Bloomin' Marvelous Notecard Holder

This was the very cool project (but I maybe biased) that Sally Williams & myself helped Vicky-Lee Mueller with at our team's stamping extravaganza AKA as an afternoon of papercrafting with like minded ladies that involves food & door prizes - my idea of heaven.

Recipe
Stamps: Bloomin' Marvelous
Ink: Pool Party, Rich Razzleberry, Tangerine Tango
Paper: Core'dinations & smooth Pool Party, Rich Razzleberry, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Sycamore Street DSP
Other: Sycamore Street ribbon and button pack, Vine Street embossing folder, Apothecary Accents framelits, Finishing Touches edgelits, Bitty Butterfly punch, Dimensionals, Basic rhinestones, strong adhesive (Sticky Strip or equivalent), Stampin’ sanding block, Big Shot

As you can see the holder was designed to hold 4 SU! notecards & envelopes that Rachael Knight designed to co-ordinate with our project.

The Sale-a-bration exclusive items used in the 2 projects are Bloomin' Marvelous & Madison Avenue stamp sets, Sycamore Street DSP, Vine Street embossing folder, Sycamore Street ribbon and button pack. These items are only available until March 22nd & are FREE with any order greater than $120, no limits you earn one item for every $120 spent - this year we have 19 items to choose from, so we are really spoilt for choice. If you'd like to know more or would like to place an order don't hesitate to contact me.

3 sleeps to go now & owlfully cute

This card was swapped with me by Rachael Knight who actually has created this using one of our mds digital collection discs called Remember December - so it's no stamping! but it's so realistic you think it has been - being 3D (as she's done some paper toile) creates the illusion but talk about a really quick way to make a lot of Christmas cards. The stamp set is available in our new Holiday Catalogue & isn't called owfully cute (but it is) but is called Owl Occasions as it can be used for birthdays too! Set of 14 stamps.

So what's new today: mds (which stands for My Digital scrapbook), Owl Occasions & Dazzling Details glitter glue.

Rachael's comments "this is a hybrid project using MDS content in Microsoft Word. I used a laser printer to print on Whisper White cardstock, then layered it up & added embellishments".

Well Rachael says she's not very techno savvy but I think she's owfully clever!!!

What a delightful gift card holder!

Many thanks to Rachael Knight from our team who swapped this great idea with me. She used the punched out shape to be the closure/fastening mechanism & it works! I see Lisa Bullock from our team took the concept & made the wheels on a truck do the same!

I recreated Rachael's idea with Jolly Holiday DSP & the Christmas Cocoa DSP the sayings are from Snow Swirled. My only change was to take a small bite with a small oval out of the word window punched "slot".

Stamp sets: Delightful Decorations, Snow Swirled
Ink: Cherry Cobbler or Real Red, Old Olive or Early Espresso
Paper: Crumb cake (AKA Craft), Very Vanilla or Whisper White , Jolly Holiday or Christmas Cocoa DSP
Punches: Ornament, word window, small oval, scallop trim border
Other: Old Olive or Real Red 1/8" taffeta ribbon, dimensional, basic pearl or rhinestone, sticky strip, mini glue dot

Thanks Rachael what a great concept & it's quick & easy which are my favourite catch phrases for all things Christmas.

Sweet treat all right!

Looks at the cutest gift holder imaginable - Rachael AKA Knightstamper picked me up this cool dangly thing for my phone whilst in Hawaii recently & then she's given it to me in the best packaging ever!!

She's used the Sweet Treat Cups & it's matching stamp set Something Sweet now isn't that pretty! Thanks Rachael I will put it on my phone one day I promise! I've been busy prepping for my team's Extravaganza event on Saturday in case you wonder where I've been plus my mum has been a bit poorly the last few weeks; touch wood she'll be out of hospital soon.

 So I'll try & share some RAKs & ideas from my team in the interim.

Today is World Card Making Day

Yes October 3rd is WCMD every year and there's nothing better than getting cards in the box. I've been very fortunate this week and received not one but THREE cards in my letter box.

The first two are from my friend and fellow SU! demonstrator Rachael Knight and her lovely wee daughter Emma - now can you guess which one is Rachael's ;-) But truly they are both lovely and I can see that Emma will be as creative as her mum in the not too distant future!

This stunning card is from lovely SBS sister Michelle who has been having a hard time with her job lately, so to make herself  happy she's sent all her sisters (19 of us) a card, paper and stamped images. So we are very lucky sisters indeed.

So a BIG thank you Michelle, Emma and Rachael I am truly blessed!

So if you'd like to make someone's day a wee bit brighter Simply Sent Card Elements Kits could be just perfect for you.

They have all the ingredients to make 12 cards really easily: textured card stock, matching self adhesive die cuts, ribbons, buttons.

World Card Making Day is 3 October, but Stampin’ Up! is celebrating all month long! From 1-31 October, when you purchase Rock Star or Flower Power Simply Sent Card Elements, you’ll get 20 percent off the coordinating stamp set! All the details can be seen HERE by viewing the flyer.

So if you'd like to take up this great offer and make someone's day a better one you can contact me by e-mail by clicking HERE.

So happy WCMD to all may you letter boxes be overflowing with the RIGHT sort of mail!

Seeing Spots - no I'm seeing mail

thanks to the lovely Rachael AKA Knightstamper for my lovely thank you card using the very versatile Seeing Spots stamp set (which is one of the Bushfire Appeal sets), colours used are old olive & chocolate chip.

So a BIG thank you Rachael it's very lovely!!!

RAK from Rachael - The Knight Inker

Rachael very kindly made me this awesome wee note book - her covered notebooks are gorgeous & a wee card as a thank you present for starting up a blog for her - Impressions of a Knight Inker.

Aren't I a lucky girl - I'm sure it took me less time to set up the blog than create the goodies. If you want to know how she did them I'd suggest you contact her directly from her blog.

Thanks Rachael I love them.