Excited about December!!!

I just had fun making this flyer with My Digital Studio!!! I have a craft fair to do

at RoseWalk behind the Target in Lafayette on Saturday from 10-3 and this is the flyer

I plan on handing out!!! I will have the cards on display for these classes and

will post them on my blog as soon as I get them done tomorrow...Yay! 

Stop by if you live in the area...I will have a cute make-n-take project as well!!! 

Lisa

Handmade Holidays!!!

I was invited to join my good friend, Sarah Lavin and her business partner Julie in an

amazing event they held at their business in downtown Sioux Falls called

Handmade Holiday at Zing!  I worked for a couple of months making items for

the weekend event so I thought I would share them with you!!!

Above are the pins I made using the Flower Folds Die and Fabric and buttons from Stampin' Up!

Next, I made these Christmas Placemats using our Holly Berry Bouquet Fabric and our

Stockings Die!  The stocking was a pocket to hold your silverware!

Here is a look at part of my display...

I also made some canvas coasters out of our Scallop Square Die and the

Fun Flowers Die...quick and cute gift idea.  The Pumpkins were made out of Dryer Venting

and I painted them and added a stem, leaves, and a raffia bow!  My girls learned how to sew

this past month and made all of the fun pillows!

I used the smaller flower on the Flower Folds Die to make the little flowers on the gloves and sewed them directly to glove using our fun Stampin' Up! buttons!

I also made the aprons from the earlier post for adults and also smaller for children!

It was a fun weekend...thanks Zing! for the opportunity!

Stampin' friends are the best!!!

My amazing Stampin' Up! friend, Michele Pelky,  flew in to Indiana from Temecula, CA

 to spend the week with me!!!

She came on Tuesday, Oct. 24th and we spent the week stamping or "frampin" which means stamping with friends! and she showed me how to make these fun aprons out of large dish towels!

Then we left early that Thursday morning and headed to Louisville, KY to go to a Stampin' Up! Regional event....it is a 3 hour drive from my house but it took us 11 hours as we stopped in all the little towns along the way to go to Antique/Thrift Stores!!! So much fun!!! We stopped in Marion, IN to have lunch with my son Nicholas too!  We had a blast at the regional and learned a ton of new stuff but didn't think to take any pics of ourselves there...duh! But we took a picture of the bridge there and of the beautiful fall colors!

We did some baking and tried to make Verlyn's moms Caramel Rolls from scratch...turned out okay for the first time!  We had so much fun together!  I just love how Stampin' Up! has touched my life by making lifetime friends with people I would have never met!!!  Thanks Michele for a great week!!!

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South Dakota Open House Adventure!!! Not.

So, here is my latest Stampin' Up! Adventure and the reason I have not

posted lately...

On Thur. Sept. 15th, my husbands brother lost his battle with Pancreatic/Liver

cancer and we headed back to South Dakota on Friday after school.  I decided that

since we were having to go all the way back home that I would throw together a

last minute OPEN HOUSE!  So, I arranged a room at this hotel that I have used before...

sent out a mass email and text to all my customers and my downline....came up with my

card ideas and then grabbed all of the colors of cardstock I would need, which was at least

3 packages of every color for all 4 cards.  I put this HUGE stack of cardstock in one of my fun

cruise bags from years ago and spent the 12 hour drive back to SD making my card samples and

cutting the cardstock for all my projects.  I also spent 3 hours on Saturday morning cutting

the rest of the cardstock and then put each projects cardstock materials in Wal-Mart plastic bags

on top of the rest of the cardstock I hadn't used and my paper cutter and my Clear Acrylic Blocks

case...all back in this bag that looked kindof like a reusable shopping bag.

Saturday night I put it and my Big Shot on the back seat of my daughters car so I would

have all my supplies to set up for the Open House at 2 pm on Sunday after church.

At 8:30 am, my daughter Chelsea called to tell me that someone had broken out our car window

and stolen our GPS (thanks...now how do we get home?) and her Ipod Touch.  We were so

mad...seriously?  It was parked in a super nice neighborhood too.

So, the police were called and Chelsea and Sarah, our friend at who's house she was staying,

made out the report and she let Chelsea take her car to church.  We were staying at my sisters so after church we drove back to Sarah's to get my Open House supplies and hurried off to set up for my Open House.  We had all the tables covered and the supplies all laid out when I realized I couldn't find

the bag with all the project samples and cardstock.  Then we realized that the bag had been stolen

out of the car!!! They probably thought it was a shopping bag full of Wal-mart items...morons. So, needless to say, I could not have my Open House without ANY cardstock or blocks!  Lots of crying.

My ladies were so amazingly understanding and gave me some nice "pity" orders!

The amazing part of that crazy experience is that on Monday I got a call from a lady who had

found the bag in the middle of 41st and Marion Road (super busy intersection about a mile and a half from where the car was parked) and she was able to gather up some of the items for me!!!  Luckily I had my name and address/phone number on the bottom of the block caddy!  So below is a picture of what was

left and some of the hundreds of pieces of cardstock littering that entire intersection!!!

One of the 8 samples survived...6 packages of cardstock, my block case with blocks inside

was only cracked a little and lots and lots of run over cardstock!!!

See the crack?

Here is one of the cards they were going to make at that Open House...it was

sooooo pretty!

I had to show you the picture that my friend Sarah's little girl Taylor drew that morning....

She was one of my daycare babies and is now 5 and she was watching out the window

as Chelsea was leaving and discovered the broken into car....she ran upstairs and woke

up her mom and said "I think that something is wrong with Chelsea!"

Then, while the police were there she drew this picture for us. :-(

Such a sweetie!

So, that was my Adventureous Stampin' Up! Open House weekend!!!

New Card samples from a swap I was just in!!!

This is my swap that I made...it is using the new Creative Elements Stamp Set,

Soft Suede c/s & Pad, Rich Razzleberry c/s & Pad, Very Vanilla c/s...our new Designer Frames

Embossing Folder, Victoria ribbon and Rich Razzleberry 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon, Pearls....I then sponged the card and ribbon with Soft Suede and used the Color Spritzer to splatter the card with Soft Suede and to finish it off I used the Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint and spritzed the entire card!  Love it!

This card was made by Cricket Thompson and she used the stamp set Established Elegance

and colors Soft Suede, Early Expresso, and Shimmery Gold Cardstock and the DSP Mocha Morning.

This card was made from Lou Ann Cruttenden.  She used the new Snow Much Fun stamp set and the Teeny Tiny Wishes set.  The cardstock colors are Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Old Olive, Soft Suede, and Confetti White.  She used the Northern Flurry embossing folder..did some machine stitching and tore the edges on the side...plus a little watercoloring and ta-da! Cute Christmas Card!!

This card was made by Diane Kipp.  She used the new stamp set called Raining Flowers. The Designer Series Paper is Berry Blossoms and the colors are Calypso Coral, Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade, Early Expresso and Whisper White.  She added our fun new Lucky Limeade Ribbon and our new Designer Printed Brad!  Cute Card!!

This card was made by Ann Welborn.  She used our fun new stamp set Pennant Parade with the coordinating Pennant Punch and our 1/2" circle punch. The words are from our great new Hostess Set called Happiest Birthday Wishes!  She used our new In-Colors: Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder, & Island Indigo...she finished it off with some stitching done with our White Gel Pen.

This card was made by Deb Snyder and I just LOVE this one!!!  She used our cute new stamp set called Furry Folk and the Hello is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  She used the Pool Party, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, and Chocolate Chip cardstock.  The top was embossed with our new Stripes embossing folder and the bottom Very Vanilla was done using our Lattice embossing folder. The tag was added with a brad and the Jewelry Tag punch!  The opening to the mouse hole was made using our Extra-Large Oval punch.

This last card was made by Gwen Duckworth and is a fun easel card!!! She used the new stamp set called My Friend...the colors are Whisper White, Pool Party and Early Expresso.  She used the Polka Dot embossing folder on the bottom piece and then cut out 3 Top Note Bigz Dies (2 in Pool Party and one in Whisper White) and folded the middle one in half to make the easel.  She also used the Beautiful Wings Embosslit and our Pearls and the Modern Label and Word Window Punch!  Such a cute card!

Well, I hope you enjoy the card samples for today!!!  I  will post again soon!!!

Lisa

Calli's 17th Birthday Party!!!

Saturday was my baby Calli's 17th Birthday!!  We spent the weekend back in Sioux Falls and that morning having her Senior Pictures taken...then we surprised her with a party at my friend Sarah's office!!!  Sarah is amazing with parties and everything matching!!!  It was rainbow themed and all different colors of candy to match the rainbows and she made the pennant banner with Calli's name on it!!!

My husband, Verlyn, and my youngest two children, Chelsea and Calli!!!

What a fun day!!!

Monkey Bathroom!!!

So, last weekend I finished one of the upstairs bathrooms!! I used my Big Shot and our vinyl sheets and the Serif Alphabet to cut out all the letters for my monkey poem!! Fun!  To get them straight I used blue tape to keep my lines straight...then I counted the number of letters per line divided that in half and started in the middle to go front and back to get the words lined up.

We used to carry these amazing monkey decor elements and I carefully took them off the wall from our house in Sioux Falls...put them lightly on wax paper and then transferred them to this house!  The frames are from IKEA and I put the matching little monkeys on the frames and then there are silly pictures of my girls "monkeying" around when they were little!

I painted just the one wall a Banana Peel Yellow and the other walls are a light tan to match the monkeys mouths...It was fun to do and makes me happy!!!  Hope you enjoyed!!

My new stamp room

I decorated my new stamp room with the Springtime Vintage Fabric and did all my decorating in the color pallette from there...Rose Red, Baja Breeze, Pear Pizzazz, Crumb Cake, Always Artichoke, River Rock, and Not Quite Navy.  I had so much fun making paper flowers out of the Fun Flower Bigz Die and our 5 Petal punch and Fancy Flower punch. I ran the flowers thru all different embossing folders to give them texture, then wrinkled them up a little bit and put them together using a Vintage Brad.  I hot glued them to a floral wire and punched out leaves which I adhered with Mini Glue Dots.

 I used our Springtime Vintage Fabric and made valances for my windows...super easy!  I keep my punches in these baskets that I found at Home Goods...I spray painted them an Oil Bronzed color and added  labels to them.  The tiny drawer thing holds all of my ink cartridges for every color and I just cut cardstock to match and attached a clear label to each of them.  I got my 12x12 cardstock holder from Best Craft Products.  My walls are Pear Pizzazz....I just took in a sheet of cardstock and had it color matched!

These are just the little 3 drawer Sterilite containers that you buy at Wal-Mart...I cut cardstock to the size of the drawer...attached it to the drawer using Sticky Strip...printed my labels for what goes in each drawer and punched them out with the oval punch and layered on the scalloped oval punch.  I attached flowers using Dimensionals sporadically on the drawers to dress it up.  I keep my sponges, handles, mini glue dots, glue pens, embossing powders, glitter, etc. in all these drawers.

These are our Big Shot Die Storage containers and I wrapped the lids with Baja Breeze Seam Binding and a bow...stamped the labels with the Calendar Alphabet Set...added more flowers with Dimensionals.  The baskets and bars are from IKEA and they hold more of my punches.

I made this littler pot of flowers the same way as the other to sit on my desk.  You can see my shelves in the background where I keep my stamps and I have a long table in my office for classes or workshops!! 

Hope you enjoyed looking at my new stamp room....I LOVE IT!!!  It was so much fun making all the matching things in it!!!  I will add more pictures of my office when I get the Definitely Decorative Wall Decor up that I have planned!!!  Thanks for looking!!!

I'M BACK!!!!!!!!

So sorry for the long delay in posting and updating my Blog!!!  The last few months have been a whirlwind for me as we decided in mid June to move to Lafayette, Indiana and so we started packing up and at the end of June we started moving 12 hours away from South Dakota!  So, since June we have moved, my mother-in-law was very ill, we have had numerous family issues and I had my annual Stampin' Up! convention so busy, busy, busy!!!  I am not doing daycare anymore so my time is completely freed up so I have great plans to use my Blog much more than I have....so stay tuned!!

Always Elegant Card

This is a beautiful wedding card my friend, Sarah Lavin, created on one of our craft nights...the picture doesn't do it justice but it is made on Shimmery White Cardstock, Bashful Blue Cardstock with the flourishes stamped in Bashful Blue.  She added the fun First Edition Designer Series Paper along the edge and punched out the bird from the Two-step Bird punch.  It is sponged with Crumb Cake and embellished with the Pearls...the ribbon is Victoria and the 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon Bashful Blue.  To finish it off it is misted with Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint that is mixed in a mist bottle with Rubbing Alcohol.  Perfect card for those spring weddings! 

Bring on the Cake Card

Love this fun card that my daughter Chelsea made...she used the stamp set Bring on the Cake, the 5 Petal Punch, the Pinking hearts punch, Square Lattice Folder, Ice circle Brad and fun colors of Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo, and Wild Wasabi!!!  Funky and Fun!!!  Enjoy!