Stampin'Up!'s Year end Sale!!! Don't miss out!!

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I feel like Santa Clause! What better way to end the year than to buy yourself some Stampin'Up! gifts! At a huge discount - up to 60% off!  Also for ONE WEEK ONLY (10 DECEMBER '15 - 17 DECEMBER '15) you can get up to 50% discount on selected 2015/2016 Annual Catalogue products! Click on the image and start shopping!

Don't miss out!

Mel xx

Peaceful Pines - Wishing you joy tag

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I have been fortunate enough to live with one of the most amazing people that will ever cross my path - my 9 year old son Chris! Because Chris is Autistic he has made me realize the hard work that our teachers put in! We as a family have been blessed with wonderful teachers and educational assistants through the years - for both my children! I love saying thank you to them at the end a the year! Next year we will be moving to a new school so we will also be saying good bye... Of course I have to work within a budget (the perks of being a stay at home mom - not!)! I bought these red mugs from Target and filled them with choccies and then I added THIS tag...  

BEAUTIFUL!

The wide Very Vanilla Subtle Stripes Ribbon worked as the perfect backdrop to my cheerful tag!

A closer look...

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Hints & Things

• Wide Ribbon makes beautiful bows!
• I would definitely advise that you use the Precision Base Plate with your Big Shot when die cutting Glimmer paper - it really makes it easy! 
• I stamped with Old Olive (Green) onto Bermuda Bay (Blue) - what an amazing effect! I saw this on Pinterest (thank you for y it Daour inspiration Dawn McVey)!

I think the teachers will love it and feel the love when I hand them these?!

I hope to be back soon! Remember as Cardmakers we have it in our hands to spread kindness!

Mel xx

Snow Place - Merry Christmas (2)

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Yes, I am still alive and kicking! It has been a hectic few weeks! Who knew selling ( and buying) a house can be so labour intensive?! With my husband working away, getting certain documents signed meant spending quite some time at the Post Shop! In between I was working on some more classmate cards! I had to keep it simple, so I just changed the "characters" around but kept to the same backround I used on my last card! Both my kids loved ( and felt proud) to hand out these to their classmates!

This little penguin comes with some props!

I had to be stingy on my Metallic Sequin Assortment! I ran out of gold - lucky I had some silver left over!

Bring in the Peaceful Pines Stamp set and its coordinating dies!

A little Real Red and sequins I bought quite some time ago (not sure where)

Brightens up this very clean and simple card!

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• Seeing as I will have to pack up my craft room soon, I am trying to work through all the tiny bits and pieces. I store the tiniest pieces of Gold Glimmer paper for punching out little stars or snowflakes and I used them for the star on top of my tree. A little bling goes a long way!
• The tree was heat embossed with Iridescent Ice Stampin' Emboss powder. I have a VersaMark pad that I use only for my green inks when I use a clear embossing powder and one for red (both from last Christmas). This way I don't have to clean my stamp in between each card. I inked up with VersaMark ink and then Pear Pizzazz before I stamped on the card stock en then added my embossing powder.
• Each card was stamped with a greeting from the Versatile Christmas stamp set in Real Red ink.

I hope to finish my Christmas stamping today! For my last Christmas project I made a beautiful tag to go with the teacher's gifts this year!  Woohoo! Coming soon  Stampin'Up!'s new Occcasions Catalogue!

  As always take care!

Mel xx

Snow Place - Merry Christmas!

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Today I'm sharing a sweet little card using the playful Snow Place Photopolymer stamp set! I will make 20 of these for my 7 year old girls class mates! Well one down.... 19 more to go! Thankfully I have finished the backgrounds already!

I'm very happy with the Gingham background that I created with the Brushstrokes background stamp!

Frosty the Snowman or what?

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Hints & Things

• I first stamped my snowman with VersaMark ink but made sure not to heat emboss the face with Dazzling Diamond Stampin' Glitter - I drew in the face afterwards with markers using the slight image of the VersaMark ink as a guide. 
• My wooden snowflake embellishment was first stained with Whisper White Craft Ink and then with Soft Sky ink (wait for the White ink to dry before you add the Soft Sky otherwise your ink pad will get "contaminated  with the"White ink). I then used Heat & Stick powder to set my Dazzling Diamond Stampin' Glitter.
• I used the Versatile Christmas stamp set for my greeting inside greeting.
• This card is quite a tight fit for its envelope (included in the Note Card & Envelope pack). I did manage to fit it in with some patience though.

That's it! Let me know what you think!

Take care! I hope to share very soon again!

Mel xx