A new MUST HAVE iPhone app from Stampin' Up!

It's a bird! It's a plane! 

No, it's a new app from Stampin' Up!

15 November 2012 It has been hard to keep this a secret—we’re so excited about it! We have created a card-making application, and we already have a great name for it: Simply Sent! This iPhone app allows customers to create an e-card—from a template or completely on their own—and send it via e-mail or post it on Facebook. And it’s free!
Here’s something you should know about this app: it’s not My Digital Studio on a mobile device, not even close. This scaled-back version will only give customers a taste of what they can create when they buy MDS. We want to get our name and our art out there so more people than ever before will know about Stampin’ Up! We hope you’ll get excited about it as well and that you’ll do the following:
Download it from iTunes or the App Store, share it with all your friends, and post a review! The more positive reviews it gets, the more prominent place it takes in the iTunes store. 
Try it out! IT"S FUN!!!

It's a Vine n Flowery day

I love love love my new BIG SHOT dies.... As soon as I purchased these 2 NEW ones I just had to try them out.. so I designed these 2 lovely pages for one of my Angel Ave classes....

This first one uses the lovely  NEW Lattice Bigz (115958)... I folded the 12" x12" card stock so that it was just inside the cutting edges and made this FANTASTIC statement piece down the side of my page.... A glorious filigree lattice border....

This page I used the Bigz™ Die Snow Flurry (127813) from the Holiday Catalogue.... I used the medium sized snow flake as the stamen type looking thingys... (right now my Eglich is how you say suck!!!) but if you just look at the picture you should get what I am trying to say :P....

Hope you have a DeVINE time trying new things with your Big Shot dies...

Cut n paste Scrappin'

Simply BEAUTIFUL!!!! That is how I would describe these scrapping pages..

Normally in a class I would only have us complete two pages.. but because these ones were basically just cutting and pasting... well the ladies got a treat and we completed all three... They really are VERY easy....

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Enjoy the simplicity!!!

Bleaching & INKS

I love Bleaching and inking... just take some plain old white card stock and make it whatever you desire!!!

In a recent class I helped my ladies EXPLORE the wonders of reinkers with your card making....
We spritzed the paper down with a little water and then took some reinkers and placed one drop of each colour randomly over the paper.... then set it aside to dry... I LOVE the bold colours!!! It's such a cool FUN technique... and every time it is totally different!!!

Then we took a piece of A4 card stock to make a background for a scrapbook page.... Sometimes it is hard to find a masculine piece of DSP.... so again why not make your own...???

Spritz your paper with water again.. than take your aqua painter pen and dip it into some reinker ink and randomly squiggle on your page.... do some bleaching and some stamping and whalah you have a very cool individual MANLY page....

I honestly think experimenting is the best!!! And I LOVE playing and getting messy with my ART!!! Who wants to grow up if you have to always obey rules??? I say Play the day away!!!

Happy Play time.. ENJOY your work!!!!!

November-December Angel Ave Classes 2012

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…

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

Sat 3^rd …. 2pm.. Cards that move… $15

Fri 9^th… 7pm… Brag book part 2 ... $15

Wed 14^th … 10am or 7pm…. Framed… create a beautiful piece of wall art… Frame included… $25- $30

Fri 23^rd … 10am or 7pm…Scrapping.. $15

Wed 28^th 10am or 7pm… Christmas Tags… $15

 Fri 30th ... 7pm.. Christmas Stamp n Stack... $15

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

Sat 8^th … 10am… Christmas Decos… $15

Wed 12^th … 10am… Paper Bag Books… $15

Come have some fun with me making some lovely gifts and things for Christmas...

INK-credible Hostess Promotion 2012

Can you BELIEVE this INK-credible Hostess Promotion???

From 1 November through 16 December, host a minimum $650 Stampin' Up! party and get a FREE collection of ink pads*-a $79.95 value-in addition to our other fantastic benefits!

Your Party Sales**	Free Ink Collection	Hostess Credit	Items at 50% Off
$650	Yes!	$100	1 item
$800	Yes!	$130	2 items
$1000	Yes!	$160	3 items
$1250+	Yes!	$200	4 items

Contact me today to take advantage of this INK-credible offer.!!!

Christmas Gift with Purchase Promotion 2012

Dates: 1-30 November 2012

Promotion Details:  It's only November, but Stampin' Claus is coming to town! Get a FREE Festive Paper-Piercing Pack when you purchase the Ornament Keepsakes Set and Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper Bundle.
Choose from the following options:

Item	Description	Retail Value	Special Price
132260	Christmas Gift Pack (wood-mount) Includes Ornament Keepsakes Set (wood-mount), Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper, Festive Paper-Piercing Pack	$96.85	$82.90
132261	Christmas Gift Pack (clear-mount) Includes Ornament Keepsakes Set (clear-mount), Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper, Festive Paper-Piercing Pack	$84.85	$70.90
132262	Christmas Gift Pack (wood-mount bundle) Includes Ornament Keepsakes Bundle (wood-mount), Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper, and Festive Paper-Piercing Pack	$123.85	$109.90
132263	Christmas Gift Pack (clear-mount bundle) Includes Ornament Keepsakes Bundle (clear-mount), Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper, and Festive Paper-Piercing Pack	$113.85	$99.90

The Fine Print

• See those special item numbers above? You've got to use those in order to get your FREE Festive Paper-Piercing Pack.
• Customers can get a FREE paper-piercing pack by purchasing the Ornament Keepsakes Set and Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper or the Ornament Keepsakes Bundle and Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper. Remember: the bundle gets you an additional 15 percent off the set and the Holiday Ornaments Framelits Dies. So many options!
• Any order type qualifies for this promotion-customer, demonstrator, or workshop. 
• This promotion has no limits-for every bundle you buy, you'll get a free Festive Paper-Piercing Pack. They make great Christmas gifts!

Paper Angels Meeting - June & July 2012

The Hands on approach that we have at our Paper Angel Training meetings is wonderful!!!! I love that we always make lovely inspiring projects at every meeting... and I especially love that we are encouraged to bring show and tell... Our team are all so TALENTED!!!! Its a joy to go each month and mix with the Awesome bunch!!! Here's some of the cards we have created....

Card Classes

KENG Craft group love creating really different cards.. these are just some
of the fun cards we have made over the last few months...

The wooden sign post card on the right is the one that we did at KENG and the one on the right is what Michelle did with the card... When people take things home and put their own flair on it and make is so much better.. I just love it!!!!

The Little shopping bag one is quite cute and is a great way to use up little bits of left over DSP...

The Golf card is so cool for men!!!



The BEAUTIFUL cup cake stand is such a CUTE card!!! EVERYONE loves this one!!!

You can get a GREAT effect with Watercolor Wonder Crayons and your aqua pen... if you draw directly onto your card stock and then go over each colour individually you can make lovely rainbow!!!! Just like this card...


Shabby Chic is always a popular choice in card making... and using your collection of old buttons is a great way to decorate your cards!!!

Cards for the Birds

So have you noticed that for the last coupe of years BIRDS are quite the popular decoration.... ESPECIALLY owls...

This card is such a cute card!! It was inspired by someone's card on Stampin connection... Kim, one of our Paper Angels is AWESOME at finding fantastic cards on Stampin Connection (Exclusive to Stampin Up Demos around the world.. web site to share ideas, creations, Chat groups and get help) and when she shows us her discoveries on a Tuesday at Bayside craft group... well we just have to get her to send us the photos that she has taken so we can recreate them too!!!....

I love that you can change the owls expression with simply by putting the little white gel pen shine in different places....

Everyone loves this one...

Angry Birds are all the RAGE!!!! Bec showed us at a Paper Angels Training meeting.... this great card she had done at a workshop and I just had to go home and recreate it!!!! Some people are just so talented when they create punch art!!!!

Simply Cute Cards

How cute and easy is this card.... All you do is cut a strip of Card stock and punch out a shape multiple times stick some ribbon down the side stamp your greeting and whalah you are done in a mater of minutes... a cute card for any occasion....

This one here was made for Mothers day with my church group of 8 to 11 year old kids... they had heaps of fun creating this one... and it was an easy one to make too!!!

Bleaching Goodness!!!

Oh My GOODNESS... I LOVE LOVE LOVE BLEACHING!!!!!!!!!!!
Again one of the techniques from convention that was demonstrated to us... I just had to come home and try this one.... How much do I LOVE it... let me count the ways.... one millionty times ~~~~~
 

With this technique you can create any kind of backing paper you want..... so no more excuses for not begin able to get a backing page (DSP) to match your photos anymore!!!! It's AMAZING and SO ARTY!!! It gives you a real sense of satisfaction to see the pages come to life right before your eyes... and with the bleaching it is a little like magic!!!! Words just do not explain how exciting it all really is.. you will just have to try it yourself!!!!

The below is a picture of the page that I demoed at one of our meetings... if you would like to see the UTube video of our training click this link... (link to come)

Have a BLEACHING good time!!!

Big Shot Class

Convention is ALWAYS inspiring.. and although it may have been a few months ago I am still getting inspiration out of all the fantastic ideas we saw there.... I designed this class from a couple of the LOVELY projects that were presented to us by one of the demonstrator presenters....

There are so many ways you can use your Stampin Up tools and Big Shot dies!!!! Then only limits are your imagination and creativity!!!

By folding your card stock a little smaller than your dies cutting edges you can achieve a larger sized or a chain of the big shot die.... these 2 pages use  the  Scallop Square Bigz Clear (115950) and the Blossom Party Originals (115971)... You can have as much fun creating pages as we had on this trip to Scarborough (fair)....
Enjoy EXPERIMENTING!!!

We all Fall Down

I love the fact that in life we all fall down.. Nothing is perfect.. And the truth of the matter is... that is how we learn.... some may fall harder than others..... have you watched children playing lately????? What do they do when they fall down????? Yep that's right they get right back up again and keep on going... we sure can learn so much from them.... May we all face life's challenges with the youthful outlook... and get right back up again on our feet and keep trying....

These are some great random 'natural' photos I took on the way to the park and at the park one day with my boys and Liz's... My Boys had never roller bladed before.. and it was wonderful to watch them as they learned to (mess up...heheheh) master this new skill... what was so heart warming was the fact that the boys were all willing to lend a hand to each other when needed... and the 2 youngest at one stage shared one blade each.... doesn't it just melt your heart!!! What good boys!!!!

This page was inspired by one that we saw at this years Stampin' Up! convention... I've used the Top note die and folded the card stock in four so that there is a great photo mat under the photos... The Simply Scored has come in handy also for the fabulous box pleated DSP strip...

My lovely Sister and her Daughter are a couple of my favorite people.. although we do not get to spend a lot of time together they are always in my heart and mind.... and cause I have little boys... well the whole pretty flower thingy needs a little more feminine photos.. and one can only scrap so many of ones self!!! (especially when one is sooooooooooooo fussy about which photo one likes of ones self!!!) I am so glad that I do have some REALLY nice photos of them together from their interstate visits with us.... It may have taken me a couple of years to scrap these ones but I have finally done it!!!!

I took a whole 12 x 12" page of DSP and ripped a section out of it.... then rolled the edges of the ripped section over, glued it down to a full page of Whisper White 12x12 card stock and laced the top of it together with some lovely ribbon....

This STUNNING flower is one of my ALL TIME FAVOURITES!!!! It has been made with 3 punches, Card stock, Rhinestone Brad and a spritz bottle of water...
1. Simply punch out two of the Blossom punch (125603), three of the 5 Petal Flower (now retired :(...), and two of the middle sized flower in the Boho Blossoms punch (119858)....
2. Spritz them all with your water spritz... and then go to town scrunching them up like they are rubbish... I even roll them arround in my hands when they are in little balls....
3. Once they are mostly dry you can then layer them and pierce a hole in the middle of them then secure all layers with a brad...Continue to play with the shape and the scrunching of each petal a little to get the right look... Once it is dry you will find your flower will keep it's shape very nicely!!!

 Enjoy Crafting!!!!

Paper Angels Annual Christmas Card Fundraising Event 2012

Come along and have some fun while helping to raise funds for the Marter Mothers Bereavement Program.. for more info please call or email me.... Looking forward to catching up!!

September October Angel Ave Classes - 2012

Angel Ave CLASSES

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…

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

Friday 21^st… 7pm… Scrapbooking $15

Friday 28^th … 7pm… Punch Art $10

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

Wednesday 10^th … 10am or 7pm… Stamp n Stack $15

Saturday 20^th … 7pm … Scrapbooking $15

Saturday 27^th Paper Angels Christmas Card EVENT!!! At Lions Club $65

Bookings and payment must be made by 13/10/12.. in order to have your products for the day!!!