Karen Oliver

I had a lovely Colouring and Embossing class today.  It’s always nice to have a great class with a lovely bunch of ladies But I just wanted to show you the projects we did today, this was the card for the colouring part of the class, but it’s always nice to make a boy card too.

And this one was for the embossing part of the class, we embossed the silver butterflies for the card.  I really like this one, the colours go really well together I think.

I bought some new paper this week, the paper special was just too good an opportunity to miss out!  When I opened up the packs, this sheet really caught my eye.  I wanted to do a lovely easy page for my daughters 8th birthday pictures.  And this sheet was perfect.  I didn’t have to add much to it, I really wanted to showcase the pattern at the bottom. I also got a chance to try out my new cricut alpahabet, very sweet.

Don’t forget the Designer Paper promotion, buy 3 packs get 1 free!  Also if you’ve thought about joining now’s the time, it’s only $150 this month to become a demonstrator, how awesome is that!  Contact me if you’d like more information.

I had a few Mother’s Day Cards to make.  (And yes mum, your’s is in the post lol).   This one would have to be my favourite.  I really like how it turned out and I really think the colours are stunning.

I know that it is Fresh Cuts again, but I’m finding a lot of lovely uses for this stamp set.  And the fact that it can give me a very quick lovely card in just minutes is a big bonus for me.  Hope you like it.

All materials used are Stampin’ Up!

Stamp Set - Fresh Cuts, On Your Birthday

Inks - Ruby Red

Cardstock - Ruby Red, Cameo Coral, Very Vanilla

Accessories - Cutter Kit, Circle Punches, Scallop Circle Punch

Ohh my free set!  I never win prizes, I have to think I’m one of the unluckiest people out there.  But I won during Prize Patrol at Convention! YAY Me!  And this was the great prize, Cheep Talk, I’ve been eyeing this set off I just haven’t gotten around to buying it, now I can spend my money on another great set lol.  This is a buckle card too.  I’ll put the instructions on how to make this up later.

It’s also the last challenge on the Elite Challenges Blog, this was a colour challenge, Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point and Chocolate Chip.  Didn’t turn out too bad if I do say so myself.

All materials are Stampin’ Up!

Stamp Set - Cheep Talk

Cardstock - Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White

Ink - Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, Pacific Point.

This stamp set is so darn pretty.  And it’s this months Class By Mail, so if you’re interested please contact me for more information.  This is the card for my Aunty-In-Law’s birthday, and it’s also another Elite Blog Challenge, this time a sketch challenge, it’s a sketch of a card from page 11 of the new Catalogue.  That’s always fun and gives you great inspiration if you’re not sure what to do.  Grab the catalogue, find a card you like and copy the layout design.

All materials used are Stampin’ Up!

Stamp Set - Pocket Sihouettes, On Your Birthday

Cardstock - Pretty in Pink, Perfect Plum, Whisper White

Inks - Pretty In Pink, Perfect Plum

Accessories - White Narrow Grosgrain.

This weekend, I’m off to Sydney with my family for a combined 95th, 70th and 18th birthday party.  My husbands grandfather, aunt and cousin are all celebrating these wonderful milestones.  Yesterdays card was for Pop, today’s card is for the cousin and tomorrows is for the Aunt.

But, I was really happy with this card, I love Circle Circus, I can see this is going to get used a lot.

Have a look in the top right hand corner of the card, these are the new Build-A-Brads, they are so easy to use and look fantastic don’t you think.  You just punch out the design you want using the 1/2 inch circle punch attach it to the bubble and attach it to the brad.  So now you’ll always have brads that match your card!

All materials are Stampin’ Up!

Stamp Set - Circle Circus

Inks - Regal Rose, Rose Red, Blush Blossom, Almost Amethyst.

Cardstock - Whisper White, Almost Amethyst

Accessories - Circle Punches, Scallop Circle Punch, Build A Brad

Sorry it’s been so long since I posted.  This week our school had the Mothers Day stall, so guess what I was doing for 3 days lol.  But it was fun and the kids loved it.  Although I am really happy today to have been able to sit down and create some, if I do say so myself, fabulous cards!   And I’m even going to put the promise out there that I am going to post a new card everyday!  Seriously I am!  So here’s the first one.  This is one of the Elite Challenge Blog Challenges, it’s for Trendy Trees.  This was also one of the free sets at Convention.  We all received 2 sets, Trendy Trees and Circle Circus and I won one.  Cheep Talk.  So happy with that.  Now, I hope you all have a fabulous weekend and don’t forget to come back everyday and see what else I’ve made

All materials used are Stampin’ Up! and available through me.

Stamp Set - Trendy Trees, On Your Birthday

Cardstock - Pumpkin Pie, Not Quite Navy, Old Olive

Inks - Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive.

Now, how did I create this fabulous background.  Well you take your inkpad and just push it down lightly all over your cardstock.  Easy, but looks great doesn’t it?

Well what a tiring but fabulous week I’ve had!  A lovely getaway with my darling husband.  And this year’s Stampin’ Up! Convention.  I had a great time at Convention, learnt some wonderful new techniques, came away with 3 gorgeous new stamp sets, which I’ll be happily making samples with this week so keep an eye out, and came out with a fresh new outlook and goals.  Lot’s and lot’s of goals.  But I’ll get into that this week.  Tonight I just wanted to quickly let you know about this months wonderful promotions, and boy are they wonderful.

The first one is.  Buy 3 packs of Designer Series Paper and get a 4th one free!  And ohh I have a sample of all this years paper……so so so nice.

The second one is a recruiting promotion!  You can join Stampin’ Up! this month and become a demonstrator for $150 yep that’s right $150!  It’s a special Scrapbooking Starter Kit Promotion.  You get a special Scrapbooking Starter Kit and all the business supplies to be able to start selling straight away.

If you’d like more information on either of these promotions please email me on mail@kareninks.com or fill out the contact form in the Contact Me section and I’ll happily answer any questions you might have.