Christmas swaps

For those of you who couldn't attend our Christmas party here in Albuquerque, here are the swap cards we all made and received. My favorite Christmas one was made by Sharon Petitt (blue with silver swirls and chunky glitter snowflakes) , and my favorite valentines where the three shown together, (red heart w/Riding hood red dsp, RHRed ribbon, and the one with the two love birds) 2 of them using the new Love You Much stamp set to go on sale next Tues.

Falling Leaf notebook

I made this as a door prize with the Bigshot leaf die.. but then one of my customers had a birthday, so she got it!! Love these leaves...now I just have to get my own bigshot!!

Stamp club demo cards

These are the other two cards we did for stamp club. Embossed the brown cd with gold EP, the purple with black EP. Retired Lavender lace DP on the purple. The brown one uses the fall paper from the holiday mini. Scandinavian Season stamp set. Base flower was stamped and embossed again, colored in and cut out, then layered with dimensionals onto the bottom of the tree.

November Stamp Club Workshop

The next club class on 9 Nov will feature the Scandinavian Season stamp set. Here is one of the cards and pages we will be doing. These two cards/pages were designed by Karen Kurz for our recent stamp camp. This club class is open to anyone wishing to attend. We hold it every month on the 2nd Sunday at 2pm. Cost for class is $10 per person. I teach two different projects, each using a different technique or type of stamping.

Shoe Box Swap ....

The October Shoe Box swap was cancelled. There were too many people sick, holding workshops (this is a good thing), or just not able to attend. I will be doing the next Cards Galore class on 15 & 17 Nov. Anyone is welcome to attend for the same fee as my regular customers. I have 1 & 2 slots in the different classes available.

Next Shoe Box Swap

The next shoebox swap will be 20 Oct 2008 at Susan's house. If you want to send cards.. get them to me NLT Monday. I figure it will be "Holiday" theme, but I will email her and find out in advance!! Let all your customers know about the SU Birthday special, and the October specials!! See my reg blog or your SU website for details.

Demo Workshops

I've started this blog for my downline only. I am going to post images and instructions to help my downlines create card classes and build workshops. I hope this is helpful to you all.

The first set of images are what Susan our upline is doing for her current workshops. The bag of treats uses the Bigshot top note diecut.














This is the box in a bag , modified to hold card sizes. Instructions can be found on Andrea Walford's blog.














This last card uses the sanded background stamp, Autumn Harvest pumpkins (masked all 3 tog on one piece of cs then cut out), and the new 1" choc chip ribbon tied around the front. See my main blog for a variation on the knot.