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Hope to see a bunch of you here to play with me and celebrate our wonderful hobby. Hugs, Sherron
Friday, October 3, 2014
Great swaps and getting ready for A Day of Thanks
Our September swap cards using framelits and thinlits were awesome. There were 12 participants and all the cards are sorted and ready for mailing tomorrow or pickup whenever. I've taken pictures of them all and will be sharing them all over the next week, but first it is time to get ready for World Cardmaking Day tomorrow, Saturday, October 4. There are lots of activities going on all over the world. I have personally talked or emailed with demonstrators all over Western Washington and one in Dallas, Texas. I have five cards prepared and ready for anyone who wants to join me here to celebrate the friendship and fun that is what papercrafting is all about. I know that I have several who have said they will be here and I hope that as many of you as possible can come. We want to get lots of thank you cards to donate and I know you want some for yourself, too. Just remember there is no charge for this event and you get to keep one thank you card for each one you make to donate. Here are the first three cards that you will be making tomorrow.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
School workshop and more Simply Stampin'
The monthly classes at Olympic School started today for teachers and staff. They are so appreciative of all that I teach them and I am so blessed to have them as my friends. They loved the witch and pumpkin treat boxes done with the Curvy Keepsake Box Thinlit. So many fun things to do with that one. We had fun with Tee Hee Hee. So many of my customers don't do Halloween so it is fun to find people who enjoy the silly stuff. The Ornamental Pine screen card was a hit as well as the Wondrous Wreath for fall. Stay tuned for more pics when I get caught up. Just love those ladies at Olympic School.
There are two more cards that I cased for Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch that I haven't shown you so here they are. The Vivid Vases was cased from Dawn Olchefske. She does a great job with the Blendabilities. The Dahlia was cased from Stamper Dog off of Pinterest. I decided the Regarding Dahlias set was going to be my stamp set that I pulled from the shelf that I hadn't used in awhile so it was in the Birthday Blitz and will be in my Day of Thanks on Saturday. I really need to get more use out of the hundreds of sets that I keep buying. So here are the pics and list of supplies needed for each. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did making them. Hugs, Sherron
There are two more cards that I cased for Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch that I haven't shown you so here they are. The Vivid Vases was cased from Dawn Olchefske. She does a great job with the Blendabilities. The Dahlia was cased from Stamper Dog off of Pinterest. I decided the Regarding Dahlias set was going to be my stamp set that I pulled from the shelf that I hadn't used in awhile so it was in the Birthday Blitz and will be in my Day of Thanks on Saturday. I really need to get more use out of the hundreds of sets that I keep buying. So here are the pics and list of supplies needed for each. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did making them. Hugs, Sherron
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014
September Aerubbecisor Gathering
Our Aerubbecisor dinner gathering was so much fun. We had a good turnout with people arriving from 4 until 6 PM and the last one didn't leave until almost 9 PM. Everyone loved my dinner and several people brought their swaps for this month as well as some projects to share. I'll have lots to post over the next week. Another swap arrived in the mail today and I'm expecting at least one or two more tomorrow so I can sort and get them back in the mail to long distance ladies or delivered to my local gals. Here are pics of the ladies enjoying their food or stamping the projects.
There were a total of twelve demonstrators who came and went during the day. It was a really good turnout and I was so happy to see several that had missed a couple of months.
This was number three of the five cards that I had prepared for both of my gatherings. This one was cased from Mary Fish. I just love the Color Me Autumn Designer Series Paper. You can actually earn this one free and several more just by signing up to be a demonstrator this month. It is just $99 for $125 worth of stuff. Let me know if you would like a little more information on this promotion.
Laura Vilhauer's shoebox swap. Isn't he cute? I need to send him to my granddaughter in Australia!
Wendy Droke's very cool I-phone card. It looks so real.....almost!
Shanon Boyns' fun card using lots of scraps of cardstock. What a great way to use up all of those little leftovers!
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Don't forget World Cardmaking Day on Saturday. We will be making lots of Thank You cards to give away and keep. Stampin' Up! announced a huge sale on stamp pads, cardstock, stamp sets, etc. that goes from today through Monday so check it out here. Stamp Stock and Save
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch and Aerubbecisor Dinner
It was a small but fun group of ladies for lunch today as three of my regular stalwart stampers came plus three of my downline Aerubbecisor gals who either work nights or don't drive in the dark joined us. I made the Loaded Baked Potato Soup for lunch and dinner today. It was sent to me by Bobbi Hartsell on facebook and she was here to enjoy it today. I also made a Raspberry Cranberry Apple salad with the cranberry sauce that Lila brought last month and an apple coffecake as the apples are coming faster than we can eat them. There were grapes and tiny purple tomatoes, rolls, little tortilla rollup appetizers and brownie pops as well as a yummy oriental tossed salad so we ate hearty today. Tonight I will add one of my watermelon, feta, marinated onion with tossed greens salad and some hearty bread for the dinner. It is a long but rewarding day as I get to visit with ladies in my downline along with some of my favorite stampers. This month I cased all five cards that the ladies are making as the Birthday Blitz used up most of my creative genes. Some of the cards were off of blogs and some were swaps that I received at our convention. Here are two of them. Hope you enjoy them.
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I'll post the other three cards tomorrow and by then I will have the swap cards for this months group swap. Three more came in this morning and they are so fun. Don't forget to check out the great weekly deals that were just posted this morning by clicking on the "weekly deals" button on my website. There will be some super fantastic specials posted tomorrow for the World Cardmaking Day that are only good through next Monday and a terrific Designer Series Paper Promotion for those signing up to become demonstrators in October. Lots of crazy goodies to share. Stay tuned. Hugs, Sherron
Monday, September 29, 2014
Fall Wreath card and Aerubbecisor Swap Card
As I mentioned yesterday, I wanted to post a pic of Dawn Olchefske's fall wreath card. I just loved this look when I saw it and had to copy it for my October workshops starting with the one yesterday. I am still having trouble getting excited for Christmas yet so will post a few of those later. I have one that I am doing for my October workshops that is a take on one that I did for the Birthday Blitz. The Wondrous Wreath set is just a versatile photopolymer set that is available as a bundle. Pinterest has been full of great ideas.
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It is so cheerful, that I am almost happy to welcome fall, especially if we continue to get lots of sunshine in the Great Northwet.
Tomorrow is the Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch and I will have five fairly simple cards to create during our fun lunchtime activity. Everyone brings a little something to share for lunch and we have a yummy good time. It is also the Aerubbecisor dinner gathering for my wonderful Stampin' Up! downline. Which means that the monthly swap cards are due. I created mine over the weekend and was pretty excited about it. The theme this month was framelits and thinlits so I used one of our new flip card thinlits dies, Snowflake Card Thinlit on page 22 of the Holiday Mini. Did you know that the Letterpress Winter stamp fits perfectly in the flippin' snowflake. Even though I'm really not ready for snow, I loved how this card turned out. The Thinlits Die set includes the words Joy, Brrr and Snow as well as a small snowflake, a large snowflake, a heart and a tree framelit. So fun to play with.
Hope you liked the card. Tomorrow I'll share some of the Simply Stampin' cards that I cased for this months class and then there will be the rest of the Aerubbecisor swaps and the thank you cards for this weeks, World Cardmaking Day on Saturday. More about that to come. Have a great week.
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Hugs, Sherron
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Workshop in Centralia with the Razzle Dazzle Divas
It was kind of a crazy day today as I continued to work at cleaning out my garage. Since it was my quarterly trip to Centralia to do a workshop for the Razzle Dazzle Divas Red Hat group and their friends, I always try to take a load to the Goodwill at the same time. The Goodwill in Centralia is a wonderful bunch of people who always seem to be so happy to see me unlike other Goodwills closer to home so I always try to take a load there when I go. My husband and I have been cleaning out and sheetrocking our garage both downstairs and in the bonus room upstairs. When we moved to Longview eight years ago, we dumped everything from our house that we had sold into the garage while we built the new house and have slowly been sorting everything that didn't get moved into the new home. I have boxes and boxes and boxes of cardstock, paper and completed cards and am slowly making my way through them all and donating or using up what I can. Each year I have a retired craft sale and try to sell as much as I can. What doesn't sell gets put on eBay or gets donated to other charities. There were two large boxes for the Goodwill as well as a TV and a computer printer. It always feels so good to get things cleaned out and organized.
My workshop with the fun ladies of the Razzle Dazzle Divas was a hoot. I have a perfectionist in the group and you all know what that means. Nothing is ever right and everything has to be redone several times. We are working on her, but she is coming along very slowly. They seemed to enjoy the projects that I brought. I included the Ornamental Pine with the fabric softener sheets and glitter from last month's sneak peek and it was a real hit again. Everyone just loves that technique. I also did the Birthday Blitz card from yesterday's class of the ship from the Traveler and the Work of Art background. The last one is a fall card using the Wondrous Wreath that Dawn Olchefske had posted to Pinterest. It was very simple but so cool for this time of years and the ladies loved the change from the Christmas look. I have found so many great ideas for this stamp set. You know you will be seeing lots of cards done with it in the next several months. I'll post a picture of it tomorrow with the list of supplies to make it. I have my Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch on Tuesday so will start sneak peeking those projects for you tomorrow, too. Tonight I am just too tired to think about it.
My workshop with the fun ladies of the Razzle Dazzle Divas was a hoot. I have a perfectionist in the group and you all know what that means. Nothing is ever right and everything has to be redone several times. We are working on her, but she is coming along very slowly. They seemed to enjoy the projects that I brought. I included the Ornamental Pine with the fabric softener sheets and glitter from last month's sneak peek and it was a real hit again. Everyone just loves that technique. I also did the Birthday Blitz card from yesterday's class of the ship from the Traveler and the Work of Art background. The last one is a fall card using the Wondrous Wreath that Dawn Olchefske had posted to Pinterest. It was very simple but so cool for this time of years and the ladies loved the change from the Christmas look. I have found so many great ideas for this stamp set. You know you will be seeing lots of cards done with it in the next several months. I'll post a picture of it tomorrow with the list of supplies to make it. I have my Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch on Tuesday so will start sneak peeking those projects for you tomorrow, too. Tonight I am just too tired to think about it.
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Great Birthday Blitz
We had a great time playing together at my Birthday Blitz today. Everyone loved the cards and each had their favorites. The Holiday Home set was very popular as was the Traveler card. Most wanted to make the very pretty Flowering Flourishes screen card, but only a few tackled the Peekabo Shutter card. It is always interesting to me to see which cards are the favorites so I know what to plan for next time. Most made the really easy cards, but the harder ones only had a couple of takers. Here are some pics of the ladies tackling their projects and the remaining two cards that I had not posted yet.
I hope you have enjoyed all of the fun cards from my Birthday Blitz. It is always fun for me to select the cards and sets that I use in my twice a year class. Coming up on Tuesday will be the monthly Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch cards and then my Day of Thanks for World Cardmaking Day with its five Thank You cards. Much more to come. Stay tuned. Hugs, Sherron
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Banners Framelits, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, 1 3/4" Scallop Circle Punch, Basic Rhinestone Jewels
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