Stampin’ Up! Australia: It really is a Happy New Year now!

The new 2015 Occasions catalogue has landed.

Over 50 pages of new products and ideas. Plus home decor inspiration.  Stamp sets – in wood mount, clear/cling mount and photopolymer – if you please.

Not to mention new tools such as punches.

And new goodies for your die cutting machine, like framelits with matching stamps, embossing folders and new Bigz dies as well.

Click HERE TO DOWNLOAD you digital Stampin’ Up! Australia 2015 Occasions catalogue.

Or click HERE TO VIEW NEW PRODUCTS IN THE ONLINE STORE.

Want your own copy to flick through? Just email me and I’ll be happy to send one to you anywhere in Australia.

And as if dozens of exciting new products isn’t enough, we are also launching our favourite annual event on the Stampin’ Up! calendar: Sale-a-bration!

Sale-a-bration means bonuses for everyone. Bonus gifts for customers with every $90 purchase. Bonus hostess benefits for qualifying order totals. Bonus kits or products when you join Stampin’ Up!.

Yes! Purchases of NEW products from the Occasions catalogue can help you earn FREE Sale-a-bration products. You can also order from the annual catalogue. OR a combination of the two.

Yes! You can contact me to process the order. Or you can order online at your convenience.

As soon as the products add up to $90 in a single order, you can choose a free item. Spend $90, get one gift of your choice. Spend $180, choose two.

Got a big wish list? If your order totals over $300 you qualify for 3 Sale-a-bration items AND $50 worth of any products of your choice (thanks to hostess benefits). What a great time to stock up. 

Got an even bigger wish list? Spend over $400 to qualify for $100 worth of FREE products of your choice PLUS 4 Sale-a-bration items (thanks to bonus hostess benefits during Sale-a-bration only). The exclusive items alone could easily add up to $100+ in value. Amazing.

If the budget won’t stretch quite that far, think about gathering orders from friends & family who love to craft, or would like some of the new kits. You still could qualify for the amazing host bonuses.

Just a tad exciting, isn’t it? If you have any questions don’t hesitate to sing out.

Happy stamping,

P.S. Victorians: If you live in the Garden state, contact me to book a FREE Make & Take party. January is fully booked  but I have vacancies for March and limited dates available in Feb. This is a great way to TRY out new products, LEARN how to use them, and SHOP all at the same time. Get in quick!

The Bloom For You stamp (page 139 Annual Stampin’ Up! catalogue) and its matching Fun Flower punch (p219) are a match made in paper craft heaven!

With only two items you can make a range of cut Bloom For You flowers in any colour you want. Great for making 3D flowers and paper bouquets, as an element on a card or scrapbook page, and because these are a fairly decent size they make great gift tags too. 

To make these Bloom For You flowers  I used a couple of extra co-ordinating punches that I had on hand, and they really helped to finish the flower nicely withOUT any hand cutting. Yay for that!

The other punches I used were the small (2.2cm) Scallop Circle Punch and the half inch circle punch, all available from my Stampin’ Up! online store. To assemble, it was simply a matter of stamping the flowers a number of times in the different coloured Stampin’ Up! classic inks and then punching out the required pieces. Layer the pieces with a Stampin’ Dimensionals in between or just some adhesive.

Don’t forget the amazing Year End Close-Out sale is on. Check out my online store Clearance Rack for details.

Note: The colours used on the card at the top of this page are from the 2014-2016 In Color range –  Lost Lagoon, Crushed Curry and Blackberry Bliss – all on a Crumb Cake note card. The panel of patterned paper is from the Park Lane Designer Series Paper pack.

Happy stamping,

Back in September our Stampin’ Up! team members were invited to join a Christmas card swap.

As always, it was incredibly inspirational.

I especially loved a design by Emma Calleja which featured the cutie Get Your Santa On set. I hadn’t bought it at that stage, but that soon changed after I saw Emma’s adorable card which featured little flags punched from the Trim The Tree paper stack using the Banner punch. This is my version of it:

It prompted me to continue the theme by using other feature images in the set, and different embossing folders.  At only AUD$27.95 Get Your Santa On is not only a versatile stamp set, but great value too.   Images copyright Stampin’ Up!® 

I got my Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities out for this project. The shading which is part of the stamped image makes it SUPER EASY to colour. I just used the medium or dark Blendabilities marker where ever there were shade lines, and light for the rest. The Dazzling Details glitter adhesive finished off the ‘fur’ on Santa’s coat. That’s a great little product at only $4.50 and will last for ages.

How are you going with your Christmas cards?

We’re in November now… where is the year going! Happy stamping,