Christmas Thank you cards!

Well, I'm a big believer in Thank you cards - especially for Christmas presents! So many people put so much thought and planning into Christmas and finding the right gift. The least I can do is show how much I appreciate their work by sending a quick thank you card! Here's what I came up with this year. Somehow I over-planned for my Christmas cards and had a ton of extra "fronts" ... so I turned them into the "fronts" for our thank yous! THAT was easy... and ingenious on my part, if I do say so myself! HA!

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Stamp set: Baroque Motifs, Snowflake Spot, All HOlidays (inside) and Holidays and Wishes
Colors: River Rock, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, Whisper White, Kraft card stock

The final results - 2007 Christmas cards

Here they are! The final results... these turned out to be my Christmas cards this year. If you're a follower of my blog you're already well aware of the fact that I simply can't get enough of this Baroque Motifs set. So it's only fitting to see it on my Christmas cards!!! Right?!

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Stamp set: Baroque Motifs, Snowflake Spot

Colors: River Rock, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, and Whisper White

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Stamp set: Baroque Motifs, Snowflake Spot
Colors: Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, More Mustard, Purely Pomegranate, Bordering Blue and Certainly Celery

Some Christmas ideas

Well, the Christmas card frenzy is about to start... but I've been struggling w/ some ideas! It's that tough decision on HOW MUCH WORK am I going to put into these things?! All I can think about is that I'm making 125 cards - go easy or go all the way?! Here are some preliminary ideas... what do you think?

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Technique: Wax resist (hard to see - but it's the tree)

Stamp set: Sidekick Sayings (Hostess set, level 1)

Colors: Soft Sky, Old Olive, Real Red, More Mustard, Blue Bayou, and Basic Black

Extras: Brayer, glossy card stock, light color crayon, shimmery white card stock

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Stamp set: Snowflake spot, All Holidays

Colors: Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, Real Red, and Old Olive

Extras: Scalloped punch, shimmery white card stock

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Technique: Wax resist (hard to see - but it's the snow on the top layer)

Stamp set: Seasonal Whimsy, All Holidays, Jumbo Whimsy wheel
Colors: Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, Real Red, and Blue Bayou

Extras: Scalloped punch, double rectanble punch, shimmery white card stock, wild wasabi stitched grosgrain

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Technique: Wax resist (hard to see - but it's the tree)
Stamp set: Sidekick Sayings (Hostess set, level 1), All Holidays
Colors: Soft Sky, Old Olive, Real Red, More Mustard, and Basic Black
Extras: Brayer, glossy card stock, light color crayon, markers

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Stamp set: Snowflake spot, All Holidays
Colors: Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, Real Red, and Old Olive
Extras: Word window punch, shimmery white card stock, silver brads

World Card Making Day!

Well, we did it! For World Card Making Day we met our goal! Me and just a few of the dedicated girls got together and made over 200 cards!!! The cards will soon be shared with families at a local Ronald McDonald House as well as a local chapter of the Navy Wives Club - so they can stay in touch with their loved ones!

Grant it... these cards were super simple, no-frills cards... ok, maybe just a little bit of bling.... but super simple.

A HUGE shout out to Jodie and Lisa for coming out ... and dedicating a few hours of their busy Saturday morning to what we ended up calling 'stamp-therapy'! We assembly lined and rocked out over 200 cards!!! Yes, I'm quite happy about this... can you tell?!

It's the least we could do... and boy was it fun!!!

SU's Designer Series Papers!

Well, I finally broke down and bought some of the WONDERFULLY scrumptious Prints Designer Series Papers (Page 173)... see?!

My first squash book!

For the first time in a long time I got to go to a stamp event and sit back and enjoy! And looky what I learned!!! I made my very first squash book! Now, I had seen one of these before. And I heard someone call it by name before - but no one ever showed me how easy it is to make one!!!

But I was quick on my toes. Since I knew others would like to learn this too I brought home a second set of pieces and have created a picture tutorial so I can share this with others!!! Let me know if you'd like the tutorial - I'll email it to you. Now, I certainly can't take credit for creating the product... however, I'll share my pictures and the steps I learned with ya'll.

Throw your hands up in the air and yell -- "FUN!!!"

And for those who still don't know what it is... it's a small scrapbook (about 3" x 3")... sorry haven't officially measured it. But you can make it with any two end pieces (an empty tin, old jar lids, etc) - in this instance we just used square chip board (that was covered in paper) for the front and the back. Isn't this just the perfect size for grandparent scrapbooks?!

More importantly - why didn't I already know how to make one of these?!

Here I go CASEing again

These are the super simple cards I showed at a very successful workshop on Saturday. Even though it was over 95 degrees in that house (no a/c?!) it turned out to be a winner of a show!




This was a CASE of sorts - the color combination was inspired by the card sample in the top left corner of page 156 of the Fall/Winter Collection '07.

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Stamp set: Sidekick Sayings (Hostess set, level 1)
Colors: Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, Apricot Appeal, Blue Bayou, Confetti Cream
Extras: WW Crayons/Blender pens, Spring Flower Bouquet punch

Add this stamp set to the top of my favorites list. I can't wait to use when we get more into the fall and winter months! And I just couldn't resist using it since fall IS just around the corner.

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Stamp set: Seasonal Whimsy

Colors: Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky, Old Olive, and Very Vanilla

Extras: Very Vanilla grosgrain, 1/8" circle punch, and 1 1/4" circle punch