What! No Chocolate!

Like a block of chocolate in our pantry……these products won’t be around for long! Over the next 48 hours you still have the chance to grab your “must have” items from the Autumn Winter Mini Catalogue just click on the red latters to view the catalogue if you don’t have your own copy. Don’t forget…..many of them will never be seen in a Stampin’ Up! catalogue again!

The samples above were created with the delicious “Eat Chocolate” set and coordinating Decorative Label punch. For the pink card, I created the card base out of the Scallop Circle Bigz Die and used my Stampin Write Markers to colour the images of the chocolate cupcakes (I can never decide whether they are chocolates or cupcakes lol……what about you?)
Here is a close-up of the chocolates:

The Decorative Label Punch ($33.95) is so versatile……you can create a bigger “frame ” for the punched out image by punching out 2 in the one colour (I’ve used Early Espresso Cardstock here) and sticking them together so that they are not quite over lapping perfectly. This creates a slightly larger frame or base to mount the top punched image to. Cool huh?
Here’s what I’ve used to create the 2 cards above (all available from Stampin’ Up through me!):
Stamps – Eat Chocolate clear mount stamp set (Autumn Winter Mini Catalogue)
Ink – Early Espresso, Baja breeze, Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Perfect Plum, Concord Crush Stampin’ Write markers
Paper/Cardstock – Baja Breeze, Daffodil delight, Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso,Brushed Gold cardstock. Tin Foil from the Pantry with No Chocolate -lol!
Accessories – Scallop Envelope Bigz Die, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Spiral Punch,  Mini Glue Dots, Rich Razzleberry Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Scallop Circle Bigz Die, Early Espresso Wide Grossgrain Ribbon, Big Shot Machine, Decorative Label Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I’ll be taking final orders for the stamps and accessories marked in red over this weekend. So please email me with your order and payment by Sunday 5pm!
I’ll leave you with some pics of our last Stampin’ For Noah Night. If you haven’t yet made it to one of these nights and you live locally, please message me for the details and I’ll put your name down for our next get–together!

The kitchen area of my craft room (I stole our island bench which now serves as a stand for the Big Shot and storage for my dies and embossing folders!)

Before……..

During…….

The very talented Genevra and Ainsley holding their creations from the night…..

Joan giving Roxane some cardmaking tips………lol.

The Lucky Door Prize (we’ll be giving away around $50 worth of products to one lucky winner each month!)

Here is just one of the three cards that we created on the night.
We used :
Stamps – Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Ink – Early Espresso
Paper/Cardstock – Autumn Spice Specialty Paper (Autumn Winter Mini Catalogue), Old Olive, Very Vanilla Cardstock
Accessories – 1 and 1/4″ Square Punch, Anywhere Glue Stick,  Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Leaves 2 Originals Die, Sanding Blocks, Linen Thread, Sponge Daubers
Thank you to everyone who came along and had fun stamping for a great cause! Together we raised $300 this month towards the Southall’s Pool landscaping costs :).
Our next Stampin’ For Noah night is Wednesday 31st August, 7pm…..at my place in Wollongong (details provided at time of booking.)
If you haven’t come to a class in a while, then why not come along and stamp some gorgeous cards and help Noah and his family at the same time?
We hope to see you there!