Open House Samples

We had a lot of fun last night at the open house. As usual the room was filled with tonnes of laughter and the girls all had some hilarious stories to share! My goal of the open house was to play. So I gave the girls the level 3 hostess set Playful Pieces and a bunch of stamp pads, some card stock to make 3x3 gift cards and let them go crazy.Here are 3 of the samples I made to start the creative juices flowing.

I am so totally in love with the 2 step Owl punch and as soon as my daughter and I started to play with it I knew I wanted to turn these little guys into cupcake toppers. I also set out the punch and some scraps for the girls to play with to create their own little hootie cuties.

The door prize is hidden in here. I used a lot of the Greenhouse Gala papers and coordinating colors for the samples I created. I am now in love with Daffodil Delight and Pear Pizazz (maybe even overtaking Certainly Celery as my favorite green).

I recycled some old glass bottles into vases and dressed them up with some beautiful paper, ribbon and tags. We still have no artwork up on our walls so adding some great color and pattern to our mantle dressed up the room for us.

More pictures to come!

Christmas comes early

On Friday night I went to my upline Kari's for dinner with some other girls. We were talking about making Christmas cards and I thought "Whoa, we are in the middle of a heat wave and it's Aug." Well, all that talk had me inspired and I made this card. I tried the spritzer and maybe it was the end of the bottle, I'm not sure but I found it a little clumpy. That was OK for this card since I think it turned out looking like little snowflakes on the sentiment.

I used Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive and Very Vanilla paper, Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive ink. The stamp set is Holiday Happiness. I also used rhinestone jewels, very vanilla ribbon and the Big Shot with Top Note.

The rest of the projects I've made lately will be shown at the open house, I have to admit that there is more decor than cards.....must be the influence of the new house!

Open House

Well we are in the new house and it is awesome! I was excited to unpack my stamping supplies last night and I hope that today I can get back making some projects. I have some great ideas using some of the new stuff in the 2010/2011 catalogue and I'm going to show them off at my open house.

August 22, 2010
7-9 pm
Free and Fun
I will have snacks and beverages, make and takes and DOOR PRIZES!

RSVP at debdunham@ymail.com for address and directions

Packed UP!

I will be taking a crafting break for a few weeks as my family and I pack up and get ready to move into our new house. I hope to be settled and unpack my supplies in a few weeks - maybe some cards and crafts inspired by our new house and some decor elements to show you.

We're back

We had such a great trip to visit my family back in Alberta. Before we left I wanted to make a little something for our sweet dog sitter Claire who would be staying at our house and looking after our 9 year old dog. Claire is constantly taking notes about dogs she looks after and I thought I cute notebook would make a nice gift. She likes an Asian influence so I thought the Sweet Pea DSP in Taken with Teal would be nice for her. Since I snapped this photo in the middle of packing, I did't show that I also covered the inside covers with the same paper as the bands on the front. At the last minute I also decided to add a knot of So Saffron ribbon on the top ring, also didn't make it into the photo (I had to prioritize the packing of all our stuff into one suitcase over pictures for the blog - yes that's right, 10 days worth of stuff for a 3 year old, a 1.5 year old and myself into one suitecase - luckily my son would happily wear the same dirty clothes, or nothing but a diaper for 10 days, my daughter on the otherhand, wanted to pack every princess dress she owns).

Easy Gift

Next week I am headed to visit my sister for 10 days - Yippeeeee! Since I will be invading her home with 2 little ones (or 2 little hurricanes) I thought I'd whip up these cute little note cards for her. They seriously took only 15 minutes to make 8 of them. If my sister is checking this out, it's the thought not the time right!? Again I am using some old retired DSP in addition to Tempting Turquoise and Pixie Pink card stock and since I don't have a set of alphabet stamps, I printed the "a" onto card stock from My Digital Studio using the school house stamp set.
Back in a couple of weeks!

Teen Boy Birthday - Yikes!

So if making a masculine card is tough, how about a card for a teen boy? That is what I was faced with knowing that my nephew has a birthday coming up. Thankfully, my nephew has always expressed an appreciation of my handmade cards. He is now taller than me, speaks in a deeper voice, has girls calling (oh my) and the puppy dog cards I sent in years past no longer seemed appropriate. Extreme snowboarding was just calling and I thought that the old (retired so long ago that I can even remember the name of it) DSP looked like a snowboarding jacket and allowed the stamp to be the highlight of the card.