2 new catalogues out now!

Wahoo, are you as excited as me? 

Annual Catalogue

1 September 2012 - 30 June 2013

 

Holiday Catalogue

September 2012 - January 2013

 

Not only do we have a fabulous new 2012 Catalogue, but we also have a new catalogue called the Holiday Catalogue.  This new publication is jammed packed with christmas, halloween, thanksgiving and valentines products, basically it covers all the holidays between now and February. 

So what's new? 

The 5 new in-colours



Firm Foam Inkpads.  Stampin' Up! have introduced a new style firm foam inkpad.  The colours and cases are the same, but the firm foam surface provides an even better stamped image, with only a light tap required.

Stamp and Framelit bundles.  Many new stamp sets have co-ordinating Framelits dies to cut them out with the Big Shot, and some even come in a bundle, saving you money if you buy them together.

Cookie Press Stamps.  Now you can have gorgeous stamped cookies, as well as cards.

Digital Content CDs.  For those of you who love digital scrapbooking or cardmaking, you can use Stampin' Up!'s exclusive images on your layouts.  The content of each cd includes Designer Series Paper and co-ordinating brushes.  The cd will work with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and similar software.

Price Reductions.  Yes, many items have been reduced in price.  These include inkpads, bigshot dies, punches and more. 

To view the catalogues, please click on the links in the side bar, or if you would prefer a paper copy to drool over, please email me and I will post one out to you.

Til next time,

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Have you missed my creating?

Wow I can't believe it has been seven months since I last blogged. What can I say, my mojo went AWOL and life has been very hectic, what with kids activities, lots of illness nd even hospital stays, time has got away on me.

I have also been trying to purge stuff and organise our house. I fear I am a bit of a hoarder, but I am trying to improve and have been systematically working through boxes, drawers and anywhere I have stashed "stuff". My mind is a lot less cluttered now the house is looking better and I don't feel guilty sitting in my craft room playing. Now I just need to teach my kids how to pick up and put away after themselves ... Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated because my asking nicely, yelling and bribing technique is not working lol.

One of my fabulous friends came over last night and we made cards, and had an awesome time doing it. Lots of gossiping, laughing, pizza, a glass or two of wine and home made profiteroles, it was a winning combination.

Unfortunately I haven't photographed the cards yet, but will do it and post them this week sometime. I Am not going to give you a specific day as the kids are still on holidays this week and I want to spend lots of time hanging with them.

Thanks for sticking with me, and be sure to pop back next week to check out my creations.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

ESAD Summer Mini Catalogue Blog Hop

Goes live at 10am (Sydney time) tomorrow.

Be sure to come back then to check out the amazing projects made by 25 talented Stampin' Up! demonstrators.

See you then!

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

ESAD Summer Mini Catalogue Blog Hop

Welcome to the ESAD New Catalogue Blog Hop!

What is ESAD?

ESAD stands for "Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators" and it is an on-line group just for Australian and New Zealand Stampin Up demonstrators.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 it is 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

Now on to the Blog Hop!

You may have arrived here from the very talented Jacinta Argent, or perhaps you were just browsing. However you found me I am glad you are here!

Today I am showcasing four new products from the summer mini catalogue, the Marry Me stamp set, Candy Wrapper die for the bigshot, silver glimmer paper and velvet ribbon. I have made two cards and a wedding favour/gift tower to share with you, all using the colour combination of soft suede, pink pirouette and very vanilla, along with the Beau Chateau dsp.

Here is the first card.

For this card I punched out a scallop circle from the silver glimmer paper and coloured it pink with a sponge dauber and inkpad. How cool is that, you can have glimmer paper in any colour you want. I think I had better order some more, as I have already used half of my pre-order!

Here is a close up of the scallop circle.

Next up is another card which uses the same image from the marry me stamp set. On this card I have coloured the velvet ribbon with a dauber and the soft suede inkpad. I stamped En Francais on the background pink layer before running it through the big shot with the striped textured empressions folder. Some sponging around the edges of all the layers and I was happy with the end result.

For my final project I decided to make a tower out of the candy wrapper dies, which are held together with a belly band. When I brought the candy wrapper die I was a little disapppointed with the size of it, but then I saw a u-tube video of how to make it triple the size and thought how cool. While playing around a couple of weeks ago, I worked out how to also make it double the size, so from one little die, I can make three different size boxes. How awesome - three for the price of one!

Here is a shot of them all stacked up.

And a shot of the ends of them.

And finally a shot of all my projects together.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing what I have created, and should you require any information, please email me.

The next stop on the blog hop is the very talented Pauline Bennetts Barns. Click here to be
taken to her blog and continue following the hop!

I hope you all have a great Friday afternoon and fun and fabulous weekend.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

PS Here is a list of people participating in the blog hop, in case you get lost.

1. Michelle Halling

www.michellehcreations.blogspot.com

2. Tayna Bell

www.stampingt.com.au

3. Yvonne Walker

www.yvonnescreativecorner.blogspot.com

4. Tracey McDonald Old

www.astamperstouch.blogspot.com

5. Keryn Campbell

www.kerynscards.blogspot.com

6. Sherylee Tutt

http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/sherylee/blog

7. Nicole Derendorf

www.nicolederendorf.com

8. Corina Beyer

www.beyondinkstamper.com

9. Sharlene Meyer

www.magpiecreates.com

10. Kelly Nelson

www.kellysstampinspot.wordpress.com

11. Ann Gerlach

www.discover-ink.blogspot.com

12. Jane Norrish

www.janenorrish.com

13. Richelle Fletcher

www.stampingwithrichelle.blogspot.com

14. Jacinta Argent

www.jacintascreations.blogspot.com

15. Nicky Adamson - you are here

www.nickyadamson.blogspot.com

16. Pauline Bennetts Barns

www.paulinebennetts.com/stampede

17. Elizabeth Dyson

www.libbystampz.blogspot.com

18. Monique Fielder

www.stamping-with-moni-q.blogspot.com

19. Ruth Clarke

www.ruthyclarke.blogspot.com

20. Joanne Kechagias

www.joannekechagias.blogspot.com

21. Christie Kunkel

www.christiescreativecorner.blogspot.com

22. Felicity Fernandez

www.stampinwithflick.blogspot.com

23. Jenny Hayward

www.astampingjourney.wordpress.com

24. Theresa "Tess" Schirmer

www.stampinandstuffwithtess.wordpress.com

25. Andrea Buckland

www.creatingcardswithandrea.blogspot.com

Baby boy card

Wow look at this card ... I just love it. I don't own this baby stamp set but you know what ... I am thinking that I might just have to buy it! I have seen some amazing cards made with it, and not your normal kind of card, but beautiful scene ones. Oh well I will procrastinate a tad longer and see whether it ends up on my next order!
In case you can't work it out, it is supposed to be a chest of drawers. The bottom was cut out with the top note die and then I just put blocks of card on top with dimensionals and scattered the items over the three drawers. The drawer handles were punched out with the small scallop in the trio punch and a brad was put through the centre.

I was very excited when I was finished it as it ended up just as I wanted it to. Thanks Kylie for the idea.

We are off iceskating this afternoon, lets hope there are no injuries this time, Sam managed to stab himself in the hand with his skate last time we went.

Have a great long weekend, I hope you manage to fit some crafting time in.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Button Buddies

One of the great things about being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator is that every year we get to attend Convention. It is three days of hanging out with your stamping friends, being blown away by the amazing work of your fellow demos, attending fantastic seminars and having heaps of fun. Another benefit is receiving new stamp sets before the catalogue is released. Button Buddies is a stamp set we received in Melbourne this year.

It is designed to be used with the Stampin' Up! buttons, but can also be used with circles or flowers, or just left as it is.

Today I have a card to share with you that I made for my friend Susan's birthday earlier this year. Her favourite colour is pink, so I used the gorgeous sweet and sour specialty dsp (which has now retired). Here is the card...
And a close up of the flower panel with the buttons ...I would love to hear what you think of it.

It is the last weekend of the school holidays and I am at karate with Sam. It feels so wrong to be up so early on a Saturday morning in the holidays, oh the things you do for your children. I am very sad the holidays are over as the kids and I have had a blast hanging out together.

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Don't you love the school holidays...

I do. Love the pyjama mornings and hanging out with my kids. For the most part they are lots of fun to be around and we have a blast doing fun things together when they are on holiday. This afternoon we are going to see The Smurfs and to Max Brenner for a chocolate fix. Max Brenner is one of our favourite places to go, it seems my children have inherited my love of chocolate!

Enough chit chat, onto the card I have to share today.

When the catalogue came out one of the stamp sets we could pre-order was the delicate doillies set. I wasn't sure about it as I had the circle circus set and had hardly used it, but after going on the INKlings weekend away I just HAD to buy it.

I CASE'd this card from my good friend Amy.

I don't normally make cards this shape, but it worked well for this design. The colours were also ones that I would not think of putting together, basic gray, old olive and really rust. We got the combo from the colour coach (one of my favourite tools). It's good to challenge yourself every now and then.

I hope you are having a great week.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Forever Young

Being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator you can pre-order certain products before a new catalogue goes "live". This is one of the stamp sets I pre-ordered. It is called Forever Young and I loved it from the moment I saw it.

The card I have to share with you today is one that I made for a swap on the INKlings annual weekend away in August.

It uses one of the new in-colours wisteria wonder and also the parlor prints background stamp.

The style is a bit different from the cards I normally make, but I was really happy with how it turned out.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Boy''s birthday card

Today I have a card I made for one of Sam's friends to show you. I always struggle a little with small boys cards, so I decided to do a card with his name on it. I started off by placing small stars all over the base and then mounted the letters on top with dimensionals.

The letters have been cut out with the big shot simple letters alphabet. I purchased the alphabet a couple of months ago and I love it. Jess has even used it a couple of times on school projects.

It was a very bright fun card and super quick to make.

Til next time...

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

The new catalogue is here ...

If you would like to view the new catalogue - click on the image on the right. Or if you are like me and want your very own copy to look at again and again and put sticky notes on what you "must" have then email me at nickyadamson@ymail.com and I will let you know how much it will be to have one posted to you.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Plane birthday card

What do you think of the birthday card I made for my nephew? It was another of the cards that I made at the weekend away. The plane is out of the new hostess stamp set Ain't Love Grand. It has a banner on it, but I decided to go one bigger and make a large banner with all three planes towing it.


I was happy with how it turned out and it went down a treat with my nephew.


Today is the 1st of November, and all Stampin' Up! demos can pre-order items from the summer mini catalogue which goes live on 1 December. My list is rather long, so I think I may have to attempt to cull it!


Hope you are having a great Melbourne Cup Day.


Keep on Creating.


xx Nicky

Doilies #2

Another card to share today made with the delicate doilies stamp set. This was cased off my good friend Amy. It was a really fun card to make, very quick and easy and really dimensional. I used melon mambo which I admit I have hardly used. It is a really bright colour and with the white, seems even brighter. I used the embosslits butterfly die for the Big Shot and some melon mambo buttons. A bit of bling and it was all finished.

My sister-in-law loves pink, so I made two cards the same and sent one to her. I do this quite often as since you have all the supplies out, it is just as easy to make two rather than one.

Hope you are having a great week.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Rock Guitar

Wow it has been another long time between posts ... if I don't sit down on a Monday morning and do it, time gets away on me. I haven't been creating a lot of late, all I seem to be doing is driving children around to activities and by the time the evening comes around, I am ready to blob in front of the tv. This time of year is exhausting. I can't believe there are only three more weeks left of school. I can't wait. No more getting up early and I really enjoy spending time with my kids, hopefully we may even get away these holidays.

Well enough chatter, on to my card for today. It is uses concord crush, more mustard and very vanilla. I made it while I was at Michelle's house about a month ago. I borrowed her extreme elements and grunge rock stamp sets. The more I use extreme elements, the more I think I am going to "have" to buy it LOL.
I stamped the background vanilla piece of card all over with the dotty stamp from extreme elements and used the music roller wheel for the background behind the guitars. If you have any questions about this card, drop me an email and I will gladly fill you in.

Hope your week is going well, only one more day til the weekend - woohoo.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

60th birthday card & box

Well where have I been you may ask .. the answer would be nowhere. I have been extremely tired and lost all my motivation and ooph over the past few months. Unfortunately updating my blog has become something that was just too hard to do. I went and saw my Dr last week and she is testing my blood for all manner of things, to see if it is something medical (lets hope so), so I can get back to feeling "normal" again.

I have a special birthday card and box to share with you today. I made these for my dear friend Sandra's 60th birthday. The card is a centre-step card. I love making these cards, they are so easy and look WOW.

I used the Flirtatious specialty papers and the elements of style stamp set from the new catalogue. Here is the card ...

Here is a side view...
This is the box I made for the present. It is made with the mini milk carton die.

And here is a picture of the two together.

I was really pleased with how they turned out and I know Sandrá loved them.

If you would like any details on how to made either the card or the box, let me know.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

The retirement list is here ...

There are only 30 days left of the existing Idea Book & Catalogue, so that means it is time to say goodbye to hundreds of products. To view a copy of the retirement list click here.


All products are on a "while stocks last" basis, so if there is something you absolutely love, please do not hesitate to contact me to place your order. If you do, you may miss out!


Keep on creating.


xx Nicky

Weeks that don't go the way you planned ...

Does this happen to anyone else? In the past 3 weeks I have had Sam in hospital with a mystery leg problem that left him unable to walk, I have managed to get a cold and conjunctivitous and it is now school holidays, and we all know that nothing gets done during the school holiday!

I thought I would do a quick post to let you know I am still around and will resume regular posting after the holidays.

We have had a very busy week this week but I am hoping I may get some card making done next week.

If you have children on holiday, enjoy your sleep ins (I definately am) and have fun with the kids.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Birthday Card #2

This is the card that Kylie made me for my birthday - it is so me, all white, bright and sparkly. If you would like to see some more of her creations, take a look at her blog here.She too used an orange base, and one of the new stamp sets we received at convention. It is a fabulous set which has some really awesome stamps in it.

She has used dazzling diamonds on the embossed piece to make it all sparkly - there seems to a theme going on here LOL.

Next time, a thank you card I received, which surprisingly is also very sparkly.

Hope you have a great weekend.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Birthday Card #1

I received this stunning card from a very good friend and fellow demonstrator, Michelle Dyson. She too has a blog, so pop over and check out her latest creations here. In case any of you didn't already know, my favourite colour is orange. I know that's kind of strange since I was a 70s baby and my bedroom when I was a kid was orange and white, but over the past 10 years it has become my all-time favourite colour. It is such a happy vibrant colour.

Michelle of course knows of my love of orange, so she made me an orange card. She used a WOW technique we were shown at Convention in Melbourne last month, which involved ripping the middle out of the centre of the card to make a frame. She also used gold spritz all over the card and it is fabulously sparkly. I tried to photograph it, but of course I couldn't get a photo that showed it.

Thank you so much Michelle, I love it.

Next time, a card made by Kylie Swain, which also shows a sneek peak of a new stamp set we will be getting in our next catalogue, so be sure to check back in a couple of days.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Growing Green Birthday Card

Are any of you as sick of the rain as I am? My kids have been home sick for half of last week, and they are going absolutely crazy today. Please please please can the rain stop as I think we all need to get outside and I would like to get some washing done!

Now on to something far more interesting ... One of my fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrators had her birthday last week and this is the card I made for her. I used the Growing Green stamp set, and managed to whip this card up in half an hour. It came together exactly how I had imagined it, and believe me that doesn't happen too often.

Here is a close up of the flower, which I coloured with my blender pen and ink pad.

I was very happy with how it turned out.

I have a couple of birthday cards I received to share with you over the next week, so be sure to come back and check them out.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Time has got away on me again...

I am having trouble fitting everything in these days ... I don't know about you, but life seems to be so busy at the moment ... what with kids appointments and my appointments, the days are just flying by.

I haven't even had a chance to sit at my desk and create anything for so long ... however I have most of this week free, so plan on doing just that. The house is clean and tidy, so there is no guilt about what I "should" be doing LOL.

I will give myself all week to create and will do a post on Friday to show you what I have been up to. If anyone is still reading my blog PLEASE leave me a comment.

Have a great week.

Keep on creating.



xx Nicky