October club cards

So, here are the cards we made for stamp club! I'm all about ornaments this year so that's what we did! The first card is cut with the coluzzle in the shape of a circle. We stamped snowflakes from the Snow Burst stamp set in Baja breeze. The Merry Christmas is from All Holidays and stamped in Riding Hood Red. We used the Taken With Teal pastel to bring some shading into the sides. We then covered the entire front of the circle with VersaMark and sprinkled it with Iridescent Ice EP. The ornament top is punched from the round tab punch and attached with silver brads. Riding Hood Red ribbon tops it off. It's very sparkly IRL!

The second card we did used the Boho Backgrounds stamp set to make the ornaments. We inked the medallion in white craft ink and stamped it three times then embossed it with white EP. This card used just about every circle punch Stampin Up makes. One was punched with the 1", one with the 1-1/4" and it doesn't show in this picture but we punched the last one with the 1-3/4" punch. I also punched one plain circle from the Bravo Burgandy with the 1-3/8" punch. The 1-1/4" circle was then layered on the 1-3/8" circle. The top of the ornaments were made by punching 3 1/4" circles on Brushed Silver then punching 1/2" circle over the top of it. (Like your making a rivet or something like that.) The ornaments are stuck on with dimensionals. We used the tool kit to punch holes for the silver thread to feed through tied off with a bow. We stamped Merry Christmas in Bravo Burgandy and layered the white on top of the burgandy. I know this all sounds confusing, because it kind-of was! But....isn't it pretty! Next time we'll work to keep it simple! Anyway, I just love getting together with the women in my club!

Creepover!

I work with the Young Women (12-18 yr. old girls) at church. A couple of weeks ago we had a lady (master quilter, actually) come help us learn how to make quilts. The girls worked together and almost completed a few quilt tops that we have decided to donate to a local charity. I brought them home and added the batting and backing so they would be ready to tie. That's ALL I've been doing today. (I'll have to add a picture of that tomorrow) We knew when we planned this activity they wouldn't be able to complete the quilts all in one night, so we planned a sleepover to co-inside with it. I wanted to give out invitations to all the girls so I came up with a fun Halloween themed invite called a Creepover! They loved it! I made them with the Sizzix die witch hat, broom and shoes. I probably ought to get to bed since I won't be getting much sleep tomorrow night! Good night!

A Day at the Fair

What a cute gang! These are my kids with my neighbor and her kids in the middle of a great day at the fair. We arrived this morning and of course, first up, was the opportunity to hold the baby chicks and ducklings. They're soooo darling!

Then we were off to our first roller coaster! So much fun!

Next we went to the BMX bike show that my kids just love. This year they added a couple of motor cross guys behind the BMX guys which was neat.

Then on to more rides and fattening fair food. Our favorite is the funnel cakes. The last ride of the day was the Mega Slide and then it was time to head home. It was a great way to start our first day of track-out!

Christmas is coming! Yea!

Here's my completed advent calendar! I'm really pleased with the way it turned out. I got the idea from http://kathy-prettyinink.blogspot.com/search?q=advent I saw her's on Splitcoast and just LOVED it! The little tins have magnets glued to the back of them and you could put some candies in each tin. My kids can hardly wait for me to fill the tins. Obviously the base is a cookie sheet with Bella Rose DSP glued to it. The title is cut from mat board with a Sizzix alphabet. If there is enough interest I will do a class in Nov. to make your own. I have added up the supplies and it all comes to $35. That includes: cookie sheet, 24 tins, 24 magnets, 6 sheets DSP, matboard, ribbon, adhesive and use of ink and punches. Let me know if you're interested! We're off to the state fair!

Halloween Treat

I made this for a lady I visit as a little halloween treat. I got the cute little bucket from Target and added a rub-on and wa-la! a cute, unique bucket. The tag is made with the stamp set Sweeter Treaters that is unfortunately retired. I just love the little people in that set!

Color Inspiration #26

This is my first time participating in Kristina Werner's color challenge and I loved it! I found it really easy to decide what to do when already given colors and an "inspiration" picture. Soooo...here's what I came up with:

Supplies:

Paper: Sahara Sand, Rose Red and Whisper White

Ink: Rose Red, Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Wild Wasabi and Sahara Sand

Accessories: Metal Mesh, ribbon, white gel pen and microbeads

Happy Birthday to Me!

Isn't this the cutest cupcake ever! My sweet friend Beth not only gave me this cupcake and beautiful picture and frame, she and another lady at church brought cupcakes to share with all the young women (12-18 yr. olds) while they sang happy birthday to me! It was very sweet!

My awesome sister sent me delicious chocolate covered strawberries that she ordered from berries.com. They were soooo good and that picture is exactly what they looked like. Yummy!

Mark decided my camera had died so he bought me a new one. I couldn't understand how he just "knew" my old camera was no longer any good, but to make a long story short, I now have two very similar cameras that work great! Hey, now I have one for the car and one for the house! ;)

It was a great day!

The best birthday party ever!

This last weekend we celebrated Lacie's 9th birthday. It really was the funnest birthday party I've ever thrown! It was a jump rope party, since Lacie just made the jump rope team at school.


As all the girls got to our home, they were each given a jump rope to play with. I had my neighbor girl and a friend of hers teach the girls some tricks and they also did single rope turning while the girls ran through playing games like school.





They even made up a song in honor of Lacie that the girls had to jump to and see how many jumps they could get.

We then went inside for pizza. After pizza we opened presents and she got some really fun gifts!

After gifts it was time for a craft. I made each of the girls drawstring backpacks that they could take home. Half of them were like the picture to the left and half were just the opposite colors. Each girl had to feed the laces through the casing of the backpack to make it hers. They LOVED them! It was so cute to hear them all talking about what they were going to do with there backpacks.

Now that they had a cute backpack they needed something to put inside it besides just a jumprope. We went to the living room for a game of Cootie Candy. I put a bunch of candy on a tray and one girl was told to leave the room. The girls then had to pick one piece of candy on the tray that was the "cootie candy" The girl was then invited back into the room and began picking candy until she picked the cootie candy. She got to keep all that she had picked prior to that. I was shocked! Some girls got almost the entire tray! It was really fun!

We then played Chinese Jump Rope. It is a game where two people stand about 4 feet apart and have an elastic streched around their ankles. Another player then has to do a series of jumps in, out, on, etc. the elastic. If they complete the series of jumps without messing up, they advance a level and the elastic moves up to the knees. I missed getting a picture of this but they absolutely loved this game!

I rented the movie "Jump In" so we turned that on while some continued to play chinese jump rope. I almost forgot to do cake and ice cream, so we paused the movie and sang a quick happy birthday song. Lacie just loved her party and so did I.

Explosion Card

Unfortunately, no luck with the camera. I purchased a new battery and it still is not working. So...I'll share some older pictures. I actually just made this card a couple of weeks ago and was so happy with the way it turned out. It's called an explosion card and rightfully so! When you open the card it literally explodes. It's really fun and very pleasing for the person opening the card. I'm sure I'll teach the ladies in my club how to make it at some point!

Camera Problems!!!

I'm so frustrated! Of the two cameras we have, they have both, simultaneously, decided to stop working! I wanted to post the other card we made at club, but that will have to wait. I will be taking a little trip to the camera store today!

Anyway, yesterday and Saturday was the General Conference for my church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was so wonderful! It's such a blessing to listen to our prophet and the leaders of the church. It was exciting to hear the announcement of 5 new temples to be built around the world! Two of them are to be built in the U.S., one in Argentina, one in Canada and one in Rome, Italy. It will be exciting to see if the church does something architecturally (is that a word?) unique to the Rome, Italy temple. No matter what they do, all the temples are beautiful! This picture is of our family a couple years ago in front of the SLC temple. Other topics during the conference included virture and how we must not let virtue leave our lives, safety and how it comes by obedience, marriage, christian courage, unity, testimony, teaching as the Savior taught, the sacrament, listening to the spirit, and enduring trials among many others. It's one of those experiences that you feel your cup has been filled. I'm truly grateful for all those who prayerfully prepared and spoke. What a blessing!

Email feed

Opps! If any of you have tried to put your email into the feedblitz box, it probably didn't work. I just now confirmed my registration with feedblitz and now we're good to go! Sorry for the mix-up!

My Fam!

I got the comment the other day that I don't have any pictures of Brady on my blog. Well...I should probably give you a picture of all of my cute kids. (Okay, you're going to get the whole family!) I must admit, that whole growing up thing really does happen fast. Some days I wish it would happen faster (teenagers, you know) but overall I just love seeing them grow and develop. This picture was taken last spring at Easter time.