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I am sharing the projects we made during my Open House earlier this month. I designed or chose them to showcase some simple stamping techniques suitable for participants with any amount of crafting experience. With everything going on (shipment from America arriving and needing to be unpacked/put away) in the week leading up to the event, I unashamedly CASE'd (Copy and Share Everything) some designs by other demonstrators.
This card I first made at a retreat in July hosted by my friend and fellow demonstrator Sarah Edwards. I really like the bright colours in the Designer Series Paper (DSP), and that while there are a lot of little elements to the card, it "reads" as clean-and-simple.
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order.
Occasions and Sale-A-Bration start soon!
You won't want to miss the great new products being introduced on 3 January 2019! Shop from the Occasions and Annual Catalogues and earn FREE products from the Sale-A-Bration brochure! If you're in Australia and not already working with a demonstrator, email me today to get your copy of each one.
January Events
Monthly Card Class - TBA
Sorry for the delay in publishing my schedule for the beginning of 2019 - we're still working out some family issues that may affect when I can hold class. Hoping to have this resolved within the week!
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I am sharing the projects we made during my Open House earlier this month. I designed or chose them to showcase some simple stamping techniques suitable for participants with any amount of crafting experience. With everything going on (shipment from America arriving and needing to be unpacked/put away) in the week leading up to the event, I unashamedly CASE'd (Copy and Share Everything) some designs by other demonstrators.
This card I CASE'd from Nancy Ferb. Dandelion Wishes can be used in many ways to make beautiful cards. For this one we used one image and stamped it 3 times in 3 colours of ink: Pineapple Punch, Grapefruit Grove and Lovely Lipstick. Rhinestones add a pop of sparkles and the Grapefruit Grove twine ties it all together with the matching card base.
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order.
Occasions and Sale-A-Bration Catalogues start soon
You won't want to miss the great new products being introduced on 3 January 2019! Shop from the Occasions and Annual Catalogues and earn FREE products from the Sale-A-Bration brochure! If you're in Australia and not already working with a demonstrator, email me today to get your copy of each one.
January Events
Monthly Card Class - TBA
Sorry for the delay in publishing my schedule for the beginning of 2019 - we're still working out some family issues that may affect when I can hold class. Hoping to have this resolved within the week!
I am sharing the projects we made during my Open House earlier this month. I designed or chose them to showcase some simple stamping techniques suitable for participants with any amount of crafting experience. With everything going on (shipment from America arriving and needing to be unpacked/put away) in the week leading up to the event, I unashamedly CASE'd (Copy and Share Everything) some designs by other demonstrators.
This one was designed by Kim Fee. It uses the beautiful rose and leaf images as well as a sentiment from Healing Hugs, one of the DistInktive stamp sets that use very fine etching in the rubber to make really detailed images.
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order.
Click here for a list of retiring items, or shop directly in my Online Store!
Occasions and Sale-A-Bration start soon!
You won't want to miss the great new products being introduced on 3 January 2019! Shop from the Occasions and Annual Catalogues and earn FREE products from the Sale-A-Bration brochure! If you're in Australia and not already working with a demonstrator, email me today to get your copy of each one.
January Events
Monthly Card Class - TBA
Sorry for the delay in publishing my schedule for the beginning of 2019 - we're still working out some family issues that may affect when I can hold class. Hoping to have this resolved within the week!
Today I'm showing one of the projects we made at my Open House on Saturday, and with this post I'm participating in Kylie Bertucci's International Blog Highlight for December. I'd appreciate it if you'd click here and vote for my entry so I can participate in the Top 10 hop later this month.
Kylie's theme this month is "Gratitude and Thankfulness." I've made several of these Hershey's Nuggets gift packs to hand out this holiday season to show my appreciation to people who impact my family. The tag features the Dashing Deer stamp set and Detailed Deer Thinlits Dies. I've pulled the colours Sahara Sand, Merry Merlot and Copper from the Joyous Noel Specialty Designer Series Paper which is used to wrap the chocolates.
Here are the details for constructing your own gift packs:
Cardstock Tray: Merry Merlot cut to 2 ⅛" x 5", then scored on both long edges at ⅜" and folded up. Nugget Wrappers: cut DSP into 1" x 3" strips. For directions on wrapping see my tutorial for a similar pouch made from DSP here. Tag: Sahara Sand cut 2" x 4 ¼". Punch with Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. Stamp with sentiment in Merry Merlot. Affix die cut deer (the one pictured is cut from Copper Foil Sheets, but we also made gorgeous ones from the Copper colour in the Joyous Noel Glimmer Paper Pack). Assembly: Place wrapped chocolates in the cardstock tray. Slide it into the 2" x 8" (5.1 x 20.3 cm) Cellophane Bag. Tie Merry Merlot & Copper Ribbon once around neck of bag, then slide the tag onto one tail and tie a bow. Trim ends as desired. 
Here are the products I used to make this project. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order, and please don't forget to vote for me here.
December EventsLet's Get This Started Open House 8 December 2018 1:00 - 5:00 PM Nancy's Stamping Studio 1801/151 Berkeley Street, Melbourne 3000 1 block E of Haymarket tram stop (19/59) and Flemington Rd/Peel St (58). Also 3 blocks W of Lincoln Sq./Swanston St - UniMelb tram stop. Contact for parking info. This kickoff event is a FREE open house to introduce everyone to what I offer. There will be make-and-take projects, snacks and displays. Come when you can, leave when you must. Feel free to bring a friend. RSVPs appreciated so I can have enough materials prepared.  A quick toot of my own horn: I got Honorable Mention for my CAS(e) This Sketch! #298 entry which you can see here! I'm up to my eyeballs this week finishing unpacking our U.S. shipment that arrived a week ago, and preparing for my Open House on Saturday. I almost have my craft room set up...I still need to pick up the shelves for my stamp sets this afternoon, and get a few more things squared away, but the big furniture is in place and I've even had a few minutes to give it a test.  This craft room doubles as our guest room, so I've got a sleep sofa in here...just waiting for visitors! Our son will be giving it a good test run when he arrives next week. He'll be here until New Year's Day, so we're pretty excited for that.  So far I really like my stand-up cutting/Big Shot/embossing centre. I'm also pretty proud of my Ikea shelf hack...it's a DVD/CD shelf unit turned on its side.  Where the creative magic happens...with the computer magic right alongside.
That's all for today...I'll be back as time allows this week. If you're in the Melbourne area on Saturday I hope you'll pop in to say hello and make a few cards in the afternoon!
Here's the final card in my series of posts showcasing these fun figures. See my previous posts for the other cards.
This card was very quick and easy to make. I stamped the skating snowman onto Whisper White with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured him in with Stampin' Write Markers and Clear Wink of Stella. Added the sentiment and Tranquil Tide mat, then popped it up on a Tranquil Tide card base matted with some Tranquil Textures Designer Series Paper.
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order. December Events
Let's Get This Started Open House
8 December 2018 1:00 - 5:00 PM Nancy's Stamping Studio 1801/151 Berkeley Street, Melbourne 3000 1 block E of Haymarket tram stop (19/59) and Flemington Rd/Peel St (58). Also 3 blocks W of Lincoln Sq./Swanston St - UniMelb tram stop. Contact for parking info. This kickoff event is a FREE open house to introduce everyone to what I offer. There will be make-and-take projects, snacks and displays. Come when you can, leave when you must. Feel free to bring a friend. RSVPs by 1 December appreciated so I can have enough materials prepared.
I'm sharing a few cards I've made with the Spirited Snowmen stamp set. See my previous post for the first in the series.
This little guy is certainly cheerful! I set him frolicking in a snowy pine grove, thanks to the Winter Woods stamp set and In The Woods Framelits Dies bundle. I inked the pine tree in Tranquil Tide and stamped it twice without re-inking to get the two intensities of color. Then I cleaned the stamp and repeated with Shaded Spruce.
The snowman is stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, coloured with Stampin' Blend markers and Clear Wink of Stella (I so wish that would show up in photos!) and "fussy cut" by hand with our fabulous Paper Snips. Everything is layered up on a Whisper White panel embossed with the Softly Falling embossing folder and a Whisper White Thick card base. Oh, what fun! Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order. December Events
Let's Get This Started Open House
8 December 2018 1:00 - 5:00 PM Nancy's Stamping Studio 1801/151 Berkeley Street, Melbourne 3000 1 block E of Haymarket tram stop (19/59) and Flemington Rd/Peel St (58). Also 3 blocks W of Lincoln Sq./Swanston St - UniMelb tram stop. Contact for parking info. This kickoff event is a FREE open house to introduce everyone to what I offer. There will be make-and-take projects, snacks and displays. Come when you can, leave when you must. Feel free to bring a friend. RSVPs by 1 December appreciated so I can have enough materials prepared.
For the next few posts I'm going to share some cards I've made with the Spirited Snowmen stamp set. I'm a total sucker for cute snowmen, even though it's been 8 years since I lived anywhere that gets snow.
This snow couple was stamped onto Watercolour Paper in StazOn Jet Black ink. I used an AquaPainter and ink from ink pads to colour it in, including a wash of colour for the sky. What you can't see in the picture is the lovely shimmer on the snow from my clear Wink of Stella pen.
I think that this image would work great for Valentine's day if I played up the heard and downplayed the holly on her hat...how about you?
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order. December Events
Let's Get This Started Open House
8 December 2018 1:00 - 5:00 PM Nancy's Stamping Studio 1801/151 Berkeley Street, Melbourne 3000 1 block E of Haymarket tram stop (19/59) and Flemington Rd/Peel St (58). Also 3 blocks W of Lincoln Sq./Swanston St - UniMelb tram stop. Contact for parking info. This kickoff event is a FREE open house to introduce everyone to what I offer. There will be make-and-take projects, snacks and displays. Come when you can, leave when you must. Feel free to bring a friend. RSVPs by 1 December appreciated so I can have enough materials prepared. To my American friends: hope this day is full of good times, whether you like to feast, watch the parade(s) or football, hang out with family, or enjoy some peace and quiet (perhaps some stamping?). To my new Australian friends: well, it's been a Thursday, hasn't it? My transplanted family is celebrating on Friday in Oz, which is when Glenn can come home early from work and we can feast. We're telling ourselves it's technically Thanksgiving then, since it will be in the U.S. Despite not getting our shipment of household goods until next Monday, Nicole and I have managed to make our traditional pies (pumpkin and apple), and look forward to roast turkey and all the trimmings tomorrow.  Back with more stamping projects after I digest!
Today I'm playing along with the CAS(E) this Sketch! challenge #298. Here's the inspiration sketch:
And here's my take on it:
As you can see, I simply flipped the sketch onto it's side. In fact, I did this as I was assembling the card, playing with the orientation a few times before settling on this.
The CTS #298 is a 2-week challenge since this is Thanksgiving week...plenty of time for you to play along! Let me see what you've got!!!
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order.
December Events
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Meet NancyI've been paper-crafting since 2006, and an Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator since 2010. I love sharing my craft with others, either through classes or by creating special cards and gifts that meet their needs. Join me in creating fun! Archives
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