Sassy Stampers - May 6, 2023

It's time for our semi-annual crafter's garage sale! We combine our camp with a sale twice a year and May is the occasion for our combined camp and sale. I will not be selling this time as I have a big craft sale/camp coming up on the 20th for Crazy Card Chics. The theme this month is cards for men and this is the card the campers will make at my table:

The campers will have a choice of sentiments for both the outside and the inside. I used a retiring punch on this one, but SU has a new set of dies coming out in the new catalog (which goes live on May 2) called Nested Essentials that will cut 3 different nested shapes and one of them is the shape I used for this card. I can't order it and get it in time for camp, but I am really looking forward to getting it! The card base is a returning color called Lost Lagoon. The embossed layer (embossed using one of the 3D embossing folder trio from the Online Exclusives) is Pretty Peacock. I don't have a lot of paper from the new catalog, so I decided to make my own! I stamped the leaf clusters and the dots from the Irresistible Blooms stamp set in Pretty Peacock in a random pattern and mounted it on a Lost Lagoon rectangle which is popped up on the front using dimensionals. The sentiment is stamped on a punched piece and then the Pretty Peacock layer is hand trimmed to fit under it. The sentiment piece is also popped up using dimensionals. I added a couple of gems from a Glossy Dots Assortment pack.

Here is more information on this fun event:

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My Brave Tulips

When we bought our home some 39 years ago, there was no deck in the back just a concrete slab. DH built a new two level deck and inadvertently covered up the tulip that was growing there. The tulip had it's own ideas though and continues to come up and give us gorgeous blooms every year. Here is a picture of it this year:

It's coming up from under the deck! I planted tulips in one of the side gardens and they bloomed beautifully the first year and have not had very many blooms in the years since planted. Plenty of greenery, but not too many blooms. This one comes up every year and has wonderful blooms and greenery. I just hope we don't get any more snow!

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Crazy Card Chics - April 2023

This is the card the campers made with my card packet:

The card base is Gorgeous Grape and the embossed layer is Highland Heather. I embossed it with one of the online exclusive Basic 3D Embossing Folders. The iris is computer generated and cut out using the Nesting Ovals die set and the Gorgeous Grape layer was also created with that same set. The sentiment is computer generated and was cut with Stylish Shapes dies as was the Gorgeous Grape layer. Campers had a choice of several different sentiments. I also added some Basic Rhinestone Jewels to give it a bit of bling!

On May 20, 2023 Crazy Card Chics will be hosting a live in-person camp at the Good Luck 4H Building at the Adams County Fairgrounds located at 9755 Henderson Road, Brighton, Colorado. Here is the flyer with more details about the camp and also the information about sale we are having:

We are all looking forward to this event and I just know that it will be a lot of fun. We have some great cards planned to make and some really special door prizes to give away!  Make sure to get registered early!

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Stamp Camp North - April 15, 2023

Stamp Camp North is coming up this Saturday!  Here's the card the campers will be making at my table:

Card base is Fresh Freesia with a layer of Orchid Oasis and an embossed layer of Basic White embossed using one of the folders from the Basic 3D embossing folders offered in the Online Exclusives catalog. The flowers were die cut using Fresh Freesia and then stamped with Orchid Oasis. The leaves were die cut using Old Olive and stamped with Old Olive. There will be several sentiments available in addition to the one shown in the Basic White oval die cut from the Stitched Shapes dies and then layered on an oval cut using the Basic Ovals dies. I added some gems from the Glossy Dots Assortment and called it a card!

Here's some more information about this great activity:

We really have fun at this camp and I hope you can join us!

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Happy Easter!

I want to wish everyone who celebrates it a very Happy Easter! This photo was captured by DH in our north facing garden this week:

and it makes me very happy! There is also a tiny bit of yellow showing up in the side garden - hopefully it won't snow on the daffodils!

I have a couple of cards to share and will be back this week to share those as well as information on the camps they are for.

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