Fabulous Foils

Last week I ran a class using Stampin' Up!® foils and all sorts of great techniques.

The ladies loved it.

Two cards explored the Tarnished Foil technique where we built up layers of black StazOn and Copper and Gold Embossing Folder.  The results are amazing and work so well with the Garage Gears Thinlits.

 

We used the same technique on the second card using Copper Foil and also the Tin Tile Embossing Folder.

 

Our last card used the Black Ice Technique.  This is a surprisingly easy technique where you drag the StazOn over the foil to achieve fine black stripes.  The tree was also stamped in black StazOn.  The last step is to swipe Versamark in the same direction and sprinkle with Clear Embossing Powder.  When you heat is, that's where the magic happens - fine icy stripes show up on your foil! Stunning.

If you LOVE Stampin' Up! products. our new catalogue starts on June 4.  It's packed with fun goodies for you to get inky with.  Contact me for a copy.

Thanks for stopping by!

Anna

DSP Blitz

Using your DSP

My class on Tuesday 14th May, focussed on using up your DSP stocks - we all do it: we hold on to it, because we love our DSP, but we have lots of stock to use up to make way for the new Stampin Up ® Catalogue coming on June 4th 2019.  Can't wait!!!

We explored a mix of using Stampin Up ® envelopes which we decorated (above), and creating our own envelopes from DSP using the retiring Envelope Punch Board (below) with matching single sheet note cards.

It was as simple as punching out circles, in the matching DSP below, and a strip to decorate the envelope, to create a pretty 'Thank You' card.

The last two cards below, again match the colours in the DSP, to the card front and the envelope.  We used the tailored Tag Punch to lay a pattern across the front of the card.  It's the perfect punch for creating interesting patterns on cards with DSP or plain cardstock.

Don't you love that 'Smile' sentiment?  It's from a new stamp set in the upcoming Annual Catalogue called Daisy Lane.  And the 'thank you so very much' is from Butterfly Gala which is carrying over.

Thanks for stopping by.  If you are interested in knowing more about Stampin' Up!, the starter kit or joining in my events, please contact me at wheatonanna@hotmail.com or phone me on 07 55 765 469.  I live on the Gold Coast, Australia and would love to help you.

And you can buy any of the current Stampin' Up! products by visiting my Online Store by clicking HERE. 

Hummingbird House Charity Day Part 3! The projects and the final total.

Last weekend my team the Lorikeet Stampers ran a charity day to raise money for Hummingbird House, one of three children's hospices in Australia.

Our charity days are usually based around a stamp set.  The fee for the day includes the stamp set and our projects are designed around the stamp set.  This year the set was Vibrant Vases and my friend Bec Ross and I designed the projects together.

We had fun using the Gingham Gala DSP to make this cute little basket and teeny cards.

Then we switched to a black and white theme to make this notecard box based on a Pootles design.

One of my amazing team members cut out the smallest Stitched Square for everybody. That's approximately 384 squares!!!!!!!! These cards were a bit of play time where customers could decide on their own layouts and stamps.

And another box - the Mini Pizza Boxes - we did a little watercolouring of these images using our Aquapainters,

We've done Mini Pizza Boxes before and usually include mini cards and envelopes.   This time we wanted something a little different so we made the card below....

It's a concertina card!  It's a design that you can make longer if you wish by adding more folded card stock.

We also had a bonus project which we all got around to doing, of a chocolate tray that fits in the pizza box.  Cute!

 Our last two projects were two full size cards - this one used the Wood Crate Framelits to make a crate of cards.

And the last project featured wooden vases punched out using the coordinating punch.

For more posts about the day you can check mu other blog entries.

You can see us in action in this post HERE.

And some of the Lucky Door Prizes HERE.

And the final fundraising tally is 'in'.  We have raised a total of $784 for Hummingbird House!  PLUS a donation of $200 was given directly to Hummingbird as a result of our event.

So that's an impressive $984.

Thank you to everyone who came along to take part and supported this cause so generously.  We are very fortunate to receive a box of retired goodies from Stampin' Up! for our raffle.

Thanks for stopping by.  If you are interested in knowing more about Stampin' Up!, the starter kit or joining in my events, please contact me at wheatonanna@hotmail.com or phone me on 07 55 765 469.  I live on the Gold Coast, Australia and would love tohelp you.

And you can buy any Stampin' Up! products by visiting my Online Store by clicking HERE. 

Hummingbird House Charity Day Part 2

I am going to sound like a broken record when  say that one of my favourite things to do is pretty up a package.  For our Charity Day we have a raffle but we also have some Lucky Door Prizes.  And just as I can't mail a plain envelope, I can't give a plain Lucky Door Prize.  (One year I prettied them up and left them at home!!)  We hide them under chairs and hide lucky symbols in all sorts of places.

Here they are....

Love love love (!!) the Mini Pizza Boxes - these contained a bolt of ribbon.

Our soon to retire Mini Gable Boxes are the perfect size for a little something.  I ran these ones through the Tin Tile Embossing Folder.  The Tin Tile Embossing folder is staying around.  The Mini Gable Boxes are not.

A flat pack embellishment is easy to pretty up with some DSP and some ribbon.  Love the bright colours in this How Sweet It Is DSP which is also retiring!!

And... not a LDP but a thank you for those that ran tables.  I have to admit these were done at then end of the time frame but they were pretty quick and simple for a good result!  These cute birds are part of a new stamp set coming in the new Annual Catalogue. And brown paper goes with anything right?

Thanks for stopping by.  If you are interested in knowing more about Stampin' Up!, the starter kit or joining in my events, please contact me at wheatonanna@hotmail.com or phone me on 07 55 765 469.

And you can buy any of these products by searching by product name at my Online Store by clicking HERE. 

Our Hummingbird House Charity Day

We had a fantastic day on Saturday!  The Lorikeet Stampers ran a charity day to raise money for craft supplies for Hummingbird House!

The day wouldn't be possible without the help of a whole bunch of people.  This is the team that ran the tables.

But I also had help with cutting and packing kits, prepping raffle prizes, prepping the bags and naming them, preparing samples for each table, setting up, creating and setting up displays, preparing food, running the kitchen, taking photos, running tables (even by two of you who had no customers), tidying up, packing down, vacuuming and loading cars. 

And here's Trudi who bravely offered to run the kitchen!  She bakes the most amaaaazing cakes.  Others in the team also brought platters of food and we had Subway rolls for lunch.

Here are some table pics.

Stampin' Up! gives us a box of retired goodies which we raffle and the money raised goes towards Hummingbird House.

Here's hubby's realistic drawing of a hummingbird.  He generously tried to give me credit for this amazing drawing but I mustn't have you admire it without knowing the real illustrator.

Stamps or chocolates...stamps or chocolates....stamps AND chocolates!!

We also try to have a display.  It was fantastic.  And much bigger than this.  I went over many times to take more photos and there were people admiring all the lovely work so I couldn't get a good shot.  And this one has a gap where a card has fallen off!  Oops!

All up we had 32 people attend and we raised $659 for Hummingbird House along with an additional $200 donated directly to Hummingbird!

Thank you to everyone who attended and supported this cause and to everyone who helped prepare and run it.

Stampin' Up! CEO Sara Douglas gave us four reasons for getting together and stamping.

Connect with yourself 
Connect through creativity
Connect through caring
Create a community

I think Saturday was a great example of all four!

Pop in again for some pics of the projects we made.

Thanks for stopping by.  If you are interested in knowing more about Stampin' Up!, the starter kit or joining in my events, please contact me at wheatonanna@hotmail.com or phone me on 07 55 765 469.