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Thanks so much to Laycock Designs and Blogs by Heather for setting up my blog layout! Michelle worked on the cute people and layout this week. Heather keeps my buttons up to date. I have to tell you that it makes my life easier knowing someone who knows what she's doing is helping me with all of this technology. I hope you visit often--I think I'll be posting more just so I can look at it! I'll post new cards at the end of the week, I hope. Have a great week!
Melinda :)

My first Stamp A Stack

On Sunday, I'll host my first Stamp A Stack. I'm pretty excited about the cards I made. You've seen two of them. I finished the other two today and I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out. I got the ideas off of Stampin' Connection, of course. I looked at several samples and put them together. I'm sorry I don't have the names of those who helped me be creative today. I'll try to find them again and I'll post your names later. I hope you enjoy the cards.

February Fun

Before I head back to my kindergarten classroom tomorrow I wanted to post three pictures of some cards I made while on break. They use retired sets and papers but I found the scraps and decided to see what I could do with them. I think the cards turned out very cute.
I'll post pictures of my stamp a stack cards as soon as they're all finished. Have a great rest of the week.

More cards!

One of the reasons I love track out is the time I get to play in my Stampin' Room! Here are the lastest cards. The LOVE card is CASEd from Erica Cerwin. I used what I had on hand which changed the card a little but the layout is basically the same. I tried to use colors that didn't say Valentine's Day because sometimes you just need to say "I love you".
I loved the Morning Cup set! I finally got to play with it yesterday. I CASEd a card from Madeline Morcelo, again, using colors I had. I think it turned out very cute! I used the Watercolor Wonder Crayons to color the images.
Let me know what you think!

Cute Tags

I just made the cutest tags using our new Cupcake Punch from the Occasions Mini Catalog. They were very simple to make. I used Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, Early Expresso and Daffodil Delight cardstock with Daffodil Delight ribbon. I made 24 tags in about 30 minutes last night. I love simple but cute projects!

January Workshop

Here are the cards we're making at my workshop and Stamp Camps this month. They were fairly easy to make. I tried to use some of the In-Colors as well this month. I don't use those very often. I'm not sure why, I usually tend to stick to the regular color families. If you'd like to join one of my classes, just let me know. Check out my website for the dates. Happy Stampin'!

Kid's Birthday Swap

Hi everyone,
I've worked on a card swap of birthday cards for kids. These are the cards I came up with. I used layouts I found on Stampin' Connection The card made with Under the Stars was CASEd from Kari Vertican. The card using Simple Birthday Thanks was made using the ideas of several wonderful demonstrators on Stampin' Connection but not one single card. I cut the words out of the middle of the stamp so that is how I got the plain blue wrapper for the cupcake. I cut each piece of the cupcake and pieced it together. Then I used the Crop-O-Dile to make the sprinkles.

I got to use the Blueberry Crisp Designer Series Paper on the cupcake card and I think it came out really well. You can use it for both a girl and a boy, I think. The other card turned out very cute by layering two colors of ribbon instead of paper strips like the original I saw.

I'm working on my January workshops and Stamp Camps today so hopefully I'll have more to post in the next couple of days.

Happy Stampin'