January Technique Class Card 1

Well, it has been a long time that I have posted. So sorry about that. I am hoping that I will be more regular for the rest of the month. Anyway, the husband is leaving for a snowmobile trip for a few days and I KNOW that I will have more time to work on my projects. One of the techniques that I will be doing at my classes this month is "KISSING". The big heart on this card displays this technique. So if you are attending this month, this might be one of the cards. Those people who attend my classes regularly know that sometimes I start out with one card but by the time they get to class I have changed it. I do that a lot because in my mind I am always trying to make it better. This card uses a lot of new products which can be found in the new Occasions Mini. The stamp set that was used is "I (Heart) Hearts", the DSP is "Sending Love Specialty " paper and the brad is"Sending Love Epoxy Brads" and all these adorable products is from the new Mini. Check them out. If you didn't receive your new mini yet, contact me and I will get one to you.

Go have a great day!

Baby Girl MDS

Well, things did not go as I had planned. I got my decorations away but other distractions happened during the week so I was unable to get my supplies out. The good thing though, is my new Sale-A- Bration and Mini Occasion Catalogue supplies arrived! So hopefully, I will get to play with them this weekend. Because I have not posted for a while, I thought I had better get back to My Digital Studio so I would be able to post a project.

This card was created because a former work colleague of my husband, became a father to a very cute Baby Girl! We received the announcement after Christmas in the form of a belated Christmas card. She is adorable! I needed to get a card out to her, so this is what I came up with. It is amazing how easy this program is to use! Even though I was unable to get my supplies out, I was still able to make a very cute card fit for a princess.

Next week my husband leaves for a week to go snowmobiling, so I will have a lot of alone time when I will be able to stamp, stamp, stamp! I promise I will have a lot of samples to post then. Enjoy the rest of your day!

Love at First Stamp Group

I thought I would have picture from Christmas to show but they did not turn out that well. So during this mini vacation (the Holidays), I started to work on some pages that I tried to start a while ago. These pictures are from September! My Stampin' Up group's name is "Love At First Stamp". When we go to Regionals or we do an event as a group, we wear our "Love At First Stamp" shirts. Our shirts are black with a bright pink heart with white lettering. Before we went to Cincinnati Regionals, we went and got Mani-Pedis. Kim, our up-line, made up a bag with gifts for Regionals. She also gave us black Flip-Flops with pink flowers made from using the Big Shot. When we got our toe nails painted, all of us had them painted bright pink. They looked great with the Flip Flops. When we got to Regionals, we all wore our shirts and wore our matching Flip- Flops.

This is the one of the pages that I am working on about our trip to Cincinnati. I stayed with the black, white and pink color theme to match our shirts. Kim took so many pictures of us getting ready for Regionals, our trip to Regionals, Regionals, and our time while we were in Cincinnati. We had a GREAT time!!!

This page was made using MDS. I am so glad that I bought it. I am having so much fun with it. I find that I am getting more pages finished because I can take my laptop with me and work on it when I am not at home. I hope you enjoy this page. When I look at it I remember how much fun we had that night.

I will be back with more cards and projects next Monday. I need some extra time to get my Christmas things away. I need to make room so that I can start working with my stamping supplies again. I had to put my stamping things away to make room for all the Christmas decorations I have up in the Dining Room. I can't wait to begin to use my new goodies from the new Occasions Mini!

Everyone have a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

This is my dog Lucy. If you look very closely you will find a Christmas message on her neck piece. She, along with me, wishes you and your family a Merry Christmas!

Longaberger Weekend Page 2

Here we go again. I can't tell you enough what a wonderful time the four of us had together. These three pictures were taken at the Longaberger Homestead. These were taken down by the Gazebo. If you look real close, the sleigh is a giant basket replica of the original sleigh basket. It was so neat to see! I wish we could have stayed when it got dark so that we could have seen it when everything was lit up. Again, I am working on these pages using the MDS. I am using it more and I really love it! I was afraid of it when I first got it. I don't know why I was afraid because it is so easy to use! I can't wait until all the pages are done and I have it printed as a book. What a remembrance of a great mini vacation!

Riley's First Snow

This is Riley's first snow. Riley is my daughter's dog. He is a four year old Pembrooke Welsh Corgi. Riley was born and raised in Mesa, Arizona. My daughter and her husband moved to Pennsylvania during the summer, so Riley has never been exposed to any type of snow. He loves the grass here. He turned green when he first came because he rolled around in the grass so much. He loves the rain. When he lived with us for a month, he would lay in the yard, on his back, chewing his chewy in the rain. So we were all anxiously waiting for snow to see how he would react. Well, he loved the snow too. He was surprised when he woke up and looked out the patio door and saw something white. His ears went up and wanted out to check this new stuff out. He loved it. For the first half of the day, he just wanted to look out the patio door at the falling snow. But as the snow got deeper, I think it lost some of its charm for Riley. Especially went it got higher than the height of his short legs. He does look like he is having fun though! Another quick page using My Digital Studio. This was a template that was in the program. It did not take long to click and drop each photo in. If I would do this page again, I would place the title up a little higher. That is the beauty of MDS. If you don't like the page you are working on, it is so easy to change it. Go out and enjoy your day today! Riley will be enjoying his day, I am sure.

Longabger Trip MDS

I told you last week about our trip to Longaberger for a Holiday Handcrafted weekend package. We had so much fun. Four women went on this 30 hour whirlwind road trip to Ohio and back. The time went so fast but it we did not feel rushed. We did a lot of crafts, shopped, and just had a very nice time with friends. We are in the process of sharing our pictures with each other and plan to make a lot of scrapbook pages. Here is one that I did quickly this morning. The pictures are of our time at Longaberger Homestead. They had so many decorations all over the place. There were quite a bit of photo ops there, so being the "quiet" girls that we are, we made sure we took advantage of every photo opportunity we could! What a blast! Using the MDS made working on this page so simple and easy. I can't wait to have more time to sit down and do more pages. It was so nice this morning to work on this page. All the good times that we had last weekend came back to mind and I could not help but have a big smile on my face. Hopefully in the next few weeks I will be able to show you more pages that I have worked on. Now I have to get ready for a party at my up line's house. We are having a cookie exchange and we will find out who are Secret Santas were. Have a great day! I know I will be having one. Who can help it when you are surrounded by friends.