I would like to thank you all so much for your  support this past year, it's been a big one.

From my family to yours

Merry Christmas.

Stay safe.

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Leah

Christmas Cards using Stampin' Up! Products.

A few Christmas Cards i made this year.

This first one was made for my son to give his school friends and teachers, with only 2 days notice, he needed twenty! So a quick simple design was needed. ( after i had asked him 2 weeks earlier if he wanted to give out cards this year, with the answer being no!!!) Gotta love him.

The Merriest Wishes Framelits were perfect.

I had lots of fun building these scenes using the Cozy Critters stamp set.

The Paisleys & Posies set makes for a great Christmas Card.

And another easy design using Merriest Wishes.

Merry Christmas everyone.

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Leah

Stamp A Stack Christmas Shaker Cards.

Using the To You & Yours Shaker Cards Project Kit. 

Come along and spend an afternoon of fun making Shaker Christmas Cards.

This fantastic kit has everything you need to make 18 gorgeous cards just in time for Christmas.

                                 When : Saturday 28th November at 1.00pm.

                                 Where : Calamvale 

                                  Cost : $45 pre paid by 18th Nov  (so i can order the kits)

                                  What to bring : scissors, adhesive, glue dots.

                                   Tea, Coffee & Tim Tams provided.

Contact me to reserve your seat.

Email: stampin.with.leah@live.com.au

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Leah

The Newborn King.

This is one of my favorite stamp sets in the Holiday Catalogue, i have a few a favorites, but I really like the trees in this set.

I cased this card straight from the catalogue with just a couple of changes.

Gold embossed on watercolour paper.

A swish with the Aqua Painter is all it needs.

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Leah

Wonderful Wreath.

I've been playing with one of my new stamp sets from the Holiday Catalogue, Wonderful Wreath. 

This is a Photopolymer set so it's very easy to line up the images, the stamps are clear and stick really well to the clear blocks.

 Wondrous Wreath can be bundled with Wonderful Wreath Framelits Dies saving 15% and saving a lot of time fussy cutting.

 The wreath stamps and the wreath framelits have a tab at the top making it a breeze to line up.

The glimmer paper is perfect for Christmas projects.

Have you started your Christmas Cards yet?

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Leah

Fab Friday 29

I do know it's Saturday today :) the blog title refers to the challenge blog  I'm playing along with today. Fab Friday 29 a sketch challenge this week.

 I've made a very glittery Christmas card for this challenge, (you'll love this one Maree) can you see all the glitter!

Here's the sketch.                  

 I had glitter everywhere, I can even taste it.

Products used are Snowflake Soiree stamp set inked with Pool Party and Bermuda Bay. I covered the whole panel with VersaMark ink and covered with heat and stick powder then heat set. Next i covered the whole panel with Dazzling Diamonds glitter and heat set again. I love this very glittery look. The Merry is from the Expressions Thinlits Dies. Then I just added a bit of ribbon and a jumbo rhinestone. Head over to Fab Friday to see the design teams creations and why not play along too. Fab Friday post a new challenge every Friday.

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Leah

Christmas Snowman Telescopic Card.

I had seen a few of these Snowman cards around on the web and just had to make one. I had never made a 

Telescopic card before and I discovered it is very easy and really fun. 

It opens up to a full snowman, so cute and can be used as a Christmas decoration as well a card. The Circle Collections Framelits dies made cutting all those circles easy. Stamps sets are Snowflake Soiree and Merry Little Christmas. 

His hat is made from the Square Framelits dies and Corner Rounder punch finished with silver ribbon, button and bakers twine.

Have a great day.

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Leah

JAI #183 Mosaic Madness Christmas.

I'm playing along with the challenge at Just Add Ink this week and it a sketch challenge from Tina. Here's the sketch.

And here's my card.

Using the Mosaic Madness stamp set, I love how this set can be used for Christmas cards as well as many other occasions, and the Joy to the World stamp set in Real Red and Crumb Cake. To finish off I added a few rhinestones and spritzing. I now have another Christmas card to put in the box, hopefully I'll have enough when it comes to send them out in December.

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Leah

Christmas Card Chalk Board Technique.

Two Challenges on one card, I don't do this very often but this week I wan't to join in the Challenge at Sunny Challenges & Creations 88/13 which is to use Washi Tape and as I'm just starting to learn ways to use it I didn't know where to begin. So I started with a sketch from Seize the Sketch #4.

The Washi Tape is the red spotty scallop band across the bottom of the card. I just placed the Washi Tape on strip of white card and cut it out with the scallop Edgelite die. Iv'e used the Joy to the World stamp set and the Ornament Keepsakes stamp set. I'm so glad Stampin' Up! decided to keep this set, it's not in the Holiday Catalogue but it has been carried over from the last Catalogue so it's still available. Yay!

I stamped the ornament with the Gold Metallic Encore ink, really like how it looks.

Here's the sketch I used from Seize the Sketch I  changed it a bit in making my card horizontal. To play along with this sketch click here. To join in the fun at Sunny Challenges & Creations click here. I can't wait to see what everyone else does with the Washi Tape.

 Did you notice I used the Chalk board technique for this card? Just in case you didn't know I love this technique!

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Leah

Festive Flurry Christmas Card.

I love this card we made at Maree's workshop it's so fun and festive. Living in Australia I can only dream about what it is like to have snow at Christmas.

Using the Festive Flurry stamp set with the coordinating Framelits. Lots of new goodies form the Holiday Catalogue on this card. 

The Merry is cut out of Silver Shimmer card with the Expression Thinlits dies with a bit of spritzing. Also used Circle Collections Framelits. 

Love these Frosted Finishes Embellishments. 

The inside of the card has a band of Winter Frost Designer Series Paper (Stack) with a couple of stamped snowflakes.

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Leah

Fab Friday 25.

I have discovered a new challenge blog (new to me) called Fab Friday. Every Friday there is a new challenge either a sketch challenge or a colour challenge. This week the Fab Friday 25 challenge is a sketch.

Using the Flowering Flourishes stamp set and the Merry & Type set. I heat embossed the flourish with Gold embossing powder, added a few Candy Dots and a bit of spritzing.

I've used one of the shapes of the Apothecary Accents Framelits dies to cut out a window, placing the greeting on the inside of the card.

To finish off the card I drew around the window with a gold pen and added  Seam Binding Ribbon.

To check out the Design Teams beautiful cards or to enter the challenge click here.

Thanks for visiting.

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This weeks sketch challenge at Sunny Challenges & Creations was from Gwen. A great sketch that can be used for anything. I went with a Christmas theme using the Ornament Keepsakes stamp set. With a bit of heat embossing, sponging, a lot of spritzing and even a bit of Gold Smooch Spritz. I'm really happy how this turned out.The colours are Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla.

Head over to Sunny Challenges to see the Design Teams beautiful cards and to join in the fun.

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Leah

Happy New Year.

Hi I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and a Happy New Year. As you can see from the lack of posts on my blog I have been getting lots of R & R these holidays. So I haven't made anything new yet this year but I do have a long list of things I want to get busy with.  

I would like to give a very big Birthday wish to my good friend Teressa, I hope you have a fantastic day today and you get totally spoilt.

Today I want to show you some beautiful Christmas cards I received. Thank you so much ladies I love them all.

Have a great day,
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Leah

Christmas Swaps.

Hi, I finally got some computer time, with the kids home I don't get on it as much a I would like. We are counting down the days till Christmas, Zach is very excited, he even spoke to Santa but he is still not sure about sitting on his knee. If I'm really lucky I'll get a photo of him with Santa later this week.

We had a really fun night at our Passion 4 Paper group meeting recently, thank you Angie for hosting it. So here are the Christmas swap cards we swapped. I'm really looking forward to our next meeting, it's so good to get together.

Just in case I don't get back on here before Christmas I want to wish you all a fantastic Christmas with lots of Love, Peace & Joy.

Merry Christmas.

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Leah

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Hi, I had a bit of spare time yesterday so I had a play with the Sunny Challenge 016/11. The theme with the sketch this week is Christmas and I am way behind on making my Christmas cards. So now I have another one completed.

I have used the merry & Type stamp set, heat embossed with Cherry Cobbler embossing powder. DSP letters to Santa, Dotted Scalloped Ribbon Border punch, large Oval punch, Scallop Oval punch, twine, rhinestone and dazzling diamonds.

Thanks for visiting.

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Leah

MOJO # 212

Hi, here is my entry for MOJO #212. I've changed the sketch just a little bit. Using the Merry & Type stamp set heat embossed with Cherry Cobbler embossing powder, Timeless Portrait DSP, Lace ribbon Border punch, Pinking Hearts Border punch and Lots of Tags Sizzlits Die. The colours are Cherry Cobbler, Island Indigo, River Rock & Very Vanilla.

Thanks for visiting today.

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Leah

Sparkely Reindeer.

Good morning, I just have to show you this gorgeous Reindeer gift jar I received from Maree. He is so cute and Maree did a fantastic job of making him. So much work involved. I love his nose and how she glittered his antlers. Thanks so much Maree.

Here is the back view, she even glittered his tail. It was full of yummy Christmas Chocolates but I ate some before I tool the photo's. :)

Hope your enjoying the holidays.

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Leah

Sunday Scrap - Santa.

Hi and Happy Sunday, I hope you had a fantastic Christmas Day yesterday, did you over indulge? :)  Today's page is a Christmas theme. The photo's are of Alex when he was 2 1/2 at a dress up birthday party. He makes such a cute little Santa.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support and friendship over the last year. Thank you.  And to wish you a wonderful 2011. I look forward to sharing  more stamping projects with you next year, here on my blog and in workshops and classes. Ok here is the scrap page.

I will be pre scheduling  the blog posts over the Holiday Season as we have a lots of family coming over for a huge family reunion. It's going to be so much fun. I don't think I'll get much computer time.

Recipe
Stamp Sets: Contempo Christmas, Perfect Punches
Card: Pacific Point, Real Red, Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White
DSP: Celebrations
Ink: Versa Mark, Real Red
Punches: Ornament, Pinking Hears Border, Round Tab
Tools: Big Shot-Timesless Type Jnr Alphabet
Accessories: Real Red ribbon, Jewel-rhinestones

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Leah

Playing with lace.

I have two cards to show you today, both Christmas cards of course.

 When I saw the beautiful Crochet Trim in the Summer Mini Catalogue I remembered that I have a whole box of lace just sitting in the cupboard that my Mum gave me a long time ago. So why not use it.

 The first card I hand stitched the lace to form a flower, finished it of with a button and some ribbon.. The stamp set is Season of Joy, the embossing folder is Vintage Wallpaper. A bit of sponging and spritzing with the new Smooch Spritz and added a few pearls. Colours are Garden Green, Soft Suede, Riding Hood Red and Very Vanilla.

The next card I used the lace as a decorative strip across the bottom of the card. This lace looks so old that it may have been my Grandmothers. Stamp set used is Dasher, the embossing folder is Vintage Wallpaper again. With more sponging and spritzing. Added pearls and ribbon. The colours are Riding Hood Red, Soft Suede and Very Vanilla.

I think this is about as close as I can get to vintage. :)

Thanks for stopping by today.

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Leah