Christmas in July Blog Hop

Good Afternoon everyone!
 

I hope you’re ready for the ESAD Christmas in July Blog Hop! Better go grab yourself a cuppa as you’ll be hopping for a while!

What is ESAD?

ESAD stands for Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators and it is an online group just for Australian and New Zealand demonstrators for Stampin’ Up!

We so love what we do and not only do we love to share it with our customers, friends, and wonderful blog visitors but we share our love for what we do with each other as Demonstrators. We run swaps, challenges, tutorials, product know how and cyberstamps and we are always there to help and support each other when its needed.

So if you are a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand then please feel free to click here to join our wonderful group.

You may have come here from Linda Craven's blog or maybe this is your first stop. Anyway I hope you enjoy seeing all the creations we have for you today.

Vicki's Bicki bags
Why I hear you say are these called Vicki's Bicki bags because my 6 year old daughter said they were.  I have been looking to make something for a while that you can put biscuits in at Christmas I make a lot of Espresso shortbread and thought this was the ideal bag to put them in.  I was surfing blogs looking for a template I could use but none of them were right for what I wanted so I decided why do I need someone else's template when I can do it myself so several sheets of copier paper later I came up with my bag with a window in it.  It also used a full sheet of 12 x 12 DSP (many bags I had seen were smaller than 12 x 12 - I hate cutting up DSP and cutting off bits doesn't work for me - why waste bits on the side when you can make it that little bit bigger. So here is the finished bags.

Materials

Paper: Holiday Treasures DSP

Cardstock: Ruby Red, Whisper white

Ink: Ruby Red

Bigshot: Lots of Tags Sizzlit

Other: Rhinestone brads, Mat pack, Scallop Circle punch, Large Star punch,  Wide Oval Punch, Sticky Strip, glue dots, acetate sheets, velcro dots, Linen Thread.

 This is a side view so you can see what they look like from the side.


Christmas Coloured Flower Pin

I also wanted to make a Flower pin and thought I'd do it in Christmas colours and was thinking I didn't have any buttons that matched so I thought lets try a build-a-brad so I dusted them off (yes they have been sitting there I was wondering what I should do with them).  So here is my Christmas coloured Flower Pin made using polar fleece and the bigshot.

Materials

Stamps: Season of Joy

Cardstock: Whisper white

Bigshot: Circles #2, Leaves #2

Ink: Riding Hood Red

Other: Build-a-brad, Snail, Red Polar Fleece, Green Polar Fleece, needle and sewing thread, Pin backing.

Well that's it from me I'd love to hear what you think of my projects.

So now you can hop off and see what Sonia Garbutt has been creating (make sure you scroll down the page a bit to get her post). 


It doesn't matter where you joined the hop click on the link above to Sonia's blog and then carry on through the blog hop until you get back to where you started.

Happy hopping
Vicki

ESAD Christmas in July Blog Hop..... tomorrow (Saturday) at 12pm

Make sure you come back tomorrow to hop around the blogs from 12pm to see what the ESAD girls have been creating you won't be disappointed...............

Did you miss my SENZ classes?

Did you miss out on getting into my SENZ classes well I’m going to teach them again on Saturday 14th August 2010 at Cotswold Preschool 37 Colesbury Street in Bishopdale (just across from my house).

I will be teaching my Cottage Garden Class where you make 6 cards with matching envelopes and I will also teach my Handbag class which has mini handbag cards inside.  I will also be joined by Katrina Criglington who will teach her Scrapbooking class she had at SENZ.

So keep Saturday 14th August free.  Book in to do all the classes or choose which you would like to do.  After the classes are finished stay on for a crop session.

More information will follow as everything is finalised. 

Email me now if you would like to reserve your spot .

SENZ Photos

Well it's hard to believe that SENZ is over........... We had a great time even if a little shattered after it was finished - I still have boxes to unpack but that will happen over the next few days.  I thought I'd share a picture of our Stand and some of my team that were at SENZ.

On the left is Katrina, then me and Catherine on the right.

If we are looking a little tired this photo was taken just before we started pulling everything apart.

I'll post a few more things from SENZ over the next few days.

Just to let you know I have also now loaded the card samples that match the card kits that VIP's got.  If you go to the tab at the top that I have set up for SENZ you will find all the photos there (sorry for the delay I have had issues with the photos uploading).

I hope you enjoyed SENZ if you came along.  We'd love to hear any feedback you have.

16 Year Old Bling card

I was asked by a neighbour to make a card for her 16 year old Granddaughter this is what I came up with.  I was wanting to have a play with my Big Shot alphabet again so I made the 16 using the numbers from the set I die-cut the numbers and then covered the numbers with tombow and then sprinkled with chunky glitter a great way to bling up a card.

This stamp set is one that you can get 20% discount off this month so contact me if you wish to purchase it.  Email me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Materials

Stamps: Big Bold Birthday

Cardstock: Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Whisper white
Paper: Raspberry Tart DSP

Bigshot: Stampin' Up! Timeless Type Junior Alphabet

Ink: Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, So saffron, Rose Red Stampin' Write marker
Ribbon: Pretty in Pink Taffeta

Other: Silver brads, Mat pack, Scallop Circle punch, 1 3/8" Circle punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, Light Pink Chunky Sprinkles, Snail, Dimensionals

Here is the original version of this card
Pink, pink and more pink

My New Stampin' Room Sign

I have been wanting to have a play with my Stampin' Up! Timeless Type Junior Alphabet for my Big Shot for a while and finished this today.

I saw a sign like this made by Gina Dygert another Stampin' Up! demo and I just had to make one for myself.

Materials:
Stamps: Tote-ally Tess
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Rose Red, Basic Black, Whisper White
Patterned Paper: Raspberry Tart
Ink: Black Stazon
Ribbon: Rose Red Grosgrain Double Stitched
Bigshot: Stampin' Up! Timeless Type Junior Alphabet
Other:   Snail adhesive, Water colour crayons - Blush Blossom, Rose Red, Basic Black, Black photo frame.

What were you doing five years ago?

Can you remember what you were doing five years ago today?  I can.  It's hard to believe that it was five years ago that I was in hospital I had just had my right hip resurfaced (4th July 2005) and I was starting to learn how to walk again.  You know you have a problem when you can not walk your 5 year old 5 minutes to school and that's pushing a pram with an 18 month old in.  When you have small children it's a big thing to have major surgery .......... but looking back it is the best thing I could have done.  I now live in a two storey house with my craft room upstairs (I would have never contemplated stairs pre surgery). 

Living in constant pain really does your head in.  After the surgery I finally realised that I didn't have to live in constant pain.  The best part about learning to walk again was I don't have a waddle any more.  For years I used to have a waddle and when I learnt to walk again I was adamant that I was not going to waddle .......... so very few people know that I have big chunks of metal in my hip (you will if you ever go flying with me as I beep at the airports and always take extra time going through security checks....... as all the alarms go off .........).

I also remember that it was 5 years ago that they had the bombings in London as I watched constant updates on TV while I was in bed wondering where our friends in London were and were they all right.

So what were you doing five years ago?