Hello Doily!!!

Just a quick share today as I have tons to do for my Ice Cream Sundae Open House tomorrow.

This is a card that was sent to me from Stampin’ Up featuring one of the new Stamps in the New Catalog called “Hello Doily”!! These were sent to us for achieving cruise….can you imagine…..they were thanking us!!

Anyway I thought I would share this fabulous card and I will for sure be doing this at my workshops In July!!

Isn’t it gorgeous??? Would you like to do a workshop in your home or mine? I’ll also offer this one for “”Workshops in a Box”. Just ask me how.

Just hit the contact me tab at the top right of my blog. I’d love to add you to my “Workshop in a Box Group”.

Thanks for stopping by ….have a wonderful Day!

Stampin’ Out Hunger the Stampin’ Up! Way!

Hi Everyone,

I’d like to share a little of what we did yesterday at our Stampin’ Out  Hunger Event to help our Second Harvest Food Bank here in Jacksonville, Florida.

Some of my team members and myself gathered together and hosted an event to help feed some hungry kids this summer. You know June is the hungriest time of the year for most food banks, as kids are home from school and not getting their lunches…therefore the food banks have to fill that need as well. So of course we had to help!!!

Here is the Yummy cake we had made up for the event. It was super yummy!!

Here is RoseAnn obviously instructing…they looked very studious didn’t they?

Susan (Demo) with the Gray hair at the top corner cracking up as usual!!!!

 I’m the one with the blond hair…answering a question I guess.

  Happy Stampers!!! ….more happy stampers and (Demo) in the center standing. awwwwwwwwww!! I think we’re having fun!!! Mikki (Demo) standing. They’re all smiling. I know they loved her card!! Christina (Demo) standing. She’s got them hard at work!! tee hee!! Angie at the end of the table helping a new customer…thanks Angie!! This is Suzi…she won our VIP Package for the day. Tons of goodies and Pink Feather Boa and Tiara to wear for the day and a Seat cushion and so much more!! How fun!!

I’d say these gorgeous ladies are having fun!!

My Hubby (Darrell) is such a good sport (and a cutie too). His Apron provided by Christina said: “Danger Man Cooking”!! I didn’t think he’d wear it but he did.  Look at all those yummy Nathans’ Hot Dogs he made in the 100 degree weather for all the ladies.  They loved them!! (This was only one of many batches by the way). He’s my major hero!!!

Jeff’s Birthday Cake  Jeff and Angela Caulder are the Managers of the Bluewater Storage Center here in Jacksonville, Florida and they provide us with a place to do our stamping events. It is a State of the Art Storage facility that is the best I’ve seen anywhere, clean, modern, climate controlled and Jeff and his wife Angie are the nicest people you’d ever want to meet. If you need storage you need to see them!! They can meet any storage need!!!

Lunch time and some happy ladies.

Billie, Karen, Karen, Lisa and Doreen….special stamping friends!!!  Some of my Special friends…Kelly, cute little Natalie, Barb, Nikki and Lynn.

Karen and Lisa….they’ve become friends through these events. Love that!!  Winner of the Grand Raffle Prize of $150 worth of Stampin’ Up! Goodies. I think she was stunned!!!

  Janet presented her with the prize as it was her customer.

I guess that’s it for today. I’ve got tons to do and put away from the event yesterday.

Just one last message…..we earned enough $$$ to provide 3000 meals to the hungry people in Northeast Florida and we collected two barrel’s of food in addition to that!

I’m so proud of that and my team members that participated. We are making a difference and we’re having fun doing it!!

 

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by!

Stamping 411 Sketch #209

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to another Sketch Challenge from Stamping 411!

This was really a very fun sketch to do. I love the different panels and possibilities here.

Here is the sketch….

…and my interpretation.

The colors for this card are So Saffron for the card base which is 4 1/4 x 11. The Mat is Basic Black and is 4 x 5 1/4. Then the mats are Just Add Cake DSP (from the new catalog) 2 1/4 x 3 1/2, the Calypso Coral (my new fav) is 1 5/8 x 3 1/2 and embossed with the Square Lattice Folder….the bottom horizontal so saffron piece is 1 5/8 x 3 7/8 and embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder!!! I love my Big Shot…..dont’ know what I would do without it.

The Image Circle is punches with the 2 1/2 Circle punch and the Black Circle Mat was cut on my Circle Scissors to 2 3/4. The Butterfly is from the Nature Walk set.

I colored the Butterfly in with my So Saffron and Calypso Coral Markers and added some Dazzling Diamonds. The Sentiment is from Happy Greetings in the Summer Mini.

It still needed a bit more so I added some dots to the circle with my black marker. That’s it. I hope you like it and hope that you will play along with us on the Stamping 411 Blog.

Have a Great weekend!!!

Lace Ribbon Border Card~Check it out!!

Hi Everyone,

Can you say easy??? Holy Moly I am loving this new punch from Stampin’ Up! It will be in the new Idea Book and Catalog coming out July 1st!! Can I just say it’s a must have!!!Look what I just did with it in about 5 minutes…..

 

I wanted to use this Beautiful Lace Ribbon Border on my card….I didn’t realize it would be my card. It’s simple, it’s fast and I think it’s beautiful. Wonderful for any occasion and easy-peasy to do. I just added some pearls and made a Double Bow using my Magic Bow Maker available on the right side of my blog. It makes bow making so easy you won’t believe it.

If you haven’t already make sure to put this one at the top of your wish list. You won’t be sorry you did!

Thanks for stopping in and have a great day!!

Sail Away~Happy Father’s Day!!

Happy Father’s Day to all you special Father’s out there today. Yes there are some that follow my blog. Even some stamper’s!! Isn’t that wonderful?

I made this card for my Husband early this morning …don't know if you can tell but it has the world stamped behind the vellum image. If I could give him something special it would be a trip around the world…but of course I can’t so this card will have to suffice for now! hehe

I stamped the image on cardstock Vellum and flipped it over after drying. Then I took my stylus and rubbed it across the sales which give it a weathered white look. Very pretty in person. I mounted that on Baja after stamping my world in Basic Gray. I stamped the background stamp from Best Dad Ever on the card base of Basic Gray to give a feel of texture. I then punched some holes in the side of the baja and vellum to hold together and threaded some white baker’s twine through. I really wanted to tie some nautical knots on there but he caught me in the process of making this and they just didn’t happen.

Wishing my Hubby and Son Chad a very Happy Father’s Day and the same to all the other wonderful Dad’s out there.

Have a fabulous Day and see you next time.

Stamping 411 Sketch #208 Love and Care

HI Everyone,

Time for yet another challenge from The Stamping 411 Team. This one was fun…I hope you will try you hand at it.

I actually took the liberty as we are allowed to make it our own.

I made my Square….more expensive to mail but oh so pretty and makes a statement.

I used the Because I care set from Stampin’ Up! it’s a Level 2 Hostess set in the Mini Catalog. It’s so user friendly and easy to use.

The card base is Very Vanilla and is cut to 5 1/4 x 10 1/2 folded in half. the next layer is Basic Black is Embossed on the Big Shot using the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder (one of my favorites). the next layer is Cherry Cobbler and measures 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 the next layer is very vanilla and topped with another layer of Very Vanilla that is stamped with Crumb Cake to make it look a bit Vintage and then the flower is done using a Cherry Cobble Marker and a Old Olive Marker. The sentiment is stamped with Black Stazon just to tie in all the colors.

I hope you enjoy my interpretation and I also hope that you will play along and feel free to share your interpretation.

Thanks for stopping by!!! See you soon!

Fabulous Florets and My Spray Painting Technique

Hi Everyone,

I’ve got a great little technique I came up with last week that I want to share with you.

Here is another card using this technique…..I did one a few days ago remember?

Isn’t it pretty? I hope you like it.

Here is how I did it….and these are some of the supplies you will need. Alcohol, Re-inkers (I’ve used Calypso Coral and So Saffron). Black Embossing
Powder, Powder Pal, Embossing Buddy, Versamark, Black Embossing Powder, Heat Tool,Champagne Shimmer Paint and Mister Bottles. You might want to add lots of Paper Towels as this gets messy.

Here are your supplies

Rub over Whisper White Cardstock with your Embossing Buddy to prevent specks of Embossing Powder from Sticking to where you don’t want it.

Stamp Images with Versamark

Pour Embossing Powder over your Powder Pal and gently shake excess off.

You know what…do a lot at one time and have extras on hand to create fast and beautiful cards later.

Heat set with your Stampin’ Up! Heat Tool

Now comes the fun!!! Take your Alcohol and your Re-inkers and Shimmer Paint and Misters and get ready to get messy and have fun!

Fill your bottle about 3/4 full with alcohol.

Then add Re-inker Drops. I think I did about 12 and it wasn’t dark enough so I did a few more. You can adjust to your liking.

Next add a little Shimmer Paint simply by taking the wand from the Mister and dipping into the shimmer paint about three times or to your liking. Put top back on Mister and gently shake…..

I sprayed onto my grid paper and then thought….Duh!! Where are my paper towels. I did see the beginning of something beautiful though! hehe!

Take your sheet of embossed flowers and start lightly spraying to where you’d like the different colors. I started with the saffron Spray Paint.

Then the Calypso Coral….you can go back and make it more intense or do a little of each on every flower.

Then I took it one step further and wanted to create some background paper with this technique. So I lightly sprayed some of both colors on a piece of Whisper White Cardstock and let dry. Oh yes even though it’s alcohol… you do wet the paper and have to let it dry for a few.

While that was drying I started to cut some flowers out.

….these are what is left for another card later!!

I decided to do a little crimping to enhance the beauty of the paper and flowers. I’ll cover that next time.

…and here is the assembled card using So Saffron for the base and I love using a Mat of Black to make the whole thing POP!!

The Black Satin Double Bow was made using my Magic Bow Maker to get just the right look!

If you would like to order any supplies to make this card just contact me or visit my online store.

I hope you enjoyed this Tutorial!! Back to the Drawing Board for more fun things to share!! See you next time!!

One of These Could Be Yours and Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch Card

Hi Everyone,

Look what I’ll be sending out in just a few days. On June 20th I’m allowed to GIVE away our BRAND SPANKIN’ NEW CATALOG!!! These will be going to my long distance customers. Don’t have a Demonstrator and want to be my customer and get one of these in your mailbox? Just email me at leeconrey@bellsouth.net with your name and address and I’ll get one to you. I can’t wait for you all to see it!

Just a quick share of a card I made up for club using the new In-Colors from Stampin’ Up! I can’t wait until my ladies see these colors. They’re going to love them.

I’ve used the new Blossom Bouquet Bouquet Punch on this one. I love it!!! The new In-Color Brads are to die for too. I actually got these on the Alaskan Cruise…but I’ll share with my Girls!! See the snippet of Ribbon? That was actually tied around one of our Gifts…..I just Couldn’t let it go to waste and I can’t order it yet so I use it and made little knots to add to the cards. They will be so excited of this little sampling of what’s to come. So will you!! Thanks for stopping in and Hope you will come back soon.

**Don’t forget you can purchase the Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch now on my website it’s # 122464 and it’s $23.95.