Hi all!!! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend - mine was super busy!! Friday was my
SAB event, then Saturday was my birthday so I spent the rest of the weekend doing family things. No stamping at all, but I had a great weekend! However, I want to share some things from my Friday night stamping event - we had such a great time!!! This first card is one of the make 'n takes we did; several of the gals wanted to learn
embossing so that is what we did!! This card is super simple but turned out very nice nevertheless!! I love the black with the pink and red, it really pops IRL! The stamped heart is from the
level I hostess set A Little Somethin' which is perfect for embossing! We stamped it in
black craft ink, added some
clear embossing powder and watched it turn beautiful!! They all loved this - none had ever done this before, and are excited to add this to their stamping tool chest! The background is cut using the
Big Shot Top Note Die, which I also showed them. I like this card as it shows that simple can still be pretty!
This next card was also a make 'n take but using the
SAB stamp set Polka Dot Punches. We used the heart stamp to make a butterfly, and also tried out the new and very fabulous
eyelet border punch! For the butterfly, we stamped the hearts using
Bordering Blue ink, covered them in
Versamark, added some
Iridescent Ice, and added some heat!! I just love that we now have a
heart punch that punches these stamped images out - makes these soooo easy to do!This went over very well as many had wondered how to use
Versamark. I love when I am able to show simple techniques that can add a real wow factor to a simple card! I also have some fun pics to show you of this wonderful group of ladies who joined me for some fun stamping and game playing on Friday!! We played Stampo - a really fun stamping bingo game which allowed the lucky winners to go home with some really great door prizes!
Here they are having a great time making their cards - just check out the concentration going on at this table!! At another table however, I got to catch some
of the gals being silly and having some fun! These three ladies have been stamping with me since I moved to California and I feel soooo very blessed to have met them - they make me laugh because they always have fun, and they are very talented ladies!!
I have to say, the favorite tool of the evening my
heat gun - they all could not wait to get their hands on this fun tool! They just loved it and wanted to emboss everything, lol!! So, I will be offering a full class on embossing techniques so they can all get their fix *wink* I really had a fun time - these ladies know how to come and have a good time, enjoy each other, and stamp their little hearts out!! Tomorrow I will show you another fun project from this event but for now, I am off to blurf and get ready for my class tomorrow night!! Whoohoo - I just love stamping!!! Thanks for stopping by today, I appreciate all of YOU!!!
Hi all!!!! WOW!! Yesterday was a busy day - getting ready for a class tonight, we are going to be doing a wall calendar, too fun!! I will share those pics tomorrow, but today I want to share a scrapbook layout I made for my friend's daughter (both are customers whom I have come to really like!) Isn't she beautiful??!!! (and, he is not so bad himself, they make a gorgeous couple!) She has been married to a Marine for a little over two years and of those two years, he has been deployed to Iraq twice and will be leaving shortly for his third deployment. They attended their very first Marine Corps Ball this year as a married couple and she was so excited when she showed me the pics that I asked if I could borrow one. I created an 8x10 of the photo she gave me and went to work! I made this layout for her and put it in a frame so she could hang it up if she wanted to! She was thrilled - and I was thrilled that she was thrilled, lol!!!! Everything used is Stampin' Up! The flowers are actually cut out of a piece of dsp from the Pink Flamingo paper pack - love, love, love that paper!! And, the accent papers are from that pack as well! I used the wonderful new eyelet border punch, the scalloped edge punch, lots of buttons and brads, and of course our yummy riding hood red striped ribbon! I thought it matched so well with his uniform pants, I just had to use it! The cut out flowers are covered in versamark and 
iridescent ice, then heat set - didn't they turn out fabulous!! Here is a closer look at just the flowers, I have to say, I was quite pleased with them!! I was excited to give this to her - one of my favorite things about being a crafter is making things for other people, it just makes my heart sing!!! So, I was really happy to do this for her!! I hope you like it too! Thanks for stopping by - I am off to finish kits for tonight, it is going to be a fun one!!
