Family BBQ- Sunday July 29, 2007

Dunno why it's called family BBQ, but then again most of our friends are part of our family. My Aunt Monika and her granddaughtr Celine are visiting from Germany so this was a perfect time to get everyone together. Kaisha even went to meet her great Aunt and spend some time with her cousins. Paige has done a wonderful job communicating with Celine. Jacob was there but there just doesn't seem to be any pics of him or James... hmmm. It was great seeing Will up and around, I missed signing his cast altogether. Jim was rather quiet but I'm sure he enjoyed his time with his wacky family. I think John needs glasses, mom's apron says 'Red hat' not 'Red hot!!' The little baby is actually a doll!
And Robbie.. well he says we're all crazy, go figure!

Desk Top Day

With our eldest leaving home I am blessed with a stampin' room. What a wonderful day to break it in with my stampin' gurus. We made journals, clip boards, pen holders, a decorated box and a matching pen. What a great day we had. I can't wait to see all the really cool desks the women will have to work at now with their wonderful creations.
The menfolk took the boys fishing and for what was suppose to be a 4k hike but they are male and got lost and with no one to ask for directions their hike turned into a 10k mad dash. Boy were they tired and hungry when they returned!
While we finished our work after dinner the guys roasted hotdogs, made s'mores and screaming apples.
We'ew now trying to plan a date for our next day together!

Left Overs

If your stamping business is like mine you sometimes have people that don't show up. Since I mostly do stamp-a-stacks those few people end up being cards in multiples of 5. So if I plan on 10 in attendance and only 5 show then I end up with a lot of left overs.
"What do you do with your left overs when your cardstock is already cut?"
I just make the cards at my leisure and send them out for cards of encouragement or sell them. This week my buddy Kimmy has offered to sell some of my cards for me while she's selling raffle tickets. So here's a few of the cards that are 'Left overs' that I spent my "chillin' time" making.

Thinking of You

This was my first class teaching the ladies how to do 2 step stamping. They all fell in Love with the stamp-a-ma-jig and most have purchased their own by now. We also did a little paper tearing.
Supplies:
Stamp Sets: Wild Rose, All Year Cheer 3 (now retired)
Cardstock: Whisper white, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum
Ink: Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery, Mellow Moss
Extras: Stamp-a-ma-jig

The month of.... Love

Since February is the month of Love we made cards for our sweety and our friends. The "Love Matters" stamp set was perfect for this card, the ladies could easily substitue the word 'friend' instead of the word 'love'..
Supplies:
Stamp Sets: Love Matters, Circle of friendship, Canvas
Cardstock: Whisper White, Brocade Blue, Certainly Celery, Elegant Eggplant
Ink: Stazon- black, Certainly Celery, Brocade Blue, Assorted markers
Extras: Word window punch, 1 3/8" & 1 1/4" circle punches,fibers,HodgePodge Hardware

From the Heart

There actually were not that many people that didn't show for this class. I loved this layout, colour combo and everything about this card so I purposely cut way too much so I would have some to send out to cheer up a few people I know goign through rough times right now.
Supplies:
Stamp Sets: Polka dots & Paisley (a free set demonstrators got for Christmas), Holidays & Wishes (new 2007 set)
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa
Extras: Sponges, Chocolate Chip Grosgrain, Light Blue Gingham, Antique Gold Brads

Sympathy Cards

Ever notice when you need a sympathy card you just can't make one? Or is that just me? Anyways we had a class making these gorgeous cards cause this spring there just seemed to be so many funerals and people in the hospital.
Supplies:
Stamp Sets: Wild Rose,Elegant Inspirations
Cardstock: Brocade Blue, Night of Navy, Whisper White
Ink: Brocade Blue, Night of Navy, Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss, Versamark
Extras: Gold Embossing Powder, Embossing Buddy (highly recommend getting this for a crisp embossed image),Gold Brads, Navy Organdy, Stamp-a-ma-jig

Bleached Class:

It was a smelly class but I love the results!
Supplies:
Stamp Sets: Doodle This
Cardstock: Basic black, Always Artichoke, Regal Rose
Ink: Stazon- black, Versamark
Extras: Winter White Embossing Powder, black brads, Rose Grosgrain-fraid, dotted ribbon, buttons, tab punch, bleach, paint brush

Tri folds

I don't think I will ever attempt this for another stamp-a-stack class. It was just too difficult to get the cards to work right. Gorgeous card but...
Supplies:
Stamp Sets: Blossoms Abound, Holiday Wishes, Hugs & Wishes
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Orchid Opulence, Lovely Lilac, Always Artichoke,
Ink: Orchid opulence, Lovely Lilac,Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke,
Extras: Lilac brads, prima flowers dyed with refill ink, 1 1/4" circle punch, stamp-a-ma-jig, Mellow Moss & Lovely Lilac Markers with Spritzer

Well that's enough uploading today. I just noticed all these cards are florals so I'll try to get some nonflorals uploaded on Friday since I will be in London tomorrow visiting my mom.

I joined a swap to make birthday cards for kids that you can do for a Stamp-a-stack. I signed up to make 19 cards for 5-7 year old girls. We're also to do the envelopes, mine's very simple but I wanted to make it so the card can be mailed out.

Supplies used:
Stamp sets:Pick a Petal, Petals wheel, Circle of Friendship stamp set
Ink: Stazon-Black, Tempting Turquoise, Pretty in Pink
Card stock: Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Petals & Paisleys Double sided paper
Extras: Pretty in Pink Grosgrain, Silver Brads, Designer Label punch, 1/2" & 1 1/4" Circle punch, Corner Rounder punch, Horizontal Slot punch, Coluzzle
This was my very first tent card and I have to admit I absolutely love making these!!I'm overall happy with the final results.

I've been tagged

I've been tagged by my Scrapaholic's buddy Gerri. Check out her cool blog http://apageatatime.blogspot.com/ (sorry no pun intended on the lack of your AC!)
Here are the rules:
Post 7 random things about yourself on your blog.
Tag 7 other bloggers to do the same.
Leave tagged bloggers comments on their site so they know they've been tagged.
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My neighbours are cows if they get out of line we're inviting them for a BBQ!
My left wrist doesn't work right, seriously
My penmanship sucks that's why I stamp!
I'm addicted to stampin' & scrappin'
I've never been to Maine but I have been to Mexico
I have three brainiac kids but you wouldn't know it
I'm hilarious (quoted from my eldest)

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Now to tag 7 friends...