Diva Night

I love to spoil my hostesses! Every six months, I throw a party for those fabulous ladies that help me to grow my business. This FREE event is something that I do as a Thank You. They have guests come to their home, they prepare a light snack, they probably clean their house, and they have me come in and mess it all up! LOL!! I am totally kidding but... I so appreciate those women that do that work for me (and themselves)!

I usually spoil them with free product, a homemade meal, and of course, we stamp! This is one of the 4 projects that was prepared for them to do! These nugget tins (as I like to call them) are so versatile. Coming soon you will see yet another use for them :)

If you want to be a Diva, all you have to do is contact me! Let me spoil you in December! You are sooooo worth it!

This tin was inspired by the Demonstrator Magazine, Stampin' Success. They have this beautiful layout of wedding invitations. This magazine has been inspiring my month :) Did you know that Stampin' Up! is running an awesome special this month? Sign up for $85 and you get all the In-Colors and a stamp set? OMG! To die for!! Contact me for more details!

Pull, Push, Twist, Smush

*laughing* Yes, that's the technique I am planning on teaching my stamping friends next month... I have two great workshops coming up soon and I will be showing off the Pull, Push, Twist, Smush box. PPTS is actually a lot of fun to put together but slightly time consuming. This is NOT the colors I will showing off though... I haven't decided on those yet. LOL

Imagine this box filled with some chocolate goodies... maybe a stamp and Stampin' Spot inside. Maybe a piece of jewelry would work too!

This color combo was a color challenge - Crushed Curry, Bermuda Bay, Soft Suede and... I guess it's Whisper White.. I can't remember now. Oh Well! Anyway, give it a try! It's fun!

Mourning/Celebrating the Loss

While I am super-excited by the new catalog and products. It's time to mourn the loss of some of my favorite sets. What better way to do that than to stamp with them one last time before they leave!!

Yesterday, Donna (one of my success-line) and I planned her 1st workshop! It's Father's Day themed. Here is a 6 x 6 scrapbook page done with one of my ALL TIME favorite Alphabet sets, Big Deal Alphabet! This is the "pumped-up" version. We added a few accessories to it (colored hardware) and a few techniques (sponging) to it and it really makes it pop.

To show some versatility, we folded the scrapbook page in half, removing the Chocolate Chip photo frame for those that don't scrapbook and might need an additional card for say a father-in-law, step-dad, etc. Basically the only thing that we added to the card was a little bit of hole-poking under the "ALL-STAR" and some sponging around the entire card.

Good Luck, Donna! Knock their socks off!!

Cute Workshop Card

Easter's coming! Are you ready? Here's a REALLY simple card to do. The key is the brads, if you have them at home, you can do this easily!! If you don't, contact me, I will hook you up! I used the new Egg Hunt Stampin' Around Wheel and the new stamp set, "An Egg-cellent Easter."

I usually create a new card for every workshop that I do. This one was so cute that I just couldn't! Everyone that made this card got a kick out of it! There's a surprise to it though... take a look at the next picture.

Now, if you slide the pale plum piece up, you can see the hidden sentiment... Peek-A-Boo! I love this card!

Holding a Private Class of your own has perks! There is a great special running in April. I will let you know more, contact me if you are interested. I am also offering TWO book-to-look items!! If your workshop is over $350 in sales, I am offering YOU at stamp set of your choice, $31.95 or less!

Workshop Scrapbook Page

Hello all! Here is the scrapbook page that I mentioned in my previous post. This is my Max; crazy as he wants to be... or is that crazy as he wants to bee? LOL! This page was a lot of fun! Using punches to create a scene is one of my favorite things!

When I first started scrapbooking with Stampin' Up!, I had a hard time using any size but 12 x 12. My favorite is 8 1/2 x 11 but I am really digging the 6 x 6 and 8 1/2" x 8 1/2" sizes! Now, this one started out as a 6 x 6 - which my hostess got the "blank" one. It turned into an 8 1/2 x 11... but I even showed how you can take it to 12 x 12. WOW that makes me happy!

Workshop Card - Just Buzzin' By

On Saturday, I was at Donna's house for a workshop. We did two great projects! This card was the first thing that the ladies made. It is so cute. They really seemed to like it. Well, I didn't stop there! I did a scrapbook page with this set as well. It started out as a 6 X 6 page and ended up as an 8 1/2" x 11" scrapbook page. I will post that tomorrow! I just wanted to say thanks to all that attended! I had a blast. I hope you did too!

I love this set: Just Buzzin' By! It makes me smile every time I see it. I have so many samples with this set! If you are interested in purchasing it, go to my website - http://mamaschroeg.stampinup.net

Sale-A-Bration Valentine's Workshop

Hello Everyone! I just had to post these two cuties! I am Big Shot Happy! I have 3 cards that I want to post too but I am thinking of waiting until tomorrow. One of them involves a Big Shot Die too! Well, the same die actually! I just loved the fact that I could make an adorable treat pouch with it... I used two dies - Top Note Die and the Curly Label Bigz Die!

The other card is a CASE from my friend Michele Walker. She is a side-line of mine. Anyway, she created this card, sorta... hehe... and I changed the colors and image. I still used the same stamp set though - Define Your Life - awesome set.

This is what we will be doing at Donna's house tomorrow. Want to come?? Contact me!

Workshop Card!

Yesterday we had a blast at Rebeckah's workshop. We did two cards - 1 for Valentine's Day and 1 "Any Occasion" card. I don't want to reveal the "Any" card until tomorrow or so because I loved it so much, it became my Shoebox Swap! LOL!

I wanted to post this Valentine's Day card to give you ideas that are simple and elegant using the Love You Much Bundle. I love this card for it's simplicity and it's colors! Did you get your bundle yet? You have until January 31st to get it at a discount. The stamp set, Candy Lane Designer Paper (YUM!! I could lick it! - That just means I really LOVE that paper!) and the Heart to Heart Punch are included in the bundle. It's a must have!

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Here is the "bling-bling" version. I try to have two versions of the same card on hand to show customers that just a few accessories can add so much to a card! Instead of using chalks, I used markers to color LOVE - as in I LOVE STAMPIN' UP! I added Dazzling Diamonds and a Flower Brad. If you look at the close-up of the flower brad, I dyed the grooves. I did this with craft ink! I wiped off the brad with a paper towel and heat set the wet ink in the grooves with my Heat Tool. I was even going to fill each petal of the flower with Crystal effects to see what that would look like. But I was running out of time. The ladies seemed to really like this card!

Stampin' Up! does currently have flower brads in BEAUTIFUL colors as well but I haven't received my box of goodies yet, so I couldn't add them to the card. I am so itchy for my new stuff, I can hardly stand it! I don't even have a ship date yet :( Well, they say patience is a virtue. I am not very virtuous today or any other day but I guess I have to learn!! LOL!!

Workshop Scrapbook page

Greetings All!
I wanted to show you something really cool! I introduced my last workshop ladies to this 6 x 6 page. It is a very simple page to put together with two techniques - clear embossing the sun and markering a stamp. I used Baja Breeze, Tangerine Tango and Riding Hood Red; accenting with Summer Sun - very summery looking page in my opinion! I chose the Life's A Breeze set because, quite frankly, I am still scrapbooking the summer... course, I haven't scrapbooked in a really long time so....... hey i started here! LOL!!

I then asked and answered this question, "What if I don't scrapbook 6 x 6? What if I scrapbook 8 1/2 x 11?" I showed them what they can do with this page by dropping it into the 8 1/2 x 11! I got a lot of "Ahhhs" from this. It got them thinking, ok, this can be used in many ways. I love to get customers thinking. I watched them and it was so quiet at that moment that you could have heard a pin drop! I wanted to take their pulse at this time so I said, "Do you see how the 6 x 6 easily fits into an 8 1/2 x 11?" A little more silence and some nodding... this is good.

Then I went for their next shock because I normally don't scrapbook in 6 x 6. Now, I then said, "Ok, now what happens if someone asks, "I don't scrapbook either of those two sizes. I scrapbook 12 x 12. I am ready for them when I show them this: then I showed them what a 12 x 12 could look like. Peoples eyes got bigger as I finished up the demonstration. I still had one trick up my sleeve though! However, like me, when I was shown this way of showing customers what they can do with a 6 x 6, I had that same awe-struck face.


I asked if anyone was NEVER going to scrapbook ever... silence. "Good, well if anyone cares to make a card out of their scrapbook page..." I showed them what a card would look like, just in case there were people there that didn't or wouldn't scrapbook. I showed them this card. It uses the exactly elements that I made the scrapbook page. I literally just folded it in half.

Well, I hope you enjoyed my little presentation! By the way, I have no idea what happened to the scrapbook page above. It was right when I uploaded it... now it's all crooked! UGH!

Workshop Card

Good evening! Well, I had a bunch of scanning to do so I thought I would share a card I did for my workshop on Friday. Thanks to Lorinda my club is just missing one more player! It was missing 4! I will happily fill in until we can fill it! At any rate, I met some super nice ladies that I hope all come and stamp with me again soon!

I love using Fun & Fast Notes at my workshops! It's so versatile. This card came out pretty, in my opinion. The biggest hit was DEFINITELY the Scallop Edge punch! I am surprised I got to bring it home!