m & m's meeting

Man am I a bad blogger! Once again a week has passed ( well over this time)and I have not managed to post. So with a gentle reminder from a good friend about the lack of new inspiration on my blog this is what I have to show you. Our monthly m & m's swap was to design a xmas card. As you can see the ladies once again came up with some marvellous desgns. Helen supplied us with tution for making the xmas cracker. These are so cool, I am definitely going to make more of these for the table at xmas, the only problem will be deciding on which DSP to use seeing as there are so many cool choices. The bottom pic is the card I contributed to the Swap. I so love season of joy and am really going to miss this when the mini finishes ( 30 November).

October Stamp Clup Projects

Wow, today is simply gorgeous. Must say its a bit of a shame I have to head into work shortly but thems the breaks. Thought I'd give you a quick post on two of the three projects we made at this months stamp club on Friday. Once again I left everything till the last minute and prayed the ladies would enjoy what I had whipped up. I was a little bit worried but I think they all liked them. I love these nights they just seem to lift your spirits. Lots of laughs, lots of stamping what could be better than that?



Genie Bag/Gift bag


Pop Up Card












Inside of Pop Up Card.


















Enjoy Your Day!

Edited To Add: Don't you just hate the gremlins in your computer. You spend ages lining things up in your posts and the minute you post them they shift them out of line! Arghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

MIA

I know it seems forever since I last posted, but with school holidays and having to work night shifts its been awhile since I was able to have a play. So last night I made the most of my night off. So there I was sitting at the table lost, I wanted to play but what to play with , I knew I had to make a birthday card for my brother-in-law so I went for a browse through last years idea and catalogue book for some inspiration. I stumbled across a card using the stamp set Tag Time that I thought hay that'll do, I didn't actually own this set but I improvised. So the top card is my improvisation.

Receipe: Card: taken with teal, not quite navy, close to cocoa, and whisper white. Ink: close to cocoa,taken with teal, not quite navy and craft white. Stamp Sets: Pick a petal, It's your birthday and polka dots & petals. Accessories: black marker, color spritzer, mat pack and dimensinals.
And the best part is I completed an NZSU challenge as well!


This is a card I've had saved to my desk top for some time now (unfortunately I can't remember who the orginal designer was to give credit). The minute I saw it I knew I'd case it at some stage. Isn't it just fantastic that there are so many talented people out there willing to share there ideas for those days when you wanna play but are mojo lost.

Happy 20th Birthday Stampin' Up!

For the month of October Stampin' Up! are celebrating there 2oth Birthday. How awesome is that. To mark this very special occasion Stampin' Up! are offering 20% off selected Stamp Sets. Simply spend $20 on product from the current catalogues and you qualify for the 20% discount on the following stamp sets- Big Bold Birthday (pg 37) discounted price $51.16
Pretty princess (pg38) discounted price $43.16
Birthday Best (pg51) discounted price $23.96
Crab & company (pg55) discounted price $50.36
Short and sweet (pg 118) discounted price $28.76
There is no limit to the amount of stamp sets you can get at this discount for your one off spend of $20. Be sure and take advantage of this very special offer by contacting a Stampin' Up! demonstrator in your area.

Always

This is the swap I came up with for our monthly M & M's meeting. The challenge was mens/boys card. I must confess this one was hard. I really didn't want to have to use wanted, and lovely as a tree again - these being the only menish stamp sets I own, so I tried to use my newest purchase Always and as you can see I didn't quite pull it off, especially compared to the really awesome job the rest of the ladies did. Oh well there's always next month - xmas card challenge.