Who's dreaming of a beachside Christmas?

For us here in Australia, snow and a white Christmas is quite foreign to us. Our Christmas is hot, many of us are heading for the beach to cool off and do a bit of surfing or just lolling around in the shallows.
So a Gingerbread House covered in snow is not something we would usually relate to.

Stampin' Up! had a Global Christmas Gingerbread House Contest and so the team from the Sydney office of Stampin' Up! decided to enter the contest with not a snowflake in sight.  

Guess What!!
The Christmas Beach House won best house overall; giving them bragging rights to all their co-workers!

What do you think pretty neat...

 

I hope the gingerbread bikini girl has slip, slop slapped!!!

(translation put on sunscreen)

 

Look at our lovely support team. Such a sweet group of girls.

A very busy month of June

As well as being busy with classes I have been busy planning our trip across the Simpson Desert and trying to fit in 21st birthdays and family birthdays. It has been such a busy month. We were invited to a 21st birthday party of a very special young man, so I had to make him an extra special card. He is a keen surfer so out came my brayer and I created him a special surfie card.

 

Also I was asked to create a 45th Wedding Anniversary card using one of my little ladies. She also wanted me to add a man into the design. That was a challenge as I am not very good at paper piecing men, BUT I love a challenge and this is what I came up with.

 

I brayerd the backdrop with sea salt and reinkers. The man is made up of 9 paper pieces and my little lady only 7 pieces.