Erin's birthday cards

Today was Erin's birthday, and these were her made cards. The Butterfly one was made by me. It's quite self explanatory really. I used the cuttlebug for various embossed effects. I layered the butterfly with black under- the trick is if you want the card to look like it is see through, punch out the same colour as the background and layer it under the punched shape. I then used sticky bling to bling it up!
The second card is from my sister, Di. Her style is more cute than mine. She obviously also used the cuttlebug for texture, but made the fence using the cricut - very cute. Not sure I agree with the sentiment, but she felt safe saying it as she is miles away! My kids love getting Aunty Di's cards because they are always of such high standard and meticulously done. Thanks Di.xxx
I hope these have inspired you just a little to pick up some card, a stamp and a punch and create something wonderful this week.
Take care till next time.
Deb

Love that Smile Layout

I had a great time designing this page using our newest products. I set myself a challenge to use the rubons and then it grew from there! I haven't done another page, but easily could as have the other half of the rubons left. So, this is quite a simple design using blocks of paper. Some of the paper is edged in dark brown chalk ink. The little green rectangle bazzill piece has been stamped all over using the small owl in the stamp set listed. I then punched out 4 holes and thread ribbon in a criss cross fashion and tied the centre together in a bow. The tree is stamped then cut out. Once stuck down , punch out a number of small circles to use as "leaves" and then add a small flower or two. I felt I needed to bring in the orange but didn't want it overpowering. I did stitch lines all around the rectangles and the base page to bring it together.
I hope this inspires you to create this week! Pick one product and see if you can create around that.
Take care
Deb
PS The photo was taken by Sarah Bates who runs a photography business. She comes to you... It's quite unique. Let me know if you want her details.

Results from Open Night!!

This Mug template I received from my sister, Di, who also got it from someone!!  It is a beautiful template and everyone seemed to really enjoy making it. Of course, they were then filled with lollies! They also had the added bonus of taking the template with them too!

This is a photo of some girls hard at work creating while others browse the catalogue and drink tea! Ahh, this is the life.... There was a showbag for each person filled with some goodies and freebies. We also had a raffle in which we raised $80 for the Queensland flood appeal!! Well done girls!!

I put up a display of some new products which were all very favourably received. The new rubons are just fantastic not only looking but in quality - simply beautiful. We now have quite a good selection of owls, which are always popular in scrapping and card making. In the new range there is also a great set of 3 cards using the new tree stamp. Very good techniques in these three cards in that 2 have hidden bookmarks. I'm doing this workshop first this year on Monday 7th during the day and on Friday 11th in the evening. If you're on my email list, you will have been informed!
I hope some of these pics have inspired you to get creating.
Have a great week.
Deb

New Products!!!!

We have some FANTASTIC new products.....
If you'd like to see the great new products we have, go to our Kaszazz website and click on Product catalogue to check out our New flier.
It is Awesome....
Here's the link:
http://www.kaszazz.com/  
Also, for those of you who haven't been contacted via email yet, I'm having an open night on Friday 28th Jan from 6.30pm to 9pm.
At the open night, I'll have some new products on display, plus some new workshops. I'll also have a stock table of things that I'm selling at greatly reduced prices- most of them pre-loved.
On top of that, everyone who comes to my open night, provided you've let me know, will also get a showbag of free stuff, special offers and time to play with some product and make some items.
It's going to be fun. So, if you're available and feel like a bit of you time creating and chatting, let me know and pop over.
Hope to see you soon!
Deb

Grade 6 Graduation invites....

At the end of last year I was asked to put together 40 invites for the Grade 6s. They chose the colour scheme and I worked with another parent who helped with the wording on the computer. The word Graduation 2010 was printed on vellum. I chose the theme of circles - like the circle of life idea. I used the retro circles CB folder for the purple bling background and then scalloped the green bling. The colourful card behind the wording is white card that has been blended using shabby shutters and dusty concord distress ink and a blending tool. I created a fake buckle using the circle punches. With the left over circles, I stuck them onto envelopes.
It was quite a rush, but luckily Jude was back by then and helped put them together!
Hope you have a great week.
Deb

Kris Kringle with Kaszazz consultants!

 I created these to pop a small gift in for each of the consultants going to the Christmas lunch. All using SB essentials and foundations paper with various bling from the sticky bling.

This wallet was made using brown bazzill which I embossed with a CB die called mini mosaics. After that I inked the cardstock with distress ink and then embossed with clear embossing all over to give a leather look. The rest is really straight forward if you have the tutorial to follow which I did. Go to http://www.splitcoaststampers/ and search wallet, to see the tutorial. It's really cool and a lot easier than it looks. Anyway, this was what I gave my present in. We each had to create a container of sorts to house the present. It had to be Kaszazz products. It was lots of fun and everyone made such cool containers!

Sorry for the long wait between posts, I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas and New Year!
Now, I'm back.....
Hope this has inspired you. If you create a wallet too, can you email a pic to me so I can pop it on the blog?? That would inspire even more peeps.
Take care
Deb

Selection of cards from Retreat!!

 This one was done by me using the umbrella stamp that was part of a challenge- and was it ever!!

 This one was Libby's Ezy-Press card- I just loved this- really good.

 This was the challenge pack for Sherryl and I think she certainly created something great.

 This was just me playing about using the Ezy-press and experimenting with stamping words in different directions.

 A great shrinky Dink card from Robyn- she's so good with Shrinky! We used Lyra crayons with this- great fun.

This was the challenge pack from Sheona, simple but effective card. Very often these kind of cards are great for "thinking of you".

Anyway, just wanted to share what some of my talented consultants have been up to. Thanks girls for making 2010 such an inspirational one - Keep those great ideas rolling.....
Hope this has inspired you a little to go and create some fantastic cards!
                                                      Take care
                                                                  Deb

Swirls and Rose Layout

I created this page for a Make and take I did recently. I'm sure I went over budget, but if you just do the ivory square card, then you shouldn't! The ink for the swirls was creamy brown chalk ink. The rose was done in much the same fashion as my previous post, where you punch out 3 scallop large shapes, ink around them using orchid pastel chalk ink and an IBT (ink blending tool). Fold the bottom scallop down to form a platform, keep the next one straight as a base and then roll the edges of the next one so that the paper splits and can be curled up. Punch a medium and small scallop for the inner flower and top it off with a sticky pearl. The beautiful lacey border was made using our Ezy-press die and then distressed lightly using vintage photo distress ink. I edged a piece of oatmeal 12 x 12 card using creamy brown chalk ink and stamped the dainty flourish on some edges, as you can see.
A simple page, but quite cute, even if I may say so myself!! Give it a try and remember, if you don't have all the same stuff, use the design and improvise with what you do have- that's what creativity is all about.
Have a creative week.
Deb

New Catalogue!!

Hi Everyone,
Just to let you know the exciting news---- Kaszazz has a brand new catalogue out now!
Hop onto http://www.kaszazz.com/   , and click on Kaszazz products to view the new catalogue. It's really lovely and stylish.
The price has gone up from $6 to $8, but it's now 240 pages, so worth it! If you're a regular customer and I see you at lots of workshops, then you'll be getting one anyway.
Have a browse and let me know if you'd like to purchase anything.
Take care
Deb

Paper Roses and Lace Layout

This was my challenge for the retreat. I got the Lily May paper,Summer sandie,  SB essentials Blush and SB essentials bling, opal. I added petunia bazzill and Jasmine lee papers as well as pearls for the centre of the flowers. This is just too fussy to run as a workshop though, as there were too many steps. You could run just the first page and give them the idea for the second. In this layout you needed to use the Ezy-Press for the lace parts , as well as the leaves. I used the Summer sandie paper for the tree and fashioned it with strips. I used vintage photo distress ink to darken it and make it more tree like. The roses were made by punching out 2 scallops from the opal bling, rolling the ends to distress the paper so you can split it into 2 and then use the IBT and orchid pastel chalk ink to colour and then use vintage photo to give a 'ye olde rose' look. The smaller roses were done in the same way just using the smaller punch and adding leaves. Some pink organdy ribbon was also used.
Anyway, I hope this inspires you to create !!
                                       Take care
                                            Deb