Colour Palette #18

Here is the colour palette for this week for The Color Room. These colours were a real challenge for me. I am used to doing 'girly' pages, with lots of subtle or heritage colours, flowers & flourishes. These colours were brighter than I'm used to & I couldn't find much in my stash to match these colours.

Here is my page for this week. The photo is of my two handsome nephews, Jonty & Gabe.

As you know I like to do a double page & here it is.

Color Palette #17 - The Color Room

Here is the colour palette & sketch for this week.

& here is my page for this week. The photo is of Brianna & Andy at their engagement party in April.

I used the Color Spritzer Tool & markers to spray colour onto the vanilla card first. I stamped the white heart with the Razzle Dazzle flower & heat embossed it.

I have used vine twig & flower soft for the branches & the Little Leaves & the Big Shot for the leaves. The large flowers were hand made with white card & the scallop circle punch. I inked them with Lavender Lace & Cameo Coral. The small flowers were inked with markers & a blender pen. The title was die cut from Brushed Copper Metallic card.

Below are photos of the details of the flowers.

Last Chance List

With the 2010 - 2011 Idea Book & Catalogue just around the corner, its time to bid a fond farewell to several of our favourite stamp sets & accessories in order to make room for exciting new products. Items on the retired list, now called the Last Chance List, are only available while stocks last. Once they're gone, they're gone.

Plus selected retiring products are up to 50% off. View the Last Chance List here.

Please note:

• the list of retiring products are as good as Stampin'Up! can make it at this time, but items may be added or dropped from this list.
• all page numbers refer to the 2009 - 2010 Idea Book & Catalogue.
• hostess sets can only be earned if you host a workshop
• some 12 x 12 inch smooth cardstock are on the list but the colours may not be retired. The reason is that in the 2010 - 2011 Idea Book & Catalogue, Stampin'Up is offering 6 smooth & 6 textured 12 x 12 cardstock in the same pack.

Click on the list to see which products you can't do without, then contact me to place your order.

Stampin'Up! Color Renovation

Stampin'Up! is having a Color Renovation on 1 September 2010. We will be saying a Fond Farewell to some colours & some colours will be added. There will be new colour families & Kraft has been renamed to Crumb Cake. There will be 5 In Colors & each In Color range will run for two years. There will be 5 new In Colors added on 1 September 2011.

Get your favourite cardstock, ribbons, Stamp pads & ink refills now from the retired list now before 1 September or before stocks run out, or you will miss out!! See the Fond Farewell list here. Contact me to order.

See the new colour range here.

The Color Room

I have just joined the Color Room last week. My first submission was for the Color Palette for this week. It was due today. Here is my layout.




The Color Room has lots of talented people from all over the world & lots of gorgeous layouts. Click the link at right to go to the Color Room. Have a look at the sketches & colour palettes. They may give you some ideas for layouts.

This is the colour palette & sketch for last week. I love these sketches & colour palettes. I normally do a lot of thinking & planning (& procrastinating). It normally takes me a couple of days to do one page. With the sketches & colour palette in place I just needed to choose the photo. It all came together in a few hours.


I normally do a double page layout. I like my pages to match or at least not to clash. This is the double layout below.

These are some photos of the detail of the leaves. I used the Big Shot with the Leaves #2 die. I then curled them & inked them. Lastly I added some crystal effects to look something like rain droplets.

Fundraiser Crop Day

I went to a fundraiser crop day last Sunday. Cassie was raising money to bring a couple of girls out from Timor to Newcastle to have life saving surgery on their facial tumors. See the link below to Cassie's blog for all the details. We had a slide show of the situation in Timor. It was so sad to see the conditions they have to endure.

Here is the Scrapbook page I made on the day. The photos are of Heidi & Aaron's wedding in March. The photo on the left is of our two beautiful daughers Heidi & Brianna.

I only made one double page. I was chatting to so many people & I ate so much. I think we all enjoyed ourselves, it was such a fun day.

I taught a few classes in the afternoon. We made a gift card holder below (copyright to others). It takes a credit card size plastic gift card, or some notes, or business cards.

The animal stamps are from the Fox & Friends. The sentiments are from Picture This hostess set. The branch is from the Two Step Bird Punch. All of these items are available from the Autumn-Winter Mini Catalogue available until 31 August.

More Books

I have finished the bookbinding course. It was very interesting & creative.

Here is an A5 photo album that I made in the course. This is an A5 landscape photo album with black card pages & glassine dividers covering the photos. It has bookcloth covering the spine with oriental stitching to bind the album together. I have used the Stampin'Up! Big Shot & Sizzix Little Leaves, the Stampin'Up! 5 Petal Flower Punch & the Boho Blossoms Punch to decorate the cover.

Here is a single section A5 notebook. It has pamphlet stitching to stitch the section together & a hardcover with bookcloth on the spine to make the hinge stronger. I have used the Stampin'Up! Big Shot & Sizzix Little Leaves to put under the paper covering the hardcover. You can just see the shape of the leaves coming through the paper.

This is is the book I restored. It was a picture book of Taronga Park Zoo circa 1960. It has a hardcover covered with bookcloth. It has a hard spine with headbands on the top & bottom of the spine. I have used the Stampin'Up! Big Shot & Leaves #2 & stuck them on under the bookcloth.

Close up of headbands. The headbands protect the ends of the books spine. Most hardcover books have headbands.