Happy New year 2021!!!

 Welcome to 2021!

I trust you all had a lovely Christmas & new year.  It was a quiet one here in Sydney, Australia.  Covid19 has kept a lot of places either closed or restricted in their allowed attendee numbers.

We were able to visit my father & sister on Christmas day for lunch, as well as catch up with our son, Ben, DIL, Kat & grandson Aiden in the morning too.  We totally adored Aiden's reaction to us giving him and his parents new fishing rods.  You'd think that 5yr old was born with a fishing rod in his hands. He had it unpacked, put together and pretending to use it like a pro!

We had the Christmas we wanted, nice & quiet.  Hubby has time off this year so we are doing just day trips here & there finding new place to eat at. Though we've found the Tate's Hotel in Windsor which is about a 1/2 hour drive from us.  Been there twice now for lunch and my goodness, both times I've not been able to finish my meal. They give you huge portions.  Thank goodness for the new air fryer I bought hubby for his birthday mid December.  I brought home my left overs and bingo, 5 minutes and those chips were hot & crispy and my chicken parmi was nice and hot again without being dried out.  I totally recommend this air fryer. It does a lot more than those ones that just have the drawer that pulls out with a basket in them.

Here's a photo of the one I bought.  It has 3 shelves, a rotisserie and you can dehydrate foods in it too.  No need for heating first either, love it. The days of fried foods are now gone in the Hampson's Hovel!!!  It's by Kitchen Corture.

 

I got it from Harvey Norman online and it was delivered in 48hrs, fabulous!  I thought it would be huge on our kitchen bench but it takes up hardly any space at all!

 So, what's new with Stampin' Up!????  The Mini catalogue is now live as is the Sale-A-Bration flyer.  Remember, when you purchase $90AU or more you automatically get to choose a free item from the SAB flyer.  Who doesn't love freebies!

I have to say this new mini catalogue is so very beautiful.  Just the Fine Art & Love You Always Suites of products alone are enough to make a girl drool!  Check out pages 10 to 14 and 32 to 34 for all those gorgeously pretty products.  I've made a few creations using a few of the new items. I'll leave you with some photos!

 

I also absolutely love the new stamp & die bundle, Simply Succulents on page 39.  I've coloured them in this card below using Blends. And see that lovely textured background?  It's a new 3D embossing folder called Painted Texture from the Fine Art Bundle.  I've swiped Coastal Cabana onto one side of the folder before placing my white card stock in it and running it through the new Stampin Cut & Emboss machine.  Wonderful texture!!!

Til next time, remember,

happy stamping, colouring & creating!

FF@5'o'clock, 13 November 2020!

 Welcome everyone

This week I'm sharing a few things from last weekend's Live OnStage At Home Stampin' Up! event.  We had such a wonderful time and got to order Product Purchase Premier items before the weekend was even over!  Needless to say I did order a few new products AND they were delivered in record time on Monday!  Only attendees could place orders so we were in for a real treat.  I've already christened a few of my products as you will see below.  The catalogue is going live 5th January 2021 so you won't be seeing a lot until we are closer to the release date. But we sure are allowed to share what we were able to buy early!

There were make & takes to create together online, prizes and loads of inspiration from creating to selling to encouragement & building up each other as well as our Stampin' Up! teams.  Prior to the event when we booked to attend we could also buy 'Swag"  That is merchandise no one else can purchase!  We got this fabulous tote bag, rainbow pens, pins we can swap with other demos if we wanted to, note books, stickers, limited edition grid paper made just for this event and we all received a beautiful stamp set called Enjoy the Moment which will be in the Mini catalogue coming 5th January. 

Thursday evening was opening night with all kinds of awards being presented.  And what wouldn't a Stampin' Up! event be with out some live entertainment to begin.  We were in for such a treat.  No other than Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo!  How blessed were we!  It was fabulous!  Sorry, we are not allowed to share anything live so you'll have to make do with this screen shot!

 

I created this lovely card whilst watching different presenters too. I used the stamp set we were sent in our swag boxes, Enjoy the Moment...

 

 

These next cards are the three 'make & takes' we made with pre-ordered new products that we ordered prior to the weekend. They will also be in the new mini catalogue! 

 

 

 

My PPP Order from the weekend (Product Purchase Premier) arrived so fast my head was spinning.  Only Onstage attendees can order these new products.  All other demos who didn't attend have to wait until next month to be able to pre-order anything from the new January 2021 to June 2021 mini catalogue. Customers can order from 5th January 20201.  Want to be able to order earlier?   Then why not join my Team, you can sign up here...

 

 

http://www.wirgie101.stampinup.net?dbwsdemoid=4018575

 

This next card I have created using a new stamp set that I feel is going to be really popular. It also has a matching set of dies too, Simply Succulents Stamps, Potted Succulents Dies and wait for it, a new amazing 3D embossing folder that resembles and is called Textured Paint. I love it!

 

 

I stamped my Coastal Cabana ink pad all over one side of this new embossing folder before I inserted whisper white card stock, ran it through my new Stampin' Cut N' Embossing machine. Fabulous effect.  I stamped the large succulents stamp, the pot and the small succulent stamp in Tuxedo Black Memento ink then hand coloured the images using an assortment of Stampin' Blends.  I have a few of these plants in my gardens so I think I've managed to get the colouring quite matching!  The small succulent stamp I stuck to my envelope.  We all know you just can't have naked envelopes!

 

So that's all for this week, I hope you like the look of what I've shared.  I know it's a little while away but believe me it's worth the wait.  This mini catalogue is so very very pretty. Are you a fan of florals?  Then don't miss getting this catalogue.   If you have placed a $60+ order with me in the last six months and want this catalogue along with the Sale-A-Bration catalogue, then let me know and I'll have them sent to you.  

(Australian residents only I'm sorry)

til next time, remember

happy stamping, colouring & creating!