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MARCH CLASS – Beautiful Bouquet!


Who wants to make a Paper Bouquet?

Learn how to make each of the flowers in this bouquet and take home the kit to create the rest.


Buying the kit on it’s own costs $41.90 (with min. postage) but I’m offering you the class as well for just $40!

Because you’ll be getting the whole kit I need to have payment and bookings up front so I have time to order one for everyone.

MUST BE BOOKED AND PAID FOR
BY MONDAY 2nd MARCH!

The bouquet comes as a kit and in the class you’ll use my tools, matching stamp set and inks. You’ll learn how to make each of the flowers but the whole bouquet is quite time consuming so you won’t necessarily get it finished in class. You’ll have everything you need to finish it at home except the adhesive – a glue gun is recommended.

 

Have it all ready as a centrepiece for your Easter celebrations
or as a Mother’s Day gift

You can also purchase the Bouquet Kit, the matching Stamp Set and the Bouquet Die to make as many flowers as you want.


Thursday 12th MARCH
8pm – 11pm
NARRE WARREN
$40
 

OR
 
Friday 13th MARCH
10am – 1pm
NARRE WARREN

$40
Children able to entertain themselves
in the next room are welcome!



If you want to come along please make sure you click the button above and follow the prompts to book your place.If you don’t have a digital way to pay the fee send me an email and I’ll give you the cash payment password so you can still pay on the day.

*ALL CLASS ATTENDEES CAN GET A $10 DISCOUNT ON THE FEE BY PLACING AN ORDER OF $100 OR MORE ON THE DAY.


Occasions Catalogue Blog Hop

 

I’m really excited today to be participating in my first ever Blog Hop! 

A Blog Hop is when a group of bloggers post a series of connected posts with an overall theme and you hop from blog to blog to see all the inspiration and ideas everyone has to share.

This hop is hosted by my upline’s Art With Heart team of Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators. This is a very large team with members Australia-wide and it has been running since Stampin’ Up! first came to Australia. We have a very active team Facebook Group as well as in-person stamp days, challenges, card swaps, product shares and more. 

I’ve been a demonstrator for over six years and I’ve been blogging for a while now but the timing has never been right for me to join in with a hop. Today is the day to change that!  

This hop is all about products from our two new catalogues – the Occasions Catalogue and the Sale-a-bration catalogue! Click on the links in the sidebar to view these in pdf form, or let me know you want your own copy and I’ll pop one in the post.

Every $90 purchase = 1 one FREE Sale-a-bration product!

Remember, for every $90 you spend on fabulous Stampin’ Up! products from any of our catalogues during Sale-a-bration you’ll earn your choice of product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue for free! There are no limits and you have loads to choose from. 

 Starter Kit Value = $169 for $235 worth of product 
PLUS 2 FREE Sale-a-bration products!

Better still, become part of this fun, friendly and supportive team and you’ll get to choose TWO Sale-a-bration freebies or 1 Occasions Project Kit in addition to the great value Starter Kit – just $169 for $235 worth of product! In addition to the support and events I provide, my team members can get fully involved in everything going on in the Art With Heart world as well! How’s that for a sense of belonging and connectedness!

It’s quick and easy to join online too. Ask me how!

Sale-a-bration offers must end March 31st! 

Now on with the hop! A big hello and welcome if you’re already on your way and have come from the blog of Christine Gibbins. There’s plenty more to show you, and there are links to all the other blogs at the end of this post.

When I decided to join in with the Art With Heart team hop and knew that it was just before Valentine’s day I thought what better theme to tie the two things together than some sweetheart cards using the new Photopolymer stamp set Hello Life. It has some beautiful images and lovely sentiments perfect for creating projects to show how much you care.

 Hello Life (Occasions p6)

(137136) Photopolymer stamp set $42.95

My first project has a great big in-your-face red heart! And just in case you were missing the ‘love’ theme I added a strip of extra red hearts by using the Confetti Hearts Punch to cut heart-shaped holes in a piece of Basic Black cardstock and then mounted it on a Real Red backing panel.  No subtlety here, just a big bold expression of love!

I took advantage of those sweeping lines in the script stamps by stamping them both on my background and my foreground.

Confetti Hearts Punch (Occasions p5)

(137415) $372.95

My second project is one I taught to the ladies who came to my team gathering this week. I wanted to show how it was possible to use the left-over bits on a Dimensionals sheet to create a shaker element of whatever size and whatever shape you like. 

The shaker pieces are kept contained by a piece of clear Window Sheet, which I stamped on with StazOn to form part of my greeting. The ‘you’ comes from the new Hello You Thinlits dies on p31

 Hello You Thinlits (Occasions p31)

(137363) 4 dies for $42.95

(Can be purchased in a bundle with Crazy About You stamp set) 

Because the card base is Basic Black it will be very difficult to write on so I added a simple insert using a piece of Whisper White cardstock. I stamped one of the other script images from the same set to tie the whole theme together and add a bit more interest to the starkness of the white.

And there’s that Confetti Hearts Punch at work again. This time to create my ‘shaker confetti’!

My final project is a variation on one of the cards I’m doing this week in my regular Monthly Class. It’s a quick and easy one that uses collage stamping to create this wonderful waterfall of hearts. My favourite script stamp is there again to provide some balance as it stretches across horizontally, and the whole thing has been given some dimension by raising one of the larger hearts up slightly and adding a little bit of bling.

 The little circles stamp comes from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set:

Perpetual Birthday Calendar (Occasions p17)

(137167) Photopolymer stamp set $41.95

And although I didn’t manage to use this in any of my projects I wanted to finish up by highlighting this amazing stamp from the Hello Life set. For me it just really sums up what being part of this team and a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator means to me!

Let’s keep this blog hop hopping. Next up we have some gorgeous creations from my lovely friend Nikki Sadler

Thanks for visiting today. Don’t forget to email me at  to get a copy of the Occasions Seasonal Catalogue or Sale-a-bration brochure, or to enquire about joining the Art With Heart team.

Cheers

Genna

Participants:
1. Kate Morgan
2. Kathryn Mangelsdorf
3. Kathryn Ruddick
4. Claire Daly
5. Judy May
6. Christine Gibbins
7. Genna Gifford (This one is me!)
8. Nikki Sadler
9. Rachel Woollard
10. Ros Davidson

FEBRUARY CLASS – Say It With Love!

Whether you’re in need of a card for Valentine’s Day this weekend or you just want to show someone how much you care, this class features three projects full of love!

And all three projects utilise products from the new Occasions catalogue!

 

All dates are this week!!!

Thursday 12th FEBRUARY
8pm – 11pm
NARRE WARREN
$25 per person OR $15 with discount*

OR

Friday 13th FEBRUARY
10am – 1pm
NARRE WARREN

Children able to entertain themselves
in the next room are welcome!
$25 per person OR $15 with discount*
If you want to come along please make sure you click the button above and follow the prompts to book your place.If you don’t have a digital way to pay the fee send me an email and I’ll give you the cash payment password so you can still pay on the day.
*ALL CLASS ATTENDEES CAN GET A $10 DISCOUNT ON THE FEE BY PLACING AN ORDER OF $100 OR MORE ON THE DAY.
There first project is a quick and easy warm up. It’s simply the card base and a single layer of cardstock for the stamping. That’s it. The effect is in the art of collage stamping.
 
The second project is a Waterfall Card – a fun and interactive card that has four letter panels that cascade away when you pull the tab at the bottom.
This particular card features the word ‘LOVE’ but you can choose to create your own version by using another word such as ‘STAR’ or ‘BABY’ or someone’s name. And the hearts in the background can be replaced by any ot the other designs in the Perpetual Calendar stamp set I used so you truly make it your own!
Here are some more images of the ‘waterfall’ mechanism at work:
And the final project is actually a card in disguise. It’s a tag hidden inside a Mini Treat Bag.
 
It’s the perfect card to include a hidden gift voucher or small gift as well!
And all the hard work is done for you by the Mini Treat Bag die that comes with a load of accessory dies to help you decorate.
If you want to come along please make sure you click the button above and follow the prompts to book your place.If you don’t have a digital way to pay the fee send me an email and I’ll give you the cash payment password so you can still pay on the day.
*ALL CLASS ATTENDEES CAN GET A $10 DISCOUNT ON THE FEE BY PLACING AN ORDER OF $100 OR MORE ON THE DAY.

Cheers, 

Genna

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