Kusudama Origami Ball

I had to give it a go... Just because.. Liz made one and a few of the Paper Angels have had a go& brought them to our last meeting.. .. So when Melissa and I got together for our All day/night Valentines Craft day... Well that was one of our projects...

Melissa's is so much nicer than mine.. And Liz's is lovely too... Mines not made form Stampin'Up! papers either.. that would make it so much nicer!!!

Mine has been to school for "Show n' Tell"... I believe it had a bit of an experience as a soccer ball as well... A little worse for wear!!!


Oh well.. At least It's been used...

They look really lovely with a ribbon through the middle of them and hanging... You can even add a little bling or pearls from the Pretties Kit...that would be lovely!

Inspirational Weddings

Inspirational Weddings is a book that I have put together for Brides to have a look at to be inspired.. It has wording for invites etc, pictures of Bononnieres, filler ideas, Matching stationary ideas... etc etc... I had to decorate the cover... Of course.. So it looks pretty.. Inside I have different coloured Tabs that I made with our Round Tab punch...


It all helps to make decisions...

Elisa's Elegant Invites

I think I am in love!!!! Every now and then you create something that is just beautiful!!! I believe with this card design I have we have hit the nail on the head!!!

I used Stampin' UP! Brushed Gold card stock and scored it so that it folds like a door...
I cut slits in the middle of each door to insert ribbon so that I can tie a bow to close the card..
I stamped with the border stamp from 'It's Maori Mate' Stamp set, and embossed it with gold embossing powder.
The Stamp-a- ma-jig was an invaluable tool to help me to get the design perfectly in line!!

I scanned the negative of the photo and blurred the background and made it Black and White.
I attached the invite and the photo underneath with a little bow kept in place with a gold brad.


Mass production.... They all look so NICE... It was hard to give them up!!!!! Lucky for Photos!!!

Elisa's Frangipani Wedding Invites

Another one of my Brides is getting married on the beach and she loves Frangipani's... She gave me her colour theme and I came up with these designs.... They could be used for anything really... Any one that loves Frangipani's...

We have changed the design totally... But these are some great samples!!! heheh

Cherish - Love - Scrappin'

I love Scrapping.. Only I just don't do enough.. so with that said this year I will be aiming to do much more!!! (Shameless plug) With our Paper Angels "Album in a Day" class.. well that is another way for others to Scrap some more too!!! ;) Yeah...

This is a lovely page that I did in a workshop recently.... Was really simple.. I think I am on a natural faze (colours) at the moment...


Oh yeah.... Eventually I will replace the photo... I drooped the ink pad when I was demonstrating... Opps!!!

Hera's Wedding Invites & Bonbonniere

I was able to design some lovely invites with a Beautiful "Bride to be"... I made a few examples for her to choose from and then once she had her photos done she was ready to make the final design decision...The 3 examples to choose from.... What will they be like???

Hera wanted to have the BEAUTIFUL photo to be the focus of the invite.. so we simplified the design heaps... And I found some Maori Art to put on the background of the vellum invite details so she could have some traditional homeland feel to it...

I love this photo!!! My girlfriend Nardia took it... She is a brilliant photographer.. She catches the inner beauty of people spectacularly!!! Take a closer look at the photo.. It looks like the top of their heads and the pointed elbows form a HEART shape!!! So brilliant!!!
Check out Nardia's Web site..... Click Here

This is and idea for the Boxes.. to be decided soon..

We were thinking that you could also put people names on the Bonbonniere's... That way they serve a double purpose... As a gift and a place card...

Wedding Bonbonniere Boxes

I am venturing further in to the world of Weddings!!!! (I already make Costume Jewelery, Hair Accessories and arrange flower Bouquets/arrangements for weddings.. )
And Now I have been expanding my wedding involvements into making some lovely little boxes.. In this photo I have added some past projects that can serve as a wedding Bonbonniere... there are so many more to discover!!! Yeah

Liz's Rub-on Class

Liz had this wonderful class with some of her customers... I was privileged to be able to attend and learned a wonderful Origami box!!! And used the sewing machine on some paper crafts for the first time eva...
The Scallop circle is for a Scrapbook page.. and the white is supposed to have a photo on it.. I've not put one yet.. as you can see... hehe...I loved the box so much!!! And have experimented with it a lot.. The kids and I were making them at church and we did it with all different size paper. We made boxes, with in boxes with in boxes!!!I found some instructions from the
origami-instructions site.. Click on link
To make a lid all you have to do is make the square 1cm smaller (eg. lid 12x12cm... bottom 11x11cm).. There were heaps of other things on the net.. It was interesting searching Origami... I have heaps of new things to try out...

Birthday Bash Class

We had a wonderful time making 6 Beautiful cards and a expanding folder for organising the years Birthday cards into... It was a great project and not hard... or expensive to reproduce... We used the Bali Breeze Designer Series Paper from our Spring Mini Catalogue... So it is very bright and cheery!!!! (* if anyone would like the instructions let me know)
And we got great use out of our new Scallop Stamps and Punches (also from the Mini Catalogue)This is another colour example... This was the test one... and I smudged the tabs.. so don't look too close!!!

Because we are Brothers....

I wrote a poem ("Because we are Brothers") to go with some photos that I have taken of the boys over time... My boys love to look at the photo albums.. but sometimes getting the big one (12x12) out is a little awkward!!! So I decided to make a small one.. As I am a big believer in recycling I had saved all the card backing from our stamping technique booklets... And covered them with some of our Prints Designer Series papers... (Old Olive and Brilliant Blue.... My boys colours are blue and green...) As the pages are small I printed out the photos in black and white and half the size of an 4x6 photo... Most photo places will allow you to do this with digital prints these days... Sometimes that service costs extra money so if you want to be thrifty find someone with a photo editing program... (I think you can even get a free one on line... to do this job) and save both photos onto a 6x4 .jpg template and combine them to make one photo...


The kids absolutely love this album.. And are so proud of it.. It is going to School for 'show and tell'... It's easy for them to handle and you can leave it on display.... It would be a great pressie for someone too!!! But not this one.. blood Sweat and tears went into it!!! It is not finished yet.. I have to buy some more ribbon and I have heaps more verses (I shortened these verses a little form the original as they were wordy... Cutting out the individual words WAS a great idea.. but very 'Fussy La La!'..
It's great to bind it with the curtain rings as you can add and subtract pages as needed!!!..

Paper Angels Christmas Pressy

Liz gave this beautiful album for all the Paper Angels who came to the last meting of 2008.. She worked her fingers to the bone!!!! What a wonderful woman she is.... Thanks Liz... (and Leonie for your help) We love you...xxxooo

She must be the angel Godmother... hehehe... (I'm sure she would hate that title!)

Trip to Melbourne

I went to Melbourne last month... And the highlight for me was leaving the family at home... wahoo!!!
No seriously it was....
Well I guess the other highlight was going to see "Wicked" (the untold story of the witches for the Wizard of Oz) How amazing was it????
But besides all that I was able to spend some time with my sister... I looked at her scrap books and checked out her room.... It is so important to have a designated domain!!! Anyway I had to take a photo of her canvas on the wall.. They are a great idea... I like the idea of doing a word and making other words and then having a great meaningful phrase after them... Man my English is how you say suck at the moment... been too long since I have posted on here...

This is just for you KATE!!! Kate is another Paper Angel and follows my blog and has been complaining that I am not giving her enough inspirational stuff this year!!!! Well I got the photos... but have to find the time to blog.. so over the next few weeks I should have some stuff ... OK???? Man some people are pushy!!!!
But I love em'... Gets me motivated.... Kisses.. Muwah xxxooo