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Archives for August 2009

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Pop Up Christmas Card

Had an awesome time last night at the "Impress Me! Team Quarterly Meeting" at my home.  I loved seeing you all and wish that more of you could have attended. I have a gift in the mail for my 'long distance' team members, so keep an eye out for it! The theme this time was the Sizzix XL dies and we made a pop up Christmas Card with the Sizzix Bigz XL Die "Pop Up Look Here" Die and the new mini ... View Post

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Christmas Card Class/Club

Last night was the first evening of my Christmas Card Class/Club... and I hope everyone had as wonderful a time as I did!  Stamping in a group is so much fun! Each attendee made 4 samples of 5 designs (shown above).  So, in total the gals made 140 cards in just about two hours... talk about quick!  And I did break out a small bottle of wine to celebrate/brag at my husband's superior wine ... View Post

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Teddy & Train Baby Card

This adorable new set 'Teddy & Train" is gently watercolored with the Earth Elements watercolor crayons and layered with the 'To the Nines Specialty" designer series paper (#114038, $11.95) I brought out the Sage Shadow stripe in the designer series paper with a horizontal 'laced' edge as a border between the dots & stripes.  The edging was achieved with the Eyelet Border punch ... View Post

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Peace Within Rustic Card

Wow, has it been a week since I've posted?  Well, good news, I am working on some more beautiful things to share with you very soon!  For example, I loved this set with the cat on the chair and had to have it as soon as I saw it! The new Stampin' Up! set featured is 'Peace Within' (#114312, set of 4 for $22.95). The background is the new background stamp 'Woodgrain' (#117100, $17.95) stamped ... View Post

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Shelli’s Convention Demonstration

The following photos are a gallery of shots from Shelli Gardner's demonstration at Stampin' Up!'s convention 2009. This photo is of an awesome fabric bow she made from the exclusive Stampin' Up! Sizzix XL die 'Flower Folds'.  The photos of how she made this are in the gallery below (on page 2). Shelli did an awesome job (as usual) and she designed and made these creations herself.   Click ... View Post

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Yikes! Crashing?

I have received a number of complaints from Mac (Safari) users as well as Firefox users saying that my site crashes when they try to go on. If you are experiencing this (I've tweaked some things I think it might be), please let me know what OS you are using and the browser and any error messages that you are experiencing.  Thank you in advance! ... View Post

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2009 Convention Display Boards

In an amazing feat of (rare) diligence, I have uploaded about 300 samples of the display boards that I took photos of at Stampin' Up!'s Convention 2009 in Salt Lake City this past week. And they are actually only half of the photos that I took in all! CLICK HERE for the page of photos... and don't be dismayed that the thumbnails take awhile to load, just click on the first photo to activate ... View Post

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Celebration of Sizzix Box #2

I am having a wonderful time in Salt Lake City and awards night last night was awesome!  Amanda C. and I walked across the stage as cruise achievers, woo hoo! Well I am seeing some awesome ideas and will be sharing the pictures with you soon. But here's a photo of a few of us walking across stage. So, this Sizzix XL Die 'Box #2' has to be the absolutely *easiest* stinkin' box to ... View Post

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Christmas Card Club/Class

Announcing my new Christmas Card Class/Club starting August 24th!  You can join for one month or for all four and get a gift from me in December! Your options are to come and make 20 cards (envelopes are included) and they will be multiples of 4 or 5 designs.    I have a long distance option I call 'In the Mail' members...  you can read about here. View my Christmas Card Class/Club page ... View Post