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Painted with Love Sisterly Friendship Page

In this post, I get the honour to introduce my friend Donna's work! Donna always tells me she's a scrapbooker and she only makes cards when she comes to my classes. I am so glad she does. Donna is an example of friendship that has blossomed out of a shared love for paper crafting. As happens so often in my experience, customers become firm friends as we do what we love and love what we do - together! Donna loved the Painted with Love Specialty DSP as soon as she laid eyes on the suite and I believe she was very quickly inspired by it and knew exactly how she was going to use it in her double spread. I love how scrapbooking is not just about recording what we do but more than that, it is about telling our stories. Ali Edwards (designer, blogger, author and who inspires me with her passion for preserving memories) says, "we scrapbook because we have something to say, we have something to celebrate, and something to learn about ourselves in the p

Painted with Love Specialty DSP Covered Notebooks

One of my favourite quick gifts to put together is covered notebooks. Transforming the ordinary, school work vibe... ... into these stunning notebooks! I just love the magic of our Stampin' Up! products - all beautifully co-ordinated, making it so easy to make stunning projects like these. The Painted with Love Specialty Designer Series Paper is quite the mix of corals, pinks and purples with gold foil accents - it certainly is quite a polarising mix...do you love it or find it too overwhelming? In small amounts as used in these notebooks, I rather like it!! Now for those who do not like the gold foil accents, no fear - just turn the DSP over and you will see a side of the paper without gold accents. I made a bunch of these as table gifts for my customers who attended the Auckland Extravaganza in March. They informed me they intend to use their notebooks to write in their wish list - what a great idea! And how apt, as Stampin' Up! products