Delightful Decorations

Today's card is a case of a card done by Ann at Stamping Schack, she is a very talented stamper and whenever I can't find my MOJO I go to her blog and find something to get inspiration from. I have got so used to using Old Olive with Real Red for Christmas combos, so today I tried Real Red with Garden Green and really like that combo as well. I actually ordered the Garden Green by accident a few weeks ago and rather than send it back I thought I would give it a try. I layered the Garden Green on the sentiment but it is kind of hard to see, the way I did this was to cut the bottom tag in half and move the pieces out so that they line up and show on the edges with the second color. The ribbon on the topper is laced through holes punched with the slot punch.

Christmas Wish

Today I am sharing a card we did a few weeks ago as part of a Diva Night hosted by my upline, Carol. I haven't stamped in the last few days because I was behind on my housework and laundry since the Community Thanksgiving Day Dinner at our church took up a lot of time last week. Yesterday I did 21 loads of laundry and got some cleaning done, I don't like to put my Christmas tree up until I get my house clean so I am concentrating on that today and tomorrow. I probably won't be posting much for the next few weeks, I got selected for jury duty(joy, joy). I do dread it since I have trouble sitting still any length of time, I need to be up moving. I know it is a necessary duty but I am not looking forward to it at all.

Gift Tags

My friend, Gayle, asked if I would make her up a kit using tags. She always orders my Kit of the Month but I didn't offer one this month since things were a little hectic but with Thanksgiving over I have some time so this is 3 of the 5 I mailed out to her today. I used the Top Note die on all of them and various stamps and embossing. I do have three extra kits of the ones pictured if anyone is interested. You get enough pre-cut materials to make 3 of each tag for $8.00 which includes postage. You will not get stamped images. I accept personal check, money order or Paypal.

Quilted Flower

good evening! I have had a productive day, not necessarily stamping but something else I really enjoy. Our church is having a community Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow and plan on serving 700 meals. Today we started cooking, I worked on the dressing, we cut onions, celery and bread crumbs. I don't know how many bags of onions and celery but I know we diced up 52 loaves of sandwich bread for the dressing. We will put it together in the morning and start cooking at 7:00. This is a ministry which I love participating in, I know what hunger feels like having experienced it as a child and I know what this meal will mean to so many. I also know that it is something that is very pleasing to God.

Ok, I do have a project that isn't quite finished but I am excited about it anyway. This is a flower cut using the Flower Fold die which I cut using fabric. First off let me say that I do not sew, but it is something I really want to learn to do. These were easy sewing except I had a hard time with the rounded part of the petals, but with more practice they should start to look better. I plan to use the flowers as hair bows, to tie on packages, and as brooches. The sandwich for the Big Shot was standard cutting plate, die, fabric, batting, fabric, standard cutting plate, and a 6x12 piece of card stock on top of the second cutting plate. I also used a basting spray on both pieces of fabric to keep it from slipping while I sewed it. I love how these turned out and went to the fabric store yesterday and bought way too much fabric so get ready to see some more!

JOY

Today's project was done using the Decor Elements, Holiday Mix, from the Holiday Mini. They come in Real Red, Whisper White, Basic Black, and Chocolate Chip. I found the metal tub at Target in the dollar bin. Thanks for stopping by.

Ruddy

Hope your Sunday has been good! Today I have my version of Ruldoph, another popular craft fair item. I sold out of him at the first show 2 weeks ago, so I made 12 more and sold out again. I have one more craft show this season so you guessed it, I am making more. Luckily, they are quick and easy to make.

Craft Fair

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I have been to a craft fair the past two days and preparing for the past two weeks. They are a lot of work but today I had someone ask about signing up to be a demonstrator and booked two workshops, and took several orders so it was a good weekend. Here is a picture of my booth. the most popular item was this cute Santa made using the Top Note die, I cut two .....one in Real Red for the back side and one in Blush Blossom for the face. Next I cut one in Whisper White and embossed it, cut it down and used it for the beard, mustache and hair. Between the two Top Notes I sandwiched a cut down version of the Fancy Favor box. There are lots of similar versions floating around and I drew inspiration from all of them, mostly the one done by Gretchen Barron, and then came up with my own version.

Serene Snowflakes

I am not best friends with my computer right now, in fact we have had a rough morning and I had to make threats of throwing it out the window to get it to cooperate. First, I couldn't get pictures to upload and then it said they were uploaded but I couldn't find them and then I found them but couldn't get them to upload to here and finally had to reload them to Picasa to get this far.

Anyway, here is a simple scallop circle card we made yesterday at a Stamp class with 7 wonderful ladies, 4 of whom I met yesterday for the first time. They were great students and quick stampers and I really enjoyed having them. I cut this with the scallop circle die with a piece of folded card stock by placing the fold just below the cut line. The stamp is the Serene Snowflakes and the DP is from Merry Moments.

If you live in my close to me, I would like to invite you to a Vendor Blender on November 20 and 21st at the Lions Club building. There will be about 20 Vendors there with various items for sale such as Avon, jewelry, Mary Kaye, and many others. I will have lots of Stampin' Up projects for sale and would love for you to check out my booth and register for a door prize. Also, I wanted to let you know about a Kids Punch class for Mom and child or Grandparent and child while the kids are out for Christmas break. I will post the dates for this a little closer to time.

Happy Bug Day

Thought I would share one more Fancy Favor bag with you since I haven't had a chance photograph anything else today. I have a very busy weekend coming up with two stamp classes. I had a project for WOM(Women on Mission) at church tonight and have been getting things together for another craft fair. For this little bag, I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder on the front and stamped the bugs and cut them out. Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Birthday Human

I have had fun with these little gift bags made with the Fancy Favor die lately. I made a bunch of these for my craft show last weekend and they seemed to be a hit. This one uses the Lots of Bots stamp set and is for a birthday. It would be cute filled with candies or little toys such as Lego's, small robots, small action toys or anything else you could think of.