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Cottage Wall DSP Gift Boxes

Back in this post I shared an Easter Gift box I had made for my March Secret Sister Gift. Well today I’m going to share with you that same box remade using the lovely Cottage Wall DSP that is available in the current Autumn/Winter mini catalogue.

This first one I also made for Easter eggs for me just in case no one else in the family remembered me……lol

In case your were wondering, yes I did receive easter eggs and this box is still as is in the picture complete with eggs still inside. Must change that soon……

A friend of mine saw this one and wanted a class on it. She made hers like this one but I made a different colour combination for the same pack of DSP and this is how that one looks.

I really liked both of these combinations.

As I mentioned in the Easter post the divided insert is loose so you could remove it and package a different gift inside.

I ended up making a Pillow Box to match both boxes.

I’ve used some of the Flower Fantasy Printed Window Sheets to add a window. The Rich Razzleberry Pillow Box has some Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry Ribbon inside. These are so quick to whip up using your Big Shot of course.

Till next time…..

Secret Sister gifts sent for May

This is the main gift & card that I sent my sister, Kerri Donsky, for May which is the final month.

I made, what I’m calling, a desktop caddy for Kerri which has a compartment in the back section to put some On Board Chipboard. Hopefully Kerri has room on her desk and will put it to use.

The drawers all contained some goodies to play with too.

The top drawers had Flower Fusion, Flower Fusion Too and Die Cut Blooms.

The middle drawers had Linen Thread and Square Metal tags.

The bottom drawers had Taffeta ribbon and Hemp Twine.

I originally wanted to put some Rhinestone Brads into one of the drawers but the container wouldn’t fit so I made this mini pizza box for those.

I couldn’t send her final gift without including some more Lindt Chocolate so I made this Chocolate Slider to coordinate.

Here’s a closer look at the card that completed the whole set.

and the inside

Of course there needed to be a second card for the month to complete my commitment and here that is.

I’ve gone with one of my favourite sets for this card, Fifth Avenue Floral, but have used Chocolate Chip and Pink Pirouette that Kerri likes. I’ve also thrown in some Regal Rose.

Some finishing touches to the inside.

So that’s the end of Round 3 Secret Sister in our demonstrator group ESAD.

Till next time….

Deals of the Week #2

During the month of June Stampin’ Up! will have a new ‘Deal of the Week’ each week with up to 50% discount on the items offered. Unfortunately I missed informing you about last weeks but I’m ready to go now and inform you of this fantastic offer for Week 2.

Do you love Designer Series Paper like I do?

Then you need to take advantage of this wonderful offer.

From now until Tuesday 15th June (I’ll take orders up to 9pm) you can purchase any or all 5 of the following Designer Series Papers for 35% – 40% off.

Item	Page	Description	Regular Price	Sale Price
112470	132	Haiku Designers Series Paper	$16.95	$10.17
113976	132	Pink Flamingo Designer Series Paper	$16.95	$11.02
113992	133	Tea Party Designer Series Paper	$16.95	$10.17
113975	133	Raspberry Tart Designer Series Paper	$16.95	$11.02
114037	133	Sweet Slumber Speciality Designer Series Paper	$22.95	$14.92

Haiku Designer Series Paper $10.17

(Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, More Mustard & So Saffron)

Pink Flamingo Designer Series Paper $11.02

(Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Summer Sun & Cameo Coral)

Tea Party Designer Series Paper $10.17

(Certainly Celery, Pretty In Pink, Basic Gray, Almost Amethyst & So Saffron)

Raspberry Tart Designer Series Paper $11.02

(Real Red, Rose Red, Cameo Coral, Pretty In Pink & Kiwi Kiss)

Sweet Slumber Speciality Designer Series Paper (Textured cover-weight cardstock) $14.92

(Ruby Red, Baja Breeze, So Saffron & Sahara Sand)

Remember this offer is only available till Tuesday 15th June as there will be another Deal of the Week release on Wednesday 15th June. You can view the Deals of the Week as they are released via my Demonstrator website or visit my blog each Wednesday in June.

Orders can be shipped directly to you anywhere in Australia so if you’d like to place an order then email me or phone on (02) 9620 9092 or M: 0418 218 467. Payment can be made via Credit Card or Direct Deposit to my bank account however funds need to be in my account before I can place your order.

Till next time….

Lauren’s Party Bags.

My original intention was to make Lauren some of those gorgeous Paper Shoes that I was reminded about recently. When I asked her if that was okay she went…”Hmmmmm…..”. “Okay then, what would you like me to do?” Not sure that was a smart idea now.

“Can you make these handbags?”

Remember these from a recent post.

Ahhh….yes okay.

My first thought was, great I can use up some of that retired DSP I keep hording. Then it hit me. I’d have to print up 60 sheets of DSP, cut out 180 individual pieces, use 80 brads of various sorts + ribbons, sticky strip, etc. Now using up the 60 sheets of DSP, brads and ribbon isn’t such a big deal (could be an expensive exercise, but hey, it’s sales), but cutting out 180 pieces. Very time consuming.

Then I remembered some handbags I’d recently seen on Becky Robert’s blog here and also on Kerri Donsky’s blog here. Becky mentioned it was one of her projects from UStamp with Love and I had actually forgotten all about it. So off I went into my UStamp folder and found the tutorial….

These were going to be much easier and hopefully quicker to make which is what I wanted more than a bit more classier as I think these ones pictured are. After all I wonder how many of the children will still have them a day or two after the party……

So I showed Lauren the picture of the ‘new style’ bag and she said….”Yep that’s okay those look great too”. Phew……

The next task was to find 20 different sheets of DSP that have either Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze or Rose Red in them as I needed to use the 1” Double-Stitched Grosgrain ribbon for the handles. Guess what? I did. Well I did have to include a retired ribbon too but I’ll tell you about that below.

Here’s a shot of all the 20.

Lots of Rose Red ribbon in there.

I started off with retired papers first and came across some Berry Bliss DSP, however that was Close to Cocoa in that pack, but then I remembered I still had some Purely Pomegranate Satin ribbon which is the same width. I managed to pick out 2 different sheets from this pack. Next came 1 piece from the Summer Picnic pack. This is how they look.

Next up was the retired packs of Spring Showers and Spring Flowers. I found 1 full sheet from each pack to use and here they are….

Retired Bali Breeze came next and I found 3 different sheets to use……

That was it with the retired papers. That’s 8 sheets less I’m hording now though.

Moving on now to the current Designer Series Papers and first up is Sweet Always and Washington Apple with 1 sheet from each.

Followed by Urban Garden with another 2 sheets……

Then Good Morning Sunshine with another 2……

and the final 6 are from Raspberry Tart….

I don’t actually think I could pick a favourite as every time I put a new one together I liked that one too. Along with using up some retired DSP, I put some retired buttons and a little ribbon to use too.

So I don’t have any arguments over which child wants which bag I have told Lauren that I will put all the names of those attending into a hat, line the bags up and then pick out the names. Whoever comes out first gets bag number 1, second will get bag number 2, and so on. I’m going to make tags and put the children’s initials on them (using the new Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Big Shot die) so it will just be hand out the one with their initials on it as they are leaving. Even my girls wont get to choose.

I managed to get all 20 of these done (amongst other things, including a class) in 1 1/2 days. I had it down to a fine art and could quite easily have made another 20 without getting bored with it. I think having an array of designer series papers and waiting to see the end result, keeps it interesting. We went and purchased the Pinata for the party and all the lollies to go inside and in the Party bags on Saturday so apart from food, drinks and cake (which is usually and Ice-Cream cake, yummo….) we are pretty much organised with 2 weeks to spare before her Birthday.

Next on my agenda is making Mother’s Day cards for school.

Till next time…..

ESAD Blog Hop

Good Morning everyone!

I hope you’re ready for the ESAD Blog Hop! Better go grab yourself a cuppa as you’ll be hopping for a while!

What is ESAD you say?

ESAD stands for Extra Special Australian (and New Zealand) Demonstrators and it is an online group just for Australian and New Zealand Stampin’ Up! demonstrators.

We so love what we do and not only do we love to share it with our customers, friends and wonderful blog visitors but we share our love for what we do with each other as Demonstrators. We run swaps, challenges, tutorials, product know how and cyberstamps and we are always there to help and support each other when its needed.

So if you are a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand then please feel free to click here to join our wonderful group.

Now on with the show……

You may have arrived here from Nikki Sadler’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 25 stops along the way, so that’s plenty of inspiration for you. We are also offering blog candy again which you can read more about how to enter at the end of this post.

I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to share with you today. I love the Cottage Garden stamp set and coordinating Cottage Wall DSP. And who doesn’t like the Vintage Vogue stamp set?? But these were already being showcased by many others participating in the ESAD Blog Hop and I’d already used the Cottage Garden stamp set and Cottage Wall DSP in my team blog hop anyway.

So what did I decide to showcase?

After looking through the list of what the other Blog Hop participants were using I noticed one set seemed to be missing altogether and that was the Pendant Park stamp set.

Over the Easter weekend I was playing around with this stamp set using some different techniques and by the time I had 3 cards done I knew this was what I was going to use. My colour scheme came from the lovely Autumn Traditions DSP which I have used some in my 4th card to complete my set along with a quick bag to present them in. I hope you like them.

The first card I made I used the Emerging Colour technique. I haven’t played with this technique since we lost the Fabulous Flowers stamp set last main IB&C. I love how the other colours peek out through the tree.

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Sanded, Pendant Park, Autumn Days
Card: Always Artichoke, Ruby Red, More Mustard, Whisper White
Inks: Soft Suede, Elegant Eggplant, Ruby Red, Always Artichoke, More Mustard
Accessories: Brayer, Clear Embossing Powder, Word Window Punch, Heat Gun, Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Seeing I already had my brayer out I decided to play around with a scenery.

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Pendant Park
Card: Always Artichoke, More Mustard, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White
Inks: Always Artichoke, More Mustard, Elegant Eggplant
Accessories: Photo Corner, Small & Large Oval Punches, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Brayer, Sponges.

This time I decided to brighten the tree up by using the ‘Thumping’ technique. I love this multicolour tree and I’ve placed it in a pot plant made using the wide oval punch and I’ve stamped it using the lovely border image from the Pendant Park stamp set (initially the reason I wanted this stamp set…hahaha).

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Pendant Park, Thank You Kindly
Card: Always Artichoke, More Mustard, Whisper White, Elegant Eggplant
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Ruby Red inkpads, More Mustard, Ruby Red, Always Artichoke & Elegant Eggplant Stampin’ Write Markers.
Accessories: Word Window & Wide Oval punches, Earth Element brads.

My final card uses the ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ technique. I’ve Rock ‘n’ Rolled the stamp through 4 colours starting with More Mustard, then Ruby Red, Always Artichoke and finally Elegant Eggplant.

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Pendant Park, Occasional Greetings
Card: Always Artichoke, Elegant Eggplant, Ruby Red, Whisper White, Autumn Traditions DSP
Ink: More Mustard, Ruby Red, Always Artichoke, Elegant Eggplant inkpads, Always Artichoke & Elegant Eggplant Stampin’ Write Markers
Accessories: Always Artichoke 1/4” grosgrain ribbon, Small & Large Oval punches, Paper piercing template & tool, Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Of course when you make a set of coordinating cards you need something to present them in. I decided upon a quick 12” x 12” bag using the Autumn Traditions DSP.

To finish off the bag I’ve added some of the gorgeous Soft Suede Polka Dot ribbon and then I’ve punched out 4 coloured word window punches along with one in Whisper White which I’d stamped ‘just for you’ on first.

That’s my projects for the hop.

To be eligible to win the blog candy you need to do the following.

Leave a comment on every blog along the way.
Once you have left all your comments you then email Sharlene Torres and let her know you have done so. Please mention whether you reside in Australia or New Zealand as there will be one winner from each country.

** Residents outside Australia & New Zealand, along with Stampin’ Up! demonstrators are not eligible to enter but please still leave a comment if you like what you see.

So now you are off to see the wonderful creations Philippa Petty has to share with you. Thanks for stopping by.

Till next time…..

Nicole Stalker

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