Blog candy

It has been one of those crazy weeks. I had a workshop this week, a stamp-a-stack tonight and I am in charge of our school's yard sale this weekend. Of course this is our rain date and of course it suppose to rain. So, it ends up pouring in beginning and then being sunny and almost 70 degrees. Got love NE weather.

Needless to say, I have been really busy with no time to post new stuff or blog surf any of my blog roll friends. I hope to catch up this weekend. I will post pictures of stamp-a-stack cards all birthday themed. SAS are a lot of work, but so worth it to get together with friends and customers to stamp. I usually do this once a quarter. Why birthday, well I started stamping 5 years ago, to celebrate having a birthday bash SAS. Also for you all blog candy. My first, I just started my blog a few months ago and already hit over 5,000! My first was exposed to stamping when I went to a multi-vendor open house and was really intrigued by this woman using pastels chalks on an image. I booked a party in April 2003 and I was hooked. She is now my upline, Erica. I love instant gratification of stamping and giving something I created to others. The best thing about being a demo, is the other woman I meet. I first started blogging, to challenge myself to create almost daily if I could. I never realized what great and creative blogging friends I would meet, learn from and be inspired by their work.

Anyways to enter for blog candy- just post to this entry your first stamping experience and something great you learned from blogging or blog surfing. The winner will be picked randomly on Tuesday April 15th- tax day.

So the winner will get a Wild Wasabi bundle from me, 12 pieces of 6 x 6 designer paper with wasabi in the paper, 5 yards of striped wasabi ribbon, 8 prescored textured wild wasabi cards, and package of SAB rub-ons.

Another Mom-teacher stamp camp project

I finally got around to making one of these carsousel note purse scrapbooks. We will be doing this project at the May 9th Mother-Teacher gift stamp camp. I think I could have done some more embellishments on outside of purse, but put down my designer paper first. I then realized it would go through the envelope it I used more hodgepodge hardware. I just got my pretties kit, so I probaby will add a flower somewhere.

If you want to do your own this idea came from Jan Tinkelberg. If you haven't checked out her blog, she is very creative as well as very funny. Her tutorial is here:http://stampspaperscissors.typepad.com/stamps_paper_scissors/2008/03/the-carousel-no.html

Sweeter than apple pie?

I was trying to come up with another project for an upcoming Mother's day/teacher gift class I am doing on May 9th.

I decided to use the chipboard frame idea and had this fun shot of my two goof balls at Pawtucket Red Sox game last summer. Since baseball is as American as apple pie, I borrowed this set from my upline.

Only a face(s) a mother could love!!! Okay, maybe Nana who will be getting this one.

Hunter

One of my hostesses just had her second baby about a week ago. I made this for her using a simply scrappin kit from Fall Winter cattie- creative license. I also used a retired alpha set and stamped in craft ink. Can you tell how much I love these kits??? There is also some hodgepodge hardware and large and small star punches. Sorry about crooked photo- oops.

I am getting close 5,000 hits. Stay posted for upcoming blog candy next week.

Featured Friend Friday

This was done by my fabulous upline and friend Erica. She is wonderfully supportive with inspiration, letting me borrow supplies, gives me feedback on projects and sends me RAKs. She is one of the best scrapbooker I know (Debby sbs8 rocks too), and she did this as one of our demo challenges using:

SU large chipboard book basics, simply scrappin crew kids girl kit, Cherished memories rub ons, some new hodgepodge hardware and wild wasabi striped ribbon. The flower was stamped from Ginormous flowers set.

If you have not tried using the simply scrappin kit, you need to do so. There are so many things you can do from cards, to art, to scrapbook pages and you will still have tons of stuff left over.

BTW- she does not have her own blog, sorry.....

another card club card

Sometimes I forget that the Stampin Up catalog is also an idea book too. For this card, I cased a design on page 108 using "so kind" set. I changed it up and used the "one of kind set" and build a brad vs. the pearl. This card was focused on featuring the build-a-brad set. They are so fun to make if you haven't tried yet.

April Fools Day

Wow, April 1st- April Fools day. No pranks to pull, but news to share. I will have officially been stamping for 5 years this week. I also looked down at my blog counter and I am close to 5,000 hits! So to celebrate both occasions, I am going to come up with some blog candy to share next week. Stay tuned.....

Today, I have two cards to share that we are doing for April card club tomorrow night. The class is focus on using embellishments.

1) uses carousel notes- I got idea from Patty Bennett to use lucky star accent and elements. My sample pretty much cases one of hers. I am going to give each them a sheet from the tin and be creative on their own.

2) chipboard- I am showing different ways to cover it. We are using designer paper, craft ink and glitter. I used tres chic background stamp and afternoon tea designer paper (my new personal fav)