Kathy's Stampin Pad

bfflnmw

2012-02-02T02:26:00.000-08:00

For those of you who are going ??? at the title of this post you must not have daughters lol. This is a picture of my daughter (on the left) 7 years ago with Sarah her bfflnmw or for those who need translation
Best Friends For Life No Matter What
We moved away not long after this photo was taken and they are still now bfflnmw. They text, they facebook, catch a plane to spend school holidays together. Time and distance has made them closer friends. Thanks Sarah for being my girl's bff. You rock!

There is currently a challenge on Stuck on You Sketches that was so effective - in its simplicity - that I just had to do it. And in 20 minutes flat! It certainly helped that I had such awesome papers from the Sale a Bration current promotion by Stampin Up to work with. Thanks SOUS for the inspiration!

Card: Chocolate Chip, Lucky Limeade
DSP: Everyday Enchantment
Other: Everyday Enchantment Ribbon & Brad Pack, Paper Daisies, Scribble This Sizzlet Die, Simple Letters Alphabet Bigz Die, Sponge Daubers, Two Way Glue Stick, Snail Adhesive, Stampin Dimensionals

Want to get your own awesome Sale a Bration FREEBIES?
Contact me to find out.....

Here is the sketch...

Happy Birthday Jordyn

2012-02-01T22:23:00.000-08:00

Had to make my four year old a birthday card. What better excuse to pull out a stampset "under the BigTop", a set I havent used for a while now. Match it with the corresponding Designer Series Paper "Big Top Birthday, throw in some Glimmer paper(which I've been dying to rip into), use a few Dies and voila, a cute card.

Stamps: Under the Big Top
Card: Whisper White, Daffodil Delight
Ink: Staz On Jet Black, Real Red Marker, Watercolour Pencils, Blender Pen
Other: Big Top Birthday Designer Series Paper, Red Glimmer Paper, 1 3/4 Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Bigz Die Simple Numbers

Sale a Bration is here!

2012-01-24T18:10:00.000-08:00

FREE Stamps, FREE Designer Series Paper, FREE Ribbon & Brads

There are 3 great ways to earn FREE products during Sale-a-bration:

Place any order over $120* and choose a FREE gift. There are no limits, so spend $240 get 2 FREE gifts, spend $360 get 3 FREE gifts etc

Host a workshop with sales over $700 and you choose a FREE Sale-a-bration gift. Gift is in addition to our already generous hostess rewards!

Join Stampin' Up! during Sale-a-bration and you will receive your kit at a 15% discount, PLUS choose an additional stamp set of any value from the Idea Book & Catalogue to be added to your kit for FREE!

This year there are 4 great stamp sets to choose from, as well as the gorgeous Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper, and Everyday Enchantment Ribbon and Brad Pack.

Sale-a-bration products are exclusively designed for this promotion so they cannot be purchased!

Email me now to place your order and to start choosing your FREE gifts!

Click on the link to the left to view the brochure

*Excluding shipping. Promotions runs 24 January - 31 March 2012

You Are Loved anniversary card

2012-01-21T15:55:00.000-08:00

I needed an anniversary card yesterday for a 50th wedding anniversary and thought that the "You are Loved" stampset in the current Summer Mini was perfect.

Stamps: You are Loved, Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Inks: Cherry Cobbler
Card: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler
Other: Acrylic Clear Mount Block, Modern Label Punch, Word Window Punch, Stampin Dimensionals, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon

eat cake

2012-01-16T02:14:00.000-08:00

When Jordyn and I go out, inevitably we end up at a coffee shop. Usually one of two places in New Plymouth, McCafe or Robert Harris. This day it was Robert Harris. I love this cafe, its great to sit in the window and people watch. The chocolate fudge slice is great too, as is the coffee.
This is also the 2nd layout using the "easy patterns".

Card: Pear Pizzazz, Rose Red, Whisper White, Soft Suede
Other: Nursery Suite DSP (retired), Nursery Suite Quick Accents (retired), Bigz Die Simple Letters Alphabet, Build a Cupcake Punch, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Stampin Dimensionals

Love 2 watch u sleep

2012-01-14T20:36:00.000-08:00

Jordyn is only days old in these photos, and yes my baby girl, I do love to watch you sleep. Even now at almost four I love to watch you sleep, I must take more pictures of you sleeping :-)

I was re-reading one of my scrapbooking magazines and thought I'd use an "easy patterns" idea. This one enables you to pick your card, paper and then pre-cut it so all you do is assemble it and add embellishments. The above layout is one of three using this. Keep watching for the next two.....

I used 6 sheets of 12x12 cardstock and 1 sheet of double sided patterned paper - this is an ideal use of Stampin' Up! designer series paper.

Card: Crumbcake, Rose Red, Regal Rose, Whisper White
Ink: Rose Red, Pink Pirouette - sponged
Other: Bigz Dies - Simple Letters Alphabet and Simple Numbers, Sizzlets Die Buttons #5, Embosslits Die Scalloped Heart of Hearts, Scallope Edge Border Punch, Paper Daisies, Stampin Dimensionals, Stamping Sponges, Bakers Twine

3 kids and a dog

2012-01-11T21:02:00.000-08:00

Im loving using my scraps!! Its a great way to make use of all those odd bits of paper that you just cant bear to throw away. Add a few splotches of ink, stitch a bit on top of the scraps and hey presto, a layout.
Used creative scrappers sketch # 188 again, love how you change the colours and you get a completely new look.

This is taken for Mothers day 7 years ago, Derek took it and used it for something the kids gave me, cant remember what exactly, it was a sad mothers day for me as we had not long miscarried so no surprises that I'm a little vague on the day. Love the pose of my tribe, they were and are beautiful children and I love them dearly.

Jordyn and me at Tupare Gardens

2012-01-08T18:41:00.000-08:00

One of the benefits of being stuck inside on a rainy day is that I get to do some scrapping. This layout is inspired by Creative Scrappers Sketch 186.
Jordyn is about 1 so this was taken 3 years ago.
I have a pair of pretty bulldog clips that stay on the wall in the dining room that I hang my current pages on so everyone in the house gets to see what I'm up too before they get put into albums, and its a great way of changing the artwork on a regular basis too.

Beware the Alligator

2011-12-29T02:07:00.000-08:00

Was looking at blogs the other night, as I am wont to do lol, and came across another sketch site, "creative scrappers" and got inspired to go trawling through the mountain of photos that are lurking in my cupboards. This one was of the five of us, before Jordyn came along, when we went to Australia for a two week holiday We had a fab day at Australia Zoo Carissa absolutely refused to even touch the wee beast and yes it was alive (looking at the end she had to touch I think maybe I would have kept my fingers away from all those little sharp teeth too) I have been wanting to scrap this one for a long time and was waiting for the right sketch to pop up. The photo makes the cardstock look mauve but it is actually a kraft colour
Below is the sketch:

Gingerbread House

2011-12-28T21:26:00.000-08:00

This is my first ever attempt at making a gingerbread house. I have wanted to make one for the past few years now and after seeing the people on "Masterchef" make one, I finally took the plunge. The recipe was an easy one, off the "littlies.co.nz" website - template and all. I rolled out the dough, cut the house out and baked it. So far so good, made the "glue" and put the walls up. Then iced and decorated the roof pieces and tried to attach them to the house. They kept sliding off at first and then when they finally stayed out, the front of the house collapsed. Grrrr! Oh well, there is always next year. It was lots of fun to make, and Jordyn enjoyed making cookies with the leftover dough. Below is the sketch from Stuck on U Sketches that I used as my inspiration for the layout. Thanks SOUS for another great challenge.

Summer Mini Catalogue

2011-12-26T12:21:00.000-08:00

This sweet little catalogue launched at the beginning of December. It runs till the end of March 2012 - wow, cant believe its almost 2012 - and is full of all sorts of goodies including simply adorned jewellery, new fabric, papers, ribbon, buttons, punches and of course stamps.

Click on the link to the right and you will see it online.

Call me today to order your product so you don't miss out.

Gingerbread Cookies

2011-12-26T02:23:00.000-08:00

Jordyn wanted to make a gingerbread house, we did, and then made cookies with the remaining dough. The cookies were great, the house was too, until I tried to put the roof on. The whole thing fell over, oh well, better luck next time. We still ate most of it though :-)
Then the latest challenge on Stuck on U Sketches came up, and with the challenge being " what are you baking for the holidays?" these were the ideal photos to scrap.
The die cuts were only out of paper so I matted some of them to make them pop!

Stamp Club 2012

2011-12-25T23:54:00.000-08:00

What is Stamp Club?

It's an opportunity to join a group of lovely ladies and me, where you can learn new paper crafting ideas and techniques, will get to make more detailed projects than in a workshop simply by ordering $35 in product each month beginning February and ending in October, and you get the class FREE!

Each person gets a free catalogue (if they dont already have one, then the next catalogue released in September), free mini catalogues and hostess dollars during the year.

Stamp Club begins in February .........

Thursday 9 February 9.30am and 6.30 pm
Monday 13 February 6.30pm

Call me to find out more...

What You Looking At??

2011-12-16T23:55:00.000-08:00

Ive been neglecting my scrap-booking in the last wee while, busy doing school and daycare stuff, having card classes and workshops so haven't played along with the Stuck on You Sketch challenges and boy have i missed it.

Here is my take on the latest challenge

My brother Gary and my daughter Jordyn getting to know each other a few Christmases ago. The look the was giving him was too cute.
Below is the sketch.

December Frenzy

2011-11-30T19:34:00.000-08:00

Get great Stampin’ Up! products up to 50 percent off during our December Frenzy sale–1-31 December only!

Item	Page	Description	Retail Price	Sale Price	Discount
120597	22	Welcome Christmas Clear-Mount Set	$39.95	$19.98	50%
121584	22	Welcome Christmas Wood-Mount Set	$49.95	$24.98	50%
117715	28	I {Heart} Hearts Wood-Mount Set	$42.95	$25.77	40%
121528	35	Got Treats Wood-Mount Set	$40.95	$24.57	40%
117699	42	Something Sweet Wood-Mount Set	$44.95	$26.97	40%
116686	46	For Everything Wood-Mount Set	$47.95	$28.77	40%
119163	67	Cottage Garden Wood-Mount Set	$32.95	$16.48	50%
121508	72	Every Moment Wood-Mount Set	$31.95	$19.17	40%
121480	74	Awash with Flowers Wood-Mount Set	$71.95	$43.17	40%
121522	75	Friends Never Fade Wood-Mount Set	$31.95	$15.98	50%
120618	75	Friends Never Fade Clear-Mount Set	$25.95	$15.57	40%
121600	75	Ornate Blossom Wood-Mount Set	$19.95	$11.97	40%
123551	88	Clearly For You Wood-Mount Set	$47.95	$28.77	40%
123848	96	Chloe Stampin’ Around Builder Wheel	$9.95	$5.97	40%
116911	126	Padded Envelopes (3)	$6.50	$3.90	40%
119263	138	Poppy Parade 1/2” Stitched-Poly Ribbon	$16.95	$11.87	30%
119267	138	Blushing Bride 1/2” Stitched-Poly Ribbon	$16.95	$11.87	30%
119731	143	Regals Flower Brads	$16.95	$11.87	30%
119730	143	Neutrals Flower Brads	$16.95	$11.87	30%
118762	146	Distressing Essentials	$37.95	$26.57	30%
103179	149	Craft & Rubber Scissors	$37.95	$26.57	30%
112531	149	Circle Scissor Plus Glass Mat	$37.95	$26.57	30%

Page numbers refer to the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalogue

Poser

2011-11-24T21:44:00.000-08:00

This is a layout I did the other day while scrapping with a friend - hi Caz - Jordyn had put on her sister's old hat and slippers to follow me outside to hang washing, and she looked so cute clowning around that I'm glad i had my phone in my pocket so i could get pics of it. :-)

Christmas without DSP

2011-11-20T16:24:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Sue Rowe from Stampin Connection for the fabulous layout idea. I cased her page to demonstrate that you dont need to have any scrapbooking papers to create a page. Cardstock, stamps and ink and look what I got???
Love how it came out too. This was one of my demonstrations at Fiona Young's workshop last week.

Stamps: Solid Stripes, Confetti, Soft Holly Wheel
Inks: Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Tempting Turquoise Pumpkin Pie
Cardstock: Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Pumpkin Pie
Other: Rhinestones, Big Shot, Medium Sizzlets Die - Timeless Type Junior Alphabet

Elven Shoes

2011-11-06T01:23:00.000-07:00

I love this card that Helen McKewen did a while ago and had to give it a go. Its so cute! I wonder if it would work for Dorothy's ruby slippers :-)

Card: Real Red, Old Olive, Whisper White
Paper: Big Top Birthday Designer Series Paper
Other: Top Note Die, Boh Blossoms Punch, Stampin Dimensionals, Chocolate Chip Marker

Topnote Santa Suit Box with Cards

2011-11-05T22:58:00.000-07:00

I saw this on Stampin Connection and had to case it. I made it for the door prize at a workshop the other night, it was a Christmas themed one and this one was ideal.

Supplies:
Card: Real Red, Whisper White, Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Pretty in Pink
Other: Top Note Die, Petals a Plenty Embossing Folder, Bird Builder Punch, 1/2" Circle Punch, 1" Circle Punch, Curly Label Punch, Square Fire Brads, uniball Signo Gel Pen

I"ve racked my brains and looked all over Stampin Connection for the box that I cased this from but I cant find it, sorry if you see this and I havent linked it back to you. Please contact me and I will credit it to you.

Magoogin & Matey

2011-11-04T22:23:00.000-07:00

I did a workshop for a fabulous friend last night and I was a little sneaky. My fab friend owns a zoo and recently acquired a kitten (as if she didnt have enough animals already hehe) and she posted on facebook some really cute photos of him snuggling up with "Matey" one of their very tame birds. When I saw the colours of the bird I thought that they would go brilliantly with the latest "in-colors" by Stampin' Up! and I was right! So, I "borrowed" her pics , printed them and presented her with them on the scrapbook page page that I demonstrated last night. Turns out she didnt mind at all. The kitten showed his approval too by sitting on the layout after it was finished. He is so cute!! Makes me want to get another one, but I dont think I'll be allowed one :-)

Supplies:
Cardstock: Island Indigo, Cameo Coral, Whisper White
Ink: Island Indigo marker
Paper: Berry Blossoms Designer Series Paper
Other: Bigz Dies Simple Letters, Crimper, Designer Printed Brads, Corner Punch