Ronald McDonald House . . .

It's that time of the year again. . . . Time where we make crafty things and donate them to our local Ronald McDonald house for the families that are staying there during the holiday season.

This year I was inspired by the book, Twilight. I'm a major Twilight freak right now, so I thought these little vampire boxes were appropriate :D

I left the gummy lips in their plastic so that they can be ripped off and eaten (and they sure are yummy)! The back of the vampire is an origami box (directions from SCS) and it is perfect size for a YUMMY popcorn ball! Eyes and nose, various SU punches. I can not take credit for the idea. I cased it from the Sept. 24, 2009 post found here .

Have a great night! xoxoxo

Christmas Stamp a Stack #1

My Blog . . . I have been debating whether to break up with my blog or not. I spend SOOOO much time reading and enjoying other people's blogs that I get lazy when it comes to my own. I finally decided (with some nudging from my twitter friends) to give blogging one more try . . . so here we go . . .
This last Saturday I hosted a Christmas Stamp a Stack class. This is the first of two classes. Here are just some of the cards we worked on that day. We had a blast!!!

My Girls!

Dasher /Real Red/Kraft CS

Delightful Decoration / holiday mini

Tree Trimmings / Petals a Plenty Die Folder

Season of Joy

All stamps and paper are Stampin Up!

PLEASE NOTE: my camera, picture taking skills has not changed, they still suck! :D heehee! I'm working on improving that too! Please visit me again tommorow for some more card fun!

Happy Birthday Lydia!!!

To My Dear Understandblue

Appyhay Irthdaybay Otay Ouyay!

I'm so happy to have met you at convention 2 years ago, and ever since then even happier that we've stayed in touch. Through your blog this year I learned that you would be Tweeting Live from Stampin Up convention, SO, I logged on to Twitter and was introduced to a GREAT bunch of people that I can call friends. We decided to throw you a virtual birthday!!!! :) I hope you likie! I mailed out your package and then realized I forgot to include your birthday card. OOOPS! So here it is . . .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM CALI !!!!!!!!
HAVE A GREAT ONE!!!!!

Please continue this virtual Birthday Party by going to Mariam's Blog . To view this virtual Birthday Party from the very beginning, please go to Anglique's Blog .

I'm a Cool Cat!

I was in the craft lab and thought I would pull out an oldie but goodie. I love this retired stamp set. I was given a mojo monday sketch by my upline and told to make a card. So here it is!

This card was made with pure scraps so please don't ask what colors I used. :)
Happy stamping, Happy Weekend, and have a good day!

Welcome to the First Annual Bacon Blog

Good Morning and welcome to the First Annual Bacon Blog. How did this Bacon Blog come about you ask? Well, it all started on Twitter. A group of friends with the love of bacon (and other things) started talking and talking and waala! The First Annual Bacon Blog was born.

Have you ever tried Chocolate Covered Bacon? Just recently the County Fair was in town and they were serving . . .

Unfortunately, taking this picture was the closest I could come to eating chocolate covered bacon! YUCK!

In honor of bacon, here is my card for today . . .

Please hop on over to Dreena Guptil's blog for your next stop, and if you want to go to the top of the hop, start with Leslie at Crooked Stamper!

Happy Bacon Trails!

Hello Kitty Cute Box . . .

Hello Everybody!!! Today's project is a box that I learned how to make by reading Joy's blog. Her blog is AWESOME and has great ideas and tutorials :)

The Hello Kitty's on the belly band were made by Sizzix, and the punches used were by Marvy Uchida.

Today I took a class given by Lydia from Understand Blue, you can see her blog on my sidebar. This webinar was great and she taught me how to give my blog a face lift! I will be working on that this weekend :)

Hello Kitty Bookmarks . . .

One of the AWESOME benefits about being a demonstrator for Stampin Up, is that once a month we are sent a mini magazine called, Stampin Success. In there are great tips and inspirational stories to get us motivated. In July's issue they showed how to make these great and easy bookmarkers!!! I LOVE TO READ and I have a lot of friends that love to read also, so these are lil gifts for co-workers :)
The Hello Kitty is by Sizzix. To make this cute and easy bookmark cut a cardstock 5x5". Fold your square in half horizontally and once vertically so that you have 4 squares. Cut away one corner square. Fold the two remaining "arms" down and glue! Decorate as you wish!!! Just remember these are corner bookmarkers so when you go to decorate, decorate on the right side :) If anyone is interested in joining my Stampin Up team, please contact me, there is a special on the starter kit coming up July 15th!!!
Have a great night!

My 10 minute card . . .

Hope everybody had a great 4th of July holiday!

Today I needed a card for a dear friend and I only had 10 minutes to get it ready. So here it is. A little on the plain side, but I likie!!! The stamp set is called Love Your Face by Daisy Bucket Designs.

When it was time to color my lil monster, I was inspired by a few blogs to color it whatever color I WANTED. So instead of traditional grey for a monster, I picked pink, because I love pink and I love the way it came out!!!! :0) Enjoy the rest of your nite!!!

New Stampin Up Catalog . . .

Hello friends,
There is a new Stampin Up catalog in the house!!!! If you WANT, NEED, MUST HAVE one right away contact me and I can make that happen. If your thinking you need some extra money for your pocket and interested in becoming a demonstrator and want to be part of my team. It can happen for only $85! Contact me and I can make it happen!!!
I'll be back into full swing blogging with pictures after the 4th!!! Be safe and have fun this weekend!!!

Just Jawing Pizza Box

This is a pizza box, directions I got from Splitcoaststampers and they were easy to follow.

I made a bunch of these in Close to Coco DS paper (Not with the skull) for Father's Day for the Ronald McDonald House BUT, I forgot to take a picture before I dropped them off!!! :-(
Inside was big enough to hold a deck of cards and 2 chocolate nuggets (also decorated with DS paper).
This box is made with Just Jawing stamp set and chunky glitter (my favorite)! Thanks 4 looking!