Terrific Tuesday

Stamp Camp is only 10 days away....I'm so excited I just have to share with you another sneak peak of one of the cards.

Its a gift card holder...using the Top Note Die (oldie but a goodie)...so cute.

And of course here is the finished product....the trees are stamped with the All Is Calm Designer Series Paper and of course we had to add a little bling with the Frosted Embellishments.

I hope you can come and bring your friends it should be a fun time.

Monthly Stamp Club

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  I wanted to give you a little sneak peak of one of the cards we will be doing at our monthly stamp club.

You may be wondering how the monthly stamp club work.  Well its pretty simple...you commit to come to stamp club for a minimum of four months and spend only $20 then......you come to my house and stamp three cards and get a little "treat" when you are done AND one of those four months you co-host a Stampin' Up party and receive the hostess benefits!  How simple is that.  Club is typically held the first week of the months, but the date/times are very flexible.  Well here is the sneak peak of one of the cards.

 

We will be using the new Under the Tree Specialty Designer Paper....we will also use the star framelits....can't wait for Club.

VA Project

On a personal note, my Mom and Dad were married almost 67 years when my Mom died in 2010.  My dad was so lonely it was so hard to see him like that, after about a year, he realized that he needed to get out with people and we were able to enroll him the VA Adult Day Health Care Program (ADHC)....what a blessing!  He met so many wonderful people.  One day he called me and told me that there were some high school kids who came and visited with them, they did crafts, played bingo and just talked to them....HE LOVED IT.  I immediately had to find out what school, I was so surprised when I heard it was through the Area Learning Center.  I knew when I retired that I wanted to give back to all the people that helped my parents....so I contacted the head of the program and started my volunteering with the program.  When I walk into the ADHC I have such a wonderful time with these guys, they appreciate everything we do for them, but if they only knew how much they did for our family, especially our Dad! 

So.....one of our projects this month is Veterans Day...WOW this is such a special day because we remember all of our Veterans and I'm so proud to say that my Dad was one.  For those of you that knew my Dad he was maybe a little rough around the edges, but he loved his family, country and his God and for that I'm very thankful.  He was proud to have served his country during WWII and proudly wore his Purple Heart. 

This weekend, my sister Brenda and I are prepping for the projects we are die cutting the stars and then next week one day I will go to the Area Learning Center to work with the students gluing the stars together....then on Friday November 7th, we will go out to the ADHC and finish the stars and play some bingo....what an honor to not only work with these students, but to spend a few hours with our Veterans.

Here is the finished product.

They can either hang the stars in their rooms or stand them up....My friend Lynell helped me come up with this idea...then I called my sister Brenda and she volunteered to help prep them...what a wonderful time we will have at the lake prepping for this and remembering "Dad".

Friday Flair

Happy Halloween.....I hope you have good trick or treaters tonight....we are prepared and whatever we don't give out....well we will just have to eat ourselves right!!!!! 

Today's Friday Flair comes from one of my fellow Demonstrators, Brenda C.

What a beautiful card.  If you notice she used the Seasonally Scatter set but then put the pumpkins over the words....WOW that's so cool. 

Thanks for sharing Brenda.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Snippet Thursday

When I have stamping events I have "pieces" of product left over....in my world if it isn't at least a quarter of a sheet its considered a "snippet"....I don't keep snippets, but I have friends that love them, so I give them my snippets, in return they love to show me what they have done with them.

I'm having so much fun looking over the cards I've received from snippets!  Makes me rethink that I should keep a few!  Just kidding...for those who know me I don't do snippets, but I have friends that do....thanks Carol and Joyce.

Here are a some of cards I received from Carol last week....

Again, I'm truly amazed and what she can do with different shapes of paper....keep it up Carol.

Wacky Wednesday

Can you believe that October is almost over...it seems the months fly by so fast.  I'm so excited to go to Veronica's house on Thursday night for a party....this group is so much fun, amazing women and of course their kids are great too.

Veronice asked me to use the set "Endless Wishes", I was very happy to do that since it is one of my favorite sets because it is so versatile.  Here is the card I came up with....simple, clean and cute (in my opinion at least)...what are your thoughts?

I'm now off to design cards for our monthly stamp club....maybe you'll get a sneak peak!!!

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Totally Terrific Tuesday!

Tuesdays are the day that Stampin' Up makes annoucements and updates the "Weekly Deals" so don't forget to check those out.

Today I would love to share with you one of my swap cards from our Sunshine Stampers Monthly Stamp Share,.

Our group of Stampin' Up Demonstators get together monthly and we have such a fantastic time.  We eat, stamp and share!!!!

 by Kathleen W.

 

This card was done using the Holiday Home set....I wasn't that fond of that set until I've seen a few cards done with it...this card is so stinkin' cute.

 



 by Sandy K.

 

Can we ever get too tired of the stamp set Work of Art...I can't.  I just love how clean and simple this card is.