East Hills
Today I have to apologise because when I created these pages to share with you, I forgot to check the date and unfortunately the Petal Passion Designer Series paper is no longer available. However, these are created and I thought I would share anyway because you could obviously substitute the paper with something else, or maybe you still have some of this Designer Series Paper in you stash. I attached a strip of Whisper White 12″ x 12″ card to a strip of Basic Black 12″ x 12″ card (retired) before attaching three pieces of Designer Series paper across the Whisper White panel. 
The whole piece is attach either at the top or at the bottom of a 12″ x 12″ Whisper White page. I attached my photos to Basic Black card before attaching to their respective pages. The title is cut from Basic Black card using the retired Little Letters Thinlits Dies. I cut banners in the ends of two pieces of designer series paper and one piece of Basic Black card and attached them to the top left hand corner of one page and underneath my journalling block on the other. I created my journalling on the computer and printed onto Whisper White card. I cut the decorative banner from Basic Black card using the Petals and More Thinlits Dies and attached it below the journalling. I also stamped the bird image from the Petal Palette stamp set onto Whisper White card using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. 
The bird is coloured using the Dark Pool Party Stampin’ Blend, cut out using the matching Petals and More Thinlits Die and attached over the decorative banner to the journalling panel. These photos are of my grandparents home which was on the banks of the Georges River. The flood photo shows the last time the house was flooded before it was raised.
I hope you are enjoying my series of Memory Keeping pages. I am probably not as fancy as some when it comes to Memory Keeping but I love showing the pictures and telling the story. What about you, what’s your Memory Keeping style.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Happy New Catalogue
As I said yesterday, today is the day we have been waiting for, we can finally order anything we want from the new catalogue, but not until after midday. Woohoo! Today’s card is one I created for a friend who recently celebrated her birthday. This card uses some of the new colours in this year’s Annual Catalogue and a the Oh So Eclectic stamp set which I am happy to say has carried over. 
I created the background by sponging the beautiful new in-colour ink, Pineapple Punch, over the left hand side of Whisper White card. I attached a length of Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon across the sponged card. I was able to add tiny dots of Tombow Multipurpose Glue behind the dots on the Tulle Ribbon to attach it to the card. The stamped card is attached to scored and folded Rich Razzleberry card. I stamped the flowers from the Oh So Eclectic stamp set onto Whisper White card, one using Rich Razzleberry ink and one using Poppy Parade ink. The images are cut out using the matching Eclectic Layers Thinlits Dies. I also cut Rich Razzleberry and Poppy Parade card using the matching detailed dies. The detailed dies are attached over the co-ordinating stamped imaged. 
I stamped the greeting from the Picture Perfect Birthday stamp set onto Whisper White card using Rich Razzleberry ink and used one of the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies to cut it out. The greeting is attached to a Rich Razzleberry scalloped oval cut using the same dies. I also cut two sets of leaves from Vellum card stock using the leaf die from the Eclectic Layers Thinlits Dies. I attached the Vellum leaves and the Rich Razzleberry flower to the card front using Tombow Multipurpose Glue. I attached the Poppy Parade flower to the greeting oval before attaching the panel to the card front using dimensionals.
To decorate the inside of the card, I once more sponged some Pineapple Punch ink onto the lower left hand corner of Whisper White card. I attached one leaf cut from Vellum card stock and a Poppy Parade flower.
To house my gift I created a co-ordinating pizza box using Rich Razzleberry card. The front of the box is decorated in much the same manner as the card, however I have added an extra flower and used a different greeting from the Picture Perfect Birthday stamp set.
I hope you have some time today to peruse your catalogue, either in person or online and put together your Wish List. I’ve done mine and it is long!
Bye for now,
Kris
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I don’t have an icon for the Poppy Parade Paper but you can view it here.
Last Chance
Today is the last chance you have to purchase from the retiring list before they are all gone. I know it is sad to see all the things you love retiring but don’t forget that tomorrow we get to purchase from the new and oh so beautiful 2018-2019 Annual Catalogue. I’m still trying to finalise my order for tomorrow, I want lots, but I am trying to focus on the things that I love most, so my wish list has a bit of order to it – at the top is gotta have it now, in the middle – like to have it now and at the bottom – I can wait a little while. I hope you are having fun putting together your shopping list for tomorrow. Don’t forget the store won’t be open until 12 noon to allow for the change over in items. Stampin’ Up! have assured us that you can order any of the Stampin’ Blends from the first release tomorrow with the new Stampin’ Blends to become available a little later in the month, probably around the middle. I am so excited to be able to add some more colours to my colouring stash!
Today is also the last chance to purchase the Share What You Love bundles. While all of these products except the Statement of My Heart stamp set will be available in the new catalogue, the bundles will not. If you want the Statement of My Heart stamp set, then you must order the Gotta Have it All bundle today or it will be gone forever.
If you don’t already have a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, you live in Australia and you would like a copy of the new catalogue then please contact me so we can organise one for you. In the meantime, you will be able to download a PDF of the catalogue tomorrow, so pop in tomorrow to find the link.
In the meantime, Stampin’ Up! have this very quick video to get you excited about the great new anual catalogue.
So place your last minute orders today and get ready to shop the new catalogue tomorrow.
Bye for now,
Kris
Top Pick at Paper Craft Crew
Remember this card I shared with you last week which I entered into the Paper Craft Crew challenge. Well it made the top picks for the week for which I am eternally grateful. Thank you so much to the Paper Craft Crew for selecting my card, soooo exciting.
Just had to share.
Bye for now,
Kris
New Catalogue
Last Saturday I was joined by 20 or so of my customers and my downline to launch the new Annual Catalogue. I usually don’t hold this event until June, but my personal obligations were getting in the way of that, so I held the event early. 
At least this way the ladies have nearly a week to browse the catalogue and compile their wish lists.
I try to show off some cards using the stamp sets and dies that I have purchased on pre-order and of course the new in-colours. It was a fun afternoon and I am most grateful to these lovely ladies for the continuing success of my business. 
The ladies were able to have tea, coffee or a glass of light wine while they browsed their catalogue and ooohed and aaahed over the new products. 
I like to show my appreciation by giving them some extra goodies if I can when I hold this event. This year I gave each of them a sample of cardstock for all the revamped colour families. I think these will be a great tool for them to get an idea of how the new colours will work with the colours that they already have. I also gave them chocolate to nibble on while they browse the new catalogue. 
The colour chart and chocolate was given in little gift bags I created using the Gift Bag Punch Board, which also helped use up some of my Designer Series Paper stash.
For my lovely downline I also created a colour swatch using the template that Stampin’ Up! provided to demonstrators with a few colour combinations for each of the colours in our new revamped colour families. 
They got an extra gift or two also in their bags as well as chocolate (you must have chocolate). Their gift bags were a little larger than the others and also used up some of my Designer Series Paper stash.
As you know I am on a mission to use up the retired and retiring designer series paper, so I gave each of the ladies a 12″ x 12″ one sheet wonder template and a couple of pieces of 12″ x 12″ dsp to have a go at completing a set of cards. 
I hope that they enjoy playing and that they will bring their samples along to our next class.
To help me and my customers and also to be portable I used one of the 6″ x 8″ Memories and More Albums and the co-ordinating pocket pages to keep examples of the new colour families and colour combinations. 
This album will also contain examples of the embossing folders that I have to show to my customers and also pages with pieces of the designer series paper that I have on hand. I am also going to add templates at the back for use in my Stamparatus.
Before everyone went home I did a demonstration of some of the things that you can do with the Stamparatus. I showed them how to create a wreath and to do step stamping and also how you can create a template and then stamp hundreds of labels or greetings easily and quickly. They all loved the Stamparatus and also the lovely new Simply Shammy which makes cleaning stamps on the Stamparatus and the Stamparatus plates too.
I had a lovely time and I hope that they all did too. Sorry for the long post and so many pictures but I did want to share with you the excitement that is building towards the day when we can order from the new catalogue.
Bye for now,
Kris
True Gentleman
Since I was on a mission to use up the True Gentleman Designer Series Paper that I still had left, and while I was making the cards I shared yesterday, I decided to use some of it on my Memory Keeping page. I had already cut the paper into card front pieces so I just attached them to a Very Vanilla 12″ x 12″ page in a grid fashion. I attached the photo of my Grandfather to Chocolate Chip card before attaching over the Designer Series Paper. I created my journalling on my computer and printed it onto Very Vanilla card. 
I attached the journalling to Chocolate Chip card and attached it over the Designer Series paper. I stamped the shoes from the Guy Greetings stamp set onto scrap Very Vanilla card using Chocolate Chip ink and cut them out before attaching to the journalling panel. I remember my Grandfather wearing shoes just like that!
You can see that my Memory Keeping is very simple. These pages about my relatives are purposely kept that way so that it is easy for my children and grandchildren to see the relationship to them. I hope you are enjoying my Memory Keeping. I have to rush now, my catalogue launch is on today and there are things to do.
Bye for now,
Kris
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I don’t have an icon for the True Gentleman Designer Series Paper but you can view it here.
More Goodbye’s and a Sneak Peak
Yesterday I share with you a card using the True Gentleman Designer Series Paper and the Guys Greetings stamp set. Well, I kind of got on a roll and I didn’t have much paper left to use, so I created a few cards to share with you today. The first card, features some of the Night of Navy Designer Series Paper. 
I paired it with the Thick Very Vanilla card as a base and added some of the Night of Navy Corduroy Ribbon. The image is from the Guy Greetings stamp set and I have used Night of Navy ink. 
The images are cut using the Layering Oval Framelits Dies. The next three cards using the same layout but a different Designer Series paper pattern. This time, I have used Chocolate Chip card for the bases.
Two of the cards use the hat image from the Guy Greetings stamp set and one uses a greeting from the Rooted in Nature stamp set which will be available in the new Annual Catalogue. The ink used is Chocolate Chip. The next two cards, feature the same hat image from the Guy Greetings stamp set and they also have a greeting from the same stamp set. The ink used is Chocolate Chip as are the card bases. 
The next three cards use the same designer series paper and two have the car image and one the hat image from the Guy Greetings stamp set. The “happy birthday” is also from the same stamp set. The last two cards feature a tree image from the soon to be released Rooted in Nature stamp set. 
The ink colours used are Chocolate Chip and Tranquil tide.
The insides of the card use up smaller pieces of matching Designer Series Paper and some have a greeting as well.
These cards used up all of my True Gentleman Designer Series Paper and lots of retiring Chocolate Chip card as well. I love how the patterns teamed with the Guy Greetings stamp set but they also went great with the images from the Rooted in Nature stamp set.
I hope you have enjoyed seeing these cards and that they will inspire you to use some of your Designer Series Paper stash. Remember Kylie’s motto – Love it, Chop it.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Goodbye…
Chocolate Chip and Guy Greetings. Today’s card is a very simple one showing off the car stamp in the Guy Greetings stamp set and also the colour Chocolate Chip. I am going to miss both the stamp set and the colour (however, there are some great stamp sets and some fabulous new colours to replace them). I cut rectangles of the True Gentleman Designer Series Paper (also retiring at the end of the month) and attached them to opposite corners of Very Vanilla card. 
The whole panel is attached to scored and folded Chocolate Chip Card. I stamped the car image from the Guy Greetings stamp set onto Very Vanilla card using Chocolate Chip ink. I added some colour to the car with Tranquil Tide and Smoky Slate Stampin’ Write Markers. The image panel is attached to Chocolate Chip card and then the card front using dimensionals.
To decorate the inside of the card I stamped the greeting from the Guy Greetings stamp set using Chocolate Chip ink. I attached a narrow strip of Chocolate Chip card behind one long edge of the same True Gentleman Designer Series paper. The designer series paper panel is attached to the bottom edge of the stamped Very Vanilla card.
A very simple card showing off some of the fabulous products on the retired list. I hope you have made your purchases before they completely disappear at the end of this month.
Bye for now,
Kris
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I don’t have an icon for the True Gentleman Designer Series paper but it is still available here.
Papercraft Challenge 292
The Challenge at the Paper Craft Crew this week was to create a square card using the sketch. I decided to keep it simple using the Delightful Daisy stamp set. I stamped the image from the Timeless Textures stamp set using Old Olive ink onto Whisper White card. I attached a piece of the Delightful Daisy Designer Series paper across the centre of the stamped Whisper White card. I punched Night of Navy card using the Starburst Punch and attached a 2″ Circle of Whisper White to the centre. I attached the circles to the card front using dimensionals. I stamped “Happy Birthday” from the Picture Perfect Birthday stamp set onto Daffodil Delight card using Night of Navy ink. 
I cut a “V” in one end and attached it to the card front with the right hand end tucked under the circles. I stamped the daisy from the Delightful Daisy stamp set twice onto Whisper White card using Daffodil Delight ink. I stamped the flower centre onto one of the stamped daisy’s using Delightful Daffodil ink. I punched out the images using the Daisy Punch. I attached them one on top of the other using Glue Dots and making sure to stagger the petals. The daisy is attached to the centre of the circles. I also added a Clear Faceted Gem to the centre of the flower. I stamped the solid leaf image twice onto Whisper White card using Old Olive ink, making sure to stamp onto scrap paper first. I stamped the outline image over the top using Old Olive ink. I cut out the leaves and attached them with the stems sitting under the circles.
To decorate the inside of the card, I stamped a leaf once more and cut it out. I stamped the stem image onto the inside of the card and attached the leaf over the top. I stamped the daisy image onto Whisper White card using Daffodil Delight ink and punched it out. I cut the daisy so that I would have one section with four petals and one with three petals. I attached them together using Glue Dots, staggering the petals before adding them to the top of the stem image. I stamped the flower centre onto Whisper White card using Daffodil Delight ink and punched it out using the 1/2″ circle punch. The flower centre is attached to the daisy.
I will probably hand deliver this card so I will have to create an envelope but since I still have lots of this Designer Series Paper it won’t be a problem.
I’d love to hear what you think.
Bye for now,
Kris
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I don’t have an icon for the Delightful Daisy Designer Series paper but you can view it here.
Freshly Made 337
Today’s card is created using the sketch challenge at Freshly Made. I have a lot of Petal Passion Designer Series paper to use up before the end of this month and I thought this was a perfect way to use some of it. I attached a piece of the dotted Petal Passion Designer Series Paper to the right hand side of Whisper White card before attaching to scored and folded Basic Black card. I cut a piece of the Petal Passion Designer Series Paper which is designed to colour in. I used Stampin’ Blends in the following colours – Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Pink Pirouette and Bermuda Bay to colour the panel. 
I attached the coloured Designer Series Paper to the left hand side of the card front using dimensionals. I stamped “congratulations” from the Petal Palette stamp set onto Whisper White card using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. 
The greeting is cut out using the frame from the Petals and More Thinlits Dies. I attached the greeting to the card front over the coloured panel.
To decorate the inside of the card, I attached a piece of the same dotted Petal Passion Designer Series Paper to the left hand side of Whisper White card. I coloured one of the flowers from the Designer Series Paper using the Rich Razzleberry blends and cut it out. The flower is attached to the lower left hand corner of the Whisper White card, partially over the Designer Series Paper.
Well, what do you think? I love it, but maybe it’s a little too busy?
The Stampin’ Blends will all be available again when the new catalogue launches next month, along with a whole lot of new colours for our colouring pleasure. Although the Petal Palette stamp set and Petals and More Thinlits Dies will be available in the new catalogue, the bundle will not, so don’t delay if you want to save 10%.
Bye for now,
Kris
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