Burlesque" and LOVED LOVED LOVED the costumes... Nothing beats lace, feathers, glitter, bling, trimmings and a whole lot of Lovely feminine decorations... This movie was some of my inspiration)

This is what I came up with...I am so LOVING my Big Shot for making the base of the eye patches!!! It work a treat!!! Black and white is always clasic!!! I definately feel more lovely today with my new eye patch!!!

If you would like to know how to make your own please call me and we can have a class... It would be fun to get others involved in my "NEW" obsession... heheh

Love Ursula

WICKED....ly AWESOME

Lisa, Jane and I went to Wicked... and it was TOTALLY AWESOME!!! I was glad that I had made a lovely eye patch to wear to the occasion.. heheh...

What else will WICKED inspire in the future I wonder???

Punch Art at BAYSIDE Craft Classes

Paper Angels have our usual gathering at Bayside Craft Class and this year it is looking to be brilliant!!! We have a theme ever week so if you do not have something that you are working on you can turn up and still go home with something learned or made... It's FANTASTIC... Very inspirational!!!

Last week was Punch art... We made these beautiful Baby Cards (inspired by Dianna - PA's Team) and these cute little Sesame Street Characters... Liz walked us through Dianna's Baby cards... and Kim walked us through the cute Characters...

Next week is Bring a project you would like to share or demonstrate.... I am looking forward to learning much much more this year!!!

Oh while we were making the Sesame Street Punch art I suggested that they would be great felt eye patches for kids.... so today I pulled out my Big Shot and had to make a cookie monster one for myself.... Cool hey???


Thanks again for lovely friends taking me home after Bayside craft!!! It's lovely receiving so much support at this time... Bless you all!!! Muwah xxxx

Love Ursula

Community Craft Class

This year I've started teaching a Craft class at KENG... We make one card and have a lovely social time talking about other projects etc.. We've only had two classes so far but I can see that is is going to be one of the things I most look forward to each week!!! We have a lovely bunch of ladies that are coming at this time and they are all so creative in their own right!!! Last week we had show and tell and that was very inspirational!!! I was able to gather quite a few inspirational ideas for future classes...

The first week we created this lovely card... Which uses the wonderful Stamp n Write markers to colour in the stamp... It is simple and elegant..

This card was what we put together last week and was inspired by Stampin Up and Liz... The design is the same as the thank you card we received last year for our demonstrations at Regional training... but the new twist is the faux silk covering on the butterfly... If you would like to learn this please book a workshop with me or come along to a class that demonstrates anything FAUX..


Remember Sale-A-Bration is on at the moment and it's the BEST time to recieve many EXCLUSIVE BONUS products to add to your crafting collection.... Sale-A-Bration ends in March so there is still plenty of time to book a workshop.. however my diary is filling fast.... so be sure to get in quick so you do not miss out!!!

Or place an order of $100 to receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set...

Love Ursula

Ps... I would like to say a HUGE Thank you so much to the lovely ladies that have offered to drive me to Craft class for the next few months as my palsy eye does not allow me to drive safely for longer distances... May you be Blessed immensely for your kindness!!! My life is blessed because of you.... Muwah...

Valentines Workshop 2011 - Love love love

All we need is LOVE!!!! As the famous Betles song states.....
With that theme in mind I put together this LOVEly Class for my wonderful customers...

This class included a lovely Scrapbook page, a Beautiful card and Yummy sweet treat (chocolate) box card. The main them is obviously the word LOVE... And may I say I LOVE the BIG SHOT Simple Letters Alphabet.. It makes word headdings so much easier... and what I ABSOLUTELY LOVE about this wonderful product is that you can use the negative (offcuts) as well as the positive (letters)... It cuts down the cost and use of your product.. ALSO you can cut out EXACTLY the right amount of letters that your project requires and you are NEVER going to run out of S's, R's, T's, vowels etc etc!!! As you tend to do when you purchase a chipboard alphabet set... By simply cutting a peice of chipboard to a standard size, covering it with your desired colour card stock or DSP and centering it on your desired letter you can get two for the price of one!!! Whoot whoo!!!

This lovely card was inspired by Liz who was inspired by 2010 Incentive Trip... And it was the whole theme of my Class.... This class demonstrated PERFECTLY how you can take a card and turn it into a scrapbook page or any other project you desire....


This project... "Chocolate Box Card" uses a 7cm x 29.8cm (A4 length) of card stock... and is very economical to reproduce as you can get 3 box cards out of one A4 piece of card stock...
I purchased the lovely little chocolate bars from ALDI. I stacked them up, then I measured them to make sure that when I put them in the card they did not easily fall out. I scored the card stock on one end and stuck it down to it's self with Sticky Strip.... As you can see the letters are the "negative" of the letters I cut out for the card.. Thus the duel usage out of the one piece of chipboard.

The tag embelishment was made by stamping two images on top of each other. The Stamp set used is the lovely "Bliss" Sale-A-Bration set.... The butterfly is behind the "BLISS" word.. and on the scallop I have stamped the BEAUTIFUL flourish before I punched it out.

It was truly a LOVEly class...

Birthday Cards Personalised

I was asked to make some personalised birthday cards for a friend this year.. She discovered this book called 'Why shouldn't I call my son Clint?' by David Hocking.... Fiona has been wanting to have these made for some time now she had the design in her head and she really wanted to incorporate the name quotes from the book... SO we put our heads together and came up with this idea.... It is a very simple formula... and way easy to mass-produce... Simply print out your name and the quote you want on 1/4 of an A4 page.. then run it through the Big Shot with an Embossing folder if you like and or stamp it, then cut out with the Top Note Die cut... tie a ribbon around the card and adhere it with dimenionals... Simple, Elegant and PERSONALISED!!!

(one is blury.. because It has not been given out yet...)

Eye Patch - Fashion Statement #2

Heading to the Theater I needed something a little blingy!!! So this is the eye patch I made out of Sculpey and Diamonties... PERRRRRTY!!!
I'm going to have a WICKED time... heheheh

Unfortunately it takes a little longer to make things with just one eye... and having only one eye makes you quite tired!!! So I did not get to make the GREEN eye patch (for Wicked) that I wanted to ... However I am sure my design that I have been dreaming of over the past few days will come to fruition soon!!!! Stay tuned...
Love Ursula