Footy Fascination

So attempting to find something fascinating about the footy the other week while hubby was watching and seeking a cuddle, I started messing with SU colours to find out what his favourite team colours would be. Yo-yo Yellow and Pacific Point are the answers - can you guess the team? Here's the card which made my footy watching much more enjoyable!
And here's a card that has been floating around my mess scrapbooking spot for a couple of weeks. Its a cyberstamp challenge from fellow Inkling Alison (will try and track down a blog). She posted a colour challenge using her curtains of Pumpkin Pie, Riding Hood Red, Pacific Point and Basic Black (or gold). Inspired by both the striped curtain theme and the colour combo, here's my take on it using Faux Woodgrain which Jayne showed us at the team weekend. Oh, and Colleen, my bestie, suggested the puppies and sentiment cos she's a star!

Spring Mini due 1 August

So there's a new mini catalogue for Stampin' Up! due out on 1 August. Here's a card using the stamp set "Tree Trimmings" and Ski Slope designer series paper as well as a 5/16" jumbo brad from the mini. The colour combination is also from the Ski Slope DSP - a great cheat to making great colour combinations is to use colours already mixed up in scrapbook papers! Anyway, hope you enjoy this card. Very simple and I think its a bit nice.

Cyberstamp 10 July Challenge 2 & 3

So here's Challenge 2, a colour challenge... The colour palette:

And my sample:


Challenge 3 is a sketch from Becky Fleck Pagemaps. I love using these as a starting point when I'm having trouble coming up with something on my own. I've been pretty faithful to this one - but I usually use sketches to start me off and get the juices going.

And here's my sample...


Hope you enjoy my first Inklings Cyberstamp!

Cyberstamp 10 July Challenge 1

Here's my first challenge for the Inklings Cyberstamp...

Stamps: Heartfelt thanks, Season of Joy, Trendy trees, Basic Phrases
Paper: Naturals Ivory, Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive, Whisper White
Ink: So saffron, Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive, Regal Rose, Basic Black, Blush blossom
Accessories: Scallop edge punch, Felt Fusions I, Rhinestone brads

Elite challenges

Couple of challenges from the Elite team challenge blog. I love the colour combination Carol chose for this month's challenges, hence the hasty completion of the challenges! :) The first card covers Challenges 1 & 2, using the stamp set Circle Circus and the colour combination of Not Quite Navy, Kraft and Very Vanilla. I really like this card! :)


This second card is based on a sketch made from a card on page 31 of the current Australia/New Zealand Idea Book Catalogue from Stampin' Up! I was a bit caught on the blue and vanilla theme. Used the Fresh Cuts stamp set and some Bashful Blue instead of Kraft card. I'm quite happy with the result!

Happy new home

Something I've been thinking of ever since receiving my Neighbourhood wheel and have had these little houses cut out individually for a while. Teamed up with some of my autumn Trendy Trees, I'm so pleased with the result. It looks so friendly!

Mr Bump

Had a bit of fun with my spinner cards - I've been making loads of Elmo, Grover, and Cookie Monster spinner cards lately. This one turned up in my head while watching the Mr Men Show with the kids the other day. How would Mr Bump look on a spinner card? I think this would lend itself well to Mr Messy, Little Miss Sunshine and Mr Bounce as well! Don't you?

Happy Thoughts

This is a card I threw together for this month's Elite Challenge and is a combination of the Breezy Pirouette colour challenge and the sketch challenge. I kept both in mind while creating this card. Loads of distressing on this card too - isn't a fingernail a wonderfully handy tool?

Designer Series Paper sampler

My DSP sampler for 2009/2010 is made up of 3" square segments of each of the DSP appearing in the Australian 2009/2010 Stampin' Up! catalogue. I've used my tab punch after carefully measuring the size of the punch and making a template in Word to print the name and code number of each type of paper on an Avery A4 sheet. I used Avery labels because they tend to be a heavier weight label and I wanted the tabs to be fairly strong. I punched using a standard hole-punch and threaded the papers onto a 50mm hinged ring which I bought at my local newsagent.
We have some good news at the Gibbs' household - my husband has an interview on Friday. Keeping everything crossed that it goes well. And only two more sleeps til I head down to Canberra for my first Stampin' Up! convention. I'm SO nervous! The excitement about the convention ALMOST eclipses the THRILL of the children returning to school tomorrow. HALLELUJAH!

"And the walls came tumbling down"

At least we have a roof over our heads and will manage for a while. But the rug has been pulled and we're swept off our feet. Hubby lost his job today - another victim of the "technical" recession. Our home is feeling very very sad today.