Everybody is Somebody.

I work in a neighbourhood house & we all work incredibly hard, given the clientele & their various needs.

While we are all an amazing team, we wouldn't be able to do as well as we can without the assistance of many volunteers.

So each year our workplace puts on a dinner, cooked in-house, for all the volunteers throughout the year that have helped us. They may have folded flyers for the courses we offer for mailing out, may have helped with translating during conversations with newly arrived refugees or directly assisted our English teachers in the classroom.

What ever they have helped our services, they are being recognised during this dinner.

There has to be a selfie during such a wonderful gathering, right? Here are some of our volunteers, staff & me!!

This occasion calls for a card that will convey our gratitude to each & everyone on our volunteres.

This card has a single layer of Whisper White & uses a couple of colours for the garden image.

This stamp set, stunning, isn't it!! It is 'Inspiring Iris' and has such a gorgeous image using 2-step stamping to produce the image you see.

The flower buds & stems have an out-line image and then the block of colour to finish. I simply used the D block directly onto the ink pad, stamped off onto scrap paper & then onto the base of the card. (This is known as 2nd generation stamping).

And that verse!!

'You are somebody

who makes everybody

feel like somebody'

It's just perfect for our Earth Angels that are our volunteers! Manjit, our Volunteer Co-Ordinator, (in orange, in the above group photo), wrote a personal message in each of the 36 cards, too!!

And of course, the envelope NEEDS to be decorated also. These were placed at each person's table setting with a small gift from the staff at Glenroy Neighbourhood Leaning Centre.

 Maurie is one of our volunteers, who having been out of action for a while, is back with us - we are so glad!!

Gabrielle is a wonderful co-worker, I value our friendship so much.

I'd love to hear what you think of them, feel free to leave a comment...

Thanks again, Jo.

Stamps: Inspiring Iris

Cardstock: Whisper White

Ink: Mint Macaron, Calypso Coral of Flirty Flamingo

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Spring Time Clean-Up...

When I was using the beautiful clear blocks of Stampin' Up!, earlier this weekI realised just how 'cloudy' mine had become with overuse...

While the curved edges are very nice for my fingers & thumbs, (meaning they do not leave blisters because of harsh corners), what good is a CLEAR block when you cant see through them?
(This may be slightly exaggerated, but you can see that there is a grimy look to my blocks...)

 So it was time to boil the kettle for a peppermint tea, grab a soft cloth & the Eucalyptus Solution & spend just a few minutes to give the blocks some tender lovin' care!
(Please note: do not use any type of scourer on the blocks, they will scratch the surface, resulting on damage to them...)

Even just wiping one side of this small size D block resulted in this much grim being removed!! It really wasn't a difficult task, but like everything in life - we just have to find the time!!

Have a look at how the small block is wonderful, while there are smudges of colour looking through the blocks that are stacked on each other....? Yuck!

And finally my blocks are shiny, shiny again!! I'm certainly much happier to show off my business tools, when they are clean like this!!

And in that short time, my peppermint tea is ready!!

Have a great day, see you again, where I will show you some Christmas tags that I'm working on...

Jo x