Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, since we will be departing tomorrow for our Thanksgiving vacation, I figured I'd drop in some cute table favors and cards I made for Thursday. Also, if you're interested, Stampin' Up will be having a holiday extravaganza sale starting Wednesday (ending the 1st), which will include bundles of items for 20-50% off. You can order through my web page to the right. Hope everyone's turkey day is great!

Turkey Day Surprises

Today's post involves an idea from Shelli Gardner, the CEO of Stampin' Up. She made some great Halloween bookmarks for her grandchildren that were highlighted on her blog, so I thought what about Thanksgiving bookmarks? I have a couple of cute Thanksgiving books to give to my girls, so I made them these cute turkey bookmarks to go with them. They are a little difficult to see because of the laminating, but when your kids are 2 and 4, anything paper needs to be laminated in order to have a chance for survival. I backed Mr. Turkey (made out of different shapes and sizes of punches) on fall designer paper and then added a pumpkin and greeting.

Another Christmas Card...

'Tis the season, so here's another cute Christmas idea. I took a top note cardinal design that someone gave me as a swap at Regionals earlier this month, and I embellished it with some glitter glue and then layered it on kraft cardstock to make a card. Not bad!

Country Living Promotion

Stampin' Up has partnered with Country Living magazine to offer a fantastic holiday deal. You can order their holiday set, that comes with everything listed below, from my demonstrator web site. It's really a great deal and comes with several holiday projects - not to mention all the ones you can create on your own with all that stuff! I plan on making some ornaments with pictures of my girls like the photo garland you see in the image to give to my family. The cost is $49.95, but when you figure out the prices of all that is included, you are actually getting quite a bit of it free!

Here's what's included:

The Holiday Collection Stampin' Kit includes the following products:
Holiday Collection stamp set (six stamps)
Four 12" x 12" sheets of die-cut chipboard
Eight 12" x 12" sheets of die-cut Designer Series paper (2 ea. of 4 double-sided designs)
Four 12" x 12" sheets of Designer Series paper (2 ea. of 2 double-sided designs)
Two 12" x 12" sheets of Whisper White card stock
25 yds. Silver Metallic cord
10 yds. 3/8" Whisper White taffeta ribbon
Pretties Kit brads (20)
Stampin' Dimensionals
Dazzling Diamonds Stampin' Glitter (1/2 oz.)
Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive
Riding Hood Red Classic Stampin' Spot
Old Olive Craft Stampin' Spot
Uninked Stampin' Spot
Whisper White Craft Ink refill

Yeah, Big Shot!

I can thank Angie Kennedy Juda (blog listed to the right) for this quick and simple design. This would have to be one of the easiest Christmas cards ever to mass produce for your mailing list - I churned out 5 of these babies in about 20 minutes. I had tons of extra top note shapes in the kraft paper from my Snow cards below, so I used them for a few different color combinations of this design that go beautifully with the colors in the Alpine ribbon from the holiday mini catalog. Which do you like better - the olive layer of the all brown layers?

Regionals Swaps

Well, I'm still recovering from the all-day regional seminar on Saturday, but I thought I'd share two of the swaps I did and one I received that I really liked. The SNOW card was mine - I made 36 of these using a shadow technique with a wheel stamp, and I also accented them with the felt flurried from the holiday mini catalog. The second picture is my assembly line of my 20 candy corn cards I made (you can see a close up of those in one of the earlier October posts). Lastly, the ornament, which was made using one of the Big Shot dies was given to me by Denise Long, another demonstrator. Hope you enjoy!

VA Beach Regionals

Well, I went to the VA Beach Stampin' Up Regional Seminar this weekend since it happened to be practically in my back yard, and wow, was it fun! First of all, I won a stamp set on the first door prize drawing, so that set the day up well. I also met the CEO, Shelli Gardner, and got tons of cute swaps. See some pics above of me getting my prize, meeting Shelli, some projects I saw, and more... There were probably about 300 women there - a lot like the national Girl Scout convention I once went too. We got lots of cute ideas and some make-and-take projects, which will probably debut here soon.

Crazy for Cupcakes!

Here's a cute birthday card I did for my sis-in-law, Jamie. Love the Crazy for Cupcakes set and the Sweet Always paper. Who'd have though orange and pink go so well together?!? Everywhere I look, cupcakes seem to be an "in" thing right now. Stampin' Up is no exception since they have several birthday sets with really cute cupcake stamps. Anyway, back to making my swaps for VA Beach Regional that is this weekend... more on that tomorrow...

Halloween!!!

Yep, here's the cute little favors I gave to Audrey's class. Why so simple you ask? Well, because #1) there were 25 kids, #2) mommy has lots to do, and #3) I'm sure they got plenty of candy anyway, so just one lollipop seemed like a good idea. Anyway, I had fun making them, and the lollipop substituting for a witch's broom seemed like a cute idea! Comments?