Cracked Glass Nature Walk

Well I was fortunate enough to be part of a wonderful event for raising funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation via Crafters Anonymous - for $20 we got to have a cyber event making 6 projects over the day (including written tutorials at the end of it all) plus tickets for an awesome raffle prize. So over the next few days I'll put up the projects that we made on the day - although everyones was different as for example this on was a technique, but the choice of image and the item we made from it was totally our own!

Coincidentally we were only talking about the cracked glass technique last week at our demonstrator meeting. I love this stamp set - you can't quite see from the photo, but the bird was water coloured in Baja Breeze and Early Expresso ink.

Stamps: Nature Walk

Ink: Baja Breeze, Early Expresso & Versamark

Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Early Expresso, Very Vanilla

Accessories: Old Olive grosgrain ribbon, stamping sponges, clear embossing powder, heat gun, powder pal, embossing buddy, Dimensionals, SNAIL, Aquapainter.

World Card Making Day Event

Well I'm running a few weeks (months) behind in my blog posts, but I am slowly catching up! On Saturday the 23rd of October Charmaine, Samantha and myself decided to run an event for World Card Making Day, with the money raised going to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.  Ironically none of the three of us actually are particularly fond of pink, but we pulled out all the stops and decorated the venue and ourselves in the colour to help raise awareness and funds! (If you are ever looking for NBCF pink things try here). So there were balloons, streamers, name badges, t-shirts, bags and even cupcakes all in pink along with a group of lovely ladies and Charmaine's ever wonderfully supportive husband to have a fun day of papercrafting and fundraising! I also have to thank Elysia (Charmaine's daughter) and Diana (my Mum) for helping out in the kitchen all day keeping us supplied with food & helping with all the cleaning up.

These are the bags which contained the project materials for 6 items on the day - I'll post photographs of each of the projects soon!

Here are some of the ladies hard at work creating (above) and admiring some of the display boards that we put together (below).

It was wonderful how many people volunteered their time and skills to help us on the day. The cupcakes below were made by Cassie, and her lovely dad Fred made some awesome curry puffs for the day as well.

We had some amazing prizes donated for the raffle, games, silent auction, written auction & door prizes donated from  Stampin'Up!, Catherine Baudains, The National Breast Cancer Foundation, Vivi of Buds of May and Charmaine. Of course a special thank you also goes to the wonderful Kelmscott tennis club who donated the use of their venue free of charge for the event - thanks so much everyone, without your support & generosity we would never have been able to do an event like this!

Overall we were able to donate a grand total of $1,900.94 which was a pretty good first effort for us and were were very pleased and grateful to everyone who helped out on the day. I know this amount is very small compared to what is needed to continue the much needed research & education that will help fight this awful disease for our future generations, but every little helps. 

I'll post photographs of the 6 projects the ladies made on the day soon. Our insanity continues though as the feedback was very positive for the day and so consequently we'll be back bigger and better than ever in May next year!

Pink Stamp-a-thon

In September I helped two friends (Louise & Charmaine) out with their Breast Cancer Fundraising event called Stamp-a-thon. a full day of fun and paper crafting for almost 100 people. It was pretty full on, but a lot of fun and lots of money was raised to go to the National Breast Cancer Foundation for education and research projects. I was happy to help out on the day with whatever needed to be done at the time, but I also made some little thank you cards and matching soaps which were included in each raffle/door/auction prize on the day. 

The little thank you cards were simple and cute, but effective as we were all sincerely very grateful to everyone who helped by participating, buying raffle tickets, bidding on auctions, helping out decorating the venue or in the kitchen and of course cleaning up at the end! The soaps were made with Rhubarb al Fresco fragrance & smelt so yummy - I sell them on my Made It store (this Australian version of Etsy) and donate all the proceeds to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Stamps: Trendy Trees (sentiment)

Ink: Pretty in Pink

Card stock: Very Vanilla. Regal Rose

Accessories: Polka Dot Texture plate, Clear Rhinestone brads, 1/16" handheld punch, Pretty in Pink 1/4" grosgrain ribbon

Stamp-a-thon

Does an entire day of stamping and papercrafting with like minded people sound good to you? Want to combine it with helping a good cause? The registration form for Stamp-A-Thon 2010 has just been released. Each year this event gets bigger and better and this is the fourth year that Makeesha Byl has held this amazing event to raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Research Foundation. It will be held at the  Free reformed Church, Armadale. Church hall. 84, Fifth rd, Armadale. Time 9am-4.30pm on Saturday the 4th of September 2010.

If you were one of the participants last year I'm sure you will want to join in the fun again this year. We would love to see some new faces at this years event as well as familiar ones, so be quick to register and save your seats for this amazing event.

Here is the link to the registration form here. I'm going to be helping out on the day so we'd love to see you there whilst also sharing the fun while raising funds for this very worthy cause.