Another card to share

I love it when you can use a tool for more than just one thing... This card uses the 3-Tier cake XL Die. It makes a great cake, but it also makes a cute snowman!! Or, how about a cruise ship, or a castle?! The options are endless. Here is the little snowman we made with it on Thursday night at my Stampers Club.

Class Helper!

This past week I got to be the class helper in Scott's class... in gr. 1 it means that you get to do teacher jobs, not so much play with the kids and do the same activities as them. But I got to practice sight words with a bunch of different kids individually, and then I got to do some stapling for the teacher and then some other little jobs. It was great to see Scott interact with his friends in class, and also put up his hand a lot to answer questions.

Lovely Lattice

Many years ago... even before I was a Demo... I learned this lattice technique and have kind of forgotten about it. I came across the instructions for it the other day, and thought it would make a great club project.

The stamp set we used was "Thoughts and Prayers" and we used Heat and Stick powder and glitter on the words. It looks hard to read here, but in real life it is better!




Here is the pattern and instructions... if you print this out on 8 1/2 X 11 then you will get the right size for your template. (There is not a name on this sheet, so I don't even know who to credit this technique to, but it is a great one... and easy to do, too!)

Long Time no Blog!!

Wow... I don't usually go this long without a new post! I have been busy crafting, though, so I have a few projects to show... some pages and some cards... just have to get them photographed. But to start, here's a card I made using My Digital Studio. It's not very "Christmasy" but I thought that people might like to have it up past Christmas (maybe that's vain of me to think!!!) so I made them more of a general look than specifically Christmas.

But these will go inside a Christmas card, and hopefully I'll get a Christmas letter written as well. I do the Christmas letter as much for myself as for others because I find that reflecting on the year, especially when they seem to be going by faster and faster, helps me to see that yes, we really did accomplish a lot in 365 days. Also, I use this letter as the journalling in my Family Yearbook scrapbook. So it serves more than just one purpose. And then all my friends and family get to be in on the happenings as well!

Festive Brooch

This week for my stampers club we made 2 projects... here is one of them. A fabric brooch that is made by overlapping 4 die cut flowers. Then we put a jumbo brad in the middle and held the magnetic clasp on with a jumbo glue dot. There are 2 magnets, and you can wear it on your blouse (see figure 3... my lovely little model!!!). These would also be cute on gift bags, or on hair bows, or on the top of a gift. Use your imagination... each one took under 5 minutes to make!!! The magnetic clasps are just from a local dollar store.

Trick-or-Treat!!

For as long as we have had kids, we have gone to just a few houses on Halloween. We don't go to strangers' houses, we just go to a few of our friends, and people that we maybe haven't seen since last Halloween (or longer), and we want to have a quick catch up. For instance, we went to our old next door neighbours', who haven't seen the kids for at least 2 years. And we went to our old Realtor's house (who became the owner of our old cat when we moved off our old farm) so we could say hi, and the kids could see their old kitty!!

Number of houses visited: 10
Amount of "loot": half a bag per child
Kilometres put on the truck: At least 50
The looks on the kids faces as people said how cute they were in
their costumes and gave them handfuls of candy.....
PRICELESS!!

Our old cat... The kids love to see how she is doing!

Somebody else's cat.... hmm... I think my kids like cats!

A very happy Dinosaur!

Christmas Card Club

Last night was the 3rd month of my Christmas Card Club. Here are the cards we made...

In honour of Breast Cancer Awareness month, I decorated some cupcakes for treats... I used the Ribbon of Hope stamp.

And we made a pink Christmas card!! This card uses 2 different hostess sets. Christmas Punch and Patterned Pines. If you would like to host a party and earn these sets, please contact me so we can set up a date!

The other card we made is a wreath out of snowflakes... this card uses the snowflakes in Snow Swirled.


To order any of these sets or supplies, please visit my website: CLICK HERE and make sure you check out the deals of the week, too!

Deals of the week #4

Don't miss out on this week's Deals... It's party time! Contact me if you want to place an order for these, or any other SU! products... or go directly to my website, where you can shop 24/7! Click HERE for my website.

Week 4 Deals of the Week

Item	Description	Special Price
116214	Princess Party Kit	$13.99
116213	Pirate Party Kit	$13.99

Here's my little E on her birthday (old photos from back in July, but I just wanted to show you the SU! kit)... we used the Princess kit to make crowns, purses, cupcake toppers and more! The kids had so much fun with it, and there is so much stuff in the kit.