Open House gift

I was trying to figure out something to give to everyone that came to my Open House. This is what I came up with. (along with a few other things.) Since it was held on the Hottest day of the summer so far. As each of my guests left they got to take this tag that I attached to a bottle of water to keep them refreshed as they set out on their next adventure of the day. They were a lot of fun to make. I got the idea from another demonstrator and I do apologize I do not remember her name, so I can not take full credit for coming up with this idea. I sure do thank her though for giving me the inspiration. I had a great time visiting with everyone that came. I also sold a bit of my RETIRED Stampin' Up! supplies. I still have some left so if you are interested, by sure to contact me soon. I am scheduled to do a few Vendor/Craft Fairs coming up and I will be showcasing all of my sale things at those times. I will be updating my blog and SU! website with my dates shortly. I would love for you to stop and see me. Enjoy....

My new addiction

Cindy Rae showed us to make these darling bags. This my 4th one I've made and I love them. They are quick and easy. I will never buy another gift bag. When she showed us how to make them, we used 2-12x12 sheets of Designer Series Paper. I made one for my upline to put her going away gift in and I didn't want it to be that big so I cut it down to 10x10. So there you go you can make them any size you want. Ohh.... I'm having a blast with these. Thanks so much Cindy!!! This is the bag I made for my friend Sarah's little boy... Roman with our new Celebrations DSP. I also stamped on tissue paper with the Fox and friends stamp set in coordinating colors. This is why I LOVE what I do. You can make such great gifts and personalize them with our AWESOME coordinating colors. If you want to learn more about these bags, contact me.

EXTRA...EXTRA!!!!!

Book your workshop now!!! Stampin' Up! Has just announced a Hostess special going on. Now is your time to get your friends together and you get the benefits. With a $350 workshop, you can get $25.00 EXTRA hostess dollars to spend in addition to all of the other benefits. I am booking now... so let me know what date you'd like to fill on my calendar!!!

Altered empty Button container

I always wanted to make these flowers and I just never sat down to try. This past weekend while a few of us got together and went to Connecticut to have a Stamp Getaway, Kim shared a card with us on how to make them. I just LOVE them. So I came across a bunch of empty SU! containers as I was cleaning and organizing for my Open House this weekend. I thought these little flowers would be perfect for the tops of them. I am going to fill them with some little suprises and give them to the people who bring a friend on Saturday. I think the picture is a little dark, I don't have very good lighting at midnight. :) to take pictures, but I wanted to share them. I used 2 new DSP - Greenhouse Gala (absolutely LOVE!!) and Newsprint. Let me know what you think. If you'd like to recieve one, bring a friend to my Open House - this Saturday 9AM-12PM.

WOW

It has been a long time.. I am sorry. I think I am now back on track. Especially since my fellow Love at First Stampers are really using the blog network. I'm excited to be back on track and posting new ideas and projects. Come back soon to see what I have in store. Right now I am busy preparing for my New Catalog Open House which is this Saturday at my home from 9AM-12PM. I have lots of retired items for sale. Plus I will have all of the new colors to touch and see up close and you will even get to make a little something to take home! I hope to see you there! Check back on my blog often. Have a great day!

Scrap That Poetry Challenge

Here is my first entry to the Scrap the Poetry blog. I scrapped my easter pictures, so I figured I may as well enter the contest since it is about Easter. Good luck to all! Go check out their blog: http://www.scrapthatpoetry.blogspot.com/

I Could Not Ask For More

I haven't done a challenge in a LONG time, but when I saw this was the song over at Scrap the Music, I had just the picture in mind. I hope you like it. Here are the lyrics to this song.

I Could Not Ask For More Lyrics

by Sara Evans
Written by Diane Warren

Lying here with you
listenin' to the rain
smilin just to see
the smile upon your face

These are the moments
I thank god that I'm alive
These are the moments I remember all my life
I've found all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more

Looking in your eyes
seeing all I need
Everything you are
Is everything to me

These are the moments
I know heaven must exist
These are the moments
I know all I need is this
I've found all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more

I could not ask for more than this time together
Could not ask for more than this time with you
And Every prayer has been answered,
Every dream I've had's come true
I've found all I've waited for,
And I could not ask for more.

Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Happy HEART Day!

I enjoyed the day in my pj's with my husband watching the Daytona 500 and cooking a yummy steak dinner out on the grill. Yep, he shoveled what was left of the 16 inches on the deck so we could get to the grill. This is what I made for him with Stampin' Up!'s little tins that have been on clearance. I saw this idea on Stampin' Connection (group for demonstrators only) I apologize I forgot who it was, but I loved this idea and so did my husband. He is putting it on his desk at work

Here is the roses that he had for me on the table when I came downstairs this morning. I am so lucky to be married to my sweetheart. We sure have been through a lot, but it has paid off to fight through all of the troubles to be where we are today.  

I hope you enjoyed your Valentine's Day!

Back to Work :(

I knew it was going to be slow today so I brought some things with me to work on. What do yuo think? i started these at my Scrapbook getaway last weekend. I finished at total of 15 of the darling little pins. There are 2 ways you can get one. 1. Buy one for $15.00 and $10.00 of the proceeds goes to my groups Relay for Life team. 2. If you don't have one booked yet, book a workshop with me from now until the end of March and you can get one for FREE!!!!

This one my upline Kim had already cut out and asked me to assemble it to sell for our Relay team. I just love these colors. They look great pinned to your jacket or dress up a plain sweater.

I think this one is so cute and bright for Easter.

I did a few of these in different colors. My daughter's College Cheerleading team uses the Zebra print as an accent to her school colors of Black and Yellow. So I made one for her coach. I also made them in Red for a local All-Star Cheerleading team that I am doing a Scrapbook Workshop for next weekend. I'm sure they are going to love them!

this is an Extra Special one! This is my Love At First Stamp pin. My upline made this to match my purse below. All of these projects were made with the Stampin' Up! Big Shot and dies. The purse below is made with a Stampin' Up! exclusive die. (that means you can only get it from me :) ) Aren't these just the cutest things? If you are interested and would like to learn more contact me today.

Sorry this picture has a bad glare. I don't have my camera with me at work so I took them with me cell phone and sent them to myself. Not bad for a camera phone? Ok I have to get back to work. I hope you enjoyed my projects today.

Happy Valentine's Day! These are some cookies I made for Kayla to send out to her for Valentine's Day. She has over 40 inches of snow and I am not going to make it out to see her this weekend, so I'm sending her some goodies! Enjoy.....

Got Snow?

We did. It has been so long since I've seen snow like this. I am home for the second day in a row. The highways were actually shut down. I don't have anyone to go out and play with in it. Jonathan and Tyler are at a friends house and John had to go to work. I guess I will just have to go out to my stamp room and get creative. Here are some pictures of us out shoveling yesterday.

I asked him he wanted help and he said no.

This is the park across the street from my house. I think I will have to recruit someone to go sledding with today. It looks like it would be so much fun.

This was at like 3:00 in the afternoon and I think we got like 5 more inches before the snow stopped around 10PM

My BFF walked over to see me. I did bundle up and went out to help John shovel.

I'll have to go take some pictures of what it looks like today.