Stamp of Approval Box has arrived.....

I decided to give myself a birthday present and purchased the latest Stamp of Approval box.   And it arrived Friday.  I had ordered on for my friend as well but when she arrived to pick it up -  2 dies weren't in the box ... however the support team advised me that they will get them in the post Monday...

Anyway I got a couple of cards done over the weekend...

there is a bit of a story about this first one.  It started life as single layer card.... made for a challenge at StampNation - black, white and a colour.  The blue is the new All That Jazz colour in the box.  Such a pretty teal colour.   I had done my masking and stamped the wild flowers - first and second generation stamping and then stamped the script along the bottom... I didn't check the orientation of the stamping and realised it was upside down.   I had put too much effort into it so a change of design...and a layered card.  I cut off the bottom piece and put it up the correct way and layered onto some black card.   

My second card is a bit more graphic

I used a small stamp from the Medallions set and stamped it in various colours of Catherine Pooler Inks.  I then die cut the Spirograph die from spotty vellum, embossed the wishes and added a die cut best.   Very simple but effective. 

I did another one late this afternoon, but still have to photograph.    The box is AMAZING with so much in it... 3 4x6 stamp sets, 1 bigger one, three dies, a glitter embossing powder and an ink pad...  so many different ideas. 

Hope you all had a great weekend.  I celebrated  my birthday with a family dinner out at a very up market restaurant.  Sails is very nice.... Hubby had organised a cake and we took some photos of us before we left for dinner.

thanks for visiting today

Happy Birthday to ME!

Yesterday I celebrated by 60th birthday. I don't know where that time has gone!  I got spoilt - lots of lovely cards and pressies and lots of good wishes on Facebook and Instagram.  Thank you everyone

I got some beautiful flowers delivered from my daughter and her family

And once the posy was out of the box it was in a pretty little round vase. 

And my daughter posted this wonderful collage

And here are some of my presents

And the celebrations continue.... lunch with my workmates tomorrow and then a family dinner on Saturday. 

Let the Celebrations start..............

My birthday is next week, but I've already started celebrating.  Saturday I got to spend the day with my stamping friends.... we meet at Lei's house... just 5 of us in total but boy did we have fun!

Sandie had got the Beautiful Day stamp set from Altenew and wanted me to teach her how to use them.  So I made a card to show her.... and then she was away!  She did a whole pile of card fronts with lots of different colours, using my Altenew inks I have.  Now she is looking to buy the inks as well.

Here's the card I made

I also got a few more cards made

Lots of flowers for the day.  All the flower stamps are from Altenew.  The middle one is with some dies from Couture Creations.    The sentiment on the far right is from Kaisercraft.   The leaves are stamped in grey ink and the flower is popped on some dimensional tape.

Sunday, my friend Yvonne organised to take me to High Tea at The Langham Hotel.  It was awesome

The food was AMAZING.... there was soooo much.  This was for two of us to share and then there was a plate of two scones each with clotted cream and jams.  I have to say that I brought home a box of some of the bits home for my son. 

This was an awesome start to my birthday week.  And Yvonne and Micheal gave me this beautiful Lily

Have a great week everyone and thanks for stopping by

Happy 60th Birthday to my friend.

My friend Yvonne, turned 60 today and I made her one of my Cards in a Box to celebrate.  We went to their holiday home at Mangawhai for the weekend and all went out to dinner last night to an awesome restaurant called the Frog and Kiwi
Dinner was just fabulous - a great combination of French and Kiwi cusine.

Here is the card I made for her

 

A happy looking card.  We also gave Yvonne a voucher for a Pedicure and Manicure.  

Yesterday we spent some time planting citrus trees at the Yvonne and Michael's new section.  It's a few hundred metres down the road from their current holiday house.  They are planning a new "forever" home there to retire to when the time comes.    

Yvonne digging the first hole.

My Peter earning his keep by digging holes.

Our contribution to 54C... a native Totara tree.

We are very lucky to have such wonderful friends who share their live with us.