Another cool day!!! Yikes!!! I hope it warms up again! Last night I played with the Letterpress Plates-what fun! I made this one with the Trick or Treat Plate. You can find 4 different plates in the Holiday Mini Catalog! Have fun making these cards and working with the Letterpresses!
We made this Thank You card at Convention and I also made it at my September Clubs. It would make a cute little gift to give to someone.
There are 3 little envelopes and 3 6 x 3 pieces of card stock to make into little cards that fit inside the envelope. If you seal the long envelope and just barely cut across the top it will allow you to store your envelopes and cards. You put the envelopes on one side and the 3 cards on the other side of the Small Open End Envelope. 
This is a picture of the backside of the pumpkin I bought that I used the Definitely Decorative Halloween spiders on. You can see that they are large spiders.
It was a cool, windy day today and I thought I could get in my stamp room and really stamp today but by the time I went and visited my dad, made deliveries and worked on the futurity books (which I completed) it was 11:00 pm. Maybe this weekend---I made this card with the Greeting Card Kids stamp set and was inspired by someone on a blog but can't remember who. This stamp set is just darling and fun to use. I hope you have a great week!
We had a very successful 5-State Barrel Futurity this last weekend but everyone is still dragging. We had so much fun and met so many new people from everywhere. What a great weekend!!! A lot of beautiful horses--our great friend's little girl, Sage, won the Futurity. She is 10 years old and this was her first year for futurities! She had a great ride on Sunday! Congrats! Sage!!!
We made this scrapbook page last night in our Scrapbook Club. It was a fun page to make with the added Bat Punch and Basic Black Card Stock.
Today I decided to make the little Design-a-House #120911 that is in the Holiday Mini Catalog on page 37 for $5.95. You can make this quick little house into a Haunted House, Christmas House, Gingerbread House, etc. It is very easy and quick to put together. All you need is the house and Sticky Strip. I spray painted it black.
Then decided to add some glitter all over the house so just put some on there when I sprayed the last layer of paint before it dried.
After it was completly dried I added some vellum paper in the windows and stamped a spider on one of the pieces. Then I cut out a lot of bats and adhesived them to a heavy thread and added them to the house. The center piece in the middle of the house was made by making an accordion fold with a 1 x 12 inch paper and scoring it in the middle, fan it out and glue it to a scalloped circle. You could also add a little light under it so it would show through the windows. This would also make a great gingerbread or Christmas House to make with your little ones or a classroom of little kids in a center.
Stampin' Up! has so many cool buttons that they are offering this year in the Idea Book and also in the Holiday Mini Catalog. These buttons are the Big Designer Buttons in the Holiday Mini. They also coordinate with our new Fabric and the Designer Series Paper on p 18 and 33. There are 48 total pieces which 4 each of 3 designs in 4 colors. These buttons have 4 holes and are 1 inch diameter and some are 2 holes and 3/4 inches.
This is one of the cards I made at my Christmas Card Classs that I had this week. We used:
I am so excited as I just went over and picked up my quilt that I made. All of the flowers were made with the Big Shot. I made 80 flowers and sewed them on material and then was in a swap with Angie Juda at Convention.
I brought all of the 80 squares home and sewed them together and then took them to a quilter to have her put the quilt together.
I chose this Moga material for the backing and then she bound it with brown material.
This is a close up picture so you could see the beautiful quilting that was done. I just love it and so excited to show it off. All with the Big Shot!!!!.jpg)
Another Halloween Card but you will have to click on it to see the background spider web embossing. Yesterday I was at the Fair and gave a demonstration on the Big Shot-we had a great audience and a great time! I showed guests how to use many different materials in the Big Shot and we also worked with fabric! Today I will be demonstrating the MDS again! It has been a very busy week!!!
This is a picture of the purse with all 4 of the cards!
Materials Used: 1 3/8 inch circle Punch #119860
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This is another purse (pattern from Becky Rogers) that I made for the Barrel Race Futurity door prizes. I used the new Vintage Buttons and the Newsprint DSP. I also used both scallop punches. Inside of the purse I made 4 cards and will show them to you tomorrow.
These pesky little creatures (grasshoppers) are taking over our place. It is unreal how much damage they can do in a short time. While we were at church yesterday they ate about 5 feet of my husband's pumpkin vine that he entered into a contest. They ate part of a cucumber and it is just like a snowstorm in the garden. Unbelievable how much grass, alfalfa, they have ate. Ugh!!!!!!! My husband has sprayed around the garden and we've powdered how many times??? I hope they don't get all of my tomatoes. They don't seem to touch the jalapenos!!!!
Are we there yet? Driving from home to Salt Lake City--10 1/2 hours on the road!!!!!!! Yikes!!
Jennifer and Sherry relaxing!
Checking out the battery cables! If we turned off the car we had to call Roadside Service so it took a little more gas than expected. Just needed a new battery or a margarita!
Here we are all enjoying some great food and a margarita from Red Iguana in Salt Lake! Way toooooooo good!
Oh, my gosh! Who would not love this Jolly Santa? This is one of the cards I was going to use for my Christmas Card Class on September 1st but have added and redone it several times so will make a different one for class. So much fun!!! This is the new Santa stamp set that you will find in the new Mini Holiday and also the new fabric---how cool is that? If you would like to buy a kit for our Christmas Card class they are 6 cards for $20 with the instructions and materials. You may also email me and sign up for the class on September 1st at Rushmore Road Pizza Hut in Rapid City, SD for Pizza and 6 cards for $20.00. Come and join the fun and have pizza!!!!!!!!!! Yesterday we had our Downline Meeting at Shirrise's and had such a great time and a yummy lunch. We took the backroads to get to Elm Springs and I had so much fun touring the country and seeing where people live. It was getting hot by the time we got home--101 degrees!!! I hope the girls enjoyed the tour as much as I did-too many bikers on Interstate so backroads we did go!!!!!!!!!!
This is some more ideas from the display boards at Convention! I have been busy making my September club projects and also making purses for the Barrel Race Futurity. Hopefully, I will be about caught up after today!
More cute ideas!
