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Monday, March 23, 2009

March Club

Here's what we did for our March Club meeting. I fell in love with the Inspired by Nature set and the card in the Fall/Winter 2008 catalog on pg. 10. I wanted to show the ladies what a great resource the catalog can be by either just casing a card or using the same idea with a different color palette. I'm happy with the results!

Supplies:

Stamps: Inspired by Nature

Paper: More Mustard, So Saffron, Urban Garden DSP

Ink: Versa Mark and Kiwi Kiss

Accessories: White ep

Card #2 was a different purchase for me. I normally don't go for sets like that but a lot of the women in my club really like them. I think it's now one of my favorite sets! Funny how that works! Anyway, I was thrilled how it turned out. I added the Sanded background to the Gray background paper I made and really like it! The bird is colored with pastels.

Supplies:

Stamps: Friends 24-7, Sanded bg

Paper: Baja Breeze, Basic Gray and Confetti white

Ink: Basic Gray and Whisper White craft

Accessories: Pastels, ribbon, dimensionals and double rectangle punch

First in Fitness WINNERS!

Bryson and Lacie were in the county First in Fitness competition last week. What is it you ask? The schools pick one girl and one boy from the 3-5 grades who are the best at either pull-ups, the mile, 100 yd. dash, speed rope, etc. Lacie was picked to represent the forth grade girls in pull-ups and Bryson was chosen as the Triathlete. One 5th grade boy and girl compete as the triathlete. The three events they compete in are pull-ups, shuttle run and the mile. Well...they BOTH won their events! It was so exciting! Lacie did 18 pull-ups! Bryson did 18 pull-ups, and ran the mile in 6:38. I don't know his time for the shuttle run. He didn't win each event but the combination of his scores was the highest! It was an awesome day and I'm so pleased with each of them and all their hard work!

Friday, March 13, 2009

New cards

I made these cards with a couple of my new stamp sets from the Spring/Summer catalog. I LOVE both of these sets! The first card is made with the Thoughts and Prayers set. I cased the idea from atomicbutterfly on Splitcoast. Her card is GORGEOUS! Mine is a simple version of it.

Supplies:

Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers, Bella's Bloom

Paper: Pink Pirouette, White and Bellarose DSP

Ink: Old Olive, Rose Red, and Regal Rose

Accessories: Ribbon, dimensionals, pastels

This card was made planning for a workshop. I made a similar version that I will share tomorrow. I love these colors!

Supplies:

Stamps: Friends 24-7

Paper: Kraft, Regal Rose, White and Raspberry Tart DSP

Ink: Stazon, Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss

Accessories: Olive ribbon, dimensionals, aqua painter

Direct from Kitchen Stadium!

We had a blast a couple of weeks ago when we had an Iron Chef family night! Our secret ingredient was chicken. I know, kind-of boring but I went and got plenty of unique ingredients for everyone to work with. Mark, Bryson and Carston made a sort of jumbalaya served with a salad and asparagus. It was delicious! Brady, Lacie and I made fried chicken with strawberry sauce, hashbrown patties and asparagus. Ours would have been delicious if we wouldn't have put tooooo much salt in it! Darn! Well, it was good with a lot of water. Ha! Oh well!