Bird on a Branch Christmas Flavour

Some like Christmas filled with bows and baubles while others like it elegant and easy ,either way you cannot go wrong with this beautiful stamp set "Bird on a Branch" and my favourite Christmas colours Riding hood red and garden green.

window card

Trying to get some of my teenage friends minds away from the release of New Moon very shortly ( I cant wait either lol) we thought we would focus on Christmas and the NZSU.

Challenge of using the square punches as window the girl and cat are behind the night of Navy card stock the snowmen in front we made this Christmas flavoured card complete with plenty of bling bling bling from Dazzling diamonds. Had to photograph it in the shade it was so razzle dazzle

enbrace Life 1 -2-3

for all three cards I have used the embrace life stamp set, the difference being colour The ribbon accents are crimped paper and I have used a variety of punches I adore my stampin up punches
Card one colours bordering blue and basic grey card stock with a touch of baja breeze inkpads used baja breeze and basic grey

Card 2 ballet blue, very vanilla and whisper white card stock, bella bleu desigener series paper with chocolate chip ink pad

Card 3 Tangerine Tango , Kiwi Kiss and whisper white card stock, crimped tangerine tango .

Ink pads /tangerine Tango Kiwi Kiss and /regal /rose

Christmas trends

I was thrilled when I saw " A wish for Peace" stamp set in this years main catalogue as I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. First of all I stamped in night of navy ink onto the beautiful glossy paper to give a real depth of colour to the image then with my two way glue pen I placed riverlets of glue for my dusting of dazzling diamonds super sparkle glitter to cling to a quick shake and a winter wonderland is created.

The peace dove is mounted on night of navy cardstock and I have used some of my fabulous collection of heavy duty stampin up punches, here I have used small, large and scallop ovals which make life super easy, I have also used our new eyelet punch. I felt the ballet blue card stock offered a smooth transition from the dark night of the navy to the brilliance of the whisper white card stock

Christmas greetings where provided by the very versatile cute and curly stamp set that comes with the punch bundle "curly label. Finally from the current mini catalogue is the beautiful riding hood red and cream striped wide ribbon.

Its great to have a table full of product goodies and use it all together the way that stampin up products go so effortlessley together, Please feel free to contact me if you which to purchase any of these fab products or you need to refresh or renew your current supply,

Kaikoura page Road trip

Just a few of my favourite things are on this page, travelling love it especially on a Train My Dad spent most of his working Career on the Railways from Shunter, Guard and Manager in Dunedin. Great times where often had by Sandra mum and I as we would get up in the middle of the night (it felt) and catch the train to my Nana and Grandads in Nelson. This Part of the trip was always memorable due to all the Tunnels that the train would go through.

Another Favourite is the TV show Logan and Brown more about that on other postings later , but the Often use Sea food in there show I really enjoyed the show covering this area and We also stopped at the infamous Nin's Bin for a couple of crays to go with fresh bread and butter with a pinch of salt......Devine

And Devine would also desribe the beautiful extremes of Land scape from the wind scuffed snow topped mountains to the ruggered black rocked coast

Road trip Wellington

James and I packed in sooo much in our couple of Days in Wellington I totally loved it and the weather was great thanks Sharlene your prayers where answered for us. All that walking deserved some food and we stopped at a place just a brisk walk from Te Papa called Wagamama which now has several branches around the North Island the bowl of steam soya beans was actually very moreish once I got into them as was the rest of the Asian fusion food we also had, Seafood Menrui, Edamame and Kara age please dont ask we what they mean it was a numbers game for me ie number 45, 104 and 108 LOL

For this page I have used paper from Bella Bleu and thanks a Latte stamp set headed the journalling block

excellant all rounder

Craig( first in line) is the last of our boys to finish high school and he has gone out with a roar: he has achieved high standards in both academic and sporting fields and we are sooo proud of him, and will miss him very much when he goes to Uni next year in Dunedin.

this page is created using a selection of riding hood red designer series paper supported by going grey cardstock
spiral punch 1 3/4 circle and 1 1/4 circle punch photo corner punch, curly label punch,word window punch, 1 1/4 square punch and nursery letters wheel and the beautiful riding hood red speciality ribbon in the current mini catty
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three quick cards

these are a few of the quick cards a group of us made for world card making day on Saturday one form the new mini catty using the best friend set on using a wheel in this case funky Forest standard wheel and from this years main catalogue, a rose is a rose stamp set