Just a pile of stuff

Here's a real mixture of projects that I have been working on in between preparing for fortnightly classes that I have been doing with some awesome people from the girl's school.

This first one was for Paige's friend Maddison who turned 6. The bag is from Becky Roberts who has the BEST templates. Check her out. It looks so real! The DSP is the fabulous Love Letter from SU.

This one is for Wendy who had her birthday yesterday. Happy Birthday Wendy! She is such a lovely bubbly person and whilst her favourite colour is red (in any shade, I might add) I loved how bright these colours are! Judging from her response she loved it.

The milk cartons are made from the SU die and the box was just made to fit them. Very quick and easy. I am also loving all the different shades of tafetta ribbon that SU has now!

This card was so much fun. Its called an accordian fold card and you can find the instructions on Splitcoast. My son (3) was invited to a party from one of his friends at kindy and I asked him what Benny liked. My instructions were trains, lions and blue. I think I covered it all??

The box is the Box #2 die from SU. Makes packaging a breeze!

This card was made in great haste as I had forgotten one of the girls dance teachers birthday. Happy 14th Caitlyn. Hope you had a great day!

I really wanted to colour something in so found this image I had not used in quite awhile. Looks close enough to a ballerina wouldn't you say??

The bag is the Box #1 die from SU.

And lastly Paige attended another party last week for her friend Rosie who also turned 6. We had bought some really cute tiny containers of stationery modelled on the Smiggles stuff but as New Plymouth doesn't have Smiggles yet we went for second best. What better than to put it into a suitcase (template from Lauren Meader).

DSP is Raspberry Tart now retired from SU. (I still love the colours though).

Hope you all have a great weekend and thanks for looking.

LOL Tamara

Nearly a Month!!

Crikey its amazing that nearly a whole month has passed me by without consciously noting it. Amazing. I have soooo much to share and will try to do so over the next week or so.

I will start by sharing all the awesome cards that I received (for my birthday) from some very talented and special people that I am blessed to know. Thank you all sooo much. I feel very spoilt! I very much appreicate you all! (Yep even you bro!)

These two gorgeous cards were made by my (I think they are very talented) daughters. Paige is 6 and Anika is 5 and they made them with their Dad while I was away with Kyra on an IFG camp a few days before my birthday.

This lovely creation is from my mum. I love it mum fab job!!!

From Alayne

This card blew me away. Cherie you always manage to suprise and fully inspire me. Thank you so much. I have shown 3 different views so you can all see how very cool and detailled this card is.

From Jo another fab creation thanks.

From Tania. Just gorgeous, thanks.

From Wendy. You go girl! Very girly (very Tamara) Thanks heaps

And this one! I was dared to put this on my blog and once dared you just HAVE to follow through. This once I received from my darling nieces and my brother from Perth WA. In his words "this must be the tackiest card ever" and "obviously I missed out on the card making creative genes". This had me in fits of laughter. I have shared it with all my friends and now because he dared me too I have to share it all with you too. LOL

And yeh Nath you are right, definately tacky but very you in the fun stakes. Thanks heaps. I win the dare! Chocolate or salted licorice will cover your debt!

Thanks for looking LOL Tamara

Farewell Shona and Happy Birthday Rosie

Wow another week flies by and its the end of term three so all the kids are home! I LOVE school holidays. No rushing around, no after school activities, stay in PJ's until I can be bothered getting dressed (or someone knocks at the door lol) and just hanging out in general.

The 3 girls and I are off tomorrow for a girls trip to Hawera for dancing competitions. Whilst it is only 1 hours drive it will be nice to be away from the house and just in a different place. Should be fun. I know the girls are excited.

Here's a card I made last week for Rosie's 6th birthday party that Paige attended today. Paige wanted to buy her some stationery and as we don't have a Smiggle here in New Plymouth she had to make do with some mega cute little containers filled with scissors, tiny stapler, minature highlighters and clips etc from Warehouse Stationery all in pink. Very cute and I remembered seeing a small case type box somewhere so I gave it a go. Here's the result and the matching card.

Our good friend Shona has moved back to Auckland (sob). We are going to miss her very creative mind and awesome projects and her awesome sense of humour at stamp club. Have fun being "back home" Shona. Will be in touch. Anyways someone at convention had used the wing from the SU bird punch to create tulips on their card. I thought that was a great idea and here's my take on it with of course a matching bag which I gave to Shona last week. It was so much fun getting out some of the new Su colours and DSP.

Well I hope you have all had a great week and thanks for looking LOL Tamara

A 21st, mums, dads, girls what a mixture!!!!

What a mixture of cards I have made lately. We have had a cousins 21st (long time since I have had to attend one of those lol), fathers day, MIL's birthday and of course the mandatory obligatory girls birthday parties to attend. The variety has been great however it sure feels as if I am chasing my tail these days. I can happily report that I have received a big box from Stampin Up filled with lots of new goodies. If you would like to have a look at these awesome new products give me a call.

This card and bag was for Liesje's 21st birthday. (I believe its called a marquee card?) Lots of fun to make and super easy. I found the instructions on splitcoast.

This was made for Paige's soccer coach. Skiv was amazing for the kids and extremely patient as they were only 5 and 6 year olds playing for the first time.

My MIL will be in Zambia for her birthday (the in laws are missionaries) so she got to open this early. Of course the bag was filled with choccies and a small amount of bling.

And this was for Father's Day. My Dad is FAB and has always been there for me and even though I moved to a land far far away (sounds like Shrek huh!) he is still a constant support and being a parent myself now I can appreciate what sacrifices he has made even more. He is now Grandad to 6 gorgeous grandkids and is even more giving to them. An amazing man and I love him heaps (see you soon Dad, can't wait till new years!!!).

And as you already know if you have seen my blog before, a ton of projects I do are for girl birthday parties. Kyra recently had two very close together so they got the same thing to save me a bit of time just in a different colour combo.

Thank you so much for looking and hope you have a fabulous week. Blessings LOl T