Happy Birthday Moni!! :)

It's Moni's Birthday tomorrow! I bought this card from 'Thingz' for $1 and decided to customise it. The Glitter letters matched the card because of the glitter that was on the bus. I added a flower bloom with a blue rhinestone of it. There was already a yellow rhinestone on the giraffe's bow. I'm thinking of getting alphabet stamps but for now I wrote our names with a black pen. I like the kiss stamp, it's really cute!

My really longgg present! It's one of those poles you stick into the ground and it has a tennis ball attached to it and you whack it around!

Paper Frenzy *SALE* @ Stamp It!

Floral 21st card

Simple 21st card. Ribbon, flower embellishment, rhinestone, glitter numbers and butterfly swirl stamp with rainbow ink pad.

Let's Celebrate!

I've made yet another card today with some of my new accessories! Using a similar design to the first wedding card I've made, the aqua inked butterfly swirl with black sentiments stamped on top of it as the centre of the card. The bag of blooms flowers have been added to the corners on the centrepiece. Using the butterfly stamp from the Papercraft Clear Cling stamps from Big W, I used pink ink to stamp on some white cardboard. Glitter glue was used on top of it to create the butterfly patterns, it was then cut out and stuck on the card! I hole-punched some blue paper to create the trail of the butterfly!

Big W - they really do sell for less

Seriously they do, I went to get some stuff from Big W (Success) and decided to visit the craft section...BIG MISTAKE!!! The stuff they have, and the prices are so low!! ARgh.. I was looking for a paper trimmer and I found one at Stamp Deco for $42 bucks. Although it's a fancy one, but at big W I got one for $4.98!!! and there's also a better one for around $20 I think. However, I'm a student with a budget on craft accessories. Anyhoos, I bought a rainbow stamp ink pad for $15.87 whereas it's about $30 at Stamp it. They also have a variety of unmounted clear cling stamps for only $5.67! Bargain! You can also get a small+a big acrylic block for $5!!! Below are some items I bought today!

Unmounted stamps - $5.67

Rainbow stamp ink pad $15.87

Bag of Blooms - $5.98

Paper trimmer - $4.98

I also used the self checkout counters for the first time. Pretty snazzy :D

Sweet Birdy Birthday

Using the Butterfly Swirl again, I attempted a different look, using the swirl as a background this time. I like the flower embellishments creating a branch for the birdy to sit on!

Butterfly Swirl - Congratulations card

First card made with my new Butterfly Swirl Stamp it Stamp! :D I think the red ribbon adds the finishing touch to it. I really need a guillotine, can't cut straight!!

Stamp it - Victoria Park

Stamp-it, 256 Albany Highwa, Victoria Park

Stamps section

Variety of paper selection

Finally after a week of test&assignments, I got to visit the Stamp-it store located in Victoria Park. The place is huge! They've got everything craft related, I never knew there were so many craft things! I ended up buying:

• An unmounted Butterfly Swirl Stamp
• An medium-sized acrylic block
• Aqua-colour stamp pad
• Teal-coloured A4 card

There are a large amount of mounted and unmounted stamps available at the store. The usually wood-mounted stamps cost a few dollars more than the unmounted. The unmounted stamps come with a clingy back and you can stick it to an acrylic block and remove it as well. It's fairly straight forward and saves you a couple of dosh.

I'm planning on making a wedding card for a wedding I'm attending next weekend. Nothing too fancy, just excited about using my new butterfly stamp! This is a fairly expensive hobby!

I'm eye-ing the heat gun and embossing powders after watching this video on Elegant embossing:

Stamp It - Australia

I was surfing on ebay for some rubber stamps to make some handmade cards and I discovered the Stamp It -Eden 2009 Set and to my surprise, the shop is available in PERTH!!! So happy!! Also, it's in Victoria Park, so it's a 15 minute drive, not in woop woop land! You can also buy them online.

Here are some of my favourites, although there are soo many pretty ones, I couldn't show them all: Click here to see more.

Butterfly Swirl

Leaf Swirl

Foliage Flurry

Wise Owl

Address:

Wholesale Warehouse

276 Albany Highway Victoria Park Western Australia 6100

Retail Store

Stamp-It 256 Albany Highway Victoria Park Western Australia 6100