Hi Everyone!! Hope your weekend is going great...I have just uploaded my boys....I love Scapping them and our Simply Scrappin Kits make it so easy and quick....This kit is Round Up on page 139. I just love these pages....Hope you do to...

Father's Day Card

HI everyone...don't ask me what happened to the heading of the last post but i couldn't fix it....so thought well it's me to a T!!! All over the place...

This is the card I made Steve for Father's day. I got the idea off one of my buddies Leonie Schroder...She has alot of them...Check out her website here

http://www.totallyaddinktive.com/

I used the Round Up Simply scrappin Kit again. I just love it when doing boy stuff...which let's face it is alot of the time!!! Hopefully he has it sitting on his desk at work!

FREE WHEELIN PROMOTION

This month's Stampin' Up! special is a wheely good one...lol....

Buy one of the preselected stamp sets listed below and receive the matching Jumbo Wheel for free.!!!

Merry, Merry Bundle

(includes Merry, Merry stamp set and All about Christmas jumbo wheel P 29) $45.95

Artfully Asian Bundle

(includes Artfully Asian stamp set and Watercolor Vine jumbo wheel p 48) $45.95

Nursery Necessities Bundle

(includes Nursery Necessities stamp set and Nursery Letters jumbo wheel p59) $56.95

Bodacious Bouquet Bundle

(includes Bodacious Bouquet stamp set and Bodacious jumbo wheel P 80) $58.95

Carte Postale Bundle

(includes Carte Postale stamp set and Leaves à la Carte jumbo wheel P94) $48.95

Priceless Bundle

(includes Priceless stamp set and So Swirly jumbo wheel P 105) $48.95

Give me a call or send me an email if you would like to order any of the above!!! Better still why not book a workshop and let me demonstrate how you can coordinate the above wheels with the matching stamp set! It will be wheely fun!!..ok I am stopping that joke now...bye x

FIL's Retirement Card
This is the Cd Card I made for my Father in law as it was his retirement on the weekend. Inside was a Cd which contained a photo show of his life etc.. which I love making for people!! He loved it and I was really happy with how the Card turned out.

I used the Apple Cider papers which are in the Spring Mini with Close To Cocoa , Really Rust and Choc Chip cardstock....Added a ribbon and a bit of hodge podge to make it more manly and voila!

These are a great idea for Xmas...If you are giving someone a Cd then why not make the cover yourself....

Sorry Rob!!! I just realised you were poking your head in as well on the photo with all of us!!! PS. I love that comment you left on Shelli's blog about Vern...too Funny

If you guys didn't realise Shelli Gardner who is the Cofounder and CEO of Stampin' Up! has her very own blog....Go and check it out....

www.soshelli.com

DAY FIVE Homeward Bound


What a great trip......It was such a fantastic time...Here we are with Jayne and Jo and Alisa below and then Nic and I with Aaron and Emma....Aaron is the Australian Manager of Stampin' Up! and Emma is the NZ Head. They are such fun!!! These are also photo's of what 6am looks like at Palm Cove......beautiful hey.....Ok will be posting some cards etc soon. All geared up for Noosa 2009!!!

DAY FOUR

Ok so we were very excited and were up at 3.45 am for our balloon trip. This is Dave when we knocked on their door. Being a bit early in the morning it took me a while to see the sign but we all got a good laugh from it and headed off to catch the early bus...Well to cut a long story short, when we got to Mareeba we had to stop and see where the launch site was going to be etc...The pilots have to do this every morning....It was pretty windy when we stepped off the bus but we were in high spirits and thought yep it will be fine....Well it wasn't.....5% of balloon trips get cancelled throughout the year andwe were one of them...We were so upset....Well I am not sure about Steve...I think he was a little relieved....He had to take a bit of convincing to do the ballooning in the first place...He has a thing with heights. But here is a photo of the sign....We are trying to pass it as us in the balloon!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is as close as we got to the real thing....The basket....
So we got back to the resort very early and had a yummy breakfast at one of the gorgeous restaurants along the beach and then had a relaxing day by the pool. Here is a shot of some of us with yet another pressie......Our lovely soft robes...with our initials on them...Again very spoilt. That evening was the best....We ent up to the table lands again and ate with LIONS...... No joke they were so close to us with only a fence and 10000 volts between us.... My battery ran out so haven't got too many good shots of the little pussy cats but I will never forget that experience......

I think the karaokeing on the bus on the way up also helped to flatten my batteries!!!

This is one of my fave photo's from the karaoke session that Nic and I organised for the trip up to the Lion's Den! It is the lovely Makeesha with her being true to herself....Can you tell I watch Idol...Singing Girl's just wanna have fun!

DAY THREE

Well it was stampin' Time on Friday morning and we were lucky enough to have Shelli stamp with us at our table. We were all given a brand new stamp set...not available yet???? Will I tell you what it was....Maybe we'll see....We were also given stamp pads and Chipboard and it was all in this gorgeous little bag. More pressies!!!

After our Session we had the day to relax and chill out. Here is a shot of the pool. The resort was just beautiful. That night alot of us headed out on the town and ended up at the Thai restaurant which was divine. It was an early night for us as we were getting up at 3.45 am to catch a bus up to the table lands to go hot air ballooning...Yeah well stay posted and i'll tell you how that went!

Day 2

Well it was off to Kuranda on the Thursday. We went up by train and I was lucky enough to sit with some of the hubbies! This is Steph and Emma's other halves...Sean and Neil and of course mine...Steve. The train trip was heaps of fun. The scenery was beautiful and i have plenty of shots of that so i have only picked out a few. We had lunch up at Kuranda and a walk around the markets etc. I stood and watched how candy was made for 40 minutes and can you believe I didn't take one photo!!! I was intrigued....Sarah and Steph were with me so maybe Sarah took some???.

WE got the skyrail back down to Cairns and yep this trip was heaps of fun as well. We stopped at 2 lookout points along the way. We were so high up it was amazing! That evening we pretty much were exhausted and decide to have indian takeout which was delish!!!!

Incentive Trip Palm Cove 2008

DAY ONE

Well I am back from another fantastic Incentive trip! This time it was held at Palm Cove which is just gorgeous!!! Even though there was really only one true blue sky day it was a beautiful location and the resort was the BEST!!! Our rooms were amazing and HUGE. Ours had 3 Bedrooms and it was very hard coming back to a Queen Size Bed after spending so much time in a King Size!!!!

Here we are with Shelli and Aaron(Australian Manager)after our morning of stamping together. I have so many beautiful swaps as well that everyone made and I can't wait to show you all.

Our first day was very exciting as we all arrived at the Angsana Resort. We had a BBQ at the restaurant overlooking the ocean with everyone dressed in their Bare Foot Bowls Shirts. (Pressies that were in our room on arrival, I am so wearing it to workshops!!!) I was in the Not Quite Navy team with Emma, Sean, Bec and Eric and of course Steve. We didn't win the actual game against the Real Reds but we did win an award for Team Spirit!!! I am sure it was our war cry...

We're Not

We're Not

We're Not Quite Right!

Anyway it was heaps of fun and then back to the resort for bed. And yep another pressie waiting for us...A gorgeous white embroidered hoodie!! Gosh we were spoilt!!!!

Crazy time we had but we did get some pages and cards done!!!! Seeeeeeee.

HI guys!!! Ok it's been a while and i said i would put more photo's of retreat up!!! Even though it was month's ago!!! Here are some for you all....It was a fab time...Look forward to next years!!!

Just a few of the stamps in the stamp library!!!! Cocktails and Stampin...what more do you need!

The Food was amazing and as for the make up tips you could receive from us....Who knew you could use the embossing buddy to powder your nose!!!!



The Gals having some lunch by the pool!!!

RETREAT!!!!!!

Well here are some before and after shots of our retreat!!! Before all of the mad stampers and scappers arrived....and then after we had all arrived and well and truly settled in for a fantastic weekend!!!!!

It was a great weekend and so much fun!!! I will put some more photo's up soon but just wanted to get this blog up and moving again!!! Looks like a wedding doesn't it!!! The first photo that is!!!!

Such an easy and quick card to make....Scribble wheel then stamp on your images...Of course a bit of tearing...then voila!!!

This made beautiful scrapbooking paper...

Hi Everyone!

Well doing the Craft Show actually made me sit down and create some new samples so over the next few days etc I'll show you some...

This my cousin Jaydah( one of my token daughters) I used the Garden Whimsy set here with the Scribble Wheel as a faint background. I just love the new in colours...Purely Pomengranite matched with Blue Bayoo and River Rock here.

Hope everyone is great. I have actually gone back teaching 2 days a week now so life is busier than ever...But I am loving it all....

Well we are at it again!!! Having fun this time at the Stitches and Craft Show which is still on at the Brisbane Convention Centre. I just love our Stall. You can see some of the great layouts in the background of this photo. I am having a day off but Nic and Steph are hard at it again today doing classes and free make and takes which are just gorgeous!!! People can't believe they are free. So if you would like to come and along and do one of the classes or just say Hi, please do. It's on till Sunday.