Bunch of Stuff to share today!

Well, let's see if I can't get a little bit caught up with what's been going on in the old crafty den.  First up - the fun card from Sabrina's workshop (plus a freebie for you!).

Here's the freebie word art for you.  Just right click and save it to your computer.

Then, here's a couple of cards in the works for Autumn's workshop on the 17th:

 

Not sure which of the top 2 I will use.  I like them both!  We're also going to make the card I used for my Front Range Stampers make and take - you can see that HERE.

Tomorrow is the Sassy Chic Stamp Camp in Longmont, CO.  This event happens on the first Saturday of every month and is always a total blast.  If you want more information, just email me and I'll send you a flyer.  Sabrina and I were working on a couple of ideas for this project.  I'm going to show you (in order of creation) how I got to my final choice.

I think that I like all of these, but the gals tomorrow will have lots of fun creating the final project.  I'm loving the Crumb Cake/Island Indigo combination!


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.

Kaboodle Doodles - Shades of Purple

This week's challenge at Kaboodle Doodles is to use shades of purple (my favorite color).  Here's the inspiration:

Here's my card:

Our sponsor this week is Pink Gem Designs and I used their Spring Milly image for this card.  Isn't she sweet?


There's a Sassy Chic Stamp Camp coming up this weekend and last night Sabrina and I brainstormed to finish my project.  I'll have some photos of the various results for you tomorrow.  Didn't get a chance to get any photos taken, but we sure had fun figuring it out.  I think the campers will have fun with it.  If you want any more information about the Sassy Chic Stamp Camp or the North Area Stamp Camp, just shoot me an email and I will send you the info.


I also have some pictures of the celebrations at my house this past weekend, but I have not figured out yet how to get the photos off my new iPad (yes - I am the proud owner of one of these lovelies thanks to a wonderful and thoughtful DH - thanks John!).  My wonderful DDL made a gorgeous cake on Sunday and I also had a delicious dinner and cake with Kael, Natalie, Eric and Lorena on Saturday night!  Such yummie-ness!

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.

Front Range Stampers Swaps

For the last several months I have been attending the monthly meeting of the Front Range Stampers group.  This is a group of veteran and novice Stampin' Up! demonstrators and I have to tell you, this is a really talented group of ladies.  I am always so inspired by these meetings!  Here are the swaps from this month's meeting:

I was the hostess this month and chose the theme black, white and one other color for our swaps.  Here's mine:

I also did a make and take project:

We made this same card at a workshop I had for my bff Sabrina.  There were 12 fun gals and we had a ton of fun.  I have another card from that workshop to share, but I have to find the pix of it first!  I've taken so many pictures in the last few weeks and need to sort through them all.


Hopefully I will get some time in the craft studio this week.  There's a Sassy Chic Stamp Camp coming up on March 3 and a North Area Stamp Camp on March 10 so watch for some fun projects for those events.  If you are in the Boulder/Denver area and want information on these very fun camps, be sure to shoot me and email and I will send you a flyer.


I'm still putting together the blogoversary candy package.  Maybe this weekend I'll figure things out enough to get it posted!  My bday is coming up too so that will be another excuse to celebrate.

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.

Kaboodle Doodles Challenges

Well as I've been mostly absent for the past few days, I'll do a little catch-up here.  These are my most recent Kaboodle Doodles challenge cards:

Challenge #106

 

Challenge #107

We've got some new team members over there - Ceal Pritchett and Nancy Parker - so pop over and check out all the great creations from the design team. 

I've got Front Range Stampers swap cards to share with you - as always they were exceptional!  I also did a make and take for that meeting that was lots of fun and I'll have those to share with you later today or tomorrow so be sure to stop back.  I'm really going to try to get things posted a bit faster, but you know how life can sometimes get in the way.

My sweet grandson got his first big boy haircut!  Check it out:

 

His talented mommy made some cupcakes for me for my downline meeting last week too - check these out!  She is so talented and has a website HERE so go visit and see all her wonderful creations.

Don't those look so yummy?  Well - they really were - red velvet cake and a wonderful creamy icing.  She used the new Twitterpated papers from the SU Occasions Mini catalog as her inspiration and I die cut some wrappers to go with them.  They were totally delicious!

I'm not at all happy with all the changes that Blogger is making.  HTML code that is so messy totally irritates me!  Rant over - I'll get over it!  Maybe I need to find another way to edit and post - any suggestions anyone?

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.

Greetings from Kissimmee!

Sorry to have been so absent lately.  I was getting ready for and then going on a trip to Florida with DH and DS to celebrate my mom's 80th birthday.  I've been busy catching up with aunts and uncles and cousins.  The big party is today and we head home tomorrow so I should be back on track soon.  Haven't had reliable internet either which has been a blessing and a curse!

Here's a slideshow of the Sassy Chic Stamp Camp on February 4:

This was my project:

Hope to be back on track this week! 

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.

Challenge Cards and Leadership Swaps

Well, it's Monday and that means brand spanking new challenges at Kaboodle Doodles and Heart Song Inspirations.  Here's my cards for this week:

Kaboodle Doodles

Heart Song Inspirations

I finally got through all the swap photos and put together this little slideshow for you:

I'm still putting together a blog candy package and hopefully I'll put that up this week.  I'm thinking this one might be the best yet so stay tuned.

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.

Leadership Pictures - Part 1

I think I'll start off with a picture of all of us in the general session on Friday:

left to right - Pat, me, Sue, Judy

Now here's a slideshow of some of the contest entries (wow - so many gorgeous cards - I couldn't decide which ones to take pictures of and every day there was more!):

I will try to get the photos of Pat's swaps edited and uploaded within the next day or so.  We had so much fun, but now I'm paying for taking the time off from work - I've had two 10+ hour days in a row and I'm exhausted.  Headed for bed and hope to get a jump on things tomorrow.  I've got the Sassy Chic stamp camp coming up on Feb. 4 and some wonderful fun workshops planned to celebrate Sale-a-Bration and I'll be sharing some of those projects with you as well.


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.

Behind ... as usual!

Well, I'm still editing pictures so it will be another day till the Leadership pix show up.  Sorry .. but believe me, they are worth the wait!  Such wonderful and talented folks made such gorgeous creations!

Well, it's Monday and that means new challenges at my favorite challenge blogs:

Kaboodle Doodles

Heart Song Inspirations

Be sure to stop by and check out the creations by the other dt members and hey ... why not play along!!!
 
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.

I'm Back!!!

I am home from San Antonio and I can report that it was just fantastic!  We had so much fun and learned so much and got soooooooo many goodies!  

I am working on getting all my photos edited so that I can share them with you - hopefully tomorrow.  It's John's birthday tomorrow so today has been full of party preparations and tomorrow will be the big party!  Sons, daughters-in-law, grandkids, friends - it'll be great!  Maybe I'll get some pix of that too!


To hold you over till I get the rest edited, here's a couple of pictures that I took from the river taxi on Thursday night:

Thanks for your patience!

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.

Greetings from San Antonio

Well, I made it safe and sound and am having a wonderful time - wish you were here!

As promised, here's the slide show of all the wonderful projects from Monday night's Front Range Stampers meeting:

Here's my card:

I will be taking pictures of all the wonderful swaps and contest entry cards and will start posting them later today.  I am not swapping, but my wonderful roommate Pat is going to let me take some pictures of hers.  So much fantastic talent here - it's just amazing!

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.

Day Late but ...

Well, I'm a day late with my challenge cards, but here they are:

Kaboodle Doodles

Heart Song Inspirations

I went to a Front Range Stampers meeting last night and as soon as the sun comes up I'll take some pictures of the fantastic swaps and make and takes.  Watch for that post tomorrow.  I'm headed to San Antonio, Texas tomorrow morning for the Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference.  I'm very excited to be going - this is my first one!  Several of the gals from FRS and also several from my downline group will be going too so it should be a great time.  I'm taking my camera so watch for some posts from Texas!


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.

Stamp Camp North - 01/14/2012

Saturday was the first Stamp Camp North of 2012.  I wanted to share my project with you and also a slideshow of all the other wonderful projects that our campers got to make.  Here's mine:

Here's a slideshow of all the other fantastic projects:

I'll have my projects for this week's Kaboodle Doodles and Heart Song Insprirations challenges for you tomorrow.  Wednesday I head to San Antonio for this year's Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference.  This is my first time attending and while I really wanted to make swaps, I just didn't feel up to it.  Today was really the first day that I felt totally human in over a month and half.  It was GREAT!  I plan on taking my camera though and hope to come home with lots of photos of wonderful projects made by my fellow attendees.

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.

New SU Goodies

I wanted to share a picture with you of my new "apprentice" - her name is Maude (she's Harold's sister).  She has always had to be in the room with me, especially if I'm in there alone.  She is not a small cat and she somehow manages to fit her girth on the arm of my chair (which is only about 2 inches wide).  She has to balance herself by leaning on me and while I appreciate the warmth on cold days, it does somewhat limit my movements.  When I got sick, she basically glued herself to me.  She had to be touching me at all times.  You need to understand, this is a cat who hisses and growls at everyone (including me sometimes) and she just mellowed right out when I was not feeling well.  I came into the room the other day and found her like this:

She's that gray ball of fur in the corner next to the keyboard.  

This is the first time she's ever taken over the desk too!  Harold is doing much better and is so much happier without that nasty collar.  He visits the craft cave too but doesn't really hang out there very much.

Stampin' Up! has a new Occasions Mini catalog and an upcoming Sale-A-Bration catalog out right now.  Next week I will be heading to San Antonio for this year's Leadership Conference and they are holding a contest.  So .... I decided to make some cards to enter into the contest!  I am not quite up to making swaps, but a couple of contest cards should be no problem, right?  Here are a couple of possibles, please let me know what you think of them okay?

Funny thing I found in my junkmail folder on New Year's day:

Don't really think it takes a psychic to be able to do this do you?

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.

I Have Returned!!!!

Seriously, I think that I am finally getting better since I'm starting to create a bit again.  So much to do, so little energy though!  Thanks for all the well wishes - I really appreciate your thoughtfulness.  Still don't have the energy level I need to have, but I'm working on it!

I missed quite a few challenges on both Kaboodle Doodles and Heartsong Inspirations, but did manage to get projects made for both this week!  Here they are:

Kaboodle Doodles

Heartsong Inspirations

I also (finally) had a chance to play with some of my new toys from SU - got them early in December and they have sat, forlornly, in my craft room waiting, and waiting, and waiting.  I'll have those to show you tomorrow.


While I was away being sick, my blogoversary came and went.  I am going to make up for missing it though with some extra special blog candy.  I've started putting it together and am deciding on whether or not I want to do something special to entice folks to enter - I'm really close to hitting 200 followers ...


Thanks for hanging in there with me.  I really am getting better and better.  I have a few more days on antibiotics and then I'll wait a few days and go get all my bodily fluids checked again, but I think it's gone (I hope).  Cross your fingers for me will you?


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.