Sketch Challenge
I had some time to play along with MaryJo’s Technostamper sketch challenge. As soon as I saw this sketch I knew that I wanted to use the Amazing Birthday stampset.
I embossed a strip of Lost Lagoon card using the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder and attached it to the right hand side of Whisper White card. I trimmed a piece of designer series paper from the Moonlight Designer Series Paper Stack, rounded the right hand corners using my Envelope Punch Board and attached it over the embossed card.
I stamped the “make today” image onto Whisper White card using Basic Gray ink and then trimmed the card to the edges of the image. I attached it to Basic Gray card and then the card front using dimensionals. I stamped the same image again onto Whisper White card using Hello Honey ink and cut out the words “make”, “today” and “amazing”. I attached the Hello Honey words over the Basic Gray words using dimensionals.
Inside the card I stamped the “happy happy birthday” image using Basic Gray ink. I stamped the same image onto scrap paper using Hello Honey ink and cut out two of the “happy” words and attached them over the stamped words.
I love this card so much, it is going to be part of one of my upcoming Beachmere Classes.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Quick Packaging
In my last post I shared with you the presentation box we made for our September Card Class and I remembered that I hadn’t shared the packaging for the August Class. Our cards for the August class were all made using Kinda Eclectic – one of my favourite stamp sets from the Stampin’ Up! catalogue.
We made our presentation bag using Chevron Tag a Bag Gift Bags. We placed our cards inside the bag and turned over the top of the bag to create a flap on the front. 
We stamped the “sunburst” image from the stamp set onto Whisper White card using Early Expresso ink. The image is cut using a Circle framelit so that it creates a half circle. We cut another slightly larger half circle from Sahara Sand card and attached the two half circles to each other lining up the straight edges. The half circles were attached to the Tea Lace Paper Doily, lining up the straight edges with the fold on the doily. 
We stamped two sets of leaves using Garden Green ink and cut them out. They are attached to the Doily along the left hand side. We stamped the large and the small butterfly onto Whisper White card using Cherry Cobbler ink and punched them using the Elegant Butterfly and Small Butterfly punches. The butterflies are attached to each other using a Glue Dot and then to the doily using a Glue Dot in the centre and a 1/2 dimensional under each wing. Lastly we added three Basic Pearls to the centre of the butterfly. We tied a bow with Cherry Cobbler Baker’s Twine through a Clothespin and used it to hold the Tea Lace Paper Doily over the top of the folded bag.
I really love how quick and easy it was to decorate the Chevron Bag and can see lots of variations for different occasions. What about you?
Bye for now,
Kris
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Envelope Liner Box
I love being able to use things in more than one way as I am sure you do too. So instead of making a box to put our cards in this month at my class we made this cute little treat holder using the largest of the Envelope Liner Framelit Dies.
The cards we made were all for Christmas so the box has a Christmas theme too. I used the Festival of Trees stamp set, matching Tree Punch and the Itty Bitty Banners Framelits. I absolutely adore the gorgeous Under the Tree Designer Series Paper we used on the front of the box. It has a coloured design on one side and a kraft/white design on the other side. Really stunning.
The folded down section on the front of the box is embossed with the Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder. Instead of using the stamp to add the baubles to the trees, we coloured Basic Pearls using the darkest of the Cherry Cobbler Blendibilites to colour them before attaching them randomly to the trees. The ladies can place their cards in the treat holder, wrap in cellophane and add a tag to make a gorgeous Christmas Gift, or they can use their cards and instead add a cellophane bag with some chocolates inside the treat holder.
I’m make a tutorial for this to share with you, so check back again soon.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Happy Father’s Day
I hope that you are spoiling your Dad’s today or helping your children to spoil their Dad. I am lucky enough to be sharing lunch with four Dads today – my father, my husband and my two sons-in-law.
We made a card at my Beachmere Class a couple of weeks ago using the Amazing Birthday stamp set and I just loved it, so I thought that I wouldn’t re-invent the wheel but use this for my Dad. The card is CASED from Nikki Spencer and I can’t thank her enough for sharing her gorgeous creation – it was so beautiful I didn’t change a thing. Anyway, I used this card as inspiration for the packaging for my gifts. 
It’s pretty hard to buy something for my Dad, he has everything he needs and more, so I bought him a very large container of peanuts and also bought him a couple of golf balls. The container of peanuts was round and I decided to just decorate the container instead of wrapping it or putting it in a bag. I cut two strips down the length of an A4 sheet of Whisper White card and stamped it using the diamond pattern stamp from the Dotty Angles stamp set using Lost Lagoon ink. 
Because this set is photopolymer it was so easy to line up the pattern along the length of the card. I glued the ends of the card together around the container and then added some stars in Basic Black. I cut the large one using the Stars Framelits Dies and I punched the smaller ones using the star punch in the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack. I used Glue Dots to attach the stars to the stamped card. I also stamped the large stamp from the Amazing Birthday stamp set onto Whisper White card using Lost Lagoon ink and cut out the amazing part to attach to the centre of the large star. To finish off the decoration I made a Bow using the gorgeous Burlap Ribbon. The pieces for the Burlap Bow are held together with hot glue.
I used the new Gift Box Punch Board (page 5 in the Holiday Catalogue) to make a small box to hold the two golf balls. I used the directions on the board to make a box from a 8″ x8″ piece of Basic Black card. I decorated pieces of Whisper White card by stamping them with the diamond patterned stamp from the Dotty Angles stamp set using Lost Lagoon ink. I stamped the tag from the Merry Everything stamp set onto Whisper White card using Lost Lagoon ink. 
I cut around the outside line and attached it to a Basic Black tag punched using the Note Tag Punch. This stamp set and Tag Punch come as a bundle, so you get to save 15% when you buy them together. The tag is attached to the front of the box.
I love how co-ordinated everything is don’t you?
If you haven’t seen how the Gift Box Punch Board works, take a look at this video by Stampin’ Up. You get directions to make 15 different sized boxes in inches and in centimetres printed right onto the board. I actually found some retired 12″ x 12″ card and made each of the boxes and an additional one that I worked out by reversing the directions.
Have a fantastic Father’s Day.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Everyday Adventure Project Life
I truly love how quickly I can make a page come together using Stampin’ Up! Project Life Pocket Pages and the Project Life Card Collections.
This page shows off some photos taken by my daughter Sarah after she received her new background drops. My husband and I had fun getting our photos taken together and with Sarah’s two girls. 
I was able to use the reverse side of the Everyday Adventure Project Life Pocket Cards used in the layout on the other side of the Pocket Page. 
I added some embellishments to a couple of pockets, added some journalling and a stamp to one 3″ x 4″ pocket and I created a Title on the remaining 4″ x 6″ pocket. I used my Envelope Punch Board to create the “camera” with a little help from lots of photos on Pinterest. 
The letters for the title were cut from Basic Black card using the Little Letters Thinlest Dies.
I have scrapped these photos in My Digital Studio previously but they haven’t been printed yet. By using them in the Project Life Pocket Pages I get to see the photos more easily and remember the fun we had.
Have you tried Project Life style scrapbooking yet? If not, do so, it is so much fun.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Freebie by Stampin’ Up!
Everyone wants something for free don’t they? Well, the current promotion from Stampin’ Up! offers you just that. If you place a qualifying order ($300.00) you not only earn $50.00 to spend on anything you like, including the Hostess Sets in the back of the Catalogue, but you will receive in addition and for Free this amazing stamp set – Good Greetings.
I was lucky enough to earn this stamp set free earlier in the year and I just love the greetings but I especially love the font used. In fact you have seen me use this set on this card.
Your $300.00 order can be a combined workshop order (either an actual party or show your catalogue to your friends and collect the orders), a single customer order or an online order. The offer runs until the 31st October.
So if you have been thinking about hosting a workshop now is the time to book you workshop and collect some orders to make sure that you can take possession of this fantastic stamp set. It can be ordered as a Clear Mount or a Wood Mount set.
Bye for now,
Kris
A simple card
I was surfing Pinterest recently (you know, I think I am addicted) and found a very simple card using an image that wasn’t Stampin’ Up! but I knew it would work with the beautiful flower in the Stippled Blossom stamp set, so I just had to case it.
I stamped the solid flower from the Stippled Blossom stamp set onto Whisper White card using Wisteria Wonder ink which I had stamped off once onto scrap paper. 
I stamped the outline image over the top using the same ink. I masked the flower and stamped the leaves using Always Artichoke ink. Again the solid image was stamped off once onto scrap paper first. I stamped “thinking of you” from the Sassy Salutations stamp set to the left and below the flower. I stamped the second flower onto scrap paper using Elegant Eggplant ink. 
Again the solid image was stamped off once onto scrap paper to give the lighter colour. I cut out the Elegant Eggplant flower and attached it over the flower and leaf images. Although I love one layer cards, I do struggle to actually make them, so I had to add an Elegant Eggplant card base.
Inside the card I stamped the Wisteria Wonder flower which I masked before stamping the leaves.
A simple card but I think it is gorgeous and I thank Laura, the creator of the card I cased, for the inspiration.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Updated
I have finally updated my For Sale page. You can find pictures and a complete list of all the retired items I have reluctantly decided to part with. The price does not include postage and handling but please email me so that I can give you a final cost. Remember I can only sell my retired items to those of you who live in Australia.
I have also updated my Classes and Workshop page, so check it out if you want to attend. If you live too far away, then contact me and organise a kit with full instructions to be sent your way.
Bye for now,
Kris
Cheerful Christmas Card
Here I am again sharing something from the Holiday Catalogue. I must have Christmas or celebrations on the brain, although it is hard not to with all the gorgeous Christmas goodies in this fantastic catalogue. Anyway, I created this card to be part of my September Class.
I embossed Very Vanilla card using the Large Polka Dot Embossing Folder and attached it to scored and folded Early Expresso card. I attached a strip of the very gorgeous Under the Tree Specialty Designer Series Paper to a strip of Early Expresso card and then the card front. 
I punched two tags from Crumb Cake card using the Note Tag Punch and embossed them using the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder. I attached the tags to the card front so that they were sitting just under the top of the designer series paper. I stamped the background tag image from the Cheerful Tags stamp set onto Very Vanilla card using Crumb Cake ink. I stamped the tree border stamp across the bottom of the tag using Garden Green ink. 
I stamped merry, three times using Early Expresso ink above the tree border. I punched the tag using the Note Tag Punch and attached it to the card front using dimensionals. I tied a knot in a length of Early Express 1/4″ Cotton Ribbon and attached it to the top of the tag using a Glue Dot.
Inside the card I stamped the row of trees across Very Vanilla card using Garden Green ink. I stamped the greeting from the same stamp set using Cherry Cobbler ink.
I think this is such a fun set and of course would make the most adorable set of Christmas Tags but that will be a project for another day.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Holiday Catalogue
Woohoo! The Holiday Catalogue is live.
You can now place orders for product in this gorgeous catalogue. There is a link to the catalogue on the side bar. Or you can click here to reach the download page. If you would like to place an order just visit my online store and set up an account.
Happy Shopping!.
Bye for now,
Kris
