We Made It through "Rock in the Park"!!

Yes, we made it through but we will be going away next year!! The "music" was so loud our windows were vibrating. I hope they raised lots of money though!

So I decided to change out one of the cards for next week's classes. I took out the Christmas tree card as we have some great tinsel coming in the Holiday Mini (available Sept. 1st.) that will look wonderful on that tree. This is what we will be making instead.

This is so cute with pearls and glitter and will fit in nicely with the other cards. There is still time to sign up for a class so I hope you can join me!!

Thanks for checking in.

Bye for now,

Chrissie

Happy Friday, Everybody!!

So I bought a ebook from a very talented Stampin' Up demonstrator who specializes in helping us all with our computer blogging questions! I hope to read it and change things around in my new blog, especially to figure out how to put my pictures in the correct places!!

Here are two cards that I have made recently. My friend, Karin, and I make cards and then the proceeds from the sale of the cards goes to a charity dear to both of us, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. Today we made 54 cards, 6 each of 9 designs!! I design the cards, or search for designs to copy(!), and cut all the pieces. Then together, Karin and I, do all the stamping, and then Karin takes the cards home to assemble them with adhesives. Karin makes up boxes with a variety of cards in each and has friends and family sell the cards whenever they have a chance. We have sold many hundreds of cards over the past two years.

These two cards I found on the blog of Mary Fish, a very talented US demonstrator, and I had to copy them!! To see Mary's Blog, click here

http://www.stampinpretty.com/.

I will hopefully know more about how the blog works but Monday. My grandkids are here now until later on Sunday so I won't be back until Monday!!

Bye for now,

Chrissie

PS: Pictures are better, but not totally where I want them. Guess I better keep reading the book!!

Other 2 Cards for August Christmas Card Classes

Sorry everybody, I totally forgot to post these cards yesterday. So here they are! (Some of the cards use older products that are no longer available through Stampin' Up but I need to use them up...and others are totally new stamps, paper, etc.) Hope you like all the cards and will be able to join me for one of the class times. . .

Tuesday, August 3rd. . .6:30 pm until 9:00 pm

Wednesday, August 4th. . .1:00 pm to 3:30 pm OR 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm.

I don't know about you but my days just seem to fly by. When I am making cards or preparing cards for a class, the time goes superfast. One thing is good...when I'm busy cutting and gluing paper, I'm not eating!!

So it seems as though we are in for a very noisy weekend! There is a rock concert festival starting tomorrow in the park that is across from our building, and if the practising they are doing tonight are any indication, I will be at my wit's end by Saturday at 11:00 pm!!! I don't tolerate noise very well and one of the performers, Alice Cooper, is just noise to me! We'll see how it goes but we may plan to go away next year for this concert weekend. LOL!

Our grandkids are coming for the weekend so they might enjoy the music. At 6 and 9, I have no idea what they will think. One thing for sure is we won't be going out after dark. Our building management hires police security for the weekend so we have no idea what to expect. I'll let you know if I am still sane after the weekend!

I have more cards that I have been making to post so I will be back tomorrow or Friday,

Bye for now,

Chrissie

Not sure what is happening...I put in all the paragraph spaces but they disappear when I post!

Christmas In August - Part 1

I have completed the cards for the August classes and I have 3 to show you today!

I still have spots available in all class times for those of you who would like to join me in making these pretty cards.

I'm going to try to insert them here but who knows what will happen!! LOL! Nope, didn't work!!

I guess we are going to have to get used to the pictures going wherever they want to, unless I can find more info!

Enjoy, and I will be back tomorrow with the final two cards for the class,

Bye for now,

Chrissie

PS: If you double click on the photos, a larger inage will pop up on your screen.

My New Blog!!!

Hi Everyone!! Welcome to my New Blog!!

My Stampin' Up blog is great but I also want a place that is easier for you all to find, and easier for me to access.

Everything is going well for me...how about you? The lazy, hazy days of summer are here and with this summer's heat and smog, I have had to stay inside a lot. That's okay though as I have been making lots of cards! I don't think there is a day that goes by that I don't make something, and I sure missed that while my things were packed to move. Everything is all organized and I am making up for lost time now!

I am attaching 2 photos of card fronts that I made to send with my friends to the Stampin' Up convention in Salt Lake City this coming week. I made 25 of each style and I hope to get back 50 different card fronts that I can use for ideas for more cards. The demonstrators trade cards with each other and we call it "swapping cards". I am really looking forward to seeing what other people create!!

The "Remember Me" card uses our new Pear Pizzazz (light green) which I absolutely love and the skinny black taffeta ribbon edged in white is also new and comes in many colours. The wedding card uses the new colour, Marina Mist, another of my favourites. To get the scallop edges in white, I used the Curly Label punch and cut each one in half and adhered to the back of the Bashful Blue piece. There are many ways to use the tools that we have!!

Okay, so the pictures were supposed to be here but they went to the top of the page. There will be a bit of a learning curve, I'm sure!!

Be back soon,

Chrissie