Love this train

One of the nights during the road trip I had the pleasure of staying with Pauline and Gary Mc Ardle stampin up demo in Napier and what a night we had as you can imagine sharing Ideas and plans for layouts, anyone one of these conversations involved the Choo Choo stamp set from the very soon to be released Mini Catalogue.

I love this set as I grew up around trains as My Father served many years as a guard on New Zealand Rail in Dunedin and we often started our holidays with a train trip to Picton and a bus ride to nelson to spend time with my mums family so I had to get this set

I really like the effect of two step stampin I have achieved on this card by stamping in one of the in colours then running around the edge of the stamp with chocolate chip stamp and write marker pen to create the outline effect and some extra dimension

keep posted for more Ideas using this set or contact me and I can order this set for you on the 1st of August when it is available.

Road Trip Essentials

Hubby and I are off on a Road trip tomorrow, he is collecting a car in Auckland and a I am going to Senz to catch up with some of the Team who have a display and classes there. Then is off to Napier to spend a great friend that I have met through Stampin up is Demonstrator Pauline McArdle for what I am sure will be an action packed evening of fun .

The Wellington and a Long awaited meal at Logan and Brown, of hunger for the wild tv show fame neat neat neat A few days in wellington checking out the sights then its the interisland ferry back over to the South Island.

Poor James in those spare moments I will be looking up in my fab wee book "Crafty girl's road trip of Nz awesome

Therefore I have made this handy little folder that holds tickets photo envelopes and extra papers and bits for jotting down Ideas I have made up postcard sets from the winter post stamp set to which I just a fix a photo and post on to like minded friends


Stamp sets: sense of time (coming up mini catty) and Winter Post
Designer series papers Urban Oasis with co-ordinating in colours
Tab punch and earth elements brads

chilly times

You need to double click on the photo to see it clearly :

I love cold frosty mornings and the view of the hills over Oamaru from Home. opppps should be sleeping night duty waits for no man or woman its great coming home to bed and the rest of my world gets up to go to work.

I must get my winter pos stamp set out and make some cards this afternoon

Tart and Tangy

Hi I have borrowed a friends lap top to put in a quick post, While mine is still on the fritz I have been very busy with yummy Winter activities of Making a Family Favourite both Mum's and Nana's Lemon Cordial that will beat any swine Flu I am sure . And the perennial Favourite Jewel like CrabApple Jelly. As you can see beautifully complemented with the Tart and Tangy Stamp set

blue screen of death

What a nightmare I am posting this from work in my tea breat at o4oohrs, just to let you know that my home lap top has had the blue screen of death for a week now and James is searching the net for more drivers to get it going so it has been a real bore I have had to do house work instead of posting but hopefully things will be up and running real soon

I havent been totally slack I have been working on a couple of 3d objects that you may just like so keep an eye out so to speak well wish me luck that i will be up and running again soon