Delicate Doilies & Perfect Pennants note pad

Morning all!
I thought I'd do a quick post today, before I run around and take care of a few chores.  Just over a week ago, Stampin' Up! held a Fun Day here in Auckland where we got to play with lots of new products from the catalogue, do a few make n takes, and watch some cool presentations from Stampin' Up! staff and Demonstrators from around NZ.  It was a pretty hectic day but loads of fun - and apparently NZ is the first to have such a day, woo hoo!

As is the custom with any Stampin' Up! event, lots of us were madly swapping samples we'd made.  Most managed to use new catalogue products so it was really exciting to see what everyone had made (what better excuse to buy new toys than because you HAVE to use new catalogue goodies to make swaps with?).  As usual, my swaps weren't the most simple things.  I couldn't narrow it down to just one new product so I had to use three.  And then make it time consuming to put together.  Sigh...  Here it is!

I covered some inexpensive notepads I'd managed to find and stashed away some months ago (I am a bargain hunter/hoarder from way back!).  I pulled the colours from the Cheerful Treat hostess DSP which is to die for I think, love it!  I've had one lovely customer earn it already by partying alone, ordering up and taking advantage of the new hostess benefits program (tee hee there is someone else who thinks the same way I do!). 

You can't see it in the pic, but the white layer on top of the Bashful Blue cover is actually hand embossed (as opposed to using the Big Shot).  I embossed some vertical lines that were half a centimetre apart, all the way down the cardstock, using the scoring blade on my trimmer to do it.  In real life it adds a little extra something to the project, I think, as does the Champagne Mist shimmer paint that I made into a spray and spritzed the butterfly with.  I don't think you can see that, either.  I should say that all of my projects seem to look far better IRL than the pics do on here.  Maybe it's because I'm not very good with a camera, give me cardstock and scissors and I'm your girl, but technology of any sort - nope!

If you want one of these, I did make a few extra and put them aside to use as gifts for my Hostesses for the coming months.  So you just have to host a party and I'll gift you one of these, if you would like it (or I've got some other hostess gifts ready to go here too - may share those later!).

Here's the supplies I used:
Stamps: Delicate Doilies, Notes & Details (yahoo it's back!)
Ink: Concord Crush, Lucky Limeade
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Confetti White, Concord Crush, Melon Mambo, Whisper White
Other: Cheerful Treat DSP, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Perfect Pennants die, Circles #2 die, 1 3/4" circle punch, large oval punch, Basic rhinestone jewels, scoring blade & trimmer

Hope you likey!