On my way Home!!

I have to say that I've had 2 of the best trips ever! I started off in Conneaut Lake with my Dad, Sis, nephews Weston and Ian, Ian's friend Bobby, Sis's husband Ramine, and there 2 dogs!! Yes it was a full house but it was filled with so much fun and so much love!! We did lots of boating, sun bathing and walking!! We had awesome weather and I even had the joy to see my Dad teaching my nephew the 'proper' way to boat. He was so much more calm with him then he was with me 15 years ago. I guess patients comes with age! LOL

After the lake I enjoyed the company of the rest of my family. I had lunch with my beautiful mother and grandmother, visited with my other gram and pap, had my best friends babies 1st birthday party and I'm sure there was

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After all the fun in PA I left for Salt Lake City to attend the best Convention ever!! This was my first Stampin' Up! convention and it surely won't be my last!!

I meet some really awesome girls while I was there and received some really great swaps too!! I'll be sharing some great ones with you soon!!

Here's a pic of me at the Awards Night after party! What an inspiration it was to see all the ladies receiving their awards that night!!

I soooo want to earn the incentive trip to Fiji!!

Getting Ready to Go!!

I'm getting ready to head on up to PA for a fun filled 4th of July with the Fam!! I'm really looking forward to getting away from this humidity, ugh!! Then I'm off the Salt Lake City Utah for the Stampin' Up! convention. Here's a few pics of some of my swaps I did!! I am in a few organized swaps and then I made a few other designs for my general swaps!! I'm not done gluing those ones yet but here are my Christmas cards I made!!

I wish you could see this top on in person! I mixed some frost white shimmer paint with some rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle and spritzed them!! It looks so cool!
This one was a little harder to reproduce 20 times! I used my snowflake punch on the Bashful Blue piece, stuck it on a piece of sticky sheet and then stuck that to the white paper then on the blue again. I took my dazzling diamonds glitter and rubbed it into the snowflakes to get that nice sparkle!

Happy July!!

Notebook Case

I am having my monthly club meeting tomorrow and we are making the Notebook Case using the Stampin' Up! clear stamp cases. I had OfficeDepotcut the 5x8 notebooks down to 5x7 for less then $2 to cut!!

We are making 2 cards and this project! I made the design simple letting the Sunny Days DSP do all the work this time!

Bouncing Brayer Technique

Here's a cool technique you should try!

Happy Graduation!!

Hello! Graduates are getting closer to there, well, graduations and I have a young lady who works for me who is graduating next week! Her school colors are black and silver so those are the colors I used!! I used the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge on my cricut and my gypsy and I used the numbers from the Designer Calendar cartridge. I added some bling and used a stamp from Teeny Tiny wishes made from Stampin' Up! I punched it out with some of there punches too!! Enjoy!

Strength and Hope

Here is a card I made using the new Strength and Hope stamp set from Stampin Up! Every set or digital download they sell, $2 goes to Breast Cancer research! It is such a beautiful set!!

Here is the card closed! I used sticky strip on the edge to bunch up my Pretty in Pink satin ribbon.

When you open the card it folds to the side to form an easel card. It stays up by resting on a rhinestone. I really like how this turned out!!

Beveled Windows and Nature Walk Set

I've had these windows for some time now and just couldn't figure our what I wanted to use them for. So I decided to have a crop night the Saturday before Easter and I gave everyone an Easter card with a treat when they got to the crop! This is one of the cards I made for them!!