New in My Etsy Shop

Hello everyone, if you live in Toronto, I hope you are enjoying the wonderful weather we are having today! Awesome plus 10 here!!

Just popping in quickly to share a new card with you that I added to my Etsy shop yesterday. I kind of love the shabby chic type of look, but I'm not very good at it, so I sort of add elements of it to some of my cards. For this card, I took the scalloped squares and scrunched them all up then unfolded them and glued to the card. It's hard to tell in the picture, but it gives it sort of a warn kind of look that I really love. So there you go, another quick tip, if you want to make something look worn or rustic, just scrunch it up! Great stress reliever too! The sentiment is one of the SALEBRATION items I recieved FREE with a $60 order!! How fab is that!

Click on the link at the top right of my blog to take you to my Stampin Up! website, hit the Promotions button and find out all about SALEABRATION going on now. It's Stampin Up! biggest promotion of the year!

Hope you like the card!

Take care,

There's Something Fabulous About You!

Good morning!!

So I saw another fabulous sketch over at Cardabilities, and decided to play along again this week! So much fun! If I was more tech knowledgable I would be able to provide you with a link to their blog, but I'm not so I'll just type it in here and you can paste to your browser!

Here's my card for this week, it's going to be a birthday card for my SIL!! Hey I'm actually early with a card this month! Yeah me!!




Used the Top Note die cut from Stampin Up! and the new cupcake punch, so fun and stinking cute!! I'm also thrilled because I learned a new technique this week! See the gathered ribbon across the bottom? I finally learned how to do it! Not too bad for a first attempt. I've seen this technique on hundrends of cards and was always so jealous! I thought there was sewing or something like involved, turns out all you have to do is apply a strip of sticky tack, or whatever you use, and stick, gather and twist the ribbon where you want it, SO EASY! You'll be seeing more of this now that I learned how easy that was!! Thanks again Becky Roberts for sharing your tips with us!!

Please feel free to leave any comments or questions!!!

Also, coming soon - a new class I'm going to be holding shortly! If you love rubber stamping and paper crafting, come join me in a fun and easy new class! Details and photos to be added shortly!

Take care,

A Few More Valentine Treats!!

Here's a couple more treats I made for the kiddies for Valentine's day. It's another Stampin Up! Big shot (You really need one of these!) die, the Mini Milk Carton. Cut out 4 of them, decorated them simply because they are so stinking cute, they don't need much embellishing, and filled with jelly beans (pink, white and red of course!) Also used the Modern label punch from Stampin Up! and the Scalloped edge punch for decorating.

Huge sale going on over at Stampin Up! so go on over to my website (top right corner of my blog for the link) and check it out! Who doesn't like free stuff!!?? For every $60 purchase you make, you get a FREE ITEM from the SALEABRATION catalog, how cool is that!! You can even order directly online through my website.

I used a bit of a cheaper patterned paper, and you can see the white core of the paper coming through where I had to fold. Note to self, remember not to buy the cheaper stuff anymore!!

Take care,

Valentine Treat

Hi there, how's everyone's Valentine shopping going? I try to give a little something to lots of people on Valentine's day, so I start early! Nothing big, just little something sweet and usually a little handmade gift.

This is going to be for the secretary at our school. She's such a wonderful lady, and she just loves all the kids at the school. It's made from 2 cups (I purchased a pkg of them at walmart!) that I decorated with patterned paper, then made this cute little holder for them. I decorated the holder with hearts, stamps, a scallop border and some ribbon. I got the idea for this from Becky Roberts blog at christmas time, and have used it several times already. It's really quite fun to do! I'm gonna fill the cups with little sweets, chocolates etc.

Hope she likes it!

P.S. If you search Becky's blog, she is an amazingly talented lady, and you can find awesome ideas on her site, and she gives lots of instructions too!

If you haven't had a chance yet, don't forget to hop on over to my STAMPIN UP! site (link on the top right of my blog) we have a fabulous sale going on right now you don't want to miss!!!

Take care,

Valentine for the Hubby

I'm seeing cupcakes everywhere these days, they seem to be the hottest thing right now, so I decided to try one on a card for my hubby for Valentine's day. I used 2 different cartridges for the cupcake because I liked the top of one, and the bottom of another. I used my Stampin UP! crimper to crimp the cupcake wrapper, and give a nice texture and feel. Stamped Wonderful and husband, tied a ribbon on it and voila, it's all done.

I can't wait for my cupcake punch to arrive from Stampin Up! It's not as big as this cupcake but I think I'm going to get a lot of use out of it!

If you haven't had a chance, pop on over to my Stampin UP! website www.MelissaAzzopardi.stampinup.net and check out the fabulouse SALEABRATION going on now. Look under Promotions, and when you're ready you can order directly online, under the PRODUCTS tab!!!

Take care,

Stampin Up! Promotion

Stampin Up! is having a great promotion going on now, which will still be available during my workshop. Check it out, and any questions you may have, just ask! We will be focusing on the Tags till Christmas stamp set, along with the decorative label punch..........both being offered as a bundle at a great price!

http://www.stampinup.com/ca/documents/ABC_Holiday_1010_CA_new.pdf

If you copy and paste the above link into your browser it should work. Sorry, I'm not to tech savy to be able to link it directly for you!

Christmas Stamping Palooza!!

How's that for an attention grabbing title!

So I have decided, finally! to do my own Stampin Up! workshop and this one is going to concentrate on Christmas. I think we all need to get a head start on the big event, so I thought I would show everyone how simple it is to make a few handmade items, like tags, cards and notecards with Stampin Up! products.

Sooooooooo, are you interested in attending my event? I hope so! If you live in the Markham area, and would like to attend, please contact me through my email. The date will be WEDNESDAY November 10th, from 11:00 - 1:00 pm at my house, or from 7:00 - 9:00 pm. Please email me for the details.

Here's a sample of some of the tags we will be making!




It's gonna be a lot of fun, with make and takes, meeting new people, and a couple prizes for placing an order with me, or booking your own workshop. Please join me for all the fun!

Take care,