Creative Craft Fusions

BABY AND KIDS MARKET

2010-07-11T20:52:00.003+10:00

Hi Everyone
It has been a long time - I know.

Well I have been busy preparing for an upcoming local market and would love to see everyone there.

I have posted the details below. I will have a small stall displaying some of the great things you can make with the products from Stampin' Up! at the Lake Kawana Community Centre from 9am -12pm.

Also things are beginning to get exciting with the new 2010-2011 catalogue soon to be released on 1st September.

I have also updated my class list for the rest of the year. See the side bar for details.

AUTUMN/WINTER NEW MINI CATALOGUE HAS ARRIVED!!

2010-04-02T20:01:00.005+10:00

Finally the SIZZIX BIG SHOT has arrived. This catalogue is full of exciting new products and new designs.

The new mini catalogue from Stampin' Up! has new stamp sets, clear mount stamps, a new punch design, new colour papers and new hostess stamp sets. And of course, fabulous cutting dies and embossing folders for the SIZZIX BIG SHOT.

Would you love to know more?? Then click on the link on the left side to see more of the products that are available.

Would you like to try before you buy??? Then why not book a workshop - I can not only demonstrate the new products but you can also try it for yourself.

If you would like to know more or would like to schedule a workshop , please contact me on stamping4fun@spin.net.au. Not only will you and your friends be able to play with these new products but you can also earn freebies just for holding the workshop.

FREE STAMP SETS!!!

2010-01-26T20:15:00.002+10:00

Hi Everyone

It is that time of the year again - the Stampin' Up! SALE-A-BRATION!! Which means free stamp sets!! yeeeeeeeehaaaa..

From the 25Th January to 31st March, you can choose free stamp sets from the SALE-A-BRATION catalogue(see left hand sidebar to download catalogue). To qualify for free stamp sets you have 3 options:

1. As a CUSTOMER, receive free SALE-A-BRATION stamp set of your choice with every purchase of $100.00

2. As a HOSTESS, receive a free SALE-A-BRATION stamp set of your choice with $600 or more workshop, in addition to the regular hostess benefits

3. Join up in the SALE-A-BRATION period as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and receive an additional stamp set from the current catalogue.

LOVE BOT PUNCH ART

2010-01-10T20:17:00.008+10:00

Hi it has been a long long time between posts. I am getting ready to return to work part time - the past year has flown - I have loved spending the year with my , now, 11 month year old girl. Not looking forward to returning, but thank goodness I will always have stamping and punch art as my stress outlets.

In accordance with everything Valentine's Day, here is my contribution to the world of punch art and love!!! uggghhh hey.. Also to announce my new year of classes. Please see the right side of my blog to look at a class list and sneak peak of some of the classes. I have classes booked up till June at the moment. But with the new release of coming products, I am sure that there will be more classes. My valentine punch art for my class (hint...another cute animal) inspired me to make a "love bot".

I have been wanting to make a milk carton treat box for a while and thought the robot would look great on the carton. Just needs some treats or sweets inside now.

I used a variety of punches: 1 3/8" square; 1 1/4" square; heart to heart punch; own small heart punch; 1/2" circle punch; 1 3/8" circle; 1 1/4" circle; 1/4" circle; 1" circle; 3/4" circle; scallop edge punch.

Stampin' Up! Inventory Clearance SALE!!!

2009-12-15T17:10:00.007+10:00

WOW!! Stampin' Up! are having a HUUUUUGE inventory clearance sale in Australia. See the list below. Some of the products are even up to 50% off - yes that's right - I did type it correctly - 50% off.

But be quick, this sale lasts until 24th January OR until stocks lasts. There are also no minimum purchases that have to be made to get these products at the reduced rates.

Email me to place your order.

click on image to enlarge..

Snowman Button Card

2009-11-19T19:27:00.003+10:00

Well it has been a while... Today I am showing you another card that I have been working on - i was inspired by a stamp set that is obviously not Stampin' Up! (and as you know I can't say the name). I love buttons and have many many colour coded containers full of them. I wanted to incorporate buttons into one of the stamp sets and I used the punch pals stamp set and the snowman.

Thought he was very cute. I embossed him to allow a little bit of extra depth on the card.

Stamp: punch pals

Card: not quite navy; baja breeze; whisper white

Punches: corner rounder; scallop edge

Others: buttons; twine; white embossing powder

Elf Shoes CARD

2009-11-10T19:06:00.005+10:00

Sorry that I haven't posted for a while - been busy making swaps for our upcoming Stampin' Up! regionals at the end of this month. Between doing this and looking after my 9 month year old - leaves not much time or energy for craft! But I have managed to make a few cards which I will show over the next week. There is punch art but also a couple of other cards which I have been wanting to make for a long time.

This card was cased from Marie Shaughnessy. I wanted to make this for a while but here in Australia we don't really celebrate Halloween, so instead I thought it would make a great elf shoe card. The directions for this card can be found on her blog - I obviously just changed the colours etc.

Let me know what you think.. Feel free to email me with any questions.

Penguin Candy Cane Holder Part II

2009-11-02T18:32:00.020+10:00

For those who are visiting my blog for the first time, these are more detailed instructions for the penguin candy cane holder that I posted here.

I have given instructions on how to make the body and the "arms" for the penguin. I have used green on blue card so you can see the arms and position alot clearer. The photo in my previous post was a little hard to exactly see how the arms were positioned.

For the head I used Kim's instructions here. For the arms I used the butterfly punch and cut this as shown in this photo. I then used an oval die (my oval was approx. 6.5cm (l) x 4.8cm (w)). I punched the slits using the slit punch. I have also drawn the position of the slit punch on the diagram below.

I then glued the arms behind the head as shown . HINT - I would suggest using extremely strong adhesive when joining the arms to the head as this piece will be subjected to slight bending . I used 2 way glue pen and it wasn't enough - possibly sticky strip?

Place candy cane in the slots that were made on the oval first. Then attach the head/arm piece to the body. This will ensure good placement so that the hands look like they are almost holding the candy cane. I used dimensionals to adhere the body/arm piece to the body.

Finish decorating as desired. I finished the tummy with a heart form the heart-to-heart punch.

Christmas Extravaganza

2009-11-02T17:27:00.007+10:00

Make Stampin' Up! your one stop shop for all your gift giving ideas this Christmas.

Need cards, presents, scrapbooking ideas for family, friends, neighbours or even your kids' teachers??

Stampin' Up! has the answers. From the 1st November to 14th December 2009 , you can get a FREE scallop square punch when you spend $85 on products from this Stampin' Up! gift giving guide here.

Email me if you would like to order products from this guide and get your FREE scallop square punch.

Watch This Space!!

2009-11-01T17:29:00.004+10:00

Hi everyone
Just a quick post, to let everyone know that I will be posting a few more directions/instructions for the body of the Penguin candy cane holder - after the many requests.. I am currently away so I will post these directions early-mid next week.

Penguin Candy Cane Holder

2009-10-29T21:45:00.007+10:00

A quick post tonight as I am about to fall asleep - been a big day here in Creative Craft Fusion Land.

This is a really cute punch art penguin that I cased from Kim and her gorgeous website.

I bought some candy canes - Yes , I am one of "those" crazy people that as soon as Christmas explodes at the shops, I am one of the first to check it out. Did I mention that i LOVE LOVE Christmas . I am really looking forward to this Christmas as it will be the first one spent with our beautiful daughter - Santa will have his work cut out for him this year!!!

I have been wanting to some how decorate those candy canes and have seen a few ideas on the Internet. But I wanted something a little cuter - why not have a penguin holding the cane. Here is what I came up with. I don't know if the photo does it justice, but he has little penguin arms that sit above the cane.

Let me know what you think!!

PUNCHES: ornament; butterfly; heart-to-hear; 1/2" circle; slit; tear drop punch (non SU)

PAPER: riding hood red; basic black; whisper white; pink pirouette; pumpkin pie

OTHER: oval die

Christmas Owl

2009-10-28T20:51:00.005+10:00

I thought I would post a very quick and easy punch art character. I will try to post another creation before the weekend as I will be going away for a few days - my husband is in the Noosa Triathlon. So the car will be packed to the brim with his stuff and my daughters . Sometimes I wish I could just empty the whole house into our boot of our car.

The owl itself is not my idea and have seen it around - can't remember exactly but I do think I saw it on SCS. But I have added my own little touch to it - WOODLAND CHARACTER MEETS NORTH POLE. I thought this would make a cute and easy gift tag for Christmas presents.

Since I made all those tags for an upcoming class, it has inspired me to make more. Be prepared to see a few more tags in the coming weeks!!

PUNCHES: 1 3/8" circle; boho blossoms; 1/2" circle; 1/4" circle; trio flower, label ; scallop oval and used the wide oval to trim the scallop oval for hat; round tab ; corner rounder.

PAPER: kraft; riding hood red; pumpkin pie; chocolate chip; basic black; whisper white; holiday treasures dsp

STAMPS: warm words

INK: chocolate chip; riding hood red; old olive

STAMPIN UP CLASS - CHRISTMAS GIFT TAGS

2009-10-27T17:50:00.004+10:00

Hi this is my second class I will be holding in November.

We will be making a variety of Christmas gift tags - different shapes and sizes. Using stamp sets and punch art to create easy and unique gift tags for that special someone at Christmas.

Details:

Make 5 Christmas gift tags
Variety of shapes, sizes and themes
Easy to make, yet effective

When: Sunday, 22nd November 2.00pm

Where: Buderim, QLD

Cost: $15.00 (all materials provided and full use of necessary equipment)

Email me for further information or to register for the class. Hope to see you there!!

STAMPIN UP CLASSES - CHRISTMAS CARDS

2009-10-27T17:37:00.006+10:00

Sorry I haven't posted for a few days or so, been busy sorting out my first Stampin' Up! classes. So I thought I would post some pictures of the cards we will be making. I will be making more creations in the coming week - of course Christmas!! Some using combination of stamp sets and other embellishments and of course punches. I have sooooo many ideas I would love to try out and get everyone's feedback on them.

Here are the details on my first upcoming class:

Make 3 different design cards and matching envelopes.
Variety of techniques and skills taught.

Great introductory class into the world of stamping!!!

When: Sunday 15th November 2.00pm

Where: Buderim, QLD

Cost: $10.00 (includes all materials to make the 3 cards and envelopes and full use of equipment)

Email me to register for class.

SNOWMAN CARD

2009-10-23T17:50:00.004+10:00

I am actually quite happy how this turned out - based on a request to make a snowman - this is my interpretation!!

Even though we have a very hot Christmas here in Australia, I still associate snowman with Christmas time and plus they are very cute to include on your cards etc.

I thought I would try a different colour combo - not quite navy, rose red and baja breeze (our current In-colour).

I used the ornament punch for the face - which I know is not currently available in Australia. I am lucky enough to have some good friends overseas. You could use a circle punch instead. I was just playing around with the punches and I saw how versatile this punch could be as faces - check out these two blogs to see more inspiration using this punch -here and here. These girls are very talented!!!

PUNCHES: 1 1/4" Square; ornament; heart to heart; crop-a-dile; 3/4" circle; word window; scallop edge

STAMPS: hostess level 1 set best yet

PAPER: baja breeze; not quite navy; whisper white; rose red, basic black; dsp ski slope(current mini catalogue)

PENGUIN TRIANGLE TREAT BOXES

2009-10-22T17:23:00.005+10:00

Thanks once again for all the feedback. I am working on a snowman punch art at the moment - thanks to "Dragonfly Lady" for the suggestion.

Today I have made two cute triangle treat boxes. These triangle treat boxes can be found all over the web and can be made in any size you want. I used the tutorial from here. These boxes are great to give little gifts in - like chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate - DID I MENTION THAT I LOVE LOVE CHOCOLATE!!

They would be great for teacher Christmas presents, presents for children , neighbours etc. I took the idea of the boxes one more step and was inspired by Heather Summers' recent "Simply Holidays Online Class", which has just finished. She made some similar triangle treat boxes but I thought I haven't made a penguin yet and why not make it into a treat box.

I couldn't decide which penguin I liked better or what size box I liked - so the solution - post both and let you guys decide !!

Anyway below are the pictures of both of my boxes -

PUNCHES: (FOR "BABY" PENGUIN)boho blossoms; wide oval; curly label; 5-petal flower; small oval; crop-a-dile

(FOR "DADDY" PENGUIN) wide oval; 5-petal flower; large oval; scallop circle; 1/2" circle; 1/4" circle (non SU!)

ANOTHER PUNCH ART CREATION....

2009-10-19T17:36:00.004+10:00

Hi Everyone

Thanks for all your positive comments ...gives me heaps of encouragement to make and create more !!!

Well today I am sharing with you another Christmas creation . I looked everywhere for a toy soldier - punch art of course!! But I just couldn't find one - so I decided I would give it a go. And the good news is that it worked.

After I made him, I decided to make a 2-5-7-10 box which the tutorial can be found here. I then placed him on the front.

Punches used: 1 3/8" circle; word window; 1 1/4" square; 1" circle; 1 1/4" circle; 5-petal flower; small oval; round tab; various small round circles.

PUNCH ART GINGERBREAD MAN...

2009-10-16T18:07:00.010+10:00

Hi everyone and welcome to my very first blog - Creative Craft Fusions!!! I am passionate about two things in my life - my family and my craft. It's funny how the two things that I love the most, have now become entwined.

As a "newbie" Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I love to inspire, create and share with others. My favourite paper craft is definitely punch art. I have been "punching" for about 10 years . But I have found that Stampin' Up! has excellent user-friendly punches that can be used much more than in conjunction with your stamps!

So as well as many other ideas, you will see many more punched creations on my blog. Some even inspired by other fellow bloggers.

I can't believe it is the middle of October already and many many blogs are splashed with Christmas ideas...So.. here is one of my cards that I have made - my gingerbread man. The peppermint candy was cased , but I honestly can't remember where I saw it!

Please leave me a comment below and let me know what you think of my first blog "release".

PUNCHES USED:

1 3/8" CIRCLE; WIDE OVAL; FULL HEART; HEART TO HEART; SMALL OVAL; LARGE OVAL; SCALLOP EDGE; BOHO BLOSSOMS; 1"CIRCLE PUNCH; HORIZONTAL SLOT ; 1/8" CIRCLE (CROP-A-DILE )