Month: October 2014

Happy Holiday

Christmas Cards

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a quick and easy Christmas card tonight.  I used prima color pencils on this card but I think I’m going to try using watercolor pencils in the morning and see if I like that too!  We had a busy day today but got our wholesale orders all done and packaged.  If you special ordered a stamp at York…they all went out on Tuesday.  If you ordered a Brother Scanncut…they all shipped on Tuesday…so they should all arrived by Friday 🙂

I’m hoping to take Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off! Well, maybe not off but work on projects around the house!  Itching to do some painting 🙂

Stamps Used:  G214 Happy Holidays Lg Tina, B286 KB’s Wreath Sm, AA15 Mini Dual Dots.

It’s hump day! Half way through the week 🙂

Be Merry!

Christmas Cards

xmas owl

Good Morning!  So nice to sleep in my own bed last night 🙂  We drove till about midnight Sunday night, got up really early to get all my orders placed.  Left the hotel at 5 am Central time/ 6 am Eastern time and got home around 7 pm Central time/ 8 pm Eastern time.

We sold a record number of brother machines this weekend!  I’m pretty sure it was because of my awesome help in the make n take booth…Keith and Joyce have helped us for several years now at the PA shows.  Awesome help!  Of course I managed to sell a machine to them too! 🙂

A sweet little christmas owl from our new stamps!  Love his ears!  Stamps Used:  FF40 KB’s Christmas Owl, DD63 dots & circle, DD76 Naughty & Nice Fun Cube.

LOTS to do today so better get moving!

Boo!

Halloween

boo

Good Morning!  We are back on our way home after a terrific show in York, PA!  I learned an awesome tip for the brother machine!  My mats got well used (we demo’d the machine a lot!) and they were not very sticky and a gal told me to use painter’s tape.  So I tried it and it worked great.  JUST to caution you all…she got tape stuck up in her machine and had to take something apart to get it out so that’s a little scary! so be careful!

Here is a sample card with some of our new halloween stamps.  The faces are so adorable.  The ghosts, pumpkins, and both faces come mirror reverse.

Stamps Used:  EE50 KB’s Dancing Ghost, FF39 KB’s Trio Pumpkins, DD65 Halloween Fun Cube, DD60  Circles & Dots, E186 Be careful beware, BB59 KB’s Pumpkin Face Sm, CC67 KB’s Pumpkin Face Lg.

Hope your week is a great one!

Season’s Greetings

Christmas Cards

ornament

since I missed blogging on Wednesday…I thought I would go ahead and add a Saturday blog to finish out the five cards.
We have been using water color pencils to mark the paper and then our aqua pens to blend the background.  I just stamped with black over it (after it dries!) for this simple Christmas card.

Stamps Used:  C182 Season’s greeting, FF38 KB’s Snowflake Ornament Lg

Coffee

Coffee

coffee

a cup of love comes to you this morning!

We are headed to set up at the York, PA Fairgrounds…looking forward to teaching my envelope punch class 🙂  If you live in the area more information about the show can be found at http://www.heirloompro.com.  Hope to see you there this weekend!

Stamps Used:  D268 sending cup of love, D217 KB’s  Capp Cup, A190 Heart Sm.

Bee Cause I care

Friendship, Frogs & Bugs

bees

so I was so busy yesterday I forgot to blog!  I thought about it several times but Kevin and I were working on the website and it got kind of  involved!  We made a lot of progress but have a ways to go.  One thing about websites and technology is that things often change fast.  We put a lot of time into the website a few years ago and now with all the smart phones and tablets we need to update the software and so that means a lot more hours spent on it.  Being stuck in a hotel sorta forces us to work on it 🙂 otherwise it’s easy to ignore.

Another easy watercolor swipe card.  I used both a yellow and a black pencil but was afraid the black would over power so made that mark small.  Stamps Used:  EE19 KB’s Bees Lg, and D193 Beecause I care.

Stars!

Graduation

starsGood Afternoon!  We are just chilling here in York, PA.  Enjoyed a lazy morning, slept in, read a book, and did a little shopping.  Just a nice relaxing day.  I really need to get to work on the internet!  Maybe tonight 🙂

Another background swipe for this card.  Stamps Used:  EE17 Dual Stars lg, AA18 Dual Stars Sm, B177 Reach for stars, D186 Congrats and Best Wishes

 

Rainbows!

Friendship

rainbow

Good Evening!  We have been to the Strongsville, OH show where we had a GREAT time!  We spent Sunday with friends in Falls Creek, PA and had a GREAT day!  We spent today traveling to York PA and are GREATLY relived to be be here and settled in.  We plan to spend the next few days working on the website and uploading the new stamps.

This week’s cards all have been watercolored with stripes in the background for a quick easy card.  Stamps Used:  G275 Life gives Clouds, H114 KB’s rainbow Lg

Here’s to a great week!

Oct 3rd

Coffee, Snowman

snowflake cup 1snowflake cup 2

and the snowflake cup!  but do we really want to think about snow??  not sure 🙂

Stamps Used:  H111 KB’s Snowflake lg, C171 KB’s Snowflake Med., DD60 1.0″/1.25″ Circles & Dots, DD61 Snow Fun Cube…and here’s a look at the snow fun cube….DD61

have a great weekend!  If you life in the Strongsville, OH area…we hope to see you this weekend!

 

Oct 1st

Christmas Cards, Coffee

Santa Cup

It’s a Santa Coffee Cup!  I’ve been working on a make n take project for the Strongsville, OH show this weekend.  It’s a little complicated because you have 10 people doing the project and only 15 minutes!  That is not very much time.  So I decided to do a coffee cup project and sent over the picture of the honeycomb with the bees stamped on the cup (there is a picture of that project on the blog earlier this year!)   BUT I got to thinking (I really need to stop thinking! ) that it is halloween and Christmas time so I should have cups to go along with the season.  I came up with this little Santa cup but it takes way more than 15 minutes to complete so although it is very cute…not for this weekend.

You all know how much I love my brother scan n cut and here is another fine example of why.  I have a flourish punch (like the one on Santa’s belt) but it was way too  big for the coffee cup.  I got to thinking about the pre loaded shapes in the brother and sure enough I found the flourish shape….resized it…and we were good to go!  Love it.

You also know how much I love the little tiny dot stamps that most people think are useless (unless you have one than you know how useful they are!) they have been used for Santa’s cheek and his tongue!  Way Cool!

Well, I have got to get to work.  Lots of orders to go out AND  we have some new stamps coming!  If you noticed the “naughty or nice?” saying??!  It’s on a new fun cube…We should have the new stamps this weekend and hopefully I will get them on the website next week during our time between the two shows while sitting in the hotel!  I also will show you on Thursday and Friday the two coffee cups for the Strongsville, OH make n take Friday night session.

Here is the new naughty or nice fun cube…

DD76