birthday cards

Hello again. I have been a very good girl and have made up my birthday cards for next month yeah me I am so excited I have gotten them all done, I usually remember to do them the day of someones birthday! But before I put the cards in I just wanted to let you know that with the Stampin Up Busfire appeal, stampin Up are already able to donate over $15,000. So please keep your orders coming in for the stamp sets that are being donated the 50% But how great is that! Goes to show the aussie spirit :) Well done.

So here are my cards

This card was made using the embrace life set.. I so hope that this set is going to be in the new catalogue! I love it. I have also used the so swirly wheel in versa mark, again another stamp that I use almost all of the time! I have made this card as a pop up card, I used versa mark on the inside with the sprinkles stamp set. I used pale plum and perfect plum.

This card I made for my nephew Matty, I used the loads of love stamp set, again, another set that I use quite alot especially for male cards. I used the Jersey Shore DSP and stamped the presents from the crazy for christmas stamp set I coloured over them in the BB chalks. I have used Brilliant Blue CS and popped the car on dimensionalsThis card I have used polka dot punches from SAB. I have usedLavender Lace CS and embossed the hearts in silver and used the mats and punched the holes around the top of the CS. A bit of hodgepodge and voilla... I really like this card, It is for my cousin Donna for her birthday.

This card is what I have made for when Hayley is born. Very simple card, but i like it too. I have just paper pierced around the whole card and Punched out vellum it seemed to work better than a solid colour behind the pram, which I have stamped on white CS in blush blossom. Added hodge podge and just used the hostess stamp so many sayings.

Bushfire Appeal.

The recent fires in Melbourne are just horrific. stampin Up being the generous company that they are, are offering certain stamps sets that, if bought, between now and 31st march, 50% of each set will be donated to the red cross for the donations to the people affected by the fires. These people have lost everything, houses, pets, family, it is unimaginablle what they are going through. If you would like to know more, or would like to order any of the stamp sets please contact me and I will hurry your order in.
Some of the sets will be retiring soon, so availability is while stocks last.
The sets are :
108864 Looks Like Spring*
108934 The Snowflake Spot*
108756 Bodacious Bouquet*
110247 Polka Dots & Paisley*
111973 G'day Mate*
108744 Be Happy*
112312 Priceless
108909 Seeing Spots
112380 Baroque Motifs
114261 Live Your Dream

* 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

Baby shower fun and games

Hi all. Well yesterday we had Sonia's baby shower. I was so worried that I would forget to take everything or that things would not go according to plan, as poor bubba Julian got a viral infection on wednesday, plus he is getting two teeth, so he has been sick, angry and cute all together. Long story short, misplaced the baby cups, and forgot to buy wool, luckily Sonia had some, and do you think I could find small babies? NAH I found plenty of big ones, but non small enough to fit into an ice tray, so my Mum suggested jelly babies! So Aunty Les picked them up for me.

We had several games to play. We had fill in the nursery rhyme. I grabbed a few nursery rhymes and blanked out some of the words, so whoever got the most was the winner. We played whos water will break first, hence the jelly babies frozen in ice trays, now I should have told everyone that the winner would be the first to say that there water had broken, but we ended up with 2 winners. We played guess the powder, I got talc, flour, sugar,salt and washing powder and everyone had to guess which was what. We played guess the bump size, Everyone had to cut a piece of wool to the size that they thought Sonia would be and whoever got closest won, suprisingly we had 2 winners, one was Aunty Les, the guesses were so close! And last but not least we played baby parts, Everyone had to fill in what parts they thought Sonia would want the baby (hayley) to have. All in all the games went for about an hour and I made prizes for the games. I put all the games into a box I had designed for Sonia and now She has a keepsake for her day. It was good fun, the cake was GORGEOUS and SOOOOO yummy! Now we just sit back and wait for Hayley to come!

The Prizes...... The FOOD!!!
The gifts for everyone to take home, I made up the shoes and brought a whistle and teddy bear toothpick, Sonia brought everyone bottles of pink wine.
The girl in question posing with the most awesome of awesome cakes!

Aunty Leslees prize. filled with a chocolate bar and lollies... mmmmm ... lollies!

The tinkerbell cake, Hayleys room is decked out in tinkerbell its gorgeous!

Brad checking out the games we were playing... NOthing suss lol!

sale-a-bration workshops

If you were thinking of having a workshop while sale-a-bration is on, I only have a few dates available now, as I am getting booked out. If any of the dates suit you please let me know asap to organise your workshop. There are only 21 days left before the stamp sets and gone forever. If you have a workshop with the orders reaching $600 you, the hostess, will also recieve a free sale-a-bration stamp as well as the other hostess benefits!! Plus, customers recieve a free sale-a-bration stamp set with every order reaching $100.

Don't forget about the Album In A Day. If you require more information please do not be afraid to ask.

The dates available for workshops are: Friday 13th Feb from 530, Weds 18th Feb from 530, Friday 20th Feb from 530, Sunday 22nd any time between 10 and 2 and monday 23rd from 530. If you are considering holding a workshop during the day, please let me know and we will try to firgure out a date and time to suit, but please note, most days have been booked already and only a few are available during school hours.
Take care and happy stampin
Bell

Album In A Day Fundraiser

Hello everyone. I wanted to say how much fun it is being a Stampin Up demonstrator. Not only do you get to create some great projects, but you also get to meet some wonderful, generous people.
Because of being a demonstrator I am one happy camper. I signed up late last year and since than I have meet some wonderful people, one of whom is now a very close friend. I have also found a generosity within the company. When Garry passed away everyone in the Stampin Up company was incredibly supportive, generous and sincere. After I returned home from Sydney I said to Bec, who is my upline and sister in law, that I needed to do something to create some funds. Together with Liz (Bec's upline) we have created a wonderful scrap booking album. I invite all of you to attend and I really hope that you do! It is such a great album and will be fun to create. Below is the flier that we have been passing on, as your invitaion. If you would like to come by yourself, with a friend, or with several friends please let me know so I can reserve spots for you. Payment will need to be made to secure your booking. I am hoping to get the order for materials in on the 16th February so it would be great if money could be recieved by than. If you do not know until last minute, just give me a call and we will try to arange something, but I do urge for pre payment so you do not miss out.

I wanted to thank Bec and Liz so very very much, for making all of this happen. Without your support I would still be sitting at home, trying to come up with ideas of what to do.

Bec, thank you so much. So very much....

If anyone would like to join this amazing team, please let me know and I will certainly have a sit down and a chat, or, if you would like to attend one of our team meetings please let me know. Our next one is on the 15th Feb which is a sunday night at 7:30. Cost is nothing to attend, but please let me know in advance if you would like to attend at Bec's house.


Album In A Day

A Paper Angels Charity Event supporting the Garry Palmer Memorial Fund
(for the Australian Cancer Research Foundation)







Spend a wonderful day with friends creating 20 beautiful scrapbook pages using lots of gorgeous, coordinating Stampin’ Up! products from the new Summer Mini Catalogue.
This class includes an album to showcase all your layouts and is suitable for beginners right through to advanced paper crafters.

Cost is $55 and includes:
All materials needed to complete the 20 pages for your album (Designer Series Paper, Coordinating cardstock, Styled Silver Hodge Podge, flowers, beads and more from the Pretties Kit, Ribbons and more!)
Instruction Sheets
6x6 Scrapbook Album
Afternoon Tea, Tea/Coffee (Lunch can be purchased on site at the bistro.)

What to bring: scissors, adhesives, paper trimmer and your photos (printed at 3x4 inches)
There will be wonderful raffle prizes full of gorgeous Stampin’ Up! product so do bring along some extra money for raffle tickets.
Venues and Dates:
Sunday 1st March - 10am to 4pm
Pine Rivers Bowls Club
Cnr Sparkes & Francis Rds, Bray Park

Sunday 15th March - 10am to 4pm
Carina Leagues Club
1390 Creek Rd, Carina
All proceeds from the raffles and 10% of sales on the day will go straight to our charity.

For more information or to secure your booking with payment, please contact your Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator:
Belinda Ross
Ph: 0401483640 OR 0738868335
Email : bellross@live.com.au