Ros Davidson, Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator, Melbourne, Australia

Happy Australia Day

Happy Australia Day from my home to yours. As usual, we had the annual Australia Day photo shoot. Here's my favourite photo of the crew.

 

Hexies

What does a pile of these give you?

 

An unfinished craft project and inspiration for a card! What feels like forever ago, I begun stitching a pile of hexagons together to create a journal cover (it's currently in a state of 3/4 completion). The pile of hexies have inspired today's card using the lovely FREE sale-a-bration designer series paper.

Close up of the stitching

Inside view

Materials list:

Stamps: Just believe, clearly for you

Inkpads: Crumb cake, poppy parade, versamark, basic black

Cardstock: Poppy parade, crumb cake, whisper white, lucky limeade, calypso coral

Accessories: Big shot, petal cone die, beautiful butterflies, everyday enchantment designer series paper (sale-a-bration)

Sale-a-bration

From today, Stampin' Up's annual sale-a-bration promotion begins. For the first time this year, we have a choice of the following FREE products: designer series paper, brads/ribbons and the fabulous stamps that Stampin' Up! is known for. There is three easy ways to earn FREE product during sale-a-bration.

1. Spend $100 and earn a FREE sale-a-bration products of your choice

2. Host a workshop with $600 sales and you'll earn a FREE sale-a-bration products in addition to the already generous hostess benefits

3. Join my Stampin' Up! team during sale-a-bration for only $249 (and you have the chance to get your $249 back and more with our new stampin' start program) and choose a FREE stamp set from the idea book and catalogue or summer mini catalogue (of any value)

 

Click here to see the sale-a-bration catalogue

I have limited vacancies left for workshops during sale-a-bration. Contact me today to book your sale-a-bration workshop. If you'd like to join as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, contact me or visit here to sign up online.

I'll be back tomorrow with a stunning creation focusing on sale-a-bration goodies!

Pear crumble

For dessert tonight, I made pear crumble. I've never made it before but even the children who don't like pears enjoyed it. Handy that hubby brought a large box of pears at the local market recently. :D

 

Happy Birthday Fiona

It's my sister-in-laws birthday today (well one of them as I have three amazing sister-in-laws) :D

She's celebrating her ummm.... 24th? *snort* LOL, either which way, I hope you have a lovely day Fi and your pressie and card is in transit. (It's why I went with the "birthday wishes, a little bit late" stamp!)

I've done double duty with Fi's card and linked it up to Just Add Ink's current challenge.

Inside card

 

Materials used:

Stamps: Bring on the cake, vintage vogue, en francais, happiest birthday wishes (hostess), french foliage

Inkpads: Pool party, marina mist, basic black, versamark

Cardstock: Baja breeze, whisper white, very vanilla, crumb cake

Punches: 2 1/2" circle, scallop trim border, eyelet border

Accessories: Big shot, circle scissors plus, petal cone die, clear embossing powder, neutrals brads, jumbo neutrals brads, top note die, pocketful of posies designer series paper