Our Fisrt Camping Trip

We had our first camping trip the other weekend (it was a long one) as a family and WOW!! It was wonderful! We had so much fun, the kids had a ball and Allan got in LOTS of skiing!! I wanted to share some pic's with you. As you can see the tent was very VERY close to the lake (Blue Lake) and the scenery was simply stunning! We look forward to going back again soon.

Lolly Bags

Last week it was Amanda's birthday and we were all invited for a coffee and cake night out! It was a wonderful evening of chatting and eating and chatting and drinking! So much fun!! At present opening time we all watched as she opened each gift with the utter-most of care, and then all oooed and ahhed at the contents! It was wonderful. Now as you all know, when you throw a children's party there are always the lolly bags to consider. What appropriate gift do you put inside, will there be a balloon or just some sugar free lollies this time, perhaps some stickers!! The ideas are endless!
Well when one lovely lady had to leave early, Amanda rose to her feet to present her with a "lolly bag" Oh what JOY!! We all wanted to leave then and there just to get our little goodies too!! It was such a beautiful gesture and one we all loved! After all aren't we all BIG KIDS at heart xx


Lolly Bag from Makeesha Bly (you can check out her beautiful sample in the Make it Monday section on her blog under " Goddie Gift Bag's")
Stamps: Occasional Greetings and Live your Dream
Ink: Close to Cocoa, Soft sky and Cameo Coral
Card: Wild Wasabi, Afternoon Tea Designer paper and White backing from Designer paper packs
Acc: Wide Chocolate Ribbon, Scallop edge punch

Invitation Ideas

It's a beautiful Sunday morning, the sun is shinning after it raining on and off since yesterday arvo and well, I've just had a sleep in (only till 8.15am mind you) but still a sleep in!! The kids are happily playing in their rooms and i have time to blog!!
What a great way to spend a Sunday morning.
I wanted to show all you lovely ladies the cute little invites that i made for Sophia's 3rd Birthday. She had a ballet theme and so i went with the gorgeous pink and blue colours with glitter!! All girly cards MUST have glitter don't you think?? So on it i used the new chunky glitter from the Summer Mini (which will be finishing at the end of the month.)
I must say the flowers in the cornor where inspired by my very talented up-line Amanda who's birthday invitations were absolutely stunning!! I LOVED THEM!!


It's so easy to make your own invites, especially when you have the "Please Come" stamp set (which by the way is NOT retiring...YAY!!) I've used this set for wedding invites, Christmas Parties, baby showers, it's great!!! I'll hunt out some of my other ideas for you all soon, but in the mean time here is Soph's invite and Amanda's gorgeous one too!! ( she was more than happy for me to post it, over the moon might be closer to the feeling!! Hello Amanda-thanks!!)




Sophia's Invite
Stamps: Please come and Priceless
Card: Bordering Blue, Pretty in Pink and Blush blossom
Ink: Pretty in Pink & Bordering Blue
Acc: Chunky Glitter, Scallop Edge punch, Boho punch and sowing machine

Amanda's Invite (i think this is all she used?!?)
Stamps: Please Come and Taking care of Business
Card: Groovy Gauva textured, Very Vanilla, River rock and
Ginger blossom Designer series paper
Ink: Stazon, Ruby red and Cameo Coral
Acc: Markers, Scallop Edge punch, Star punch, Slit punch, Boho flower punch, neutrals button's, twine, River rock ribbon and sowing machine

Favourite Bird set

Wow it seems like ages since I've touched base here...sorry! How are you?? Hopefully enjoying a wonderful week, it's still gorgeous weather and well it's only 20 more sleeps till the new cat is out so that should definitely put a smile on your face!! :0)
Of course with April fast approaching we still have all those wonderful retired sets to get and i wanted to show you a card i made using some of them. It's my favourite bird set - In touch with Nature and my fav background - Paisley!! Oh how i will miss that!! LOVE IT!!
From the words of a wonderful lady Sarah Klass... (who's blog i regularly visit)
" All I can say is that there had better be some jolly impressive backgrounds in the new catalogue!"
Amen to that Sarah, i completely agree, as Linen is also going and that is my other fav too! So i hope that you've checked out your wish list and made SURE that your favourites aren't going before it's too late!!
Have a smiley and sunny day, Sharnee :0)


Stamps: In touch with Nature, Paisley and It's your birthday (all retiring) Ink: Sahara Sand, Old Olive, Not quite Navy Card stock: Sahara Sand and Whisper White Acc: Old Olive wide ribbon, pretties kit flower & markers

CUTIES!!

Don't you just LOOOOVVVEEE Opp-shopping!!?? Well i sure do!! One of the wonderful things that my mum taught me and something i enjoy greatly but don't do it any where near enough. So today we went to our local store (looking for things to dress up in for Sophia's 3rd birthday Ballet party) and what did we find instead, a great woolen blanket to take with us camping this weekend (it's our first camping trip as a family!) a sailor hat and a Captain Feather Sword costume!! FUN!! Well as you can see all the kids wanted to try it on and have pic's taken so i thought I'd show you guys too!!
(hello especially to Auntie Sarah who loves seeing photo's of her niece's and nephew!)

Saying Goodbye...

I played with my brayer last night ready for Paper Dolls stamp club Thursday. Each month i teach different techniques to "my" wonderful group of ladies, and this month i decided to show them how to use a brayer. I must admit I've had it at least 5 months and my son is the only one who has used it!! This being because the day i got it we needed to make a card and he wanted to use it for his card! I said yes then put it away never to be used again... UNTIL NOW!!!
I wanted to use the "in" colours before we say goodbye to them and also played with some retiring stamp sets.
Stamps: Oh so lovely (retiring hostess set) and Life Definitions
Ink: Purely Pomergrante and Basic black
Card stock: Confetti white
Acc: Brayer, White embossing powder, soft sky ribbon

YAY!! IT'S THE RETIRED LIST!!

I was really hoping to avoid the office today, it feels like I've been in there ALL week, but it hit me as soon as my little blurry eye's opened that i needed to dash to the office and look at the retired list!!! YAY!! Do you know what that means......
NEW STAMPS ARE ON THERE WAY IN ONLY 31 more SLEEPS!!!!! :0) :0) :0)

BUT aside from that you now have a very good reason to sit with your favourite beverage and flick the the pages of your beloved catalogue (with wish list VERY close by) and see what goodies that you want before they're gone FOREVER!!! check it out at Stampin' Up's Home page...

Guess WHAT ELSE!!!???? Stampin' Up! are offering a discount on some products, so you get a wonderful 25% off some sets!! ( there's designer paper included in that list) YAY baby, how cool is that!!! There are even some products at 50% off!!! Are you running now to see what's on your list.....

You do need to act quickly because items on the retired list are only while STOCKS LAST so it's first in best dressed!!!!

Contact me now it put in your order, or book a workshop as it's going to be a super March before the Brilliant April comes around along with it's long awaited new cat!!! YAY!! :0)