Love Today Planner update

Earlier this month I was impatiently waiting for my Love Today planner to arrive.

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It's here!

I haven't decorated the outside yet but I did have fun using the Spooky Cat designer series paper and stamp set and the wonderful 'you'll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands' cat punch. I stamped all the images in Smoky Slate. Halloween isn't big here in Australia but in our suburb we have quite a few kids that Trick or Treat and it seems to grow every year. I love the community feel of Halloween so I have gone from not being impressed about the whole Halloween thing to loving it!

This is the month at a view. You then have each week laid out on one page.

I love the A5 size. There's lots of room to write but it isn't too bulky. The binder is thick but that is because the paper is such lovely quality and when you write you can't see through to the other side which I love. Overall I am thrilled with it and I've only just started to utilise it. I'll give a clearer walk through once I have decorated it more and figured out how best to use it for me.

Designer Series Paper Sale-best sale ever!

My favourite Stampin Up product is the designer series paper. Stampin Up is offering a Buy 3, Get 1 free promotion on selected paper packs, including a couple from the Holiday Catalogue. The below images are just a few of the paper packs you can select.

Below is the full list of papers available through this promotion. The page numbers for the catalogues are included.

There are so many great choices available, it's a hard choice deciding what four to pick!

Delightful Daisy Suite for October Cards, Cuppa and Chat

This month with the weather warming up (and cooling and warming and cooling but let's stick with warming), I wanted to do a spring theme. I had a few sets in mind to create cards but when I started making them I ended up sticking with the Delightful Daisy Suite. I love the effectiveness of that big daisy stamp and punch.

For the top card we stamped and punched out 4 daisies in Berry Burst and 2 daisies in Fresh Fig, We used the Stitched Edge ribbon in Old Olive and stamped the centre of the daisies, the leaves and the sentiment from Hello Gorgeous in Old Olive. Aren't they cheery?

The second card on the bottom left was made using paper from the Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper and stamps from the Daisy Delight Stamp Set. We stamped the flower stems in Old Olive, did the flowers in Smoky Slate and stamped over the larger ones with Daffodil Delight. The sentiment 'For My Friend' is from the Special Celebrations stamp set and I use that one a lot due to the simple font and as it is a nice greeting for all kinds of occasions-I recently used it on a Get Well card. It is stamped in Tranquil Tide to match the paper on Smoky Slate card stock and cut out using Stitched Shapes Framelits. The other side of this paper uses the same colours as we stamped with and the card looks great flipping the paper over too.

The card in the middle uses Delightful Daisy designer series paper, the daisies are stamped out using Tranquil Tide and the centre of the daisy and the sentiment from Special Celebrations are stamped in Smoky Slate.

The card on the bottom right uses an Old Olive card stock base and Delightful Daisy designer series paper. The flowers are on one side of the paper and the stripe is on the reverse. The Thank You sentiment is part of the Daisy Delight stamp set and is stamped with Daffodil Delight and I used a strip of old Daffodil Delight ribbon. We tied it in a bow at class though which added more impact.

These were really straightforward. It took us about an hour to make these with lots of talk in between.

You can buy the Daisy Delight stamp set and Daisy Punch as a bundle for $54.75 saving 10% on buying them individually.

 The Delightful Daisy designer series paper is part of Stampin Up's buy 3, get 1 free October promotion. Click below for information on what is included in this promotion.

https://signaturestamping.blogspot.com.au/2017/10/designer-series-paper-sale-best-sale.html

Welcome to spring!

Birthday Memories Suite

This month sees my Mum turn an undisclosed number and my youngest grand daughter turn one. I used the Birthday Delivery Suite stamp set and Birthday Memories designer series paper to create both cards.

My grand daughter's card:

I love the cheeky fox and he and the banner are cut out using the Birthday Friends Framelit Dies.I stamped the sentiment and the flowers in Berry Burst and added a piece from the Decorative Ribbon Border punch and Enamel Shapes in Pink Pirouette to add a bit more interest.

My Mum's card:

These papers remind me so much of the Little Golden Books of my childhood. When I was little we would go grocery shopping with Mum and we were allowed to choose a Golden Book to take home. I still have them all! For this card I cut out the rabbit from the Birthday Memories paper and layered it using Crumb Cake card stock using the Stitched Shapes Framelits. I used Real Red card stock for the base and a strip of Birthday Memories paper down the side. Then I added some White Perfect Accents. Very simple to pull together and I love it.

Happy Birthday to Mum and baby Evie!

Faithful Life Club

I recently came across a website and facebook group started by The Reset Girl. She has started a community of creative people and planning people and they seem like joyous, supportive communities.

I have ordered the Stampin Up planner and I am not very patiently waiting for it to arrive-see the post below with information and photos of the planner.

https://signaturestamping.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/focus-on-15-day-thirteen.html

My plan is to use it for day to day appointments and events but also journal my Bible reading.

The theme for this month is 'A Grateful Heart'. I will be using the scripture prompts but if you don't read the bible then listing things you are grateful for can help develop gratitude. If you'd like to join the #FaithfulLifeChallenge then click on the link to sign up and you'll receive the prompts.

https://www.theresetgirl.com/

Today I am grateful for sunshine, beautiful public spaces in my community and two kids that will still hang out with me.

It's October!

Daylight saving time started here today and we spent time on the kayaks on the river soaking in that late afternoon sun. Love the warmer weather and the lengthening of days at this time of year.

October also marks the start of the Stampin Up year and World Cardmaking Day is celebrated on October 7th (yes, it's a real thing!). To celebrate, Stampin Up is celebrating with specials on certain designer series papers for the whole of October and discounts on some stamp sets from the 1st to the 10th. Our annual catalogue is running until the end of May next year and our holiday catalogue runs until January 2nd next year.

October also sees my family celebrate several birthdays-my mother, one of my brothers, my daughter turns thirteen and my youngest grand daughter turns one. Add to that a Halloween party and it's going to be a busy month.

I'm looking forward to celebrating with the Daisy Delight set for my regular class (one of the sets that is on special) and the Spooky Cat bundle from the Holiday Catalogue.

Click in the link for more information about current promotions or to see the Holiday Catalogue. Let me know if you'd like anymore information.

http://www3.stampinup.com/home/en-AU/promotions_au