Our very clever M&M's team...

OK, so yesterday we had our monthly M&M's meeting, with swaps and everything.  Our swap challenge was to use the colours Bordering Blue, Only Orange, Rose Red & Whisper White.  Yes, I KNOW - all on the same card!!!   YUCK!  I'm afraid that I just couldn't get past the colour combination, and hated my card, even my 2nd and 3rd attempts were not good, BUT - my very clever team came up with amazing cards - all of them were fabulous!!  I simply couldn't believe it.  I just have to show you - they are all very different, and each one is just so cool!

   

 

 

Aren't they awesome!!  Well done girls - you really outdid yourselves!

Enjoy your day!  See some of you tonight at Inglewood High School at 7pm.

Michelle

Embrace Life Textured

Good afternoon!  Just a quick one today - Embrace Life has fast become one of the sets I reach for all the time!  Love it!  I've used textured chocolate cardstock for this card, which is just awesome.  LOVE the textured cardstock!   The other colours are of course Groovy Guava, River Rock, and Glossy White.  I embossed the flowers onto both the glossy white, and onto the chocolate, then coloured the flowers.  This just adds to the whole textured feel of the card.

Hope you are having a fabulous day!  Thanks for stopping by.

Michelle

March Calendar page & my own ONE DAY sale...

What an appropriate page for today - this photo was taken of me and my (now) DH at my best friend's wedding where I was bridesmaid, which was 18 years ago today!  Happy Anniversary James & Janice!    Boy - don't we look YOUNG there...  this was 6 months before we got engaged ourselves, and I remember thinking that ours might be the next wedding we will be going to.  Think I was possibly right as well!  This page is a copy of one done by Angela Corbett recently.   Thanks Angela for all your pages - they are amazing!  Go and check out Angela's blog.   Of course, this uses the Live Your Dream stamp set and Afternoon Tea DSP.  

I also had a play with some kinda digital scrapbooking, where I put in a digital photo on top of the layout I had created.  That was interesting - I could really get into that!

I'm just planning my BIG ONE DAY SALE that is coming up on Friday, so if you are not already on my email list, if if you are, and don't get an email later today, then make sure you send me an email o2bstampin@hotmail.com, because you don't want to miss out on this one.  

Enjoy your day, whatever you are doing.  I'm hoping to get in a bit of stamping for me personally, as I have two birthday's coming up this week.  Riley turns 7 on Friday (hence the big celebration sale), and my BIL, Harry is a leap year baby, so should be having a birthday on Sunday, but isn't, as it isn't a leap year... so do I give him a card???  LOL - of course!!

 

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! 

I LOVE this photo - look at how the reflection of the gorgeous house opposite shows up.  Stunning! 

 

Michelle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Angels

Hi there everyone!   Hope you are all enjoying your weekend.  I thought I'd finally finish my Christmas Page.  All I had to do was print off the title,but I kept putting it off, so now it's done, and I love the page!  The little girls are my most gorgeous nieces (and another one was just born this morning - YAY!) and of course Mason - who secretly loved being dressed up I think!

 

Now I'd better get on with making a baby card!

Enjoy your day - it's Sunday, and you should all know what that means.... GREY'S ANATOMY is on tonight.  So don't bother phoning me between 8.30pm & 9.30pm (HARRY!)

Michelle

KWerner Colour Inspiration #42

Just a quick colour challenge today, as I have an unexpected free hour!  YAY!  The only thing that scares me about this challenge is the reminder that officially Autumn is only 9 days away from starting here in NZ.  Scary!

Cardstock : Old Olive, More Mustard & Watercolour paper.  DSP Fall Flowers.  Accessories : Watercolour crayons, Aqua Painter, Pretties kit, ribbon originals (Theater), 1/2" circle punch, mat pack, white gel pen.

Enjoy your day!

6x6 Calendar Page

Good morning!   I've just completed another (yes, just the one!) 6x6 page for my Nana's calendar.  These pages are so quick - once you decide what to do!   A little confession - this is actually the February page.  You see, it seems my Nana lost the calendar somehow during January, and when I talked to my Aunty who lives nearby, and asked her to stick the next page on for February, she told me that she didn't think the calendar was there.  Hmmm.  What to do...  So, I asked her to have a hunt for it, otherwise I wouldn't send more pages for the calendar.  It wasn't 'til part way through February that the calendar was found, and of course that was just my busiest week, so here it is - 9 days to go for February, and I've just completed the page.  I'll send up Feb & March together so at least she can enjoy two new photos at once.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have used Ruby Red, Brilliant Blue & Sahara Sand cardstock, with the Urban West Rub-ons.  Of course, the photo of my lovely little Riley is another of my favourites - taken at the Kindy Trike-A-Thon in 2005.  Do you think I'm just a LITTLE behind on my scrapbooking??

Enjoy your day!

Michelle

Stamp Camp

Hello!  What a GORGEOUS day here in Taranaki.  We've spent some time this afternoon at a friend's with the kids swimming, and the adults enjoying (or hiding) from the lovely sun!  I thought I'd show you a full picture of my project from Stamp Camp on Saturday, just so you can see what you missed out on!  No really - we are going to be doing another one day Stamp Camp so if you missed out on this one, get ready to book an early registration for our next one...

Oops - sorry, messed the colour enhancing up on this one!

 

Boy - I've been on a steep, steep learning curve this week!   I've learnt how to do a PDF file myself, and my dear sister taught me in an impromptu lession how to create my own templates in word.  They look sooo professional, even I'M impressed.  When I get them right.  Sometimes, like today, I miss out one or two important measurements, but I think I'll get there!   This morning I had our first WITT class, and I still have space left if you would like to join us for the next 7 weeks.  We made the very cute magazine card holder plus 3 cards from the post earlier this month.   

Inglewood High School starts on Thursday at 7.00pm, and I have space left in that class as well.  Just $35 for 8 weeks, plus $4 per night expenses.  Phone or email me to register for either course.

 

STAMP CAMP APRIL 2009

Here are the details for our brand new one day Stamp Camp.

Date : Saturday 25th April

Time : Come at 9.45am for coffee, and we will start at 10.00am, finishing at 4.00pm

Cost : $50 per person

We will be having another 3 fabulous projects, plus giveaways, demonstrations & spot prizes, and of course, you can get to play with some of the new products from the brand new catalogue, released on April 1st! 

If you register by 1st April then you will receive a free pack of cardstock!   Phone or email me if you would like more details, but whatever you do - don't miss out this time!!

Have a wonderful night!

Michelle

Card Organiser pictures

Hello!   Boy - what a CRAZY few days I've had.  Absolutely flat out getting my UStamp Project completed, photographed & sent in AND getting ready for Stamp Camp.  I had a great day yesterday, and I'm pretty sure that the other women also enjoyed themselves!   A day full of eating, drinking coffee, and creating three cool projects kept us all pretty busy during the day, then we went out for dinner together (Yes, I KNOW - Valentines Day, and I go out with 5 other WOMEN!) to finish off a great day.  Thanks ladies for making my part in this very enjoyable!   Now, I thought I'd better finally post the pictures from the card organisers that my Stamp Club made last week.  Enjoy the inspiration!

Raewyn

 

 

 

 

 

Sheryl

 

Helen

Dawn

 

 

 

 

 

 

Debbie

 

Me

Aren't they all FABULOUS!   There was one more that hadn't quite been completed, so I don't have that picture.  Well done ladies!

Have a great night, and thanks for stopping by!  BTW - Don't phone me tonight - Grey's Anatomy starts a new season at 8.30pm tonight, so I WON'T be answering the phone.   No - I'm not kidding either!  Hopefully you're all addicts as well!

Michelle

Australia Bushfire Appeal

Join with Stampin' Up! and Stampin' Up! demonstrators from around Australia and New Zealand in helping the victims of the Bushfire tragedy.You can help by purchasing select stamp sets from 12 February through 31 March 2009, and Stampin' Up! will donate 50 percent of the sales of these sets to the Australian Red Cross Victorian Bushfires 2009 Appeal.

Here is a list of the Bushfire Appeal sets:

 

Stamp Set	Page Number	Retail Price
Priceless	105	$57.95
Seeing Spots	89	$35.95
Baroque Motifs	98	$46.95
Live Your Dream**	(Mini) 3	$66.95
Looks Like Spring*	76	$68.95
The Snowflake Spot*	27	$46.95
Bodacious Bouquet*	80	$68.95
Polka Dots & Paisley*	46	$42.95
G'day Mate*	115	$42.95
Be Happy*	51	$46.95

* These sets will appear on the upcoming list of retiring products, so they'll only be available while supplies last.
** From the Summer Mini Catalogue

For those ladies who have just placed orders that included one or more of these sets - 50% of the Retail Price WILL be donated.

What a fabulous cause to be supporting - good on you Stampin' Up!

Whew ~ I made it!

Sorry that I've been a little quiet on the blogging front - I've been CRAZY busy with things that have absolutely sucked up my time until the wee hours every night this week.   In two days I went to the dentist, the physio & the hairdresser (for 3 hours...!) so feel like a new person.  Tired, but new!  It's a great feeling, being so busy, but loving what you are doing.  Our first stamp club this morning was just wonderful.  We completed our card organisers (I've got photos, but am just to tired to upload them all right now) and they all looked amazing!  Well done to all of you, and WELCOME to Sheryl - you did a fabulous job of your box!  $2 cards tonight was lots of fun with some very entertaining ladies  (Hi JJ!).  Here are two of the cards we made.

This card was inspired by a card that Helen made, and kindly showed me this morning.  Hers was made in Purely Pomegranate, but it was a very cool card, so I decided to case her - THANKS!

And this card was cased from Alisa Tilsner - a very talented Aussie Demo.  I LOVE this card - it's super cute, and quick - so just PERFECT for me to keep on hand for those boys birthdays. 

Sorry - I know I haven't got my watermark on these - I have done all that, but do you think I can get the lovely things to upload tonight - NO, I can't.  Of course!  So here are the unedited versions.  I'll be back tomorrow with the pictures from the card boxes.

Have a great night

Michelle