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

past the shortest day

I made this card with the lovely

dark colours of always artichoke, going grey and black to represent the darkness of the shortest day, and spring forward from that a beautiful whisper white bloom from the embrace life stamp set. the designer series paper is from urban oasis

Coaster Mini Album

This may appear to look like a 6x6 or bigger page but this album is constructed out of 3.5 x 3.5 inch coasters therefore there was not much room for embellishing but I managed to squeeze a little bit in the designer series papers used to cover the coasters is from the windsor knot collection and the stripped ribbons are the new in colour baja breeze

stamps sets used through out album level 3 hostess set hand drawn bundle and life definitions plus defining alphabet

Timaru EXCITING news

Hi everyone well I have to share the news and I am totally thrilled........ One of the newest members of my team Lives and creates in Timaru. Her name is Debbie McRobie and I just love what she has done here Not all of her supplies have arrived alas but look what she has done with the lovely Stampin up sweet nothings simply scrappin set and a dusting of Kiwi crush ink I just love it and now I am going to have to add that to my own wish list LOL

Debbie is starting to create here own blog so I look forward to her being on line to see what else she is up to0. So for now just contract me and I will transfer you to her re bookings for workshops or other events she is having until the blog is up and running

frosty mornings sunny days

Ok so I know this isn't stamping but the days have been so between snow flurries that I had to get outside and enjoy it. Another driving reason is I have new neighbours who even before they moved in cut down all the trees along the fence line YIKES no privacy at all so it was time to get into the yard and do some sorting


there are actually two trees in the photo above and they are six months apart in age awesome a grow quick screen that will be pretty to with sweet pea shaped flowers 6ft in a year growth wonder if that hurts??

I have these photos in the wrong order this is actually the end result of my new no dig gardens James knocked a few boxes together for me while I went out and sourced the raw materials

Lucerne hay, pea straw, chook poo and mushroom compost sound good to me

the boxes have been made the size of our path cuts down on the weeds there is the very ugly fence boo hoo but not for long

A little bit of town and country piles of straw and hay and organic materials.... doesn't that sound nice all complete with a very happy hole digging dog. Sariah didn't did holes at home until i grubbed out some old bushes oh no a nasty new habit. This is the biggest bin it is twice the size of the others.

I am planning to plant chamomile and thyme lawn as the grass has goon missing due to chooks pecking it away and a nosey pooch who likes to run up and down to the front wall and check out who is in the street. and also then she will have pizza smelling feet ...... pretty cool lol

ooops soory posted the same picture twice and it is hard to get rid of it

winter post.

Wow what a stormy old night last night snow and black ice in Dunedin and snow on the ground only for a short time at my place anyway thought it was time to bring out the "winter Post stamp set and give it a little run over the night of navy card stock ans scatter with a dusting of white embossing powder sound enticing well it is lol

The roads have been closed all day and James couldnt get down to pick up Hamish form university after his exams today good luck with your exams Hamish will see you soon

bold brights lots of circles

this was a fast and fun card that I made for a winter swap: it is using an assorted bold brights pack of paper and the stamp set Circle Circus along with round scallop and assorted circle punches all products stampin up except for the button accessories

scrapbook page good morning sunshine

Opps what a bad blogger the days have just flown from my last posting.. Any way I thought it was time for a scrapbook page and I had great fun with the Designer Series paper good morning sunshine and my circle punches the chipboard leaves are from the on board so tweet collection Ribbon 1" double stiched Grosgrain in Chocolate Chip

As you can see from this close up I have punched circles out of one of the sheets of paper from this lovely set and punched out multiple sized circles with my circle punches. I then flipped the circles over and pasted some of them back into there original places but with the flip side image that is the white paper with yellow flower I have then lain this on another co ordinated sheet with choc chip back ground and yellow and blue flowers.

Baby Season

I never know what to call it when several of your friends are all expecting babies at the same time so I am going to call it baby season. I have started to make my cards . This one I did see when surfing the net sorry that I don't remember the site but I do love it so thank you. I have made the front cover the shape of a B for baby or it could be the lucky mums tummy, the front of the card has a circle cut out and the pram is set on the inside of the card so you look through. I did conform and use a selection of soft subtle papers and ribbons and pens those being certainly celery and apricot appeal

Stamp sets used in this card are Priceless, God's Blessings and fun and fast notes

I adore the verses in the God's Blessings stamp set the are so beautiful.

And below is one of my expectant mothers gifts it is a Nappy cake surrounded by snuggle rugs and a lovely soft towel in side are several doz nappies baby bottles and baby bits and pieces you can see really pretty ones on you tube mine looks a bit fat and wobbly but never mind I am sure the mums will be pleased : )

One of the many things I love about stampin up is there awesome punches and not the sort that land on the end of your nose there paper punches come in many shapes and sizes click on the catalogue symbol link at the top of the page to view them all on page 152'

I also love boxes and with stampin ups range of papers and card stock you can make a 3d object for everyone the punched apple i found at Sandy's blog please enjoy

riding hood red ideas book and catalogue

I thought it was about time that I walked the talk and made one of the many fabulous ideas in the current stampin up catalogue, this card is based on the card on page 71 of the catty. If you don't have a current catalogue you can contact me at stampin-fun@hotmail .com and I will organise one for you.

For this card I also used two of the level one hostess sets that are easily obtained when you hold a workshop. which I will be pleased to organise for you again please contact me via my email address above and I will organise a fun and informative workshop for you and your friends

Glitter + stampin round wheels= fun

The Ladies at my weekend workshop have already seen this project so I thought I better get it up and posted so that everyone else can have a peek. H ave used the stampin round wheel Neighbourhood and the very yummy supernova glitter on this 6x6 scrapbbok page
firstly I wheeled along the designer series paper Windsor Knot then I wheeled on whisper white, with versemark watermark stamp pad as it dries slower. Dusted that surface with heat and stick powder the techniquie is the same as using embossing powder the covered with glitter, reheated again gently and ker-pow that glitter is never coming off LOL for his page I have used the yummy green and the pink

A rose is a rose

Diane and I had great fun last night with fine supernova glitter and the rose is a rose set this is Diane's creation which is beautiful with the Rose being stamped in pink pirouette the second stamped with regal rose. She stamped two roses the cut them up and layered them with dimensional dots between the layers. Supporting papers used are Bella Rose Riding hood red and Kiwi Kiss

here is a cropped view of the layering I love the glitter it is amazingly fine and sparkly therefore a little hard to get a photo of but you get the idea yummy

Embrace life water colour

Are really love this water colouring technique that is so popular at the moment and Patty does an awesome tutorial on it I love what it has done to my embrace life stamp set its so much fun I had to post twice today lol