Stampin' With Michelle Pepper

Card gratefully received by me from fellow SU Demo Rachael Knight, 2015 It has been a great Sale-a-bration 2015 - but sadly, it has to end :-( Thank you to all those who participated in Sale-a-bration 2015 with me, and I hope you have enjoyed getting all these wonderful selection of Freebies. For those who didn't get a chance to, there's always Sale-a-bration 2016, so mark in your calendar now for beginning of January 2016.

Sale-a-bration 2015 is coming to an end - 31st March (that's TOMORROW!) is the last day you can take advantage of this year's bigger and better Sale-a-bration. The Best Year Ever Designer Series Paper featured in the above set is only one of the many Freebie options when you spend $110. View the Original SAB brochure online if you don't have a copy (please note Blendabilities are no longer available) View the additional SAB Free items available from March. View catalog items available as SAB free items available from 17th March. You have till 11.59pm tomorrow to shop online with me or email/txt me to place an order with me by 10pm tomorrow - so hurry for your last chance to grab some SAB freebies! See this beautiful flower? This is made with the Originals Flower Spiral Bigz Die . The great thing about the Bigz Die is that you can cut fabric and felt with it as well as paper - oh the possibilities! Well, I just thought I'd better mention it here, becaus...

A round of applause for me please - I actually broke open a Sale-A-Bration DSP pack while the SAB promotion is still on! Confession time, I believe last year's DSP pack is still sealed. It's not because I don't like it, rather, it is because I love it so much that I was waiting for the "perfect" project to use it on. Well, I have set myself a challenge this year to break open a DSP pack when I get it and use it as soon as possible. Altered notebooks is not a new trend, and one I would actually like to do more of. Just look at the contrast below: Which of the two would you rather have? That's a rhetorical question - of course you would want the one on the right, surely! I stocked up on these little notebooks during Back To School sale when it was down to 5c each. Seriously? Best. Bargain. Ever. Even when not on sale, these useful little books are still a bargain at 59c each. I love that it fits inside my everyday handbag, because it mean...

I am so loving this bouquet - the blooms are so cheerful and in the colours that I love so much. I will be sad when the current catalogue and these in-colours retire :-( But for now, I will enjoy these blooms that do not give me hayfever and I can re-arrange them as I like for as long as I like, because they are not going to wither on me in a week, haha. And I don't have to change any water either - how convenient is that? You too can purchase this Build A Bouquet Kit from my website, or if you fancy making more flowers than the 35 that you get from this kit, you can purchase the Bouquet Bigz L Die  and make flowers to your heart's content!  *** SAB time...FREE item for every $110 spend or...hostess benefits for qualifying party sales or...join and get freebies ...ends 31 March 2015 ***

Well, my humblest apologies for having neglected this blog and facebook this month - I was seriously over-committed :-( However, I am pleased to have made the effort to post this today (so now there will be at least one post in February) before I take off tomorrow again for a few days of camping. I have just returned from a weekend of Stamp Camp in Rotorua and I am buzzing! It really is so awesome to be part of a wider Stampin' Up! family aka the Creative Inkers Team. Jacque, our fearless leader, is just an amazing role model and her generosity and kindness and heart for her team is absolutely contagious. Over the weekend, we had 5 product suite presentations, each followed by a make and take project; business training sessions, opportunity to participate in a service project (which was to make thank you cards for KidsCan to send to their kind donors), lots of laughs, networking and social time and of course yummy food too. I believe we all (yup as per the photo, there are...

This card was the second project we made in my recent Mum & Me Class. You can view the first project here if you missed it. My card was a result of using scraps of retired paper that I have a stash of. I did not set out with a polka-dotty theme in mind, it just kinda happened :-) Such a super easy card yet so effective - these butterflies are just so intricate and lovely - try in different colours! With the PYO strawberries season still open, perhaps, like Rachel, you're thinking Strawberry Slush: Or, Jill's Elegant Eggplant might be more your flavour?  Or how about a tribute to our beloved - the monarch butterflies: This is the result of the passion and care and patience of the lovely talented 12 year old Miss Julliette! What do ya think? Are you convinced now that you ought to get these Butterflies Thinlit dies? By the way, if you have had bad experience in the past with intricate dies, never fear! Dryer sheet - yes, that's ...

Today's post features the new Butterfly Basics photopolymer stamp set and new Butterflies Thinlits Dies from the new Occasions Catalogue. The stamp set actually also comes in wood-mount and clear-mount , and you could also get the stamps and dies as a bundle and save 15%! Now I sometimes get overwhelmed with the choices in a stamp set (there are 11 stamps in this set!) but thankfully, SU!'s catalogues are filled with samples and ideas, so I basically CASEd (Copy and Share Everything) the sample that is on page 26 of the Occasions Catalogue. I do have a hard time copying everything exactly, lol, so my changes included using a button, a different sentiment and the butterflies are die cut/punched from an old scrap piece of retired DSP. Since the card was already designed, I would make two cards at the same time (because one A4 sheet of card stock makes two standard size cards). This means I'd play around with placements and/or colours and/or embellishments. C...