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!

Owl Page n Card

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!

Enjoy!

Picture to page show - Now on!!

FROM PICTURE TO PAGE SHOW......

Already been on Saturday, but if you're not doing much tomorrow, see if you can squeeze it in- You'll be so glad you did!!

Sunday 16th May 10am to 4.30pm

@ The Whitehorse Club
298-336 Burwood Hwy,
East Burwood Reserve

Mel Ref: 62 C7
Entry: Adults - $8.50
Kids under 12 - Free
Check out the link to see more details. It really is a great show, especially for all who love cardmaking and scrapbooking - many good bargins and fabulous things to buy.
Of course, Kaszazz will be there too, so be sure to stop by....

Check out details on http://picturetopagescrapbookshow.blogspot.com

Mothers' Day Cards..

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.

My next workshop coming up is on Thursday 20th/ Friday 21st May. I'm doing the "Mini Mister perfect pearls " layout. It is number 2H525 in the workshop flyer that can be found at:
www.kaszazz.com , click on the 3 customer events , choose the 2H workshops and there you'll find this workshop in the scrapbooking workshops. Sorry, I did try to put up a pic, but my brain is moving a little too slowly!! I'll see what I can do over the next day or so.

Hope you have a great Mothers' Day, and get totally spoiled and pampered.
xxx

Monica's card...

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.
It's a great card - thanks for featuring Monica!

If you'd like to feature in my blog, be sure to email your special design!! You can also be guest designer.

Greg's Birthday card

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.
It really is much more challenging to create male cards and be satisfied with how they look! Hope this has given you some ideas.

Butterfly Birthday !

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!