What A Treat - At Our Retreat...

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It's been a fantastic two weeks - Linda; the owner of The Paper Peacock Scrapbooking Shop, hosted a wonderful scrapbooking/crafting/card-making retreat at Glentui Meadows last weekend. This was the first time I've been to such a thing....wow, it was two and a half days of creative bliss!!! Loved it, can't wait for the next retreat in October hosted by Maria & Brigid.

We were all challenged to do a scrapbook page layout, we were each given: white 12" x 12" card, and the same pre-cut chipboard title.  Then we were dealt three playing cards from a deck of cards - written on these cards were embellishments to use on our scrapbook page... I was dealt:  Glitter, Rhinestones and Ink.  Here is the result :)

This was quite a challenge for me as I am not a seasoned scrapbooker,  it was heaps of fun to do, and you should see the other ladies layouts OMG friggin awesome!!!

Monday Card Class

Monday 'pre-retreat', I wanted to share with my class the wonderful crepe paper butterfly technique that I learnt from an amazing lady - Liz Collett.  You can find her You Tube tutorial link on my post: Four Day - Clearance Rack Blitz, under the title 'Life is like a butterfly', and further details on how I made the butterflies.

Stamp - My Friend, Sand Speckle - wheel, Priceless, Hello Doily

Ink - Pool Party, Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry, Versamark

Card - White, Light Blue, Purple - Bassil (don't know the correct names of the coloured card)

Accessories - Sissix Bigz Beautiful Butterfly Die, 5mm Corner Punch, Lacy Brocade Embossing folder, Designer Frames - Oval Shape, Lacy Border Punch, Silver Embossing Powder, Rhinestones, Silver Peelcraft, Vellum, Jac Paper, Purple Crepe Paper, White Tissue Paper.

Stamp - Oval All, Sand Speckle - wheel, Priceless, Hello Doily

Ink - Pool Party, Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry, Versamark

Card - White, Blue, Purple - Bassil (don't know the correct names of the coloured card)

Accessories - Sissix Bigz Beautiful Butterfly Die, Beautiful Wings Embosslits, EK Border Punch, Oval Punch, Scalloped Oval Punch, Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder, Rhinestones,Vellum, Jac Paper, Purple Crepe Paper, White Tissue Paper.

Monday post-retreat....This month we are showcasing 'Ribbon' - at the retreat I created two cards with interesting folds, the colours were inspired by a beautiful two-toned organza ribbon...and the colours reminded me of my mum; colourful, beautiful, bold - hence the greeting :)

Stamp - Apothecary Art, Delightful Dozen

Ink - Regal Rose

Card - Cream Puff, Berrylicious, Sunrise - Bassil

Accessories - Labels Framelits Collection, Triple Blossom Bouquet Punch, Floral Embossing Folder, Two-toned Organza Ribbon, Burgandy Organza Ribbon, Gold Brads, Sponge.

This interesting card has a pocket on the inside and back - shopping mall gift card slots into the pockets perfectly :)

Card - Cream Puff, Berrylicious, Sunrise - Bassil

Accessories - EK Border Punch, Lacy Border Punch, Triple Blossom Bouquet Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch, Burgandy Organza Ribbon, Gold Brads.

Maria's Stampin' Up! Party...

Once a month, a group of us creative ladies get together and learn a layout/make & take, then the lovely lady who showed us how to make the layout is also the host of a Stampin' Up! Party that follows....Maria was the host and 'moi' the demonstrator.  These are the make & take cards I demonstrated - 

 My Friend

Stamp - My Friend, Beyond Plaid, Sand Speckle - wheel, Priceless, Hello Doily

Ink - Blushing Bride, Tangerine Tango, Real Red, Versamark

Card - Whisper White, Real Red

Accessories - Sissix Bigz Beautiful Butterflies, Labels Framelits Collection, Perfect Polkadot Embossing Folder, 5mm Corner Punch, Silver Embossing Powder, Rhinestones, Vellum, Jac Paper, Red Tissue Paper, White Tissue Paper, Sponge.

Praying Hands

Maria challenged me to design a card using Stampin' Up!'s Praying Hands stamp, her mother loves images with praying hands, so this card is for you - Maria's Mum :)

Stamps - Praying Hands, Apothecary Art, Just Believe

Ink - Basic Black

Card - Whisper White

Accessories - Labels Framelits Collection, Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder, White Satin Ribbon, Rhinestones, Sponge.

Stampin' Up! - Updates

This And That

Check it out - click here for the link to the flyer.

My Digital Studio 

Checkout it out through this link:  My Digital Studio  - .  You can download the software for a 30 day FREE TRIAL.

Colour Refresh

In 2010 when we did our big colour renovation
we shared our plans for smaller colour refreshes
every three to five years to keep our colours
on trend. Well it has been three years and we
are excited to announce that the upcoming
2013–2014 annual catalogue will include 10 new
colours (most of which are returning In Colors™
from previous years)!

Colour Products No Longer Available:

Item Description Availability 

101962 Classic Refill More Mustard X

102295 Classic Refill Pretty In Pink X

105221 Classic Refill Bashful Blue X

105230 Classic Refill Certainly Celery X

109016 Classic Refill River Rock X

111844 Classic Refill Baja Breeze X

119696 Classic Stampin Ink Refills Sutbles Collection X

119697 Classic Stampin Ink Refills Regals Collection X

119699 Classic Stampin Ink Refills Neutrals Collection X

119703 Stampin Markers Neutrals Collection X

119803 Watercolor Wonder Crayons Regals Collection X

119804 Watercolor Wonder Crayons Brights Collection X

New Wood-Mount Stamp Set Packaging

Cool, uniform packaging!  Looks just like the clear-mount stamp set packaging - click here to see the You Tube Video.

In my last post I mentioned I was looking for a part-time job - I found one, it's whanau time friendly and...I can still teach my Monday card class, yay!!!  Life is good!

School holidays are upon us, I am having two weeks off  Monday card class to look after my kids over the holidays.  I have decided, the school holidays are a good time to start treating my body better; eat healthy, watch my portion sizes, cut out sugar (going to be very hard), exercise. I will be using a very good, free website Sparkpeople to help me track my diet and exercise.  If you are thinking of losing weight or healthy lifestyle change like me, I recommend Sparkpeople, here is the link if you would like to check them out.

Thanks for looking, good looking  :)  Hope you checkout my next post, till then.... 

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BCH Stampin :)

Punchy Projects...

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Well, it has been quite a few busy weeks; completed my Census Collection work for Statistics New Zealand, handed in my first assignment for the Certificate in Small Business Management course, created cards for birthday's, friends, challenges and projects for Monday card classes, my sister Gina and her daughter Tomai came down from Tauranga and stayed a few days (it was lovely to spend time together and catch-up).
One door closes - another opens... I am now looking for a permanent part-time job that is whanau friendly, and fits in with my available hours...sadly I may have to stop teaching Monday card classes, hope not, fingers and toes crossed!!!

Monday Card Class Projects

 Easter

Oh yes we were busy, but it was good fun.  We made a goodies satchel, card and basket, we decorated the back of the satchel with a cute newly hatched chick - my subtle introduction to our next Monday card class doing 'punch art' cards.

I learnt how to make the basket from Rachel Ricks, click here for the link to her website.  I altered the size of the basket and changed it to a single handle.

Punch Art Cards

Cute pram card - cased it.  This card has been made by so many others, I don't know who to credit?
I used from a nest of scalloped circle dies - the third large die.  Cut a quarter wedge out.  Decorated the hood front and halfway across the whole pram with lacy border punched strips.  Punched out two 1"circles for the wheels and decorated with two punched out hearts.  Hand-cut the pram handle...Voile, a very cute pram.

...Lollipop, lollipop, oh lolly lollipop...Very simple concept and very effective.  

I used my 1 3/4" Circle Punch, punched out four orange circles and four white circles. Alternating the colours, I overlapped each circle about a half an inch - making sure they intersected at the center.  You end up with a scalloped circle, I used a medium circle die to cut away the scalloped edge.  I rolled a strip of white card for the lollipop stick.

Awww, cute...

I took the basic idea for this card from Lisa Bullock, click here for her tutorial.  I have made up a template for this cute pink, heart giving teddy, if you would like a copy, please email me at; kerianneh@gmail.com

Talking about teddy bear, reminds me of an Elvis Presley song 'Teddy Bear', great song - another great song of his 'Return to Sender', click here for the You Tube link  :)

....A derrrrr moment....

Okay, we've all had one (a derrrrr moment), haven't we?  It's the moment I realise that I just did something unnecessarily stupid!  That is when I say to myself, "doh what a dick!" lol...

Anyway, I mentioned in my previous post that I was challenged to do a card swap with my Stampin' Up! buddy's.  I was like, yes it is on!  The instructions were to make up four kits, as there is four of us that get together every second Sunday.  So with heaps of inspiration and gusto, I went forth into a card-making frenzy and created the most technical, but beautiful masterpiece I have ever made (in my opinion).  I got so carried away, I made  all four cards and forgot they were supposed to be kits and I was to demonstrate how to make them.  Sorry Carol, Shane and Sandra - next time I will get it right :)

Beautiful Butterflies

Stamps - Apothecary Art, Hello Doily, Priceless, Sandy Speckle; wheel

Ink - Versamark, Tangerine Tango, Real Red, Rich Razzleberry

Card - Whisper White, Real Red, Rich Razzleberry.

Accessories - Sizzix Bigz Beautiful Butterflies, Framelits Label Collection, Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder, 5mm Corner Punch, White Satin Ribbon, Purple Crepe Paper, White Tissue Paper, Silver Embossing Powder, Rhinestones, Dimensionals.

Thank you for looking, hope you checkout my next post...

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BCH Stampin