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What fun!!! You are all so great! The actual count is 163, 40 yards of ribbon & 123 primas! That makes it mighty close but the winner is scrapmomof2! YAY!!! I will check your blog to see if there is an email link!

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Just to show you at least a little something, this is what my fam did this last weekend to have a little fun. (Yes, Laura I did say fam to include you, especially while Pam is gone!!!!) Everyone got into pumpkin carving. Below is our final products: a puppy, a horse & Mona Lisa! Cool eh?

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I hope everyone had a safe, fun evening!

10,000 posts Celebration!

Thanks to all of you out there in blog land, I'm approaching 10,000 hits!!!
And that means I need to celebrate and show you my appreciation!
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The best way I know to do that is to send someone a package of my favorite card making supplies! Can you tell what it is?!?!?! Ribbon, ribbon, & more ribbon! And of course I must include flowers!!!
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So, to be a little different I want to see who can guess how many yards of ribbon & how many primas I'm giving away! I've counted in full yards and will give it all to the person who is exactly right or the closest. To make sure everyone understands the same if I have 10 yards of ribbon and 20 primas my guess would be 30 total.
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Yes, this pile in the pic is exactly what I will be sending along with one more of my favorites.... a couple Thomas Kinkade cards! If the person who guesses the closest would prefer a few plain, ready to use stamped images we could make those arrangements too. You would have the choice. (I'd love to see someone who hasn't tried them yet to fall in love with them as I have!)
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I will post the winner Oct. 31st, probably late in the evening! (Remember I'm on the West Coast kind of late!)
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Happy guessing!

Paper Christmas Ornament

After much fiddling, re-doing, and cutting I finally figured out a way to have a paper ornament class!

This is one that will be included in the class and I've already thought of more embellishing that I could have done to it! :(

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Oh well! This Basic Grey new Figgy Pudding paper is so great! It was the perfect paper to make these ornaments!

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This is a quick post, but I hope you enjoy! The original inspiration is from Card Creme (thanks for permission to do this class Sherrie!)

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Happy creating!

Pocket Swap!

It's long over due but this little card is finally going to be sent on its way!!! I signed up for a swap way back, kept having computer glitches and couldn't get the recipients addresses UNTIL TODAY!!!

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I know that sounds funny but I received my cards a few weeks ago and I feel really bad I couldn't send mine out. Oh well, the joys of the computer age!

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Anyway, this pocket is just simply made by sewing up the sides. I folded down the top to give it some detail, punched the edge and used a brad to hold it down.

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The image, Thomas Kinkade Christmas Village, is stamped with SU! Classic ink on their glitter paper. I roughed up the edges using a scrapper kinda thingy, layered it on the black, tied some ribbon and voila!

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The inside uses one of the TK sentiments, McGill tab punch and misc. snowflake stamp.

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Totally out of my normal box, but it was fun to create!

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Happy stamping!

Edited to add: Blogger is so crazy!! I have no control over how the layout it sometimes! Sorry it looks so weird!

How much paper did I buy!?!?!?!?

I finally got organized to really get down to business on my huge Christmas card order!

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4 packages of white card stock (250 sheets each)

6 packages of blue 12 X 12 card stock (50 sheets each)

1800 snowflake punches

120 yards of 1/2 inch satin ribbon

ink pad & 2 refills

& 1 gorgeous stamp!

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Then I cut out the 600 pieces to stamp on.

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Then I started stamping!!! I ran out of table space and quit stamping at 126!!!

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Only 4 more table fulls and I'll be done! But truly, I get some very odd satisfaction working on a huge assembly line! I'm so glad I get to do this! I love it!!!

Christmas Sparkle

I get to do another Christmas "stack" class! This one is going to be all about the glitter! We are going to be using a couple images from Stamping Bella to make 8 cards.

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In this one I played around for a while trying to figure out how I wanted to color the ornament. The space is so fine in the swirl that I gave up with Copics, gel pens worked ok, but I finally ended up just using a glue pad and covered the whole thing with glitter!!! NICE! I love the sparkle!

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Enjoy your weekend everyone! I'm going to be getting down & serious about working on a huge order! I'll post some pics of my assembly line! It should be fun!

For the Love of Patterned Paper!!!

This last week I have had social activities almost every day!!! Yahooo!!! But then reality hit that was in desperate need of getting some cards ready for the stores I sell to.

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That is when patterned paper can save the day! I stuck with basic layouts, added an embellishment and some ribbon and get cards made quickly!!!

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Can I say enough about these little baubles?!?!? I LOVE them!

Play time!!!

I totally forgot I made this card over the weekend! I got to go out Friday night with a stamping friend, we shopped, we ate good food and we shopped some more!!!

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One of the goodies I picked up was a couple of bottles of Robin's Nest glass ball thingies. These are so great! Anyway, I needed some blank cards and wanted to use this new stamp too! I embossed the flower and layered it all up!

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Nice a easy, but something a little different for me!

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Happy stamping all!

Snow Stack Class

Unfortunatly, I've been under the weather the last couple of days, just a nasty cold, and therefore I've not been able to create anything new to share!

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So, just in case there are any Abbotsfordians who are looking for something to do Wednesday evening, I've got card class at Urban Trends.

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We will be creating these two layouts: stamping, embossing, piercing, sponging and lots of things to put them all together. And you will go home with 4 of each card!

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Hopefully, these classes will help me get more organzined for my own Christmas cards!!! One can always hope! Happy stamping all! (Even if I am stuck with a pot of tea and a box of tissue!)

I've crossed over to the Dark Side!!!

Yes, it was a day a dear friend of mine will be proud of. I dug through the closets, cupboards and everywhere I could think of until I found my good old sewing machine in the garage storage room!

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So, this is my first attempt at applying some dusty old skills to my love of paper! I'm showing you both of these as I'm not sure which one I prefer. The zig zag or the straight stitch. Either way, this took me a while but I'm pleased I finally set the beast up in my work space. Yes, I has found a home once again!

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Another thing I did was use my large oval, scallop stamp to versa mark UTEE over Father Christmas, by Crafty Secrets (WHAT AN AMAZING SET!!!). I pressed it super hard into the granuals and it kinda stuck all over the paper. I wiped some of it off but liked the way it gave a more scattered effect. Don't look too close or you might see some of the edges in a scallop!

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One of the other fun things I did was take out my grandma's old pinking shears to cut some felt. Not sure if anyone else out there has ones like this so took a pic.

Aren't they great?!?!? They work more like a pizza cutter and roll their way along your fabric, so much fun!!!

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Hope you are all having some stamping fun this Thanksgiving weekend!
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More Card Classes!!!

I gathered up some courage, packed up all my Thomas Kinkade stamps and cards samples and walked into a scrap shop, asked if I could speak with the owner and showed off my stuff!

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We chatted about this new line of stamps and talked about what a class would look like, kinds of things I would do and set a date!

I needed to re-work my samples to use the paper she carried and remove things she didn't. So, we are going to talk about basic stamping with these images, kinds of ink & paper etc, and talk about using them without feeling like we need to color like TK!

We will make one card with a cracked glass and another with a shimmer window technique and the third with just stamping. I'm looking forward to it! Wish me luck!

Tagged!

Amy G tagged me a few days ago! Sorry it took me awhile to post this!!!

FOUR JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE

1. Mom - 2 daughters, 1 dog, 1 gecko, 1 pirahna, 1 husband

2. Travel Agent

3. Telephone solicitor (don't hate me!!!)

4. Office administration

FOUR PLACES I HAVE LIVED

1. St. Adolphe, Manitoba

2. Winnipeg, Manitoba

3. Burnaby, BC

4. Abbotsford, BC

FOUR PLACES I’VE BEEN ON VACATION

1. Caribbean cruises (Bahamas, Grand Caymen, Cozumel, Costa Maya, Belize, St. Thomas, St.Johns, St. Lucia, Antigua, Jamaica, and I know there is a few more islands...)

2. Montreal, Canada

3. New York

4. Palm Springs (should I keep listing more?!?!? I LOVE TO TRAVEL!!!)

FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS

1. Home made pizza

2. Steak & prawn

3. Cottage cheese perogies

4. Chinese (again I could keep going!!!)

WHERE WOULD I RATHER BE RIGHT NOW

1. sitting in my hot tub

2. back on a cruise ship

3. out for dinner with friends

4. in my craft space

Masculin cards - eek!

It is always so difficult for me not to use flowers on a card! But sometimes I just have to!

Hopefully you will think I succeeded in de-feminizing a card! :)

The coloring is just water color pencils and a blender pen. Sentiment is pieced together using an Amuse stamp and little acrylic alpha set. Background is a retired SU! stamp as well as the bucket & apples, sorry I don't know what they are called off the top of my head! Little apple is a brad from the dollar store.

I also put a little glaze on the apples to make them shine! Hmm, hmm good! Wax on apples!!! hehehe

Fall in Violet

I had about an hour this morning to play at my card table!!! Wonders never cease! It might seem I'm down here ALL the time to my family, but I'm most often taking care of projects I NEED to make, not just playing with paper and ink.

So, I got started with a little challenge over on Splitcoast and this was the result. We had to start with a card we made in the past, keep the layout, papers & just change the stamps. In the spring I made this with flowers and a different sentiment and now I made a quick little fall/leaf version.

Unfortunatly, that is all the time I have today as I'm off to start and "card making club" at my daughter middle school. I've got 2 cards cut and planned for 25 middle school girls! Yikes!!! Should be fun!