Finally! I have completed my September calendar page almost in time for October!! I"m going to get working on October tomorrow- you'll see, it's going to be great! 
I received my Ezy-Press machine during the week , leading up to Team Training Day. I naturally had to make some samples for consultants to see. This handbag and flower design is from one of the dies you can buy. In the die pack comes heaps of designs and therefore a multitude of uses for it. I will be working on some more designs during the week on this particular die to give you more ideas. 
For this layout, of the 2 moms/ grans of the family, I used Ebony and ivory paper range on the bottom and the dots are from the Merry Christmas range. I absolutely love our new large fabric daisies and this maroon one is just so rich and beautiful. I paired it up with the pomegranate SB essentials cardstock and a smidge of ivory card.I used the scallop circle punch to highlight the flowers in either black or pomegranate. Accents were added from the Sticky Bling flourish pack. 
Here's another Tri-fold card! I made this for my sister's birthday. She's very partial to cute stamps and teddies. The teddy stamp and punches are Kaszazz. I coloured the teddy using copics that Di gave me. They are awesome for creating a beautiful shading effect. I used some shimmer cardstock that has been retired from Kaszazz but I had some of. I CB the paper to create that lovely texture. I used the scallop punch for the base of the card - layered always looks good. In each scallop, I put some little sticky bling. The rest is quite self explanatory. The only hint I have when making cards like this, is, use magic mount for the front(scallop) section so the card resists moving forward.
I made this card for Nicole's birthday. I was doing a workshop with the Leaf Rollagraph and then got inspired to make a card with it. She loves owls, so I simply had to put an owl on it!! This one is our newest - Oliver Owl. The piece behind the owl is a corrugated card made by Cuttlebug and then inked. The leaves were rollagraphed and then cut out and placed in a arrangement. They were coloured using the Lyra watercolour crayons and the aqua brush. The sparkles on the leaves are dew drops! You may not be able to see, but on the dark brown bazzill , I"ve sprayed gold smooch spritz. It is so beautiful in real life. If you haven't used the smooch spritz yet, you do need to give it a whirl - it just highlights your work. I finished it off with some antique embellishments and flourish bling rhinestones. 
Nicole's Card- Just love it soooo much!
Di's Card- Love the humourous side- gotta laugh!
Cards from Monica, Kristen, Glenda and Karen- all super impressive !!
Cards from Julie, Nicole and Ann-Maree - Sparkly and fab....
This is a photo of my niece, Bron's little girl, Jasmine. I really wanted to use our new range- Funky blooms for it and had lots of fun. AS you can see, I used bling words , rubons and the butterfly punch, all Kaszazz products. The patchwork look is from a page of the blooms range. What I like about that page is that you can come up with many different card designs using one page! One of the nicest, aside from the Romance pack, card making packs, is the Funky blooms. Such great card ideas and sooo simple. We have some new flyers with new christmas stamps. Have a look at the Kaszazz website and see what's new.
Well, FINALLY I'm back from the land of nod! Amongst computer hitches and work, I'm at last back in blogland. 
At the end of May, I hosted a Biggest Morning Tea to raise funds for Cancer research in honour of my friend Trudy who lost her battle with Cancer last year. I'm pleased to announce that we raised $425 ! Everyone who came took part in a workshop and the proceeds were donated. We also had raffle prizes which were donated by myself, Kaszazz and Word of mouth. They ended up being fantastic prizes!! Above is a picture of the cards we did - they were well received and everyone had lots of fun - the most important thing!! 
The challenge from Kaszazz was to make up something using the newer Australiana stamps. I generally find these stamps a bit of a challenge, but the owl worked in this case. I used brown baz for the base paired with oatmeal and ivory in parts. The green is Parakeet baz. Most of it you can probably work out. I stamped the fern and swirl in frost white ink. The tiny butterfly is from the calendar icons stamp - it has some really cute little stamps, great for accents or highlights. I used gold smooch on the letters and added some punched daisies on the words too. I used my favourite tiny daisy punch here as well. The card is done in much the same way but with the branch stamp from the treasured memories set. With the owl, they were coloured in using the lyra crayons and the beak was smooched! 
Here is a sample of some Mothers' Day cards that I came up with for a recent workshop. We also included Monica's card that you will have seen on the previous post. For these cards I used CB folders, nestabilities, punches, distress inks, blending tools and acrylic paints. There is also the touches of chalks, ancient page ink and ice stickles. It was a fun evening of creations where everyone chose what they wanted to do and adapted ideas to suit them. A creative and fun night with great people.
Monica, a talented Kaszazz consultant and guest designer of my blog made this card. I just love it!! She used white card, Java bazzill and some ribbon from her stash. She used one of the latest CB folders and then rubbed white ink over it to highlight all the embossed bits. She punched and inked the butterflies, and then highlighted them with some sticky bling flourish. She topped it off with some ribbon along the bottom. The words are from our - mini messages stamp. This range of stamps are awesome- they are so handy for every occasion.
This is my brother, Greg's birthday card. I began experimenting with various CB templates and then ended up tearing the images and layering them. I used the same technique as I have before- after cuttlebugging, I painted with my Lettuce paint dabber. Once dry, I sanded the raised images and then used vintage photo distress ink and my blender tool to rub in some colour.The car stamp is Kaszazz. I stamped it in Dark brown chalk ink and coloured parts of it in using an aqua brush and the distress ink. You can also stamp with distress and then blend the colour on the lines - that's the great thing about distress inks. I made a nestabilities bracket shape with brown bazzill and cut it in half to place behind the car stamp. I used antique gold paper fasteners on each side and then mounted the car and the words. The card is also edged.
I quite enjoyed putting together 2 unlikely colours- red and pink. On a plain white card, I stuck an CB embossed piece of white and inked the edges with warm red fluid chalk. Onto that, I made the name plate using nestabilities. The Happy Birthday is a kaszazz stamp-one of my favourite ones. I have 2 butterfly punches. The one has since been retired from Kaszazz , but the larger one is current. So , I just layered them and inked the white ones edges with warm red fluid chalk ink. I then ice stickled the pink butterfly. The tiny daisies are so cute- it's my new favourite punch. Kaszazz has these tiny punches that work really well. I've had so much use out of this small daisy punch. So, add a scattering of tiny daisies and voila, a very happy birthday card!
I made this card for my brother in law, Steve. It was his birthday last week and I'm still not sure if he's received the card yet! Never mind, I can't wait otherwise I might just forget to put it on!! 
Excuse the shoddy photos!! Taken in a hurry! Anyway, I had a great time with the card that I made. It all started with the paper for the watering can- it is now discontinued from Kaszazz, but it suited the person I made it for! Maureen loves her garden and has recently begun a vege patch, so I decided that I'd pop some herb seeds into a watering can for her birthday. I can't take absolute credit- Jude came up with the idea of seeds! Thanks Jude. 
I thought I'd make a collection of some cards, to have on hand. I have many cards, but I'm not necessarily happy with all of them! Anyway, I thought I"d make a sympathy/thinking of you card. I love the sentiment "thinking of you", it just encompasses so much. I always feel drawn to chalks for these types of cards. I was really pleased with this one,because I used my nestabilities and CB folder! I created the oval nestabilities shape first, kept the plate on and chalked gently around it before removing the plate. I then stamped using perfect medium and chalked the lavender stamp. I stuck a piece of organdy white ribbon along the bottom of the oval, only securing at the back. This allows me to slip another piece of ribbon under the base one to tie a bow. I used the oval scallop nestabilities for the lilac bazzill and then simply put them together and mounted them on the white card. For the strip along the base of the card, I scalloped a piece of lilac bazzill using our new scallop border punch. I then used the CB die which is just a strip (I"m sure all these things have special names, but, I don't know what they are!!); to create a paper ribbon along the bottom. I stuck this onto the scallop piece and placed along the base of the card. The words "thinking of you" were stamped in Dusty concord distress ink, edged and mounted on the paper ribbon.
I did these pages a little while ago, but still like them! I wanted to show how Scrapbooking isn't only about photos, but about journalling about yourself. As you can see, there are no photos on this layout, only pics of favourite things. I've used rub ons a fair bit, as well as punches. I stamped the title and added lines to it. Note, for one of my favourite colours-purple, I used a paint swatch from Bunnings! These swatches are fabulous, also for the backgrounds on cards. They make pretty , inexpensive decor items! As you may have guessed, based on previous posts, I"m doing an album about me and my life. It is quite a journey, and one that my kids are really enjoying reading about. 
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