Mother's Day Cards for School Fete

Wow it's all finished, I have been working along with my lovely mum and some mum's from school to finish approximately (I have not done the official count yet) 375 cards for our school Mother's Day stall tomorrow! We have worked late into the night and day to get them all done and to top it off my mum, Ann made wait for it 402 envelopes to fit the cards into!!! An unbelievable job she has done, can you tell she does not work anymore??!! Thanks so much for the help to everyone involved let's just hope the kids buy them tomorrow!! Anyway here are some pictures of the cards they are only note cards but are just gorgeous measuring 3" by 3" when folded.

These are just some of the colour schemes that we did, as we used a variety of stamp sets and inks to give them something to choose from and to stop the boredom. My favourites are the ones using the swirl from the set 'Priceless' and the 'Flower Punch' that goes with the set 'Looks Like Spring' although these flowers were very time consuming to 'stick' on and we hope they stay on the cards when the kids open them to write on and put them back into their envelopes! Oh and we stamped the envelopes as well.

The ink colours used were 'Tempting Turquoise', 'Purely Pomegranate', 'Pretty in Pink', 'Lovely Lilac' and 'Chocolate Chip'. The cardstock we used was varying with 'Whisper White', 'Pretty in Pink' and 'Lovely Lilac'.

All images copyright Stampin’ Up! 1990-2008 - Cards by Karen Devonshire

The Faces Of Riley Layout

The wonderful faces of my gorgeous son Riley, unfortunately I see way too many of the cranky ones of late!

This is a double page layout I completed recently I have just not mastered the art of joining these pages together! Sorry if it looks odd!

I have used designer series paper out of a scrapping pack that has since been deleted from Stampin' Up! and the cardstock is Bordering Blue and Night Of Navy. The words were cut using my 'Cricut' cutting machine and I used some flowers and buttons.

Ava Scrapbook Page

This is a layout of my daughter Ava. I have not really used Stampin' Up! products this time except for the cardstock of Pretty in Pink and Cranberry Crisp.

Stampin Up! Convention

Sorry I have not posted for a little bit, but I have just gotten back from beautiful QLD and I attended the Stampin' Up! 2 day convention, it was absolutely fabulous as well as spent time with my wonderful family as they all came with me (well not to convention but to QLD)!

I had a great time, learnt lots of new things and met some wonderful new friends! I did a card swap, where I made 20 cards (all the same) and then swapped them with other people at the convention to get other ideas. This is the card I made for my swap below: -

You probably can not tell from my photo but all the Choc Chip flowers are covered in dazzling Diamonds (a must use for any project!). My lovely friend and neighbour Carolynn came and helped me prepare the 20 cards that I had to make, thanks so much!!

'Sheet Boy' scrapbook page

Here is another one, I have given up on the template idea with the scrapbook pages as I don't think there is enough room to view the actual picture. Let me know what you think!

This is called 'Sheet Boy' and is of my eldest son Blake when he was about 3 1/2 years old. He had an obsession with this sheet!

This page is called 'Dirtbike Boy' and is of my youngest son Riley, it was taken only a few months ago. He is 4 1/2 years old here. I am having technical issues with this post and can not get the type to be between the two pictures, oh well!

I have a few more pages to come, but I am off to bed now as I am way to tired from sitting here in front of this computer for so long!!

Scrapbook Pages...

Okay so finally I am going to start posting the scrapbook pages I did at the weekend away! Okay so I have not quite mastered the art of double pages, but I will get there, slowly! I hope you like them!

Summer Mini catalogue

You only have a few days left to order from the Summer Mini Catalogue before it ends and there are several sets that have not made it into the New 08 Catalogue:-

Stamp Sets
Stem Silhouettes
Love Matters
Long Time Friend
French Flair
Papers
Enchante Papers
Loves Me Papers
Au Chocolate Papers
Ribbons
Flirty Original Ribbons

Obviously there are also only days left for certain stamp sets, papers and accessories from the main catalogue as well.

For any orders please just email them to info@borderline.com.au and I can have them shipped directly to you.

Please let me know if you are interested in attending the New 08 Catalogue Launch as spaces are limited.

After these dates I will post a new 'Techniques Class' that I will be holding once a month. The idea of these classes is to start showing you guys how to do new and exciting things with your stamps. If you can not make the class I will email you the step by step instructions. Oh and I have not fogot about the scrapbook pages I need to upload.....hey it's only been a few weeks now!