Sizzix Dies For Sale

As many of you already know, and some may not, I'm moving in about 3.5 weeks. We're moving from the lovely Lower Blue Mountains to the beachside town of Ulladulla. We'll also be moving in with the In-Laws (and yes that's a good thing, love them to death, for all those that just groaned lol). With a lot of our possessions going into storage I've decided to offload a few things. I'm starting with my Sizzix System. This has been sitting in my cupboard barely used for a year. The sizzix dies are great, mostly tag dies with a couple of shapes in there, also the alphabets. These can all be used in the Cuttlebugs as well. Here's the list, if you're interested please email or leave a comment with your email address and I'll get back to you.

Cheers,
Karen

Yellow Dies - $7.00
Bugs Itty Bitty #1
Butterfly #3

Red Dies - $15.00
Tag Scallop, Combo
Tag, Scallop Large
File Folder
Rectangle Frame
Tag, Crescent Combo
Tag, Traditional Combo
Frame, Slide Mounts, Coinholder
Bookplates, Oval

Alphabets -
Sizzlit Boxed Brush - $55.00
Sizzlit Girls Are Weird - $55.00
DoodleBlock Lower - $40.00
DoodleBlock Upper - $40.00
Ransom - $40.00

Sizzix Machine - $40.00

Altered.....ummm something??

I don't think I would call this a mini album, and it's not a photo frame, I guess it's a combination of the two. My mind's a blank, anyone have any ideas? Anyway, whatever it is, I really loved doing it. It's a gift for my inlaws, and I might just have to make a couple more. The 2 lovely people in the photos are my husbands grandmother and niece. Taken at Nan's 90th birthday a couple of weeks ago. So we have the 2nd oldest family member (Nan's husband is 93) and the youngest family member of 5 weeks. Isn't that cool? I just love these photos and felt inspired to make something from them.

I used the Kaisercraft wood albums, SU Spring Showers Paper and SU cardstock and Bluebird Grosgrain, plus some other bits and pieces I had lying around my craft area. I hope you like it. I'm going to hit my desk today to make another one in a different style.

Teachers Gifts

I wanted to do something nice and simple for my kids teachers this year, but something that would be handy for them to use, and not chocolate, which I'm sure they'd get plenty of. So I thought a box of handmade cards would be nice. I only photographed one of the boxes but they designs were pretty much the same. I even dragged out my Twinkling H2O's to colour in the big flowers.
From the response I got, the teachers loved them. I hope they get great use out of them next year, my kids had wonderful teachers this year.

Lots and Lots of Christmas Cards!

I promised this year to make Christmas cards for my Sister and Mother in law. I finally finished them on Friday night, which is good, because I was seeing them on Saturday.

My Sister in law has a lot of overseas friends and wanted some Aussie themed cards, which gave me a great excuse to buy the Happy Christmas, Mate set. (Like I need an excuse to buy a new set ;-P)
Anyway, here are the 5 designs I did.

And I'll show you the upclose ones of the Aussie cards. I love how these turned out, very festive and bright, just like an Aussie Christmas should be.



















And one last photo, of the all packaged up in the these cute little gift bags I whipped up. I've said it before, but I'll say it again, I love making gift bags!


All materials are Stampin' Up, excluding the gift bags and patterend paper. If you'd like to know what Stampin' Up! materials were used, please don't hesitate to contact me, and I'd happy to let you know.

It's Your Birthday!

I really wanted to do something as far from a Chrismtas Cards as I could possibly do, and I think a Masculine Birthday card fits the profile. And of course some of the new designer paper from the Summer Mini just had to be used as well. This is the Au Chocolat paper and it's so beautiful. I love it. And I don't know if you can see it or not, but I've embossed the saying with copper embossing powder. I just wanted to add a little bit of depth to the stamped image.



All materials used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Set - It's Your Birthday
Inks - Versamark
Cardstock - Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Au Chocolate Designer Paper
Accessories - Copper Embossing Powder, Cream Grosgrain.

Summer Mini Preview

Yes! We have another Mini Cataglogue about to start. It runs from Dec until the end of March, and there are is some beautiful stuff inside. Here's a sneak at one of the new sets, it's called Bud Basics, and it caught my eye straight away, there's even a matching Jumbo Wheel. It is a 2 step stampin step, with the images coming in a chalk like stamp and a matching line over lay. You can see it here in this card, the big image is the bold images, and the top one the line images that overlay. Here I've used them seperately, but it still gives a striking card. Of course I also added some bling. I used a 2 way glue pen and some dazzling diamonds to give it a bit of sparkle.

If you'd like a copy of the Summer Mini, please email me and I'll happily post one off to you. And as a December Special, I'm offering 10% off all customer orders in Dec. And 15% off all hostess orders if you host a party. That could be a workshop or a catalogue party if you're out Sydney. Email me for more details.

Stamp Set - Bud Basics
Inks - Regal Rose, Certainly Celery
Cardstock - Whisper White, Basic Black
Accessories - 2 Way Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds.

Gift Bag

First off, I must apologise for being so late in my blog posting. I've been really really busy this month with workshops, classes and our first stamp club meeting! Plus everything else in the normal day to day things. That, and I've been pretty distracted by the Star Wars Lego game. Now I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but heck, make them out of little Lego blocks and I'm hooked. But if anyone can tell me how to get the canister in the first room of Epiosde 1 chapter 3. I'd be greatly appreciative.

Now, I must say I love these little bags. This is what we made for one of our projects for our First Stamp Club meeting we had last Thursday. They're lots of fun to do, and I think they look great as presents for teachers, maybe with some chocolate added inside of course. The brad is one of the little tricks we learnt at Sydney Regional Training this month. You just grab a brad, pop a mini glue dot on top, then dip it in the Dazzling Diamonds Glitter. Looks fabulous! And the flower was cut out of the sheets from the Holiday Thyme paper.

Materials Used are Stampin' Up!
Stamp Set - Gifts of Joy
Inks - Bravo Burgundy
Cardstock/Paper - Holiday Thyme, Bravo Burgundy, Very Vanilla
Accessories - Small gift bag (non SU), Cream Grosgrain.