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I’d like to introduce you to my new name & website …. Stamp-a-Latte

If you know me personally you will know how much I love my stamping … and my coffee!

All my future posts will be made at Stamp-a-Latte and if you are subscribed for updates here you will automatically be subscribed at Stamp-a-Latte. I want to make this as easy for you as I can and of course I dont want to lose any of my valued readers.

See you at Stamp-a-Latte … where you’ll find lots of stamping … and lots of coffee!!

You know how bad it feels when you turn up somewhere wearing the same dress as someone else and bringing out your coffee mug to make a cuppa at a crop or meeting and finding that someone else has exactly the same coffee mug? Well those days are gone!!

With the 2008-2009 Catalogue Stampin’ Up!® introduced their rub ons to the Australian public. Yes I know we have had other brand rub ons here for quite some time I am very proud to say that the Stampin’ Up!® rub ons are of very high quality and I have not had one problem with them like I have with other (big) brand rub ons.

Before a recent demonstration where I thought I’d decorate a mug and give that to my hostess with a sachet of hot chocolate in there I would test them myself and I am very pleased to say they worked at home and the demonstration and my hostess (as well as her guests) were very impressed with it - I am sure that my hostess also enjoyed the hot chocolate!

So when I came across the new Financial Year diaries in Big W last week and found a lovely pastel pink one but thought it would have been nice with a pattern on it I figured I’d survive.

So as I was sitting down preparing for a class and glanced and my coffee mug and had one of those light bulb moments and wondered how they’d go on my diary. So what’s a girl to do? I applied the rubons and boy did they look good.

Then I remembered seeing them on Tracey’s laptop so yeah I put a couple on there too.

Now I do a fair bit of work on my laptop and they have shown no signs of wear yet and one is where my wrist sits when I type -but then again it has only been 4 days!

Bit snazzy hey??

Remember a while back I made a friend a pocket card for her birthday with no stamping? that one was using rub ons too - here’s the card as a reminder and to show you that you can use rub ons for just about anything!

This was the card that was highlighted in the Splitcoast Stampers Weekly Inkling - the regular newsletter you can get for free and it is full of great information, tutorials and challenges and well worth signing up for!

I just followed the tutorial for the Trifold Pocket card which was written by the very talented Beate Johns.

Beate does such stunning work and writes wonderful tutorials so that anyone can follow them & make lovely cards - if I can do it anyone can!!

Now can you believe there is NO INK and NO STAMPS on this card???? yes its true! A bit unlike me hey? Nearly fell off my chair when I realised but boy how much do I love the new Stampin’ Up!® rub ons?? they are wonderful and work first go unlike some others I know of from a major brand too - but we wont talk about thems.

Recipe:
Paper: Blue Bayou textured CS, Soft Sky textured CS, Fall Flowers DSP
Accessories: Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon, Blue Bayou double stitched ribbon, Cherished Memories Rub Ons, Tool Kit, circle punches, corner rounder, Pretties Kit.

I think it turned out a bit nice - just love the new In Colours and Designer Series Papers. I hope the recipient likes this card.

Now onto the tagging … I was tagged by my good friend and fellow demonstrator Nikki Stalker and the loverly Edie Bunting a fellow Diva from Erie PA in USA.

Rules of Tagging are …

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog

So here are my 7 facts

1. I am married with 2 daughters and we have 3 angels in heaven.
2. We have a thing about birthdays … I share my birthday with my aunt & brother-in-law, My oldest daughter was born on my grandfathers birthday, my youngest was born on my hubbies grandmothers birthday, My mum’s birthday is 2 days after my father-in-law and my dad’s birthday is 2 days before my Mother-in-law. Weird huh?
3. I love watching the crime shows on TV especially, CSI, CSI Miami, CSI NY, NCIS, Without a Trace, Cold Case, Womens Murder Club, Law & Order, Law & Order Criminal Intent, Law & Order SVU, Criminal Minds, Numbers, Bones and I also like to watch Greys Anatomy, Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, Torchwood and ReGenesis.
4. I love to watch Aussie Rules Football and love my Sydney Swans
5. Looooove my coffee - but I think everyone knows that!
6. I have fibromyalgia and was diagnosed in 2004
7. I am a night owl and love to sit up in the wee hours of the morning making cards

Now onto tagging 7 more blogs I love to visit …

1. Maxine Conrad - Max runs Utah Divas International which is a group just for SU Demonstrators and a great resource so if you want to know more about this then just ask me.
2. Sharon Davis - a fellow demonstrator, lovely lady & friend and one very busy gal - I dont know how she does all she does!
3. Stacey - a great friend from Texas and wannabe Aussie
4. Creations by Adela - this lady does such lovely work and is a SU demo in USA
5. Kerri Hunter - lovely friend and another Aussie demo
6. Vanessa Webb - one of my very talented downlines
7. Tracey Eaton - my lovely upline & its about time she put up another post

Now its time for me to sign off and leave comments on all those blogs so they know they’ve been tagged.

Hope you are all very nice to your Mums tomorrow for Mother’s Day and for all the mums - Have a great day and dont do anything you dont wanna

I’m sure that you too have had all those email survey’s and one question that comes up a lot is the ‘Chocolate or Vanilla?’ So what happens if you’re like me and like both? There are days when one really needs Chocolate (bit like today!) and other days when Vanilla hits the spot.

I recently made this card for a swap for our Stampin’ Up! team. It was a swap where we had to use one of the new sets and I used the Occasional Greetings set.

Recipe:
Stamps: Occassional Greetings, Baroque Motifs
Cardstock: Berry Bliss DSP, Chocolate Chip, Pretty in Pink , Very Vanilla
Ink: Close to Cocoa, Versamark
Accessories: Chocolate Chip 5/8″ grosgrain, gold brads, stampin dimensionals.

Now when I normally make swaps I figure I may as well make a couple extra cards to use for samples or to send to someone (as one does with a card). So when making up my spares I ran out of the Chocolate Chip ribbon and thought hmm … what to do. I did have some Vanilla wide grosgrain I could use and thought it may be a bit too light for the card.

Well I put it together and thought … mmmm I think I like this better!

So you see although we think that chocolate cures all there are some times that vanilla works just as well!

Time for a coffee - have a great day!

I just wanted to pop in today and wish all of you a happy, safe and Blessed Easter!

Its a time for new beginnings, putting the past behind us and looking forward and celebrating new life and remembering how loved we are that God would send His son to die for us that we might have life with Him forever.

I thought I’d also share the hats I made for the Easter Parade at School last thursday and amazingly enough they were quite easy to make.

Here they are proudly (?) wearing their hats - they even made it through the day and home again in one piece - and not a chocolate in sight - maybe this is why they came home in one piece?

I found a picture on the internet using Google Images and just copied it - turned out ok I think - not as nice as the one online but hey I did them in just 40 minutes and while I had a tension headache after battling everyone at Aldi that morning!

They are held together by sticky tape and I used double sided tape to stick on the beaks and eyes - how easy is that and now they have these lovely glittery hats to leave glitter all over the house!

One of the easier years - surely next year they will be too old for the Easter Hat parade!

and watch out for those lactose intolerant Easter Bunnies!!

This post today is brought to you by the letter E!!

One of my lovely and talented SBS8 Sisters has nominated my blog for this award and I’m excited, encouraged and yet a little embarrassed as i haven’t posted for a few days. So Gwen thank you so much for bestowing this excellent award on my blog!

Now its my turn to bestow this award on blogs that I love to visit and always find inspiration from … so many to choose from …. drum roll please …..

Kerri Hunter

Kerri is a great friend and her work is so inspiring

Pat Huntoon

Pat’s work is also great and she produces the bi-monthly Technique Junkies newsletter which is worth every penny!

Jayne Mercer

Jayne is a lovely lady and a special friend - her work is inspiring and its no surprise she is published often

Tracey Eaton

Tracey is my lovely upline with Stampin Up and she regularly encourages me and she’s just got herself a new home on the web so check her out!

Creations by AR

I found Adela thru Beate’s yahoogroup and I must say she is such an inspiration and always ready to help and give tips where needed - she has some awesome projects on her blog and tutorials as well!

There are many blogs that inspire and motivate me and it would take forever to name them all so I’ve just chosen a few here to highlight.

I love to blog and I love to read other blogs too and have found that it is a lot of fun and it has also improved by Stampin’ Up! business and I feel through blogging I have grown and my work has improved as well. Its a great habit to get into to share your work and create more!

Well I’ve been tagged again, I know I have been tagged before and now think I really should respond - sorry to the previous taggers

This time I was tagged by Julie - one of my bloggin buddies from Sisterhood8 of the Blogging Stampers!

Here’s the rules ….

• Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
• Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog, we all want to know them.
• Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Ok so Seven things about me ….

1.  No matter how hard I try I always have a messy desk.
2. I love to create in the wee hours of the morning (or is that night) when everyone is in bed and its sooo quiet.
3. I love my coffee machine my hubby got me for Christmas
4. I booked my flights to Brisbane yesterday for Stampin’ Up! Convention in April
5. I love the fact that I can be home for my kids when they get home from School & I love that Stampin Up! allows me to do that!
6. I miss my babies that are in Heaven and ‘talk’ to them every day
7. I have been blessed by Stampin’ Up! and all the friends its brought into my life!

Now I think I’ll tag ….

• Tracey
• Vanessa
• Sharon
• Stacy
• Gwen
• Shaz
• Mel

Ok girls now its your turn!

LOL … well you gotta sound your own horn don’t you cos no one else will!

Last week we had the news about the effects the toy called Bindeez (or Aqua Dots in USA) had when ingested so as soon as I heard I thought the right thing to do was to inform all my friends (IRL and Online) about this terrible hazard as I didnt want anyone’s children to fall victim so I did and I went and emailed my lovely Stampin Up friends internationally on the several groups I’m on and in doing so I have become a hero-ine for some … here is what the lovely Rebecca posted on one of our groups …

Three cheers for Leonie Schroder!! She is my hero!!

Leonie -

The story broke here on the 11pm news just now. You may be personally responsible for bringing this problem to the attention of the entire USA !!!!

According to the reporter who interviewed me this afternoon (how cool is that?!), the Consumer Product Safety Commission wasn’t even aware of the problem when the news station contacted them about it yesterday. By today, they had recalled the toys!! Suddenly, it’s all over the news here in Boston, hopefully everywhere else, too.

When eaten, Aquadots/Bindeez turn into the powerful date rape drug GBH. Two kids in the US have gone into non-responsive comas from eating these beads.

Thank-you so much for emailing us yesterday & alerting us to this problem that our own government knew nothing about!!

Rebecca Daniels
Independent Demonstrator
Stampin’ Up!
Salem, NH 03079

See so just by sending an email to your contacts in your inbox you can save the world (so to speak!)

I have been busy today and last night with workshops. I will upload some cards to share what we made last night at the Stamp a Stack and the One Sheet Wonder workshop today - so stay tuned!