Crafty Party On Saturday, I hosted my team of demonstrators, known as the Crafty Paper Bees, for a Crafty Party. This is an all-day event where we get to chat, have fun and craft all day with others who are just as passionate as we are, whilst enjoying some good food. We created six projects featuring… Read More »
Will Baby Bear Stamp be the most popular stamp set this year? I have had a love affair with Baby Bear Stamp Set from the very start. As I have ordered stamps and they have arrived very few have challenged this stamp set in popularity. I love the sentiment and they are easy to strip… Read More »
Floral Boutique Box of Cards Class – June Technique Teaser Class Time: 1-5pm 26 June 2016 Location: at my in-home workshop, Salisbury Cost: ($25) Required: your basic kit# Project: Box of four cards, four decorated envelopes and a handmade decorated gift box featuring the Floral Boutique Suite from the new 2016-17 Stampin’ Up! Catalogue –… Read More »
Swirly Birds – are they the most versatile stamp set in the new catalogue? 17 June 2016 Friday ‘Better than Hallmark Creative Class’ Time: 10-12md or 7-9pm Cost: ($15) Location: at my in-home workshop, Salisbury Required:basic kit. Fun get together where we explore new stamping techniques, create cards and other paper crafting projects. … Read More »
Stampin’ Up! Fairy Celebration Stamp Set There are over 250 stamp sets in the new catalogue but the Fairy Celebration set just jumped right out at me when I first flipped through. I am not sure why – I am not usually attracted to line stamps because they need colouring and that is not one… Read More »
The new 2016-17 Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue is finally here There has been a lot of buzz around the release of the new catalogue. When I first looked at it, it was easy to pick my favourites – but there were so many that I loved. But as always I wondered whether you would like… Read More »
June Special Offer of Extra Stampin’ Rewards June is an epic month for you! For each event you host where the orders are at least $450 or for every order you place of $450 or more (excluding postage and handling), you will receive $50 in Extra Stampin’ Rewards. This is a great opportunity to get all your favourites from… Read More »
Criss Cross Card Do you sometimes create a card that you just love? This is one such card. It is a technique card with some easy water-colouring. It is also an unusual card in that you create a criss cross pocket sleeve and a single sheet card insert containing the sentiment. It is not a difficult… Read More »
Painter’s Palette Stamp Set in Emerald Envy Sometimes simple works well. This is a ‘one tone’ card with loads of texture. This project features a new Stamp Set, Painter’s Palette, and one of the new In-Colors about to be released in the new 2016-17 Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue – Emerald Envy. It also showcases some… Read More »
Join my team, the Crafty Paper Bees Stampin’ Up! has just released a fabulous special offer for the month of June only. Every new recruit who joins during the month of June will get TWO FREE additional stamp sets in their Starter Kit. That’s an added value of up to $178, depending on which stamps (bundles and… Read More »
It’s My Party ‘From Picture to Page’ Creative Class Time: 10am-1pm Friday 3 June 2016 Location: at my in-home workshop, Salisbury Cost: ($15)/Kit $5 additional Required: basic kit# Come along and have some fun whilst catching up on your memory keeping whether it be Project Life or traditional scrapbooking. Bring along your own projects (you… Read More »
Stampin’ Up! Catalogue Kick-Off Party That exciting time of the year is just about upon us – one week today the Stampin’ Up! 2016-17 Catalogue will be released and can be viewed online here (but only from 1 June 2016). There are 377 new products, 450 projects and five new In-Colors – I can’t wait. To… Read More »
Sitting There Stamp Set After many days of tech hell which I hope to forget soon, last tonight I sat down and created two cards using two new products from my Stampin’ Up! pre-order. The opportunity to pre-order from a new catalogue is one of the perks of being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator – and one… Read More »
Fancy folds classes – don’t miss out I still have some vacancies for this week’s Better than Hallmark Creative Class (Friday 20 May 7-9pm $15) and the Technique Teasers Creative Class (Sunday 22 May 1-5pm $25). These are both fabulous classes, featuring fancy folds techniques and have been booking out. Numbers are limited with only a couple of places left. … Read More »
Ann’s PaperWorks updated contact details It has been a little challenging (a gross understatement) over the past few months with no internet, intermittent email and no home phone. I have now changed my Internet Service Provider to iiNet. These changes were forced upon me by severe congestion at the Optus exchange. But I can now… Read More »