New Holiday Freebie

Here's a new holiday freebie for you:

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Click on the image and it will open in a new window, then right click and chose the Save As option to download these to your local computer. Enjoy and please remember to leave me a comment if you use this on a project - I'd love to see it!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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October 13 - Stamp Camp North Projects

Here is a slideshow of the projects the gals created at our October Stamp Camp North:

We had a wonderful turnout and the gals all had a grand time creating these projects.   If you see an image you want to see in a larger format, just click on it and you should be able to open a window and see more detail.  If you encounter any problems let me know.  Things have changed at Google and Picasa and I'm just not certain that they work they same way they used to.  I may end up just inserting the actual pictures to highlight these wonderful cards.

Last night was our Front Range Stampers meeting and I will have some pix of our projects from that meeting for you tomorrow - some really wonderful stuff.  There is such great talent in this area and I feel blessed to be part of it all.

Thursday is our Rocky Mountain Inky Fingers meeting and I hope to have some pix to show from that meeting too so be sure to check back.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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Monday Freebie!

I've got another digital sentiment freebie for you today:

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To download these, just click to open in a new window then right click and choose "Save As."  If you encounter any problems downloading, just shoot me an email and I will send you the files.  I really enjoy playing with fonts and graphics and I hope you enjoy these freebies.  I would love to see how you use them so please leave me a link in the comments so I can come visit!

I'll be back tomorrow with photos of the cards from Saturday's North Area Stamp Camp - there are some real beauties there so be sure to stop back.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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Stamp Camp North Project

This Saturday I will be at our monthly Stamp Camp North in Westminster, Colorado.  Here is the project the gals will be making at my station:

Andrea Wolford had a gorgeous version of this card using Early Espresso in her 12 weeks of Christmas 2012 series, but I wanted something a bit brighter and so chose to use Rich Razzleberry instead along with the silver glitter paper.  I tried to find the link to her card, but it's not there anymore - sorry. I do like how my version of it turned out.

Yesterday afternoon, grandpa and I went along while DS and DDL took the kids to the pumpkin patch to get their Halloween pumpkins.  We all had a blast and I thought I might share a couple of photos with you:

Julian found one he really liked!

Justice had fun too!

Bella and Grandpa had a standoff over which one to choose!

It was a nice day for pumpkin hunting.  Grandpa and I found ones we liked too and we'll be carving them up to decorate the porch next week.  I enjoyed being able to use my camera too - still learning but having a blast doing it!

Not managing to post every day, but I'm getting better and hope to stay on track.  Thanks for being patient with me!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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Holiday Digital Freebie

I've been playing around with digital sentiments again and have designed a few that I will share over the next few weeks.  Here's this week's freebie:

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Just right click on the image and save it to your local computer.

Be sure to check out my digital freebies page and grab some of the other sets that I have designed.

I'm getting ready for the North Area Stamp Camp this weekend and will preview my card later this week.  I look forward to these stamp camps as my fellow demos are all so talented and I always learn something new.  If you want any more information on this stamp camp or any of the other camps that I participate in, just leave me a note in the comments and I will get back to you.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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Just to say "Thanks!"

My DDL Autumn is a real gem (see yesterday's post).  She took care of my two kitties (who are really impossibly quirky with anyone but me) while I was in Washington in May, Salt Lake City in July and while I spent my scant 3 weeks on the boat with DH in August.  To say thanks, I made these for her with some beads that I picked up during my trip to Washington at one of the best bead shops in the country - Beadazzled. 

The light isn't the best in this photo, I'm still working on constructing myself a light box that I can fold up and store easily as I just don't have enough room in the craft studio to set up a full fledged photo booth (not yet anyway).

I made myself some too (didn't get any pix of those though) and am working on some more as gifts for those special gals in my life for Christmas and I've also made some scissor charms for some of my good customers (will get some pix of these soon).

Posting two days in a row - hopefully this is a trend I can continue!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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Christmas Card Camp

This past weekend the gals and I got together for a Christmas Card Camp.  They got to make 10 cards and an ornament and we sure did have a grand time!  Flo was a truly gracious hostess and had lots of munchies on hand for us so we could keep our energy levels up.  Here's some pix of the girls in action:

My DDL Autumn (standing in the top picture) saved the day for me by coming along to help out.  With 12 stampers and so many projects, I definitely could not have done it without her.  Thanks Autumn!!!!

Here are the projects that we made:

 
The inspiration for these cards and the ornament came from the talented blogs of LeAnne, Kay and Jan!  If you are ever in need of inspiration, these three ladies have blogs that are just full of wonderful ideas!

I am really hoping to get back on track and begin blogging regularly again.  I have been making things, just haven't been blogging about them.  DH is finally home from his summer sailing adventure (YAY) and maybe things will get back to normal around our house again.
 
Thanks for visiting!

chris

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I'm still here ...

I'm still here, but dealing with some health issues.  Sure hope to get back to blogging regularly very soon.  The Captain will be home by next week and that is surely going to make everything so much easier to handle!!!  Don't give up on me okay?
 
Thanks for visiting!

chris

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Home Again - but reluctantly!

It was a fabulous three weeks and it went flying by much too fast.  I arrived back home yesterday and am missing the Captain something awful.  He'll be home in a month or so though so I'll just have to keep busy!!!

I thought I would share just a couple pix from the new camera:

 

This is our beautiful Belmira. We woke up that morning to a marina that was like glass. DH took my camera and I out in the dinghy so that I could take some pictures. I took a lot!

This is DH and his brother picking some Bluegrass music on the dock at Westport Harbor.  I took lots of pix of that as well! DH heads out there most Wednesday nights to play with a group of musicians and a crowd of appreciative fans.

Here are a couple of shots from a day trip to Newport:

I took lots and lots of pictures trying to get used to my new camera.  Pictures of the fabulous food, people and sights of the Massachusetts coast.  I had a fantastic time (I always do) spending time on the boat and with DH.  It is nice to get away from everything and just enjoy our life together.  I can't wait until I am able to retire and spend even more time on board Belmira with DH!

The crafty cave is a total shambles and the Monday night gals are coming over tonight.  Have to get it cleaned up a bit.  Maybe I'll take some before and after pix to document the creative chaos!

I have a road trip downline meeting on Friday and plan to bring my camera along.  There will be fabulous swaps, fun make and take projects and lots of wonderful sharing with my stampin' buds.  I'll be sure to share some pix with everyone!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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The Newest Addition to My Artistic Arsenal

Take a gander at this sweetheart:

After my sweet Nikon P90 hit the deck my first week on board Belmira, DH decided it was time for me to graduate to a big girl camera.  This is the latest addtition to my arsenal.  Now .... I just have to learn how to use it!

I will be heading back home on Sunday.  3 weeks just gone ... can't believe it's already time to leave.  I hope to get back to posting regularly once I get back and get settled in.  Thanks everyone for hanging in there with me while I get my act together. 

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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Greetings from Provincetown!

Well we are now moored in Provincetown Harbor.  We spent the first night here anchored, but a storm blew in and we decided to pick up a mooring instead of staying up all night monitoring the anchor.  My camera hit the deck however and now I am using DH's to try to get some shots of the local color!  P-town is a very, very colorful place and I'll try to get some pix up tomorrow. 

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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Greetings from Buzzard's Bay!

Well I actually made it - got the okay from the doctor on Saturday morning and left on Sunday morning!!!  It is so good to be back on board Belmira and even more wonderful to get to see DH again!  Nearly three months apart is a very long time!

Here he is at helm on a short day trip out into the bay:

I still have some Convention swaps to share but things have been so very crazy these last few weeks that I never got them posted.  I will also have some Holiday Mini swaps to share when I get home so watch for those.  I will be back in Colorado - flying solo again until late September - on August 26 and really hope to get back to some regular posting.  

I will have more pix of the Massachusetts Coast adventures though.  We have wifi when we are on our mooring so each time we come back to port, I'll try to post about our adventures.  Tomorrow will see us heading for the mouth of the Cape Cod canal.  We'll be going through the canal early Thursday morning (with the tide) and venturing out into Cape Cod Bay for a bit of whale watching before we head across the Bay to Provincetown.  Where we are off to after that will totally depend on our mood, and of course the weather!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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Card Samples from Convention

I have put together a slideshow (finally figured out how to do it now in the "new and improved" Picasa), so here it is:

These were all cards on the display boards at the convention center in Salt Lake City last week.  I have some more photos of swaps that I took at our Front Range Stampers meeting last night and I will put those together to share soon.  If you want to save any of these photos, I think you just need to click on the picture and it should take you to that photo in my album on Picasa and you can right click and save it to your computer.  If that isn't how it works, I'll be back with better instructions. 

Thanks again to everyone that hung in with me while I worked through all my various and sundry issues.  First physical therapy session is Thursday and hopefully that will net great results.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

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I'm Back!

Well, I'm back from convention - exhausted but renewed!  Here's hoping that things will get back to normal now (as normal as they ever get in my life).  I have two more weeks in Colorado before I head to Massachusetts for three weeks to be on board Belmira with DH.  I have tons and tons of stuff to share with you - stamp camp cards (Christmas in July was a blast), downline meeting pictures and cards (thanks Ann and Pat for wonderful times sharing, eating, swapping and creating) and some pix of cards from convention too.  I did not swap, but I did get lots of pictures of projects and cards that I loved.


Here's a little sneak peek at some of the cards from convention:

My hand is better.  I've been out of the splint for two weeks and while I still don't have full range of motion or strength in it, it's much improved and physical therapy starts on Thursday.  I can at least type now!!!  Hopefully the spell checker will catch any goofs I make when my clumsy fingers hit the wrong keys.


FXW, DS and two of our grandchildren are aboard Belmira with grandpa so be sure to visit his blog in the next few days as he's promised to post some pictures of them all sailing and fishing and generally having some watery fun!


I have resigned from all my design team duties and am hopeful that it will allow me the time to get back on track with this blog.  I really want to learn to make videos that I can share with all of you as well as some pdf tutorials of some of the wonderful things I am learning to do.  Thanks so very much for hanging in there with me - only a few of you jumped ship when I was unable to post over these last few weeks.  You are all the BEST!!!!!


Thanks for visiting!

~chris

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Still Alive and Kicking

I am not missing or dead but I am physically, mentally and emotionally fried.  I'll be back soon.  It's been a crazy month or so but I am well (mostly) but I'm just not ready to blog yet.  Thanks for hanging in there with me and I hope to have a "catching up" post very soon.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

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Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #118

I actually got a card made for this week's Kaboodle Doodles Challenge - honoring mothers!  Here's my card:

Our sponsor this week is The Stamping Boutique and I used one of their wonderful images and colored it with Copic markers.  Stop by and check out all the great projects from the design team.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

My Favorite Track Star

My oldest grandson ran in the 30th Annual Lion's Club relay race today.  This was his second year running and he was fantastic (I'm not the least bit prejudiced either!)  Here he is holding his ribbon:

He is such a great kid - love you Kael!!!!!!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

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Sassy Chic Project

Here's what you will be making at my table if you come to tomorrow's Sassy Chic Stamp Camp in Longmont, CO.

You can choose whatever color combo and sentiment you want.  You'll also get to feast on our wonderful Cinco de Mayo taco bar and be entered to win any one of our fabulous door prizes!  Kits for Kash will also be available so if you find some cards that you really like - you can buy an extra kit or to for just $2.  If you need any details, just shoot me an email and I'll get them to you right away!  Hope to see you there! 

EDITED TO ADD:  The inspiration for this card came from this card created by the super talented LeAnne over at WEEinklings.  Please pop over to her blog and take a look - I guarantee you will be inspired too!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.