The cello bag was one of our EIGHT make-n-takes and the other two cards I received as trades. My trade also used the set, and is a card we will make at February camp, so keep watching for that!

This adorable chipboard book was designed by Annette as part of her anti-hoarding DSP class. She called it her "love book" and it would be a great Valentine gift for someone you love! It is a simple project, chipboard, dsp, ribbons and RUB ONS!

The mailbox is from Annette as well, from the dollar spot at Target. What an enchanting presentation for someone special on Valentines!

Rub Ons Rock!

in this case - literally!!

Fun with the Girls!

Debbie, Shelley, Annette and Taryn "cooked up some creativity" - we had make-n-takes, demo's trades and more. Thanks to that AND to the fact that I have finally found some stamping time - I will have lots of stuff to post over the next several days - so make sure you keep checking back!

There will also be some online web specials that coordinate with some of the items shown - these will be 24 hour specials - so you will need to respond quickly if you want them!

For today, enjoy these pictures - the girls greeted us in CUTE costumes, stamped packing paper from SU! boxes in chef hats and aprons:)

Get ready for a week of inspiration!

The card on the left was made by my dear friend Theresa, I loved it, but didn't have the right materials. The one on the right is my adaptation that we did at camp on Friday. You can't see it in the picture, but the backgrounds have been embossed over parts of the images in white and then the second parts of the stamps layered over that.

A full work week - finally!

Almost Christmas!

Less than two weeks to go, wow!






I have had some requests to post our Christmas decorations here for you to see - if you have been at our house any Christmas - then you know each room is decorated. (Well, except the toy room and Karisa's - she has a tree, but the older she gets the less motivated she is to put it up!)



Here are just a few taken from the family room - if I have time, I will try to get some done of the dining room and kitchen. This isn't all that is in the room, but some of my favorite snippets:)


This is a huge cross-stitched Santa - complete with both our family's names on his list. Serg made it about 15 years ago, but we can tell it wasn't finished then, as the list ends with my niece Lexi and sister in law Cari (if you joined the family after then, you are outta luck, sorry Makenzie!)

And to prove it isn't just the girls in my family that are crafty, along with Serg's cross-stitch here is a bowl that my brother in law, Kurt, carved for us! It is out every season, at Christmas it holds a mix of potpurri. The silver tree is from Tonya - granted it saw better days when it was new and owned by someone else, but I love vintage style ornaments - the handkerchief I got from a garage sale - $1!
These are just under the Santa hanging - my ode to the 50's - this year I got some tiny colored rice lights to string in the garland. Colored lights seemed right to go with the bright Japanese figurines that I have picked up here and there. But, Serg and Karisa picked the pattern - I wanted flash on and flash off - but instead my colored lights flash rather psycho!

Our tree is one of the shortest ones we have had. It is real - we do have a fake one in the kitchen. When we got the house with the cathedral ceilings I knew I would want tall trees! This is just over 9 feet, but one year we had one that you could touch the angel on the top from my loft office! The picture window on the side has a large metal nativity. When the sun shines in the morning, it casts a huge nativity shadow on the opposite wall.

This is a mish-mash of things - my grandmother's nativity and an wire angel I have from when I was a child started the theme, which includes Japanese glitter houses, pink trees and minature nativities - some with their original boxes.

Along with my 50's figurines is a fun ode to the 70's - a 7up bottle tree - on heavy canvas with jewels as decorations. Love this piece too, a gift a few years ago from Tonya.

Three more samples using new stamps - made by Nyla, Annette and Susan.

This and That!

This fun card was done by Andrea.

And another bright and cheery card done by Theresa.

Finally, here are the projects for this week's Camp - the last of 2007. We are making a Family to frame, a snowman gum pouch, a trio of notecards, a snowburst card and a New Year's Eve party in a box!!

Doesn't this look like the perfect spot for a snowy evening?? Snuggled asleep under the tree with puppy nearby! Bliss.

Chipboard Calendar

This can be used as a journal, birthday book or a super simple do ahead scrapbook for 2008 (or slide your pictures in from 2007 while the memories are fresh, and viola' the year is done!)










We woke up to a beautiful snowy morning - will be putting up some of those pictures in a little while!

Christmas Inspiration and Class dates

Here are some fun things I got last night at our group's Achievers Night

The Retired List is up

If you want to have a look to see what you may need to get before your chance is over....