Finally!

It has been one of those weeks--or several weeks! At midnight, I finished the other card for my stamp camp today. I used several cards to make this one, so I don't know all of the names of the of the people I kind of CASEd from. It needs a little bling, but I couldn't decide what to use that didn't seem too much. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them.

If you haven't realized it yet, my style is more quick and simple. Because I'm a full time teacher, I don't have a lot of time to make my cards and scrapbook pages. My cards seem to be very simple--not nearly as elaborate as a lot of the cards I see on other blogs. Anyway, stamp camp is at 2:00 today so hopefully the girls will have fun!

More projects

As promised, here's the owl with the wings--thanks again, Jean, for helping me with this. The other is a tag I CASEd from the Idea Book and Catalog on page 155. My best friend, Amy Parker, and I are doing classes for our local recreation department starting in September. This is the tag we decided to make. Amy is making the box--she's really good at things like that. We have one more project but haven't decided on it exactly yet. Wish us luck!

I know how to make the wings!

Thanks to Jean from Stampin' Connection, I know how to make the wings on the owl--with the bird punch! How simple is that? I'll post the picture of the owl card with his wings when we get back from Pigeon Forge.

I finally got to stamp!

OK--the transition from first grade to kindergarten was a little more time consuming than I thought. I finally found time today to get into the stampin' room and create something--anything!

I came up with three cards that were all CASEd from someone else so let me make sure I give credit where credit is due. The cute snail card uses Bugs and Kisses and is a very simple version of one I saw by Julie Wadlinger. She used DSP on her shells and it was beautiful but I only had a little time so I used the markers to color each shell before stamping.

The other Bugs and Kisses card was designed by Denise Kasanda. I changed all of the colors on my card just experimenting with the new color coach. I love that tool!

My owl card was CASEd from Melanie Kiechle. My only problem is that I can't decide how to make the wings on the owl in the middle look like he's flying. If anyone has suggestions, please let me know--my cutting didn't quite look right.

Well, that's the post for today. We're off to the mountains in Tennessee for the week so hopefully next weekend I'll get those scrapbook pages I told you about posted as well. Thanks for looking!

I'm behind!

I am so sorry for not posting in the past few weeks. Our new school year has started and after 24 years in first grade, I've headed to Kindergarten! Who knew five year olds could make you sooo tired? Anyway, no crafting has taken place at my house the last two weeks but I hope to get back into next week. We track out on Friday, July 30th and so I should have some time over track out to make some cards. I will try to post some scrapbook pages I've been working on. Thanks for looking!

It's taken all day but I've got the cards for our Stamp Camp next Friday night. The monthly Stamp Camp is usually the first Friday of each month but it was the holiday weekend so I moved it to next week, July 9th.

The cards are both CASEd (copy and stamp everything) from two very talented demonstrators named Tammy Bendel and Ilina Crouse. I got the ideas from them on our exclusive demonstrator site called Stampin' Connection. If you would like to become a demonstrator and find great ideas like these, be sure to let me know. I'd love to talk with you about the opportunity.

Be sure to RSVP by Wednesday, July 7th if you're planning to attend. Hope to see you there!

Cards for Kids

Next Saturday, July 10th, at 2:00 at my house, Amy Parker and I will be teaming up to make Cards for Kids at the Rex Children's Hospital. We will use the Build A Bear dies and big shot to make a card and a bear with two outfits for the children to dress his/her bear. Come join us for an afternoon of giving back to our community. Please RSVP by Wednesday, July 7th. Hope to see you then!