December 2017 MPP - Another Great Year

This month is a cute mini album. I won't be putting this together now as I prefer to save to use for something in particular that may come up in future, but here are the items included in it!

 Acetate Sheets

 Pages

 Flip side of the pages

 Word stamp, washi tape, rings, journaling marker

 Multi-word marker

November 2016 MPP - Wonderful Winterland

Love this month's MPP kit and it came in a pretty blue box! Such a pretty card I've got visions in my head for a larger card too! Hope to get it made asap. Hope it comes out as well as I see it in my minds eye but all details not there just yet.

November 2016 Stamp Camp

Had fun for this month's Stamp Camp. Only 3 attendees, but they liked the cards and made 2 of each. They opted to not make the gift card holder. We laughed and chatted a lot. I was also helping a friend, that was an SU! demo many years ago and is moving, sell some of her SU! and non-SU! stamping supplies. They bought a good bit of it and I will take the rest to another customers stamping group monthly get-together the first week in Dec. for those that couldn't come today to look thru remainder. What doesn't sell there, I will return to her, but they already put a good dent in the stash. Anyway, here are the cards we made today. I didn't get pics of Kathy or Marilyn's cards, but will try to get one from them and share later. They were really cute with some changes from my samples. Love to see their creativity.

 My Samples

Card on left: Santa's Sleigh, Sassy Salutations, Gold Foil Sheets, Real Red, Emerald Envy

Card on right: Cookie Cutter Christmas, Sassy Salutations, Candy Cane Lane Designer Washi tape, Real Red, Emerald Envy Cardstock & Ink, Red Glimmer Paper

 Gift card holder

Cookie Cutter Christmas, Presents & Pinecones DSP, Real Red  and Emerald Envy Cardstock & Ink, Red Glimmer Paper

Inside of gift card holder

Margarethe's cards

UPDATE: Kathleen's cards. She also decorated the insides when she got home and tooks pics of that as well. They look great!

September 2016 Stamp Camp

Only had 3 attendees (Margarethe, Kathy and Carmen) this month, but we had a good time. They really liked the projects. Only one that changed anything to the house was Margarethe, she ran hers thru the brick embossing folder. I never got a chance to see how that came out and did not get a picture of it. Will get one later and update with it. I also didn't get pics of Carmen's cards as she had to leave early. Her's were just like mine though.

 My Spooky House with background scene sample.

House

Stamp Set: Sweet Home

Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Basic Gray CS

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad

Accessories: Big Shot, Home Sweet Home Thinlits, 2-way glue, Tear & Tape Adhesive

Tree Scene

Stamp Set: Spooky Fun

Paper: Basic Black, Basic Gray

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad

Accessories: Big Shot, Halloween Scenes Edgelits, 2-way glue

 My card samples.

Card on left:

Stamp sets: Halloween Treat, Cookie Cutter Halloween, Jar of Haunts

Paper: Basic Black and Pumpkin Pie CS, Halloween Night Specialty DSP 

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black Ink pad, Pumpkin Pie, Perfect Plum, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Mint Macaroon, Soft Sky markers

Accessories: Big Shot, Everyday Jar Framelits, dimensionals

Card on right:

Stamp set: Spooky Fun

Paper: Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight CS, Halloween Night Specialty DSP

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad

Accessories: 1-3/8" circle punch

Kathy Schutty's card

 Kathy Schutty's card

 Margarethe Andersen's card

 Margarethe Andersen's card

VCRocks Colorful Cruisin' Blog Hop

Welcome to VCRocks last blog hop of the year. This month we are to share our favorite colors. I love bright colors. So I will be sharing from the Brights Family and one In Color.
Luckily, this blog hop happened right when I was to go to the Sr. Ctr. on Friday to make cards and then I step those up for my Stamp Camp today. It gave me the perfect opportunity to use 2 of my newest stamp sets. The first card is the Sr. Ctr. version and the second is the stepped up version for Stamp Camp.

The first card is using new Birthday Fiesta stamp set with the coordinating Fiesta Time Framelits. Colors used are Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Real Red, Crumb Cake and In Color, Cucumber Crush.

 Sr. Ctr. version

 Stamp Camp version

The flower on the cactus is from the Tree Builder Punch.

The second card was made using Swirly Bird stamp set with th coordinating Swirly Scribles Thinlits. The sun was made with a sponge dauber and just burnished/rubbed on. Colors used are Pool Party (Subtles), Pacific Point, Real Red and Daffodil Delight.

 Sr. Ctr. version

Stamp Camp version

August 2016 Stamp Camp

Another fun get together with friends and today it was all some recently made new friends. They are Maryann's stamping group and meetup monthly to stamp down in Ruther Glen/Lake Caroline. We had a great time. I took the cards I made at the Sr. Ctr. yesterday and stepped them up for even cuter cards. Loving the bright colors and they did too! We had lot of fun!

 My sample

Fiesta Birthday Stamp set

Fiesta Time Framelits

Colors: Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Cucumber Crush, Real Red, Crumb Cake

My Sample

Swirly Bird, Sassy Salutations Stamp sets

Colors: Pool Party, Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight, Real Red

Maryann Hoffmann and her cards

She used Daffodil Delight and Tangerine Tango on her Fiesta card.

 Pat and her cards

She used Cucumber Crush and Tangerine Tango for her Fiesta card.

 Kathy Schutty showing her inky fingers. Having to reinforce to only tap with the new pads and not push down. LOL!

Linda Boone and her cards

She also used Cucumber Crush and Tangerine Tango on her Fiesta card.

I made these cards after everyone had left.

 Kathy had added a third streamer on her card and it really made it POP more, so I had to make one with the extra streamer. I also made it in the other color combo they were doing.

Decided to make one with a different sentiment.

Bonnye had to stamp too. This is her creation. 

Sr. Center Cards

This month I decided to get a little more involved in the cards I did with them and I pre-cut the images needed for 2 different cards. I only had to do the stamping for 2 of them. They assembled them themselves. Everyone did a great job with a couple doing a different color combo from mine.
Note: On their cards, I could not find the stamp for the blue part of boat and did not have my markers with me, so used some reg. markers they had and drew a boat on each of their cards.

My sample

Fiesta Birthday stamp set

Fiesta Time Framelits

Colors used are Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Real Red, Cucumber Crush

My sample

Swirly Bird stamp set

Swirly Scribbles Thinlits

Colors used are Pool Party, Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Island Indigo

 Margarette's cards

She did her card in Tangerine Tango and Cucumber Crush

 Phyllis's cards

 Gail's cards

BJ's cards

June Sr. Center Cardmaking Day (Rescheduled and done on 7/1/16)

Due to the Sr. Ctr.'s air conditioning breaking, the center closed the day I was to go, so I rescheduled as I wasn't going to be here for our usual date in July, so I wouldn't go until August again. I actually had everything pre-cut and stamped in advance and was ready when I got the email about the cancellation. So we rescheduled for 7/1. They really liked the cards I had this time and made more than usual. I gave them several color choices in each and they used up a lot of what I precut. I had no roses left. A couple did a little recreating. I like it when they do that and we have a couple of new ladies that are crafty, so I'm seeing more creativity again and not having to make the cards for them and they help the ones that need the assistance.

 My samples

 Collection of most of the cards made 

(Only 4 of Margarette's shown(she made 7) and BJ had already left with her 4 cards)

 Margarette's 4 cards

 Gail's cards 

(helped her some as she has some vision issues now)

 2 on left are Ethel's and the 2 on right are Denise's

The 3 in front and turquoise one in back are Francis's. Denise helped her with hers.

Cards I made for Cindy T. the Sr. Ctr. Manager.

Gave her my 2 samples and then she requested 3 more balloon cards.