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Sale-a-Bration Flowers
February 24, 2009 by Ruth
Well todays card is from the Sale-a-bration free stamp sets and I thought with only a few days left of this promotion, you might like to see a card made with one of the stamp sets, besides this is one of the cards we will be making tonight in my stamp a stack class.
I will have to fill you in on the details, I have to pop off now but will be back today. I thought you might like the card for inspriation!
Eastern Blooms
Here is another card I made with my ‘Sketch of the Month’, I chose these colours from the colour wheel. Admittedly these aren’t colours I would have chosen for myself, however they were a nice challenge.
To give the flowers a little more interest I used some crystal effects and dotted in the centre of the flowers.
Stamps: Eastern Blooms
Inks: Lavender Lace, Cameo Coral, Certainly Celery, Apricot Appeal
Card: Apricot Appeal, Whisper White, Lavender Lace, Certainly Celery
Ribbon: Certainly Celery Grosgrain
Punches: Scallop Circle, 3/8″ Circle Punch, 1/4″ Circle Punch
Other: Snail Adhesive, Dimensionals (foam double sided tape to raise the flowers)
Bushfire Appeal
February 13, 2009 by Ruth
I am sure everyone has heard of the terrible devastation that bushfires have made in Victoria. flattening peoples houses and people losing loved ones. Stampin’ Up! would like to help and have announced that 50% of the price of the following stamp sets will be donated to the Bushfire Appeal run by the Red Cross.
I am going to offer an EXTRA 20% off the stamp sets (with the aim to sell more stamp sets), however if you are willing to pay the full price of the stamp set I donate the 20% to the bushfire appeal.
- Priceless pg105 was $48.95 NOW $39.16
- Seeing Spots pg89 was $29.95 NOW $23.96
- Baroque Motifs pg98 was $39.95 NOW $31.96
- Live Your Dream pg3 (Summer Mini) was $55.95 NOW $44.76
- Looks Like Spring* pg76 was $58.95 NOW $47.16
- The Snowflake Spot* pg27 was $39.95 NOW $31.96
- Bodacious Bouquet* pg80 was $58.95 NOW $47.16
- Polka Dots & Paisley* pg46 was $35.95 NOW $28.76
- G’day Mate* pg115 was $35.95 NOW $28.76
- Be Happy* pg51 was $39.95 NOW $31.96
*These sets will appear on the upcoming list of retiring products, so they will only be available for the Bushfire Appeal–while supplies last.
This gives you a sneak peak into some of the stamp sets that will be on the retired list. I am thinking these may go quickly as it is only until stocks last.
To order just send me an email with your contact details and order and I will be in contact with you.
Allowah Card & Sketch of the Month
February 10, 2009 by Ruth
Well, after blogging the Sketch of the Month I thought I would put the sketch to good use and inspire me to design a card for the Allowah Kids. This is what I came up with. I decided to use the Wild About You stamp set as it a fun and cute stamp set for all ages. I love the elephant!
I have a few other cards I have made, however I will publish those in the coming days.
If you would like to make a card for the Allowah Kids, please send me an email and I will send you all the details or check out my entry from a few days ago for more information.
Stamps: Wild About You, For a Friend (Hostess Set)
Card: Pink Passion, Certainly Celery, Ballet Blue, Lavender Lace
Ink:Ballet Blue, Lavender Lace, Certainly Celery, Rose Red, Pink Passion
Accessories: Antique Brass Hodge Podge, Whisper White Grosgrain Ribbon, Large Square Punch
Sketch of the Month – #1
February 6, 2009 by Ruth
It is such a long time since I uploaded a Sketch of the Month, so here is this months. I hope you like it and can make a fun filled card. I will post the card I made tomorrow. If you make a card with this sketch please drop me a comment as I would love to see them. I am going to use this sketch as inspiration for my Allowah card.
Please check out the entry from yesterday to find out more about Allowah and how you can help me.
HELP!!!! – Need to Brigthen Allowah Kids Day
Have you every got excited when you see an envelope in the post with stamping all over it or a different colour or shape to the good old ‘Bill’. I do, I love the feeling of who it could be from and what it will say.
This year like other years I have set myself a goal to send out cards (RAK – Random Acts of Kindness) to tell people I am praying and thinking of them.
A few nights ago I couldn’t sleep, the house hadn’t cooled down and I was just hot with my mind racing. I started to think about a Childrens Hosptial called ‘Allowah’ run by the Presbyterian Church. This Hospital is different to most hospitals as it cares for children and young people up to the age of 16 with physical and intellectual disabilities such as genetic or chromosomal disorders, birth trauma, cerebral palsy, head injuries, and diseases acquired after birth. Whilst lying there in bed I got thinking about what it would be like living at Allowah to receive a card from someone my age (RAK).
So I am arranging for all the Children at our church to send a card to each child in Allowah. Which is where the HELP comes in. I am not going to have time to make all the cards needed. So I thought I would ask you all to help me. I need about 40 or so cards, however if I recieve more than that we will use them over the coming months to send a few cards during the year.
- The Brighter the better as I think hospitals can be dull places at times.
- Any theme
- For both Boys and Girls aged from 0 – 16
- If you can include an envelope with the card, just to make it a little easier (don’t forget to stamp it!!!)
If you are able to help can you send me an email or leave a comment with your email address so I can email you my address details.
We would like to send the cards in March, so could you please send them to me by the 27th February 2009.
I will keep you posted on how we go.
Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Ruthie
A New Year
The year has started off to be very busy, which means I need to be super organised. Yesterday I spent most of the day trying to clean up our study which I did slowly. I feel like it will never end. However I will embark on doing a little more today.
As promised in my last entry I said that I had done quite a lot of stamping and scrapbooking before Christmas but didn’t get a chance to take photos of the projects. Well this morning I did.
Today’s photo is of my daughter. I scrapped this page for a desk calander that we gave to my husband for Christmas. The photo was taken by my youngest sister in November.
Stamps: Eastern Blooms
Paper & Card: Rose Red, Ballet Blue, So Saffron, Bali Breeze Designer Series Paper
Other: Rhinestone Brads