December Wrap Up!

Yikes, this will be a long one....

Summer Mini Catalogue

It's stared, it's pretty, and has lots of lovely new goodies: stamps, DSP's, punches, accessories and also the introduction of the Simply Adorned range.

If you haven't yet seen the Summer Mini Catalogue, then contact me and I'll post one out to you, or click the link to the right and view it online or down load it for future reference.

Happy Birthday Kristian!

This year Kristian turned 7.  We headed over to his house to celebrate, and of course took a gift and a card.  Here's a picture of the card.

Happy birthday Krissy!

Happy Birthday Matthew!

We headed straight from Krissy's party down to my brothers place to see him and our Nephew Matthew, whose birthday was the 6th.  Matty turned 7 and is a HUGE Harry Potter fan, so I made his card using the Griffindore colours.

Happy birthday Matty!

Happy Birthday Andrew!

The 7th was my brother's 40th birthday (poor old bugger).  He and Nicole headed off on a 3 day cruise, whilst mum and dad baby sat their 4 kids.  Here's his card.

Happy Birthday Ange!

Happy Birthday Charlotte!

Another of Emily's classmates had a birthday and this is the card I made for Charlotte.

Happy Birthday Charlotte!

Secret Santa

Each year the Creative Stampers do a Secret Santa.  Our fearless leader Joanna hands out our gifts at our Christmas get together.  My Secret Santa was the beautiful Dawn Ferguson, and this is what she gave me, thanks Dawn!

Ribbon, In-colour Markers and a Sizzix die

a close up of the Swirls Scribbles die - my new favourite!

I also received a card from my up-line Joanna.  Even though the card doesn't look at all christmassy, the message was.  It was a sneak peak for us of the Sale-a-bration items.

Christmas Cards!

I don't know how, as it happens the same time every year, but Christmas just crept up on me.  I was taking so long to finish my Christmas cards that I was told by Rob that if I didn't get them finished and posted by a certain date, that I had do go and buy cards (such blasphemy....)  Needless to say, cards were made and sent on time.  Except for the relies over seas :( Sorry to them.  Here's the range I made this year.

Rebecca's Christening!

Our lovely baby niece had her christening and this is the card I made for the occasion.  I had to get creative for this one.  I don't have any stamps suitable for a christening, so I got busy with my lace ribbon border punch, trimmed it down and made a cross.

Hope you had a lovely day Becci.

Happy Birthday Ben!

Ben turned 2 and his party was the same day as Becci's christening so we couldn't go but I did still make him a card.  Here it is.

Happy birthday Ben!

Special Christmas Cards!

I had to make 2 extra special Christmas cards this year.  One for Emily's teacher and one for her buddy Chloe.  Miss Fizely is such a beautiful lady and a great teacher.  Chloe was Em's year 6 buddy and since day one of school, always looked out for Em. 

Em will miss seeing them both every day this year as she heads off to year 1 and has a new teacher, and Chloe start high school.

Thanks for your help last year.  Here's the card I made for them.  All up it took me an hour to make these two cards...

Happy Birthday Alissa!

I hope Alissa doesn't see this post as I haven't seen her for her birthday and just HAVE to give her this card.

Happy birthday Alissa!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I hope you got spoiled, behaved, ate, drank, laughed and loved (not necessarily in that order)!

Happy Birthday Natasha!

New Years Eve saw us heading off to Natasha's birthday party (and for the late stayers a new years eve party).  Here's the card I made for her, using a stamp set from the up and coming Sale-a-bration range (a little sneak peak for you..)

Happy birthday Tash!

Cheers,

Donna

November Wrap Up!

Summer Mini Catalogue Swap

Being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, I get to pre-purchase items from catalogues before they are released.  This is so I can prepare for classes and releases.  It also allows us to take part in swaps with other demonstrators so we have other examples of items in the catalogues. 

I took part in a swap organised by Kai Hughes and these are the cards I received in return for my design that I didn't take a photo of, and cant totally remember how it looked.  So, if you happened to get one of my cards, could you email me a copy?



Kari Huges

Sheree Bennett

Liz Halbisch

Catherine Lloyd

Alison Britt



I don't know... If this is yours please let me know

Merry Christmas from Kari



Happy Birthday Melissa!

Melissa is a very dear friend from school, and someone I have manage to introduce to the world of card making.  So of course she deserves something beautiful (just like her!).  I also bought her some lovely SU! products.

I went all out using my markers and then clear embossed over the top.  What do you think?

Happy Birthday Mel!

Happy Birthday Mum!

We celebrated my mum's birthday on the 28th and as mum and dad are travelling it was a pop in and see us on their way down from QLD to my brothers just north of Wollongong.  This is the card we gave mum.  It's one of my favourites as you'll probably see this pop up quite a bit.

Cheers,

Donna



October Wrap Up!

Girls Night In!

My Girls Night In event was great, and I had some serious fun. I had so much fun, that I kept forgetting to take photos.... I did however capture a few moments, here they are.

It was a great afternoon and with every ones help, we managed to raise $185.50. Given that this was a small function (13 ladies) in my home, I'm quite happy with that effort. Thanks to everyone who came and purchased raffle tickets.

Happy Birthday Nicole!

My sister in law celecrated her birthday and this is the card I made her.  Repeated stamping of one image and a little clear embossing for a little more effect.

Happy birthday Nic!

 

Timmy Tiger visited us!

Zoes class at daycare has a pet tiger.  His name is Timmy and he's small sofy and cuddly.  The kids get to take him home for the week and then get to do a 2 page spread in his scrapbook, capturing all the fun things he got up to.

Now I'm no scrapbooker, so I was a bit daunted by this, but because the staff there know I'm a card maker, I felt the added preasure to create something more than a print out from the computer and a couple of happy snaps.

This is what I ended up with.

Happy Halloween!

I made 30 sour milk containers for Emily's friends at school.  They are great and can contain lollies (of course) or treats. 

This is how they turned out.

Here are photos of my girls in their costumes for Trick or Treating.



Emily as a witch - very appropriate at times....



Zoe as a cat - her tail is back there somewhere...



Cheers,

Donna

I've been AWOL!!

I haven't dropped off the face of the earth, I just lost my mojo, and then the holidays and Christmas and you know how it goes, too much to do and not enough time in the day.

Any who, I've go some updating to do, so buckle up and hang on. 

Ill do this month by month.

Cheer,.
Donna

Come and Have Some Fun!

Whilst I've been very lucky to not have had my family directly effected by cancer, I have friends who have.  So rather than participate in an event as I have in previous years, this year I'm hosting my own.  So if you're not busy the afternoon of October 23rd, then please come along and take part in my Papercraft & Pamper event. 

If you'd like to come along and make 3 cards and an 3D item, then contact me to book your spot.

There is a cost of $30 to come and play, but that will cover entry and a $10 donation to the Cancer Council.  I will also have lucky door prizes, a raffle, refreshments and Clare, a consultant with the Body Shop will show you some of her lovely products that you can sample for a spot of pampering.

I'd love you to join int he fun, but if you can't make it, here's the link to my Girls Night In page, where you can make a donation, should you want to.

Here's a close up of what we'll make, so please consider coming and joining in the fun and raising money for a really great cause!  Hope to see you there!

  

Cheers,
Donna

Happy Birthday Katie & Annalise

Friends of our had their girl's birthday recently.  They had a party for them and here are the cards I made them.

Firstly Annalise, she has hit double figures. Happy 10th Birthday Annalise!

And Katie's card.  Happy 5th Birthday Katie!

Cheers,
Donna

Card Recipe for Annalise's Card
Card Stock: Elegant Eggplant: Pink Pirouette, Whisper White
Punches: Scallop Circles, Lace Trim Border, 1" Circle
Other: Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Die, Rhinestones, Dazzling Diamonds,Two-Way Glue Pen, Snail Adhesive, Dimensionals

Card Recipe for Katie's Card
Stamp Sets:  
Card Stock: Daffodil Delight, Mellon Mambo, Whisper White
Ink: Certainly Celery, Lucky Limeade
Other: Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Die, Dazzling Diamonds, Pearls, Two-Way Glue Pen, Snail Adhesive, Icecream Parlour Buttons and Ribbon (retired)

Happy Birthday Ava

My social butterfly Emily, had another birthday party to attend for another of her school friends.

Ava had a disco party so her card was all shiny, though you can't really see it all that well in the photo :(  Because I had no ink to match the Brushed Copper card, I had to get a little creative with the ink, mixing some Real Red re-inker and Shimmer Paint.  I used the left over to colour the ribbon, so it matches.

Happy 6th birthday Ava.
Cheers,
Donna

Card Recipe
Stamp Set: Baroque Motif
Card Stock: Brushed Copper, Whisper White
Other: Scallop Circle Punches, Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Die, Real Red Re-inker, Simmer Paint, Taffeta Ribbon, Glass Glitter, Glue Dots, Snail Adhesive, Two-Way Glue Pen