Hi Everyone,

This week I've had a quick play with a challenge on the ESAD site to make some Kusadama Flowers. They aren't as hard as I thought when you start with a 10cm square piece of paper... It's when you try and be clever and make one from a 5cm square that it gets trickier!

Anyway, here's 2 photos of my Kusadama Flower that was made from the 5cm square piece of paper and I'm still working out what to do with the larger one....

It's a great way to use up some of my stash of papers!!

Thanks for looking,

ps: sorry about the photos - I still don't have my own laptop and thus no photo editing or watermarks on anything for a while.... I'm working on getting a new one but these things take time in my household :P

Another Unconvention Project....

Hi Everyone,

As promised, I'm back with more of my Unconvention projects from the weekend.

This scrapbooking page is based on a sketch layout provided by Kelly Slattery... And its the first one I've done for my eldest daughter (who is now 3 1/2yrs old)... So that means I've got a lot of catching up to do and then there's also a whole other album for my youngest daughter as well... Better get scrappin'!


This is the layout:

And this is my page:

With a close up pic of the glittery letters

Thanks for looking,

Scrapping my friends.....

Haha, bet that made you look twice.... I have 'scrapped' my friends into a scrapbooking page as another Unconvention challenge.

This challenge was by SheryleeTutt, a demo in Karratha. We needed to use punch art on our page... somehow and somewhere... Now like scrapbooking, I don't really do much punch art either so I had to google some ideas...

I found this flower on Julia Betten's site along with a couple of other ideas for future pages.

And this is what I did:

My "flowers" were made with the rounded tab, 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/4" circle and scallop circle punches. The oval leaves were freehand as I'm yet to add the oval punches to my collection.

I'm slowly building up my scrapbook.. And there's more pages to come later in the week....

Thanks for looking,

Unconvention projects

Hi All,


Here's a couple of quick pics from UnConvention this weekend....

This is my card I sent in for the swaps... I'll be receiving 6 cards from other demonstrators later this week... Hurray for happy mail!! I can't wait!!

This card was for Tanya Kitto's Surprise Challenge on Thursday night... We needed to incorporate:

• Paper Piercing
• Dimensionals
• Vanilla Cardstock
• Designer Series Paper

So I made this mini notecard... Perfect addition to a bunch of flowers for someone in need of some 'get well' wishes...

This card is for Michelle Frost-Stevenson's Colour Challenge

The colours we were required to use were:

• Rich Razzleberry
• Old Olive
• More Mustard
• Chocolate Chip

If you would like any more info on products or colours used, please leave me a comment or email me.

I'll be back through the week to show you my other creations.
 Thanks for looking,

My UnConvention Sketch Challenge

Hi Everyone,

This weekend is the National Stampin' Up Convention and seeing as I couldn't attend, I'm taking part in the ESAD Unconvention.

For the first time ever I am running a sketch challenge and thought I would run it both on the ESAD site and also here on my blog...

Any ESAD members wishing to join in must enter via ESAD on Ning!!

Anyone else who is interested can enter via Mr Linky below... 

So the sketch challenge is from the Stampin' Up website:

You can create a card or scrapbook page and I will be picking a winner here and on ESAD... Entries close midnight Saturday 22nd May for the ESAD entries and Sunday 30th May for entering via my blog...

These are my 2 cards:

Have fun!!!

Thanks for looking,

To enter Richelle's ESAD Sketch Challenge, please leave your direct blog post link below... Don't forget, ESAD Members must enter via the UnConvention Challenge on Ning!!

Valentine's Day Cards

Hi Everyone,

I thought I'd share 2 cards I've made for Valentine's Day...

This is the card I think we will be making tomorrow night at my Sale-a-bration Open House. If anyone is interested in coming, please email me and I'll give you all the details.

Then in keeping with my newly founded tradition of taking part in challenges, I re-did the card in the ESAD Colour challenge colours, which were:

So this is my creation:

The hearts have been punched out with the Heart to Heart punch and filled with Crystal effects with some dazzling diamonds mixed in. The word "Heartfelt" is from the Heartfelt Thanks that I first obtained when I joined S/Up. The background hearts have been stamped with the hearts from the Sprinkles stamp set and I must confess they have been stamped in Tangerine Tango as I don't have the Pumpkin Pie stamp pad. (its not a fav colour of mine so this was a good colour challenge for me!)

Oh and I'd better explain what ESAD is... It stands for Extremely Special Aussie & NZ Demonstrators... And its a group that I only joined  late last year but have learnt soo much from the other demonstrators! Its fantastic! I hope I can share lots that I have learnt and its a major part of my daily internet time! lol  

Ok, I'm off to tend to my farmville on facebook and then its off to bed for me! Bye!!  

Thanks for looking,

Edit 30/1 - Here's the ESAD link for any interested demonstrators: http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/ESAD-SU/

Edit 3/2/10 - I had planned to make a new card for Just Add Ink's 2nd challenge but my card mojo just isn't in working order tonight and I can't pull a nice card together..... So I'm being super cheeky and linking my post from a couple of days ago with my Valentine's cards from my Stamp class on Friday night. We made the pink and chocolate card which went went down a treat as they were very easy to make and a simple layout and so this is my entry to the JAI challenge! Next time I promise to have something new to show you!!! Now off to bed for me to recharge my card mojo and hopefully I'll be back with a new post tomorrow!