Regional swaps and gifts!
By Yvonne | October 30, 2009
Well it has been a very interesting couple of weeks in our house, and I have to say I am glad that things are on the improve – between broken bones, tonsilitis and all sorts of gastro bugs, we have been having a great old time! I have had a few people ask me where I got my frames from in my previous post and I would advise you to search out your local variety store – I actually found mine in small Vietnamese variety store of all places, but I know others have found them in the Reject Shop and other such stores. Spotlight also have frames, but it depends on your local store what they stock.
We had our Melbourne Stampin’ Up! regionals the other week and I was looking forward to catching up with my team, of which quite a number were coming along, but I woke up feeilng dreadful. I went though, wanting to give away my swaps and little gifts I had made for my girls. I think I lasted a hour before having to leave, but at least I managed to exchange a few swaps! I thought I would show you the swaps I made using Big Bold Birthday
I really don’t use this set enough and it is such a fun and versatile set. I used the Boho flower punch for the background. I so LOVE the scallop punch and it just sets off the card nicely.
I love making litle gifts for my team members who attend Stampin Up events, it is just a little something to say thank you for taking the time to come along and they are always fun to make. I found these cute ovesized paperclips at my local Big W store and thought they would make great bookmarks.
how cute are the colours of the clips and they co-ordinated so well with our cardstock. I used the flowers from the level 3 Hostess set Window dressings, stamped in Stazon and coloured them in with my markers
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and here it is in use in one of the Sookie Stackhouse novels which I just love.
But I didn’t just want to give them a paperclip so made these oversized matchbox books which could hold 2 Freddo frogs, but I thought I would put some little post it notes in there as well!
So I co-ordinated the colours with each clip and here is a look inside:
Here they are, all packaged up, very cute if I may say so myself. 
Anyway, I am off to bed, we were meant to leave for Apollo Bay today but DH is still feeling too unwell to make a 3 hour car ride, so fingers crossed we will make it tomorrow! My kids are dressing up for Halloween tomorrow night for the first time and they are SO excited, Little miss has a witch costume and has been practising her evil cackle – it is so funny!! She wants to paint her face red though, so not sure wat that’s about, but will take lots of pics to share with you lol!
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Framed art
By Yvonne | October 12, 2009
Well it has been a busy week in our household, the boys are back at school ( I really miss those sleep in’s) Little miss at 3 y.o kinder, and it is back to the swimming lessons, basketball training, dancing classes, and everything else having 3 kids entails! I also went to a trade night at our school on Friday night so I was busy creating cards and items for display and also to run classes on. The first thing I wanted to make was a personalised frame. The other week we ran a stall at the Picture to Page Show and one very talented Melbourne Stampin Up demonstrator Kelly Bowen (who really really needs to get herself a blog!!) created these amazing frames using squares of DSP and ribbon. Kelly created one using the ‘Cheers to You’ set which was basically the design I followed in my frame, I think you will see these frames everywhere – we were all very inspired!
Isabelle and I made it together – she was telling me where to put things and I had to use a little gentle persuasion to stop the frame being covered in pink rhinestones!!! I used the Bella Rose DSP and the 1 1/4″ Square punch which fit perfectly in the shadow box.
Here is a close up. Not sure if you can tell, but I covered the letters in dazzling diamonds as well. I offered this both as a class for $25 or made to order and it got a lot of interest which was great! The funniest thing was, that when the boys got in from school and I said to them ‘look what we made today’ the first thing they said was ‘well where is mine!’ Back to the stamp desk I go!
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Sense of Time..
By Yvonne | October 4, 2009
Just a quick stop tonight! I thought I would share with you a 6 x 6 layout I did of the boys, the photo was taken a couple of years ago down at our cabin in Apollo Bay. Don’t look too closely at their Nutella smeared faces! The layout was also my shoe box swap for our team stamp camp. I had organised the camp to get my team together, along with some friends who were also Stampin Up Demonstrators. The Spring mini had just come out, so I asked everyone to prepare a shoe box swap (or a make and take) using products from the mini for us all to do. It is one of the things I miss, attending classes where all the preparation and design is done for you, but this way, I had 24 make and takes to do over the weekend which was great!
I love this set ‘Sense of Time’, it gives your creations a real vintage feel and is perfect for those hard to do masculine cards. I made a pull out journalling box to sit behind the photo, pulled out using the tab. (and of course it is sitting crooked in this photo!) I created a mask over the clock and then just smooshed my not quite navy ink pad all over the card as well as stamping the wheel image in chocolate and navy randomly. Very simple.
Here is a few photo’s of the camp:
Here are some of our Shoe Box Swaps. I had them all numbered and everyone had a sheet with corresponding numbers on it so they could cross off the ones they had done.
Here is our work room – how great are those stones!!!
And here is our group. We are sitting in a really 70’s style Conversation pit which doubled up as our SingStar /Karaoke stage once dinner was finished with. I came home so sleep deprived but it was sooo worth it!
I also had little pillow gifts for my girls as a welcome gift but I forgot to take photo’s of course!!
I am organising another camp for the end of November and can’t wait! If you are thinking of joining Stampin up, this month is the month to do it with the wonderful promotion we have running, and even better, you can come along to our camp!
Well it is daylight savings here which takes my body a wee bit to get used to – I just don’t do early mornings well and tomorrow is the first day back at school so an even earlier start -I better set 2 alarm clocks (thanks Princess for that hint!!)
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Little Miss’s creation
By Yvonne | October 2, 2009
Well since you asked, here is the pony as shown earlier
And then the result of little miss’s finishing touches. (not sure about the lighting – it is the same wall!!)
Some more flowers and bling..
And quite a few more flowers..
Lucky for the horse the rhinestones and flowers ran out lol!!!!
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More Christmas Ideas!
By Yvonne | October 1, 2009
THis morning I had a class making the Milk Cartons and I thought I would make another one along with the girls. So here is version 2 using the Christmas Classic Stampin Up Stamp set. I also created windows in the 2 red milk cartons using acetate and thought it would be perfect to show off the contents – lollies, home baked goodies, soaps, nuts, even candy cane.
And here is a mini pocket book that we are creating at a class this Monday. Once again, I have cased the talented Becky and used Stampin’ Up’s Holiday Treasures DSP.
And this is the inside of the little book
And a close up of the pull out tags that go inside. I am putting it together as a booklet of last christmas, of what the kids asked Santa for and what they got, I just need to get my printer to stop chewing up my photo paper and I can pop some photo’s inside!
I am now off to convince little miss that No, she really doesn’t want to be a grown up just yet. She asked me today “when will I be grown up”? and when I asked her why she wanted to grow up she said ”I want to be a mummy so I can do stamping all by myself with all the ladies like you do” Oh what can you say to that!! I guess I better watch out, as it looks like Isabelle wants my job!
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count down to Christmas..
By Yvonne | September 30, 2009
It seems this year has flown past me, I just can’t seem to keep up with the days at the moment! I have been organising, working, creating and my poor blog has been a little neglected! I have done quite a few classes so I do have lots to share with you. I thought I would show you some of the Christmas cards we have been doing, I just love our christmas papers, and have been using Holiday Treasures a lot.
Here is the milkcarton and crate set that we are doing at a class tomorrow and it uses the cute set ‘Holiday lineup’ and just a little bit of the Holiday Treasures DSP. This gorgeous set was designed by Becky who has some beautiful creations. and I have CASEd it from her.
Here is the same set and Designer Paper again and I have used the spotlight technique where you highlight a small area of the image. I saw this done on a card by Debbie and just loved it so thought we would do it in a stamp a stack.
And here is the complete set of cards we did at our stamp a stack. These cards were so popular and as a lot of people coldn’t make the class, I offered this set of 6 cards as a Stamp-a-stack by mail, if you are interested in doing this SAS at home, contact me on ymcampbell@bigpond.com for more details.
This is a card we did with my stamp club and you guessed it, same DSP again!! I just cut around the flower print and applied some dazzling diamonds to the flower centres. You have to love the scallop oval punch don’t you!!
And another Stamp a stack we did, this time using the Winter Post stamp set and the Holiday Treasure DSP again.
This card we did at my mini launch and it uses a set available in the spring mini called Tree Trimmings which I added dazzling diamonds to and used the Masking technique. The DSP is just gorgeous and is called Ski Slope
, also available in the Spring mini. I am stocking up on the Riding hood red striped ribbon so I can use it at christmas time, I just love it so much!
The other week we had a stand at the Picture to Page show in Burwood and it was fun to catch up with the girls and do some shopping!! I came home with this huge wall cut out horse, lots of rhinestones and hot pink craft paint and had a ball decorating it. I used 3 different Kaiser craft paints and lots of bling! I even embossed diamonds onto the horse’s tummy using the baroque motif swirl. Can you see the bling on the hoofs??
So the last thing I expected from her when I showed her the horse on her bedroom wall, was her throwing herself on the floor crying her eyes out because I didnt wait for her to help me!! Needless to say, the horse came down, the rhinestones and flowers came out and little miss finished ‘decorating’ her horse. I haven’t taken a photo of her finished artwork, but just imagine the horse completely covered in bling and flowers and you will get close to the mark!
Well off to bed now! If you get a chance go over to the Specials tab HERE to see the wonderful promotion Stampin up are running from the 1st October. I have been very slack updating my class list so please email me if you are interested in coming to classes in Melbourne and I will pop you on my mailing list. I normally have 1 -2 classes a week and would love to see some new faces!
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Happy Father’s Day!
By Yvonne | September 6, 2009
We have had such a lovely day today, the kids woke us up with all their handmade gifts and cards for their dad as well as those highly ‘practical’ gifts that they bought from the school Father’s day stall. They also bought a gift just for dad – a new Singstar volume for the Playtation 3 – nooooo, not at all for them, they weren’t at all swayed by the fact that Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean’ was on the volume and the fact that my kids have all become HUGE MJ fans since his passing had nothing to do with it either lol!. So we all had turns on the microphones this morning which was great fun, a late breakfast, lunch out with the family and then a quiet evening in, very nice!
Anyhow, I thought I would share with you the Father’s Day cards I made for my dad and Father In Law. I always find it hard to do masculine cards, but we have some great stamp sets in our catalogue that are perfect for boy cards.
This card is so simple, just add some ribbon, DSP and some bling! Baja breeze is probably my most used colour of late, it just mixes with other colours so well.
Stamps: Occasional Greetings.
Card: Basic Gray, Baja Breeze, Walk in the Park DSP
Accessories: Basic Gray Taffeta ribbon, dazzling diamonds, 2 way glue
The stamp set on this next card had never been inked before I am embarassed to say but I think it is great for those boys cards!
Spot the Baja Breeze again lol? In fact, I think you could make some great girly cards with this set too (the queen of hearts image has the phrase ‘Queen of Everything on it’) The colour scheme here was one we used on a card the other day and it works just as well for feminie cards.
Stamps: Occasional Greetings, Card Games.
Card: Chocolate chip, Baja Breeze, Pacific point, Walk in the Park DSP
Accessories: Basic Gray Taffeta ribbon, dazzling diamonds, 2 way glue, clip assortment
I LOVE the sets from the spring mini, especially the Great Friend Set. I used the butterfly image, inked it in Baja Breeze then rolled the edges in Chocolate chip. The circle frame was inked up in Baja Breeze, then I inked up the swirl image from Baroque Motifs in Pacific point and ‘kissed’ it on the frame.
Stamps: Great Friend, Oval All, Gallery, Baroque Motifs
Card: Chocolate chip, Baja Breeze, Pacific point, Walk in the Park DSP
Accessories: Baja Breeze ribbon, dazzling diamonds, large oval punch, oval scallop punch, corduroy buttons, eyelet border punch
So I also realise that I have not yet shared the rest of my Incentive trip photo’s here Oops!!! SO here they are!
Goodnight everyone!!!
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Incentive trip
By Yvonne | August 26, 2009
Boy oh boy have I had a busy 4 weeks! Birthdays, a Communion, a Stamp camp and the Stampin Up Incentive trip just to mention the main events! This is DH’s last week away interstate (yay!!) so I am hoping to get back into a routine and have even restarted my classes this week to get myself back in the swing of things. I have to tell you that I have had the most amazing 5 days in Noosa all thanks to Stampin up! Last year was my first Incentive trip and it was amazing but this year was even better. The lead up to the trip was pretty hectic, in fact I didn’t think that I would get all my swaps done at all – we have a morning of stamping while on the trip and also a swap, so I had 35 cards to make and this is what my table looked liked 2 days before we flew out: bits of this and bits of that, and mess everywhere!
Here is my finished swap card made using A rose is a Rose which is such a beautiful set.
Our theme was to use only products from the main catalogue, and I really wanted to mat my sentiment onto a scallop oval but thought I had better stick to the rules for a change! I received so many gorgeous creations in return and will show them to you tomorrow, can’t show you everthing today can I?!
Anyway, we were picked up from the airport and taken to The Sheraton Resort in Noosa where the temperature was so much more wonderful than the wind and cold of Melbourne! I was so looking forward to spending time with DH and with my SU friends. 
This lovel vase was sitting in our room and it was etched with Noosa Heads Stampin up 2009 which is a great momento.
Here is the view from our room, overlooking the pool area – just stunning.
Keesh and I catching up! I am so grateful to SU for giving me the opportunity to make some wonderful friendships like the one with Keesh
Stampin up LOVE to surprise up with gifts and after our welcome dinner, we came back to our rooms to to find this cute apron, so of course I just had to try it on!!
THe following day we took a cruise on Noosa River to Rick’s restaurant, where we had donned our aprons and hats and proceeded to having a cooking lessons! Here is a pic of the river.
Our group made stuffed olives which was so much fun! Unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries so there are no pics of the event, but I have to say that we were so well looked after and spoiled, we ate so many courses and ended up having desert on the ferry back.
There were more presents that night, and it was all stamping supplies, inks, A new stamp set not available anywhere and more! Unfortunately I can’t show you yet, but can show you us working with them!
Here is our table ready for us to create on and how amazing is this for a stamping room!!!
And here are all the achievers plus Shelli and Aaron.
I will post up the rest of the trip tomorrow as I need to pick up the boys from school!
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Goodmorning All!!!
By Yvonne | July 23, 2009
Cough cough cough… look at that layer of dust sitting on this blog! To say it has been a little while since my last post is a bit of an understatement and for that I do apologise. I have had an interesting month, and it has all but made it impossible for me to maintain my blog. I know we would all love to have more time in the day and over the past month I have felt like I was being pulled in all directions and yet achieving nothing. Thank you for worrying about me, I wish I could say that I have been on holiday all month but that would be too easy! I promise to try and update more often, buy my husband has been working intersate a lot recently and is going away for the whole of August so it means no spare time for anything. Anyway, that is enough complaing at the moment, I have things to share with you!
Here is an engagement card I made recently and it uses a stamp set I had never even mounted let alone inked yet – Life definitions. I love crisp white cards and teamed with red you can’t really go wrong!
I have actually run the odd class and here is one of the Chrismas cards we made. I love this set ‘A wish for peace’ it is just so lovely. I have teamed it up with baja breeze and Going Gray card for another clean looking card. Not sure if you can see all the dazzling diamonds on the tree but it sure does sparkle in real life!
Here are some girly cards we did at a class and it uses ‘Big bold birthday’ a great little set and pink pirouette card and accessories.
Over the past few weeks, I have received some gorgeous cards from people and one of them I liked so much that I have been casing it to use in workshops! The above cards were based on a creation by Amanda one of my wonderful team members, so thank you for the inspiration Amanda, I just loved the colour scheme and layout. 
And here is the same idea again – can you tell I loved working with this colour scheme lol?!
Remember those watercoloured roses I love so much? Well here they are again, made as a 65th birthday card for my MIL. 
It has been ages since I have made a candle and I thought I would have a go at transfering a photo onto the candle and I was so happy with the results! My boys went to Mount Hotham for a few days to learn to ski and here they are with my mum, sister and uncle. If you would like to see my kids learning to ski, here is a video I put together of the boys (you may want to turn the music down though – I added one of DS10’s favourite song’s to it and it is LOUD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE4MJ3gVSMk
I also have the cutest pictures of Little miss at her first dancing concert, photo’s of DH’s 40th birthday (eek!) and of the trip to Sydney I took him on as a birthday gift where we climed the Harbour bridge which was AMAZING but I have to leave something for another day so hopefully these pics wll keep you busy for a little while.
Nice to be back here, have a wonderful night xx
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petal pizzaz
By Yvonne | June 22, 2009
I was lucky enough to receive the gorgeous stamp set Petal Pizzaz at our Stampin’ Up convention and have to say I have been having a ball with it. I used it at a stamp-a-stack I held recently and these are the cards we made.
Stamps: Petal pizzaz, on your birthday
Inks: riding hood red, pirouette pink, kiwi kiss, tangerine tango
card: riding hood red, kiwi kiss, very vanilla, riding hood red DSP.
Accessories: Kiwi kiss grosgrain ribbon, vintage brads, dimensional adhesives, eyelet border punch.
I think there are some sets that you can’t really make a bad card with and this is one of them, you can just stamp away randomly and your card will look bright, bold and pretty! It is also a great set to do layering with, as you can see in the first card, the flowers all fit nicely over each other.
It is nice and quiet at home tonight, the boys are away with my mum and sister, they have gone to Mount Hotham for a few days where my uncle runs a ski resort. It is their first time at the snow and they have been so excited about this trip and the fact that they are going to learn to ski and snowboard hopefully. But what it means for me is beautiful, blissful QUIET which is such a rarity in my house – how lucky am I lol!!!
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