Last month some of the demonstrators in our team participated in a Summer Mini Catalogue swap (yep, that’s them in the slideshow). All the cards were made with stamps from the new Mini Catalogue and we swapped samples with each other. If you’ve been to a workshop or class of mine you’ll no doubt have seen my card box – choc-a-block full of gorgeous cards that I received in other swaps.
I am always so inspired and motivated after seeing the work of the creative ladies in our team of demonstrators. Sooooo I’m REALLY excited that we’ll be getting together in a week when I host our next EurekaStampers team day. No doubt there will be many more amazing projects to share after that!
We do Make & Takes (no surprises there!) and some team members even get up and ‘wow’ us with cool techniques and project ideas. There’s swapping (of course), nice food and plenty of chatting with like-minded people. If you have been thinking about joining so you can enjoy all the amazing benefits of being a demo – including an invitation to events like our team day – just contact me and we can arrange a time to chat.
Christmas is over, the kids are occupied with new toys and we are now ready to look forward to a brand new year. Bring it on! I hope your Christmas was as lovely as ours
If you love the Sweet Treat cups, you might like this clever idea from my team member Juliana Main . She sent me this cute Christmas card, and made her own envelope from a sheet of A4 co-ordinating cardstock. To protect the card and the Sweet Treat Cup she lined the ‘envelope’ with bubble wrap. And yes, it arrived in great condition!
There are ready-made padded envelopes in the Summer Mini catalogue which are a great alternative if you need something fast, but I love this idea for a slightly more creative option. I love how you can co-ordinate the card and envelope so you can make it a complete package. I’m picturing Bashful Blue/Pretty In Pink envelopes for baby cards – might get started on one of those next.
To make these:
1. Score an A4 sheet of cardstock at 13cm and 26cm. This leaves a nice 3 – 4cm flap at the back.
2. Decorate one long side with matching DSP or a Stampin’ Around wheel. Decorate the flap at the back too.
3. Line cardstock with bubble wrap if sending through the post (or you can leave out this step if you are hand-delivering).
I have some great projects to share with you today. I can’t take credit for them, but I do plan to CASE them! This gorgeous pop-up card was sent to me by the wonderfully talented Rose Packer. She used the Season of Joy stamp set to create 3 individually attached pop-up Christmas trees.
I LOVE pop-ups and fancy folds and am very excited to finally be including the long awaited "Pop-Ups" cardmaking class in my 2010 Class Schedule.
Below is a very impressive paper star that Heather McCarthy sent to me in the post! The box got a bit damaged but amazingly the star was untouched. She also included instructions (thanks Heather!) and I’ve been playing with these stars and experimenting with sizes.
Well Christmas is almost upon us. Here’s hoping you are all finished with your preparations and you’re now able to put your feet up and enjoy this special time.
My lovely friend and fellow Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, Debbie Hand, came over the other day and showed me some great projects using techniques I hadn’t seen before. She kindly gave me permission to show them here. This wreath (above) is actually made from a strip of Designer Series Paper with one side shaped using the Scallop Edge punch. The row was then folded concertina style and curved with the scallop edge on the inside to create the wreath.
This wreath is made with the lavendar stamp from Pocket Sillhouettes (p72 Idea Book & Catalogue). Debbie learned this technique from another demonstrator at our Melbourne Regional training day a few months ago (sorry, not sure who that was but I’ll try to find out). Debbie punched a circle and adhered it to the centre with repositionable adhesive to mask the inner circle, before stamping the lavendar all around. Remove the paper, and voila! Love it.
It really makes you think, doesn’t it? I love discovering out-of-the-box uses for our stamps and other tools. I have some more amazing projects to share from my talented stamping friends, including a stunning paper star and a pop up card! Check back soon!
Just released! This has been updated to include Terms 1 and 2, 2010. These classes are very popular and tend to book out, so if you are interested in any of them please contact me early to reserve a spot.
To download the flyer, with thumbnail images, click here.
Stamp sets are all square cut so you’ll need to trim them yourself, but as always I’m happy to help with this. Sale starts 15th December and ends 24th January or while stocks last. I am taking orders via email or phone 5345 1592.
Special offer from me (Simone Bartrum) as your local Stampin’ Up! demonstrator: flat rate postage to your door for $5, on all emailed orders placed before December 31st.
No limits.
Hi and thanks for visiting. Over the past week or two I’ve been highlighting different stamp sets from the new Summer Mini Catalogue. If you are visiting this blog for the first time, feel free to look back over past posts for ideas and inspiration on ways to use all the new goodies.
Today our card features the versatile For Everything stamp set, along with a phrase from the Chit Chat rubons.
Did you know that Stampin’ Up! rubons work on our grosgrain ribbons? They actually work on quite a lot of things!
I often leave the sentiment off my cards so that I can put the appropriate wording on when I need it, so these Chit Chat rubons are perfect. A very quick and easy way to finish off a card.
Don’t forget I’m taking bookings for workshops in January (get yourself a FREE pack of Sweet Treat Cups during January) and Sale-a-bration in February and March. The bookings are coming in, so contact me soon to get your preferred day.
This is my favourite stamp set from the new Summer Mini catalogue, and not just because I was able to earn it for free (another perk of being a demonstrator)!
This is a Matchbook Fold card. My upline Janine showed me how to make it, after she did it as a Make & Take on her trip to Noosa with Stampin’ Up! a few months ago. I hadn’t done a matchbook fold before (shock!), and recently CASEd this design for our team swap of card samples.
Come back tomorrow for another card featuring the beeee-utiful For Everything stamp set.
Are you sick of the candles yet? LOL. Well I did share some a few months ago – here, and here - and I’m sure there are more somewhere else too!
Stamped candles make such a great gift and are soooo easy. And we can use most of the products we already have at home, like stamps, ink, tissue paper, and a heat gun!
This is a candle I started making at stamp club last month when I was demo’ing how to do the technique. It had been sitting here in front of me half-made for the past few weeks so I decided to finish it in time for this month’s get-together. It features the main stamp from Upsy Daisy, some beautiful DSP in basic gray and velvet black ribbon from the Valet Ribbon Originals collection (p150 IBC). This is one of the items on the Gift-Giving Guide.
Don’t forget that there’s only a few days left to claim your FREE punch with the Christmas Gift-Giving Guide Extravaganza. With every $85 in purchases from the Guide you can choose either the Boho Blossoms punch or Square Scallop punch for FREE (value $30.95 plus p/h). Contact me by Sunday night to place your order.
Come back tomorrow for some more highlights from the Summer Mini, this time featuring the For Everything stamp set. I’ll try not to get distracted by more candles!
Over the past month or so I’ve been playing around with a new resource that Stampin’ Up! gave demonstrators access to. It’s a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator business website, which we call DBWS.
You can visit mine by clicking on the image below. I will also have a link down the sidebar of my blog page, so you can visit it whenever you come here to my blog.
I will continue to update my blog frequently. Have you noticed I’ve been posting a lot more often lately? This blog is where I can get ’chatty’ about the projects I’ve been working on and provide links and other resources that you might find handy. I hope you’ll continue to come here regularly.
The DBWS will offer more services which you might need from time to time, and will also provide a good overview for those who are new to stamping and Stampin’ Up!.
It will also feature:
- An online Demonstrator Application Form! You can join up as a demonstrator in my team simply by quoting my Recruiter Authorisation Password, which is eurekastamper, and filling in the form.
- An updated EVENTS calendar Now you’ll be able to see all my class details, workshop availabilities, and confirm start times and venue, etc.
- More Inspiration
Stampin’ Up! provides projects in full colour with complete recipes. Check back often to see the latest.
I’ve got an exciting weekend planned, with two Stamp Clubs meeting and a fully booked CardKeeper Class on Sunday afternoon. Before I go to continue prep’ing I’d love to share this gorgeous photo of my youngest daughter who turned THREE yesterday! (I’m really starting to feel old now that my ‘baby’ is no longer a baby). She’s sitting on her new bike that Nanny and Pa gave her.
~ Simone Bartrum ~
Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator
Central Victoria (Goldfields), Australia Ballarat, Bendigo, Daylesford,
Bacchus Marsh, Melbourne 0411 642 038
Welcome to my little spot on the Web where I share my love of papercraft. Hope you enjoy the projects and ideas I post here using the gorgeous range of Stampin' Up! cardmaking and scrap-booking products. Any questions or comments?
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