Disastrous Diaries

I made up some diaries for the new year using the Stampin' Up! rub-ons but I must have done something wrong or the diaries were made of something that the rub-ons didn't like as they went all sticky and stuck to everything before coming off!


Luckily I noticed before the class I was doing that this had happened and did a quick about turn and stamped on the diaries using Staz-On. Whew...........


Another disaster averted in the knick of time.

Summer Mini Catalogue almost over

I loved nearly everything in this catalogue which is very unlike me but the stamp sets and papers in this catalogue are beautiful and the punches - fantastic!

I made these three cards using the Bali Breeze Designer Papers and the Eastern Blooms stamp set for the head staff at Blake's school at the end of last year. He finished year 12 and I am so missing school..........lol (He's not!).


The papers are River Rock, Taken with Teal, and Whisper White.


I have also used the Stampin' Glitter in the centre of the flowers on a couple of the cards - it is just beautiful.


I made this card for my friend Lyn, using the Carousel Notes and the Live Your Dreams stamp set. I also used some of the lovely Ginger Blossom Designer Papers.
I also made this card using the same stamp set and the Afternoon Tea designer Papers. This also uses the square scallop punch which is a "must have".


This card was made for a swap in a demonstrators Yahoo group I am in. The cards disappeared in the post and never turned up but at least I had taken a picture. This card uses my favourite River Rock cardstock along with Groovy Guava and Ruby Red and the lovely Ginger Blossom Designer Paper.

Sorry for the long break.........

I can't believe that I haven't posted to my blog since November, I do apologise for being so slack and promise to do better from now on (oops - maybe I shouldn't make promises like that).

We had a very sad Christmas with the accidental death of my boss's 13 year old son Mackenzie in a trail bike accident on 20th December. Mackenzie and his brother Dougal are good friends with my son, Blake and it hit us and the whole community very badly. One thing you are never prepared for is the death of a child and this being so sudden and so tragic, just took the wind out of our sails. I totally re-evaluated my life and suddenly the things that used to seem so important became very insignificant.

Then on top of that I smashed my car up quite badly on Christmas Eve, Luckily the only thing that was hurt was my pride.

So, huge thanks to my friends and family who supported us during this horror time. Mackenzie's family are taking each day at a time and slowly learning to live with their loss. At times like this you feel very helpless but the one thing I could do was make some sympathy thank you cards for the family to send out and this is what I came up with, some were in this colour and others in shades of blue. I ended up making 275 of these and would like to thank the girls at stamp group who helped me put the last lot together.

Shoes & Chocolate - Heaven!

How cute are these little shoes, filled with chocolate. These are little thank you gifts that I made for this weekend. My lovely upline Venessa gave me a template which I downsized to make these little cuties.

I have absolutely NO will power when it comes to chocolate so the only way I can get enough chocolate to put into these little shoes is to put mint chocolates in - I don't like mint. How sad am I?

Brayer Brilliance

My in home class last month was "Brayer Brilliance" and the lovely ladies made the following 5 cards using different brayering techniques. I love my brayer and just don't get it out often enough.


This card was made using Almost Amethyst, Perfect Plum and Elegant Eggplant Inks on Glossy White cardstock. Cased from a card by Jane Mercer.






Using the same technique as in the last card but masking the snow and the moon to create a lovely effect. Colours used here are Bordering Blue and Night of Navy.





This card was made by stamping with Versamark before brayering over the top with So Saffron and then stamping with Really Rust.





This card was made by brayering the base colour Mellow Moss over the glossy white card stock then sticking small post it notes down and brayering Old Olive all over and then sticking down larger post it notes and brayering Always Artichoke over the whole thing. Then remove the post it notes and voila! White emboss flowers over the top.





And finally the last card we made uses the Emerging Colour technique. Love this card and as soon as I saw it On Vanessa Webb's blog just knew I had to make one. Needless to say the girls all loved it too.

Arty-Oz Collaborative Book 2008

Thirty one amazingly talented girls (myself included....lol) on the Yahoo group Arty-Oz have contributed to this unbelievably beautiful book.


Teresa Abajo was the hostess who took on the mammoth task and with a band of helpers bound our pages into the wonderful volume you see here. The theme for the book was Women and there are some absolute masterpieces amongst the pages.

For my page I used Basic Grey paper and stamps from the Little Dreams collection by the wonderful Rachel Greig at Darkroom Door.

St Andrews Lutheran College Year 12 Formal

Last Saturday my son Blake attended the Year 12 formal for St Andrews Lutheran College, Tallebudgera. Everyone looked amazing, and they all had a great time.






Blake with Clare his partner for the evening.













Proud parents........lol











The Kokoda Challenge team looking very smart.