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Jan 27, 2012

You're My Type

Good Morning Dolls,

Today's share was a card that was given to me by my beautiful friend Rachel Bronson Yurkanin. Twice now, once at Convention in July, and TWICE at Leadership last week, I made Rachel give me pity swaps! The one shown here is using the You're My Thype stamp set which is new in the 2012 Occasions Mini catalogue. Thank you so much for always taking pity on me Rachel, I miss you so much already!

On the home front, Ava has started taking Big Girl Baths and I couldn't resist sharing a couple of photos with you!

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Jan 26, 2012

Happy Hippo Valentine Punch Art

Morning Dolls!

Today's share is another totally adorable Punch Art card. This one is over the top! On a scale from 1 to Unfreakingbelievably adorable I woudl say it is an 11! This was another card that was posted on the Spanish Leadership board. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did.

I also have some fabulous news to share with you all; I have earned the Stampin'Up! 2013 trip to Fiji! That's right, I'm going to the South Pacific ladies! As soon as I realized that I had earned the trip, I posted it as my facebook status. Of course all of my wonderfully supportive followers and friends congratulated me and sent me warm thoughts; but my FAVORITE comment of all was from my Uncle Buddy. My Uncle is in his late seventies and I would say he's pretty old school. So, his comment to my status was ".....WHAT!??? You earned a trip to Fiji by making cards and books....you've got to be kidding!" It was priceless! Of course my answer was, I KNOW RIGHT......I get to do what I love, share it with others and then I get rewarded with a trip of a lifetime! I love Stampin'Up!

SOOOOO....why am I sharing this with you?! I want you all to know how very possible it is for all of you to do the very same thing that I am! If you are interested in being a demonstrator and reaping some of the same rewards that I do, Sale-a-Bration started yesterday and there is a great promotion going on, if you sign up before March 31st!

Stampin' Up will give all new recruits who sign up during Sale-abration and free package of DSP or a free digital download for each month of 2012 that they remain active! I've got a fabulous additional gift for anyone who would like to join my Prairie Paper Doll team during Sale-abration!

Contact me to book a date for your workshop and starting earning free product!

Do you just want to order some fabulous new products and earn free stuff for yourself??? Now is the time! Spend $60 before s/h and taxes and earn anything out of the Sale-a-Bration brochure that you'd like!

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Jan 25, 2012

Angry Bird Punch Art

Good Morning Dolls!

Today is a quick post. I'm still trying to catch up with what went on while I was away in San Antonio, in addition to feeling sick and a little run down I am planning and prepping all my February classes in advance, so I can cut out of town on February 3rd to Mesa, Arizona for the month.

Today's share blew me away when I saw it! This Angry Bird swap was shared with me by my super talented friend Debbie Nayor! Thank you so much for sharing Debbie!

That's it.....really....I'm low on words today.....APALLING, I know!

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Jan 24, 2012

Celebrating Us!

Morning Dolls!

Saturday was "Celebrate Us" day! My buddies Patty Chenail, Rachel Bronson-Yurkanin, Dawn Rapsas, Debbie Naylor and Krisin Dutko-Grove figured out that between us all we left behind 6 husbands and 17 children......I would say that is a cause to "Celebrate us!"

So, on Saturday morning we started out the day like any smart woman would - we went shopping! We had our cab driver take us to a Flea Market just outside San Antonio called Traders Village!

We bought ourselves Princess Tiara's to "Celebrate Us"! For the rest of the day, we got asked if we were celebrating a Bachelorette Party. I had to laugh...every time Patty would respond that we were all already married and NONE of us were stupid enough to do it a second time! lol

After shopping, we headed back to the hotel to change and get ready to see the Alamo and go on a River Boat Ride!

We had a late dinner at the #2 Steak House in all of the U.S.A; Bohanan's. We were advised to go to the steak house by our cab driver, but he failed to mention how swanky it was! We all felt severly under dressed and almost a bit embarassed! Now, I'm sure that our reservations were decided long before the Host ever saw what we were wearing, but they had reserved for us our very own private room that had a door and everything......were they just trying to keep us segregated?! LOL Whatever, it didn't matter because we felt so much more relaxed and were able to just be ourselves.....which can be scary at times! lol Our waiter Antonio was a perfect fit and even shut the door a few times to tell us some "jokes" !!! The food melted in our mouths and we thouroughly enjoyed rolling out the door when the meal was over! Half of us could barely keep our eyes open in the cab on the way back to the hotel. What a great way to end a lovely day and an exciting Leadership experience in the lovely San Antonio, Texas!

We all left at different times on Sunday and some of us got home earlier than others.....I finally made it home by 12:30 am! Here is all the free stuff that SU! gave me that I had to make fit in my luggage!

The project I have to share with you today was one of my favorite punch art cards from the Spanish display boards at Leadership! Enjoy!

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Jan 23, 2012

Mr. Nielson's Neighborhood

Good Morning Dolls!

Do I have a TREAT to share with you today! So, in case you didn't see yesterday's post, I am back tracking to the last few days to share with you what we did during our Leadership Convention here in San Antonio, Texas.

On day two of Leadership (Friday) we got together in the morning for our General Session. Scott Nielson, our CFO at Stampin'Up! is always given the task of reporting how the company is doing financially. Scott can be very entertaining and always finds a clever way to make this not so exciting topic interesting and entertaining. This time he chose to role play as Mr. Rogers and it was PRICELESS! I am not sure how he will ever top this!

Scott created a wonderful My Digital Studio album to show all of the 2011 graphs and numbers. What a great idea!

Probably my favorite moment of the whole presentation was when Mr. Nielson's doorbell rang and it was Mr. McWillis (Mr. McFeely on the Mr. Rogers show) with a package for Mr. Nielson -- and out came Spencer dressed up as the delivery man.

After the main stage presentation, we headed to our classes for the afternoon and then back once again to the main stage for some stamping with Shelli and a goodbye and closing comments from the Corporate Team.

My gang of friends decided to take an extra day and do some sight seeing here in San Antonio, so we will have this evening (Friday) for a fun dinner and then all day Saturday to check out the city! I will be back tomorrow to show you pictures of all the fun we had!

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Jan 22, 2012

Simply Scored Diagonal Plate

Hey Dolls, how ya'll doing?! That's my Texas drawl speaking! lol

It is unreal how you can be in a city as large and as great as San Antonio and have such HORRIBLE internet connections and phone service. We have all been feeling so frustrated that we have such bad service. Which is very interesting because one of the main subjects here during convention has been social media and Generation Y, how we communicate and interact with one another and how this affects Stampin'Up! and our stamping businesses.

Due to the poor service, I haven't been on top of blogging these last couple of days but I would still like to catch you up on what we did here in San Antonio!

Leadership started on Thursday with an opening welcome from Shelly and then some fun news and stamping with Donna Griffiths! Donna unveiled the brand-new Simply Scored Diagonal Plate, developed exclusively for Stampin' Up! This exciting addition to our Simply Scored line of products is perfect for scoring envelopes, boxes, and more.

This stack of boxes that Donna made for us were actually put together strictly using our new diagonal simnply scored tool and did not require any adhesive what so ever. How exciting is that!

After Donna was done her demonstration, Shelli and Sara came back on stage and did a small bit on bridging the gap between the baby boomer generation, generation X and genereation Y. It was super interesting! Sara shared some of her "Mommy and Me" Valentine's that she will be doing at home with her friends and neighbors.

After General Session we headed to the Gathering Place for a yummy lunch!

In the afternoon we each attended our chosen classes and then Patty and I attended a Shoe Box swap in the evening! I will have all the cards from that swap to show you over the coming weeks! So make sure you check back often!

See you tomorrow for another update!

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Jan 18, 2012

Greetings from San Antonio, Texas

Howdy Ya'll! Greetings from the beautiful and sunny San Antonio, Texas! I am here now for 5 days for Stampin'Up!'s 2012 Leadership conference and I'm having a blast!

I arrived yesterday afternoon and I enjoyed a wonderfully lazy day catching up with friends from across the U.S! Specifically I met up with my roomies Patty, Dawn, Rachel, Kristin and Debbie! We enjoyed our first stroll on the River Walk and a late afternoon lunch, some shopping, a massage and some yummy cookies!

Then, today was check in day when we received our free Leadership bag and goodies! It is so Stinkin' Cute! It is made with some sneak peek Stampin'Up! fabric and is actually completely reversible!

As if that wasn't exciting enough, when we headed over to our make and take table, we had yet another gorgeous hand sewn gift from Shelli Gardner herself!

The cute box had yummy chocolate snacks inside!

After make and takes we headed to Tony Roma's for lunch and then back to the hotel for a couple of glasses of wine and the hotel's "Manager's Reception"; not to be confused with Stampin'Up!'s Manager's Convention which started at 6 pm. We went back over to the convention center for light hors d'oeuvres and entertainment by some Chinese Acrobats! It was amazing!

Tomorrow we have a big shoe box swap, so I hope to be able to report back with a tonne of awesome ideas! Until then,

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Jan 12, 2012

January Prairie Paper Doll meeting

Good Morning Dolls!

I had such a great time at our quarterly Prairie Paper Doll meeting this past weekend! Thank you to all of you who took the time to make it out!

We enjoyed Yummy Timmies, Warm Keurigs and great conversation!

At this meeting we focused on rewarding 4 very hard working team members: Lisa Ferguson, Jennifer Fillion, Gerri Gregory and Shari Howells! Congratulations on your hard work and promotions to Consultant and Senior Consultant! I and the whole team are SUPER proud of you! =) Each new consultant received a beautiful Simply Adorned Bracelet with crystal baubles to match their recruits and promotions! Congratualtions again guys!

We had a great time getting up to date on all the product from the new 2012 Occasions Mini Catalogue and the upcoming Sale-a-Bration brochure! And the girls got to play with a bunch of the new products and make a few projects! Here are the cards the girls made!

And what would a team meeting be without a DOZEN stamp set give aways, plenty more samples for inspiration, and our own team mascot?!

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Jan 09, 2012

Baby Onesie Card

Good Morning Dolls!

I got a call from a customer a couple of weeks ago asking me if I would create a baby shower card for her sister in law's upcoming event. She just picked up the cards a couple of days ago and she was thrilled with them! I was pretty pleased with the cards myself to be honest.....not so much because of the card, but rather that I figured out a way to print all of the information on the cardstock using My Digital Studio, before I cut the cards, so that we didn't have to stamp or hand write on the inside! Check it out:

To make this Baby Onesie card all I did was choose to do an 81/2 x 11 "Scrapbook Page" output in My Digital Studio and then I added two text boxes, one on the bottom left and right of the page. The hardest part was getting the text boxes lined up just so.....so I tested that on regular printer paper. Once I had the text right where I wanted it, and I could cut the cardstock directly down the middle of the page at 4 1/4" I sliced all the card stock in half and then got to work on the cutting and decorating.

The first step was to put the card stock through the Polka Dot embossing folder on the Big Shot. Once textured I used a ruler and pencil to measure my cuts! Once the card was cut, I used the 1 3/8" circle punch for the neck and leg holes. The trim on the neck and leg holes is also the 1 3/8" circle punch and then the 1 3/4" scallop circle punch!

I hope you enjoyed today's project!

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Jan 08, 2012

Framelits Labels Collection

Good Morning Dolls!

Today's card is yet another one made using our new Labels Framelits and our new Sale-a-Bration Designer Series Paper! Can you tell that these are some of my new favorites?!

The background cardstock on this project is Soft Suede. I then ran the Designer Series Paper through our Framed Tulipe's Textured Embossing Folder and then sponged over the texture with soft suede ink -- this makes the image pop a little more!

The stamped image if from one of our new Mini sets called Apothacary Art. I then colored it in using the blushing bride, baja breeze and pear pizazz markers and finished it off by spritzing it -- but not with our traditional Spritz!! I took an old hand sanitizer spritzer that I bought in Momento Mall at Leadership a few years ago and I filled it with rubbing alcohol. I then added a few drops of Early Espresso reinker and then I spritzed! The reason I tried this method rather than using our regular Log Cabin Spritzer is because I get really frustrated with the way our spritzer tool sticks each time you spray. I was pleased with the way this method turned out!! So give it a try at home!

The "Happiest Birthday" banner in the center was first cut in a strip and then stamped and then I used the Penant Parade punch to get those perfect "banner" edges!

The two types of ribbon on the card are baja breeze seam binding ribbon and our new blushing bride pleated satin stitched ribbon from the new 2012 Occasions Mini Catalogue!

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Jan 07, 2012

Be Mine Valentine!

Good Morning Dolls,

From January 17-22 I will be heading to San Antonio, Texas for the annual Stampin'Up! Leadership convention! I am so excited to meet all my friends and just have some "me" time to figure out my plan for the upcoming Stampin'Up! year and of course to enjoy all of the treats that Stampin'Up! will spoil us with while we're there! Leadership has come to be one of my favorite events of the year because we get to go to a different location every time! So far I have visited Phoenix Arizona, Nashville Tennesse and now San Antonio!

Once you reach a certain title, you get the added bonus of being invited to the Manger's Reception! At each Leadership event, they put on some kind of fun entertainment that we get to enjoy for free! This year's invitation just got here in the mail and it is the coolest invite I have ever seen!

So neat hey?! I cannot wait to enjoy the evening! Anyway, I thought it was neat how the invitation somewhat went with my card share for today! This card was so quick and easy! It was made using my small heart punch, Whisper White and Basic Black card stock and some red glimmer paper. The greeting is from the P.S. I love you stamp set in our new Occasions Mini catalogue! Sorry that my watermark sort of got in the way of this one!

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Jan 06, 2012

A new look for me!

Good Morning Dolls,

Remember yesterday I was telling you that I broke the needle on my sewing machine?! Well, it was while trying to make this next card! Again, this is a card that was inspired by one I found on Pinterest! While browsing Pinterest I have really come to like some of the more vintage looking cards that I have been finding. These cards all seem to have a great many layers, lots of sponging and lots of sewing!

I just love the layers upon layers of beautiful colors and patterns! And the sewing adds so much! As soon as my Mommy comes to visit me and shows me how the heck to fix the needle on my machine, I fully intend on breaking it again! lol

The stamp sets used on this card were the flower from the "Button Buddies" set as well as the hello from the hostess set "Posy Punch". The colors on this card are crumb cake, basic black and rose red. The designer series paper is the new and beautiful Sale a Bration DSP and will be availble starting January 24th! Just place a $60 order out of any of our Idea Book and Catalogs and you can have a pack for FREE! Or, maybe you would rather choose the ribbon and brad bundle?! The brad on this card is from that very set!

Today I just had to share a couple of adorable pictures of my sweet Ava from Christmas Eve! She's such a little poser! Enjoy!

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Jan 05, 2012

I Heart Hearts!

Good Morning Dolls!

Over Christmas I spent little to no time stamping. It was a nice break and allowed me to do some other things that I surely need some practice with! One of my successful accomplishments over the holidays was to bake my first every "fancy" cakes! lol I had to big dinners here at our house. One on Christmas Day and one on Boxing Day, so I made two fun desserts! The first one was a Chocolate Raspberry Torte and the second one was a Peppermint Oreo Cheesecake! Believe it or not, they both turned out wonderfully and we sure enjoyed packing them down! lol

I also attempted some sewing over the holidays....I wasn't so successful at THAT! I broke the needle and I have no idea how to get it out! MOMMY!!!! lol

What I will share with you is my first Valentine card of the year! It's the I Heart Hearts stamp set exploding everywhere! First I stamped the background on the card using our French Foliage stamp set with Crumb Cake Classic Ink. I then used the Stampin'Up! Bigz Scallop Envelope on the front of my card base and then I stamped three of the heart images from the I heart Hearts stamp set in Soft Suede, So Saffron, Pool Party and Poppy Parade and then either cut the hearts out or punched them out using our Heart to Heart punch!

I got this card idea from the Pinterest website. I am seriously ADDICTED to this site! I cannot believe that there might possibly be someone out there who would not want to spend every living moment browsing all of the fun ideas that Pinterest has to offer!

I added some of Stampin'Up's! new Pool Party Twine around the base of the envelope and stuck a heart on with a dimensional for good measure!

The greeting down at the base of the card is our new P.S. I love you stamp set from the Occasions Mini and was stamped in Poppy Parade!

I hope you enjoyed today's share! This is the second card we will be making at card club in the month of January. Please feel free to drop in on any one of my clubs this month! The cost to make two cards is $10 or place a $25 order and you can make the cards for free! =)

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Jan 04, 2012

The new Occasions Mini Starts today!

Good Morning Dolls and a Happy New Year to Everyone!

Today is an exciting day! Today is the day that our new 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog starts! Let me tell you, there are sooooo many fun and exciting things in this treat filled book! I will admit, I already own 95% of it.....there are pre-ordering benefits to being a demonstrator! =) But now YOU can own them all too!

I have been busy playing and creating with all the fun new stuff from the new Mini so I have some fun projects to share with you over the next few days! This first card was cased from a talented fellow SU! demonstrator Lynn Weiss.

I just love the use of the new In-Colors on this one! The main colors are Pool Party and Calypso Coral! And the Designer Series Paper you see here is the new and beautiful Sale-a-Bration DSP that will become available on January 24th! Just place a $60 order (of all the fun stuff from the mini you were going to buy ANYWAY!) and you can have this gorgeous DSP for FREE!

The Dies used on this card are new Adorning Accents Textured Impressions Embossing Folders as well as the co-ordingation Adorning Accents Edgelets. The center Very Vanilla piece was cut out using the brand new Framelits Labels Collection! I just love how all of these pieces fit so nicely together! The added accents on the card are our Pear Pizazz Seam Binding Ribbon and some of our gorgeous Stampin'up pearls!

This card is one which we will be making at Card club in the month of January! I have clubs on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday! If you are interested in doing a drop in, everyone is more than welcome. The cost to make two cards at any club is either $10 or a $25 order! Please give me a call or send me an email if you are interested in joining us this month!

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