Sunshine Award

A few weeks ago, my good stamping friend and fellow demonstrator, Lynda Lee (www.stampingdoc.blogspot.com) gave me the Sunshine Award.

The requirements of this reward are to:
1. Put the Sunshine Award on your blog.
2. Pass the award to 12 other bloggers who have inspired your creativity.
3. Link the nominees within your post and let them know they received this award.
4. Link to the person from whom you received the award.

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I had a challenging time to come up with my list, because many of the people who inspired Lynda (and she already awarded with the Sunshine Award), are also people who have inspired me. So I had to come up with some additional names, which was a fun proposition.

So my list is as follows (in no particular order, because I admire you all!) and congrats to you all!

Paula Goff http://inkingaddict.blogspot.com/

Donna Centamore http://butternutsagedesigns.blogspot.com/

Lisa Brown http://www.inkandinspirations.com/

Lucia Dawe http://www.stampinwithlucia.com/

Jill Hilliard http://jill031070.blogspot.com/

Julie Beltramo http://justjulieb30.blogspot.com/

Brenda Keenan http://keenankreations.blogspot.com/

Patty Bennett http://pattystamps.com/

Lyssa Zwolanek http://songofmyheartstampers.typepad.com/

Beverlee Morales http://stampinalldaywithbev.blogspot.com/

Pennie McCallum http://penniemccallum.typepad.com/

Tami Waddell http://tamiwaddellcreates.typepad.com/

Thank you so much Lynda!! And another big thank you to all of these inspiring women!!
Whoo-Hooo! :-)

Birthday gift card holder

This is a birthday gift card holder that I made for my son's birthday. It has a fun little pocket inside (a little hard to see in this photo) that can hold the gift card.
This particular gift card holder was made using a Sizzix big shot die. (Stampin' Up also has a cool gift card holder big shot die that pops up when you open the card.)
I think he will like that it looks manly and doesn't have all the fru-fru (sp?) on it that most cards have.

Card from upcoming Stamp Camp

The above card is one of the cards we will be creating in my upcoming Stamp Camp this Sunday. It uses a stamp from the new stamp set in the Holiday Mini called Day of Gratitude. Actually 3 of the 4 cards in this camp will be using stamps from this stamp set in varying ways.
Participants will have a choice of greetings they can add to the inside of the card if they wish.

Coming October 1st--The Enjoy Every Moment Blog Tour!!

Hi All!
Just wanted to let you know that on October 1st I will be hosting the first Enjoy Every Moment Blog Tour!
So far we have 9 talented Stampin' Up Demonstrators who will be participating in our tour! Please mark your calendars for this special event!

Just a little update

Sorry I haven't posted any projects lately. I am getting ready for some stamp camps and the blog tour, so I am saving those projects for a bit later.

I also have been busy with a wonderful visit from our oldest daughter and our darling grandson recently. What fun that was!!

Also, our son who is in the seminary in Rome was in the U.S. for the summer, and even though most of his time was spent up in the Sacramento area, we did get to see him at the beginning and end of his time here and I took him to the airport on Friday to return to Rome.

So we have had a busy and fun time at our home celebrating our family visits! But, alas, they are gone now, so it is time to get back down to business.

There is still room in the upcoming stamp camp next Sunday at 1 pm at my home. We will be creating 8 cards (2 each of 4 styles). RSVP today and join us for a fun afternoon!

This photo is of our little place-cards I used for an early birthday celebration for our son before he went back to Rome. I found the clips at Office Depot and created the little tags using some tiny cupcake punches that I had.

Ronald McDonald House Projects for September

This is the first project we will be doing at the Ronald McDonald House today. It is a very simple 3x6 card. There are 8 sentiments to choose from. I used the stamp set, Pun Fun.

This is the other project we will be doing at the Ronald McDonald House today. It is a bank! I like to plan projects that are good for kids and I thought this might be a fun one for them to save up their money for holiday gifts or to save their coins to donate to a favorite charity.

New Holiday Mini Catalog is here!

The new Holiday Mini Catalog is here! You just have to see all of the amazing new products in this! Contact me for your very own copy, or click on the mini catalog on the right side of my blog to take a look!