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I hope you're all feeling relaxed, refreshed and had a magical Christmas like us. We caught up with all the special people in our lives, had lots of laughs, lots of swimming, lots of presents and lots of good food! The last 2 days have gone super quick, and last night I managed to scrapbook for a whopping 3 hours straight (no toilet breaks allowed!) but only managed 1 layout and a couple of recipe cards... and a bit of never ending organising.

Here's my layout:
Recipe: (*not from SU!)
Papers: Stampin' Up! textured white cardstock, black cardstock, October Afternoon PP*;
Stamps: Jumbo Outline Alphabet stamp set; Ink: Versamark; Perfect Touch: Stampin' Up! white embossing powder, Stampin' Up! felt flower, diamonte's, Tombow adhesive, dimensionals, SNAIL adhesive, Kaisercraft rhinestones & pearls*, misc. findings*, lace*, Stampin' Up! journalling pen; Cool Tools: Stampin' Up! heat tool, embossing buddy, paper trimmer, paper snips, scalpel*.

And If you like the alphabet I used in my title (Jumbo Outline Alphabet stamp set) ...

...it's currently reduced from $77.95 to $38.98 until January 24th, and you can see more reduced Stampin' Up! items by clicking here and downloading the flyer.

If you would like to order any Stampin' Up! goodies please contact me and I can get your order shipped directly to your door wherever you are in Australia.

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Congrats Card

My best friend has just got engaged to the man of her dreams! They've just celebrated their 2nd year anniversary and I am sooooo happy for them both, what a way to celebrate and make this holiday season that extra bit special! This little card is hitting the post today...

Recipe (everything from SU! except "other" list)
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Taken with Teal, Kraft, Bordering Blue; Ribbon: 3/4" Polka-Dot Grosgrain ribbon (limited edition - Summer Mini); Punches: SU! corner Punch;Adhesive: Tombow, dimensionals; Other: Cuttlebug alpha's, diamonte's, apron border punch

If you would like to order any of these Stampin' Up! products,
have some special cards/stationary made or
learn how to make them yourself please contact me.

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Last Minute Cards

I'm almost finished with all my last minute cards for Christmas.

I found a gorgeous design on Teneale Williams site (like that's hard! she's a genius!) and had to CASE it. Not as beautifully perfect as hers, but it's hard to create without mistakes and mishaps when you have three little ones busy at work at my desk too, making their own special cards for Christmas and leaving me with about ... 6" of my desk to work on!! hehe.
So here's three special cards for three special people. I also have to make a super cute "congratulations" card for my best friend, Beth. She got engaged just before the weekend and I'm still over the moon for her. Just thought I would share that bit of info!! hehe

Until next time,

Old Olive

*Chuckles sarcastically* I got some photo's printed in a shop (I've always printed at home) this week and I vow to have my printer inked up and running again soon - what an awful experience!

Lines, faulty consoles (line up again), the odd Mr Magoo bumping into you and/or your trolley while you're navigating through the many, many elusive menu's to simply print one of each photo, strangers looking over your shoulder, personal space offenders... urgh.

Anyone out there have any humorous photo-printing stories they would like to share?

Here's a layout I did today with my favourite Stampin' Up! colour... Old Olive. Fact.

Recipe - All products from Stampin' Up! unless listed in 'other'
Cardstock: Old Olive; Patterned Paper: Simply Scrappin' Kit; Stamps & Ink: Baroque Motifs, Life Definitions, StazOn Jet Black Ink; Perfect Touch: Handmade Flowers: Old Olive, Choc Chip, Whisper White, SU! Buttons (hand cut, distressed and glued), Old Olive Marker, Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon, Journalling Tab from Simply Scrappin' Kit; Other: Rhinestones


On the upside (yes there is one after all that!) I got a really cute layout of EJ finished. I am officially only 6 months behind, time-line wise, with my layouts.

I am also convinced that my last post is a much needed post, and something I must do now. Today I found myself looking for photo's I'd taken between the 15th of November and today. Nothing.

I figured it had to have something to do with the computer problems I've been having. Nope.

I haven't taken a single photo of my kids in a month. I almost (almost) hyperventilated. Poor kids will have to be subjected to mummy going crazy with the camera now... hehe.

Hope you're all well. Bye for now,

Happy Christmas Everyone!

The school holidays officially started today, and I'm still feeling a little weepy from saying goodbye to the years teachers, class mates, kindy and coming to terms with all the inevitable changes approaching very soon.

I don't know if you've ever read anything like -->this<-- before but it definatley hit home with me, and I'm pretty sure it will strike a chord with all the blogging mummies out there, and for each of us there will be different reasons.

My reason? I prefer creating at my craft desk to being hunched over a computer blogging, and more importantly my 2nd child begins full time school next year and I want to pack as many mummy & me moments in with all my children, especially him and my other school aged boy, before the school season starts all over again and I find myself wondering where certain months of the year disappeared to!

Wishing you all a very merry and safe Christmas, and all the very best for 2010 ... if I don't pop in before then. ;)

Take care,

Scrap The Girls December Challenge

Another challenging challenge from Kate & The Crew at Scrap the Girls...

Requirements: Use Christmas carol lyrics as your title, and the following criteria *J - Jewels (bling) *O - Orange cardstock or patterned paper *Y - Yellow embellishment. And of course it has to be girl themed.

Here's my entry:
Recipe
Cardstock: Apricot Appeal, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Elegant Eggplant, Lavender Lace; Patterned Paper: Tall Tales DSP; Ink: Creamy Caramel; Stamps: Winter Post, Simple Serif Alphabet & Numbers; Ribbon: Stampin' Up! (retired); Punches: Boho Blossoms; Other: Lace, hemp ric-rac, buttons, tag, twine, rhinestones, hand cut/distressed flowers, glitter Adhesives: Tombow, SNAIL and 2-Way glue pen

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Inventory Clearance

The post-Christmas sale has come early at Stampin' Up!. Some of their cutest stamp sets, ribbons, die cuts, glitter and DSP are now heavily discounted, but only while stocks last.

You can download the flyer by clicking here, and just let me know if you would like anything by clicking my "Contact Me" button over in the left hand column.

Have a great week everyone, I'm off to wrap some pressies!

Winter Post

Hi there!

I'm still making a gazillion cards for Christmas, making lists and checking them twice and the like. My card stash from November is well and truly depleted but I'm having fun in the process of making quick and cute cards to pop in the post.

This one got posted off to England early yesterday morning - I have lots of rellies over there so they will all be getting glittery, wintery cards from me this year. After the heat we had yesterday in Perth I'm a bit envious of their white Christmas!!

I CASEd the design from on of my card-idol's Mary Fish, I remember the minute I saw this set on her site over a year ago (September 08 to be exact) I had to recreate this gorgeous card design.

Hope you like! Until next time,

Anniversary Card

We were shown a really cute card at the Stampin' Up! Perth regional back in October, it was sketched out in my journal for future reference so it's been loosely CASEd... well, this week (Thursday) is hubby's and my 3rd wedding anniversary (11 years together in total, ball and chain hee!) so I thought I would make a card for him to give me. lol.


Now I have to make a masculine card for him. Should be interesting. ;)

All products from Stampin' Up! unless specified*
Recipe: Very Vanilla, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White cardstock; Regal Rose ink; I Heart Hearts stamp set, Priceless Stamp Set; Fiskars apron lace punch*, Stampin' Up! heart punch, Stampin' Up! Curly Label punch; Diamonte, Very Vanilla ribbon

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