Happy Anniversary honey!

My honey and I were married 11 years ago today. Eleven years, 3 houses, 4 children, and 5 job changes.

Here is the card I made him (apologies for the terrible iPhone photo):

It uses a TopNote die embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder.  Using a brayer, I inked over the debossed side in Pear Pizazz ( I have a few of these Top Notes leftover from making Regionals swaps). The sentiment is from a Hostess set Occasional Quotes, and the butterflies are made with the Embosslit Die. I have been using them on everything lately!


Happy Anniversary to us!

My swaps for Brisbane Regionals

Stamp:  Afterthoughts (hostess set); Ink:  Marina Mist, Pear Pizazz;   Paper:  Confetti White, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler.  Other:  Big Shot - Top Note Die, Vintage Wallpaper Textured Impressions, Brayer, Wide Oval Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Marina Mist satin Ribbon, Pear Pizazz ribbon, basic pearls

I posted this photo from the Brisbane Convention Centre where I was attending Regionals because I'd forgotten to take a picture of my card before I left home!

Regionals is a one-day traning/social event run by Stampin' up! for Demonstrators and guests, there is always swapping to be done with other Demonstrators, some Make & Takes, and fabulous presentations and informative speakers.  It was a lot of fun!  If you want to come with me next year, why not join my team?

I still  have photos to show you of the other two September Class projects, and more from Regionals, so I'll hopefully be  back with more fun stuff to show you tomorrow.   Did I just jinx myself then?  LOL

A New Hobby?

Is it just me, or is quilting suddenly everywhere at the moment?  I've noticed at the newsagent where there were a dozen scrapbooking magazines two years ago, now there are a dozen quilting magazines.
Not wanting to miss a boat, I did some myself!

Ha, ha, did I trick you?  LOL.  I made this using some scraps of DSP (Sweet Always), the Big Shot (Top Note Die and dotty embossing folder), the Mat Pack and piercer, and a chocolate chip marker.  It wasn't hard to do, but it did take me a while.  I intended to send this card to a friend in the mail  but it was too bulky to post, so I delivered it by hand instead.  

All Aboard the Baby Train!

No, I'm not pregnant, LOL!  But in real life there has been an explosion of new little people arriving and I've been looking at the whole Baby Card thing differently.  My usual go-to stamp set, Nursery Neccessities was retired in the US, and I'm predicting it will be here too (sidenote - we get the Retired List on 1st August, so not long to go!).  I noticed in the US the gorgeous Choo Choo set is in their new catalogue - this was in a Mini for us in December last year I think?  Anyway, I thought I'd try my hand at using it for a baby card on the off chance we do get it in our catalogue!

I think it worked out pretty well, too!  I decided to use some of the colours that will be leaving us - ballet blue, creamy caramel (sniff!  I love them!).  This card uses the Top Note die, large oval and scallop oval punches, and some Real Red spotty ribbon from a Mini a while ago.
Have a happy Monday everyone!