I’ve been really busy these school holidays getting ready for the next Southern Crafter Market held on the 19th and 20th July at the Velodrome, Invercargill. New Zealand.
The new Hamburger die from Stampin’ Up! has been very popular, and I’ve made nearly 160 of the boxes.
All of the above boxes have been cased from some very talented demonstrators except the Panda bear, which is my own design. I’ve made between 9 and 13 of each of these boxes. Lots of fun!!
These four way Easel Cards were very fun to make!! All made with Stampin’ Up! products although some retired card stock and stamps have been used.
Invercargill Velodrome
Thank you to all my customers who visited my at my market stall this weekend. I had a fantastic weekend and look forward to seeing you all again at my next market.
I’ve been seeing a few flowers made out of the Stampin’ Up Creped Filter paper sprayed with a mixture of Stampin’ Up! re-inkers and isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol)
I didn’t have any Creped Filter paper, but had some ordinary Crepe paper used for making decorations.
The first flowers I made were using the Stampin’ Up! Floral Frames Framelits. The Framelits managed to cut several layers of the crepe paper at the same time. The Petite Pocket die was cut as directed, and is just he right size to put an electronic gift card inside. I’ve used Itty Bitty Banners Stamp set for the stamp. I got the instructions from Patty Bennett
My second set of flowers were made with the Fun Flowers Bigz L Die. Again several layers were cut out at once. This time instead of spritzing the paper flowers with a mixture of the isopropyl alcohol and Stampin’ Up! re-inkers, I simply poured some of the alcohol into a small dish, added a small amount of water – (as NZ isopropyl alcohol seems to be stronger than rubbing alcohol). I spread the flowers out onto sheets of the endless supply of brown paper that comes with our boxes of Stampin’ Up! supplies, put on some gloves, dipped a sponge into the alcohol/re-inker mixture and sponged away. This gave me a stronger colour than simply spritzing the mixture.
This time I made the Petite Pockets into a small box – using one petite pocket die and adding some extra score lines. Using this you tube tutorial from Dawn Olchefske.
I’ve been busy making some items for up coming craft markets.
The first set of items are cute little pillow boxes made with the retired Stampin’ Up! pillow box die, these are cased from Rachael Hecker, who in turned cased them from Creations on Paper.
The 2nd set of items are little boxes using the retired Stampin’ Up! number 2 box die and the Big Shot. These boxes were also cased, this time from Kirsty Brown.
I’ve been creating these lovely boxes, with matching note card and decorated birthday cake using a battery operated tea –light candle. I purchased the instructions for these delightful boxes from Victoria Rogers.
This set of boxes uses the new Sale-a-bration Designer Series paper Sycamore Street and a retired Stampin’ Up! hostess set called Happiest Birthday Wishes. Some of these boxes will be available for purchase at my next craft market.
Invercargill 13th &14th November 2011
Had a great weekend at the Southern Crafters Craft Market this weekend. The Top Note mini calendars were very popular and I received several orders for the Christmas boxes – in particular Mr and Mrs Santa. I also had fun playing with the new Candy Wrapper die for the Big Shot that is coming in the next Mini Catalogue available from 1st December.
