What Will You Stamp 147 #WWYS147

What Will you Stamp Challenge number 147.

I hope that you like what I can come up with for these awesome challenges.

I hope more of you join in with these great stampset challenges as they are fun!

It is such a cute set for an Australian Christmas!
This time I thought I would use the stamp that I hadn't used in this set and that was the beachy decorated tree.

The background of the tree I have used a new item in the upcoming Occasions Catalogue called Brusho! I have mixed two of the colours to get a nicer green and fussy cut the embossed tree out.

The great thing about our Stampin' Blends is they colour the rhinestones and pearls beautifully.

• Stamps: Beachy Christmas
• Ink:  Memento Black,Crumb Cake and Versamark
• Card: Whisper White, Pear Pizzaz, Silver Foil, Watercolour and Merry Music Specialty DSP
• Tools: Decorative Ribbon Border Punch, Brushos (upcoming Occasions catalogue), Cherry Cobbler and Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends and Silver Embossing powder
• Embellishments: Silver Ribbon, Dimensionals, Rhinestones and Wink of Stella

To See the other cards in these challenges or to enter in this challenge head on over to

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Just Add Ink 390 #JAI390

Just Add Ink Challenge #390

I have had my niece staying with me for a few days so I haven't been creating much.
This weeks challenge is a sketch...

I have been playing around with my Stampin' Blends alot lately and here is a card I made with the pretty flowers from the Petal Passion Designer Series Paper.
I am planning on using all the flowers from the sheet to make various cards.

My sister has a birthday coming up in January I think I will give her this card.... shhhh it's ok she never reads my blog.....

It does have wink of stella on it but it is extremely hard to photograph. Very sparkly.
The flowers have photographed a bit darker than usual. It doesn't help that it is an awful afternoon here in Perth with a storm brewing.......

• Stamps: Sentiment from Perennial Birthday (upcoming Occasions catalogue)
• Ink:  Versamark and Old Olive
• Card: Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, vellum and Petal Passion DSP (upcoming Occasions catalogue)
• Tools: Rich Razzleberry & Old Olive Stampin' Blends, Stitched Framelits and Layered Leaves Thick Embossing Folder with the bigshot, White Stampin Emboss Powder
• Embellishments:  Wink of Stella and Dimensionals

To See the other cards in these challenges head on over to

 http://just-add-ink.blogspot.com.au/

Colour INKspiration #24

What is Colour INKspiraton? – a Facebook based bi-monthly colour challenge.

Anyone with Facebook can join in.  You don’t need a blog and you don’t need to be a demonstrator.

I have joined in these challenges and love them as Colour challenges for me are actually a real challenge.

 Click here to join the Facebook page which now has over 1750 members and see what it’s all about.

Here’s some of the basic details about the challenge –

The Colour INKspiration Crew! consists of a team of talented Aussie and NZ Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrators that create projects based on Pinterest inspired colour swatches.

Every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 7 pm (AEDT), a new colour swatch will be uploaded to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group and the Colour INKspiration Crew will get the ball rolling by providing inspiration for each challenge with a blog hop.

Then you have a 12 day period to upload your own creations using the colours provided.

If you have a blog, feel free to link back to it, but all entries will be via Facebook.  The design team will select 5 projects to be ‘design team picks’ and then the Facebook group will select an overall winner from this shortlist.

You have come from Tanya's gorgeous card

Colour INKspiration 24

I made another Birthday Card to add to the collection..

It is a vellum cardbase with a smaller insert inside.
It is actually a lot prettier than this pic shows as there is also wink of stella on the flowers.
The watercolour background was made by wetting the background watercolour cardbase and dropping dots of the pool party and tranquil tide inks on it to spread.
Let it dry naturally.

• Stamps: Oh So Eclectic & sentiment from Confetti Celebration
• Ink: Blushing Bride, Tranquil Tide, Pool Party, Cherry Cobbler
• Card: Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz, Vellum, Silver Foil, Pool Party, watercolour & Cherry Cobbler
• Tools: Sweety and Sassy Framelits and Eclectic Layers thinlits with the Bigshot as well as the 1 1/4 circle punch
• Embelishments: Wink of Stella, Dimensionals, Silver ribbon

Next up is Rose's gorgeous project

Occasions and Saleabration 2018

Occasions and Saleabration 2018

I have just had my birthday and was lucky to receive my pre-order for the upcoming catalogues.

So if you don't already have a demonstrator in Australia please contact me and I will post these babies out to you :-)

Here is a little sneak peek of a card I have made using some new product

oh my gosh I love this paper and the Stampin' Blends!

• Stamps: Sentiment from Party Pandas (Saleabration 2018)
• Ink:  Versamark, Old Olive
• Card: Petal Passion DSP (Occasions 2018), Gold Foil, Basic Black, Old Olive and Cherry Cobbler
• Tools: Petals and more & layered leaves embossing folder with the bigshot, triple banner punch, White Embossing Powder and Old olive, pumpkin pie and cherry cobbler Stampin' Blends
• Embellishments: Wink of Stella & dimensionals.

What Will You Stamp? #146

What Will you Stamp Challenge number 146.

I hope that you like what I can come up with for these awesome challenges.

I hope more of you join in with these great stampset challenges as they are fun!

I must say I was excited to purchase this set..... Then it has just sat there on the shelf.... doing nothing
Until Now!

The stampset teamed up with the Quilted Christmas DSP stack has come up quite nice.
The stamps repetitively stamped make a great background on this card and it could be reproduced fairly quickly if you had lots to make.

My children gave this one to the crosswalk lady on Thursday afternoon as we drive past every morning and afternoon as she always has the biggest wave to us!
They look forward to it every day! (she cried aw - we don't know peoples situations she may not have any family that she spends Chrissy with....)

• Stamps: Christmas Quilt
• Ink:  Lemon Lime Twist, Blushing Bride, Pool Party and Memento Black
• Card: Whisper White and Quilted Christmas DSP Stack
• Embellishments: Silver Ribbon

To See the other cards in these challenges or to enter in this challenge head on over to

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Global Design Project #115 & Just Add Ink #388

This weeks project for Global Design Project is Christmas Joy...
What a perfect theme as I have just scrapbooked my gorgeous kiddies Chrissy Pic

ohhh and Just add Ink this week is just add Glitter!

Two Birds..... One Stone..

Well definitely these two bring so much Joy to our family.
After all, as soon as children come into our lives it is all about them.... and Christmas sparkles once more especially seeing their faces on Christmas morning!

Every year we take a few pics and get them printed off into cards to post to family and friends. (yes it is slack of me not to hand make Chrissy cards but we send out 60 and that is a lot) Bear in mind I have just made 60 Christmas Cards for my two children's classes and that took me 3 days...
This weekend I really need to finish off the teachers gifts and cards oh and a stampastack group coming tonight so I still have a lot of work ahead of me....

• Ink: Real Red 
• Card:  Gold Foil, Vellum & Soft Suede
• Tools: Large Letters and Large Numbers Framelits and Eclectic Layers Thinlits with the bigshot, Pattern Party Decorative Masks
• Embellishments:  Dimensionals, Embossing Paste & Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
• #GDP115 #JAI388

To visit the other projects visit

http://www.global-design-project.com/

and

http://just-add-ink.blogspot.com.au/

oh well while I am here, here is a pic of one of the stampastack cards the girls are making tonight :-)

I am sure the girls will love making these (not sure if they will love the fussy cutting though haha)

What Will You Stamp? WWYS#144

What Will you Stamp Challenge number 144.

I hope that you like what I can come up with for these awesome challenges.

I hope more of you join in with these great stampset challenges as they are fun!

I am working on cards from my children to their class mates so I have to do 60 in total....

I wanted to not use a traditional green so I opted for Tranquil Tide for the card base.

I love how smaller stamps in a stampset act as a background on a card.
One down, 59 to go.......

Such a cute stampset teamed up with the sheet music to Jingle Bells and a slither of Red Glimmer paper. Simple but elegant!

• Stamps: Santa's Suit
• Ink:  Memento Black, Real Red, Crumb Cake and Tranquil Tide
• Card: Whisper White, Real Red, Tranquil Tide, Red Glimmer and Merry Music Specialty DSP
• Tools: Layering Circles Framelits and Stitched Framelits with the bigshot
• Embellishments: Wink of Stella & dimensionals.

To See the other cards in these challenges or to enter in this challenge head on over to

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ESAD Stampin' Blends Blog Hop

Welcome to yet another wonderful ESAD blog hop! I am so lucky to be in this group of talented demonstrators and I hope that you enjoy the clever things that this lovely group does with their Stampin' Blends

You have hopped on over from the extremely talented Lou's page

I organised myself for class last week and was pretty happy with the outcome.
Here are my two cards in opposite colours.

The background flowers on these cards are stamped and coloured with the Stampin' Blends.

Two more very pretty cards to add to my stash.

• Stamps: Sentiment from Rose Wonder and Graceful Garden
• Ink:  Calypso Coral, Rich Razzleberry and Memento Black
• Card: Rich Razzleberry, Calypso Coral, Whisper White, Old Olive & Petal Garden DSP stack
• Tools: Pretty Label Punch, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive and Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends (Light and Dark)
• Embellishments: Dimensionals, Calypso Coral Sheer Ribbon and Sequins

Now jump over to Nerida's creation to check it out!

Blog Hop Participant List

1. Libby Dyson

2. Rachael Lewsley

3. Lou Kitzelman

4. Nicole Wilson - you are here!

5. Nerida Carter

6. Jessie Holton

7. Kristel Rimmer

8. Cathy Pinchbeck

9. Monique Fielder

10. Amity Knight

11. Maree McIntosh

12. Leonie Schroder

13. Courtenay Heuston

14. Kelly Kent

15. Barbara Williams

16. Renee Lynch

17. Fi Cobbin

Colour INKspiration #22 & #23

What is Colour INKspiraton? – a Facebook based bi-monthly colour challenge.

Anyone with Facebook can join in.  You don’t need a blog and you don’t need to be a demonstrator.

I have joined in these challenges and love them as Colour challenges for me are actually a real challenge.

 Click here to join the Facebook page which now has over 1700 members and see what it’s all about.

Here’s some of the basic details about the challenge –

The Colour INKspiration Crew! consists of a team of talented Aussie and NZ Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrators that create projects based on Pinterest inspired colour swatches.

Every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 7 pm (AEDT), a new colour swatch will be uploaded to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group and the Colour INKspiration Crew will get the ball rolling by providing inspiration for each challenge with a blog hop.

Then you have a 12 day period to upload your own creations using the colours provided.

If you have a blog, feel free to link back to it, but all entries will be via Facebook.  The design team will select 5 projects to be ‘design team picks’ and then the Facebook group will select an overall winner from this shortlist.

You have come from the gorgeous Lou's page

These challenges go for 3 weeks

Colour INKspiration 22

I found these gorgeous little fairy lights at Kmart the other day and immediately had an idea with them.

This first pic was taken in my light box with all the lights on

This second pic I turned all the lights around my lightbox off.... Wow what a difference that made!

• Stamps: Santa's Sleigh
• Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Sahara Sand and Soft Suede
• Card: Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz, Marina Mist, Soft Suede, Sahara Sand and Silver Glimmer
• Tools: Santa's Sleigh Thinlits with the bigshot and the clouds from Up & Away Thinlits
• Embelishments: Wink of Stella, Frame (non SU) & Fairy lights (non SU)

Colour INKspiration 23

I had all day on Tuesday (yesterday) to sort this one out but unfortunately I was a bit crook and ended up in bed for the day. I did however finish this on Wednesday afternoon after the hop went live so I hope many of you get to see it! - Dinosaur meets Christmas!

A cute way of using a current stampset and making it Christmassy!

I mirror imaged the santa hats for two of the dinosaurs.

• Stamps:  No Bones About It and Santa's Suit
• Ink:  Archival Black, Crumb Cake, Real Red and Versamark
• Card: Real Red, Crumb Cake, Whisper White and Silver Foil
• Tools: Bigshot using Sweet & Sassy and Santa's Suit Framelits
• Embelishments: Silver Thread, Dimensionals, Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder and Wink of Stella

Next up is the amazing Jackie so be wowed with her creations

CASEing the Catty Sunday Challenge 154 #CTC154

Gosh it has been a very very very long time since I entered in this challenge!

I have just been a bit time poor lately so I made the time to get on and create for this challenge.

This week we are casing a colouring a project from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue or the 2017 Holiday Catalogue.

You can CASE directly or be inspired by a sketch/layout, colour combo or embellishment.

So I was inspired by the bird on the right in the middle and this is the card that I created using our new Stampin' Blends pens.

Super pretty the background was a quick wash of daffodil delight with a water pen and not worked too hard into the paper as it was just whisper white not watercolour or shimmery paper.
Each flower was coloured and fussy cut then layered onto the card in the semi circle like the original card.

• Stamps: Colour Me Happy and Sentiment from Best Birds
• Ink:  Archival Black, Bermuda Bay and Daffodil Delight
• Card: Whisper White and Pool Party
• Tools: Rich Razzleberry, Pool Party, Bermuda Bay and Pink Pirouette Stampin' Blends
• Embellishments: Dimensionals and Iridescent Sequins

To See the other cards in these challenges or to enter in this challenge head on over to

CASEing the Catty Sunday Challenge

What Will You Stamp? 142 #WWYS 142

What Will you Stamp Challenge number 142.

I hope that you like what I can come up with for these awesome challenges.

I hope more of you join in with these great stampset challenges as they are fun!

This is my favourite set in the holiday catalogue!

I am loving the eclipse technique and I recently made these two cards. One for a friends mums 70th birthday last week and the other just because!

I had a class using this set a couple of weeks ago and I stamped a whole A4 sheet up of the gorgeous flower image so I thought I would use it on these cards.

The numbers and letters look great just offset from the main image so the effect of the eclipse works better.

• Stamps: Painted Harvest, Happy Birthday Gorgeous and Number of Years
• Ink:  Crushed Curry, Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso, Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler and Memento Black
• Card: Whisper White, Early Espresso & Daffodil Delight
• Tools: Large Numbers Framelits, Large Letters Framelits
• Embellishments: Wink of Stella, dimensionals.

To See the other cards in these challenges or to enter in this challenge head on over to

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ESAD Offstage 2017

I am devastated that I couldn't go over to Melbourne or the Gold Coast for this weekend's Onstage. This time last year I was in Brisbane with my mum for an awesome week getting ready to do my presentation. (and Packing my dacks too)

Anyway enough reminiscing and sulking that I can not be over there my friend Richelle Fletcher has organised an Offstage group full of challenges etc..

The first challenge is by Rachael Lewsley (my awesome and creative downline)

It is a sketch challenge

This is my take on the sketch

Next on the agenda was to tell a story about a crafting disaster.... There were lots but my favourite was my friend Dawn Fergusons "I was demonstrating for a class just after we got the new inkpads and was showing a new lady how to open one. The lid flew off straight across the table and landed ink side down in front of another lady! Fortunately they had not yet received their card packs and it only inked up the grid paper. Kinda embarrassing, especially when I had to google how to put it back together!"

Rebecca McHaffie then challenged us to find inspiration in a piece of clothing... I took a picture of my friends daughters outfit a few months ago with the intention of making something using the picture as inspiration.... here is my perfect opportunity.

It is so so pretty so I used Flamingos and the colours on the material.

Such a cute outfit!

I whipped out the two flamingo sets that I have to do this - the background was the water image in the Fabulous Flamingo set and the actual flamingo and leaf are from the Pop of Paradise set.

Saturday morning was story time - Did you find Stampin' Up! or did Stampin' Up! find you?
this is my story - Well it crossed my path when it first came to Aus... I had a party and fell in 💗 with it. I had the attitude oh well there's already a demo, two in one town will be too many so left it at that. A year or so later that demo opened a shop in town so she was no longer allowed to be a demo, I thought about it and still wasn't sure so a couple more years passed and I had a friend in the Northern Territory who did it as a hobby.. so I signed up in Saleabration and never looked back!! 

Next up is my challenge, I encouraged the girls to use their embossing paste on a project and used this picture of a card that I made for inspiration using Lift Me Up.

I added a bit of Dazzling Details to the paste for a glittery effect on the clouds.

Dawn Fergusons challenge is up next -
I challenge you to make a simple Christmas Card that can be made in 10-15 mins with a Wow factor.
hmmmm 10 - 15 mins that's the challenge for me....

Here it is... The pic didn't come out quite how I wanted it but it still looks ok....
My Beachy little Christmas card

What Is next?? ok Richelle posted What is your Stampin' Up! dream - of course mine is to achieve an incentive trip one day!

I then threw in a curly challenge -  use your initials (mine are NJW) and find colours to use with your initials - mine are Night of Navy, (there is nothing J so I went the next closest letter for a colour - Island Indigo and W is Wisteria Wonder

I love this Magical Mermaid Card

I must say that this has been one of the most productive weekends I have ever had!

Next up was a question what is your all time favourite never gonna part with product?
Well I must say my big shot is my all time favourite product and I love it!


Richelle set a Christmas 3D challenge!! Make a 3D object/ decoration with a 3D theme....
This one is the only challenge I did not complete as I had a party to go to on Sunday so I didn't have time. But I must say it was an amazing weekend of creating I am so glad I joined in the fun!
#offstage1117