I'm home now and recovering from a FULL on 4 days in Canberra at the annual Stampin' Up! convention. The excitement, the friendliness, the fun – it was all just so amazing. Every year I really enjoy it and come away buzzing, and this time was no exception. The creative classes were inspiring and informative and the business classes were…
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Embossed Butterflies
A CASE off the net – Many thanks to the original artist Amy Risary. I loved the simplicity of the butterflies and the cool use of DSP. I’ve used the Paisley Petals DSP here: AND I like how we’ve used a few of the butterflies from the Bigz Butterfly Die that I don’t normally use. It comes with four, and…
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A Case of a Mother’s Day or Beautiful Card
I saw this project of Debbie Lamb's up on Facebook and just had to make one! Such a clean and elegant design – using the new dies that are so fantastic! This one really isn't that hard to make once you've got all the pieces out. It's a fair bit of die cutting and embossing, but such a lovely effect….
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Waterfall Mini Album with French Foliage
This was a lovely project presented to us at the Demonstrator Stamp Camp in March by Ria Kaire. We all really enjoyed making this – and I titled mine up so I had a little album for an upcoming weekend in Waipu. And typical me, I didnt' get it entirely done until the night before we left for the trip!! …
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Well Worn Teenage Boy Scrapbook Layout
I had an entire day at home with no where to go, so I spread out and thoroughly enjoyed the creation of this page of Bayley, Rob's son. My challenge was to use the Well Worn papers, which was easy enough as they are lovely to work with – blending nicely and none of the prints too loud. See my…
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