Wow! Time flys!

I cant even believe its November already! And soon enough Christmas will be here! I really have no excuses for not updating my blog except that it has fallen to the waist side since life has gotten in the way! I have had some back pain issues I am trying to work through and haven't really been creating too much!
But let me share what I have done! I had a Birthday Stamp a Stack and the ladies loved it!
So the first card is a girls birthday card!

Then a woman's birthday card!

And the boys birthday card!
But I realized I don't have ANY boy Stampin Up sets so I used this set and lots of boy colors! So I guess I know what I have to buy next!LOL

And I would show you the mans birthday card but I sent it out already before I could take a picture to a Mingler friends hubby for his birthday!
Hope you enjoyed these cards and if you have any questions you can shoot me and email!Thanks for looking as always!
Enjoy!

Christmas is just around the corner

I would like to share I a card I made the other day as I was sitting in pain (due to my back) on my heating pad! I love this image from Darcie's Stamps! So I decided to color it with my Copics and make this card, but it took me so long I changed my mind on making it as my Christmas card this year! So someone real special will receive this one and only I made!LOL

Enjoy!

More Christmas Cards

I got some more Christmas cards made for the order I am filling! Now I am off to make some more!





Hopefully my mojo is back!LOL
Email with any questions!
Enjoy

Mini Mingle and Some Cards!

Saturday was an awesome day to be with friends since it was a dreary, rainy day here in Michigan.I attended the Mini Mingle and had a blast with some stamping friends!
Heres a group shot that a friend Audrey took and you can check out more of her photos on her photography blog here!

I had alot of fun chatting an all but didnt get enough done!lol
Heres one of of the cards I made while there!

I love these stamps from Darceys!
So what do you think?
I used my copics to color them! I loved making them! These are going to my dads girlfriend as some of her Christmas cards!
Enjoy

This is another Christmas card that my ladies did at my Stamp a Stack class. Its easy enough for a mass production but very elegant!
I have to say by the time Christmas comes around I am sick of cards, so hopefully I will finish my cards ahead of time and be done with them far enough in advance so I don't have to worry about being sick of making them!
Last year things were so busy I didn't even send ANY! I was so bad! So this year I have to make up for it!


Supplies- Stamps-Christmas Punch set
Paper-Whisper White,Christmas Cocoa DSP
Ink-Real Red, Black, Old Olive
Accessories- scallop oval punch, pop dots, corner rounder, eyelet scallop border.

This card is super humongous! But it has to be because the cake stamp is super huge itself! But I absolutely LOVE this set! I bought this set at the Stamp Show in Novi in August when I went with some Michigan Mingle friends of mine! Its a Darcies stamp set!


Enjoy

I just love this time of year, crunching leaves, big comfy sweaters, apple cider, warm donuts, pumpkin picking, hay rides, haunted houses and time with the family!
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays!The kids love it too. They love to decorate and dress up!And I love to see them dressed up as well as their faces when they get that piece of candy they love!
Here's my first card! I love this cute little image I found at Archivers! Isn't he cute!
I colored him with my copics and I am loving them and getting better each time I use them if I do say so myself! LOL



This next card is a Christmas one that I cased the layout from Kathy Hildin (my 4th up line. I absolutely love this card! The tree is from Lovely as a Tree. I love that there is so many layers! And I love the Kraft paper. I just got Kraft paper from SU, and I am using it for everything!



Enjoy!
And if you have any questions just shoot me an email!

Hello All

Well its October 1st and its very cold here in Michigan! We had frost this morning and it feels like winter is here instead of fall! Its funny how some of the seasons are skipped here in Michigan!lol I do have the heat on so its toasty warm in the house! I guess we will see what happens, you never know we could have the air on next week.
So I got to create some things and you will see some new things here on my blog for the next few days! So be sure to check back often!
First I am going to share with you a Halloween card that can hold a gift card! This might be for a babysitter, a teacher, or an older child that doesn't trick or treat anymore. I re-created the gift card holder Shelli Gardner had on her blog awhile ago, since I rarely give a card that holds 2 gift cards!
So here's the outside:
And here is the inside:


Supplies-Stamps-House of haunts, Teeny Tiny Words.
Paper-Cast a Spell DSP, Dusty Durango,Whisper White,Rich Razzleberry, old olive
Ink-black, old olive, rich razzleberry, close to cocoa
Accessories-circle punch,modern label punch, designer label punch, brads, top note die


Here's a very nontraditional Christmas Card! I love these colors together though!
This one was one of the cards some of my customers made for my Stamp A Stack class I had! What do you think?? Its an easy enough card to mass produce!!!

**sorry about the shadow on the photo!

Supplies-Stamps-Serene Snowflakes, All Holidays
Papers-Old Olive, Real Red, Cameo Coral, whisper white
Ink- Old Olive, Real Red, Cameo Coral
Accessories- designer label punch, circle punch, ribbon, sponge.


Enjoy!

WOW

Where does the time go, really? I mean, we are a busy family but the days seem to just fly by so fast Christmas will be here before you know it! Snow will be on the ground,UGH! So thinking of all of that is the inspiration for this card, plus looking in the SU Mini Catalog helps a bit. I tried to CASE the card on page 26 but change somethings to make it my own! I loved the papers and colors of that card! So let me know what you think of the change!


Supplies-Stamps-Serene Snowflakes,Berry Christmas,All Holidays.
Paper- bordering blue, whisper white, christmas cocoa dsp.
Ink-bordering blue, white shimmer paint.
Acessories- scallop circle punch, circle punch, paper piercer.

Enjoy!

Trying to get in the Swing of things!

I have taken an aweful long break from blogging. Sorry about that but it was nearing the end of summer and I was taking a much needed vacation, then I had SU Regionals, and now the kids are back in school. So I am getting into a routine again and am very pumped up about SU! I am loving ALL the stuff in the mini and am happy to see it staying around for 4 months!
I will share my vacation pictures with you tomorrow! Thats a whole another post in itself! And though my vacation was awesome, SU Regionals was spectacular!!! Its the first event I have attended since being a demo and I am hoping to make it to Convention next year!So I have a few pictures of Regionals including the one I have posted of Shelli Gardner and myself at the top of my blog! I am sure you know who she is and if not let me just tell you it was SO COOL to meet the CEO and Co-Founder of Stampin Up!!!She was so gracious and very, very excited to meet us! I loved chatting with her!

This was us in the convention center right before the doors were set to open!
From left to right---Emma, Michele, Me(hiding in the back), Debra, and Tracy.
We had such a good time together, nothing like a girly road trip!!!

Now on to some cards!
The first card is something I saw at Regionals! How cute is this?? You use the Christmas ornament punch as a flower vase after you snip off the point at the bottom!!!!


The next card is a HAlloween one and I decided to try the Cracked Glass technique. I love how it turned out!

Stamp Camp part 2

So I did slack yesterday, sorry about that!
Here's the Christmas card we made at Stamp Camp!

Its a double slider which you can find the instructions here on SCS!
We also did Iris folding on the front of this card which is really fun. You can Google Iris folding and find all kind of patterns to make really cool cards!Here is a close up of the Iris Folding!

The next card is a birthday card pop up card using the Cake Pop-up die for the Big Shot!
Here's the pop up cake part!

I used the Voila stamp set and paper pieced his pants in chocolate chip, and colored his ascot and end of his sleeve in melon mambo. Then I added alittle of bashful blue to the plate after I stamped Happy Birthday on it!
I layered the image on razzleberry lemonade dp, then on brown, then on the card base which is Melon Mambo!

I hope you enjoyed my cards today!
Thanks again for coming!

Stamp Camp Creations

Another Stamp Camp came and went, with a small crowd which was fun! We made Halloween and a Christmas card (more difficult) and a birthday card!
I hope everyone enjoyed themselves!
So I guess we will start with the Halloween card! I saw a version of the card on SCS and changed things up a bit!!

This is a 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 card! I used dusty durango as my card base, then basic black, and then Cast a Spell DP on top of that! Then I layered a strip of Dusty Durango that I ran through the big shot with a CB spiderweb folder. We stamped the saying Happy Halloween on a piece of Perfect Plum cardstock which we taped under my main image which is stamped on Whisper white cardstock.The main image is the tree from House of Haunts stamp set which we heat embossed with black embossing powder and layered on black cardstock, which I cut with deckle scissors! I added a bow and that finished off the card!


Next the other Halloween thing we made was a purse matchbox!

Next we used the SU matchbox die and cut out the box part in black cardstock and the slider/lid piece in Cast a spell DP. We also used the same dusty durango ribbon from the card we made! I used Batty for You stamp set (which I love) and stamped it twice, once in black for the words, and once in perfect plum for the skull.We also added a strip of dusty durango once we used the scallop border punch and glued that on the front. Then we used the one inch punch to punch out the perfect plum skull and layer it with pop dots on the black skull which we punched out with the 1 1/4 punch. Then we layered that on a dusty durango 1 3/8 inch circle punch and added it to one of the Matchbox die labels!Once you add some DP to wrap your candy your all set!


Hope you enjoyed these two projects today!
I will post the Christmas double slider Iris fold card, and Birthday pop-up card tomorrow, so don't forget to come back!Thanks for looking as always!

More pixies!!!

I am addicted to the pixies and coloring with my Copics! I keep reading Sandys blog and taking her tips and practicing! Its all about PRACTICING!!!!







So what do you think?
Enjoy!