ESAD BLOG HOP

The release of the Holiday catalogue from Stampin' Up! means another ESAD blog hop! What is ESAD?

ESAD stands for "Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators" and is a facebook group just for Australian and New Zealand Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrators.

We love what we do & love to share with our customers, friends and blog visitors. We also share what we love in our ESAD Demonstrator community, through swaps, challenges, sharing knowledge, ideas& friendship and we're always there to help and support each other.

So if you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand then please feel free to leave me a comment with your email address then I'll contact you with information on how to join our group.

If following the blogs from post to post you should have arrived here from Narelle Hoggard but you can go in any order you like. 

I have made cards from the White Christmas set which is one of the new polymer designs. These are great as you really can see where you are placing your stamp and they are cheap! This set has 13 images which are all designed to work together in creating scenes or by themselves. The greetings on some of the images are from a special hostess set available until the end of October called Good Greetings. 

My first card is my favourite.  It uses the trees and birds from the set. The background has been sponged and masked with torn paper, a sponge dauber and smokey slate ink. The snowflakes are created with a white gel pen. 

The next one has a sort of Scottish theme with the stag and background paper from the Trim the Tree Designer Series paper stack. This would also work well for a male themed birthday or Father's day card.

The next card uses the cute little snowman, lots of clear Dazzling Details glitter glue and trimmed with a strip of the All is Calm designer washi tape.

My last project is a shaker card using the polar bear and star from the set. The shaker window is filled with snowflakes from the Frosted Sequins pack of sequins. The front piece of the card is embossed with the Lucky Stars textured impressions embossing folder.

Thank you for visiting my blog, please feel free to leave a comment :-)  The next stop on the blog hop is the gorgeous Libby Dyson - enjoy! 

RETIREMENT LIST IS OUT!

The time of year where we say good bye to some of our favourite products to welcome in the new has come around again.  You can view the list here  Grab them before they're gone!

SIGN AND SAVE!

For a limited time you can join Stampin’ Up! for just $85! This amazing opportunity will only last until June 30, 2014, so take what you already love doing—stamping and crafting—and make a little money while you're at it!

When you join Stampin’ Up! during this limited-time offer, you’ll receive:

$90 worth of products
A 30 percent discount on your first order*
A 20 percent discount on all your orders

You can of course also join for the normal price of $169 which gives you $235 of free product of your choice.

Create friendships that will last forever and enjoy the benefits of fun, friends, and creativity—become a Stampin' Up! demonstrator today.  Contact me for more details!

ESAD BLOG HOP

Ok so it's time for another ESAD blog hop. This time from the newly released Occasions mini catalogue which runs from now until 30th June. 

What is ESAD?

ESAD

stands for "Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators" and it is an

on-line group just for Australian and New Zealand Stampin' Up!

demonstrators.

We love what we do & love to share with our customers, friends, and

wonderful blog visitors. We also share what we love in our ESAD

Demonstrator community, through swaps, challenges, sharing knowledge,

ideas & friendship, and we're always there to help and support each

other.

So if

you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand,

then please feel free to leave

me a comment with your Email address and I'll contact you with

information on how to join our wonderful group.

You may have arrived here from Delys Cram but if not just keep going around until you get back here. 

My projects feature the very cute Life in the Forest set.  I just love this - especially the fox.....although I had that song "What Does the Fox Say?" going through my head the entire time I was making the projects!  

My first project is one of those Cards in a Box that are everywhere at the moment!  These look so complicated but are soooo easy!  I watercoloured the images using an aqua painter and ink from the inkpads pooled inside the lids.  The green card around the base of the box is Old Olive cardstock cut to look like grass with the new fringing scissors in the Occasions catalogue.  These are a lot of fun!  Click on the images to see them in better detail. 

My next project is a very simple water colour using the fox again on watercolour paper and again the fringing scissors. 

Thanks for visiting my blog.  Please now hop along to Monique Fielder  

Lots of new Stuff!

From today, Sale-a-bration, Stampin' Up!'s biggest promotion of the year starts. 

For each $90 spent you can choose one item for FREE from the Sale-a-Bration brochure But wait! There's more! Host a party or gather up some orders to equal $500 and you get an extra $50 in hostess benefits - a total of $130 (plus those free SAB items!).  How about joining my team?  Get $255 of your choice of product for only $169.  Comment or email me at kirbygail@hotmail.com  for more information or if you would like a Sale-a-Bration brochure sending out to you. 

Today the Occasions catalogue also went live!  See the products here 

Let me know if you would like a copy sending out to you. 

And last but not least, our newest tool, the Texture Boutique machine.  Watch this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1y2cECf3M

Perfect for those times when you have only embossing to do and don't want to bring out the Big Shot or if like me, your platform has become slightly unhinged (not unlike myself!)

ESAD BLOG HOP

What is ESAD?

ESAD

stands for "Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators" and it is an

on-line group just for Australian and New Zealand Stampin' Up!

demonstrators.

We love what we do & love to share with our customers, friends, and

wonderful blog visitors. We also share what we love in our ESAD

Demonstrator community, through swaps, challenges, sharing knowledge,

ideas & friendship, and we're always there to help and support each

other.

So if

you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand,

then please feel free to leave

me a comment with your Email address and I'll contact you with

information on how to join our wonderful group.

Ok, firstly I am having internet problems and am frantically doing this in a McCafe rushing before my battery goes! So apologies for it not being set out properly or with not much info. Will go back and fix it all up later!  If you do have any questions on products used you can email me at kirbygail@hotmail.com and I can reply via my phone!    OK internet is back on!  Forgot to mention that the SAB items used can all be earnt for FREE for each $90 spent from 28th Jan to 31st March.  Please contact me if you would like a SAB brochure sending out to you!

Click on the pictures to see them in more detail

My first project is a card featuring the Decorative Dots embossing folder,  Banner Blast stamp set and Banner punch from the Saleabration catalogue.

This project uses the Sweet Sorbet DSP and the banner blast stamp set and punch again

This ones uses the Sweet Sorbet DSP and the Sweet Sorbet accessory pack of the cork embellishments and the twine.  In both of the scrapbook pages there are also a couple of sneak peeks of new product from the upcoming Occasions catalogue - can you spot them?

Thanks for visiting my blog.  Next you will be visiting the lovely Michelle Grech

NEW CATALOGUE - NEW ESAD BLOG HOP!

Well the brand new 2013-2014 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue goes live today, 2nd July. There are some really gorgeous things in there so if you would like a copy just send me an email and I'll get one out to you.

With a new catalogue, of course there is an ESAD Blog Hop!  What is ESAD? ESAD stands for "Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators" and it is an on-line group just for Australian and New Zealand Stampin' Up! demonstrators.

We love what we do & love to share with our customers, friends, and wonderful blog visitors. We also share what we love in our ESAD Demonstrator community, through swaps, challenges, sharing knowledge, ideas & friendship, and we're always there to help and support each other.

So if you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand, leave me a comment with your email address and I'll contact you with information on how to join our wonderful group.

Ok, well thank you for visiting my blog. You may have arrived here from Anne Wills but if not, you can always go back. There are 25 of us participating in this blog hop so should keep you busy for a while. Don't forget to leave comments - we love comments!

Right, onto my projects! First up is a scrapbook page. I have used Pool Party Coordinations cardstock, Pool Party was due to retire this year but has been brought back and is now part of the Subtles colour family. This was one of my favourite In Colours so I am really happy to see it in the regular range. The acetate strip at the top is the printed window sheet from the Quatrefancy DSP pack and I have stamped onto it with black stazon. The stamp is from the Happy Day stamp set. The strip of DSP along the bottom is from the same Quatrefancy pack. I have embossed a piece of Coastal Cabana c/s - one of the new In Colours with the Modern Mosaic embossing folder and rubbed the Coastal Cabana inkpad over the top to highlight the pattern. The little clips on the top of the cardstock are from the new Essentials Hardware clips - so cute! That is it! Very simple but scrapbook pages still seem to take ages to work out!

Next is a card featuring the Wildflower Meadow stamp and its matching embossing folder. This is a new concept. The stamp is one of the large background stamps. I have stamped it in Bermuda Bay - a new colour - ink onto Coastal Cabana c/s and then run it through the Wildflower Meadow embossing folder lining up the stamped image with the pattern on the embossing folder. I have wrapped some Whisper White organza ribbon around and the embellishment in the middle is the new modelling clay which I have tinted with a Coastal Cabana reinker and pressed into the new Buttons and Blossoms Simply Pressed molds. This stuff is great fun to play with! It's not like paperclay, it's really flexible. You get quite a large bag which is resealable and it goes a very long way. The clay airdries in about 24 hrs but its fine to touch in just a couple of hours. I added Dazzling Details glitter glue onto the flower. I have then stuck the top layer onto two new In Colours, Strawberry Slush and Pistachio Pudding. Hmm don't ask me how I got the cards on eitherside of the text but I like it lol!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog. The next person on the blog hop is Rochelle Blok and you can find her blog here