PARKER BROKEN! A little Blog Hop Action for you …

Happy Wednesday everyone!

I hope you’ve grabbed your coffee and are comfortable as you’re in for a real treat – over 25 blogs filled with loads of great ideas made with projects from the brand new Autumn-Winter Mini catalogue!!  It’s going to blow your mind!!

If you have dropped into my blog and wonder what’s going on, you’ve been lucky enough to stumble into a ESAD blog hop!  Otherwise you might have dropped into from the awesome Sharlene Meyer.

What is ESAD?

ESAD stands for Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators and it is an online group just for Australian and New Zealand demonstrators for Stampin’ Up!

We so love what we do and not only do we love to share it with our customers, friends and wonderful blog visitors but we share our love for what we do with each other as Demonstrators. We run swaps, challenges, tutorials, product know how and cyberstamps and we are always there to help and support each other when its needed.

So if you are a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand then please feel free to click here to join our wonderful group.

MY PROJECT TODAY

 

My “baby” (he’s 7 and hates that I call him my baby) fell off the jungle gym at school last month.  He’s a full-on kid, so I guess it shouldn’t surprise me!  It did surprise me that the only thing he was worried about at the ER was asking the Dr if he could still play rugby with his cast on!!

To create the titles I used the fabulous new Big Shot Timeless Type alphabet - boy did that save me a heap of time compared to my old way of stamping or printing and cutting out letters!  I would totally recommend the alphabet for all your scrappers out there – it’s awesome!!

I wanted my letters to have a little oomph, so I added a layer of Crystal Effects to each of them to give them a great dimensional and glossy finish. I really like the way they turned out.

The designer paper you can see in my page is from the new Autumn Traditions pack.  This pack is really great for more masculine pages as there are heaps of great colours in it – even the fabulous new Soft Suede which is already a huge hit with me!

Of course I had to add some monkey bars to the page just so I could use those cute little monkeys from the new Fox & Friends stamp set!  If you haven’t used the new acrylic stamp sets, you really need to try them.  I was adamant that I wasn’t going to use them, but after trying them I really love them!  They are the same rubber and foam stamps we are used to, the only difference being you stick them to an acrylic block when you want to use them, and then peel them off when you are finished.  Same fabulous images but a huge space saving in the craft room since a whole set of even 24 stamps fits inside the cute DVD cases they come in!!

If you are wondering why there is no photo in the “Parker Fixed” spot, it’s because he’s only getting his cast removed this morning, so we’ll have to update the page in a day or so after we’ve taken the “after” photo …

Updated to say:  I forgot to tell you about the BLOG CANDY!  Shame on me! 

We are again offering Blog Candy for our Blog Hop. What you need to do is complete the blog hop until you get back to me. Once you’ve visited and commented on every blog then you will need to email me at stampwithsharlene@hotmail.com and tell me your name and where you are from and I can then put your name into the draw for the blog candy.  There will be one winner from New Zealand and one winner from Australia.

Now you need to go and check out the talented Shirley McAvoy to see what treats she’s prepared for you!