Archive for January, 2009

Adorable swap card!

Here is an adorable card I got at Leadership. It was created by Allison Barber. I love how she made it into a wedding card. This just shows you that this set can be used for more than Valentine’s cards. It is still on sale too. You get the stamp set, heart punch and candy lane paper for only $41.48 til the end of the month. Click on the flyer in my sidebar for more details.

DCBD challenge # 11

Hey everyone,

It is Wednesday and that means it is time for the Diva Coffee Break design challenge. I have been running around crazy this week so I was scrambling to get mine done today and didn’t realize my scallop circle was too big til I went to put the card together and I didn’t have room for the 2 side circles. So , I only have 1 circle instead of 3. I hope you all don’t mind. This was our original sketch challenge and this is what I came up with…..

I used the Bloomin’ Beautiful set and watercolored the flowers. The scallop circle is one of our big shot does.Make sure you check out all of the other coffee break divas listed under the coffee cups in my sidebar.

New Blog Candy contest

Hey everyone,

It is time for another blog candy contest! THis time I am giving away a pack of our On Board chipboard accents  and the stamp set Something New to Love (perfect for Valentine’s Day). All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on my blog this week.

Here is an adorable gift that my friend Gina Dygert made for my friend Lorrie’s birthday. We had a get together to stamp and eat lunch here the other day and Lorrie got some cute gifts. This was one of my favorites. Gina made this with the petal card die and cut 2 opposite sides off to make the flip flops. How cute is that?? That petal card die is good for so many cool projects. It makes the perfect heart too by folding 2 adjacent sides down. She also used the set Crab and Company with the matching wheel.

Winner of the Blog Candy Recipe Book and another cute card.

 The winner of my blog candy recipe book is Patti Barish! Congrats Patti on winning! I can’t wait to try out your recipe. Thanks to everyone who played! I will have another blog candy contest posted tomorrow!

This adorable card was designed by one of my very talented downline, Sue Bjorgaard. She brought this to my downline meeting and we all got to make it for our shoebox swap. THe envelope was made using our Big Shot scalloped envelope die and the new Candy Lane paper. This is just way too stinkin’ cute!

This is what the little card inside the envelope looks like.

A couple more of my favorite swaps….

Here are a couple more of my favorite swaps from Leadership. I loved this little game night invitation. It was made by Heather Medford  and she has instructions here on how to make it. It is so clever. Who wouldn’t want to come over to your house for game night if they get an invitation like this?

This is what the inside of the box looks like. She included the poker chips and $100 grand bars. I just love it! 

This beautiful card was made my friend Georgia Giguere. I just loved this one too.

DCBD challenge #10

I am sorry for missing last week’s challenge. I totally forgot to do it before I left for  Leadership. I hope this one makes up for it. This week’s challenge is a color one. We had to use these colors to make our project……

and here is what I came up with.

This is a project I am doing in all of my club’s this month.

This is the front view

and this is the side view….. my awesome friend Kimberly Van Diepen created the original design and gave me one as a gift at Leadership. I just loved it, but I wanted to change it just a little bit. Hers was a flat card design and I wanted mine to be more like a heart box of candy that you might receive for Valentine’s so I could fit more in it (I filled it with ghirardelli chocolates). To make it more 3 dimensional, I folded the side pieces in half to score them and glued the front piece to the back piece so that the side flaps actually wrap around the back a little bit.  It has 4 "humps" but you fold in 2 of them to create the bottom part of your box.   THen I stuck the brads in with the ribbon to make a handle. I used all of the colors in thechallenge…the ribbon is the vanilla color.This is made from the Big Shot petal card die.Don’t forget to check out the rest of the diva designers listed under the coffee cups in my sidebar. THanks for looking and please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

More Leadership pics and swaps….

I have so many pictures to share! I got a new camera for Christmas and I couldn’t wait to try it out….too bad it doesn’t have a button on there to make you look thinner!

 This is me and my friend and sideline Debbie Naylor. She also lives in VA but about 3 hours away. I wish she was closer so we could hang out more!

Here are Kimberly, Dena, me, and Max saying goodbye right as Leadership ended. It is always hard when Stampin Up events end because I love spending time with my friends from all of the country that I have met through Stampin Up. I love meeting new friends every time I go to one of these events and then you can’t wait to see them all again next time! At least the Stampin Up Hawaii trip is only 2 months away…..better start that diet today!

One last hug from Kimberly…..

Here are more swaps from Leadership!

This one was made by my new friend Maxine Conrad who is a SAM (service account manager) at Stampin Up. She is from England and kept us laughing the whole time. She is hysterical!

This one I got from Joann Wiemers. The lid of the cupcake opens up into the inside of the card.

I just LOVE this new rooster set. It is a hostess set so I am sure lots of people will be booking parties to get one of these! This one was made by Carolyn Shelby.  She did a great job!

More Leadership pics…..

I thought I would share a few more Leadership pics and some swaps that  I got.

This is Dawn Rapsas, me and Jackie Craig hanging out before classes started.

This is me and my wonderful downline Sue getting ready to eat lunch.

This is my awesome friend Kimberly Van Diepen. She keeps me laughing hysterically every time I am around her. I wish I had half of her energy.

This is me and Robin Merriman…. she is such a sweetheart!

This is me, Kimberly, Maxine (who is a SAM at Stampin UP – she hung out with us all night and had a blast!) and of course Shelli. After we got this picture, there was a long line of people waiting to get photos with Shelli so we lucked out catching her just in time.

 Leadership Swaps!!!

This one was made by my good friend Debbie Naylor…..I just love these colors together.

This one was made by Daryl Micciche. I am so sad this set is not in the catalog!!! What were they thinking? This is one of my favorite sets (and my customers love it too)……maybe it will make it to the next one.

This one was made by Mary Beth Ada…. I don’t know why it is a little blurry but I don’t have time to take the picture over. I am still trying to catch up on laundry between posts. My family didn’t happen to get anything done while I was gone……

  And last but certainly not least is my favorite swap made by my good friend Kimberly Van Diepen. This will be one of my stamp club projects this month. It is made with the Big SHot petal card die and is actually a little pouch to put some candy or a gift in.

New blog candy contest!

How would you like to win this?

It is a cute recipe book that I did as part of a stamp camp last month. All you have to do to enter the contest is put your favorite quick and easy recipe in the comment section of my blog. I will pick a winner from all the recipes at the end of the week. Thanks for playing!

Leadership pics!

I am back from Leadership and boy was it a blast! Here are just a few of the pics that I took!This is us waiting in line to get our bags and catalogs! That is Denise, me, Kimberly and my roomie Terri. The new catalog is sooooooo awesome! My favorite new thing is the Big Shot textured embossing plates and I also love the new circle cutter…..you can cut a ton of different sized circles in a snap. There are also some textured designer series papers that look yummy! You are going to love it!

Here are the guys just waiting to give them to us!

This is a group of us having a great time at the Manager’s Reception at Universal Studios. Stampin Up really outdid themselves this year! They rented the park for us and we got the whole thing to ourselves and had an awesome buffet dinner and we got to ride the rides, play arcade games, etc. It was a blast! We also got a free stamp set from the new catalog!! I will post that tomorrow!

This is a cool swap my friend Kimberly got. I thought it was adorable!

This is my friend Kimberly holding an adorable gift that someone in front of us in line had. I can’t wait to make some of these!