Creations From The Heart

Stampin' Up stamps for sale

I have a number of Stampin' Up stamps for sale.  Most are from the current 2008/2009 Australian Idea Book that is finishing up on 31st March but there are some from old minis and Idea Books too.  Prices are in Australian dollars and postage is additional.  If you wish to purchase these, please contact me on skyezak@internode.on.net and you can arrange to direct deposit to my bank account or post me a cheque.  Once I receive the funds, I'll post off the goodies to you.

Please refer to this file Download 2009_stamps4sale  for all the current sets I have left.

Let me know if you have any trouble viewing my spreadsheet and I can email it directly to you :)

Scalloped circle tree card

Yesterday, I received my monthly Stampin' Up demonstrators newsletter and there was a fab tutorial in it for this card.  How easy is it to do?

Created using digital papers from Sugarplum Paperie kits:

A GOLDEN AFTERNOON (tree)
MANGO SORBET (background)
FIRST KISS OF SPRING - collab with Aussie designer Flergs (tree trunk)

Other supplies:
white cardstock
Stampin' Up ribbon
American Crafts rubons
Stampin' Up scalloped circle punch

Love Notes box & cards

Here's a peek at what I taught at my Stamp Club workshop today for Lisa.  It's from a tutorial off Splitcoast Stampers (for the box design).  The cards are the little 3x3 inch Love Notes that you can purchase with matching envelopes.  There's so much you can do with these cute little cards and they're nicely packed in a gift box tied up with ribbon.

I have used Season of Joy  and Crazy About Christmas stamp sets and the All About Christmas Jumbo Wheel.

I used Purely Pomegranate ink, Always Artichoke ink and marker, Bravo Burgundy marker, Versamark and silver ink (non-SU).

Card is Whisper White and Purely Pomegranate.  Patterned paper is from Holiday Harmony in the Spring Mini.

Additional supplies used:  Purely Pomegranate ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds, Crystal Effects, Stampin' Dimensionals, scallop circle punch, 1" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, corner rounder punch, edge distresser, Silver Embossing powder, heat gun, sponge.

Here's a few closeups of the cards.

father's day projects

With Father's Day only just around the corner here in Australia, I have had a request for tomorrow's workshop to make a card and a scrapbook layout, so here's a couple of the cards that the guests will get to choose from followed by the layout of my Dad!

Because I don't have any Stampin' Up embossing powders, I've used some from my own {huge} stash but everything else on these cards is from Stampin' Up.

Credits for first card:

Stamps - Bronc Buster, Weathered, Wanted, Always, Fine Lace

Ink - Versamark, Going Gray

Card - Basic Grey, Black, Mellow Moss, Really Rust, Kraft

Other - Black Twine, edge distresser, sponge, Stampin' Dimensionals, Mat Pack, black embossing powder (Tim Holtz distress embossing powder)

Credits for second card:

Stamps - Weathered, Always, Fine Lace, Occasional Greetings

Ink - Going Gray, Versamark

Card - Basic Grey, Black, Blue Bayou, Really Rust, Kraft

Other - Hemp Twine, Stampin' Dimensionals, gold embossing powder (my own stash), edge distresser, Mat Pack

 

CLICK ON THE PICS TO SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THE DETAIL.

Here's my 12x12 layout done on some black textured cardstock.  I've also added in Basic Grey, Mellow Moss, Really Rust and Whisper White.  The word 'Dad' has been stamped with the Big Deal alphas and Crystal Effects has been added onto them.  I have stamped 'my' with the Short Order Alphabet and pinned it on with a silver brad.  I have punched out some large stars and distressed them with ink, tearing and screwing up (the fun stuff!) and stamped some smaller stars onto some of them from the Wanted set.  The only ink I've used is Basic Grey.  I've distressed most edges of the cardstock, inked some of them with a sponge, pricked holes with the Mat Pack set and mounted the Really Rust card onto Stampin' Dimensionals.  This piece also has some Hemp Twine tied around the top and I've also used the Spiral Punch along the top of this and stamped the Fine Lace background stamp onto it.  The Basic Grey piece has the Linen background stamp all over it and I've torn and rolled the right side to distress it.  I'll eventually add a journalling tag and pop it in behind my photograph.  It's a nice, simple layout but the Basic Grey is certainly a colour that has grown on me since it was released in the new Idea Book.

Bronc Buster card

Today I did a workshop for Helen and here is one of the cards we made.  She wanted me to make up a male card using a horse so I grabbed the Bronc Buster set which I hadn't thought much of until I started playing with it.  I'm really impressed with it and even this colour combo I used has grown on me.  The idea for this card came from Yvonne's blog and I think she received it in a swap with Ngaire Anderson.  I always like to get some inspiration from somewhere to get me going and I love how rough and rugged this card has turned out.  My main pic is a little orange so the colours are never true-to-life due to the light I photograph in, but you get the idea.

Stampin' Up products used:
CARD:  Basic Grey, Really Rust, Blue Bayou, Black, Kraft
INKS:  Chocolate Chip
STAMPS:  Bronc Buster, Life Definitions, Linen
OTHER:  Edge distresser, eyelet, Crop A Dile, Chocolate Chip thin grosgrain ribbon, Stampin' Dimensionals, sponge

And here's a little gift I gave to Helen for having me there today.  Got this idea from Splitcoast Stampers from a tutorial that Beate John's had written on the ribbon sliders.  I omitted the ribbon pull bit and just popped in a sachet of hot chocolate.

Again, my colours are not too good but I had to take them last night as I gave them to Helen today.

Stampin' Up products used:
INKS:  Rose Red, Chocolate Chip, Pumkin Pie, Versamark
CARD:  Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
STAMPS:  Always, Short & Sweet, Bodacious
OTHER:  Clear Embossing Powder, brad (my own stash), 1/4 circle punch, Purely Pomegranate satin ribbon, white pencil (my own stash), corner rounder (for scallops)

A layout from Pene...

Keep meaning to show you this beautiful layout that Pene did of her gorgeous daughter Rachel using some of the goodies from the Pretties Kit.  Doesn't Rachel just make your heart melt!

And if anyone else wants to email their layouts, I'm happy to pop them onto my blog for the world to see!  Especially you Ange...love all your layouts and I'd love to be inspired by you and for you to inspire everyone!

Lovely As A Tree card

Wanted to post this card that I made at my last workshop for Deanne.  I wanted to try a card shape that was a little different so came up with this one...don't even have a name for it!  But the base is Blue Bayou, the next colour on the back piece is River Rock, then I've used Very Vanilla.  The front piece has Glossy Cardstock on it.

On the back piece, I have used stamps from Carte Postale in Mellow Moss ink that has been stamped off.  I have also distressed the edges of the cardstock with an edge distresser and ink too.

I have used our Round Tab punch to make an index tab out of patterned paper from the Brocade Background set which has been inked in River Rock.

I had a bit of a play around with the glossy cardstock piece using the brayer to give me a little hill for the tree to sit upon.  I've used a number of coloured inks with the brayer including Sky Blue and River Rock.  Further colours were sponged on to give some dimension to the ground and sky.  I then used a tree from the Lovely As A Tree set and coloured this with assorted markers.  Because the stamp slipped across the glossy surface (yes, I know for next time!), half my image was perfect while the other half was blurred so I just messed it up a little more by using a sponge in a circular motion to make it look more like a windblown tree!  See there's always a way to hide or blend in your boo-boos!  I then did some more sponging around the tree with Mellow Moss, Going Gray and Really Rust and finished up adding some Crystal Effects dots around the tree to give it depth.  Lastly, I used Black Staz On for a greeting from Sincere Salutations.  I used my Crop A Dile to punch a small hole in the corner and had a brad out of my stash to finish it off.  Something a little different but I like!

I want one of these!!!!

Looky at what the States are getting next month!

I wanna get me one of those...but it'll be next year before we'll see it if it's to come out in the next Idea Book!

first card for a loooong while...

[edited to add ... I have retaken the photos, this time in daylight and the card looks much better]

Well, I haven't given up stamping but it sure felt like I wasn't going to get my mojo back anytime soon....but once I started playing, it felt great!  My next hostess Deanne requested that I do a card with embossing on it, so saw a beautiful card over on Teneale's website where I got a little inspiration from.  She has the most amazing talent I've ever seen...each project she's made is a work of art so make sure you check her Gallery out.  I have added some vellum in with the flourishes stamped on but pretty much everything else is CASEd from Teneale...in case you didn't know, in the stamping world, CASEing something means 'copy and steal everything' which I think is so cute!  Scrapbookers would call it 'scraplifting'! I pretty much get my inspiration on all my projects from others...blogs, galleries, magazines, internet sites, you name it!  I remember ideas I've seen, or projects that inspire me and I just go with the flow once I start.  Most times I head in a totally different direction once I get working because I usually wouldn't have all the products.  But it's all good and I'd like to thank Teneale for all her inspiration as there's plenty of it in her work.

All Stampin' Up products:

INKS:  Whisper White Craft Ink, Sahara Sand, Versamark

STAMPS: Baroque Motifs (stamped on vellum and card base), Natural Beauty (butterfly), Fine Lace (stamped on card base)

CARDSTOCK:  Sahara Sand, Whisper White, Vellum cardstock

OTHER: White Taffeta Ribbon, sponge daubers, white embossing powder, heatgun, stampin' dimensionals, mini glue dots.

Sneak peak of stamp from new Spring Mini!

Just wanted to share a beautiful card I've found on Debbie Olson's blog which features a heart stamp in a set called "Always" that I'm waiting on so much after seeing cards like this made with it!  It's featured in a set in our new Spring Mini which commences on 1st August and runs till 30th November.  I've got a box of brochures here, so if you'd like me to post you one, please drop me an email.  Make sure you stop by Debbie's blog, as her creations are beyond beautiful if that's at all possible!