Butterflies and Birds on a Line

Sewing on paper is so much fun! A while ago I made this spring decoration using the bird punch. All you do sew bird after bird down the line leaving some thread in between each of them. I also made some with butterflies to decorate for my daughters birthday. (sorry it is a bad picture - it wasn't working for me that day!)

Ice Cream Card Holder

More Sweet Scoops. Are you sick of them yet? My mom made a set of icecream cards to give away as a gift. I thought it would be so much fun to package it in a card holder! So I made 2. One for her and one for me :)I LOVE these holders, they are small but perfect and come from an 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock! I first saw them HERE on my friend's blog. I love sharing ideas :)
Look how fun it looks inside a clear envelope! (the brownies make it look better too! too bad they are all gone)

Molded Flower

I was going through my stash of completed projects that I haven't shared and found this card. Even though the brad and DSP is retired I still LOVE this card because of the flower. All I did was use the thick window sheets - it has to be the thick ones! Cut an image out with your big shot and heat it with the heat tool to mold it. Awesome huh.

I mostly cased this card but I can't remember where I saw it... so if you do, let me know.

Convention 2010 Highlights

OH. MY. GOODNESS. Convention was AWESOME this year.

I would like to share with you some of my favorites.

Saturday was definitely my favorite day. Main stage was Amazing, the classes were my favorites and I love this lady!

I was talking with a few people and we decided that EVERY demonstrator should go to convention just to hear Shelli Gardner talk. She is amazing. This picture I snapped of her and Sterling during Monday night's Flower Power Party. Definitely my highlight of the night was hanging out with friends/meeting new friends and getting some freebies :)

Brandi (my awesome upline) gave me this awesome album. I am excited to fill it with pictures! here is the front back

and insides.

6 pages for photos!

We also did a swap with just our group. I didn't make a swap this year but I received all these cards! I LOVE our group :) and I definitely have some paying it forward to do.

Aren't they all awesome! If I get a name wrong let me know! These were from: Courtney, Jen, Christie, Stacie, Deann, Phyllis, Ashley, and Melanie.

Thanks everyone!

That night they had games, contests, and a bunch of demonstrator presenters. My favorite project I saw were these cute clear milk cartons. I am not sure why I love them as much as I do.

I need to share some of the sweet shop. I went there a few times and I probably missed SO many things. It was fabulous.

It was set up so cute and had so much inside. Here are 2 of my favorites.

I really liked making the paper pad marker sheets again but I have to say that my favorite part were the banners in all the color collections!

Here you can see some friends, Jen, Courtney, Janice and Ashley below :)

At lunch time they went all out with the treats. My favorite was the chocolate fountain. They had this awesome pineapple tree on the same table as the fountain!

They had hundreds of displays and my favorite was this activity book. My kids would love it - or atleast I hope they would :) SO SO SO much fun! I have so much more to share!

Sweet Scoops Cards

I had a lot of fun playing with this stamp set when I was getting ready for club this month! (was that a run on sentence? oh well :) I don't know about you, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE this new ribbon! - both of them! I am excited to build my ribbon collection up again.

The Pear Pizzazz scallops on the right side are made from the new Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch.

I love this embossing folder for the big shot, it reminds me of waffle cones so I just had to use it!

Love the shiny DSP on these cards. Seriously you need to see it in person!

So Sweet

These are the projects we are making at club this week. This stamp set is so fun to use, there are so many different combos!
We are using a new punch, and some specialty paper - the paper is shiny and looks embossed!

This is the scrapbook layout.

The ice cream cones are so fun to make with different combos!

I couldn't resist using the lattice embossing folder. I think it looks like a waffle cone!

I am totally LOVING this Sweet Scoops stamp set. It is only available to order through August!

Masculine Cards

One thing that my customers ask for - that I am not very good at doing is making masculine cards. The girly ones are a lot more fun for me to make... but in a house with 3 boys I should definitely make them more.

I used these cards for fathers day this year (the airplane works perfect for my hubby - and was the main reason why I bought this stamp set!) but these cards work just as great for a birthday. I let my club girls choose last month which one they would like to make!

The stamp set and DSP are from the mini catalog. We just embossed the image with clear embossing powder and sponged around it (in a circular motion) to make it pop.

fyi - the ribbon is retired now...

Happy 4th

I know I know, almost a month late. But I promised my club girls I would post this!

I totally love this wheel - we used a versamark ink cartridge. The star brad below and the blue 4th above was colored using a fun technique. Add a drop or two to some crystal effects and mix it. Then either paint or dip your brad into the mixture to color! (I wiped the excess off the brad)

This layout we did for club I almost exactly cased from my friend Stacie. She doesn't have a open blog to link to or I would. We both post on a blog for our stampin group (which is AWESOME by the way). So thanks Stacie for the great idea!

Patriotic and Posies!

These are the cards we made at Stamp Club this month. I gave them the cardstock and let them choose which cards to make! Also everyone got 2 brads to add to their cards, we colored them with Crystal Effects and Ink Refills!
These next two cards were made with the Punched Posies hostess set that I LOVE!

We used so many of the brand spanking new colors on these cards: Cherry Cobbler, Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight and the returning Wild Wasabi.

Here is a group shot of the cards.

It is so fun to see how different stamps (and a few colors) can change the whole look!

Flowers, Flowers, Flowers

My sister has a Canopy that hangs over her daughter's crib and she wanted to put some flowers on it. So she bought some fabric and we cut out some big shot flowers and made some rosettes. I took a quick picture before she left (we didn't sew them together so we just layed them out on a cookie sheet lol.) I can't wait to see them in her room!