Summers over!

This summer has just flown by.  We are expecting a big fall storm tonight bringing some much needed rain.  I think it's

time to get back into stamping.  After spending ten days going to Lake Tahoe and Squaw Valley by way of Crater Lake and Lassen Volcanic National Park, it was good to come home and do a couple of classes this week.  Our trip was fun and relaxing but a little too long.  We did have a great time doing some hiking, biking and visiting with some of our oldest and dearest friends.  The weather was perfect, although the Lake Tahoe area is obviously suffering through California's drought.

Tuesday was my monthly Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch along with my downline Aerubbecisor group dinner.  I provided the five projects for both groups and five of my downline brought some great projects too.  I promised to post pics of them all so here are three of my projects and two of the great cards that my downline did.

This was my favorite card of the five that I cased from our wonderful demonstrators who are so good to share their creations.  It uses one of our most popular new sets, Awesomely Artistic.

This card featured the cool embossed Color Me Irresistible specialty designer paper in cucumber crush and watermelon wonder along with the fun words in the Cottage Greeting set.

This was my featured hostess set  for August.  Is is called A Whole Lot of Lovely and also used the Color Me Irresistible delightful dijon paper.

Wendy Droke shared this delightful creation.  It is called a Tea Tot-em.  It holds four tea bags or two small packets of M & Ms or Skittles.  She found the pattern on Pinterest.

Finally this gorgeous card was shared by Darlene Almer who also found it on Pinterest.  It uses the new Jingle All The Way set and edgelits from the Holiday mini.  We sponged Tempting Turquoise, Night of Navy, and BlackBerry Bliss ink over the whole surface and then flicked some droplets of water on the surface. After it dried the result was beautiful.

Tomorrow is my annual sneak peek class for the new Holiday mini.  I'll have the eight cards to share as well as the remaining five cards from Tuesday.  Stay tuned.  Hugs, Sherron