Stocking Die box

I have seen these boxes being made all over the place and me being a completely easily impressed person, I thought I would try one. I used Poppy Parade and Pear Pzazz cardstock. I then cut a box from the Box #2 die and put it together and glued in between two stocking cut outs. EASY PEASY! That's just another reason you need a Big Shot, it makes so many things so much faster!

Downline Event

So, yesterday I had a all day event for my downline again. I think we are going to definatley try this quarterly! We had a nice cozy time. For lunch I served them Loaded Baked Potato soup in Bread bowls, Ceasar Salad and I mad a Caramel Apple Cheesecake. After lunch, we went into my stamp room and crafted the rest of the afternoon. I gave them each a box (one from the Holiday Mini) that I decorated with Spice Cake DSP and some craft wire and inside I put a homemade sugar scrub inside. I served them their drinks in wine gobblets with wine charms I personalized for each one. We even did a handmade gift exchange and card swap! (Those photos are to come later)

So, here are some of the photos I took of the projects.

This is a test tube holder that we made........
this is Jill Hilliard's cookie packaging box idea....(THANK YOU JILL)- was planning on baking the cookies too with them but my recipe just wouldn't work...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

The extended candy wrapper box that I wanted to show them last time, but got it to them this time! I wanted to show them how to make the rosettes on the front...I hope they liked them.
These are FABULOUS boxes in the Holiday Mini and those buttons, yeah, may just have to "hoarder" some more before the mini is expired.
These were the wine charms......
And I showed them (or attempted to show them...lol-they know what I am talking about) the view master card!

I have a blast with them and they are so fun to be around! I was treated to "crack" corn and decorated white chocolate dipped pretzels too.....thank you girls!

CAS Cupcake Birthday

I needed to make a simple birthday card for a friend and time has NOT been on my side lately, so I pulled out my punch, found some scraps to match the colors in the DSP and just went with it. Gotta just love how punches make cardmaking so simple and so quick.

Stamps: Friendly Phrases

CS: Cherry Cobbler, Baja Breeze, Early Expresso, Whisper White, Old Olive

DSP: Letters To Santa

Punches: 2 1/2, 1 3/4 and 1 3/8 circles, Cupcake Builder Punch, Ittty Bitty punch pack

Basic pearls, sponges.

Spice Cake Pumpkins

I have one more fall card to share....I was going to use this for card class this month, but decided not too. I used two different punches to punch out Spice Cake DSP and sponge the edges with Soft Suede ink and then "layered" them to rememble two different pumpkins. I then used the 5 Petal punch and punched out leaves for the top of them to resemble vines. I love the stamp set Grateful Greetings, have used it lots, and stamped it on Very Vanilla and punched out with Fancy Label Punch. Then hung it using Expresso Baker's Twine with a pearl.

Stamps: Grateful Greetings

Ink: Soft Suede

DSP: Spice Cake(Holiday Mini)

CS:Pumpkin Pie, Early Expresso, Very Vanilla

Expresso Bakers Twine, Basic Pearls, Wide Oval Punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, 5 petal punch, Big Shot, Perfect Polka dots embossing folder, Fancy Label Punch

Snow Much Fun!

This was one of our SAS cards and I think it was the favorite. I fell in love with these snowmen the minute I saw them. This is one of the FREE sets I picked for recruiting during the Convention challange.

$100,000 CAREER SALES GOAL MET!

I had a workshop last night with 9 new ladies to the Stampin' UP! world and had a WONDERFUL party! I went up and over my $100,000 career sales goal! WAS TOTALLY AWESOME! It was not only knowing that I was close to hitting it(but I hit it 2 months EARLY for my goals) it was an awesome group of ladies that I hope to get to know more. I had 3 sign up for November's card class! Here is a simple card I demonstrated since they were all new to stamping with me, I wasn't sure how much it would overwhelm them to do much more at first.

Supplies:

Rich Regals DSP Pattern Pack

CS: Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White

Ink: Early Expresso

Stamps: Friendly Phrases

Punches: Postage Stamp, 1" Square, Small Heart punch

Clips(forgot the name)-SU! Early Expresso Baker's Twine, Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots

First Christmas card of the season

So, I decided I better change my blog background from Halloween today...and then I decided to post a Christmas card that I will be showing tommorrow night at my workshop. I LOVE the colors and the ease of this stamp set.

I will post supply list later....