Bokeh class

Today I am designing my Wednesday class which will be the Bokeh technique. I am also working with specific colours. Sky Blue, Mint Macaron, Wisteria Wonder and Garden Green, these colours are part of a Colour INKspiration  challenge I am entering this card into on Facebook.

This is one of the cards we will be making on Wednesday using the Bokeh. Now I just need to put on the thinking cap and come up with 2 more designs.

Class details below:

When: Wednesday 1st February 10am
Cost: $10
Where: Zena's Craft Studio in Wellington Point (email me for the address)

 Please RSVP so that I can prepare all the kits. Please bring your ‘basic kit’ to each class. This includes a paper trimmer, tape runner, double sided foam tape, multipurpose liquid adhesive and scissors.

 * If you area beginner and do not have a kit, there will be kits available for sale. Posted by Zena Kennedy at 5:

Make an envelope

I know making envelopes with our Designer Series paper is pretty cool, however sometimes we just want a plain white one. If you follow the Envelope Generator or any other type of generator the algorithm comes up using 8 ^3/8" square. I wanted to use my A4 copy paper and of course it measures at 8^1/4" Sooooo, I had a play and guess what!! Cut an 8^1/4" square and start the punch and score at 3^1/2". You will make an envelope that will fit our A6 cards.

This weeks class

Anyone that knows me knows about my little ladies. Well Stampin' Up! have made it easy for everyone to make their own little ladies.

Come along and make your own little lady.  

When: Wednesday 25th January 10am
Cost: $10
Where: Zena's Craft Studio in Wellington Point (email me for the address)

 Please RSVP so that I can prepare all the kits. Please bring your ‘basic kit’ to each class. This includes a paper trimmer, tape runner, double sided foam tape, multipurpose liquid adhesive and scissors.

 * If you area beginner and do not have a kit, there will be kits available for sale.

Acetate makes magic

I love acetate incorporated into a card. It can make a simple layout into a little bit of magic. It makes the balloons look like they are really floating.

These are two of the cards we made in our last class.

Classes for the week

Write Markers are not only for colouring. Come along and check what else you can do with them.

When: 
Monday 16th January 10am
Wednesday 18th January 10am
Cost: $10
Where: Zena's Craft Studio in Wellington Point (email me for the address)

 Please RSVP so that I can prepare all the kits. Please bring your ‘basic kit’ to each class. This includes a paper trimmer, tape runner, double sided foam tape, multipurpose liquid adhesive and scissors.

 * If you area beginner and do not have a kit, there will be kits available for sale.

An Arty Farty day

I have had the best day. It has been sweltering outside so I spent the day in my studio with the air con turned right up or is that down? Anyway it was nice and cool. I decided to work on the  Colour INKspiration challenge. These were the colours that we had to use.

I had in mind someone holding a bunch of balloons as I wanted to play with my new bundles from the Occasions Catalogue. I decided it should be a little girl.

She is made up of a hand drawn body and hair,  a 1" circle punch for the head and her eyes and bows are from the Owl punch. I wanted her eyes to look like buttons, I am thinking she looks a bit scarey. I might redo those eyes. What do you think, change or leave? (Added new eyes, um still not sure, leave a comment and let me know)

I then worked on another lady, this time just the face in front of a background of balloons.

First I drew the face and then painted it with the Aqua painters and a little sponging. The hair started out as one of our oval thinlits, I cut and shaped it, also painting it with the Aqua painter. I am pretty happy with how she turned out.

Then I decided on some plain and simple ones.

Before I cut out the balloon I stamped all the colours from the challenge on to Whisper White card stock. Then I cut it out with the Big Shot using the Lift Me Up Bundle.


The last one has a background of Gorgeous Grunge in every one of the colours.

Simple always looks so good, don't you think?

Come join my team

I joined Stampin' Up! to get a discount on the products I wanted. I got so much more than that. I have made wonderful friends, enjoyed some interstate trips with other demonstrators while attending Stampin' Up! events, I am also holding weekly classes and have a team of 5 lovely ladies, that joined up under me. Phew and I was just wanting 20-25% discount.

So what are the perks for new recruits signing up during Sale-A-Bration?

• two extra stamp sets in the Starter Kit
• FREE Sale-A-bration items once you get started
• 20% off all products
• extra Stampin' Rewards that will entitle you to more free products

You will get a choice of $235 worth of products for the joining cost of  $169  and you get to choose what products you want to start with and what type of business supplies you want. Then they ship the kit right to your door.
(There is also no penalty if you feel this is not for you once you've joined, keep your kit and enjoy.)

 Contact me if you have more questions, or if you’re ready, click the friendly little “Join Us” button to start sharing Stampin’ Up!

Oh and by the way you don't have to be in the same town as me. You will still get all my updates and team information and be part of our team via Social Media.

Another product highlight

The Pretty Pocket Card Kit one of the FREE items you can redeem with a $90 order during Sale-A-Bration.

Card kits are a great option for people who are time poor or maybe you are going on holidays and can't take your entire craft room with you. They are also great for new crafters as a lot of the work is done for you.

Also for the diehard crafters, you'll love using the elements from the kit to come up with creative projects of your own. Do you recognise the elements on these pockets? They are from the Swirly Bird stamp set. I love this stepped-up version our Stampin' Up! artists have created!

What is better than a box

Two boxes of course!

I had to make a couple of Thank You gifts for dear friends and thought I would leave my Envelope Punch Board on the shelf this time. If you haven't followed me, you may not understand this statement. I love this tool and always make my boxes using it. However I decided to use up my Clear Tiny Treat Boxes that I had left over from one of our Christmas Card Workshops.

I cut the Designer Series Paper to fit inside the boxes, then cut several strips of the paper to form the rosette, which I attached to a belly band. I used the Balloon Adventures Photopolymer Bundle thinlit to make the swirly layer. Topping that off with a Thank You sentiment from the Lift Me Up Clear-Mount Bundle . Do you think they will like them?

Now if only I could stop eating the yummy things I am supposed to be putting in them!

Friday evening class

I jumped right in and had my first class using the new products out of the Occasions Catalogue last week. This same class is being repeated on Friday evening for anyone that missed the first class of the year.

The Occasions Catalogue has some lovely stamp sets, hard to resist bundles and oh my goodness, gorgeous papers. I have been stamping up a treat with all my new goodies, I can't wait to show you.

When: Friday 13th January 7pm

Cost: $10

Where: Zena's Craft Studio in Wellington Point (email me for the address)

Please RSVP so that I can prepare all the kits.

Please bring your ‘basic kit’ to each class. This includes a paper trimmer, tape runner, double sided foam tape, multipurpose liquid adhesive and scissors.  * If you area beginner and do not have a kit, there will be kits available for sale.

Floating card class this Wednesday morning

Floating on a card. Acetate can make this happen.

Come and make some magic.

When: Wednesday 11th January 10am
Cost: $10
Where: Zena's Craft Studio in Wellington Point (email me for the address)

Please RSVP so that I can prepare all the kits.
Please bring your ‘basic kit’ to each class. This includes a paper trimmer, tape runner, double sided foam tape, multipurpose liquid adhesive and scissors.

 * If you area beginner and do not have a kit, there will be kits available for sale.

A footprint record may seem like a small gesture

On  Sunday 8th January Channel 7 presented a new series called Gold Coast Medical. It is a series that captures all the challenges and triumphs of a day in the life of the Gold Coast's most expert medical teams. Now why as a card maker am I telling you about a medical program?

Each year since 2008 the annual ‘Paper Angels’ Christmas Card Workshop takes place. These workshops raise funds to purchase and supply Footprint Cards to the Mater Mother's Brisbane Hospital Bereavement Programe and other hospitals as far up as Nambour and down to the Gold Coast. Sadly these cards are created so that the parents of babies that do not survive may take home a precious record of their child's footprint. Whilst a footprint record may seem like a small gesture, it is a meaningful record that can be shared, as grieving parents, grandparents and other family members come to terms with their loss.

In season 1 episode 8 of this Gold Coast Medical a family talk about what it is like to receive our Footprint cards, with the handprint and footprint of their "angel baby". They want to have the memory of their lost baby close to them and also feel that their new baby is being looked over by her big brother. It was very touching to see this and also very satisfying to know that we as a group are making a difference.

 These cards are made using materials we have been able to buy from the proceeds of our raffles at the Christmas Card Workshops. This had been made possible by the generous donation of raffle products by Stampin' Up! as well as the support of the Paper Angels Group of Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrators and their customers.

I am extremely grateful to everyone who has helped by attending one of these days and buying raffle tickets. I hope you can see that by doing so you have made a difference in someones life.

Also a heartfelt thank you to all of the other Paper Angels that work tirelessly to put on these events or to take part in the assembling of these cards.

Some fun

I love the way Stampin' Up! promote their products. They created this cute video before the Occasions Catalogue went live to encourage us to make the most of this time of year. They give us tips on how to get the most out of our stamp sets as hobby demonstrators and help us if we want to take our hobby up a level and have a little craft business.

 

Colour challenge

I have decided to try a colour challenge with the Colour INKspiration crew. It is all going to be done on Facebook, but if we have a blog we can post there as well. So stay tuned I am going to try and keep on doing the colour challenge bi-monthly. It should be loads of fun and inspiration will be flowing freely.

 This is a card I made for the pre challenge. The colours we were to use are Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight and Mint Macaron. I masked a Whisper White piece of card and sponged the three colours. Then stamped over the sponging. The stamp set was one of our new ones from the Occasional Catalogue. It is the Balloon Adventures. The Mint Macaron base was created using the Scallop Tog Punch.

So what do you recon? Head on over to Facebook and check out all the other cards, there are so many talented people out there don't you think???

One spot left in the Hostess Club

I have one spot left for my special Online Hostess Club.

This is a 3 Month club, January through to March. The reason for only 3 months is because I want everyone to be a Hostess over the Sale A Bration period, and this way everyone in the group will benefit.

I have one place left for this club, so if you have been thinking about joining this club to get some great goodies for the next 3 months you are not too late.

For each $90 spent there is a FREE product to choose. So even though you are not a Hostess for the month you will still receive Free product. Then when you are hostess, you will receive the hostess rewards, plus FREE Sale-A-Bration product. How good is that?

Read the full details from my last post

Are you ready to sign up. Email me