Merry Christmas!

I've received so many compliments on a card I created I felt obligated to share my 'recipe'

So get out your pencils and paper and get ready to write, this could be difficult.....

Stampin' Up! 2" scallop punch for wreath in silver glitter, 1" circle punch for the inside.
Tiny hole punches for the holly's, with Stampin' Up red glitter
Base was cut at 5x3 3/4
Door was cut at 3x4, and then cut at 1 1/2"x1 1/2
Stamp your holiday greeting, add either a silver brad or embellishment for door knob, then add red bow to wreath.
Ok well, thats it! How super elegant is this?!

Barbiezilla

Ok, so I had these grand illusions of surprising our new neighbors with this miniature version of their new home, from the Winder Wonderland cart. Oooh myyy gooosh! Was it a royal pain in the arsh. With almost 2 house into this construction of cutting, scoring and gluing all these tiny pieces together I had enough of it!
Even though I designed it with the Fit To Page button, it was still very difficult to adhere all the tiny pieces together.
I reluctantly finished it, and not too overly pleased with it, I decided "How could I ever give something like this to our new neigbhors." "Come on now, after all I want them to think I perfect". Barbie is now ROTFL :)

But before I did, ROTFL, Barbiezilla came through, and well you can see what happen next.

Barbiezilla

So, if at first you don't succeed, ah screw all that nonsense and just scrap the whole project and go for something easier....

Welcome to the neighborhood

This was a such a better idea, and Shhhhhh, don't tell them it wasn't my idea! Let them think I am PERFECT.

Don't I wish I was 30 AGAIN!

Ok, so I'm a 'couple' of years over that...but who's counting!

Another beautiful card created just for you!

I would like to give credit to Connie Tumm for this beautiful card. Create using all Stampin' Up products.
Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers
Ink: Crumb Cake
Punch: Big Shot: Perfect Polka Dots  embossing folder, Elegant Lines Embossing Folder, Flower Die
Paper: Whisper White
Shadow with Crumb Cake

I can't recall where I first saw this design, but fell in love with it.  Sorry the image is poor, hopefully you can see that it says " for you, from me".
Stampin Up! supplies
Stamps: Bliss
Ink: Black, Old Olive
Punches: Large Oval, Scallop Oval

Christmas Cards

Hi Stampers! 
I know it seems a bit early to be thinking about Christmas cards, but if you are going to make your cards this year, the time to get started is now!   I have two Christmas card  classes coming up over the next few weeks so I am busy designing cards.   Here is a card I designed this evening for my next upcoming class.
Contact me and I will let you know when the next Make and Take Class is. Make 4 beautiful cards for just a fee supply of $20.00.

Stampin' Up!

This beautiful card was created for a good friend of ours who recently lost her sister. It's unfortunate that we must keep these type of cards on hand, but I wanted to make sure I created a special one for her....Notice the little blue bird, always there to remind you how precious life is.

Christmas Greetings

Another one of my favorite Christmas card. So RETRO

Christmas Greetings

I'll be posting often to introduce you to a new line of Christmas Greetings cards for you to see. Please contact me for more information on them.

These instruction were designed to be used with my unique senditagain cards. If you have received one of my cards, and you truly loved and enjoyed it, then someone else would too! Just remove your personal greeting on the inside and personalize it for that special person you plan to send it to. If you don't have an envelope and would like to senditagain, use this template to create one.
All you need to do is right click on the "Downloadable Envelope" below and select the choice "Open in New Window". A new page will open displaying the envelope, from there click on the word "file" just to the upper left corner of the envelope and choose "download original". Save it to your computer and print it again and again. It's that simple. Thank you for your support and I look forward to making and creating more senditagain cards for you.

 

                                                              Downloadable Envelope

Below is what the envelope will look like do not use this to print the envelope the size is not correct.

Sending you a Truck Load of Birthday Wishes

Ok, so it's been like forever since I have been able to post.
No other excuses, but to say LIFE HAPPENS.
And although I truly love to blog and SHOW OFF my creations there are 3 VIPs and other IPs in my life that I love to spent time with.
Camping season is in full swing and we love to get in our RV and just travel on our days off. we have been planning a big trip with our Glamping friends to travel up to Nova Scotia next month and we are really looking forward to this trip.
In the meantime let me post this cute card, I received lots of suggestion from my friends on the Cricut Message board and I truly think they came up with a winner~thanks

What a Toad I was!

I had totally forgotten our good friends birthday, and I wanted him to know, that although I am such a scatterbrain I didn't want him to go un noticed....Love Ya Justin! Mrs. B

Thanks a Melon

'Just Because' I needed to send a dear friend of ours a thank you card. He was kind enough he supply me with quite a bit of very nice quality card stock paper and envelopes for my SENDITAGAIN cards. Thanks so much Tom!       

Just Because Cart, button #32

Size was 3 3/4" for the darker base, and then I reduced to create the white base to a 3 1/2". Used Swiss Dots to emboss just the white base. The phrase was cut at 2 1/2". The watermelon was cut at 3 1/2"

Please leave me a comment, as I love to see what you have to say.



Glad hearts Inlaid Embossed card

We created this card last week at our monthly Glad Heart Stampers meeting.
I have recently become a Stampin' Up Demonstrator and I have to tell you I just love all their products. I have a wonderful and supportive team leader in Missy Shipman. She is very talented creative and really knows her stuff.
We do however, have to give credit to Connie Tumms for this card. This technique is called "Inlaid Embossing". It was super easy to make. We used 3 different punches sizes 1, 1 1/2 and 2" circle punches and glued them to the Pacific Point blue paper and ran it through the BigShot.  The look is truly impressive and really looks like it is all one piece.
The cupcake was punched out and stamped with the Create A Cupcake set. How cute is this?!

These were designed using the large binder clips from Staples. 12 will only cost you $4.99

The paper was cut at 2" x 3 1/2 and adhered with my ATG gun. Add a ribbon for that special touch.

Sooooo cute!

Display table with Senditagian cards

Here are a few pictures from the open house that I recently had in my home to introduce my SENDITAGAIN cards and to demonstrate some of the fabulous products from Stampin' Up. The overall turn out was great and everyone had a blast making some beautiful cards.

Jayne and Marcy 

Trisha and mom

Just a few of the great products from Stampin' Up

Even my cat Lisa got in to it!

I made this card for our very dear friend's daughter. Stefanie is a very bright and enthusiastic young girl, who we would be more than happy to call her our daughter. She is a freshman at St. Pauls Smith College in Lake Placid NY majoring in Hospitality and Culintary Arts. She would love to become an events planner, and have the opportunity to plan, execute, host and throw eleborate parties, some how we think she likes to spend money. Am I right Dad, were does she get that from?!
I have had a lot of fun sending her cards every month, so when I came across this one, I immediately thought of Stef. I love the colors but especially love how the butterfly looks like it is going to spread it's wings and fly.

Just like our Stef has done. Love ya!

I used the Rock Princess Cart, button # 40
Shadow feature with brown at 3 1/2 "green and pink using the layer features.
Embossed using the paisley folder.