Silver Day

 Part of the joy of being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator is that you can be part of the family as a hobby demonstrator (buying for the discount) OR you can work your way up and earn titles for sales and team building.  This Saturday just past I held a special Silver morning for those in my team who reached or stayed Silver and above this SU! year.

Five ladies were able to attend and we created a special framed project and shared lunch.

This was the place setting that greeted them including a silver pen and some silver choccies.  The box is a frame for the making of their project....

While it looks like a beautiful day it's rainy outside and therefore a great day to craft. (Come to think of it, a sunny day is a great day to craft too!)

Here's Michelle and Jenny - the project was a 6 x 6" 3D scene with a lighthouse.

Loretta and I - Loretta used her box decoration to also decorate her neck! Lol.

And Angela and Donna. Angela has her project in her frame - ready to go.

It was a fun morning and a great opportunity to gather and swap stories.

Thanks Donna for being the consistently fun!

If you love the project, I will run a class on it soon.  The tutorial is created by Mikaela Titheridge, a UK demonstrator.  You can find her web site here.

If you would like to know more about being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I would love to answer your questions.  Drop me a line at wheatonanna@hotmail.com or check this link to read some FAQ's.

Nifty Gifts

Here are the projects from my most recent class.  We always do a gifts class in the lead up to Christmas and it's fun seeking out things to package.

Using our Clear Tiny Treat Boxes and the Delicate Lace Dies we created these Lindt Chocolate Ball holders.  A thin strip of Silver Glimmer paper added some Christmas sparkle.

Y'all know I am a Mini Pizza Box fan and these are in the Holiday Catalogue.  We decorated them with Wrapped in Plaid DSP from the Holiday catalogue.

I showed the ladies that it's easy to create a custom sized box for a small gift by measuring it up on your grid paper.  This box is designed to hold a Baileys, a Whittakers Chocolate bar, a coffee stick and a hot chocolate sachet.

Our Copper Tea Tins come in a pack of four and work our at about $6.50 each.  We decorated these with the Brightly Gleaming DSP (because it has copper accents!!) and the Christmas Gleaming stamp set.

And this cute little project is specially measured to hold four Merci chocolates from Aldi. It's such a cute little gift and very inexpensive to put together.  There is an instruction video on YouTube by Barb Reed which you can watch by clicking HERE. 

Thanks for stopping by!  If you are interested in my classes, I run them in Burleigh Waters, Queensland, Australia.  I would love you to come along.

Anna

Mini Curvy Keepsake Quick tutorial

Our Mini Curvy Keepsake die cuts out from one piece of cardstock.  Easy peasy. If you want the effect of two patterns of DSP, here's how.

The strips of DSP are 6 cm by 19 cm.

No words needed!

If you are interested in the Tiny Keepsakes Bundle you can find it in my Online Store.

Thanks for stopping by!

Anna

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. 

Lucky Door Prizes

If you are new to my blog...I'll tell ya...I love packaging things.

The new DSPs in the Occasions Catalogue are gorgeous and scream to be made into cute things!!

These were my Lucky Door Prizes for my launch.

I have a number of rounds of LDPs and giveaway product.  I was caught out this year when my box didn't arrive in time so my ladies didn't get products from the new catalogue, but new product nevertheless!  I could, however, dress it up using new release DSP!

My favourite DSP in the catalogue is the How Sweet It Is paper - it's so bright and cheerful!  I created made to measure boxes to hold Metallic Thread.

The other bright and cheerful DSP that I love is Happiness Blooms!  It's kinda Florence Broadhurst ish!  These prizes were Dimensionals - who doesn't need THOSE??

And then I used more of the How Sweet It Is DSP and the coordinating Sweetest Thing stamp set for these prizes - our classic Linen Thread.

The thing I love about Stampin' Up! is that it is so much more than stamps ink and papers.  I love preparing these events, teaching people how to stamp and having a team.  If you love paper crafting, you can get a great discount (20%) on all your Stampin' Up! products but even better than that, you get to be part of a feel good company and be involved in lots of feel good events!

We have a great joining offer during Sale-a-Bration! 

Option 2 gets you the fabulous tote!!  And heaps of free product.

If you would like to join up you can click on this link and join my team online.  

https://ida.stampinup.com/en-au/?demoid=4001400

OR you can contact me for more details by phoning 07 55 765 469 or emailing me at wheatonanna@hotmail.com

Thanks for stopping by!

Anna

Onstage in Brisbane Part 3

I had a fabulous turn out of team members for Onstage.  Some were first timers, some were seasoned veterans.  I also have a few Adoptees to my nest - they belong in other teams but live near me so they are part of the team fun.

I like to give my team members a little gift and so I made these up and packaged them in the Mini Pizza Boxes.

 These are zip pulls or scissor lanyards made from squashed bottle caps.  We did sell bottle caps in one catalogue but no longer.  I bought these at Big W in the Home Brew section and squashed them through my Big Shot. (You just have to peel out the rubber seal first.)

The feather is the symbol of my team and I printed it out and popped it out with the 1" Circle Punch.

I covered each circle with Versamark and Clear Embossing Powder (so that the ink wouldn't run) and then stuck them into the bottle cap with Mini Glue Dots.

I then covered over with Crystal Effects to seal.  Unfortunately we don't sell Crystal Effects anymore but the Fine Tip Glue Pen is a good substitute.

The tiny feather is made using the Chase Your Dreams Framelits and shrink plastic.

Speaking of feathers, one of my team members Anne, painted this feather for me!  I have had it sitting around for about 2 years intending to paint it and then had the common sense to delegate to the right person!!

And am I with Jenna, who sat at our table with her Mum.  Jenna is from Bundaberg.  You meet the nicest people!!

And here is the team.  Look at us all!  And we had people who couldn't get in too!

Well, if you don't want to be part of Stampin' up! after reading all that fun I would be very surprised.  Need details about joining?  Email me at wheatonanna@hotmail.com or phone me on 07 55 7654 69.  I'd love to talk you into it!  He he.

There are some GREAT joining specials coming for Sale-a-Bration in January too!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Anna