{eScape Night}

These are the sweet little cards we did last Wednesday for the eScape event. We had a relaxed night, with little pies and hot chocolate. I set out some samples, the supplies, and the ladies just created with all the goodies.

What a great promotion this is! Offer good through Monday, receive 25% off the products in this bundle! You'll receive the Circle of Friendship set of eight, the 1 1/4 inch circle punch, and a set of 20 love notes in both Very Vanilla and Whisper White with matching envelopes for $69.11! Please see the promotions page for more details. To order your set before this offer ends, please email me at stamphappy@xtra.co.nz.

{Priceless Double Pocket Card}

I LOVE this fun way to make a double pocket card. This project uses a single sheet of 12x12 double sided paper, and then just a few bits for stamping and layering.

We made two tags to fit inside this sample, but gift vouchers & chocolate would also fit nicely! The stamp set used here is Priceless and the paper series is FAll Flowers. Stampin Up's papers this year are 13.95 for a pack of 12 double sided 12x12's! That's a fantastic deal! To order your pack of Fall Flowers, please contact me at stamphappy@xtra.co.nz.

The jumbo eyelet was set using the cropodile, another wonderful tool. This allows you to set eyelets with virtually no effort and no noise at all. To order yours, please contact me today.

{Bodacious Fun Fold}

Sometimes all it takes to jazz up a relatively simple design is a unique fold. I don't know what the stamping world calls this, but I've named it the Z fold.

This is a simple card that can be done with any stamp set and any colour combination - an easy layout for any ocassion.

This sample uses Bodacious Bouquet, one of my favourite sets!

Please check my July class schedule. Class requests can be submitted at stamphappy@xtra.co.nz

{Took a week off}

I have been having a lovely week's vacation in Rotorua, so no postings this week! I have fought with the hotel cables and my computer, and they won; I cannot get my own computer to hook up to the internet. So, sadly, the stacks of work I brought to do has to wait another week. I am on a hotel computer and therefore cannot even upload a photo with this posting.

Oh, well, it forced me to put my feet up. I've eaten like a pig and watched many movies this week; it's been great! :) My mother and stepfather have been here with me, and I will miss them very much. My girls love them and they both know how to be so utterly helpful. I told my mother she is my little fairy that follows behind and does all the cooking, dishes and laundry. It'd be so easy to get used to that! I think she might wonder what we eat when she's not here.

Got Kjirsti's baptismal dress done. Whew! Just have to put the flowers on it, but I think I am going to go the lazy way and use fabric glue for that. . .

Thanks, Rotorua, for the great week off. How many more weeks until I get to go to Palm Cove now? Am I spoiled or what?!

{A Priceless Thought}

This is a sweet surprise I found in my mailbox one day recently from a team member. Just to say thanks.

Which is so very, very thoughtful.

This month's promotion focuses on sending handmade cards to those we love, which I feel is such a nice message to all of us. We all love to be thought of, to be cherished a little, and to be remembered.

{Mother's Day}

These are the beautiful cards my daughters made for me for Mother's Day. I believe my dear friend Caroline helped with one of these.

These are the things we treasure at the end of our lives. I believe there will always be a place for hand-made cards and hand-written notes of love.

Thanks, girls, for your devotion.

{Ahoy Matey!}

I love this stamp set! I bought it for my daughter's fifth birthday party, which she insisted on having a pirate party (go figure). Anyway, I adore this set and the matching map wheel. This card is inspired by Debbie Olsen.

This features another colouring technique - this one uses the watercolour crayons. And that mat pack is excellent for the stitched look!

The sentiment, the birthday stamp, is on promotion this month. It comes in a product bundle at 25% off. You get the Circle of Friendship stamp set (set of eight), the 1 1/4 inch punch, and a love notes pack for $69.11! Please see the Specials and Promotions page for further details.

Many thanks to Jenny who showed me an even better way to tie the ribbons! It worked really well for this project and my ladies here in Auckland were sold on it! To find out more, send me an email!

{Summer by the Sea Watercolours}

This is a beautiful project inspired by Kelly Lunceford, but quite a bit was changed. The papers are from Spring Silhouettes, and aren't they beautiful? The technique we did in this class was the watercolouring I referred to that we learned at convention - watercolouring with markers. This was such a revelation to me! I did not write down the lady's name who showed us this, but I thank her very much!

I believe it's rather important that you use watercolour paper instead of the normal stamping paper for this technique. What a great way to get more mileage out of your markers and to achieve some different effects with the supplies you may already have. And many, including myself, find this way of watercolouring far easier than traditional methods.

To order the markers or any other supply or for any questions on this technique, please email me at stamphappy@xtra.co.nz.

{From a dear lady}

One of my dear team members, Pauline,

made me this darling little scrapbook. The story behind it is it's a wee photo album of the flowers and roses from the Stampin Up convention, which we sadly had to leave behind in Australia. Isn't she so thoughtful to find such a clever way to preserve those award flowers for me? It's things like this that make me so grateful to have a job that allows me to meet people such as Pauline.

And on top of that, isn't the little album great? It's made from a single sheet of 12x12 (excluding embellishments). I will make a note to have a class or a tutorial on this sometime. If you would like me to show you how and make this with me, please email me at stamphappy@xtra.co.nz to schedule a time.