An October Occasion...

Kia ora koutou

The kids started back at school and kindergarten last week woohoo! :)  I started my new part-time job - it is fantastic, my employer's are lovely, I am going to do my best and hope they keep me on for a long time. I also started back at my Monday Card Class, how I missed the ladies - thank you Linda for teaching your wonderful cards over the school holidays.

Monday Card Class...

Romantic Vintage

This card is dedicated to nana <3

I wanted to show the ladies how fantastically resourceful the 6.5" x 6.5" pads are - full of beautiful card you can use to decorate, layer, and embellish your creative projects.  Some pads have the additional die-cut labels and borders BONUS!, quick and easy ready-to-make cards :)  

The focal point of this card is the red flower - I sponged and stamped the ink colour 'Real Red' around the edges, connecting the focal point to the rest of the card.  For the inside of the card, I fussy-cut some flowers that are also featuring on the front of the card - so when you open the card it is all tied together and you are reminded of the prettiness on the front. 

Stamps - Charming, Happy Greetings

Ink - Real Red

Card - French Vanilla Bazil, Kaisercraft: Needle and Thread 6.5" x 6.5" pad ( a few pages)

Accessories - Little Leaves Sizzlit, Butterfly Wings Embosslit, Lacy Border Punch, Scalloped Circle Punch, Triple Blossom Bouquet Punch, 5mm Corner Punch, Scissors (for fussy cutting), Hemp thread, Silver Brad, Dimensionals.

Butterfly Window

For this card, we made our own 'designer paper' by randomly stamping the beautiful swirl images and filling in the gaps with a small flower bouquet stamp with black ink on white card...stunning and simple, this technique is also known as 'one-sheet-wonder'; you can make a whole heap of cards using your hand-stamped designer sheet.  

The front of the card has a vellum window with a layered butterfly on top, when closed you can see the designer paper through the window :)

Butterfly Easel

...So we had a little extra time, this meant we were able to make a little extra something :)  My talented and beautiful colleague (fellow tutor in The Paper Peacock design team) Maria, taught me how to make this pretty little easel card.  So simple and easy, if you would like instructions - email me; kerianneh@gmail.com or see me at The Paper Peacock :)

Stamps - Large Swirl Stamp (Borrowed from Linda), Charming, Apothecary Art

Ink - Basic Black

Card - Blue Lagoon Bazil, White Bazil, Vellum (opaque white)

Accessories - Beautiful Butterflies Bigz, Beautiful Wings Embosslits, Labels Collection Framelits, Rhinestone, Dimensionals, Scalpel (to cut out butterfly window).

....Thank You

I am ever grateful for my Stampin' Up! customers, because of you I have the best job in the world (in my opinion, lol)...I mean who else gets to play/create, have a party, meet wonderful people, get free products and fantastic discounts? 

I always like to create a unique, beautiful thank you card and pop it in when returning customer orders -  here is the latest one:

Double embossing featuring a half-cut Label Framelit edge.

Stamps - Charming, Itty Bitty Banners

Ink - Blushing Bride

Card - Whisper White, In Color 2010 - 2012 Designer Series Paper Stacks

Accessories - Labels Collection Framelit, Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder, Designer Frames Folder, Beautiful Wings Embosslits, White Satin Ribbon, Dimensionals, Home-made templates for double-embossing.

Graduation

I was asked to make a graduation card, found this fantabulous design through Splitcoast Stampers - a very clever, creative lady Heidi Baks:  click here for the link to her blog; runningwscissorsstamper.

....Love You Mum

While writing this blog, I have been guiltily enjoying scoffing down my chocolates that were given to me for mother's day...sooooo yummmeh!  I want to take this opportunity to say to my mum Priscilla D and my mum out-law (not in-law yet)  Charmaine K - love you <3 xoxo

....On another note: 'An October Occasion' - actually, Saturday 19th October 2013 to be exact, happens to be quite a special occasion...tis the day Ryan and I are to tie the knot, get hitched, OMG get married!!! Yayyyyy, exciting, about time, can't wait!

Thanks for having a look, come back again, till next time...

Ka kite ano

BCH Stampin

What A Treat - At Our Retreat...

Kia ora koutou

It's been a fantastic two weeks - Linda; the owner of The Paper Peacock Scrapbooking Shop, hosted a wonderful scrapbooking/crafting/card-making retreat at Glentui Meadows last weekend. This was the first time I've been to such a thing....wow, it was two and a half days of creative bliss!!! Loved it, can't wait for the next retreat in October hosted by Maria & Brigid.

We were all challenged to do a scrapbook page layout, we were each given: white 12" x 12" card, and the same pre-cut chipboard title.  Then we were dealt three playing cards from a deck of cards - written on these cards were embellishments to use on our scrapbook page... I was dealt:  Glitter, Rhinestones and Ink.  Here is the result :)

This was quite a challenge for me as I am not a seasoned scrapbooker,  it was heaps of fun to do, and you should see the other ladies layouts OMG friggin awesome!!!

Monday Card Class

Monday 'pre-retreat', I wanted to share with my class the wonderful crepe paper butterfly technique that I learnt from an amazing lady - Liz Collett.  You can find her You Tube tutorial link on my post: Four Day - Clearance Rack Blitz, under the title 'Life is like a butterfly', and further details on how I made the butterflies.

Stamp - My Friend, Sand Speckle - wheel, Priceless, Hello Doily

Ink - Pool Party, Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry, Versamark

Card - White, Light Blue, Purple - Bassil (don't know the correct names of the coloured card)

Accessories - Sissix Bigz Beautiful Butterfly Die, 5mm Corner Punch, Lacy Brocade Embossing folder, Designer Frames - Oval Shape, Lacy Border Punch, Silver Embossing Powder, Rhinestones, Silver Peelcraft, Vellum, Jac Paper, Purple Crepe Paper, White Tissue Paper.

Stamp - Oval All, Sand Speckle - wheel, Priceless, Hello Doily

Ink - Pool Party, Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry, Versamark

Card - White, Blue, Purple - Bassil (don't know the correct names of the coloured card)

Accessories - Sissix Bigz Beautiful Butterfly Die, Beautiful Wings Embosslits, EK Border Punch, Oval Punch, Scalloped Oval Punch, Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder, Rhinestones,Vellum, Jac Paper, Purple Crepe Paper, White Tissue Paper.

Monday post-retreat....This month we are showcasing 'Ribbon' - at the retreat I created two cards with interesting folds, the colours were inspired by a beautiful two-toned organza ribbon...and the colours reminded me of my mum; colourful, beautiful, bold - hence the greeting :)

Stamp - Apothecary Art, Delightful Dozen

Ink - Regal Rose

Card - Cream Puff, Berrylicious, Sunrise - Bassil

Accessories - Labels Framelits Collection, Triple Blossom Bouquet Punch, Floral Embossing Folder, Two-toned Organza Ribbon, Burgandy Organza Ribbon, Gold Brads, Sponge.

This interesting card has a pocket on the inside and back - shopping mall gift card slots into the pockets perfectly :)

Card - Cream Puff, Berrylicious, Sunrise - Bassil

Accessories - EK Border Punch, Lacy Border Punch, Triple Blossom Bouquet Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch, Burgandy Organza Ribbon, Gold Brads.

Maria's Stampin' Up! Party...

Once a month, a group of us creative ladies get together and learn a layout/make & take, then the lovely lady who showed us how to make the layout is also the host of a Stampin' Up! Party that follows....Maria was the host and 'moi' the demonstrator.  These are the make & take cards I demonstrated - 

 My Friend

Stamp - My Friend, Beyond Plaid, Sand Speckle - wheel, Priceless, Hello Doily

Ink - Blushing Bride, Tangerine Tango, Real Red, Versamark

Card - Whisper White, Real Red

Accessories - Sissix Bigz Beautiful Butterflies, Labels Framelits Collection, Perfect Polkadot Embossing Folder, 5mm Corner Punch, Silver Embossing Powder, Rhinestones, Vellum, Jac Paper, Red Tissue Paper, White Tissue Paper, Sponge.

Praying Hands

Maria challenged me to design a card using Stampin' Up!'s Praying Hands stamp, her mother loves images with praying hands, so this card is for you - Maria's Mum :)

Stamps - Praying Hands, Apothecary Art, Just Believe

Ink - Basic Black

Card - Whisper White

Accessories - Labels Framelits Collection, Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder, White Satin Ribbon, Rhinestones, Sponge.

Stampin' Up! - Updates

This And That

Check it out - click here for the link to the flyer.

My Digital Studio 

Checkout it out through this link:  My Digital Studio  - .  You can download the software for a 30 day FREE TRIAL.

Colour Refresh

In 2010 when we did our big colour renovation
we shared our plans for smaller colour refreshes
every three to five years to keep our colours
on trend. Well it has been three years and we
are excited to announce that the upcoming
2013–2014 annual catalogue will include 10 new
colours (most of which are returning In Colors™
from previous years)!

Colour Products No Longer Available:

Item Description Availability 

101962 Classic Refill More Mustard X

102295 Classic Refill Pretty In Pink X

105221 Classic Refill Bashful Blue X

105230 Classic Refill Certainly Celery X

109016 Classic Refill River Rock X

111844 Classic Refill Baja Breeze X

119696 Classic Stampin Ink Refills Sutbles Collection X

119697 Classic Stampin Ink Refills Regals Collection X

119699 Classic Stampin Ink Refills Neutrals Collection X

119703 Stampin Markers Neutrals Collection X

119803 Watercolor Wonder Crayons Regals Collection X

119804 Watercolor Wonder Crayons Brights Collection X

New Wood-Mount Stamp Set Packaging

Cool, uniform packaging!  Looks just like the clear-mount stamp set packaging - click here to see the You Tube Video.

In my last post I mentioned I was looking for a part-time job - I found one, it's whanau time friendly and...I can still teach my Monday card class, yay!!!  Life is good!

School holidays are upon us, I am having two weeks off  Monday card class to look after my kids over the holidays.  I have decided, the school holidays are a good time to start treating my body better; eat healthy, watch my portion sizes, cut out sugar (going to be very hard), exercise. I will be using a very good, free website Sparkpeople to help me track my diet and exercise.  If you are thinking of losing weight or healthy lifestyle change like me, I recommend Sparkpeople, here is the link if you would like to check them out.

Thanks for looking, good looking  :)  Hope you checkout my next post, till then.... 

Ka kite ano

BCH Stampin :)