Paper Angels Group

2010-07-22T06:02:00.000-07:00

Kate's Story

2010-06-29T17:50:00.000-07:00

Before I fell pregnant with my youngest boy , I was a stay at home Mum who was starting to get bored and needed something. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, whether it was work or study. I then found out I was pregnant and I wasn't delighted. I felt a bit trapped again, horrible but true. When he was around 9 months old I went to a Stampin Up Party with my girlfriend Felicity. I told her I was just coming to spend time with her and another girlfriend who had just gone back to work. I was not buying anything, I just needed to get out of the house!!!

I made a really cute pop up Butterfly card, I had never made anything the quick and easy before. I grabbed a pen and wrote in it for my sister and asked Liz if I could have a party.

I invited every one of my friends and family, I really had this need to be surrounded by my loved ones. I had a great night. We giggled and ate cheese cake and I felt so much better.

When Liz asked me if I had thought about joining ( and she asked me really casually) I thought about it, went to pick my son up from kindy and my girlfriends and I nutted out every argument my Hubby would have. I didn't need to, he said yes straight away.

I had no idea about any of the great opportunities that SU offered, I just really needed something for myself, I was fortunate to find a wonderful group of ladies, many of whom I now am grateful to call "Friend"!

May Demonstrators Challenge

2010-06-10T19:05:00.001-07:00

Goodness, how time flies and I feel badly I have not loaded these pages more promptly. As May was Scrapbooking month, we decided to make our demonstrator's challenge Scrapbooking. Because so much time has passed, I cannot honestly be certain who placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd. However, I believe it was Bec 1st, then Gail and then Kate. Of course I am sure these were the first 3 placegetters as I scooped up their pages at the end of the meeting to photograph and share. Fortunately, the Paper Angels are so very easy going that I'm sure no one will be offended if I have it wrong (hopefully - smile). It goes without saying that all the entries (and there were heaps) were of a very high standard and the only reason I didn't put them all up is the time involved in photographing and uploaded such a huge number of pages. Bec stunned us all by being so organised to have printed some of her Convention photos and as you can see from her page above she has done a superb job linking our so cute tea cup stamp with the pose we struck at the manager's meeting at Convention. The eyelet border around the circle was done using a strip of black cardstock which Bec then edged with the eyelet border punch. She then ran the strip through the crimper which then made it easier to mould the strip into a curve and position behind the circular photograph. Pretty neat!

Gail excelled herself with this beautiful double page which was created on 2 sheets of textured Whisper White Cardstock. Gail then used a 'direct to paper' technique where she used a sponging block to create a Razzleberry & Olive background, which she then highlighted with a white embossed image from the 'Very Vintage' Stamp Set.

Finally, this beautiful page from Kate, who has used some of my favourite papers and colours, with Bella Bleu DSP & Baja Breeze Wide Double Stitched Ribbon. The 'Friendly Words' Jumbo Roller looks great on this page. ps I don't think Kate's husband Ian normally hangs out in this attire just in case you were wondering if he has a hidden underworld career!

Another page created by Bec, which I thought you would like me to share. The photo was taken at Award's Night at Convention. Isn't it handy that Bec, Shelli and I all dressed to match Bec's Scrapbooking creation - wonder which came first? The page or the outfits! Obvious answer is just good plain luck that we all matched.

Our next Paper Angels Demonstrators Challenge for this month's meeting on Saturday 26th June 2.30 is 'Cards made using Retiring Colours'. You can still use carryover colours in your creation, however, the goal is to make the 'retiring colour' the star of the card. As usual we will have prizes for the first 3 cards that we all vote on.

Christmas in July Annual Charity Events

2010-06-06T20:44:00.000-07:00

Imagine spending a day getting a jump start

on your Christmas Preparations...

The Paper Angels are getting in early this year with our ever popular
Christmas Card Charity Events.
Heaps of Prizes, Card Competition and Wonderful Projects to make!

This year we are holding our events in July.

Please click on the flyer below for full of info

such as dates and venues etc.

Not all Paper Angels will be attending all events, so it is important that you check with your Paper Angels Demonstrator which events they will be teaching at.

Bookings are essential and payment is required to secure your place.

Feel free to come by yourself and meet some fellow paper craft enthusiasts or invite all your friends to come along too and join in the fun - group tables can be arranged!

Mother's Day Roses

2010-05-09T04:18:00.000-07:00

When you belong to a group of creative ladies, you just never know what new skills are around the corner for you to experience! Whilst 'Paper Angels' are primarily paper crafters, most crafters have more than 'one string to their bow'. Ursula has more than enough strings for one instrument - in fact to carry the metaphor further, she is an orchestra of craft! Amongst her many talents, Ursula has worked as a florist and is responsible for teaching the Paper Angels the fabulous florists bows that we decorate our raffle prizes with for the Christmas Card Workshops. So, when some friends of ours from a local women's friendship group called Beta Sigma Phi (Alpha Beta Chapter) decided to deliver 90 roses to a local retirement village for Mother's Day, it was Ursula who taught us how to prepare and present the roses.

Here is Lyn McKenna from Alpha Beta and Ursula getting to work in Ursula's Studio in Rochedale, Brisbane, Australia. This is an amazing air conditioned retreat, which Ursula teaches and creates in. Some of the local Paper Angels, hire her studio to run classes also.

Ursula, Lyn and I were also assisted by Ursula's friend Michaela who is pictured here filling the plastic vials with water which the individual roses will sit in, so that they have their own water supply! How cool is that - the lids on the vials have a lid with a hole which prevents water coming out of but allows us to pop the stem of the rose in - who would ever know? In fact, I will never look at single roses in the same way again. The process of thorn stripping, water vial filling, cello wrapping, and tying with a decorative bow (we also tied a potpourri sachet to the cello for the ladies to pop on a hanger).was way more involved than I would have imagined! Of course I have to mention (sorry Ursula) that as I started using the snazzy tool that strips thorns off the stems, Ursula asked me if my tetanus injections were up to date! Well actually they are not so I had to be extra careful as apparently thorns carry the tetanus virus - lovely - not! How could something so beautiful have anything to do with tetanus - i thought that was just rusty nails?

Ursula deep in concentration, or possibly trying to avoid eye contact with the camera, tying the potpourri sachet to the wrapped rose.

The final result - 90 fresh individually wrapped roses with their own water supplies, beautifully presented. Not bad for 4 people and 1 1/2 hours of work. I'm pretty sure repetitive work is not my thing (basically because I am slow - I'd get fired on a production line I'm sure) but I certainly don't mind doing it for a morning and learning some new skills! Luckily I cannot be fired as a volunteer. Thanks Ursula for sharing your knowledge and congratulations to Alpha Beta on a wonderful contribution to their local community.

Last but not least, we finished off our morning enjoying some Chinese Egg Custard Pastries from Sunni Bakery at Sunnybank. A very big thank you to one of my lovely customers/hostesses Trish, who introduced these to me at a Stampin' Up! workshop last week. Trish as the hostess served these after the workshop, and they were 'to die for'. The pastry is simply the best I have ever had - it literally melts in your mouth! Since I was heading this way to get to Ursula's, I just had to share this taste sensation with her.

April Paper Angels Meeting Projects

2010-05-07T05:32:00.000-07:00

Here are the two project that the Brisbane Paper Angels made at our group meeting, which is held once a month at the Wynnum Manly Leagues Club. The first project uses the 'Movers & Shapers' Big Shot Die and I have to say this is my most versatile and favourite die - honestly it cuts and scores the card as well as having the facility to pop a window in various positions in the face of the card! The second project was shared with the kind permission of Marie Shaughnessy who is a US demonstrator - I thought this project was super neat and with my daughter Dana breaking both arms, I was somewhat time poor on projects to choose for our meeting - thanks Marie for sharing. Remember, you don't need to be a 'Demonstrating Demonstrator' ('Carmel Terminology') to join Stampin' Up! or come to our meetings. There are heaps of discount & hobby demonstrators and we would love you to share the fun we have at the Paper Angel's Meetings, Events and Challenges. Contact your Paper Angels Demonstrator for more information. If you would like to see these projects demonstrated at your workshop, please contact your Paper Angels Demonstrator to book a Workshop.

April Demonstrator Challenge

2010-05-05T12:23:00.000-07:00

Demonstrators rose to the April challenge, which was to use the new colors (Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, Soft Suede) in a card, with great enthusiasm and success. I apologize that I am not able to individually credit each card and designer, but with 45 entries, I had my work cut out for me photographing and uploading all these fantastic cards. The winner of the competition was Rebecca Ross with her Manhattan Flower Vellum Embossed Card and second was Marjorie with her Cottage Wall card which she cleverly stamped on the DSP as well as making a cool accent by wrapping twine around a scallop square punch. Special mention also goes to Carolyn for her creative 3D flowers made with the scallop circle punch, our newest Paper Angel Keren for her elegant Baroque Motifs Card and also to Leonie whose beautiful Vintage Vogue Card with White Taffeta Ribbon (last picture as you scroll down) arrived in the post a day too late to be included in the judging which is done by the demonstrators at the meeting. Thank you so much to all the Paper Angels for their participation. It is simply wonderful how we all enjoy sharing our ideas with each other, giving us new inspiration and mojo! The Demonstrator Challenge for May will be a scrapbooking page since May is Scrapbooking Month - the entries will be photographed and posted on this blog.

Autumn Winter Mini Catalogue Launch

2010-03-09T22:02:00.000-08:00

This is the event you have been waiting for. In fact we are so excited about the new products in the upcoming Autumn Winter Catalogue, we can't wait to share them with you. In the true spirit of Stampin' Up!, the best way to share these new products and techniques is to invite you to use them. We know you will love the 2 make & take cards we have planned, where you will use the new Stampin' Up! Big Shot with dies & embossing folders, a new punch style as well as the Clear Mount Stamp Option. Probably the biggest news we have is the introduction of 3 new exclusive colours and you will get to use our favourite new colour in one of the Make & Takes.

There are 2 dates and venues to choose from

Sunday 28th March 2-5pm
Wynnum Manly Leagues Club
92 Wondall Rd, Manly West

Wednesday 31st March 6-9pm
Pendirup Community Centre
365 Samsonvale Rd, Warner

The $10 entry fee for the launch includes a Mini Catalogue, 2 Deluxe Make & Takes, Fantastic Demonstrations, Door Prize Entry and Displays of Papercraft & New Product. RSVP is absolutely essential as we have a lot of preparation and ordering to do and payment would be appreciated either directly to your Paper Angels Demonstrator or alternately you can use this neat Pay Pal Payment Button below. Pay Pal is a secure way to pay and will help us keep track of numbers and names, so if you can use this option, we would really appreciate you giving this payment method a go. If none of these options suit you, please contact your demonstrator with your RSVP and we can make other arrangements.

When using the PayPal option below, once you have clicked 'Add to Cart', you then click 'Proceed to Checkout'. There is no need to sign up for a PayPal Account - simply look to the left of the screen for the script 'Don't have a PayPal Account?' and click the 'Continue' Button under the Visa & Mastercard Icons

Australia Day Awards

2010-02-02T04:56:00.000-08:00

Recently I was lucky enough to accompany one of our Paper Angels, Ursula, to the Logan City Australia Day Awards, where she had been nominated for an award. Just to name a few of the many community contributions Ursula made this year, she organized a highly successful 'Arty Farty Morning Tea Party' to raise money for Cancer Research, worked tirelessly to support the Paper Angels Charity Endeavours and also volunteered her beautiful voice in a Queensland Choir that recently toured Singapore.

What makes this all the more remarkable is that all of this is achieved under challenging circumstances. Ursula's husband Aaron has severe aplastic anaemia. Whilst Ursula did not win her section, it was wonderful to see all the good works that she does recognized formally. As well as receiving her achievement certificate, she was acknowledged on stage and we both thoroughly enjoyed a fabulous evening which included entertainment from Greg Doolan (Wickity Wack) and a sit down meal which was top notch. The entire evening was highly impressive and I am just so grateful that Ursula shared it with me.

I guess what stuck in my mind was that the nominations and awards were being given to real people making real community contributions. They even had a good neighbour award, which was awarded to someone who helped to mediate (I'm assuming successfully!) a conflict between neighbours in the community. So much better than the often ridiculous national awards given to sports and entertainment stars, who lets face it are amply rewarded financially for their work and are hardly in need of an accolade.

Well done Ursula - If I'd been judging you would have won!

Meetings are Back

2010-02-01T00:19:00.000-08:00

Last week the Paper Angels enjoyed their first meeting of the year at my place. It had seemed like ages since we had got together since before Christmas, so we really enjoyed catching up and to be honest having a night away from the kids - well, except for me - that is a whole different story - let's just say my children did not stay in bed! We all made 2 BTP projects - little boxes, which were really cute and we are sure our friends, family and customers will love them. We learnt about using our classic inks to emboss on vellum and discussed a few things like our yearly calendar, which we have drafted up. Thank you to Ursula who kindly helped me cut the make & takes for the meeting.

Brisbane Papercrafts Festival

2010-02-01T00:04:00.000-08:00

THIS Friday, Saturday and Sunday (5,6,7 February) you will find the Paper Angels at the Brisbane Papercrafts Festival at the RNA Showgrounds. We would love to see you there and invite you to make our FREE make & take - a gorgeous card featuring the new Butterfly Prints Stamp Set from the Summer Mini Catalogue. We also have a $300 basket of Stampin' Up! Goodies to give away for our door prize and entry into that is FREE to people who come to the Papercrafts Festival. We have put lots of effort into our display and look forward also to sharing our SHOW SPECIALS, which are bundles of product designed to work together to complete a project. We look forward to seeing you there.

WIN a Years Supply of Cards

2010-01-31T22:16:00.000-08:00

Paper Angels are thrilled to announce we will have a stand at this weekends Brisbane Papercrafts Festival at the RNA Showgrounds, February 5, 6 and 7th. In addition to the FREE make & take, FREE entry into our $300 door prize and inspirational displays; we will also be offering each customer who purchases our special SHOW BUNDLES, an entry into a draw to WIN 40 cards made by Paper Angels Demonstrators. Our show bundle specials are specially selected products designed to complete finished projects and will include a colour instruction sheet.

Thank You for being Angels

2010-01-20T12:19:00.000-08:00

Well the children are almost back at school, so I do now have some hope of updating my blogs more regularly now. With the backlog of terrific events and photos I have taken over the Christmas/New Year Holidays, there is no shortage of new content to report!

A couple of weeks ago, 3 of the 'Paper Angels Group of Independent Stampin Up Demonstrators' came over to my place and started working on the kits for the Mater Children's Hospital. We have heaps of Simply Scrappin Kits that we are turning into 6 x 6 album kits for children undergoing long term treatment in hospital. Each child will receive a small 6 x 6 album, 1/2 a Simply Scrappin Kit pre cut into a kit with assembly instructions, a Stampin Up Glue Stick and 1/2 a sheet of Dimensionals.

Kate, Felicity and Ursula (pictured left to right above) worked tirelessly to create our two prototypes for the instruction sheets as well as pre cutting elements for the kits. If you look carefully you will see first 'hand' (there's a pun here!) the dedication of the Paper Angels Girls - Ursula is sporting a HUGE bandage on her thumb, which she almost cut the top off with a kitchen knife - still this did not stop our intrepid Ursula from putting in her usual 110%. How lucky I am to have met such lovely girls through my Stampin' Up! business. Thanks girls for being angels!

Sale-A-Bration

2010-01-10T18:10:00.000-08:00

Hello & Happy New Year to you and your family.

I have spent the last couple of days getting my three girls ready for school, my youngest starts this year... so this is the first year ALL of them will be at school at the same time... yah!! So now all the books are covered, phew!, the uniforms are washed & shoes sitting ready. With all the school requirements met I wanted to let you know what promotions Stampin' Up! have planned.... 3 easy ways to earn FREE stamp sets:

Sale-A-Bration is coming 25 January - 31 March!!!

With rewards for customers, hostesses and new recruits, Sale-A-Bration gives everyone a reason to celebrate!

Customers:
Receive a free exclusive Sale-A-Bration stamp set for every $100 purchase (no limit!).

Hostesses: Receive a free exclusive Sale-A-Bration stamp set with a $600 or more workshop, in addition to the regular hostess benefits.

Recruits: Choose any retail stamp set free (a value up to $79.95) from the current catalogue when signing up during the promotion.

The timing of Stampin' Up!s annual special is much better this year as it gives everyone a chance to recover from the holidays!!! I am really excited to be starting 2010 with Sale-A-Bration.

To view our regular Ideas Book & Catalogue & our new Summer Mini visit www.stampinup.com.au & follow the link to view catalogues.

I know that your Demonstrators are looking forward to crafting with you again this year. Give them a call today to book in your Sale-A-Bration workshop so you don't miss out on this great opportunity to earn free stamp sets - & have fun at the same time!

Kind regards

Jen Fraser

Christmas Cracker Competition Winners

2009-12-18T14:31:00.000-08:00

It has been an exciting couple of weeks seeing an amazing array of beautiful Christmas Crackers reach my email in box for the Christmas Cracker Competition. The competition was judged by a panel of 5 demonstrators and 3 stampers and believe me when I say it was a tough job! The winner is Chie Fullerton with her beautiful and unique pull apart cracker with a gorgeous Christmas Punch Art Garland in the center - how clever! Well done Chie and you get to choose $100 of product from the NEW Summer Mini Catalogue - please email me with your choices.

Second place is awarded to Keren Ham with her elegant Baja Breeze Cracker embellished with the beautiful 'So Swirly' wheel using white craft ink, heat and stick powder with dazzling diamonds glitter. Congratulations Keren - please email me with your choice of $50 of product from the NEW Summer Mini Catalogue.

Third prize goes to Kylie Matulis for her sweet punch art snowman cracker highlighted with dazzling diamonds! Kylie please email Bec your choice of $25 of product from the NEW Summer Mini Catalogue. The following entries are all highly commended and when you scan through them, you will see why the judging was difficult. Apologies if I have not included your entry and also that I cannot credit each entry. For those of you who play with blogging and photo shop etc, you will know that it takes hours to upload and create this type of entry. I have also learn that for the next competition, I must get you all to put 'Christmas Cracker' in the subject line of your email, so that I can do a quick search - it took huge amounts of time sifting emails to make sure I hadn't missed one. I hope you enjoy looking at all the beautiful work and please watch out for a competition in the NEW YEAR! The only clue I will give, is that it will have something to do with using 'Sale - a - Bration' Sets. So book your workshops early from mid January into February, so that you have your sets ready to use!

Win FREE Stampin Up Summer Mini Product

2009-12-02T03:37:00.000-08:00

Enter your Stampin' Up! Christmas Cracker
for your chance to WIN one of three prizes
of product from the NEW Summer Mini Catalogue

1st Prize $100 | 2nd Prize $50 | 3rd Prize $25
Prizes are not transferable for cash and product must be chosen from the Summer Mini Catalogue

How to Enter

1. Email your Demonstrator to receive a PDF Instruction Sheet on how to make the
cracker pictured above
2. Either post cracker or email a photograph of your cracker to your Demonstrator
by December 15th
Please do make sure you include your full name and contact details

Conditions of Entry

1. Cracker Base must be based around the instructions provided
2. Competition is open to demonstrators and customers
3. All materials used must be Stampin' Up! Product
4. You agree to have cracker photographs published on our Blogs & Publications

5. Winners will be chosen by independent judges
6. Entries will be based on color,execution, creativity and uniqueness

So 'GET CRACKING' on your Cracker!

Home made crackers are lots of fun and you can fill them with all sorts of creative things!

November Punch Art Challenge

2009-12-01T20:30:00.001-08:00

Brisbane Regional Demonstrator Training

2009-11-29T02:42:00.000-08:00

The Paper Angels had a fabulous time at Brisbane Regionals, held on Saturday at the Hilton Brisbane. We made some terrific new projects, saw other Brisbane Demonstrators present their best workshop ideas and we also heard from Demonstrator Support in Sydney and the US. However, the best part of the day was just spending time together. Some of the Paper Angels somehow managed to make swaps, so they came home with lots of different samples for inspiration. We also did well in the prize patrol, with 5 of our group members taking home free stamp sets! Unfortunately I didn't get photos of everyone, but here is a sample for you to enjoy.

To explain a couple of these photos, Leonie asked Aaron if she could keep the card he demonstrated, which he did! Without my even knowing, our group of demonstrators organised a beautiful basket of flowers and card for me, which was incredibly lovely. I cant think of anything I'd rather do than spend time with all the amazing people in our group so it's hard to understand why I need thanking, however, I was extremely touched and am so very grateful for the lovely flowers and card, but more importantly for the fun, cohesiveness and love that we share. The wonderful Ursula made the floral arrangement and card and I will post some extra photos of these. If you ever need flowers, Ursula is the girl to see!

Here are the Paper Angels again having a great time a Ahmets Turkish Restaurant in Southbank. afterwards. What fun, although I would have to say it was a bit hot as being a Saturday night we were packed in like sardines! The food was lovely and we even were treated to a belly dance! Not everyone was able to come after training as they had to travel - we missed them and hopefully we can do another social activity in the new year.

Another proud moment being a Paper Angel!

2009-09-29T07:39:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-09T15:31:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-07T15:05:00.000-07:00

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'

2009-08-02T23:33:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-05T05:47:00.000-07:00

Paper Accent June Challenge

2009-07-03T21:48:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-24T05:55:00.000-07:00

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

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

NOTE: Payment is required at the time of booking.

Infant Loss and Rememberance Day

2008-10-15T01:16:00.000-07:00

October 15th is Infant Loss and Rememberance Day. This date is significant to Paper Angels because our Christmas Card Workshops are supporting the Mater Mother's Bereavement Support Program. Whilst we have only conducted the first two of 6 workshops, we have already been able to make a practical contribution to this very special program. Two 'Paper Angel's' (Leonie & Liz) delivered 2 boxes of very special equipment to the Mater on behalf of the entire group. The first box contained all the equipment the staff at the Mater will need to create special personal name cards for both the 'angel' babies as well as for babies in the special and intensive care areas. Paper Angels have made decorative name cards in pink, blue and green - all the nursing staff will need to do is use the alphabet stamps to stamp the babies name in a matching colour onto the white strip which will be adhered to the card. Nursing staff were able to practice doing this with Leonie and Liz's assistance, making name cards for some bubs on the ward.

The second box contains all the materials the nursing staff will need to create footprint cards for the 'angel' babies. For parents who sadly do not get to take their baby home, these footprints are very special.

The cards have been designed to fit within the memory books provided to the parents. Again, the complete backing card has been made by Paper Angels, with the nursing staff then stamping the littel babies footprint onto white card which is then adhered to the backing card.

Paper Angels will work throughout the year to continue to supply the completed cards and ensure any consumables, such as adhesive, are kept fully stocked. We are also working towards providing a second set of boxes to the Mater. Beyond that, we have been told that there are other hospitals in need of these resources, and we will be looking to do what we can to help.

If you would like to help Paper Angels create these special cards or hear about our events that support providing the materials needed, please contact Paper Angels by email paperangels@danichbe.com