Shaz's Card Table

 

 

 

Our eldest turned 5 this past Tuesday 1st May. She was so excited. We held her birthday party yesterday and I had a bit of fun with making things.

I have seen a lot of tables decorated for parties with the little glass milk bottles and wanted to get some of them so finally found out that you can buy them from Woolworths in the deli section. They are Santa Vittoria drinks with pear or peach nectar in them. They are so cute.

Here is the banner I made using the Pennants Bigz Die from Stampin' Up!

 

Here is the birthday table all decorated. My husband printed off the sentiment in the frame and included a photo for every year Lizzie was.

 

 

These are the handbags I made as the gift bag. I decided not to do lollies in the bag and just do a little notepad that I decorated, a pen, a pencil, some bubbles in a little champagne flute and a necklace. I think a couple of kids were disappointed that there weren't any lollies ... oh well.

 

 

And here is the birthday girl all dressed up and ready for her party.

 

 

Finally .... here is the cake I made. Usually my husband and I make the cake together but this year he was away for a few days leading up to the party so I made the cake. I think if he was around it would have turned out a lot better. He's better at rolling out dough and icing than me. But I didn't think it was too bad for a first try of rolling out the ready made stuff..

Lizzie had a great day with her school and church friends so that was the main aim of the day.

 

 

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The other week a good friend of ours was needing to take some portraits for her photography course & I, of course, volunteered my girls for her to practice on. I mean, who wouldn't love to have gorgeous photos taken of their children by a photographer? We met out at Fagan Park & had some photos taken. My very good friend Megan has her own blog and I would highly recommend her for any photographing needs that you have. Here are only a few photos that she took of my girls.

 

Here is a photo of our little 2 year old Hannah

 

 

Here is a photo of our big 4 year old Elizabeth (Lizzie)

 

 

And finally here is a photo of both our little girls Lizzie & Hannah.

 

Again, Megan's blog is Megan-Bennett.com

 

 

 

The team that I'm in is having a Christmas Dinner on the 9th December and we're also doing a Secret Santa.  We post out a card to our recipient before the party as a taste of what they will recieve in their christmas present. Here is the card that I received a couple of days ago and I've only just had a chance to put this up on my blog.  It is made with some new Designer paper from the new Summer Mini due out on the 1st December.  If you'd like your own copy of the summer mini, email me and I'll post it out to you so that you will receive it on the 1st December.

 

 

This is Christmas shopping made easy, and makes a perfect gift for anyone crafty (that's you!). The best thing about it is that you'll have some $$ to spend during Sale-a-Bration in January, February and March, when you can earn stamp sets for free for every $100 you spend! Just get your loved ones to send me an email with Gift Certificate in the subject line, and I'll take care of the rest! Or do your own Christmas shopping right now, and get one for someone you love.

 

 

We used Basic Black  & Whisper White card by Stampin Up but they didn't have the ribbon that we wanted but I was able to track some down fairly easily & it was fairly cheap too so we used it on the invitation (in the middle) on the Orders of Service (on the left) & on the place cards (on the right).  The place cards were very easy as well as we just used the top note die by Stampin' Up! to cut them out & just scored them.  Megan had a friend do the writing.  The invitations & orders of service were all just the Manhattan Flower embossing folder by Stampin' Up!

I hope you like them as much as I do.  If only I had my wedding invitations to do over...

 

 

 

It's been quite some time since I updated my blog. Like a lot of people, there has been quite a bit going on in the Wilson household. We've just returned from our 4th weekend away in Katoomba for kcc conventions, this last one being kec the the 3 previous ones being kyck. I have, however, been stamping & making things and have quite a number of cards & projects to show you over the coming days. But here is a card that just came together so quickly after using some bits of DSP that I had left over from another card.

This card was made for a very good friend of ours Megan who also makes cards & is a great photographer. Check out her blog. The butterfly on this card is from the stamp set "Strength & Hope" and Stampin' Up! are donating $2 from every sale to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. This is very close to my heart as my mum died from breast cancer 20 something years ago. The set is found in the current Autumn Winter Mini.

Back to the butterfly, Marelle showed the team a way of giving the butterfly a "face lift" so to speak and I liked it so I used it on this card. Anyway, I hope you liked this card & I'll be back to upload some more creations soon.

 

 

One of the ladies in our team put together a sketch challenge for us and this is what I came up with. It is a fairly basic card. I used Wild Wasabi, Baja Breeze, Cherry Cobbler & Whisper White.

 

With the supplies that I took away with me over the Christmas period I also took away with me the level 1 hostess set from the new Summer mini, It's the Thought. I decided to use each of the stamps and just use one colour per stamp with whisper white & here are the cards that I made all using white organza ribbon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over the christmas period we were travelling a lot to visit family.  My husbands family live down south an hour and a half and my dad lives an hour north west of Sydney so we go and stay for a few nights each.

As we were going to be away from home for over a week I decided to pack up some supplies to play with.  It is great way for me to relax and de-stress.

I chose the Island Oasis DSP to work from and so grabbed the colours for that paper & the stamp set that coordinates with that which is Tropical Party.  I also did a quick search on a great site, Splitcoast Stampers, to see what cards had been made using this stamp set & used this as some inspiration.

Here are the cards that I made over the holiday period.

I was looking through my google feeds & saw that Shelli has her Creative Challenge up. Well I decided that I had something that I could show. It is an album & a card that I made for a blog hop back in March.

My album is all Autumn (or Fall for the US). I covered the chip board with the now retired Autumn Traditions DSP. I also used the Autumn Days Stamp Set & Autumn Harvest Rubons.



I also made this card to match the album.

The New Idea Book & Catalogue for 2010-2011 is out & it has so many great products.  Click on the catalogue to view it online.

Email me if you would like your very own copy.

 

 

Welcome to our Stampers Anonymous SU blog tour! Tonight we are delighted to show you projects using products that were available to us in our demo sneak peek from the 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalogue.
You may have just come from Sandy Quail's blog, but if you are starting here, don’t worry … you can make the complete tour just by following the links at the end of each post.

There are 14 stops along the way and we hope you will visit each one to see the wonderful creations we have to show you!

Please feel free to leave some comment love along the way …

At the end of each post there will be a link to take you to the next stop on the tour.
So grab a cuppa, sit back and enjoy!

 

I'm starting off with a Christmas card. I have used the new DSP Greenhouse Gala (117167 - $16.95) & Real Red Card layered onto Crumb Cake Card. I used the new Contempo Christmas Stamp Set (121498 - $26.95) & used my markers to colour in the Christmas tree which I Stamped onto Whisper White Card. I used some Real Red grosgrain ribbon to finish it off. There are so many ways to step this card up.

 

My next project is a little box using a different page from the DSP Greenhouse Gala (117167 - $16.95). I finished the box off with some Pumpkin Pie grosgrain ribbon & the Boho Blossoms Punch with a yellow rhinestone.

 

My last project is a scrap page. I used a piece of Real Red 12x12 Card for the page & layered on some DSP Greenhouse Gala (117167 - $16.95) yet again. I am really liking this paper. I didn't want to cover up too much of the strip of DSP so let it be a bit of a feature for the page. I layered the photos on to some more DSP. Using my Big Shot & my Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Dies (115951 - $139.95) I cut out the title of my page again using the DSP Greenhouse Gala (117167 - $16.95). I cut out two flowers from the DSP as well & stuck them in the corners of the page. Here is a close up of the flower at the bottom.

 

Now you’re off to enjoy the wonderful creations of Fiona Harvey. Thanks for stopping by! If you happen to lose your way here’s a list of all participants.

1. Fiona Harvey
2. Juliette Chapman
3. Kerry Bunting
4. Kirrily Matthews
5. Lorna Casha
6. Marelle Taylor
7. Meighan Wheller
8. Melissa Gillis
9. Michelle Marchant
10. Nikki Stalker
11. Sally Williams
12. Sam Coppack
13. Sandy Quail
14. Sharon Wilson - YOU ARE HERE

 

 

I just wanted to share a couple of photos of my girls with you.

These photos were taken on our drive over to Adelaide back in June.  Yes we drove over to Adelaide with two small children.  Lizzie is 3 & Hannah is 11 months old today.

This is Hannah in June so she was 9 months old.

And this is Lizzie.  She was 3 years & 1 month old in this photo.  This photo is a bit blury but she is on the move which is very true of Lizzie.  She is ALWAYS on the move unless she is asleep!

I've recently got back into doing some more scrapbooking.  I get inspired when I look at a few photos & then just have the urge to scrapbook.  It can take me a while to do a page but the effort is truly worth it.

I have created a double page layout for my eldest daughter Elizabeth (Lizzie) when she was visiting my brother & his family back in January 2009 while my husband & I went for a couple of nights break.



I saw this layout on a US company's website for their "workshops on the go" & I decided that I would use the layout & adapt it to my Stampin' Up! products.

This next layout came together quite quickly.  I used a layout from the scrapbook lounge again from the US. I had these 3 photos with my grandmother in them & I wanted to keep them together even though they are from different occasions.  The title reminds me of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, if you watch that show you will know what I'm talking about.

 

 

As I mentioned in the previous post, I'm very late with the birthday cards for my little girl.  She is 3 now & I made her card but it was a couple of months late.

For this card I cased a card that Marelle made for one of our team meetings.  I chose summer sun because Lizzie loves yellow.  I also wanted it fairly bright so went to my bold brights & used real red & tempting turquoise, both of which are staying in the new colour collections.

 

 

Here is the card that I have made for my little girl when she turned 2.  She is now 3 & I'll be posting that card very shortly.  I know, I know, I'm very slack to not have made these cards before she turned the actual age, but better late than never!  The card is only 15 months late!  I did make it about a month ago now though so it was only 14 months late.

I used Wonderful Favourite for the sentiment & used the Big Shot with the alphabet dies.

I love pinks & greens together & these are also the colours of her room.

 

 

It has been some time since my last post. I have been busy lately & haven't even been near my card table in quite a while but had a play yesterday. It was almost like catching up with an old friend that I hadn't seen for months. There isn't anything to show you from yesterday but I found a couple of cards that I had made a while back that I hadn't shown you yet.

With all our conventions that we attend helping with kcc, we go away a lot & I take some things with me so that I can play in the evenings when the girls are in bed. On one such an evening I had a look through the the Autumn Mini Catalogue & came across a card that I liked very much & decided to copy it. The card was on page 25 of the mini using the Autumn Harvest rub-ons (115731), Autumn Traditions DSP (115668) & Autumn Days stamp set (119161). I love this set of products & so made this card.

 

 

Then after making this card I decided to redo the card but in a different theme. So I went for the Cottage Wall DSP (115671) this time & the Cottage Garden Stamp Set (119163), & came up with this card.

Both of these two sets I fell in love with as soon as I saw them in the mini.

If you don't have a copy of the mini yet, then just email me & I will post one out to you. I hope you like them.

Welcome to our Stampers Anonymous SU Autumn/Winter Mini blog tour! There are some fantastic new products released in this catalogue tomorrow (April 1st) and we’re going to share some of them with you in our creations.

You may have just come from Nikki Stalker's blog, but if you are starting here, don’t worry … you can make the complete circuit just by following the links at the end of each post. There are 14 stops along the way, including one guest stamper, and we hope you will visit each one to see the wonderful creations we have to show you!

At the end of each post there will be a link to take you to the next stop on the tour.

We are offering 2 lucky visitors the opportunity to win some ‘Blog Candy’ this time around. There are a few things you must do to be eligible and they are:

1. You must leave a comment on every blog in the tour. Please also leave your full name with the comment.

2. After leaving your comments, you need to email Kerry and inform her you have done so and would like to be in the running for the blog candy.

 

Entry is open till midnight April 5th. Demonstrators are welcome to participate. **Blog candy is available to residents in Australia only. So grab a cuppa, sit back and enjoy the tour.

As it is Autumn, I have decided to run with this theme and everything is Autumn.


As soon as I saw these papers I just knew that they would be great for a photo album. I used the Autumn Traditions DSP to cover my chip board. I then used the Autumn Harvest Rub-ons which are so lovely to use & so very easy. I fell in love with the corresponding stamp set Autumn Days. The ribbon is one of the new in colour, Soft Suede which is so nice. The ribbon is two sided. On one side its plain but on the other there are white polka dots. As I went with the autumn theme, the polka dots didn't work so I was happy that I could use the other side instead.


I made a card to co-ordinate with my album using the same products.

And finally, I have another card to show you. This was a very simple card to make. I used the Soft Suede Card & used a rub on from Autumn Harvest along the bottom of the card. I stamped the pine cone image from Autumn Days onto white card & then layered onto Always Artichoke card. I also roughed up the edges of the Artichoke card with my cutter tool.

Well, that’s all from me. I hope you left your comment to be in with a chance at the ‘Blog Candy’. Now you’re off to enjoy the wonderful creations of Kirrily Matthews. Thanks for stopping by! If you happen to lose your way here’s a list of all participants.

1. Juliette Chapman
2. Sue Dean
3. Meighan Wheller
4. Chary Belfield
5. Nikki Stalker
6. Sharon Wilson - You are currently here
7. Kirrily Matthews
8. Rob Irving
9. Sally Williams
10. Kerry Bunting
11. Fiona Harvey
12. Teneale Williams
13. Liam Pucher
14. Marelle Taylor