Another proud moment being a Paper Angel!

A lovely certificate arrived in the post today for The Paper Angels
in appreciation of the ongoing support we provide to the
Mater Mothers' Bereavement Support Program.



A little note was also attached that said...

'Just a little reminder of how much we appreciate your ongoing generous contribution to the families at the Mater Mothers. We love & sincerely thank you.'

If you would like to help us to support this very special program...
it's not too late to join us at one of our Christmas Card Workshop Events in October.
Please click here for more details.

I am so proud to be a part of such a special group
'The Paper Angels Group' xoxo

Christmas Card Workshop 2009

This year we are 'Spreading our Wings' Our Angel Baby Boxes will be going to at least 3 hospitals and we are going to be creating some Childrens Activity Boxes. Which will be for the Children that are confined to hospital for extended periods of time... What a wonderful cause to be involve with..

If you would like to become involved please contact your PaperANGELS Demonstrator...

The cost is $65 to attend for the whole day.. You will receive a Stamp set (Spotlight on Christmas pg 28 Aus/NZ Idea Catalogue 2009-2010) and one quarter of our wonderful DSP... As well as complete 7 or 8 projects on the day...
Please Double Click on this flier to find out the venues and Dates

'Bella Rose' Demonstrator Challenge

Each month, Paper Angel Demonstrators put their creative talents to the test and create projects based on a challenge theme. The challenge for the July Demonstrators meeting was to create a card based around the 'Bella Rose' Style Watch, as featured on pages 8 and 9 of the Idea Book and Catalogue. Demonstrators could use any products depicting this style or simply adhere to the colour scheme. Winter flus and a mid week meeting gave us slightly depleted numbers, however, this did not affect the fabulous ideas, now a highlight of our meetings.

Felicity created this gorgeous square 'patchwork' inspired card, featuring the 'Bella Rose' DSP and 'Always' Stamp Set. What a great way to use DSP remnants! Make this project easier by using the 1 1/4 inch square punch for perfect squares. I just love the new Supernova Glitter, which has been used very effectively to accent one of the patchwork squares as well as the belly of the bird - simply beautiful as obviously all our demonstrators thought because this card was voted the winner of the challenge.

Amanda has created some stunning challenge entries and her 3D card creation scored second place. Amanda cut out roses from the DSP and used the 'Best Yet' Hostess Set for the wording. Pretties Kit accents beautifully compliment this card.

Orrell was voted 3rd place with her lovely card, which when unfolded from the envelope, becomes a stand alone 'pyramid' style card. How clever!

Who says you need all the stamps to create a 'look'! Kate successfully created a 'Bella Rose' inspired card by using the 'Heartfelt Thanks' Stamp Set together with 'Bella Rose' DSP and matching inks. Thank you Kate!

Linda also used 'Heartfelt Thanks' along with 'Frames with a Flourish' and 'Bella Rose' Colours to create this very stylish card - thank you Linda

Bec created this very pretty card, inspired by the 'patchwork' look. I just love the Pretties Kit Flower dyed 'Riding Hood Red' with a half back pearl in the centre. Notice the lovely 'direct to paper' inking of the edges of the pink mat - thank you Bec

Robyn created this classically inspired card using 'Bella Rose' colours, background stamps and 'Frames with a Flourish' - this is a very useful stamp set! Love the rhinestone brads - thank you Robyn

Karen created this beautiful card using the 'Embrace Life' Stamp Set. With the 'Bella Rose' colours as a guide and white taffeta dyed pink, Karen has created a mini masterpiece - thank you Karen

Another card by Felicity, I am just busting to save up and buy this cute set. 'Build-a-Roo' is seriously sweet and who would think about popping a 'Bella Rose' flower into the roo's pouch - thank you Felicity

Another card by Orrell, the 'Bella Rose' theme is supported by DSP and the eyelet border punch as a corner punch - tip is to use the punch upside down - thank you Orrell

Wow - Orrell - you have been busy and thank you for sharing! 'Heartfelt Thanks' Stamp Set again showcased as a potential addition to the 'Bella Rose' Style Watch - thank you again Orrell

Another card by Felicity, I think of 'Laura Ashleigh' or 'Holly Hobby' when I look at this card. Simply pretty plus plus plus! Point to note here, is how great the outline image looks stamped in 'Basic Brown' - creating a softer look - thank you Felicity

Kate shows us how easy it is to create a beautiful card using minimal materials. I am a great fan of elegant and simple - how clever to use the 'Bella Rose' Colour Scheme on page 9 to choose the colours, stamped with the 'Eastern Blooms' Stamp Set - thank you Kate

Colleen created this truly lovely landscape card using 'Bella Rose' DSP, 'Dreams du Jour' and the 'Bella Rose' Colour Scheme - the scallop edge punch and scallop square punch match the look perfectly - thank you Colleen

Finally, Amanda has created another 3D card, which folds flat to post. This style of card is often referred to as a diorama card and might be hard to give away once you have made it! Thank you Amanda

Easy as a 'Walk in the Park'

At our most recent 'Paper Angels' Group Demonstrators Meeting we decided to have a bit of fun and challenge ourselves to see what we could come up with, given selected materials and a 'time limit' - Oh no - the pressure I hear you saying. Well you should have seen these very talented demonstrators have fun creating all sorts of creations using the NEW 'Walk in the Park' Designer Series Paper from the Spring Mini Catalogue, coordinating cardstock, embellishments and a Hershey's Kiss. Firstly I was impressed that no group ate their Hershey, although this might have had something to do with the ready availability of Tim Tams and Mint Slice! It was great seeing each of the 4 groups working together with identical packs of materials to create simply uniquely beautiful ideas. It was a great demonstration of how it is possible to work with limited materials, especially when those materials are from Stampin' Up! as everything is coordinated from papers, to cardstock to ribbon and beyond.

Melissa, Rae, Amanda, Felicity and Bec created an amazing woven bag and gift card and their 'Master Chef' Style 'plating up' was impressive.

Marjorie, Sue, Colleen, Jen and Ursula were on a roll when they managed to use the entire challenge pack to create a variety of projects from a chocolate box to a decorated bag that the challenge materials were packed in!

Kathy, Kate and Faye created a really gorgeous coordinated gift card set, designed to be presented in the decorated bag - so beautiful!

Gail, Jen and Orrell cleverly made the chocolate the star - as should be! They made a cute little pocket on the front of the card to hold the Hershey as well as decorating the bag - another great gift idea.

But that's not all! We all made 2 lovely 'make & takes' and had some demonstrations, including Bec showing us her lovely ribbon rosette! We also had our 'Bella Rose' Challenge, which I will be posting shortly as well as chatting, eating choccy biscuits and generally having a great time.

Urban Scrapbooking Paper Angels Event

Paper Accent June Challenge

Ursula made a gorgeous floral accent using the new large heart punch and the tree trunk stamp from 'Trendy Trees' for the veins of the leaves - clever! Check out the terrific effect drizzling 'Crystal Effects' over the accent has. If you check out some of the store bought, ready made accents available in scrapbooking stores, you will find this drizzling effect is 'in' - difference is, we can do it ourselves!

Ursula has definitely been spending lots of time in her shed! If a tool was the winner of this challenge, it would be the scallop circle punch. So many of the entries demonstrated the versatility of this tool. Would you imagine that 3 scallop circles could be constructed into a complete 3D flower. Edging the flower with chocolate chip ink has further enhanced the dimensional aspect.

Felicity also saw the potential of the scallop circle punch when she created this pretty card using one of my favourite DSP's - Urban Garden. I love how Felicity has cut the scallop circle at every second scallop towards the centre.

Wow, look at how Felicity has used the eyelet border punch to create a large floral accent. Apparently, the cardstock was quite tricky to 'pleat' by hand due to its thickness, however, Felicity thinks it would be easier if you use DSP. Note the background of the title/label, where Felicity has randomly stamped the letters of the title when she has stamped off - I think this looks great and certainly adds more texture to the page.

This is a brilliant idea, where Kathy has used 'Punch Art' to create Sesame Street Characters as accents on her daughter Olivia's scrapbook page. Kathy also made a matching card design, which is featured later.

Kate created an absolutely elegant scrapbook page, featuring the 5 petal flower punch and Filigree Designer Brads. I have taken a gorgeous close up photo of the accents, so please do email me if you would like the close ups - they are spectacular.

Ellie created this really fresh happy card, featuring 'Punch Art' to create the ladybird. The wonderful scallop circle punch is star here too and I really love the effect of white on white to create extra texture whilst keeping the focus on the ladybird.

Gerane made this amazing 'Pin Wheel' inspired card, where the accents actually twist to open. It was really interesting to see how a variety of papercraft techniques such as tea bag folding and origami were incorporated to create paper accents.

Dianna made quite a few paper accents and I will have to say this was one of my favourites. How sweet is this pleated heart with half back pearl accent, matched perfectly with the eyelet border punch to edge the opening side of the card - just perfect.

Jen Fraser made this sweet accent edged with glitter with one of our wonderful clear rhinestones in the centre. I love the color combination Jen created here too!

Felicity demonstrated how to use the half back pearls from the 'Pretties Kit' to full advantage. Used as a central focus in the 'Pin Wheel' made from scallop squares, they also look great balancing the card at the bottom.

Felicity created an origami style accent with a designer brad in the centre to keep the accent closed.

Ursula Created this fresh card with cardstock and DSP remnants. Cleverly, Ursula has overstamped on the DSP, which is a great technique.

Belle we loved your rosette created with scallop circles and the pin from the 'Pretties Kit'. I am so inspired to go and try one of these - I bet you are all happy that you have a scallop circle punch! If you don't have one - sorry!

A terrific 'Punch Art' Paper Accent from Jen Fraser. Punch Art is a great way to use up your stash of remnants. Jen, I'm jealous of your hand drawing skills - I'm pretty sure I couldn't draw such a great face - well done.

A lovely card made by Dianna using folded DSP to create a star accent, finished with 'Flower Fusion' Felt Flowers.

Leonie made a beautifully decorated 'Post It Note' Holder, featuring the 5 petal punch. How beautiful do the colours look together.

Jen Fraser made another beautiful card featuring the 'One of a Kind' Stamp Set as the paper accent by stamping twice and building up the smaller image on top of the other.

Dianna created another variation on the scallop circle punch with a felt flower in the middle.

Dianna also created this striking card using 'Tea Bag Folding' to enhance the 'Mostly Flowers' Stamp Set. The half back pearl sits just perfectly as the highlight on this paper accent.

Ursula goes outside the box to create a unique paper accent using tearing to create the shape of the petals and flowers. Glitter and the tree 'stem' work wonderfully to accent this unique card.

Felicity made some beautiful pages and this is yet another great example of color coordination and a 3D paper accent, using pleating of paper strips to lift each accent. Again, close up shots are available on request.

Felicity certainly was being very creative when she used the surfboard stamp as petals on the flower - how clever!

A combination of punch and torn art are a perfect combo on this darling card made by Ursula.

Kathy's fantastic 'Punch Art' Card as mentioned earlier. My computer skills, or lack thereof, how somehow prevented me from rotating this image - sorry.

A paper clip accent, Ursula has used the scallop circle punch and lots and I mean lots of gorgeous glitter.

Here are our Winners as voted by the demonstrators at the meeting:

First Prize went to Gerane for her Christmas Star Card

Second Prize went to Dianna for her 'Finnish Star' Card

Third Prize went to Leonie for her floral accent featured on a cake box

Fresh Inspiration ~ June Card Events

Fresh Inspiration

JUNE CARD MAKING AFTERNOON

You are invited to spend an afternoon
of fun and creativity
with the 'Paper Angels' Group
of Stampin' Up! demonstrators.

Learn some great new techniques such as 'bleaching' and 'serendipity card design' using the very beautiful
'Fresh Cuts' stamp set.

You will also have the opportunity to work with the gorgeous new 'In Colours' as well as other new products from the 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalogue.

It would be lovely to have you join us,
spaces are limited though,
so early bookings are best.

COST
$60

INCLUDES
Fresh Cuts Stamp Set (Valued at $38.95)
Materials & instructions to complete 4 deluxe cards
Afternoon Tea & Door Prizes
New displays from our Canberra Demonstrators' Convention

VENUES & DATES
Carina Leagues Club Sunday June 7th 1-5pm
Macleay Island Community Hall Saturday June 13th
1-5pm
Pine Rivers Bowls Club Sunday June 21st 1-5pm

Card Competition & Raffles
We will be running card competitions at each venue. Bring along a handmade card of your own to enter. Each entry will cost $1, which will go directly to the Mater Mothers Bereavement Program.
We also have some fabulous RAFFLE PRIZES
donated by Stampin' Up! Australia
and our Paper Angels demonstrator group.

Proceeds from the raffles will assist us in continuing to supply equipment to the
Mater Mothers Bereavement Support Program
as well as funding other Brisbane Hospitals
as funds allow.

From our Christmas card events late last year we raised sufficient funds to donate supply boxes including the tools required to make the footprint cards and name plaques for the birth suites and the neonatal special care nurseries at the Mater. As well as donating funds in excess of $2,000 directly to the Bereavement program for other areas, such as research, counselling etc.
We have had other hospitals in Brisbane hear of our donations of the boxes, and express interest that they would love to have the same for their families at the time of loss if we could do that for them too.
The 'Paper Angels' are aiming to do this where possible.

Come and have fun and support a worthy charity that is close to many hearts.
"It is through remembrance that a family can truly begin to heal"

To join us on the day, please contact your

'Paper Angels' demonstrator and book your seat.

If you are joining us for the first time please contact

Liz Collett on 3348 9456 or email liz@danichbe.com

or

Leonie Conyers on 3409 5101 or email leoniec77@hotmail.com

NOTE: Payment is required at the time of booking.