handmade greeting card

Home Again!

Anniversary/Wedding

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Once again we are home and the fun starts all over again!  We will be in Bloomington,  MN this weekend…more information for those interested at http://www.rubberstampevents.com! Posting today is another cute snail card!  How adorable is this card?  Karissa actually made it so I can’t take the credit for it!  She found this really cool ribbon punch in my stash and was using it on all her cards.  It is just a simple slot punch but I will have to see if I can find that and put them in the booth.

I was so happy to see so many of my old friends from WI out in West Bend this weekend!  Janelle and Kay came out to see me 🙂 I was so happy to see them.  I hope I have Kay’s name right!  I should have asked Kevin because he always remember her name and I always forget.  Kevin remembers because she won a card contest at our store a long time ago and he was the judge !  Do you guys remember that!??

Kathy came all the way from South Carolina to see me!?  Well not just to see me but she did come to West Bend to see me!

Kathy & Beth

Kathy and I!  Well I’d better get to work those stamps won’t make themselves !

Ready to Go!

Friendship, Hello, smile, Thinking of You

rosy

Everything is rosy here since I am all packed and ready!  With my time this afternoon I will be getting some new make n takes together.  My brother machine helped me get ready!  That machine is amazing!  I needed to punch 120- 2.5″ scallop circles and 240- 1.25″ scallop circles for our project on Friday night in Orlando.  That would take forever!  So I loaded the scallops in my brother machine and in 12 minutes I had 81-1.25″ Scallop circles!  AND during that 12 minutes I was doing something else productive!

Here is what it looked like:

red scallops 1

red scallops 2

they other awesome thing….there is literally no waste!  The cuts are so close together.

Smile!

smile

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Here is a fun card!  We re-sized the smile face and it is so cute!  We are smiling today as we await all our family to arrive for the wedding!

Stamps Used:  DD74 KB’s Smile Face Med.; C270 A smile is a curve

Here is one of the projects that we worked on this last weekend.  A Flower Bed !

flower garden

plain old cheap bricks to AWESOME!

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now if we could just get the grass to look half way decent 😦 🙂

Oh Good Grief!

Creatures, Frogs & Bugs

snail

Good Morning!  So here’s another new stamp that is coming out!

So for those of you who know your grammar…:) thanks for letting me know about the grammar problem with the stamp from our post on Friday!  The day was Friday the 13th, a full moon, and MY 50th Birthday!  Hard to believe I’m that old but it’s true…my sister couldn’t let the day go by without a party!

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so I survived the party and re-made the stamp!

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lot’s going on this week with my sister getting married!  We have a fabulous day for Green Bay today -80 degrees and sunny.  We had a really productive weekend around the house and I will be showing you some of the things we have done later this week.

Also a GOOD offer from Brother.  They are offering a pre-paid visa card for $20 with the purchase of the Brother Scan and Cut until June 21st.  We are putting the machine on our website so you can purchase it directly from us if you would like!  I LOVE the machine and from everyone who has purchased one…I have been hearing the same thing.  We will offer them for $449.00 for the  CM250.  We are not charging shipping as of yet so a great deal!  so have a GREAT Monday!

You Color my World

Friendship, Hello, Just a Note, Thinking of You

color world

My world is looking colorful today!  I got up early (5 am!) and felt refreshed and so happy to putting on my painting clothes!  Not sure what I’m painting today but I’m painting something!  Kevin thinks I should finish painting his gaming console that I started quite awhile ago and then we got busy.   When we have a little time between shows we usually work in the shop from 8 am to noon and then the rest of the day is spent catching up on all the things that don’t get done when we are busy.  So I’m off to get my work done and then my projects!

Spectacular Day!

Hello, Thinking of You

glasses

I really hope your weekend is Spectacular!!  We are leaving to go set up here in West Springfield, MA!  It’s down to breakfast, then load the truck (all the product that was shipped to hotel and priced last night needs to go back in the truck) and then the 30 minute commute up to the Eastern States Expo Center.  So we are off and running…. have a spectacular weekend!

Home Sweet Home

Thinking of You

#23We have finally made it HOME!

After a very long weekend in Portland, OR (although we  had an awesome time at the show!) and a very long drive we made it safely home again this afternoon.  We had good traveling weather except for a little rain in Minnesota yesterday evening.  We are very glad to be sleeping in our own bed tonight.   But…no rest for the wicked…we leave again in one week for the West Springfield, MA show.  so it’s off to bed so we can get up early and start working on all the orders that have piled up over the long holiday weekend!

 

Off and Running!

Friendship, Get Well Soon, Hello, Just a Note, Thinking of You

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Good Morning!  It’s bright and early here in WI as we pack to get moving and head to Seattle, WA and Portland, OR area.  We usually stay in MN with my brother but it makes the last day of travel difficult so we are heading all the way to Bismark, ND today.  We have 3 full days of travel.  We have a new series of books downloaded from audible so we should be occupied.  Have my knitting bag so looking forward to a few days of knitting.

Karissa has been working on some cards and so I’m stealing them for the blog!  Love this sweet simple card.  She found some lace tape…yes it is actually tape…I would love to be able to sell it but haven’t been able to find it…but it is cool.  I still looking for it….

Have a great Tuesday…

Mother’s Day!

Mother's Day

mothersday

so we have had some really busy days!   We got some unexpected company on Wednesday, then my folks came for my future brother-in-law’s 40th birthday party, then Karissa came home for Mother’s day!  So we’ve been cooking, doing all kinds of things and trying to get ready for two shows on the West Coast.  I think we have it all together and if we don’t, well, that’s life!  Our company left of Friday, Mom, Dad and Karissa left this morning and I’m all packed and ready to go!

This was my Mother’s day card from Karissa.  Along with a Cheesecake Factory gift card.  Cheesecake Factory happens to be my very favorite restaurant !  so very exciting.  Hope your Monday was a good one.

Wed April 23rd

Friendship, Just a Note

rosy

We have been so busy taking care of the last minute things for the Akron,  OH show that I forgot to blog yesterday!  I actually sat down at the computer to do it and got side tracked by some paper work.

We are headed to Akron, OH in the morning.  The show is well run and well attended so we are looking forward to a busy weekend.  For our customers that live in OH;  we will have a few of the handmade in OH stamps with us.  They look like this:

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This card is using a new stamp C264

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It matches the new EK Success 1.25″ Scallop circle punch.  Better get to bed so I can get up early and get going! 🙂