Swaps!

So do you ever have those GREAT plans to get tons of stuff done...and then well life happens and you get 14 of the 3,326 things on your list done? Welcome to my life:)

I had this great plan. I would of course get my work done, house cleaned, laundry done and TONS of swaps finished before convention. Well my works was done, house..well its not so bad, laundry is waiting for me when I get back and I got 17 swaps done:)LOL So here he is! My little owl post-it holder. SImple but cute:)
Here are the rest of them...and what the inside looked like. The ribbon holds the pencil in and the pencil is wrapped with dsp. The outside was created with the new play date file folders. I had fun making them, but boy that was a lot of punching!

Gifts for my roomates

So once again I open my mouth with an amazing idea...why don't we do a shoe box swap at convention AND make everyone in our group a hand made gift?!? Great idea, right? Well as much as it added to everyone's plate, it was well worth it! So this is the gift I made for everyone. Its a butterfly pin, made of fabric and leather. I added the new vintage brads(which I absolutely LOVE) and a vintage tag with the initial of each person. I have had a few comments from convention goers so I hope you enjoy them like they did!

Convention Goodies

Hey everyone! Well its hot in salt lake! But it is still worth every minute! We had our first set of classes today and I will be sharing some of the stuff we make here soon...so be sure to check back! Here are some pictures of the goodies we made in preparation for our trip. Look at this cute file folder made into a notebook holder! And of course a matching gusseted envelope for my swaps!!! Which by some miracle I actually made. Check in tomorrow to see what I came up with!

Convention

Ok so life has been insane!!! I have so many things to share and will start posting when I get to Salt Lake! I am attending the Stampin' Up! convention! Sorry I have been away for a week now! But hopefully I can catch up while I am there!

Parks and Rec Class Wk 3

Hi Everyone! I hope you are all having a great Monday! I cannot believe that convention is just around the corner!!! I am so excited to have a few days out of town to relax and stamp-right-that is just how it will be:) I have a CRAZY week ahead of me, trying to compact all my work for two weeks into one! Plus I have two card classes before I go! Yikes! The things I do to myself:)

So Last Tuesday I had my third week of card class with Parks and Rec. Here is what we made... Medallion card-colors are not quite navy, Sahara sand and soft suede. The card base is very vanilla.

Cup cake card-colors are pumpkin pie, chocolate chip and whisper white. Then I added a bit of glitter to the top!

Elegant butterfly card- colors are crumb cake, more mustard, basic black and old olive. The flowers are with water color crayons!

Also if you are interested in taking my class and parks and rec, Here is the link!

https://www.crpd.org/index.cfm?go2=reg/view&classid=6621&activitynumber=3102&search=&title=&age=&SearchALPHA=&searchClassCenter=Conejo%20Community%20Center&Category=ALL&start=21

Flower Box

Last Saturday at our Crazy stampin ladies meeting Sandy did project. She had us make this adorable flower box. The flower and laves are made from the ornament punch! I love this thing...it has so much more to it then just an ornament punch. I would link you to her blog...but it's in the works! I will share once it is up and running:)

4th of July celibration!

As I mentioned a few days ago, we had quite the BBQ at our house on the 4th. Lots of people, LOTS of food, and lots of fun! Here is the invite I sent out to everyone! It is from the old country living set and last summer!Here is Zavian being fed cereal by Grandma Murvell
Here are the kids playing in the pool again! They love this thing!

And the group...well most of it! Septembra was taking the picture:)

Parks and Rec Class Wk 2

I promised I would post the cards that we do at my parks and rec class...but somehow thing(time and sanity mostly) keep slipping away from me!

So I am sorry this is late...but here they are! This week I did a summer theme! I love this little ice cream cone!

Each week if different and each group of four week classes is different then the last! (see the link at the bottom of the post if you are interested in joining me the next tie around!)

Here is a great set, Under the stars. We water colored and paper pieced on this one. I tried to show at least two new techniques each tine as well!

And since this class was before the 4Th, we made this patriotic card. It is hard to see but there is a star in the inside of the card that pops through the window in the front! They had fun using the big shot on this card and the ice cream one!

Also if you are interested in taking my class and parks and rec, Here is the link!https://www.crpd.org/index.cfm?go2=reg/view&classid=6621&activitynumber=3102&search=&title=&age=&SearchALPHA=&searchClassCenter=Conejo%20Community%20Center&Category=ALL&start=21

Blog Candy... Hop Over!

Hi Everyone!

My mom has some GREAT blog candy on her site! Click on this link to check it out!

http://crazystampinglady.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-candy-okay-so-i-have-reached-5500.html

Be sure to tell her I sent you:)

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th Everyone!!!!
Wowo what a day..well more like what a week. I think I am going on like 10 hours sleep in the last 5 days. Work has been crazy! But when you have your own business and it is a tough economy I know I shouldn't complain! :)

So I'm not!

But, blogging has taken a bit to the back burner.

Then I had this great(crazy) idea that I would invite a bunch of people over today and have a BBQ!!!! (Which was a great time) So at 10:00pm when I sat with a horrible headache, I decided to take something for it. Well Excedrin has caffeine, and so here I sit blogging after midnight with no sleep in slight! But at least I found time to blog!

So here is the other half of the projects we made at club last Monday! Hope you like them!!!

Parks and Rec Class Wk 1

I am currently teaching a class at my local Parks and Rec! Last Tuesday was the first of a 4 week session. I have to be honest I wasn't sure what to expect when I got there. I had no idea the level of stampers I had or if they had even stamped before in there lives! Let me say that they all did great! Here is my first card. A collage style card using Elements of Style set and the new Greenhouse Gala DSP

These next two I pulled inspiration from our idea book 2009-2010. Pages 61 and 107. I just added my own touch! Check back tomorrow for this weeks creations!!!

Also if you are interested in taking my class and parks and rec, Here is the link!https://www.crpd.org/index.cfm?go2=reg/view&classid=6621&activitynumber=3102&search=&title=&age=&SearchALPHA=&searchClassCenter=Conejo%20Community%20Center&Category=ALL&start=21

3D club project!

So I try to post one of the two things we are doing for my club the day of...it seems to get everyone excited to come create that night! But that becomes a slight problem when you don't actually come up with the project until the day of :)

Well this time around I am ahead of the game!!!! I got it done, and with plenty of time to post! So here she is... I took inspiration from a card made in the current summer mini catalog on page 19. Then made up a cute box and filled it with tea...to work with the cute saying on the front

"A woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water"-Eleanor Roosevelt

From the set Favorite Thoughts.

Girly Monkey

So a few weeks ago I posted a cute monkey card and scrapbook page I had cased from the stampin' success magazine stampin' up! puts out to demos!

Well it was my niece Paisley's birthday in May and since she loves the water my sister pushed her party off until June so she could have a pool party with a luau theme! When I originally made the monkey card I planned on giving it to Paisley

here is the original post: http://stampinking.blogspot.com/2010/06/stamp-club-may.html

It seemed to fit the theme of the party perfect. But then the morning of I realized I hadn't wrapped her gift yet!!!! And of course the bag had to match the card! So here is the giant monkey I came up with. As you can see I added a flower to the head of the monkey on the card as well, to make her a bit more girly!

Here is an up close view of miss monkey!