DCM: Three Welsh Barbers

This is a very cryptic dare from Lythan. Read the info on the DCM blog to see how use 3 Die Cuts became Three Welsh Barbers. Here's my take on the dare:

My three die cuts are a sizzlits flower die with flower, centre & leaf cut separately. My background is chalk popping using a daisy stamp and Stampin' Pastels by Stampin' Up!

DCM: Who's pushing your buttons

It's my turn again to post the dare on DCM:


I know you've all got buttons stashed away somewhere, whether they've been purchased at a cardmaking store or you thriftily snipped them off DH's old shirt. I'd like you to find those buttons and use them somewhere on a card. They can be real buttons, craft shop buttons, die cut buttons, faux buttons or another type of button, surprise us all.


Here's mine all done with my Sizzix Sidekick and Sizzlits dies - Baby Blocks and Buttons.

Oops Should Have Posted This Yesterday...

Here is my card for this weeks DCM Little Extra using dots and dashes. I used two different background stamps, one dots from Hastings Rubber Stamps and one dashes, part of my Fresh Fillers set from Stampin' Up! both stamped with a Kaleidocolor Ink Pad. The flower centres were punched from the left overs.

Some Images (c) Stampin' Up! 1990-2007

DCM: Photos

This weeks it's Tracey's turn and she wants us to use a photo on our cards.


Lachy was very proud of the lego creature he had made last week so asked me to take a photo of it. I did and here it is used on a card for his best mates birthday next month.

Some Images (c) Stampin' Up! 1990 to 2007

The background was stamped using a Fresh Fillers stamp by Stampin' Up! and Happy Birthday Lego Fiend was done using MS Word.

DCM: Time

Kathy doesn't want us to invent more time although that would be handy, she wants us to create a card for any ocassion as long as it involves time some how.

Here is mine:

The hands were taken from a CD clock I had created a couple of years ago and got sick of. I would have liked to have been able to make it a working clock but the clock mechanism made the card front too heavy. The pocket watch is a stamp with detailed coloured with copper gel pen and the background paper is just that a patterned paper. This was one dare where everything I needed was already in the house. G0 and see the other gorgeous cards created by the DCM design team.

Stampin' Up! Spring Mini Catalogue is Here Now!

Stampin' Up! has a new mini catalogue out. You can see the online version here. To place on order from this catalogue or to see a paper version send me an email.

Remember these products are only available until 30 November this year. Don't miss out!

Stampin' Up! August Promotion - Hooray for Hostesses

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If you hold a workshop in New Zealand between 1 August and 15 September 2007 and have sales of at least $700 you will receive one of the three stamp sets listed on the advert above. This is in addition to our usual generous hostess benefits.

If you're in the Wellington region and thinking of holding a Stampin' Up! workshop please email me. Otherwise visit the Stampin' Up! website to find a demonstrator in your area.