Paper Crafting Monthly Blog Hop Friendly Hello Sale-a-bration

Hello and Welcome to our monthly international Blog Hop!

This month, our theme is Birthday - and the Friendly Hello bundle from Sale-a-bration is a totally marvellous way to help celebrate a birthday!!  

My inspiration has come from the sweet paper - which I have also coloured using Stampin' Blends - So Saffron and Soft Sea Foam keeping with the sweetness of the Petal Pink designer series paper.

I've created a small centre fold card which is a lovely way to show off gorgeous papers - and then stamped some of the images from the coordinating Friendly Hello stamp set onto my writing panel in the middle.  These are also coloured using Stampin' Blends with the Memento Black ink for the stamping.

The finishing touches are the greeting stamped onto the smallest Tailor Made Tag die and embellished with black glittery organza ribbon tied with bakers twine.  Lastly I added some sweet Elegant Faceted Gems.

Up next for some more great Birthday Inspiration is the amazing Maureen!

Here's the list of everybody in case you get lost along the way.

Shirley Merker

Sandra Roberts

Sue Boerner

Tracy Held

Annette McMillan

Julia Quinn

Maureen Rauchfuss

Mickey Moore

Joy Nelson 

Terri Stewart

Krissi Hannahs 

Sandy Ward 

You can earn this great bundle for FREE too! Click here to see all the details.

If you want it all, how about joining my team?  Click here for more information.

There's a gorgeous FREE stamp set for orders over $500 as well as all the other rewards - click here if you want to know more!! 

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in the Stampin' Up! Business opportunity - contact me to find out how.

Mini Catalogue Inspiration CTC#352

Hello and Welcome to our Sunday Night Blog Hop and Challenge CASEING the CATTY.

To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues.  

This week we are CASEING from the Mini Catalogue!!  

I have CASED the sweet heart card from page 8 - can you see my inspiration?

I've used the lovely Gingham embossing folder with vellum which gives a gorgeous white detail that I love!!    I have also used the wonderful Flowing Flowers stamp set instead of the hearts on the original.

The colours are also inspired by the catalogue project and they are:  Fresh Freesia, Pale Papaya, So Saffron and a tiny touch of Pear Pizzazz.  I've used some of the lovely soft frayed ribbon behind my main image instead of paper, and I've used the Rectangle Postage Stamp Punch for my greeting.  The stunning Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels are the same.

Inside features a simple stamped flower - so pretty!!

CASEING is such a great way to get back into the groove of stamping and cardmaking!!  

Need more inspiration?  Keep hopping around the team.  Up next is awesome Peta!!

You are always welcome to join in our challenge - add your projects here to our Facebook page!

Here's the link to shop and earn freebies!!

How about having a party with your friends and enjoy stamping together?  Click here!

The BEST deal in the catalogue is right here - join up and earn so much!!!  

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!)

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in the Stampin' Up! Business opportunity - contact me to find out how.

Try this gorgeous colour combination!!

Hello and Welcome to a brilliant colour combination!!

The Colour INKspiration challenge is celebrating it's 5th birthday - woohoooooo!!!  

And here are the colours - which I love!!!  Would you like to try this one too??

I was inspired by the photo as well as the colours and broke open my new bundle - Paradise Palms.

I've used the Layering Diorama dies for my window to the scenery, and sponged the 'ocean' using blending brushes and Pacific Point with Coastal Cabana.  The 'moon' and reflection were stamped using White ink.  The reflection stamp is actually the grass stamp from the Paradise Palms stamp set - looks cool hey!!  I created a little shaker window using window sheet and added glitter inside - which stuck to the white ink making it sparkle!!  I love that!!

I've also sponged a bit on the bottom of the inside panel of the card.  

What will you make with these colours?  Grab out your gear and get creating!!

INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by checking out all of the creations of the Colour INKspiration Crew in the challenge album on our Facebook page. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use neutrals such as Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand and Basic Black as well as Metallics.

Not a member of the Colour INKspiration Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.

Shop during Sale-a-bration and earn free exclusive products - click here!!

You can earn more free products when you host a party - click here for more details

Get 2 free stamp sets when you join Stampin' Up! as well as all the other awesomeness!!  Click here!

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!)

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in the Stampin' Up! Business opportunity - contact me to find out how.

Sale-a-bration Inspiration CTC#351

Hello and Welcome to our Sunday Night Blog Hop and Challenge CASEING the CATTY.

To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues. 

This week, we are CASEING from our Sale-a-bration catalogue!!  

Here in Australia we don't yet have all of the Sale-a-bration supplies available (shipping issues worldwide), BUT, we can still CASE from the pages with the projects!!  So I have CASED the lovely tall card on the page featuring the Daffodil Afternoon paper - page 4.

For my project I've used the fun black and white side of the Pattern Party paper from the hostess collection in our Annual Catalogue - so this was EASY.  I grabbed all the scraps in my drawer, chopped them to the approximate sizes and randomly added them all the way up a long strip of basic black cardstock.  

My colour inspiration came from the lovely print inside the slim line envelopes and the black and white is so easy to do.  All I needed to do then was choose the pop of colour - which is Granny Apple Green.  I've used the gorgeous Artfully Layered Bundle of the Artfully Layered stamp set and the Tropical Layers dies.  

The greeting on the inside of the card comes from the Special Moments Sale-a-bration stamp set - an absolute Must Have!!

This card was for my darling husband for our 31st Wedding Anniversary - and he did love it!!  

Make sure you keep hopping around everyone - you'll see some awesome projects!!  Up next is the marvellous Peta!!

And please share your projects inspired by the Sale-a-bration Catalogue into our Facebook Challenge page here!!

Introducing the Sale-a-bration Catalogue!!

Introducing the Mini Catalogue!!

We all love FREEBIES and ordering during Sale-a-bration is all about the extras!! Click here to go shopping and earn some goodies for you!

Click HERE to see all the awesomeness of Sale-a-bration!

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in the Stampin' Up! Business opportunity - contact me to find out how.

Joining NOW is Brilliant!!  There's MORE for you!!  Click here to see all the details