Sue's Stampin' Designs

Stampin' Up! products for a special card - SAD NEWS - Update

Sorry for the long time between posts. As I mentioned here will explain.

On Thursday we went to the funeral of my DH's Mum. I was asked by him and the family to make a special card to say Thank You to the staff and friends of the Nursing Home where his Mum had spent quite a few year as a volunteer and also spent her final years there. 

Thank You All!

Here is the card I came up with, Mum loved Roses... and they loved it...

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Different angles to show the3D affect and inside the card...

     

   

R.I.P MUM.

I would also love to say thanks to all the heartfelt comments left for me and my family and a special thank you to my friends who sent us some beautiful cards.

(I will take photos of them and post them here later)...

EDITED TO ADD:-  Here are the lovely cards I promised to show you...

      

                        Thanks Tracey...                                            Thanks Jess...

Thanks Kay.

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Non Stampin' Up! - SAD NEWS

No Stampin' Up! project posts today!

Due to a death in the family, I am sorry but I don't know right now when my next class will be or my next post. Maybe in a few days.

Thank you all so much for visiting and please keep checking in to see new updates on what I have been doing, thanks.

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Stampin' Up! Products to make a Star Book Photo Album - Class

I had a class today and there were 8 ladies whom I taught to make a Star Book Photo Album. It was a 6" x 6" book and boy did we all have a ball chatting and creating.

I would firstly love to thank Maria (my eldest daughter's mother-in-law to be) for being such a wonderful hostess and sharing her home with us to enjoy crafting together. 

Hi Ladies! ...

Thanks also to all the ladies who attended my class at Maria's, it was a lot of fun to teach all of you and hope to do it again very soon. All the ladies had a great time learning and were so excited with the finished Star Book Albums they created.

I was so proud of all of them as they have never done this before but they had so much fun learning.

Here are some photos that I took while they were making their projects and also when they had finished them... I  Love them ALL!!!

Well done ladies!!!

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Thank you all again, it was such a pleasure teaching all of you!

Hope you like them.

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Stampin' Up! products for a Jar Decorationing Class

It was a great day, glad you like the jars and thank you for holding the class to do them.

Last weekend I held a class at my eldest daughter's house and she invited her friends around to join in the fun. I am sorry for  the quality of these photos as I had forgotten my camera and took these with my mobile phone  :)  but you can see the finished results using Rub Ons and my daughter was stoked!

     

  

   

   

(left, last photo has a little photo album I made for my daughter for holding her class)

Group photo of everyone at work (play)... also my daughter decorating her jars and then her finished creativity.

Thanks to all who attended and had fun with the class.

Hope you like them.

What a great day....I love my jars, i still admire them daily cos they look awesome!!!! Thanks Mum.

It was a great day, glad you like the jars and thank you for holding the class to do them.

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Stampin' Up! New Products for my Sister's 40th Birthday Card

Here's the 40th Birthday card I made for my baby sister.

Happy Birthday "BUB"  :0)

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Hope you like it...

"BUB"  loved it!

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Stampin' Up! New Products for my Mum's mother's Day Card

Here's the Mother's Day card I made for my Mum. I know, it's a little late posting it but it's the thought that counts...and I have been so busy lately.

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Hope you like it...

Mum loved it!

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HAPPY MOTHER's DAY!

Lookie what my boy made me at school for Mother's Day!!  I love getting hand made projects from him. He has made me a bookmark with a Japanese Lady on it, cool...and a coupon book with his own made up ideas for each coupon for me to use whenever I want  :0)

 

This just precious !!!

Happy Mother's Day everyone.

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Stampin' Up! - Workshop & Mini Launch

    I am having a mini launch later today at my house with some friends,family and some I have not met as yet. I will be showing them some of the products from the new Autumn-Winter catalogue and also letting them have a go at using these products to make a few projects I have install for them.

Here's a sneak peek of just one of my projects...

 

Creativity is FUN!!!

    I will post the projects after everyone has made them and show you what we have all enjoyed creating.

Watch this Space! ....

EDITED TO ADD:- Here are some photos of what all of us enjoyed making this afternoon...

Before we even started I gave everyone this gift, some tags in a cello bag with a top note topper that I made each of them to say "thank you" for coming!

Tables set up ready to start...

Then we all made...

The Box...

     

and

The Card...

  

Hope you like them as much as we had fun making them!

Thanks again to all of you who came to enjoy creativity with me!

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I'm still here!

    I'm still around. My youngest daughter has been looking for a place to rent for over 12 months and finally got one. All her stuff has to be sorted and pack and we will be moving her this weekend.

    I am still hoping to get some stamping done between now and then and if possible I will and post them asap!

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Time out for Family

    Hi everyone,  just letting you know I am still around. I took some time out for Family time and I've had both my grand babies birthday's, then minded them for an entire day so my eldest daughter could attend a funeral and catch up with her friends afterwards (I can't craft with them here LOL)   and also been spending some time with my Son (and we both have a bit of a cold and sore throats).

    I'll be back later today or tomorrow with some more crafting I will be working on today. Thanks to all my regular readers and to any new readers for taking time to see what I have been up to.

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Thanks to All...and a special comment!

    This blog is the one of the best thing I have done to get my self confidence up a little. I would love to thank each and every one of you who visit my blog, comment on my work and most of all I hope I have inspired everyone in some small way. Thank you ALL!

From my interview for the Royal Blog Tour,  Meet Sue Poile, Featured Princess (in my navigation links at the top of my blog), this is part of what I said...

Do you have any stamping secrets you would like to share with us? I have no secrets. I share everything and help others as much as I possibly can, including giving them other peoples links to share everyone's ideas. To me, the entire thing with crafts of any sort, is to share! After all, we learned from others sharing from way back when... so the best part to me about crafts is to share and help everyone and it makes me proud to do this. There is nothing better than being able to say... I helped someone else!!! 

Also...

    This is a comment from my eldest daughter that really hit home and made me proud of being a Mum and proud of what I do...

A new comment from “Angela” was received on the post “A Surprise! - & Mistery Blog Candy!” of the blog “Sue's Stampin' Designs”.(already won!)

Comment:

Wow mum, i don't want to win i just want to tell you how proud i am to be your daughter, everyone loves your work as much as i do, its fantastic. I know how much time and effort you have put into it and i know now how much everyone appreciates it, keep the lovely comments coming everyone, she deserves every nice word you all say.
Mwah love you mum
XOXO

How cool is this!

My reply..

Thank you!  I don't know what to say. That comment makes me feel proud! and also makes what I do so worth it all!  Thank you, love you. Mum!

Have a great day and hope you're inspired too!

Happy 16th Birthday

Hi I'm back!

    Here is the card  made for my nephew's 16th Birthday. He loved it.

I have used a new stamp set from the mini catty for this card.

 

Card and side view for 3D effect on the light house.

 

Inside the card and the decorated envelope to match.

I also made this cute little box for my eight year old Son to give to his aswell.

 

 

My eight year old Son even took $20 from his own money, to place in the box and then he decorated it himself.  I am so proud of him!!!

This box (above) was one that I learned how to make when I joined...

Stamp With Us...



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PS... update on previous post...Neighbourhood Caring our neighbour is still in the hospital, but he is getting a little better each day they told us. Thanks for all the lovely thoughts from all of you.

Easter Holiday Away

    EDITED to ADD:- As promised here's some of the photos we took where we stayed while we were away...

   

   

 

   

      

   

   

   

   

   

   

  

Now you can see why, when we go there, we don't want to come home!  It's beautiful and soooo peaceful!

I have hundreds of photos but I think this is enough for now.

Hope you enjoy looking at where we stayed.

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    We're back!!!  Remember this post? ...Easter Message

    We had a very relaxing time away with our friends for a week. I absolutely love going there as I have always loved the country as my family used to go there a lot when I was growing up, we would either be camping or visiting family at a few of our relative's farms so I still love to get to the country away from the city.

     Hope you all had a great Easter. I will post some photos later today from our trip away (might go back for a few more days next week ☺). I am so tired right now so stay tuned for my Edited to Add post later...

A Clown in a Easter Hat!

    Here is my 8 year old Son, who is practicing (almost perfected) being a "Clown". We tell him he should join the circus!!!

    Anyway, he has his Easter Hat Parade at school this week so I made a hat for him and he had to decorate it. We had some fold out eater eggs and some little chickens that he wanted on his hat. Then we put some SU! chunky glitters on it, some new DSP (designer series paper) and some SU! ribbon. He thinks it's fabulous!

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    Ok, here we go!...

I LOVE the facials, don't you!

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New member of our family, Joshua!

    This a few posts back... New member of our family, Joshua!   This is the second scrapbook page I made to start making an album for the new member of our family, Joshua. I have used stamps from the SAB catalogue called Polka Dot Punches and the sentiments from Yummy.

    This page is for another of Roz's challenges. Thanks again Roz.

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New member of our family, Joshua!

    This is the first scrapbook page I made to start making an album for the new member of our family, Joshua. I also made one for his big brother when he was born. I have used stamps from the SAB catalogue called Polka Dot Punches and the sentiments from Congrats, also in the SAB catalogue.

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New Arrival

    As promised here are the details and photos of the new baby!  All are doing very well.

Name:- Joshua
Weight:- 7 lb-4oz's = 3285
Length:- 20" = 50.5cm

    Now for a few  photos of the new family... James, Angela, Lauchlan and Joshua!

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    I'll post more photos of other members of the family  with them at a later date, but these will do for now.

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It's A BOY!!!

    Yes my daughter had her new baby boy at 6.02am today! I am soooo excited and very glad that it's all over and they are both doing well. Will post some photos soon to show him off!  :)

Baby is due!

    As some of you know, my daughter is having her second baby and she's due tomorrow!!!  We spent all night up with her in labour on Sunday night and hoped that was it as she is so fed up,worn out and tired. But Monday the little bugga went back to sleep, false labour is such a pain..."No Punt intended!" ... so we are still waiting :P
    As the due date is tomorrow I will let you know when the little bundle arrives and when all settles back down I will be able to give dates and times for my workshops and classes...hopefully soon.

6 matching cards to compliment the Purse

 

   Previously  I posted the Purse In A Box.  Then I got to thinking...hmmm maybe I should make 6 matching cards to compliment the Purse.  So here are the cards I've made.

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   Same as Purse...

I've used... Bashful Blue, Bordering Blue and Whisper White  cardstocks

Spring Fling DSP (designer series paper)

Brocade Blue and Bordering Blue Inks

Enjoy Every Moment stamp set from new Spring Mini Catalogue

Blue Rhinestone Brad from SU! Ice Circles brads set

(no ribbon used on cards, only on Purse)