Stampin' Up! Stampin Blends

How does one explain how AWESOME Stampin' Blends are???

Well you just gotta sit down and play with them..
They are TOTALLY AWESOME!!!  And I love them..

I've never been really good colouring in with pencils.. or felt pens.. but man these are so great.. Even I feel a little like a professional!!!

My First play with them (about 8 months ago) was to colour in the Garden Girl stamp.. She is so cute.. then I thought I'd do some swaps with some Blend colouring in to hopefully inspire others to catch the Blending Bug!!!

And now with the FANTASTIC New Annual Catty there are more colours to collect.. and If that wren't enough for you then take a look at the Holiday Catty (Sept 2018) there are HEAPS more colours.. Wahoo!!!! I'm LOVIN' them!!!

Want to learn how to use them?? come to a class... And I can give you some pointers...

Stampin Up! Convention - Melbourne 2011

Some of the things I LOVE LOVE LOVE about convention is the wonderful projects we see... The fantastic swaps we receive and the Awesome fun and inspiration that is ALWAYS had...
Here are just a few photos of the swaps I received... And I have already made a few that were inspired by these in my weekly classes and some of my workshops.... Thank you to all the wonderful people who swapped with me... You are all AMAZING!!!!  I tried to group the photos so that there was not 70 individual photos.......

 I received some fantastic 3D projects... and some great use of other materials like Shrink plastic earnings, Scallop circle flower ring... Denim pocket pouch... and some lovely mini canvas art

These are some AWESOMELY made more male cards.....   The motorbike one at the back with the Extreme Elements as the back ground has been a HIT.... Everyone I have demoed it with has LOVED it!!! Thank you Miriam Spiess!!! Creative Genius... And of course I had to purchase the Extreme Elements after seeing this card.. because it is a FANTASTIC and versatile stamp set for either Male or female cards.... I've never even noticed it before!!! My what a change a swap can make...
The other cards are just as brilliant only I find I have to purchase more stamp sets to recreate them.... In time... (*sigh)

How are these cards for CUTE punch art??? Sandra Miller made the ABSOLUTELY DIVINE Geisha Girl.......  And the had bags are made from the Cup Cake Punch..(sorry no name was on this one if you are reading this and you know who made it please let me know) And the very creative dress on a hanger... SOOOOOOOOO lovely... and AWESOME way to use scraps... Created by Peta Schirmer..

 Cup Cake Punch and other Cute Ideas....

Lovely Designs....

 Soft Shabby Chic... I love these.. they are all so elegant!!! Wonderful colour combos!!!

 Flowers and Nature... I am so spoiled for choice.. Which ones to re-create now???

Shabby Chic and Butterflies... I am thinking that Shabby Chic could be my new love!!! I am feeling a bit of a style enhancement coming.... The one in the back left corner was made by Michelle Corbett... And i have shared it at a couple of the community craft groups.. using the new stamp set that we received as our convention stamp set... Oh my it looks lovely.. Thank you for your inspiration Michelle!!!
And I am TOTALLY loving the one in the front Center created by Michelle Zahra.... (Man these Michelles are creative!!! It must have something to do with their name??) I can't wait to re create this one!!!

 More nature and Butterflies.. I think Butterflies are the new in thing too... There seemed to be a lot of them around.. Butterflies are BEAUTIFUL!!!!

I hope this wonderful collection of swaps inspires you as much as they inspire me!!!
Happy Creating

Stampin' UP! Brisbane Regionals 2010 Swaps

These are the swaps that I received... I was a little sad that I did not swap all I had made.. but when you are to be a presenter at a training meeting you help to set the rooms up, the make n take boxes, Put up the display boards and help register other Stampin' UP! Demos as they arrive for the day... .. so we worked our little hearts out.. but it was fun.... and not with out it's rewards.... :)

Who Who.. says the owl is not cute???? He seemed to feature on quite a few cards.. Looks like he is quite popular!!! and I am loving the butterfly die cuts for the big shot!!!! I so have to get me some of them!!!!!!!
Black White and Red... seems to be quite popular too.. but isn't it a beautiful and sophisticated colour combo???I love it when you get something that is a little different or with a little treat in it... the white top not at the back has a bit of nougat in it... I love the little tea cup.. it is made on the bigshot with the pillow box... how cute is that??? In the little gift card there was a little surprise of loads of circle punched out confetti.. heheh... It was funny when someone open it and it all spill everywhere. And the Red, White and Eggplant is a bookmark that covers the corner of the pages in your book.... A neat idea...

I am loving this natural colour combo of the colours in the Elegant Soirée Papers $16.95 (Page 127 Australia Ideas Catalogue 2010-2011) (Baja Breeze, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake,
Very Vanilla, Basic Gray)


And these ones are lovely too...

I love the colour combo on this card.. It is not a colour combo that I would have put together but it really works... and I really like it.. bright and festive.. Just the way Christmas should be!!!

Again thanks to all those who swapped with me... there really is some great ideas here...

Happy creating...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mass Production with a formula

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

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

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

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

Stampin' UP! 2009 Regionals Card Pictures

Conventions Swaps Recieved

I have taken group photos of the swaps that I receive... I spent a whole day last week trying to separate all the display board photos form convention... I got really tired of cropping!! so these are going to be all together.. If there is anything you like just double click and save the photo on your computer.. then you can crop them....

Swapping is fun... It's great to get new ideas... and receive cards that may have a different colour combo than you would use.. or cute ideas for hostess gifts etc.. Enjoy looking..

Brought to you by all the wonderful Demonstrators I (and Liz) swapped with at Australia/Canberra 2009 Celebrate Convention... With out them I'd have one design times 75!!!! Thank you all!!!

Swaps..... Preperations for going to Stampin' UP! Celebrate Convention 2009

Now SWAPS are a part of "Convention Culture"... and are a must for one to have the whole convention experience.. not to mention that it is COOL to have new ideas for projects etc and a GREAT way to meet other wonderful talented Stampin' Up Demonstrators (Australia wide)... And awesome for those of us who are shy with strangers...

(*yes girls I am.... believe it or not.. I suck at small talk... great to get in to a D&M with!!! but I don't particularly care about the whether.... cause today I am ALIVE!!! And usually it's great... and if it's not.. then you just smile and pretend.. so that eventually you fool yourself into having a great time!!! you know "Fake it till you make it"!!! That's not being false or fake.. just being positive.. I'll always tell you if I am feeling Crappy I just add it to the pile of poo in my life... you get used to the smell eventually... but I'll do it with a smile.. and move on quickly... Besides I have craft in my life.. who could not be HAPPY with that???)

Back to SWAPS... I get a little side tracked sometimes....

SWAPS... sometimes the inspiration comes fast.. Usually it comes slowly.. especially if you have been to one or 2 conventions B4... You want to demonstrate something cool.. new.. and pretty... but the pressure we sometimes put on ourselves to come up with that 'different' idea... well it's just too much... And let me tell you that someone somewhere in the world will have thought about 'your' idea B4... So just relax and take the pressure off yourself and create something that you enjoy... because you are gonna make A LOT of them...!!!

With that in mind.. I came up with hair clips this year.... And thought I was very original... but discovered days later that in the USA Stampin' UP! Catalogue on page 35 there are some hair clips... dough!!!

However It was a labor of love!!! (if you get board.. then change colours.. that may help??)
another tip... Take all your swaps on the first day and SWAP LIKE A MAD WOMAN!!!! As a result of not taking them all on the first day... I have some of these left... yes you live and learn the culture!!! Please learn form my mistakes... Especially if you do more than 50 swaps...!!!

If anyone is interested in these.. please call me or email me or message me on here.. I will send you one(or 2)!!! or you can come pick one (or2) up!!! Anytime... They may reappear at Regional training... or could be Hostess rewards for a little while!!!

I do have heaps of swaps that I received and am yet to take some photos of.. I will be putting them up soon.. so stay tuned

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

First "Paper Angels" Meeting

Paper Angels is the name of our team of 'Stampin' Up demonstrators. We had our first meeting this week and I was so nervous about the card swap! Because I have only been "Playing with my new Stampin' Up stuff for about a week. but I managed to put this card together. I think it turned out alright. I Love the water colour crayons and the Aqua brush!!! Makes my fast slaphappy crafting look GOOD!!! It's all soooooo easy.

Materials used:- Rich Regal colour range Card stock & Water Colour Wonder Crayons, Rose Red, Taken with Teal, So Saffron and Ballet Blue. Versa Mark Stamp pad. Clear Embossing powder. Wonderful Words & Birthday Best Stamp Sets.