Wish Big in 2010

It's 2010 & a New Year for new hopes & aspirations, so this seemed an appropriate card to share for my first day back.

This was one of the projects I made at demo training in November when we were getting ready for the new summer Mini catalogue to be launched.

It was designed by my upline Jacque & used one of our new stamp sets Animal Stories. I can just see it in pink with the saying welcome baby being used too.

Stamp sets: Animal Stories, Short and Sweet, Polka Dot (background stamp)
Ink: Bashful Blue, Brilliant Blue, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip
Paper: Bashful Blue, Old Olive, Whisper white
Other: Old Olive striped grosgrain ribbon, mat pack, dimensionals, scallop square punch - used upside down to create the waves - how cool is that!

If you'd like to know more about being a demo & getting to play with all the stamp sets before they're released check out some of my FAQs because Sale-a-bration is approaching fast & you can add onto the starter kit any stamp set up to $93.95 value. Becoming a demonstrator could just be the start of a whole new life. I for one can testify to that!

Do contact me personally if you are interested in knowing more or scheduling a free home workshop to make your own card in pink or blue.

Happy New Year all & may all your wishes come true.

Congratulations to my fantastic team mates

Jacque, Rachael & Patrice for achieving a free incentive trip to Noosa this year on SU! For me maybe a goal in 2 years time (I am allowed to dream).

Whilst they've been away we've been running cyber Cat's Away Challenges on our team demo forum (we wanted to have some fun too).

The last challenge was to make a congratulations card for them - as we all like real mail. Plus as I was hosting the challenges & the prizes I made some cards for the 4 winners too. So here they all are ready to be posted out Monday.


This was a take on my demo swap card from 1st September last year - gosh time flies fast!

Back then I used Wild Wasabi (I loved Wild Wasabi) and bright colours; this year I have used our new in-colours & this is the same colour scheme as Sherri's card that was my inspiration for last year's card.

Stamp set: Say It With Scallops, Polka Dot (Background stamp)
Ink: Tangerine Tango, Basic Black
Paper: Tangerine Tango, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White
Punches: Scallop circle, 1-⅜" circle, small star, handheld 1/16", sacllop border
Other: Linen Thread, Tangerine Tango striped grosgrain ribbon, gold brads

Note: the card is 3-⅞" wide so you get a perfect scallop border. I also love how the Congratulations looks in a 1-⅜" circle too.

Once again well done girls & everyone that took part in the team challenges.

Sweet Cupcakes Always

This is the make n' take we all got to make at demo training on Saturday. I just adore it & I now have another stamp set to add to my wishlist. Isn't it just YUMMY!


Stamp sets: Crazy for Cupcakes, Polka Dot (BG)
Ink: Regal Rose, Basic Brown
Paper: Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Sweet Always DSP
Other: Water colour crayons, aquapainter, regal rose grosgrain ribbon, word window punch, scallop edge punch, dazzling diamonds glitter, dimensionals

And this is another card I received at the SU! convention with almost the same recipe as above but "a chocolate version" - also equally yummy, created by Naomi Swan

Summer Mini Swap

Hi all I've had a busy week - theoretically on holiday but have been gardening, water blasting, sanding & on 2 days been a volunteer down at the ladies tennis tournament at Stanley St (this year we've had the world no 4 Elena Dementieva as our no. 1 seed & she's through to the final) so a full on week!! Update: She won the tournament.

Here's one of my piles of weeds so we can get at the house to start painting it:


I've had Pete's 18 year old son helping me which has been great (& Pete when he finished work) so we've achieved heaps but Keegan has used up all my broadband allowance - so no blog surfing for me :-(

I'll be back in a week & visiting & commenting again but just thought I'd like to share my demo swap for my team training tomorrow. We had to use something from the newly released Summer Mini catalogue for our swap - I've had to make it a quickie card as no time/playing for me plus my arms are aching! So the use of punches was called for......

I absolutely loved this card by Sherri Barron AKA Fun To Stamp blog - we don't have what I'm assuming will be the new in-colours in April '09 but love her colour combo of Tangerine Tango, Pacific Point & Kiwi Kiss (yes our humble kiwifruit has had a colour named after it). I emulated her card's colours with Pumpkin Pie, Taken with Teal and Old Olive but preferred the Wild Wasabi card with the Real Red scallop & Pumpkin Pie star so that became "my swap" - I also scallop-edged the bottom of the card as I so love my border punch!! It's the best thing since sliced bread.

I also discovered that if you cut your A4 card stock in half which gives you a 4-1/8" piece of card stock to fold in half & play with that it's a fraction big to make an even scallop edge so I changed the vertical cut to 3-7/8" which was perfect.


Stamp set/s: Say it with Scallops, Polka Dot (background)
Card stock: Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Basic Black
Other: Silver brad, 1-3/8" circle punch, scallop circle punch, scallop edge punch, small star punch, 1/16" handheld circle punch, linen thread, Wild Wasabi grosgrain ribbon