Do you love Stampin’ Up! stamps and have a wish list the length of your arm? Well here’s an idea for you… host a workshop before July 31st and you could recieve an extra $40 in rewards. If your workshop reaches $600, then that means $110 of free stuff of your choice, plus a level 1 or level 2 hostess reward. How good is that just for getting together with some friends and having a bit of creative fun?! If you’d like to take me up on this great offer, please contact me ASAP to book your workshop!

You can make these 4 cards for $12. My first workshop this Wednesday night is now full, but I’ve opened up a second workshop on Wednesday 8th July at 7pm, at my house in Toowoomba. If you want to come along, let me know ASAP so you don’t miss out. I look forward to hearing from you.

Special Offer #1

Buy three packs of select Designer Series paper get one FREE!

Purchase any 3 of the following paper packs, and choose a 4^th for FREE! 

Special Offer #2

For the month of May you can also purchase the amazing scrapbooking starter kit for just $150!

The kit includes:

 The kit is completely customisable and any product can be substituted for another product of same or lesser value.

Total value of these products alone is $187, YOU ONLY PAY $150! (that’s 20% off, a saving of $37!) The savings don’t stop there, as the kit also includes all the business supplies you need to start up your own business as a Stampin’ Up Demonstrator. This means you are also entitled to receive all the benefits of being a demonstrator including:

• 30% off your next order
• 20% off all future orders and 20% income on any orders you collect from others
• Access to great demonstrator support including the demonstrator website and monthly “Impressions” magazine and membership in a supportive team of like-minded people
• Eligibility for the fantastic “Stampin Start” Incentive programs for starting out demonstrators
• An additional welcome gift from me

 This special offer is aimed at people who either:

1. Already have lots of Stampin’ Up! stuff, so want to be a Demonstrator but hesitate about buying the full Starter Kit.

2. Really want to join just as a Hobby demonstrator – to buy products at a permanent 20% discount.

3. or who particularly want the scrapbooking products, especially at this amazing price!

So whether you want to kick-start your own business, or just take advantage of these fantastic offers for your own hobby… THIS DEAL IS NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also, if you are joining as a hobby demo and have no need for the business supplies, I am happy to buy the business supplies off you, reducing your starter kit price even further, and giving you even better value for money!!!

Contact me today for more information. Phone me on (07)46385045 or email sallymcnamara@bigpond.com

 The beer image is from the “Cheers to you” stamp set and I’ve coloured it with markers and aqua painters. Please forgive my colouring outside the lines! I also used some “Good morning sunshine” DSP for these samples. The base card is Summer Sun layered with Chocolate Chip and the DSP. The scallop around the beer is Pacific Point, which was the same colour I used to ink up the “cheers to you” sentiment.

The second card is very similar but I used a base card of kiwi kiss layered with Summer Sun and the DSP.

I will have more samples to show you over the next few days, as well as 2 very exciting special offers for the month of May, so stay tuned!

Here is a Christening card I made for a special little boy in our life- little Fletcher who you can see if you scroll back a ew posts. I got the idea for this card from a card on Sarah Klass’ blog. To get the cross image firstly I  made up a reverse mask by cutting a cross out of a piece of cardstock using my paper cutter. I positioned the mask over the vanilla cardstock, and then I rolled the so swirly wheel over it in certainly celery, and being careful not to move the mask, I sponged it with bashful blue ink, leaving behind the cross image. I jazzed it up with a bit of dazzling diamonds by going over the swirls with the 2-way glue pen, and sprinkling the glitter over the top, then dusting off the excess. The sentiment is “best wishes” from the short and sweet set punched out the oval punch. I also wheeled so swirly all over the base card, and used some certainly celery ribbon, another ribbon from my pre-stampin up stash and some hodgepodge. I’m quite happy with the end result.

I have to say this is my favourite colour combo at the moment… chocolate chip, pumpkin pie and rose red. Stamps used were baroque motifs and wonderful favourites. I had some of the square chocolate chip envelopes left over from the carousel notes pack, and needed to make a wedding card for a workmate which is big enough for all of us to sign. And hence this little beauty was born. Being a wedding card, I wanted to add a bit of bling, so I’ve clear embossed the swirly image. I also stamped and clear embossed the flower image onto rose red cardstock, and punched out with the scallop punch. I then layered this onto a pumpkin pie die-cut flower that I paper-pierced around the edges. I secured the two together with a fancy lil silver brad from the hodgepodge hardware. It’s hard to see in the photo, but the brad has a flower image on it, with a flat part in the centre, so I blinged it up with a few drops of crystal effects and sprinkled dazzling diamonds over it while it was still wet. I adhered the flower to the card with a stampin dimensional to pop it up a bit. Add some  ribbon, the sentiment and the scallop edge and voila! I love this card. I think it’s very pretty, even if I do say so myself. Please tell me what you think…

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but hey, what’s new?! I have lots of stamping stuff to share with you, but that will have to wait, because first I want you to head over to Kellie Winnell’s blog at the link below

http://www.kelliewinnell.com.au/?p=1502

Kellie has fantastic blog candy up for grabs, but you you have to leave a comment and place a link on your own blog by 18th April to have a chance at winning. Good luck!

Crab & Co. sand shaker card:

Like it a Latte dazzling embossed card:

Pumpkin Pie Prints 2-4-6-8 box

Come along on Saturday night at 7pm and make all of these for just $10! Email me ASAP if you’d like to come along. I’d love to see some new faces there!

Cheers, Sally

For the first page I used some carousel notes (from the summer mini) for the tree, and cut a trunk free-hand. I stamped the trunk with the textured stamp from the soon to be retired hostess set “Oh so Lovely”. The little “be happy” was from another hostess set “so many sayings”  which is also retiring. The birdie was from the “Always” set which was in the spring mini. I hope this set makes it into the main catalogue cos I do love it so! The title was done using big deal  alphabet, and simple serif mini. As you can see I did some journalling inside the “O” by stamping the memo stamp set from “office accoutrement” (also retiring), punching this out with a circle punch, adding the handwritten details and sticking it to the O. I also used some anchored rubons (retiring too!) and silver hodgepodge to finish it off. The colours were wild wasabi, chocolate chip, bashful blue and ruby red. Wow I didn’t realise how much was retiring until now! 

For the second page I started with a Basic Gray textured CS. I wheeled the classic stars wheel in night of navy over some whisper white cs, and stuck this down. I then inked the star wheel up straight from my so saffron inkpad and wheeled again over some whisper white. I cut out some individual saffron stars and stuck these over the navy ones with some stampin dimensionals. For the film strip I used the double rectangle punch along both of the so saffron cs, and mounted this to a strip of night of navy. The “original” is from the ”office accoutrement” set and so is the memo stamp. Plus some more anchored rubons and big deal alpha again for the title. I had been wanting to the ”film strip” effect for ages, and thought this little photo shoot was perfect for it! 

Hope you like. Please feel free to leave a comment

Here he is at 3 days old. What a cutie!! Congratulations guys. We think Fletcher is just gorgeous.