Nicole Stalker

June 4th

Bleached Elements

I’m having a lovely day today although the weather is not as good today as the beautiful day we had yesterday. I took my middle 2 girls to the movies this morning and saw X-Men: First Class which we all enjoyed and have then come home to create again.

I’ve gone with another challenge for this card I’m going to share with you. This time it’s a colour challenge from Cards & Things Challenges.

Here are the colours for this week’s challenge #81.

I was a little stuck with what to do with these colours but I pulled out my Elements of Style Stamp set, some embossing supplies and my bleach and had a play.

I’m still unsure on this card but the more I look at it the more it’s growing on me.

I’ve stamped and embossed in clear the flower image from Elements of Style onto the Peach Parfait cardstock and then bleached the image using an Aqua Painter filled with bleach. It’s been ages since I’ve played with bleach but Kirsty Brown wowed us at Convention with it so I thought I’d have a go.

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Elements of Style
Card: Crumb Cake, Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait, Very Vanilla
Ink: Versamark, Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Clear Embossing Powder, Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun, Sponge Dauber, Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Don’t forget to leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Till next time….

June 4th

Hello

I had a lovely day yesterday although I didn’t get as much crafting time as I had hoped. Unfortunately I didn’t realise how low our food supplies were getting and therefore needed to shop. I also relaxed with a movie during the day while my girls were at school and then the youngest 2 had a school disco in the evening.

I did manage to get one card done for this weeks Color Throwdown Challenge #144.

These are the colours we were provided with.

This is what I came up with.

A very simple card but I quite like it and hope you do too.

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Hello Blossoms
Card: Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Melon Mambo DSP (Brights Pattern Stack)
Ink: Certainly Celery, Pumpkin Pie & Melon Mambo Stampin’ Write Markers
Accessories: Certainly Celery 1 1/4” Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Basic Jewels – Rhinestones, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots.

Till next time….

June 3rd

Merry Christmas.

I know it’s only June but I can’t believe how quick this year has gone so before too long it will be Christmas.

For the month of June I have been asked to be a Guest Designer over on Just Add Ink with this week being my first.

When I received the Sketch for this week’s Just Add Ink Challenge I wasn’t too sure what I was going to create. I was looking through the IB&C to decide on a stamp set, initially thinking of flowers as I always do, but then I decided to turn the sketch upside down and knew it had to be a Christmas card.

Here’s this weeks sketch JAI #70 (the right way up….lol)

And this is what I created.

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Tree Trimmings, Snow Swirled
Card: Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Jolly Holiday DSP
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive inkpads, Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker
Accessories: Big Shot, Scallop Circle die, Circle Scissor Plus & Glass Mat, Basic Jewels – Rhinestones, Old Olive 1/8” Taffeta ribbon, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Glue Stick.

For the inside of the card I kept with the same layering and just added the Christmas verse.

So there’s my first weeks’ creation. It’s very simple but I’m happy with it. What do you think? Have I inspired you to start some Christmas stamping?

Till next time….

June 2nd

I’m a Guest Designer for…..

During the month of June I will be a Guest Designer over on Just Add Ink. How cool is that?

I’m so excited and I even get to use this badge for the month.

My first Guest Designer challenge will appear tomorrow morning so pop back then to check out my creation for this week.

It’s also my birthday tomorrow and I’m planning on spending most of the day crafting so with any luck my mojo will be back in full swing and I’ll have lots of creations to start sharing with you again.

Till tomorrow….

May 25th

Deals of the Week #4

Here are this weeks specials.

Item	Page	Description	Regular Price	Sale Price
113838	62	Right on Track Stampin’ Around Wheel	$11.95	$8.37
115619	68	Retro Remix Stampin Around Wheel	$11.95	$8.37
119975	134	Vintage Type Rub-Ons	$15.95	$11.17
118760	134	Play Date Rub-Ons	$16.95	$11.87

This is the final week’s deals so if there is anything you would like listed above please email or phone (H: 02 9620 9092 or M: 0418 218 467) your order through no later than 9pm Tuesday 31st May.

Till next time…