Fun stamping day.

It was such a fun day with my lunch bunch ladies and my downline demonstrators.  Both groups were small with many on vacation, but we had a great time.  The ladies loved the food and the projects.  I tried a couple of new salads and had a yummy strawberry trifle for dessert.  Here are a couple of pics of part of the groups.

All of my projects were cased from other demonstrators with a little tweaking on some of them.  This was one that I saw several different demonstrators doing.  I wasn't sure if I was going to like the Bohemian set and it has really been growing on me. 

The saying is from a great new hostess set that includes a variety of sayings that go with the happy birthday.  Love the Bohemian Washi tape that goes so well with the set.  I'll have more of the projects to share in the next couple of days.  Hugs, Sherron

Patriotic Paper Pumpkin

After finally getting some of my recent Paper Pumpkins done I decided to look back at some of the past years that I never tackled.  Last year's June PP was a very cute batch of patriotic pinwheels that I just couldn't get excited about so I made one little card and never did anything more.  Now that I've started checking each month out on Pinterest, I have been amazed at all of the ideas.  When I saw this awesome wreath I knew I had to make it. It went together so fast that I had it completed in less than an hour and had a bouquet of pinwheels left over to decorate one of my coffee tables.  What do you think?

Tomorrow is my busiest day of the month with my Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch at 11 AM and my downline Aerubbecisor dinner gathering in the evening.  Both groups get to make the same five projects and I will have those to share with you as well as any shoebox swaps that others may bring.  I've been cooking all afternoon.  Since it is in the 90s right now I am forgoing the soup and doing a big Antipasto pasta salad instead.  It is a new recipe that I googled and it has some pretty good ingredients.  I also made my favorite orange mandarin banana jello salad plus I'm doing a Chinese chicken salad to round out the main dishes.  I just baked an angel food cake from scratch and I will use it in a strawberry trifle for dessert.  With a loaf of bread nobody will go hungry. I do treat my gals pretty well.  I'll have lots of pictures to share tomorrow.  I think the attendance may be a little light as I know lots of my customers and downline are on vacation.   Check back tomorrow and see how it goes.  Hugs, Sherron

Stampaholics Anonymous

Today was my monthly Stampaholics Anonymous.  It was much later this month because of all of my family events earlier.  Friends. Connie and Florence joined me for a fun afternoon playing with Washi tape which is all the rage now.  I provided a wide variety of tapes that I had picked up over the past several  years.  The ladies also made some of the cards from this month's stamp clubs.  Here are the cards that I made with Connie and Florence.  Thanks so much for coming to play today.

The black, pink and white butterfly card was cased from a new friend, Deb Naylor whom I met in Hawaii.  I subscribe to her blog now and enjoy her creativity.  The other three were my own designs.  Love the new Watercolor Wings set.   Tomorrow I'll share another Paper Pumpkin creation that I made last night.  I had never done my June kit from a year ago but found something awesome on Pinterest and just threw it together very quickly.  It is so cute.  Check back tomorrow.  Hugs, Sherron. 

Fun Paper Pumpkin Projects

My friend Connie and I had such a great time playing with our new June Paper Pumpkin kits.  I started out making the two suggested cards and then went wild with other ideas.  Here are the two projects created as Stampin' Up! designed them.

Since there were enough supplies to create six more projects that also included envelopes with precut liners, I cut some of the liner paper off of each one to use on my additional projects.  The liners don't have to extend to the bottom of the envelope so it is never missed.   Here are my ideas for the other projects. 

They turned out pretty cool, didn't they?  Paper Pumpkin is so easy for crafters who don't have a lot of supplies or time.  You get a little set of stamps and an ink spot plus all the paper supplies to complete a bunch of projects.  I frequently add additional cardstock and one or two more ink colors to make tons of extra projects. In fact I discovered that I have a few extra kits that were given to me last year so the first several people coming to Stampaholics Anonymous tomorrow will get one to take home free.   Don't forget that Stampaholics is my monthly open house where we play with all kinds of stuff and you can get some of those special occasion cards made that you might need in the next month.  It starts around 1 PM so come and play.  Hugs, Sherron

Papercrafting day with Paper Pumpkin

Today is one of my Friday papercrafting days. If it is Friday and I am home, then I am catching up on scrapbooking, paper kits like Paper Pumpkin or swaps.  My new Paper Pumpkin kit came this week so I plan to play with it.  My good friend Connie is bringing hers out too.  Here is a picture of the fun new kit. I'll share the finished project later, maybe even tomorrow.

This coming Sunday is Stampaholics Anonymous.  I have a huge order from the new catalog arriving later today so I will have lots of fun stuff to share.  This month I've been playing with a lot of Washi tape so plan to make some interesting projects with it. 

Here are the three remaining cards from the guy swap that my downline did.  The projects that everyone submitted this past month were really outstanding. Hope you have enjoyed seeing them all. 

 Shirt card wit Argyle embossing folder by Lacey Auvigne.

 

 Guy Greetings with Six Sided Sampler by Wileen Carlton

Classic Convertibles stamp set (retired) by Verna Almer-Tidd.

Back from Virginia

It has been such a busy month with two graduations and a big family wedding in Virginia.  It is so nice to be home and finally having some extra time to blog.  My granddaughter, Kelsey graduated from Stadium High School in Tacoma.  She will be attending Grand Canyon University in Phoenix.  Here is a pic of her at her family graduation party with the quilt that I made for her graduation present.  I make each of my grandkids a quilt and include a gift card from Bed, Bath and Beyond to buy the bedding.

A week later we attended my grandson's graduation from the University of Washington where he majored in Mollecular and Cellular Biology.  He will take the medical school exam later this summer and hope to head back to U of W for another four or five years.  Here is a look at he and his parents just after the ceremony.

Then we were off to Virginia to attend the wedding of our niece in Charlottesville.  We had a great week touring some of our favorite locations close to Williamsburg and even got to spend a great afternoon at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.  I had been there before a couple of times, but there were so many more memorials that had been added in recent years.  My favorites were the Jefferson Memorial and the fairly new Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.  On Thursday night, we headed to Richmond for a dinner with my brother and his family.  We enjoyed seeing our two nieces and their fiances.  Saturday was the wedding and what a crazy wedding it was.  There were major thunderstorm warnings and since it was an outdoor wedding at the Merriweather Springs Vineyard on the Merriweather Lewis estate, a last minute decision to erect a tent was made.  Just as the wedding started, we heard faraway thunder and by the end when the kiss was made, the storm was right overhead with torrential rain and huge cracks of thunder and lightening.  It was a beautiful event with dinner inside, thank goodness.  Our drive back to Williamsburg later that night was a long one with lots of sheet lightening and huge rain squalls.  Here are a few of the pics of the bride and groom and my family.

The last picture is the cousins picture with two of my daughters and my brother's two daughters.

Okay enough of my reminiscing.  I promised to share some more of the guy cards from our monthly swap so here are three more of the fun cards that my downline and myself created.

This card was designed by Darlene Almer and featured the Wetlands and the Work of Art sets.  Love how that one turned out.  It definitely feels like summer on the coast.

Carol Sanderson designed this great card from the Guy Greetings set.  Love how the Back to Black Designer Series Paper works so well with the car.

This was my card using the Adventure Awaits and the Maritime Designer Series Paper from the Spring Occasions mini.  My husband worked for the US Navy during his whole career and when I first met him, he was an avid sailboat skipper so it just seemed to suit him.

As you can probably guess, I love to journal about my family and friends as well as my Stampin' Up! business.  Hope you enjoyed this little insight into my crazy life.  My husband and I love to travel and have a very active family.  There is lots more coming up this summer with two more weddings and a trip to Squaw Valley.  In the meantime, I'll finish up the last of the guy cards and get ready for Stampaholics Anonymous and Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch projects.  Hugs, Sherron

New catalog on my blog

My good friend, fellow demonstrator, and computer guru came for dinner tonight and helped me update my blog with the new Stampin' Up! Catalog.  Yay, so now I can post the guy swaps from this past month. Here are the first three of them.

 This card was created by Laura Vilhauer using the wonderful Work Of Art set with the brand new Happy Birthday, Everyone hostess set from the 2015-2016 catalog.

 This wonderful card was done by Jana Gann and uses the versatile White Christmas set introduced in the Holiday mini.  I was so happy to see it in the new annual catalog. You would never know it was a holiday set from this card.

This card was designed by Tracie Cress, the newest member of my Aerubbecisor downline group. She is so creative.  She used the retiring Four Feathers set with the Something to Say stamp set.  The designer paper is the Bohemian from the new catalog.  This is a huge hit already.

There are six more guy cards on the swap and I will share the rest of them in 

the coming days.   The ladies in my group are so awesome. I cook them dinner each month on our swap night as a little thank you for all they do.  I think some of them stay demonstrators so they get the fun, food and friendship.  You could join our group too.  Hugs, Sherron

Projects Done

Yay! I am so relieved.  After weeks of work, I finally finished my graduation projects for granddaughter, Kelsey.  She graduated with honors from Stadium High School in Tacoma yesterday and as a big party tomorrow.  I always make a graduation quilt for each grandchild and I've been working on this one since February.  I just finished the binding and sewed the label on.  It is all wrapped and ready to deliver.  Since Kelsey and her mom don't follow my blog, I can share it here.  Two of her favorite colors are coral and turquoise so I used it for the focal pieces.  She will attend Grand Canyon University in Phoenix so the colors are appropriate for the Southwestern decor. Hope she likes it.

The other big project that I did for the party was to make a bunch of party favors for the guests.  I have had the Fry Box die since last year and decided to play with it for my stamp clubs this month since Stampin' Up! gave us the "All About Sugar" stamp set on the new catalog while in Hawaii.  Then I got the brilliant idea to make some of the fry boxes with the "Class of 2025" stamp that I borrowed from one of my wonderful customers.  So 40 boxes later, I finished the last of them tonight.  Since the school colors are blue and gold, I used Pacific Point for the box and embossed the 2015 in gold embossing.  I filled the little cello bags with Hershey kisses.  There are blue Cookies and Cream and gold Milk Chocolate with Almonds.  The saying "It's Party Time" is from the "All About Sugar" set.  I think they turned out pretty cute.  What do you think?

Back to Blogging again.

It has been some weeks since I have done any blogging.  I've been on a wonderful cruise to Spain from Tampa Florida and the Stampin' Up! Incentive trip to Waikiki.  I have lots to share, but I've been waiting for my blog guru, Jana to help me remove the old catalogs and put the new one on.  I thought she was comoimg tonight but so far, no Jana.  So I will just continue to muddle through until I can get everything updated.

I shared a fun card that Dawn Griffith posted on her blog, for my class last weekend.  It is an easy card to create and a perfect way to use up Designer Series Paper, particularly the small paper pad stacks.  Here is Dawn's sample using the now retired Stacked with Love paper.  This paper has a red pattern on one side and a black one on the reverse. It was originally designed for Valentines.  Isn't it a terrific design.

I decided to play with the design using some of my leftover pages from the All Abloom paper stack, one of my all time favorites.  I've done five different papers and have loved all of them. Some of my Fuzzy Pebbles stamp club got them for their monthly swap.  I think you may see these in future birthdays as I am having so much fun making them.  Here are three different ones using Mossy Meadow and Lost Lagoon as the primary colors.  What do you think?

If you would like to learn to make these, let me know and we will set up a day to play.  Hugs, Sherron