tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28869961829002287632024-03-06T06:03:18.443+13:00Creative Stampingwith Janine Pearce Stampin' Up! DemonstratorJanine Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397212454655174548noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886996182900228763.post-55148215867198286722010-03-06T13:41:00.000+13:002010-03-06T13:41:39.819+13:00Green Fingers & Thumb Anyone<span style="color: white;">*</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">Just had to share this photo with you, what I'll do to myself to achieve the look I want</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was up early this morning dying bamboo sticks green, cause I want them near food (Easter Eggs in fact), I've used food colouring, didn't have green, but remembered you can make green from yellow & blue. Well I was in too much of a hurry to do this a nice, easy clean way - man ooh man you should see the colour of my fingers, they looked pretty yuk until I'd gone & washed my hair. I can still see traces of green yuk around the tips of my fingers, under my finger nails & all over my cuticles, I guess I'm just going to have to wait for it to wear off - ha, I never was a fan of the Incredible Hulk.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana;">Why, you ask have I done this, well I'm still working on that Easter project I promised I'd be posting soon, it's now a step or two closer to getting posted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello everyone, sorry for the delay in posting anything lately. My household has been pretty busy & hectic in the last couple of weeks & sometimes it's very important for family to come first. I'm having my second card class this afternoon, so will be posting properly very soon, plus I have not forgotten the requests on how to make the Hersey's Kisses Chocolate Roses. In fact I'm working on something extra special for Easter based on how the chocolate roses are made & I'm getting excited at the thought of sharing this with you soon - that's if it works of course, hoping it will.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aren't these cards lovely? Trish put them through my letterbox a few days ago. I really like them all very much, but must admit I do have a favourite.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The card on the bottom left has been made with <strong>Sense of Time</strong> from the Spring Mini catalogue. I love how Trish has stamped the background with this set & En Francais, then mounted the words with the coloured thread running across the card. </span></div><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wow, a very big thank you to everyone who has emailed me comments about my roses. It was an absolute pleasure to receive emails from so many parts of the world. And yes I will share how I made the roses later in the week. They are very easy to make & I will attempt my very first tutorial with matching photos.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Verdana;">As a cancer survivour myself it was an honour to make these for Lorraine to sell during the <a href="http://www.relayforlife.org.nz/event/event?EventID=91"><strong>Relay For Life</strong></a> she's doing this coming Saturday at Mt Smart Stadium here in Auckland New Zealand. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aren't these roses beautiful, I made them for my friend Lorriane who will be participating in the <a href="http://www.relayforlife.org.nz/event/event">Relay For Life</a> at Mt Smart Studium Saturday 20 February 2010. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Relay is not a race – it’s a celebration and awareness-raising event for the survivors and families of those with cancer - it’s a time for remembrance. Started in 1985 by an American Cancer Society volunteer, Relay is now the biggest fundraiser for cancer in 20 countries around the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a pleasure to make these roses for Lorraine who intends to sell them during the relay.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">so not only are they lovely to look at but you can also enjoy eating the chocolate kiss hidden inside each rose.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">As promised - here's the full photo of my Valentine's Day Class card. Sorry for the long wait, we have been having computer problems for about a month & a week ago our modem just died. Amazing how important the computer has become to me, I think I've missed it more than my son has.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A little look at some of the projects we'll be making at my very first class this coming Saturday, 23rd January here in Te Atau Peninsula. There are still a couple of spaces available, so if you're wanting a fun break from the kids (during the school holidays), come & join us. 580 Te Atatu Road, Te Atatu Peninsula - Time: 2.15pm - 4.45pm - Cost $18.00 for 3 projects plus a free gift from me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everyone attending my first Stamp Class on Saturday 23rd January will receive a cute little gift from me. My very first class is Valentine's Day themed, as 14th February is fast approaching. We will be making 2 cards, plus learning how to make chocolate roses from Hersey's Kisses. I will be showing you that with a little tweaking & change of stamps & colours how easy it is to change my Valentine's Day cards to suit almost any other occasion - very useful if Valentines is not your thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">okay just tried to post a photo but it's not happening at the moment, will need to get my technical support person to help, but he's still in bed asleep, should have photos later today. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">okay I've received another lesson on how the camera works etc, plus I've been playing with photo editing on my computer, we should have photos now.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are the cute little gift cards I made for the <strong>sale.a.bration </strong>swap. I've used a wonderfully cute & useful stamp set called <strong>Whimsical Words</strong> this set has six word stamps, that can be used for almost any occasion. I made them with Stampin' Up's <strong>textured cardstock</strong>, which is fabulous to work with. But maybe because it's a different weight to Stampin' Up's other cardstock, you need to be careful how you adhere it, as it does not like being pulled apart if you make mistakes or want to change your mind while you're creating. Apart from that I loved working with it & will be using it much more often. I made my own embellishments for these cards using a couple of Stampin' Up's stamp sets, ribbon, dazzling diamonds, crystal effects & the Boho Blossoms punch. I even made my own brads on the Tangerine Tango card - see yesterday's post for a close-up pic.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Attend my Valentine's class on the 23rd January & you will be making a similar card to the ones in the photo, plus another full sized card with matching envelope, 3 chocolate roses & don't forget my free cute little gift also.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a nice long break after the festivites of Christmas & New Year, I've finally started to create again - & it feels so good to be playing with ink, paper, stamps & glitter again. Here's a quick peek of something I've been working on, it's for the lastest Creative Inkers team swap. We have all chosen a different set that will be <strong>free </strong>to anyone spending $120.00 during <strong>sale.a.bration.</strong></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These cute little flowers are on one of my swaps. For my swaps I've chosen to use different stamps from the <strong>Whimsical Words </strong>stamp set, with each stamp I've used different coloured cardstock, inks & embellishments. In the photo you can see one completed flower, made with the Boho Blossoms punch, Sahara Sand textured cardstock sponged with Tangerine Tango ink, Old Olive 1/4" grosgrain ribbon & <strong>Crystal Effects</strong>. On all the other flowers you can see the crystal effects is still drying, it looks quite opaque but dries to a fabulous hard, glossy finish. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a great time when you can get some fantastic stamp sets, for <span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>FREE</strong>,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span>just by placing an order, hosting a workshop or signing up to become a demonstrator. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>Here’s how</strong>:</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Customers:</span></strong> Receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set for every $120 purchase (no limit! ie. spend $240, get <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">TWO</span></strong> stamp sets!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Hostesses:</span></strong> Receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set with a $700 or more workshop, in addition to the regular hostess benefits.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Recruits:</span></strong> Choose any retail stamp set (valued up to $93.95) from the current catalogue when signing up during the promotion.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This great offer is available between <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">25 January-31 March 2010.</span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Contact me now to book your Sale-A-Bration workshop!</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my computer skills are growing slowly, & while clicking with the mouse & playing around with some buttons last night, I discovered I can alter my photos. they can be cropped, rotated & quite a few other things beside. wow! I have even more stuff to learn about now, but it's all good - in time I hope to be posting better photos than I have been. I was able to crop this photo so you get the full benefit of the blooms & not the boring background. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong>Happy New Decade</strong></span> </span><br />
<strong><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">welcome to</span> 2010</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">wow isn't it great we are now at the start of a whole new decade.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">I feel like <strong>2010 </strong>is going to be a bigger & brighter year than 2009.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">I'm looking forward to sharing lots more of my creations with you this year.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">Exciting news for me - I will be starting classes from 23th January right here in Te Atatu Peninsula.</span> <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you are all very welcome to email me for details of my up-coming classes.</span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">May 2010 be the start of a great new time for all of you & your families.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1.</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Silent Night</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Little Town in Bethlehem</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Good King Wenceslas </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Joy to the World</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Hark the Herald Angels Sings</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. We Three Kings</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. Away in a Manger</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. Angels we have Heard on High</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10. Oh Come All Yea Faithful</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11. Oh Holy Night</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12. White Christmas</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13. The Twelve Days of Christmas</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15. Frosty the Snowman</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">16. All I want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth</span><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">17. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus</span><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">18. Walking in a Winter Wonderland</span><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">19. Deck the Halls</span><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">20. Jingle Bells</span><br />
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I hope you all had fun with this, I know I did. I'm not surprised you were stumped for some of the answers Karen, I was only able to guess at approx half of them. I do remember playing Christmas Carols on an old stereo as a child, my sister & I would sing along to them. There is something very joyous & up-lifting in either singing or listerning to Christmas Carols.<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span>Janine Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397212454655174548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886996182900228763.post-79891679278777574562009-12-25T23:51:00.000+13:002009-12-25T23:51:32.295+13:00Merry Christmas<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Merry Christmas to everyone & their families</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Last year I attend a friend's Ladies Night at her Church & I remember having a very enjoyable evening, singing Christmas Carols, exchanging a secret Santa gift & playing some fun games. Yesterday while looking through some of my craft stuff (I was still busy making some last minute gifts) I found this, it bought back some lovely memories of the evening. I wasn't able to guess all the answers, see how well you do. Tomorrow I'll post the answers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #990000;">The following words are alternate titles for several well-known Christmas songs</span><span style="color: #990000;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Quadruped with Crimson Proboscis</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Eight P.M. to Six A.M. without Noise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Minuscule Hamlet in the Near East</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Ancient Benevolent Despot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Exuberance Directed to the Planet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Listen, Aerial Spirits Announcing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. Trio of Monarchs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. Yonder in the Hay Rack</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. Cherubim Audited from Aloft</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10. Assemble, Everyone who believes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11. Hollowed Post Meridian</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12. Fantasia of a colourless December 25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13. A Dozen Twenty-four Hour Yule Periods</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14. Befell During the Transparent Bewitching Hour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15. Homo Sapien of Crystallized Vapour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16. Desire a Pair of Incisors on December 25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">17. I spied My Maternal Parent Osculating</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18. Perambulating Through A December Solstice Fantasy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">19. Adorn the vestibule</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20. Tin tintinnabulums </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tonight, well I say tonight cause I haven't been to bed yet, it's almost 1.30am, I've been making a few small gifts for family & friends.</span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These were nice & quick to make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ooh dear, I'm almost falling asleep at the keyboard, will come back in the morning to finish this post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"></span><strong>Christmas Eve</strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Today we have been experiencing glitches with our internet connection, we've been off line on & off for hours.</span></span>Janine Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397212454655174548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886996182900228763.post-7876478346564485402009-12-18T20:01:00.002+13:002009-12-18T22:50:47.410+13:00Fast, Quick & Simple<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently needed to make a small gift & matching card. Time was at a premium to both design & make them. This is what I came up with, unfortunately my photos (yes I took these ones myself) don't do the matching lollies inside the cello bag justice.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These were from our cat Neko to a lovely lady that provides him with yummy tidbits through-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">out the year. Mr Neko gets spolit with lamb, chicken & roast beef.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So what better gift than something made with cat stamps & lollies for Barbara.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lollies are called <strong>Black Cats</strong>, something I remember eating as a child they are flavoured with aniseed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But they looked more of a green colour to me, so they got matched up with Sage Shadow ink & cardstock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a soft spot for cats & own a few non Stampin' Up cat stamps. This one has been inked up with Basic Black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both the gift card & cardstock topper on the lollies have been wheeled with the <strong>P is for Paw </strong>wheel, using Sage Shadow ink. Absolute great value at only $13.95 contact me to place any order for Stampin' Up products.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These were fun to make & would make great stocking fillers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have used a few Stampin' Up punches (well worth owning as they are very good quality), some cardstock, ribbon & some retired DSP papers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I got the orginal idea for making these from </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ryemilan.blogspot.com/search/label/Punch%20Art">Sam Post</a> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">a talented Australian SU demo. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Punches used - 1", 3/4" & 1/2" Circle, I sponged around Santa's nose with Blush Blossom ink. Real Red, Whisper White, Basic Black & Blush Blossom cardstock. Dazzling Diamonds on Santa's hat & Dimensionals under his nose & moustache. Real Red 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon & some retired white organza. The DSP is Dashing, retired from last year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Contact me</span> <span style="font-size: small;">to order any Stampin'</span> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Up products, or to learn some new stamping techniques.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Click <a href="http://www3.stampinup.com/nz/documents/Inventory_Clearance_1209_AUNZ.pdf"><b>HERE</b></a> to see the online flyer and <a href="mailto:jmpearce@xtra.co.nz"><b>contact me</b></a> if you'd like to order anything, supplies are available whilst stocks last.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robyn has made a simply fantastic Christmas Cracker with <strong>Real Red</strong> cardstock and some non SU items. I love the paper she has used to wrap around her cracker, very festive looking. She told me the cracker would be filled with chocolate and then given to some lucky person. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>106960 StazOn Ink Pad (White pad and refill) $26.95 </strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>109196 StazOn Cleaner $11.75</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will be highligting these and many more fabulous <strong>Stampin' Up </strong>products over the next few weeks of the festive season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The inspiration for this Santa Gift Tag came from <a href="http://ryemilan.blogspot.com/"><strong>Sam Post</strong></a><strong> </strong>an Australian SU demo. I really liked her Santa card made using SU punches, a girl can never have enough punches lol.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I decided to turn it into a Gift Tag and add some chocolate, everyone likes receiving chocolate at Christmas time, I know I do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">I'm quite pleased with myself, I wanted to link this to her blog and with a bit of persevrance, and trying to remember what KarenR had told me, I've worked out how to do it. I must say I've been avoiding giving this a go, but like all the other things I have learnt to work this blog, it's very easy once you know what to do.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had an enjoyable afternoon at my friend Robyn's yesterday, while I was there we made this Criss Cross card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's made with <strong>Kraft cardstock</strong> and the very beatuiful <strong>Bella Bleu</strong> DSP, which has been sponged lightly with <strong>Night of Navy.</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are very versatile papers as they can be used for either masculine or feminine cards.</span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wow! - aren't these cards fantastic!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">KarenR showed us on Sunday afternoon how to make the card on the left - it uses the 'Ocean Commotion' stamp set <span style="font-size: x-small;">with </span><span style="font-size: small;">Heat & Stick Powder,</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> unfortunately it has not shown up in the photo. Okay I have just looked at this post & if you click on the photo to enlarge it, you can see the Heat & Stick Powder on the Seaweed type swirl.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;">The card on the right was Sally's swap made from the new Summer Mini Catalogue - the stamp set is 'Something Sweet'. A very versatile set that is designed to be used with the Sweet Treat Cups. <span style="font-size: x-small;">I will post more tomorrow about the Sweet Treat Cups.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Both cards use Baja Breeze, a beautiful shade of blue that is part of this year's in-colours.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/337/43FD22852A4E99E6C89C4A2B73CC122C.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Janine Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397212454655174548noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886996182900228763.post-88487814628788477352009-12-01T23:37:00.000+13:002009-12-01T23:37:32.512+13:00My First Blog Candy WinnerThank you to all those that entered the - <strong><span style="color: #45818e;">what comes next in this sequence of numbers?</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #45818e;">To all those that either left a comment on my blog or emailed me, give yourselves a pat on the back - every single one of you guessed the correct answer <span style="font-size: large;">13 </span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><strong>My son wasn't impressed when I mentioned to him how many woman had answered correctly -</strong> <span style="color: black;">over 20 of you submitted an answer<strong> </strong></span><strong> </strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><strong>His response was - "well they weren't trying to complete lots of questions as fast as possible"</strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: #45818e;">He apparently thought he would get extra marks if he finished it as fast as possible.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><strong>And the winner is</strong></span> <strong>Elizabeth W</strong><br />
I have sent you an email Elizabeth and when I receive your address, I'll be able to send you your <strong>Blog Candy</strong> - I'd love it if you could send me a photo or two of any creations you make with it.<br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/337/43FD22852A4E99E6C89C4A2B73CC122C.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Janine Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397212454655174548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886996182900228763.post-9702452238478402942009-11-30T22:18:00.000+13:002009-11-30T22:18:23.445+13:00Wow the New Summer Mini Catalogue is Here<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>As promised a quick look at some cards made from the New Stampin' Up Summer Mini Catalogue</strong></span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The card beside the New Summer Mini Catalogue was one of my first attempts to use a stamp set from this fab new mini catty. I wasn't entirley happy with it so made a better version, but unfortunately I don't have any of the cards left to take a photo - I used them as my team swap on Sunday.</span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This photo shows some of the fantastic swaps I received at KarenR's team training yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Verdana;">All the cards are made using stamp sets and embellishments from the New Summer Mini Catalogue.</span><br />
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