Another Birthday Card

Posted in Cards, Great Friend by Chris

A nice pretty, girly one today. 🙂 It was my niece’s fourteenth birthday on Tuesday and this is the card I made for her, with a matching bookmark. I have to say, the card looks heaps better in real life than it does in the photo. Of course I had to add some bling, after all, what teenaged girl doesn’t like bling?! In the photo, the rhinestone brad looks too big and sticks out, but on the card it was just enough to give it some sparkle, along with some glitter of course. So, happy birthday Mikaila, I hope you had a lovely day and a yummy dinner out.

Stamp Sets: Great Friend, On your Birthday.

Cardstock: Rose Red, Whisper White, Walk in the Park Designer Series Paper.

Inks: Rose Red, Mellow Moss.

Accessories: Eyelet Border Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Small and Large Oval Punches, Paper snips, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon, Circle Fire Rhinestone Brads, Two Way Glue Pen, Pink Fine Supernova Glitter, Dimensionals.
Artwork copyright Chris Parker-Barnes
Images copyright 1990 – 2009 Stampin’ Up!

The Great Friends stamp set is yet another that will be no longer available come the end of November (sob – I don’t know what I will do without it!). I think it has been used more than any other stamp set I own. So if you don’t want to miss out on this one, contact me to order it before it’s too late!

Chris

26Jul2009

It’s nearly time….

Posted in Designer Series Paper, Great Friend, Rub-ons, Scrap Pages by Chris

for the release of the Spring Mini Catalogue, and if you haven’t seen it yet, you are in for a treat! There are lots and lots of gorgeous new goodies to be had, heaps of fantastic stamp sets and lots of new accessories, including some new papers. If you would like one of the mini catalogues, feel free to contact me with your postal details and I will send one out to you. But remember, you can’t order from it until the 1st August 2009.

However, those of us who are lucky enough to be Stampin’ Up! demonstrators are able to pre-order the products so I have been able to have a play and thought I would give you a bit of a sneak peek. I have made a few different things and will show you some of them over the next week or so. But you won’t get to see it all, I will be saving some for my mini catalogue launch party on the 8th August. Make sure you contact me to book in for that one, it is a good way for you to try out some of the new stamps and accessories before you buy.

So, the first one is a scrap page. It is a CASE (copy and share exactly) – except this one is not exactly the same (which seems to happen most of the time when I case something)…. anyway, it started out being a CASE of the scrap page on Page 4 of the mini catalogue, and uses some of the new Designer Series Paper and also the new stamp set called “Great Friend”.

The photos are of our beautiful cat Shadow, who passed away nearly 12 months ago, and who we miss heaps! She was a sweet natured girl, who purred all the time and loved our company as much as we loved hers. You may recognise her, she has pride of place on the home page of this blog! 🙂 Doing some scrapbooking of the photos of Shadow has been quite difficult and emotional for us all, but therapeutic in a way, and to me, that is exactly what scrapbooking is all about. It helps us to evaluate and deal with the bad and the good that happens in our every day lives, helping us to put those memories down on paper, rather than hiding them away in the corners of our own minds.

Stamp Set: Great Friend (Available 1st August 2009)

Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Basic Grey, Walk in the Park Designer Series Paper (available 1st August 2009).

Inks: Baja Breeze, Basic Grey.

Accessories: Eyelet Border Punch, Basic Grey Taffeta Ribbon, Laughter and Love Rub ons, Urban West Rub ons (retired), Paper snips, Piercing tool and Mat Pack.

13Jul2009

Some Family Time and a Hostess Gift

Posted in 3D, Baroque Motifs, Great Friend by Chris

My blog posts have been few and far between recently, so I do apologise to those of you who are regular visitors. I have been spending a little more time with my family and doing things together as a family, which has been lots of fun. This is one of the reasons I just love being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator – I decide how much time I want to put into my business and when. It is good to know that I have that flexibility but can still earn an income while I stay at home with Jamie. Yesterday the three of us went for a bit of an excursion up to Black Mountain Tower. For those of you who do not live in the Canberra area, this tower sits on top of Black Mountain which is quite central in Canberra and the views across the whole of Canberra are just amazing. We can see the tower from parts of our house and Jamie is always asking about it so we thought it was time to go and have a look up close. Here are some photos taken from the tower.

I did however, hold a workshop on Saturday afternoon, and just thought I would share with you the Gift that I gave to my hostess, Debbie. I did have fun making this, as it is a little different! The design on the outside of the container is embossed with silver embossing powder, and heated, as you normally would when embossing on cardstock. Be aware though, if you want to try it at home, the versamark on metal can be very slippery so it is easy to slide the stamp around creating a blurred image. And the metal gets quite hot when you heat the powder! Not necessarily a bad thing in this cold winter weather 🙂 And I did, of course, fill it with chocolates before I gave it away. Can’t have a container without chocolates! Hope you enjoy them, Debbie, and thanks for an enjoyable afternoon of stamping.