Yesterday was our Christmas break up for MOPS (Mother's of Pre-schoolers). MOPS is a fantastic idea, which started in America, and has had groups in New Zealand for more than ten years. Basically it is a place where mothers of pre-schoolers can have their children looked after for a morning while mums have some timeout to catch up with others, do some craft, and have discussions about life, family and kids. If you want to know more about MOPS, click HERE to check out the New Zealand MOPS website, or HERE to check out the MOPS International website.

The Summer Mini Catalogue is here! Here is one of the products found in the Summer Mini - Sweet Treat Cups. Used in conjunction with the new 1-3/4" Circle Punch, they can add dimension and small gifts to your cards. Also in the Summer Mini are padded envelopes specially designed for cards using the Sweet Treat Cups.

I have finally gotten around to posting these lovely stamped candles made by the ladies that came to the November workshop on the Wednesday night.

I made this never-ending card for my Father-in-law's birthday, which we celebrated last night. He is a hands-on-fix-it-type person so appreciated the mechanics of the card. I adapted the instructions found on Dawn's website to create this card.

This card I totally copied from the Australian Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft magazine (vol 14, no 12). I had just got the Baroque Motifs stamp set and wanted to test-drive it!

When I was playing around with the Window Frame Technique, I thought it would make a good mat for framing photos in a frame. This is what I came up with:

This cute Christmas card was a demonstrator swap that I got from Jacqui a couple of weeks ago.

The little Whittaker's chocolate boxes that I made for those who attended the Hamilton Extravaganza on the weekend were inspired by this card.