Two of my most favourite products from the Occasions Catalogue are the Carousel Birthday stamp set and coordinating Cupcakes & Carousels Designer Series Paper. The imagery and designs are so pretty and whimsical and the colour combinations are gorgeous! I've already created one thank you card using these products and here's a second. All my guests at the Hamilton Extravaganza received a Mini Egg Carton that was decorated and stamped with this stamp set and designer paper, and filled with chocolates. To thank those that placed an order at the Hamilton Extravaganza, I made them a card to match their Mini Egg Carton...

The Mini Egg Cartons in the Occasions Catalogue are the perfect gift box for filling with Easter eggs. Here's my Easter Mini Egg Carton, decorated with the Cupcakes & Carousels Designer Series Paper...

I've finally had the chance to sort through everything from the Hamilton Extravaganza, which was held last weekend, and to take photos of the gorgeous projects we taught on the day. To start, I want to share what I created for my guests...

The Balloon Pop-Up Thinlits is a fabulous collection of party dies that coordinate with the Balloon Adventures stamp set. The star of this die set is the large 9 cm x 15.3 cm (3-1/2" x 6") bunch-of-balloons-with-banner die. This die is designed to create a cute popup for the inside of a birthday card. But that's not all it does. This versatile die cut can be trimmed down to use in a wonderful variety of ways.

I'm so in love with the Party Animal Product Suite in the Occasions Catalogue, especially the Emerald Envy patterned paper with the white silhouette animals in the Party Animal Designer Series Paper. Did you notice there are cute party hats on their heads! So when it came to decorating a birthday gift box and choosing one of the designer series papers, I knew which one I wanted...

At the Creative Stamping Workshops last month, we created this collar-fold birthday card using the Lift Me Up stamp set, coordinating Up & Away Thinlits Dies and matching Carried Away Designer Series Paper. Just a reminder that the Carried Away Designer Series Paper is a Sale-A-Bration product that you could choose for FREE when placing a $110 order (excluding shipping), and that Sale-A-Bration finishes at the end of March.

The Party Animal Product Suite in the Occasions Catalogue is one of my favourites, mostly because it has bright, traditional birthday imagery that is perfect for masculine and feminine cards for anyone of any age. Here are three fun gift tags that I've created with this versatile suite...

Not only are hot air balloons fun to use, very generic and can be used for both feminine and masculine cards, but the Lift Me Up stamp set has such a broad range of sentiments that this set is definitely one that will get so much use. It ticks all six boxes!