Feeling Sentimental

Today is the first day of the Stampin' Up! Leadership Convention in Orlando Florida, and tonight Managers and above get to go the Exclusive Managers Reception.  Henry is holding my ticket and the invitation is sitting right next to him.  Where are we going?  We are going to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios!  Notice he is sitting on a stack of Harry Potter Movies...  Thanks to my friend Marla who owns them all and let us borrow them since we have never seen any of them we wanted to watch them before we left so I would know what to expect when I got there.

And since we were watching Harry Potter, Henry thought he would join us.  Henry is wearing Tyler's Harry Potter glasses that he used for his Halloween costume this past year.

In this particular episode Harry's form of transportation to Hogwarts School is through a telephone booth just like this one. Henry and I couldn't resist making a card in honor of my earning the FREE Exclusive Managers Reception.

 

and while my hubby and I were enjoying a day at Disney's Epcot Center we saw this phone booth and just HAD to have my picture taken by it.  I tried stepping inside to see if it would transport me to Hogwarts, but alas, it didn't open.

I thought I should make up my January Thank You notes using the FEELING SENTIMENTAL stamp set from the Sale A Bration Brochure.  This is just one of the stamp sets that you will be able to earn FREE with a $50 purchase between January 22nd and March 22nd.

Does this ever happen to you when you are stamping? Where you get ink on the edge of the rubber and mess up your card?  UURRGG!!

Here is a simple solution ~ all you need to do is take your handy dandy CRAFT AND RUBBER SCISSORS (pg 180 #103179 $19.95) and trim all around the edge to remove the excess rubber.  These Scissors are PERFECT and cut through your rubber like butter. When they get a bit gunky from the stickiness just clean them up with a little goo-gone.

TADA!  now you can get a perfect image!

Another super fun thing about going to any Stampin' Up! events are the SWAPS!  Earlier I showed you the card that I was swapping, but if you missed it click HERE to see it.  Then I thought I would like to bring along some 3D swaps because I know from experience that there will be some 3D swappers out there and I will wish I had something to swap with them. So this is my 3D swap

Fun little note books using some of the new Designer Paper and Stamps.  I can't wait to show you all the fun things I swap for.  Stay tuned...

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Red Hot Challenge

 

This is the card that we made at one of the classes I attended at Glenda's

She showed us how to use the brown packaging paper that arrives in our

Stampin' Up! boxes with our orders and turn them into beautiful Fall leaves

by using the new Autumn Accents Die #127812 $21.95 found in the Holiday Mini

then sponging them and spritzing them with some Champagne Shimmer Mist.

So realistic I had someone ask if I used real leaves on my card.

This card also features the NEW Brushed Bronze Buttons #127833 $6.95

At our October Down Line meeting Glenda shared with the group this same 

technique and we took some paper leaves home from Glenda's stash and were

told to go home and create something with them.

Can you say OVER ACHIEVER??

Here is a close up of each one...

 I love the little Champagne Glimmer Paper on the acorn

One more that didn't make it to the group picture...
It is for a young gal at church who had surgery on her back for scoliosis.

   As I am sponging all my leaves my Grid Paper started to look like this...

 and I thought "how pretty, but why waste it on plain grid paper"

So I laid down a sheet of Very Vanilla Card Stock and started 

sponging the rest of my leaves and this is what it looked like

when I was done...

pretty cool, huh!!??

So I made a card with it!!

I love when that happens!!

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Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Happy Birthday Jessica!!

Today is our daughter in law, Jessica's, 30th birthday!!

I think this calls for a special card don't you!!??

 

Jessica is a very special gal and we absolutely love having her in our family!!

Jessica and Jeff are both very musical people so this card will be a big hit for Jess.

Happy 30th Birthday, Jessica!!

Love, Mom

(BTW: card inspired by: Ann Schach)

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Guest Stamper, Carla

My friend, and one of the gals in my down line, Carla, is doing so well 

with her card making - selling them before she can stock up even!  

She has a great resource through her regular job and her friends are 

starting to make requests.  

I LOVE IT!!

These are two cards she made when someone requested some

butterfly cards

 She used Butterfly Prints Stamp Set on the out side of her card

 and Kindness Matters Stamp Set on the inside

I think she did a BEAUTIFUL job!!

Thanks for Sharing, Carla!!

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Stamp A Stack Class

Next week is STAMP A STACK TIME!! and it's time to sign up 

for the class time of your choice

 

Here's the details:

When: 

Wednesday, May 9, 10:00 AM

OR

Thursday, May 10, 7:00 PM

OR

Saturday, May 12, 10:00 AM

Cost: 

$12.00 

and be sure to bring your own adhesive to keep the cost of the class down.

Where: 

Christi's Craft Room!!

What:

We will be making 8 cards using some of the retiring stamp sets and accessories

Click to check out the Retiring Stamp Set List

Click to check out the Retiring Accessories List

Click to check out the Retiring Definitely Decorative List

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Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Bridal Shower Invites

So what are my sisters are all in town for?

A Bridal Shower for Melissa, our son, Joey's, fiance`

This is our last child to get married and the last grandchild on my side of the family

so we are pretty excited about this fun event.

Yesterday we got our Mani's and Pedi's together - always more fun when done together!!

We went shopping for all the yummy food ingredients we will need for the shower, and preparing

and, of course, lunch and dinner together - with lots of laughs and memories shared.

This is the shower invitation that we sent out to the guests

I used some retired colors which really are not the wedding colors, 

but I had them ready to go before they told me their colors.  

Colors used here are Soft Sky and Groovy Guava.

Stamp Sets Used are: Baroque Motifs and Kindness Matters

Both of these sets are an the retired list so scroll down to yesterday's blog post

to click on the retired lists before it is too late to get these wonderful stamp set.

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Paisley Petals Butterfly

On my quest to use up some retiring Designer Series Paper I ran across this card idea by Kirsteen Gill, and knew that I had a couple packages of the PAISLEY PETALS Designer Paper on hand.

This is actually a very simple sketch made elegant by this beautiful Designer Paper.

I also love the multiple layers of the Butterfly to really set it off.

MENU:

SS: Kindness Matters

CS: WW, Marina Mist, Paisley Petals DSP

INK: Marina Mist

Accessories: Beautiful Wings Die, Big Shot, Organza Ribbon, Dimensionals, 

Basic Pearls, Linen Thread

I had several pieces of the Designer Paper left over so I sent them home with Rachel
and lookie what she came up with...

This is the flip side of the Designer Paper
Pretty isn't it!!  Sometimes it is hard to choose which side to use. 
 
Thanks For Stopping By!

Have A Blessed Day!!

Christi

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