Mini album using designer paper

Wow who could imagine taking 1 sheet of DSP & creating a wee album with places/slots for journalling tags. This is one of the cool ideas my upline Jacque learnt at convention last year & we both demonstrated at the Hamilton Extravaganza recently.

The stamp set used is Live Your Dream which as a set didn't grab me at first but it's so versatile - has a huge flower, wee flower spray, butterfly, bird, 3 flowers in a row, the saying "Thanks", a really cool saying "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams" and dotted lines for journalling or the like. Live Your Dream is also one of the stamp sets that SU! are donating half it's retail value ($66.95) to the bushfire appeal - this means YOU are responsible for donating $33.50 to the appeal plus getting a stamp set - what a deal!

I'm off to Convention this year so hope I come back with lots of cool ideas like this too.

Here's a LINK to a very sweet mini album Jacque has created using Le Jardin DSP & dare I say it, when both her & Jared were looking a wee bit younger.

Team training continued...

Just a real quick post to share the swaps from the team training the other night. I had to laugh it was the first thing the girls wanted to do when they walked in my door even more important than playing with chocolate - the theme was to use a Sale-A-Bration set if you had it.

So Clare & me played along & Debbie made a really cool tag card which is just such an awesome idea to use up those scraps of designer paper lying on your desk.

from Clare using Botanical Blooms:


from Debbie using those "scraps of Afternoon Tea DSP"


and my effort I cased this from Tracy Harp on SCS - when I saw hers I thought what a cool tree! I knew you could punch the flower out in the SAB Polka Dot Punches set but hadn't realised that this stamp Tracy/I've used could also be punched with the scallop circle punch (duh) - this would make a really cool tree on a scrap book page too. I added the wee bird from Live Your Dream stamp set too

So even though we're small a great effort by all & hopefully the whole team maybe able to make the next meeting plus we have a new team member Sally Williams from Massey East - so a BIG welcome to the WOW paperKRafters to increase our ranks.

BLING Time

This was the latest challenge from my SBS sister Janet but surprisingly I found it hard! Guess I'm just not a bling girl. I used a "reject" from an Always Stamp Class that I attended. My original card I gave away to my dear friend Judy & SBS sister who also struggled with this challenge. You can see it HERE.

I've used the soon to be released Live Your Dream flower & butterfly to make the background (I love these wee stamps).

My bling is a rhinestone brad from my Stylised Silver Hodgepodge, & also coloured up one of the Pretties flowers with Blue Bayou ink & Kindy Glitzed the other to make sparkly. It does look really pretty IRL.

Stamp sets: Always, Live Your Dream, Occasional Greetings
Ink: Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, Old Olive, Creamy Caramel
Card stock: Soft Sky, Old Olive, Whisper white
Other: Pretties kit, Stylised Silver, Kindy Glitz (Derivan)

Farewell Tuihaina White

Tui & her family are off to Perth & she will be sorely missed by all us stampers. She took me under her wing at my first card class when my eyes were as big as saucers.

Jacque thought it would be cool to give her a 6x6 page layout of ourself or our favourite recipe for her to take with her on her travels. Which is a GREAT idea. So I found this cool picture of myself in the bush in New Zealand so she can definitely remember what she is leaving behind!

We'll miss you but hopefully we'll all catch up at Convention in Canberra next year; if I can afford to get there. So all the best & definitely Go Confidently in the Direction of your Dreams

Stamp set: Live Your Dream
Card stock: Wild Wasabi, Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Afternoon Tea DSP
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Chip marker
Other: Scallop border edge punch, round tab punch

Have just found out that Tui's favourite foods are curry & pumpkin so changed my mind what making for the farewell dinner to Chicken & Baked Pumpkin - very nice, so click HERE to preview the recipe.

Update from the Regional training

Hi all I do not know where the days go. Just a quickie from Saturday's demo training but I saw lots of great ideas which I will share when I have time. We got to play with the Live Your Dream stamp set, the I can hardly contain myself scallop edge border punch & the gorgeous Afternoon Tea DSP again - only 2 months to the launch of the Summer Mini catalogue & their official release.

This time I got to make a matchbook card - very quick & easy but rather effective.


Stamp set: Live Your Dreams
Card stock: Soft sky (textured), Chocolate Chip, Afternoon Tea DSP
Ink: Groovy Guava, Chocolate Chip
Other: Metal edge tag, groovy guava DS grosgrain ribbon, Scallop edge punch, 1/16" circle punch, linen thread