Wisteria Wonder-ful!

Here is another card using the heat embossed technique on vellum. This time I used the Stampin' Up! Labels Framelits that match the Apothecary Art stamp set. I coloured the wreath using a sponge dauber with some red on the flowers and green on the rest. 

When making a card like this you just place a folded card under your framelit with the folded part "inside" the top of the die. You also need to trim the bottom of the back piece to a flat end so the card will sit like the photo. Otherwise it rocks to one side as you can balance it on the point, but by trimming the back bit to remove the point you can leave the front looking awesome! 

Have a great Monday - today I am playing in my craftroom most of the day - need to go to the supermarket at some stage - apparently the family requires food -go figure??? hee hee 

"the best things in life aren't things"

One of the cool things about going to Stampin' Up! conventions is the demo presentations! One that I thoroughly enjoyed was Linda Higgins' presentation on using vellum with heat embossing. I've used vellum a lot and of cause LOVE heat embossing but never put the two together with a bit of sponging. This is the first of a few project's I've made using these two mediums. 

I used Pool Party embossing party with matching sponging and then stamping in Night of Navy. The 'feel' of the card can change by using different colours underneath - even the difference between Whisper White or Very Vanilla is amazing. 

Come back over the next few days to see the variety of vellum cards I have. 

Order the products shown here by emailing me at julia.leece@vodafone.co.nz or thru my SHOP HERE

the bloke's shed!

For the Stampin' Up!'s convention I did a 'window' card for my 'swaps' as mention HERE in a past post. When I taught the card in class I made a masculine version - THE SHED! I used the Tool Shed background stamp that is about to retire. It was fun to make it and I may use it for my hubby's birthday this weekend as he would love a SHED just for him - instead he has a bit in the garage - unlike me who's got a whole room for my crafting! lol 

One of the highlights (there were many!) of convention was this amazing gift bag a fellow demo gave me. Shona Edmonds gave me it just before convention started and I LOVE it - HERE is Shona's blog. She made it using MDS- My Digital Studio. I haven't had much of a play with MDS but I am in awe of her ability with it!! 

Inside the organza bag was a great 'flip' book which had space for notes from each of the events of the convention. There was a DVD case for 'keepsakes' and the cutest survival kit - complete with chocolates and pain killers! lol THANK YOU SO MUCH Shona for my lovely gift!!! xxx

BEST OF 24 YEARS Stamp

ANOTHER release today - these very cool stamp sets. Every month for the next 5 months a new set of previously released but no longer available images will be resized and released in a set of between 3-5 images. One of the images will be a 'never seen before' stamp image. The stamps will only be available in Clear Mount. All sets will be available to order up to April 2014. 

This first release is called Flowers. 

Again contact me to order yours NOW

julia.leece@vodafone.co.nz

SINGLE STAMPS now available for a short time only

Aren't these gorgeous!!! These are five single clear mount stamps that Stampin' Up! have just released, they are available till 31st August 2013. As I mentioned they are clear mount stamps so come with no block. They are shown above on a A4 size flyer and are shown at 75% of their actual size so they are not small stamps. I am putting an order in on Sunday so contact me before then to place your order - order all 5 if you can't make up your mind! hee hee

julia.leece@vodafone.co.nz 

RETIREMENT TIME!!!!!

the time is here again for our annual Retirement List sale. Remember that these products may sell out before the end of June so don't wait to place your orders. Contact me TODAY to place your orders, julia.leece@vodafone.co.nz or call 09 415 6466.

HERE is the stamp retirement list

HERE is the accessories retirement list

my convention sample

at convention (and many Stampin' Up! events) we do 'swaps' - you make say 20 and swap with 20 people so you end up with a variety of samples that you can show customers. Good to show 'other' techniques that you haven't done or styles you may not of done. I didn't 'do' swaps this time - I did make 50 bag tags that I gave to everyone under my upline as 'gifts' and some amazing ladies still insisted that I have one of their swaps which was wonderful! But I did do two cards (exactly the same) - one for the display boards and one for a card donation box we had for raising funds for the Ronald McDonald House Charities. One of the cool things that Stampin' Up! do is support many charities and this year in our new Stampin' Up! catalogue (going LIVE on 1st July 2013) have a stamp set that from every set sold (and it's a cute as set!!!) $3.50 (NZ) go to this charity. Also I have signed up to volunteer and help out at the Auckland house. I love how the company likes to 'give back' or as it's called now 'pass it forward'.

ANYWAY I did forget to take a picture of my sample other than the one on the stand so squint your eyes and you might get the idea! lol  

ps - thanks Narelle for the better pic!! lol