Rasberry Tart and Sweet Always

I just love the names of these papers. Reminds me of dessert, and I loooooove desserts. It goes along with my love of chocolate I suppose. mmmmm chocolate…………

Anyway, continuing with the theme of Designer Series Paper, here are a couple more notebooks. The first one was made by Dawn at my Mother’s Day class and was promptly given away to a sweet friend of hers. This friend promptly ordered 3 notebook sets to give to her daughters and Dawn and I had such fun making them.

Can you tell that Dawn is a quilter? She has fussy cut out the flowers from the Raspberry Tart papers and they just look so sweet mounted on the whisper white card stock.

This next notebook is my favourite and I was nearly not going to part with it because I loved it so much. However I gave it to Shannon, from Stampin’ Up! in America who presented with me at Convention in Canberra. She was just so encouraging and sweet that I thought it was appropriate seeing as it is made with the Sweet Always paper.

I just love the chocolate spotty paper and thought it lent itself well to this design. I was trying to illustrate the versatility of the  stamp set Seeing Spots. This is simply made by stamping simply spots on whisper white card in the colours from the paper then punching them out with different sized circle and scallop circle punches. These were then layered with punched out designer paper. The leaves are just punched out hearts layered underneath a strip of chocolate chip card for the stem.

Don’t miss out on ordering your papers. Remember when you buy the first three you get the next one for free. You can email me your order by clicking here. (I hope that works)

Paper, Paper, Paper and the Fourth is Free

Well this month is all about paper. I love paper. I didn’t think that I would when I first started Stampin’ Up! because I wasn’t really into scrapbooking. However with all the wonderful designs and the quality, I get really excited and want to have them all. Then I find I have heaps of things I want to make with the paper.

(another set made with the always, Inspired by Nature sets and Urban Garden paper, this time using basic grey)

This month Stampin’ Up! have a special offer that if you purchase three packs of desigener paper from the list below then you can receive a fourth pack of paper free. That’s a saving of $16.95 and means that the paper works out to be about $12.70 per pack or just over $1 per sheet (with postage about $1.10 per sheet). Here is the list

Item	Page	Description
112042	132	Urban Garden Designer Series paper
112470	132	Haiku Designer Series paper
113976	132	Pink Flamingo Designer Series paper
112468	132	Sweet Always Designer Series paper
113992	133	Tea Party Designer Series paper
113975	133	Raspberry Tart Designer Series paper
113966	134	Good Morning Sunshine Designer Series paper
112469	134	Holiday Treasures Designer Series paper
112041	134	Bella Rose Designer Series paper
113974	134	Bella Bleu Designer Series paper
113978	135	Urban Oasis Designer Series paper
112461	135	Washington Apple Designer Series paper
112039	135	Windsor Knot Designer Series paper
113980	135	Candy Lane Designer Series paper

 

And here are some of the lovely note sets that my ladies made at my Mother’s Day class.

This was made with the Haiku paper by Linda. I just love the way the flowers punched out nicely in the circle punch. The papers also looked lovely on the simple card made by using up left over strips of paper. So cool! Stay tuned for more!!

Inspired By Nature Notebook

Wow! what a ball I had at convention. I would just like to say thank you to all those people who took the time to come and have a chat. You were all so generous and encouraging. Thank you. It was great to meet so many people and hopefully make some new friends along the way.

This is one of my favourite projects that I had on Display and is one of the projects I made as a sample for my recent mother’s day class. So seeing as it is Mother’s Day today and the first time I’ve had to sit down and play since convention I thought it appropriate to post this set.

I just love the Always stamp set and the Inspired by Nature stamp set is my new favourite. (Watch out for it in our workshops this month). And aren’t the filigree brads just beautiful. I have colour changed the ribbon with the Baja Breeze ink pad and a sponge dauber then fed it through the hole in the brad so that there was a lump while I inserted the silver brad in the centre and then pulled the ribbon tight around it. But before all that I had to stamp the image, so I Versamarked the Always bird and then embossed in silver embossing powder. The grass from the Inspired by Nature stamp set was stamped over the top with Baja Breeze ink I and the excess ink was wiped off using a tissue. It was really very simple but turned out lovely.

Can you tell the blue is my favourite colour? When I saw the Urban Garden Designer paper, it just screamed at me to buy it. I have used nearly the whole packet so far!!

I’m planning on putting up some of the other ladies notebooks soon to inspire you with our current designer series papers. And stay tuned for a post on this month’s promotion. It’s all about paper!!!!