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

Wedding card

My apologises for the wedding card not appearing yesterday. I set it up to auto post while I was out at a friends but I think the kids may have helped mid way and "fixed it" for me.

Anyhow, here is the card.

Materials list: (All products used are available to order from Stampin' Up!)

Stamps: Baroque motifs, together forever

Ink: Versamarkbashful blue, going grey

Cardstock: Whisper white, bashful blue, going grey, basic grey

Punches: 1/2" circle punch, horizontal slot, small oval, large oval, wide oval, 1/4" circle (retired)

Accessories: 1/4" bashful blue grosgrain ribbon, white gel pen

Engagement card

Finally, here is the engagement card finished. It was half started for so long... I am honestly glad it is completed and can be sent to my grandmother now.

Of course, it uses the ribbon from the September ribbon promotion. Last day is today so if you want 18m of free ribbon, place your order with me for $100 worth of goodies and it will be yours. I will take final orders until 9pm!

Note: Stampin' Up! have sold out of the ribbon bundles so all qualifying orders today will get a spool of Chocolate Chip 1" (2.5 cm) double-stitched grosgrain ribbon (item 111849; pg. 150) and a spool of Rose Red 1" (2.5 cm) double-stitched grosgrain ribbon (item 111846; pg. 150) instead. If anyone is after the certainly celery/so safrron combo, let me know as I have a couple of spares.

 and close ups and the inside view

 

Materials list:

Stamps: A happy heart

Cardstock: Pretty in pink, chocolate chip, so saffron

Ink: Versamark, chocolate chip, so saffron, pretty in pink

Designer Series Paper: Chocolate Chip Patterns

Punches: Small oval, large oval, scalloped oval

Accessories: So saffron limited edited 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, white taffetta ribbon, on board chipboard essentials

Ros

MMM #19

Today's MMM is inspired by a punch art creation by the lovely Heather Summers from Canada. Now, I have the formalities out of the way....

Materials list: (All products used are available to order from Stampin' Up! unless otherwise mentioned under the other catagory)

Stamps: Snow swirled

Ink: Versamark, real red, more mustard, old olive

Cardstock: Whisper white, real red, more mustard, old olive, brushed gold

Punches: 1/2" circle punch, horizontal slot, small oval, large oval, wide oval, 1/4" circle (retired)

Accessories: Crystal effects, white gel pen

Other: Mini card making rub ons, bells

Be sure to drop by tomorrow and see a wedding card made in a similar way.

Ros

Mini update

A quick reminder, the September ribbon promotion ends on Wednesday. To receive 18m of FREE ribbon, simply contact me and purchase $100 worth of goodies.

I am slowly creating one last ribbon promo card... I am still sick with ear infections and my balance off a little off so I have no been able to create as much as I would like to.

Here is a sneak peak of my final ribbon project. I hope to finish it tonight...

Yesterday the family and I were off to my dad's place to celebrate his birthday. I didn't even have the engery to make him a card so I pulled one out of my stash I use for emergancies. I did manage to make a carrot cake for him though. Such a yummy recipe I must share.

1/2 cup S.R. flour

1/2 cup plain flour

1/2 cup castor sugar

1/4 brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp bi carb soda

1 tsp cinamon

2 eggs

1/2 cup oil

2 grated carrots

Mix all ingreidents together except carrot. Add carrot. Cook in 180 degree oven for approx. 25 minutes. When cool ice with cream cheese icing.

I use icing sugar, cream cheese, a dash of vanilla essence and 1 tbs spoon or so of butter. Mix together till smoth and spread over cake. (I don't actually use measurements to make the icing, it is just a bit of this and that.) Any leftovers keeps well in the fridge and does taste really good when dipped with strawberries.

At the moment, over at Stampamemory we are looking for some guest DT. See this post for details.

I will be back later today with my Making Merry Monday. Just waiting on some crystal effects to dry before taking a photo.

Ros

Super quick...

Super quick post today. Have been battaling migraines and ear infections so trying to not spend as much time on the computer as normal.

I have a new post up on the Stampamemory blog. I made a punch art hamburger for my layout at Stampamemory and I used the larger of the two I made. The smaller one is up for grabs, just remember to go to Stampamemory and leave a comment and I will be using a random number generator to select the lucky recipient. *Entries will be open for 7 days

Here is a sneak peak... yes another quoteable moment from Miss Nikki.

Cheers,

Ros

MMM #18 & September ribbon promotion sample

Well it's Monday again so time for another Making Merry Monday. If this card looks a little familiar to you, it is because it is practically a case from the Stampin' Up! 2008/2009 catalogue. I had an old catalogue that was showing some wear and tear so I tore out the images of the stamp sets I own (especially) the ideas and I store them with the respective stamp sets.

I was orginally creating another card for today, but it turned out to be a disaster... As I was using the "all spruced up" tree from Fun & Fast notes, the catalogue clipping caught my eye from the stamp container and well, here we are...

I have also used one of the September promotion ribbons that you get for free when you purchase $100 worth of product or host a $600 workshop.

It is so easy to spend $100 on products. The prices for most of the materials I used are listed below:

Fun and Fast notes $58.95

Designer Series Paper $16.95

Certainly Celery cardstock $10.50

Watercolour paper $13.50

Aqua painter $19.95

Watercolour crayons $38.95

Clip Assortments $13.95

Rhinestone brads (Ice) $19.95

Gingham ribbon $12.95

Materials list:

Stamps: Fun and Fast notes

Ink: Versamark

Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Watercolour paper

Designer Series Paper: Riding Hood Red & Ski Slope (Spring Mini catalogue)

Accessories: Aqua painter, watercolour wonder crayons, clip assortments, rhinestone brads, gingham ribbon, black embossing powder

Other: Making Memories mini rub ons

September ribbon promo

Remember at the begining of the month I annouced that Stampin' Up! had a great ribbon promotion for September? Well here is a card I made with the free ribbon.

I stamped an envelope to match and even decorated the inside of the card (something I rarely do). I did love using my free ribbon... Look out for some more projects using the ribbon in the upcoming days.

Materials list:

Stamps: Eastern influences

Ink: Basic black

Cardstock: Pink pirouette, whisper white, almost amethyst

Designer Series Papers: Tea party, candy lane

Ribbon: Certainly celery poly-twill ribbon (September ribbon promotion)

Punches: 1 1/4" circle

Accessories: Pretties kit, fashion district rub ons, watercolour wonder crayons, blender pen, watercolour pencils

Ros

Stampamemory

Another of my creations is up on the brand spanking new Stampamemory site...

Be sure to drop by and check it out. Remember to leave me some love so I know what you all think of it! :D

Ros

Introducing Stampamemory

This is the secret squirrel stuff I alluded to in this post...

Myself, Claire Daly, Miriam Thomas, Di Gill, Sue Madex and Tanja Westwood are all part of the Stampamemory team. My upline, Claire Daly organised it and it is an fantastic idea. It demonstrates that Stampin' Up! products can be used for more than just cardmaking and has some fabulous tutorials to boot... Doesn't the site look awesome?

I have a sneak peak of some of my work that is up already.

There will be more coming shortly!

Don't forget to sign up for the newsletter and you can download a snappy little e-book with stamping techniques for scrapbooking. Not to mention you will get to see one of my favourite layouts of late!!!

Ros

I did it!

I did it! I made up a dinosaur kit as mentioned in this post and put it in my madeit store.

Here is the dinosaur in ballet blue.

Off to make a new wedding card as the one I had listed sold!

Cheers,

Ros