Fruit in Our Orchard

Peaches in South Dakota! This is a peach tree in our yard! We have had a few peaches before but we have never had this many on a tree before! They are delicious! If you are out this way stop in and pick yourself a peach!



They are not real large but are nice and juicy!
Our Pear Tree is also producing some fruit! Bud loves to go out and pick pears and eat them. I am not real fond of them as they are not as soft as I would like. We usually get a lot of pears every year! This is a picture of a pretty good sized one!

Envelope Card

We made this card at Stamp Club with the Big Shot! I used the new Pink Pirouette In Color along with Bella Rose DSP. The stamp set was Pocket Silhouettes which is on sale this month for $16.11 and the Pink Pirouette 5/8 inch ribbon. I also used a Filigree flower and colored it with a pink Sharpie and added a pink bling! The Pink Pirouette card stock was scalloped with the new scalloped punch.

Card Organizer

We made these Card Organizer's this summer in a class and I am just getting around to finishing mine for a gift. The cover was made from a program, The Print Shop! Thank heavens for Kami! She is a whiz on the Print Shop! I also put the month in each section and added a greeting card for each month! These are easy and quick to make!

24/7 Online Ordering Available!

Wow! It is actually here! Online ordering from Stampin' Up! 24/7! It just opened today and I viewed the site and it is fabulous! You can begin ordering at any time of the day now. This does not mean that you will not get customer service. I still plan on having my clubs and classes and helping you whenever you need help. This is just an extra service that is going to be offered. You can go to my website at http://www.peggyireland.stampinup.net/ or click on the side bar and it will go directly to my website. If you go to the Stampin'Up! website and order, the merchandise and shipping will be more costly-- so be sure you go through a demonstrator's website. I just toured the website and it was fabulous to check on the card stock as each color comes up with all of the coordinating items to match. You can also begin to order the Big Shot dies now. I will try to be posting every day now of some of the new DSP projects and some of the new ribbons. I hope you can have a hot cup of tea and take a tour of the new website! Enjoy!

The first 5 people that place an order of $50.00 or more on the new online will get a free gift from me of a bundle of different ribbons and samples of Designer Series Papers. Just click SHOP NOW in the upper right corner of my website. Also, remember if you place an order of $150 or more you get at least $15 free merchandise and a Level I stamp set. Have a great week!!

Futurity

The 5 State Barrel Race Futurity is over and I am ready to start stamping again! Wow! What a whirlwind of a weekend! Lana and Kami put on quite a production and everything went well. We were all exhausted by Sunday night but it was so exciting for all of us. There was a lot of money and awards given out and we got to see a lot of nice horses run the barrels. I also got to meet a lot of nice people from all over the United States. This is a table of some of the door prizes I made with Stampin' Up! products! The gals really enjoyed the gifts! The stars on the front are made from the new Big Shot Stars die. A great weekend!

Top Note Die

Another Big Shot sample! This card was made with the Top Note Die and Whisper White card stock. I used Tangerine Tango card stock and ribbon and ink. The stamp is Upsy Daisy which is a stamp set that is 15% off this month. It is a wonderful and cheery set. The DSP is from the Haiku DSP. It is so fun to work with everything that matches. The Top Note Die is so quick to cut! Enjoy!

Big Shot Envelope

This is a picture of an envelope that I made with the Big Shot and some DSP. This DSP has been discontinued but it is a great way to use some of your old scraps of DSP. You may use this envelope as is and add a note to put inside or you may use it on the outside of another piece of card stock. I will show you how to use the other piece of card stock tomorrow. There are so many cute designs you can put together with the card stock. I also used the crease pad with the Big Shot to get my lines deeper.

This truly is one of my favorite machines that I have used while stamping.

New Silver Brads

Here are the new silver brads. There are stars, flowers, filagree, and circles. I took a Pink Sharpie and colored on the flower and then let it dry. You can match all of the different colors of card stock. They are fun to work with!

New Ribbons for Fall

I just got some new ribbons in yesterday! This is the Kiwi taffeta with white on the backside! It is fabulous and would be so beautiful for weddings or any card that is for beauty!
Brown and Rose Red Stitched Ribbons--so yummy!
These are the new IN COLORS--Tangerine Tango and Pink! They are the striped ribbons!

Birthday Stamps

I am never going to get my Stamp Room cleaned! This is a picture of Crazy for Cupcakes, Cupcakes Wheel, and Simple Birthday Thanks stamp sets. Note how all of the new stamp sets are pre-cut! This is such a time saver! I will be making a project in the next couple of days with these sets--cute cards and invitations!

New DSP

Yes, I am still here! Wow! I haven't posted for so long! I have been helping my girls move! What a job! I just want to come home and start pitching. We got everything to storage and just have a room left to vacumn. I also spent a lot of time at the Fair last week so that also occupied a lot of my time. Today I took my Dad out for lunch and shopping and we had a nice day! I stopped into a local store today and while standing in line I had to hold words to myself. Ladies were buying designer paper and of course not the quality of ours at Stampin' Up! I just wanted to say something but kept quiet and changed lanes. Oh, my gosh it was even only designed on one side. This is the new Washington Apple DSP. It is so awesome.
This is a picture of the Haiku DSP. They are so gorgeous! Which one am I going to try first?

Big Shot Special

I have posted my special for the Big Shot in emails. If you would like a copy please email me at pegireland@hotmail.com
I have a HUGE SAVINGS or you can purchase at regular price and get FREE Dies and you will also qualify for a Level Stamp Set and free merchandise. This special is good from August 22nd until September 11th. Some of these Dies are Stampin' Up! Exclusives.
Have a great day!

Big Shot

I will be posting my HUGE SAVINGS or SPECIAL on the Big Shot later on this afternoon. Tune in later today and you can place your order. A GREAT DEAL!!!!! I'm off to the Fair to watch the Barrel Racing!

Futurity Results Board

Oh, my gosh! This Big Shot is just wayyyyyy to much fun! This Results Board is for the 5 States Barrel Futurity in September that Lana is putting on. I made pendants with the exclusive Stampin' Up! die cuts in red card stock and then made the small pendants from black card stock. I also added the silver scallops that were cut from the Big Shot with small red stars punched from our small punch in the center. The letters are made from chip board and then I added the Red Chunky Glue. The Silver Stars were punched from the Large Star Punch and then Silver Chunky Glitter was added. These pendants would be great for teacher's bulletin boards or any type of pendant decoration for your house. So much fun to make!

Futurity Baskets

I spent the day today making baskets for the 5-State Futurity. I just love making the baskets for drawings. I made some cards to add to the candles, jelly, etc for door prizes. It is amazing how you can add a little DSP, scallops and brads to a candle to spruce it up a little. I got 9 baskets done so will keep working on them tomorrow before I go to work at the Fair. I plan to experiment tomorrow with the Big Shot while watching the building at the Fair.

The Last of the Fair

Donna, Ellen, and Nancy are looking at more cards.
A group of ladies enjoying all of the many creative projects!
Nancy, the grand winner, with her prizes and some of the creative cards! Great job Nancy and all of the entries! Everyone did a great job!

Still More Fair Pictures

Here are some of the cards that are being shown at the Central States Fair. You can come down and view the cards and take pictures if you would like. The Fair is open from Noon until 8 pm each day this week. The entries will go home next Sunday at 1:00 pm.
This is a very clever card made by Helyn with a masking tape background. A beautiful card!
Tammy is viewing all of the cards! So many ideas to look at!
Peggy and another viewer are also looking at the many cards. You can click on the cards to see them closer.

Resources
2008 Holiday Mini Catalog

Still More Fair

Hurrying to beat the clock to get the entries in on time! What a team this group was! I will be showing you some of the great cards that were made as the week goes by!












This is a picture of all of the prizes! Lots of nice items!

The sign that is on the tables for the rubber stamping.











Where is Shirrise? Peg and Jennifer working on the grouping of the entries after the judges are finished.

More Fair

A mother-daughter team bringing in cards-the Sowards! What fun they must have stamping! They brought us in a lot of entries!!!
Cassandra working so hard on her coloring while waiting for entries to arrive!
Here I am making a list of Sponsors! We had so many wonderful gifts from our sponsors-gift certificates, basket of goodies, stamp sets, stamp pads, ribbon, stamp books, designer paper and free classes! Wow! The sponsors were so generous!
Our judges! What a great group of kids! Just joking but they are the best helpers you could ever ask for! These farm kids really know how to work! Jade, Caden, Jocelyn, Paige, Justine, and Cassandra!
This is Justine prepared to put the cards on the wire stands! She is a busy little girl! We could not have done it without them!

First-Time Exhibitors

These two ladies are so much fun! They just made our day! This is the first time they have entered cards in the Fair. We had so much fun chatting with Marcia and Anita. What a hoot! They wanted to show their friends and relatives that they entered their cards in the Central States Fair! You can click on their cards to see them better. Enjoy!!!!

Central States Fair

Wow! I worked at the Fair this afternoon and the cards that were brought in for judging were unbelievable! You gals are fantastic! If you get a chance come out and look at the cards on display. It will be open at 12:00 on Saturday for viewing. Bring your cameras and take some pictures!

Chocolates

This is a cute grouping of chocolates from one of the displays at Convention. This would make a nice gift for a hospital patient or would be cute made into a baby or wedding shower display--or a friend gift!





A display of photos and scrapbook pages at convention. This display used the Western Sky DSP.


This was a cute baby bag made from chipboard and the white bags that SU has.

Halloween Bag

I forgot to post yesterday so decided to do a couple of them today!Isn't this awesome! A lot ow work! This is made from the new Halloween DSP and the skull stamp set. It also uses the Big Brads and the striped ribbon. I am sure this is one of the sacks that could be used again and again. This sack was from convention.

All In the Family

We had a fun time at Stamp Club last night with this page. Everyone was being so creative! The background is Ballet Blue and a white strip of paper was added at the bottom with a thin strip of red card stock adhesived below the white. Red Grosgrain ribbon was added across the top of the white paper. We used colored pencils to color the kids and then used blender pens.

I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of my club members for being so great! I purchased a Cherry Lip Gloss for each of them at Convention with the SU logo on it! Fun! I so enjoy them and their enthusiasm to learn!

Halloween and Thanksgiving

What a cute spider! This is one of the vinyls that demonstrators were able to purchase at convention.







This Decor Element will be offered in the next phase of vinyls. It was beautiful on a shadow box and the fall leaves mixed on the bottom of the box.

More Element Decor

This Element Decor comes in two sizes and also two colors-chocolate and white. If you do not like to put these vinyls on your wall you can also put them in a shadow box or on a picture frame.

This is a room that has a lot of silver! Wow! How elegant! Even the file folders are covered with Designer Series Papers. You can also see an Element Decor on the back of the chair. If you click on the picture you can see items closer.

More Big Shot Ideas

Quick and easy sacks to make for Christmas!

The next two pictures are pictures of a baby shower that was planned for Shelli's daughter. The cake is made from diapers, the apron hanging on the dresser was made from material with the pendant die. Across the front of the dresser is also some pendants made from the Big Shot.


If you look closely on the dresser you can see some of new large Pink Ribbon that was gathered and then the little blinky was put on the end. Many items on the dresser were all homemade.

Birthday Party-Santa

This is a picture of a reindeer and Santa all made from the new Big Shot. They used the pendant die and the scallops. So Cute!!!

This is a birthday party that Shelli was making for her grandson. I see a piece of ribbon cut off the pendants in the front of the table and on the table are some masks that each of the children get when they arrive at the party made from the pendants. Oh, the frog mask was so cute. Also, you will see a cake made from cardstock and die cuts. She also made all of the invitaitons and thank yous! Too cute!!!!

Big Shot Pictures

The Stampin' Up! Big Shot! It can be used with at least 50 different materials as card stock, balsa wood, fabric, anything that can be cut with the Rubber Scissors we have. Teachers, this would be great for your classrooms. I know your schools always have so much money (ha!) but it would be nice for the school or for a pod to make bulletin boards, parties, etc. It will be on sale to customers on September 2nd and I will be offering a deal. You can also use any dies that you have with any previous machines and there is a large variety of dies that will be coming.


This is some of the dies but they are not real clear. They sell from 4.95 to 39.95 with the Serif Alphabet selling for 149.95. You may have friends that do not stamp but would still enjoy using the Big Shot. It is great for cutting out material for quilts also.

Big Shot

I will try and get a picture of the Big Shot and some of the accessories for tomorrow's blog. This machine is unbelievable! You may purchase it in September!!! There are over 50 materials that you can cut with it--sandpaper, DSP, light weight steel, balsa wood, canvas, materials (to make quilts), felt, quilt batting, vinyl, silicone, bubble wrap, etc. It is going to be a great machine for our stamping and scrapbooking. SU has many of their own exclusive dies. It is so awesome!!!