a twirly-whirly birthday!

this is another very simple card using the Sent with Love stamp set and paper. The sentiment is from Wishes Your Way which I find is a FAB stamp set for not only the Pinwheel die but with all cards. It has the following sentiments too: 'thank you', 'happy birthday', 'best wishes', 'you are headed in the right direction', 'blowing wishes your way' and the 'wishing you a twirly-whirly birthday' - all for only $37.95 for wood mount or $29.95 for clear mount.

The colours I've used are Pool Party, Real Red and Whisper White. Honestly the hardest part of this card was the bit of cutting around the stamp, which was easy! 

Contact me today if you would like to order any of these products - julia.leece@vodafone.co.nz

Envelope card

Here is another card I made using the Sent with Love DSP and matching stamp set. The colours are Calypso Coral and Pool Party - two colours that you wouldn't normally put together -well I wouldn't but it is quite striking! I thought that this sentiment from Victor Borge was perfect for this card that looks like an envelope. That's from the 'Feel Goods' stamp set -from the current Seasonal Catalogue. 

I have two more cards to share that I made yesterday :) see you soon!

AIR FORCE scrap page

YAYYYYYY I finally got into my craft room today! and I made this scrap page using the new "Sent with Love" DSP. It was the PERFECT paper for this photo as both the DSP and the photo are very retro. I've added a picture of the DSP below so you can see all the papers. This is the one that is on special at the mo - scroll down a bit for the details.

the photo itself is if my husband, the youngest, and his brothers with their mum on an aircraft carrier ship back in the 1960's. I used the matching Sent with Love stamp set and also the Up Up Away stamp set for the 'the sky's the limit' stamp. 

I really enjoyed to finally ink up some stamps and cut some paper! lol I made 3 cards from the same DSP but you will have to wait for those to be shown - gotta spread these out! hehe

sorry no crafting at the mo

sorry I have no projects to share with you at the mo, I'm home with bronchitis and so no crafting to be done :( but I'm on antibiotics now so hopefully I will pick up soon and head back into my craft room. I can still process any orders so email me directly on julia.leece@vodafone.co.nz or you can shop directly online thru my online shop - the button is on the top left of this page.

Mustache and Top Hats!

Today is my greater team training held once a month at my upline Jacque's house. I'm really annoyed I can't go as I have a bad chest cold and probably not nice to share with everyone else! But I did manage to get my swaps done which was a masculine theme. I know many people struggle with making cards for guys - me including - so I can't wait to see everyone samples! 

I decided to use a 'Christmas' stamp set (as you do in April! lol) as I got this set Styln' Snowfolk because of these stamps - esp. the mustache stamp. It did take a bit of Stampin'-Ma-Giging (it is a word - honest! lol) to get all six parts in the right place. The sentiment is from Happy Hour and I used the stripes Big Shot Embossing Folder. To make the stripes go down the card like that I had to emboss the Pacific Point twice, as the folder is designed to have the stripes go from the shortest end not the wide width like on this card. The stripes embossing folder is by far the easiest one to do this with. 

The colours are Basic Black, Whisper White AND Pacific Point - which is a colour I don't use often. You could make this in ANY colour and I did think about making different colours but with being sick all week I couldn't stretch my brain enough to do this hee hee.

 When I bagged up the swaps yesterday I noticed some of my layers in them were crooked, oh well that's what happens when your unwell! lol Have a great weekend :) 

Colour Refresh!

wow - time for a colour refreshment! Stampin' Up! have just announced that colours are a changin'. Most of the new colours coming have been past In Colours but we are saying goodbye to some you have grown to love. BUT if you do LOVE a colour that is retiring as at 31 June you must NOW order your stamp pad, paper, ribbons, REINKER!!! as once it's gone it's gone!!!!!! There ARE limited amounts. If you have any questions contact me :)

ALSO 

WATERCOLOURING - do you love watercolouring? it's lots of fun and reminds me of colouring in as a child! Stampin' Up! have been offering watercolouring pencils and crayons for a while now but due to unforeseen circumstances their supplier isn't able to carry on providing the top quality products so the current stores are all that will be available.
The following items are only available while supplies last. Get ‘em before they’re gone!

101879: Watercolor Pencils
119802: Subtles Collection Watercolor Wonder Crayons
119803: Regals Collection Watercolor Wonder Crayons
119804: Brights Collection Watercolor Wonder Crayons
119805: Neutrals Collection Watercolor Wonder Crayons

contact me TODAY to get your order in

Wedding Wishes

This weekend one of the ladies in my team is getting married. She is a very creative lady and I wanted to create a elegant and eye catching card. I love using ribbon on cards and wedding cards are a great place to go all out!! I stared by cutting out the shape of the 'bride' out of scrap card and then wrapping it in our Cotton Ribbon (127844 $NZ16.95) which I then stamped over with En Francis stamp which is the French script stamp. I then added ribbon from the lovely Artisan Embellishment kit (129328 $NZ19.95) from the current Seasonal Catalogue to finish off the dress. To create the groom I just used strips of the Two-Toned Ribbon in Basic Grey/Basic Black (129295 $NZ14.50). The button hole is a flower also from the Artisan Embellishment kit and I added the sentiment. I used the Big Shot to create the embossing and matched the embossing on the envelope which I had to make to allow the room the card needed to ensure the rose etc wasn't squashed! 

Inside the card I followed on the 'bride' silhouette on to the liner, stamping as per the face of the card with En Francis. The bride and groom have received the card so I'm happy to share it. 

Congratulations Barbara and Craig and all the best for this weekend's nuptials!