More projects from Tuesday classes

I have five more projects to share from my Tuesday gatherings.  Here are the two remaining ones that I got from two of the demonstrators who share some of their creations.

This card was shared by Julie Davison as part of her stamp set of the month.  It uses the Watercolor Wings in the big annual catalog.  I've done this fun little pop up many times and just love the surprise when you open it.

This card is a tunnel card by Dawn Olchefske and features the Sheltering Tree.  This is a fun fold card that has been around for at least the last twenty years and is such a cool card that wows people every time they open one.

The other three cards were shared by my wonderful downline.

 Michelle brought this very fun card for us to make.  It used the envelope board on the very smallest size and the bow punch.  The green in the background is Cherry on Top Designer Washi Tape while the paper for the bow is the Cherry on Top Designer Series Paper Stack.  It is just too cute.

 Verna brought this great Sheltering Tree window card.  I love the colors.  The swosh in the set is used for the grass and the cloud.

Shanon brought this pretty easel card for us all to make.   It used the Something to Say stamp set and the Pretty Bohemian Designer Series Paper.  

I have the most wonderful group of stampers and downline demonstrators.  We have the greatest time together.  Today was my annual Sneak Peek Holiday catalog class. We had so much fun getting ready for the holidays.  I know it is almost four months until Christmas, but the weather turned from blistery hot to cool and rainy overnight, making this class a little more realistic.  I will post the eight projects that I created or cased for this class this coming week.  Stay tuned.  Hugs, Sherron

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

Busy, busy week

What a crazy week!  The Terry Taylor garage sale was nonstop people until about 3PM when the heat got too much for most.  Meg, Lila and I did really well.  We sold lots of retired stamps and accessories plus a bunch of odds and ends.

Sunday was my granddaughter, Meaghan's bridal shower.  It was a long trip up to Tacoma, but such a fun time.

 

Monday and Tuesday were my first week of the month Stamp Clubs and then today, I had one of my monthly papercrafting days. My friend Meg joined me and we spent the afternoon working on Paper Pumpkins.  I got my July done and finished the one from May.  I have enough get well cards for all of cold and flu season.  Then I finished up the bags and cards from May's kit. Aren't they cool?

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In the middle of all of our crafting, my pre-order from the new Holiday mini arrived on my doorstep and I hardly could contain my excitement.   I can't wait to get started on creating my projects for the Holiday Sneak Peek class the end of August. 

Finally here is another of the fun projects from last weeks Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch.  This is my favorite of the five projects.

Tomorrow is the second Hostess Appreciation Luncheon so there will be more fun photos to come. Hugs. Sherron

Simply Stampin' Lunch Bunch and Aerubbecisor Dinner

Tuesday was my monthly busy day with some very fun stampers for lunch bunch.  They brought several wonderful salads and I provided the taco soup and carrot cake.  We had lots of fun and laughter.  Those stampers blended into my next group of downline demonstrators who started arriving as lunch bunch left.  It was such a fun day.  I enjoy all of my stampers so much and look forward to seeing my downline each month.  I added Caesar salad and my husband's great herb bread to the soup and cake for dinner.  It was a great gathering with stampers I hadn' t seen for several months, but then it is summer.

I provided five cards that I had cased from other demonstrators for everyone to make and several of my downline brought fun projects to share, too.  Here is the first of the projects that everyone did. This one was cased from Julie Davison, my favorite demonstrator to case. She is one of the nicest people you could ever meet. I love her tutorials and her projects.

My stamp club ladies will get to make another version of this card in August.  Love the Butterfly Basics set that came out in the spring mini. It is definitely one of the current favorites. 

I'll add more as I have time.  Saturday is the big Terry Taylor neighborhood garage sale so I will be working with a bunch of my ladies to do our big annual craft sale. We have people from all over western Washington and Oregon come to this sale.  Come and visit us on Saturday.  Hugs, Sherron

First Hostess Appreciation Luncheon

My first hostess appreciation luncheon was so fun.  Everyone loved the projects this year and seemed to enjoy the food too.  I did something a little different this year. Instead of four separate projects, I gave everyone the choice from three different Designer Series Paper.  Each person chose two pieces of either Bohemian, Farmers Market or English Garden and used one to decorate a plastic wood mount stamp case and the other to do a one sheet wonder set of cards.  I had samples from each choice that I had already done along with matching inks and cardstock. It was fun to see the results and listen to the conversation as everyone got creative.  Thanks to my upline, Denise Jorgenson for the case idea.  She gave me this wonderful case filled with cards as a gift at the recent Hawaii incentive trip. 

Every case was so different depending on the papers each chose.  The case that Denise made used the Bohemian DSP so while everyone worked on theirs, I decided to do another one sheet wonder set focusing on thank you cards to give as a gift.  Here are the cards that I created in just a couple of hours with another different sheet of the Bohemian paper. 

I am just loving this whole concept. It has made me see creativity in a whole different way. Here are the other two cases with the Farmers Market and English Garden papers.

There is still one more hostess appreciation luncheon on August 8th. If you want a chance to make your own case of cards, join me for a fun day. Or if you haven't been one of my hostesses this past year, but still would like to make this fun project, I might be talked into doing a class.  Hugs, Sherron

Stampaholics and more.

Sunday was my monthly Stampaholics Anonymous.  I put out the leftover designer paper sheets from the Sweet Dreams DSP that was on the recent Spring Occasions mini.  Since Stampaholics is my monthly open house and participants can bring their own supplies or use what I put out, I had decided to highlight one retired paper each month and encourage stampers to do a one sheet wonder project making a variety of cards from that one piece.  Even though this paper was featured as a baby theme, I wanted to show that it works for all kinds of normal occasions.   I  randomly added a few current and retired stamp sets and the cardstock and ink to match the colors in the papers.  Since I am a very challenged card designer,  this is such a good exercise for me.   The sets I chose were Peaceful Petals, retired from the most recent catalog, Birthday Blossoms, one of my favorite new sets and You've Got This.  I was pretty proud of my creations.   What do you think?

I promised to finish my stamp club projects so here is the last card using another of my favorite sets, Wild About Flowers.

And this month I featured the new Gift Bag Punch Board for my extra credit project. It has been so popular that it is backordered but still available to order.  It is a little trickier to master than the other two boards but definitely worth it and very fun to create all different sizes and styles. 

Tomorrow we head for Portland for our annual Brewer's Festival.  Portland is the beer capital of the world with almost 100 craft breweries in the area. Every year they come together to showcase their wares.  My husband loves the festival and we enjoy it as one of our summer highlights.  This year two of my daughters and their husbands will join us so we are excited.  Then on Saturday I hold the first of my two Hostess Appreciation events. I can' t wait to share the fun project they will be doing.  Hugs, Sherron

Paper Crafting and more projects.

Yesterday was papercrafting day and I had a lot of fun making one of our new kits to use as a decoration for my upcoming hostess appreciation luncheons.   The Sweet Stack Project Kit is a fun cake with pieces you can fill with treats.  There is also a new Cutie Pie thin lit that you can use to make more cake pieces.  Here is my creation. There were enough pieces to make another banner which I will use to create a "Celebrate" one.  Here is a pic of the finished "cake".

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I finished the last of the little thank yous that I made for my customers this month. I showed you the project that I did at my workshops with the Pretty Petals Designer Paper Stack. The thank you notes were made with the scraps from that project.

I used the " Cottage Greetings" set for these notes. It is such a pretty set.   Here is another of the fun projects from my workshops this month. I love the "Watercolor Wings" set and the matching framelits.  This bundle is a great buy and goes so well with the Butterfly Basics bundle. 

I'll share the last card and the extra credit projects tomorrow.  It is Stampaholics Anonymous so come and play.  Hugs, Sherron