I used the Growing Green stamp set for the foliage and the sentiment is from Word Play. The colour combo is straight from my trusty Colour Coach- Old Olive, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight.

So ‘WELCOME’ Helen, Janita, Adele and Debbie

This is the best price I have seen for our starter kit since I joined up in may 2009.

Loads of product at 50% off……BARGAIN!!!

You can use this kit to start your own business or just as a fantastic opportunity to get stuff at a great big discount.

Order the starter kit, get the gear and if you never put in another order there are no penalties and nothing you need to return

AND you’ll get access to the Stampin’ Up demonstrator website full of resources and ideas until at least December 2011.

Check out my website (on the right hand side of this page) or contact me if you want to know more…..

Believe it or not I have recently done some stamping, classes, workshops, and other fun stuff including my first ever Stampalicious Team Retreat

We headed off to a gorgeous house down near Byron Bay and spent nearly 48 hours stamping and smiling and generally having a blast with other stampers.

Here are some of the ladies hard at work…..

We had a Christmas In July theme to kickstart our cards for the silly season and also give us an excuse to light the fireplace (it was actually a DVD) swap some gifts and have a big Christmas dinner.

Friday night we had our own Masterchef, Nicole, cater for us- Thanks Nic, it was awesome!!!

Over the weekend we also competed in a Mystery Box challenge, as well as a couple of colour challenges,

  and even a pressure test modelled around a covention swap made by the talented Nicole Derendorf . I think you’ll agree that Helen got pretty close

Here are some of our challenge winners proudly showing off their wares.

A great weekend was had by all and I’m already trying to come up with some new ideas for next year!!

September brings a brand new Idea Book & Catalogue to Stampin’ Up Australia

AND it’s pretty nice too. If you don’t have a copy just contact me and I’ll get one to you.

I held my catalogue launch last weekend and had a blast with a great group of ladies.

As soon as I have a minute or two I will photograph some of our projects to share with you all.

YEP that’s right I’ll be back!!!

]]> http://michelleoneill.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/september-spring-and-new-su/feed/ 2 michelleoneill 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalogue http://michelleoneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/a-big-birthday/ http://michelleoneill.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/a-big-birthday/#comments Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:12:31 +0000 Michelle O'Neill http://michelleoneill.wordpress.com/?p=890 ]]> This is another birthday put together for a class  – if you want to come to one of these awesome classes check my SU business site for my schedule

It was inspired by a make and take, put together by my ‘granny’ upline Madonna, when she came south of the border for a team meeting. Changed to a Colour Coach combination of Elegant Eggplant, Melon Mambo, Baja Breeze and fiddled just a little bit this is what I came up with.

The circles are “mushed” together after going through the Big Shot with the lattice embossing folder (carried over from the Summer mini thank goodness and therefore still available)

• Stamp Set – Word Play, Confetti
• Cardstock – Elegant Eggplant, Melon Mambo, Baja Breeze, Whisper White
• Ink – Elegant Eggplant, Melon Mambo
• Other – Big Shot, Lattice Embossing folder, various circle punches

This one features the very cute cupcake punch from our new Autumn/Winter mini.

Crumb Cake seems to be spending a lot of time on my desk recently- the pink has disappeared for a littel while!! And I have been enjoying playing with ribbon in a few different ways, this one is a very easy ruffle, the messier the better- I like it

• Stamp Set – Party This Way
• Cardstock – Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler
• Ink – Crumb Cake, Marina Mist
• Other – Marina Mist striped ribbon, Sticky Strip, Cupcake punch, 1 3/4″ circle punch, Extra Large Scallop punch

The O’Neill’s are camping – at least the boys have the great outdoors to run off some of that sugar

• Stamp Set – Teeny Tiny Sentiments
• Cardstock – Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Elegant Soiree DSP
• Ink – Chocolte Chip, Soft Suede
• Other – Big Shot, Ovals die, Scallop Trim border, twine, oval punches

I got the tutorial from Danielle Daws as featured on the Just Add Ink website. Fantastic clear instructions

Anyway, we stamped the cute bunny from the Greetings Eight set (retired) and coloured him with markers before layering it onto the Early Espresso ribbon and tying the whole thing together.

When opened up it’s big enough to fit a dozen Cadbury mini eggs…strangely the ones that were inside this box went missing……

Back to the card……..made for Stamp-a-stack using Party This Way (I know I told you how much I like this set) instead of cutting out all the balloons a few of the circle punches made quick work of the card.

A colour combination from the Colour Coach and versamarked balloons on the background for texture and it came up pretty well.

• Stamp Set – Party This Way
• Cardstock – Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso, Whisper White
• Ink – Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso, Versamark
• Other – 1″ & 3/4″ Circle Punches

I have found the ‘Party This Way’ stamp set to be very versatile, I’ve used it for girls, boys and adult cards.

This one also uses Cherry Cobbler and tearing to give it a bit of a masculine feel (I think).

 I do believe my brother-in-law got this one for his birthday.

• Stamp Set – Party This Way
• Cardstock – Soft Suede, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White
• Ink – Soft Suede, Cherry Cobbler