Christmas cards from Team Training day!

I had to make some samples for Team training day in September and these are what I came up with. The Santa one is quite ordinary, I painted the image using the Lyra crayons and used some gold smooch in a few places. In the reindeer one, I just love the new reindeer punch as well as the snowflake- beautiful. In that one, I embossed the snowflake stamp, white, then , using the blender tools and broken china , dusty concord distress inks, I blended the background. I loved the contrast of the black against the background. I punched out a circle and distressed that to pop behind the reindeers head. The ribbon and snowflake were the finishing touches.
             Hope you're having a creative week.
                                                 Deb

September Page....

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!

Anyway, this page was actually started quite a while ago. I have a great love for Stampin up papers as well as Creative memory pages! I know I'm not supposed to, but, I just do. Anyway, I can't tell you which papers they are, but they do co-ordinate really well. The paper flower was a labour of love- encouraged by my friend Jude who really wanted it on the page! Anyway, it does look right there. For the flower, all you have to do is hand draw some concentric circles on the back of your paper. Then you get tearing. That's the fun part (I'm being sarcastic.). The end result is something beautiful, but you might need alcohol to get there.

Anyway, enjoy your browse, and don't forget to look back into the archives for further inspiration.

Take care

Deb

Ezy-Press Handbag

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.

Now onto the Ezy-Press! This is a fantastic die-cutting and embossing machine. It is by far, one of the easiest machines I have ever used! There is very little effort required to get the dies through, so it is especially great for those with weaker hand/arm strength. We have a great range of dies and embossing folders, so there is something for everyone. I'm guessing that at most of our future launches there will be more dies released! The good news is that cuttlebug/sizzix/nestabilites dies are all compatible with this machine! It really is great value as the plates that come with it go up to A4 size, and some of our dies do too! Great for scrapbooking.

The new product flyer will be up online by the close of business on Monday, but if you CAN'T WAIT......... drop me a line, and I'll send you an email version for you to look at!!!

Have a great day

Deb

August Calendar page- Remember

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.
Hope you have a happy week.
Deb

Di's Birthday Card- cute teddy...

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.

These cards are really fun to make. All you do is,with the card in a landscape position, score about 1 " on the right side of the white card, fold it on the score. Then fold the actual card to the 1" score line. Have a second piece ready, size 3 .5" by width of card. Adhere to the 1"fold.

I hope these instructions are good enough. Give it a try and email me your beautiful cards.

I"ll post them on the blog and then do a little draw for some FREE STUFF !!

Entries must be in by 29th August.

Happy Creating!

Deb

Tri-Fold Leaf Card

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.

On a business note, if you host a workshop with me in August and have 6 people there, I will give you a pack of free Kaszazz products to the value of $50 !!!!! So, check your diaries, and get back to me quick!!

Have a great day !!

Deb

My Birthday Cards from VERY TALENTED PEOPLE!!!!

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....

I just had to share all these remarkable cards I got. I think, sometimes, I get much more excited about seeing card designs and what people have created for me, than actual presents!! Although, I do so love a present! I was really spoiled on my birthday with many fabulous things which I really love. Thanks to all who gave me a present as well- I just loved every one...

Hope this beautiful array of cards, stimulates your creative juices .... off you go and create!

Take care

Deb

Cherish - Funky Blooms!

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.
www.kaszazz.com
Thanks for looking!
Deb

Christmas In July !

Well, FINALLY I'm back from the land of nod! Amongst computer hitches and work, I'm at last back in blogland.

I ran a Christmas in July workshop with a lovely bunch of ladies on Saturday. It was a fun day. Above are the cards and beyond the page items we made. In the first picture, we did a Christmas rubons 5PQ (projects quick) . With each card , different products were used. We used gold smooch, distress tool, distress ink with blender, smooch spritz gold and emerald, jewel set- perfect pearls and gold paint dabber.

For the Beyond the page workshop, we created a bag using the scallop circle chipboards, a beautiful Christmas stocking gift card holder and a christmas cracker which could be filled with choccies!

They had all the refreshments and lunch their bodies could take and on top of that, they all won great prizes. I think they really felt like it was Christmas! Well, that was the intention anyway.

Take care

Deb

Biggest Morning Tea!

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!!

If you'd like to donate , you still can! Go to www.biggestmorningtea.com.au and find host- that's me, type in my name and check it out. You will be able to make a donation online.

Have a great day!