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Halloween Treats with the Perfect Setting Die

Hi everyone:

This past weekend I had a! Mary Kay party at my home.  Love the products!  If you have never tried them, I highly recommend it.  I have a great consultant and she would be more than happy to help you.  Her name is Denise Ryan and you can find her at www.marykay.com/deniseeryan.

Anywho, I baked cupcakes for the occasion and used the Perfect settings die to make them pretty.  Take a look.

 

I ran the Cast-a-Spell DSP through the Big Shot  using this die and these cute cupcake holders came out.  These can be used for a few different things, including little tiaras :)  You also can make napkins rings with this set.   Just another neat way to spice up the holidays!

 

Lots of Bots Birthday

Hi everyone:

October is fast approaching and so isn't my little guy Nicholas's 4th birthday.  So hard to believe this little man is going to be 4 years old.

This year he wanted a robot birthday, which is perfect because SU came out with an adorable stamp set called Lots of Bots.  I used that set, along with the new Black & White Designer Series paper in the mini catalog.  I paired it with Bermuda Bay cardstock and it came out like this.

 

Pretty cute huh?  I used blender pens to color in the robot.  The full recipe is as follows:

Stamp set- Lots of Bots

Paper- Bermuda Bay cardstock, Black  & White DSP, Basic Black, Whisper White

Inks- Basic Grey, Dusty Durango, Bermuda Bay, Black Stazon

Tools- Scallop Edge Punch, Large Star Punch, Corner Rounder, Paper cutter with Scoring Blade, Crop-a-dile, 1 1/4 circle  punch, Blender pens

Accessories- Bermuda Bay Polka Dotted Grosgrain Ribbon, Silver Brads

Now to work on those favors :)

Have a great day.

 

Time for another My Digital Studio Project

Hi there:

Check out the latest layout I did withMy Digital Studio.  Hope you like it!

Don't mind the tired and puffy face.  I was exhausted in these pics, but Ilove how the pages came out.

Have a good one.

Scrappin Saturday

Hi everyone!

Welcome to another Scrappin Saturday.  Today's post is the 2nd layout we did in this month's scrapper's club.  The theme was -You are my sunshine. 

This layout was done with punches and the big shot for the letters.  No stamps involved!  I love how you can make the flowers with the scallop circle punch and smaller circle punches.  Even the leaves were made with circle punches.  Doesn't get much easier. 

Next Sunday is October's scrapper's club and I would love for you to join us.  We will be doing an apple picking layout and a Halloween one. 

Have a great Satruday!

3-D Friday- Milk carton treat boxes

Hi everyone:

Today's adorable 3-D project was inspired by Becky Roberts.  Becky is a fellow SU demonstrator and extremly talented.  This is one of the projects we will be making at my Not so Spooky Halloween Class. 

Now for a side view.

These cartons are great because there is a trap door at the bottom of each to put the candy in and out.  That way you don't have to rip the carton and you can re-use over and over again. 

Have a great Friday!

Halloween Swaps

This year I participated in two swaps-Halloween and Christmas.  Over the next month or so, I will be sharing with you those swaps, plus some additional ones I received at convention. Today's post is all about two adorable swaps I received last week as part of my Halloween Swap.  Of course I cannot for the life of me remember who actually created the cards and I do not have access to them right now. 

Very cute!  This stamp is from the Grateful Greetings set in the Holiday Mini.  The paper is the new Black and White designer Series paper that can also be found in the Holiday Mini.

This card is just stunning!  This was done with one of the new stampin' wheels- Haunting Hill.  Love the embossing  and the brayer technique on the card.  Beautiful!

There are some pretty talented people out there.  That is one the best parts of being a SU demonstrator.  I meet the nicest people and make wonderful friendships. 

Take care,

Oh what you can do with a paperclip

Hi everyone:

Have you seen those giant paperclips sold at the local office supply store or Wal-Mart?  They are cute and you can purchase 10 of them for .97 cents at Wal-mart.  Well a couple years ago I started making bookmarks out of them.  It was quite popular a couple years back and I find they are a big hit.  A friend of mine at work is undergoing cancer treatments at Dana Farber.  She thought it wouldbe nice to give a little something to her nurse and doctor.  She asked me to make up a couple. Well once I started, I couldn't stop.  Take a look.

Very easy to make.  Take your scallop circle punch and punch out two scallops.  Then I took DSP and punched out circles  using the  1  3/8 punch. I picked my stamp set, stamped the images and then used my 1 1/4 circle punch to punch out the image. In some instances I may have used my 1 inch punch.  I attached the scallops on to the paperclip with glue dots.  These make great favors at birthday parties or great idea for class treats at the holidays.  Anything to get away from the candy :)

Hope you are having a terrific day!

Very Thankful

Hi everyone!

Hope all is well with you.  The company I work for during the day supports the United Way each year.  Every fall, J&J does various events to help raise money for the United Way.  It is a fun couple of weeks.  This year we are having a silent auction- set up very similar to Ebay.  I have put together a little basket to be auctioned off.  Here are 4 cards I plan to put into the basket.

I also made a little case to put them in. I will show you that later in the week.  The cards were made with the Very Thankful stamp set.  As I mentioned, SU supports the Ronald McDonald House Charities.  Everytime someone purchases this particular set, a % of the proceeds goes to support the RMH.  I also used the lovely paper Cottage Wall and my favorite color Rich Razzleberry.  How about that Old Olive taffeta ribbon?  Isn't pretty?  This ribbon can be found in the Holiday Mini. 

I plan to include these cards and box, Christmas cards and a matching box and a coupon for a free class for up to 10 people.  Not bad. 

If you have a fundraiser or a charity event and are looking for donations, let me know.  I would be happy to help you out.

Have a great day!

Scrapbook University Reminder

Hi everyone!

I wanted to remind you of my new series of classes- Scrapbook University.  This class is designed to help you to get scrappin! 

This class will meet 5 times from now until the end of November. We will review different topics related to scrapbooking for the 1st 30mins, there will be small homework assignments and the rest of the class is dedicated to scrappin' your own projects. I am available to help get your pages done
Cost of the 5 sessions is $50.00 or $10.00 a session.  You need not sign up for all 5 sessions.  The class dates are as follows:

 

Sept. 26th 7:00pm

October 10th 7:00pm

October 24th 7:00pm

November 15th 11:30am

November 29th at 7:00pm

 

RSVP by Sept. 24th

 

Hope to see you there. 

 

Speaking of scrapbook pages, here is one of the layouts we did at my last scrapper's club.

Isn't it cute?  The pages were done to resemble a bakery windown.  What do you think?

 

Have a great Monday!

Halloween Sweet Treats

Hi everyone!

Thanks to all of you who came out to see me at Norwood Day.  I had a great day and met some many nice people.  It was a great day.  As much as I enjoyed it, I am happy to have it behind me.  It is a lot of work to prepare for an event like that.  Now I have a couple weeks to just do my every day things in my business, my classes, workshops, etc  before Fall Fest arrives.  I will enjoy it :) 

Today's project are some Halloween Treats I made to show off at Norwood Day.  These will also be the favors at a Halloween party I am attending at the end of October. 

Recipe

Stamp set- Sweet Treats

Paper- Basic Black, Whisper White

Inks- Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black

Tools- Big Shot, Fancy Box Die, 1 3/4 circle punch, slit punch

Accessories- Sweet Treat cups, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie Striped Grosgrain ribbon.

So easy to make and are great gifts for this Halloween :)