Convention 2009!

Wow! That's how I sum up this year's Stampin' Up! Convention. I was honored to earn the award of Rising Star. I placed #9 and I am on Cloud Nine!

I have so much to share it's not even funny. The bad thing is: I also have lots to do this week. I have Scrap Club on Thursday, Stamp Club on Saturday and a class in between! Yikes!

This was my 3D swap for Convention this year. This luminary actually works; I even gave a tealight candle to everyone too! This was super fun and super simple to do, thanks to the Big Shot. It's the new Fancy Favor Big Shot Die. I also used the new Snowflake Punch! A little versamark, a little vellum card stock, and a little Iridescent Ice... viola! I did add a tag to my swap in the lower right hand corner that said, Let it snow! *giggles*

There is an actual tealight candle in this luminary. The box doesn't even get warm! It works perfectly.

Holy Cow

Hi All - I just realized that I forgot to show off my card! I recently has a Christmas Card Crank-out at my house. Three wonderful ladies made 16 cards - 4 layouts (4 cards each layout). This is one of the cards. Jealous huh? Well, I am having another crank out in October. You could be the hostess, if you want to have a more exclusive party (wink).

This stamp set, Snow Swirled, is on sale for $21.21 until the end of September. You can order right on my website too: Click Here to Go Shopping. It makes the most beautiful cards! Definitely a must have if you are thinking of making your own Christmas cards this year!!

Colors used: Pacific Point, Bashful Blue and Whisper White!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Well, when new rubbah comes to my house, it's mounted immediately. *Blushes*... that kind of sounds bad! I mean rubbah stamps on wooden blocks! *giggles*

I received a shipment a few days ago but I was hell bent on finishing some projects that I have been neglecting for some time. My friend's blog was one of them. My stamps in the mail from March - July of this year! My scraps in the mail from OCTOBER of last year! Yes, 2007!!! No, I haven't finished those yet but I did finish ALL of my stamps in the mail and one layout from my Scraps in the mail! Woo HOO!!

At any rate, I had this need to start planning for the month. I stopped working on Scraps in the mail and started planning my workshops. While playing with the ON SALE stamp set called, "Snow Swirled," I discovered that this card didn't have the look I was going for! It's still a pretty card. I don't think you can see the embossed white snowflakes on the Very Vanilla paper... That was part of the problem. It's not a "workshop" card because it's all embossed. Even the tree is embossed.

Well, I thought I would share because I do like the card... it's just... well, missing something! *shrugs* I hope you like it!

It's been awhile...

I swear I am alive! I have been stamping my little heart out getting ready for 3 craft fairs. One thing that I have found... I sold out almost every time! Here's one project for you. I am planning on creating a website so people can actually order my projects.

I did a class with Kimberly. She did an Advent Calendar. At another class, a lady brought her "inspiration" from the Advent Calendar Class. It was a little different then this... but the concept was the "tree" and taking magnets off of it when the day was over. I wanted to use other types of materials to stamp on but the store I frequent was out of the wooden circles in the right size. Anyway, you can see I did use mirrors and wooden squares.

This was not only a fun project to do, it sold super fast at my last craft show. I will be making more of these in the future!