Stamp Club December 2010 Pendant

Our last Stamp Club of the year at Leslie's was a whole lotta fun. We decided the month before to have a Mexican food potluck and boy was there a lotta food! Leslie had chips, salsa, and guacamole, Nita mad awesome queso, Mo made some kick ass tamles, Heather and I took some cheese, chili, onion enchiladas and some Mexican rice, Jamie brought a Sopapilla Cheesecake that was to die for. There was more food there but for the life of me I can't remember what or who made it. We decided to get the most vital part of the night over with first and spent the first hour or so eating! Hmmmmm....with all the scrapbookers there I wonder why there weren't any pictures? The food was really good!!

The Stamp Club this month was the Pendant Bundle offered by Stampin Up! that consisted of the 116798 Simply Adorned 1" x 1-1/4" Charm, the 24" chain, and the Charming Stamp Set. The group had a blast crafts all sorts of insets to go in the charm and used various Stampin Up! stamp sets and papers from various vendors.
Heather used my matchbox die and made everyone their own jewelry box to store their pendant inserts in. I made everyone a pink flower to go on top of the box. I had made them by spraying some coffee filters (see there's the technique again) with Cranberry Crisp ink diluted with water let them dry and cut them out with the Big Shot and the flower die. In the pendant is the Stamp Club insert that Heather made for each one of us. This next picture looks a lot like the first but I thought the pendant was nice in the first one and the flower is nice in this one!!
The next couple of pics are of the inserts I made. Everyone had a bowl of 1x1-1/4" pieces of card stock and papers in front of them, stamps sets, embellishments and could pick and choose what they wanted to use.


Christmas inserts and Valentine Inserts





It was another fun night to be had by all. I am really looking forward to next month and this awesome bunch of women!

Stamp Club November 2010 Christmas Cards, Box and Advent Calendar

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and is looking forward to the New Year this coming week. We had a good time over at Heather and Michael's and stuffed ourselves on her delicious turkey, dressing and fixings. I took over a big pan of mashed potatoes, fried okra, and some cranberry salad to share. It was yummy!

At our second Stamp Club meeting in November me met to make the advent calendar I posted about in an earlier posting, cards and card box from a single Simply Scrappin kit from Stampin Up!.





The Christmas Cheer Simply Scrappin' paper/sticker pack and a roll of Whisper White Taffeta ribbon made a card box, 14 6x4in cards, 8 3x3in cards, and the advent calendar with 2 pieces of paper left over. The only additional product used was Snail adhesive, dimensionals adhesives, big eyelets, and the bling that I bought a couple years ago and used to sparkle it up for my granddaughter! I used the Cricket with the George cartridge to cut out the Countdown To Christmas on the top bar of the calendar. If I was to do it again I think I would have sandwiched a piece of chipboard between the cardstock back and front to make it stronger.










The card box was made to hold the cards with a single sheet of the contrasting DP. It is 4 1/4x 6 1/4 in by 4 inches tall.






The everyone decorated their cards how ever they wanted to. All the cards used papers and stickers from the kit.









Once again everyone seemed to have a great time and we decided to add a potluck dinner to the agenda and agreed to meet to make the Stampin Up! pendant bundle. The bundle came with a stamp set and the medium pendant and chain.

My Create Ink

I found a new site (for demos only) thanks to a Stampin Up! stamper/scrapper friend. Ruth turned me on to the site on Yahoo! It is called LNS (Late Night Stampers). Awesome place! Lots of things to learned and shared on the site. One thing I have learned is about the My Create Ink which is a widget that helps you create color combos. Anyone can use it but the only colors there are the Stampin Up! sells. Check it out!