Stocking Punch - Rugby World Cup card

As many of you know New Zealand won the Rugby World Cup in October last year. It was many years ago that we last won so this is a BIG deal for us!! To celebrate this achievement I thought I would use the awesome stocking punch and make some rugby boots. You can easily change them to soccer, football, gridiron whatever! I used the crimper for the socks to make them stand out, especially as the winning All Black team wears 'all black' LOL.

The sentiment from Word Play was perfect for this. I used Pear Pizzaz for the Top Note but sponged it with Old Olive to give it more colour. The Rugby World Cup colours is green, white and blue, so I used the Pacific Point card base to replicate their scheme.

I have another great card using the stocking punch and crimper tomorrow - see you then!!!

Stocking punch - ballerina!!

I have made a series of cards using the stocking punch. This particular one i.e. the ballerina is inspired from Jackie Topa's tutorial she has for sale on her blog. She had a different skirt etc but the shoes are all her design. Over the next few days I will show you how I took her 'shoes' idea and ran with it - and I mean ran with it!!! lol I had a BALL (literally hee hee!)

There is SO MANY options when you think of it, it's just a matter of working out how to execute it.

So come back over the next few days and see how I turned the stocking punch into one of the most useful punches there is! Don't forget that Stampin' Up! aren't continuing with this punch so if you haven't got yours yet then ORDER IT TODAY!!! you don't want to miss out!!!

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Love that sparkles!

the last but by no means least is this love token box. I just LOVE using the new sparkly card from Stampin' Up! It punches really well which is what I've done here. It's a simple design but that's all you need with sparkle like this!! I stamped the "LOVE" stamp with markers to get the multi coloured look. Add a little ribbon and it's done!

I'm going to start a series of projects using the cute Stocking Punch from tomorrow - so be sure to come back for another visit.

See you then. :)

SWEET MAMBO!!

I decided to make the Melon Mambo box into a 'sweet treat' type box. I love the Melon Mambo with Pumpkin Pie combo. The rickrack is made with the Tasteful Trim Big Shot die - I ALWAYS use the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets (MAS) when I am using dies that are fiddly to stick down. It makes it SOOOO much easier - I cut a strip of the MAS just a bit bigger than what I'm cutting out - stick it to the card stock then put through the Big Shot. It's REALLY great when doing alphas too!

Back to the box .... I used the doilies stamp set (and matching DSP) to pretty this wee box up.

Another box to show tomorrow - hint - it's got SPARKLE on it! lol

thanks for looking today :)

mini takeaway boxes

This tower of mini takeaway boxes are a fun way to make cool gift boxes. I made them using the Cone Petal Die (you use two with a bit cut off the bottom 3" from the top and a score mark 2" from the top) and I also made the handles from bangle wire. Over the next few days I will show you how I decorated these three funky boxes.

Today's box I have kept to the 'oriental' theme.

I used 4 different stamp sets for this but kept to Basic Black and Real Red ink. The 'flag' thing on the handle is also part of the die and I stamped it with this neat stamp from "Bring on the Cake" which I reckon gives the look of the fortunes found in fortune cookies! lol

Come back tomorrow (yes I am back blogging again!) to see another version.

Thanks for visiting!

and the winner is .....

this afternoon I have entered the numbers into www.random.com from the below list

1 - Lisa Bullock

2 - Paul Reid

3 - Sally Williams

4 - Carolyn S

5 - Narelle Hoggard

6 - Tia Routledge

7 - Ms

8 - Glenda

9 - Rhonda

10 - Angie Jones

from the list of all those who commented on my blog post for my Totally Scored Ustamp with Dawn project. And the winner is:

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a BIG congrats to Narelle who I know will be so happy to join me at the next Ustamp round! Thanks to all those who entered - it's not to late to join in the fun!!!

what an awesome start to the year with Ustamping with Dawn - Let's Score

This is my current Ustamp with Dawn project

This round of UStamp with Dawn and Friends is all about the new Scoring Tool released to the American market recently. Unfortunately we 'down under' don't have it in our current catalogues but we keep our fingers crossed! lol One advantage of designing for this UStamp rounds is that Dawn sent me a score tool!! how COOL is that!! It's a fabulous tool and I LOVED working with it!.

Why not join up now and get the tutorials by the best of the worlds Stampin' Up! designers and have a BALL while doing so!

I have a free pass to hand out for the next round of UStamp so leave a message and I will pick a winner thru random.com.