Already July!

I cannot believe it is already July. Where is the time going? I've been busy with the new colors stampin' up! has come out with and cleaning out the craft room to make way for all the new stuff on my wish list. Thought I'd share a few of the cards I had made.

I'm back

Hi everyone, I'm sorry it has been so long since I posted. It's not that I have not been creating it is that I have been creating so much. One of my very favorite fellow card makers (my friend Dale) and I finished my BFF's daughters shower cards. Many stories could follow but suffice to say that they went out the people came and the shower is done. This is the card we did (total 68 of them). I also am posting the card I made to swap at out great seminar my up line Jackie puts on every year (this one I only made 30 of). And lastly this is the card that went out to people who attended the Women Build Habitat for Humanity Banquet ( I made 126.) Thanks to Dale who gave up three of her nights to help me, Stacey-my wonderful niece who also came over a few nights to help and Trina, Kayla and Jessie who I enlisted before I fed them one Sunday morning. I appreciate all the help!

Last Day of Blog Tour

The Blog Tour is on its last day and I want to thank Sheryl for putting it together, thanks to all who participated, and thank you to everyone who visited. This was such a learning experience for me, and I just want to say that you all can do this. I learned how to upload and attach a link and how to upload pictures from my camera. The frustration level was high but so was the sense of accomplishment when it was done and it worked.

Now on to the fun part. My DH and I visited Vegas a few years ago and I’ve finally got around to scraping the pages. Due to technical difficulties (that frustration level again) you’ll only see the one page but I thought it turned out well. I had ordered the sets Card Games and Game Night
(cat pg. 121) for family game night pictures but had never used them. When I got to the Vegas pictures they were a natural fit. Hope you all enjoyed the blog tour and please visit me again.

Have a wonderful day--Linda

Make and take

Here is the card I made for the make and takes at the Great Scrapbook Event in Warren this last weekend, I hope you like it. Most everything I used is featured in the occasions mini catalog.

Using a 5 x 3 3/4 piece of Very Vanilla card stock I ran it through the big shot on the Friend Textured Plate (Cat. pg. 195 114531 $9.95). then using my sponge dauber and Pretty in Pink ink I went over the words to highlight them. I took the bird punch (117191 $15.95 Occasions Mini pg. 10) and the specialty DP Sending Love (Mini-pg.13 117153 $11.95)I punched out the bird and the branches. I mounted them on a piece of 3 x 2 1/4 Very Vanilla and monted that to a 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 piece of Old Olive card stock. Then I mounted everything to a Certainly Celery card base. Making a bow from the whisper white Organza Ribbon and attaching with a pop up dot my card was done.

Everyone seemed to really like it and it really showcased the big shot and the punch.
Have a great day and I'll see you tomorrow.

Blog Tour

If you are new to the blog tour concept as I was until this month it involves everyone linking a blog to their blog and you do a round robin thing until you end up at the original blog again. Please hit the link to the side of the page for Karla's blog or the address here. Enjoy! http://www.karlasstampnscrap.com

Weddings

Good Morning,
Wow I think we are back to winter this morning after a week of spring.
There is so much going on. And as we all know spring meens the wedding season is upon us. So here is the first card I'm posting today. I know i told you it was going to be the make and take from the show this weekend but I fell in love with this one cause I thought it turned out so beautifully. I hope you can see the detail. Using the big shot and the textured plate from the Stampin' Up! Backgrounds 1 (114512 11.95)I ran the Whisper White paper through the big shot, attached the two gold rings to the flower, pop dotted the flower to the card front and stamped "Congratulations" on the bottom with bashful blue ink. I thought it turned out really nice.

totally tired

Hi All,
I've been out of the loop for around two weeks now but I've done a lot of creating. We are starting a stampin up demos blog tour tomorrow and I hope you will all jump on board and check them blogs out. It should be a lot of fun just remember that these blogs are going to look so much better than mine but I will catch up. I'm determined to learn this stuff.

Oh, the scrapbooking show went well. I did see some of you there and that is always a pleasure! I hope you enjoyed the make and takes. that will be the first picture I post tomorrow. See you then. Linda