my new Stampin' area!

Hello!

I'm so excited..I wanted to share with you where my club ladies are going to be stamping tonight! This has been something we've toyed around with for ages...after having my stamping events in our basement suite in November it really made me love having my events out of my kitchen - family area. Our suite was rented in December though so back up to our kitchen for January.....I got to thinking that we really don't use our basement much....old tv, barbies, excersice equipment gathering dust LOL....so my friend Rosella and I last friday moved everything around and Voila...my new stamping area was born! I'm so happy as I was able to set up today while Jake is napping. Plus my kiddies/husband won't be in a mad rush to eat dinner and get the kitchen all ready for stamping.
I was able to borrow some chairs and tables. I put a few things up but will make it more homey/crafty as time goes on.

What do you think?

Happy Stamping!
Kerry

Jacob's wall decor

Hello!

As mentioned in my last post here is a picture of the wall hanging I made for Jacob quite a few months ago....I forgot to take a picture and share until now....

I used the retired Boy Simply Scrappin' kit from last year.

I still have room in my Yummy Yummy class that is November 4th (wednesday) if you're interested. You'll make 5 projects + take home your very own brand new Yummy Stamp set! Check out my website for all my classes listed or to place an order 24/7!

Thanks for stopping by,

Kerry

teacher gifts

Greetings!

Well with the end of June comes the job of making teacher gifts. If I can, I try to make a gift as a small thank you for being wonderful teachers to my 3 girls.
This year I came accross this wonderful idea on SCS. I bought the frames at Michael's and altered them to be a Dry Erase Board!! I'm hoping the teachers can use them on their desk to write quick notes to themselves....Its earth friendly too as they're saving paper!
My only wish is that the Dry Erase markers would have come with prettier lids...LOL! The bold bright lids just don't coordinate with my lovely designer paper!


Happy Stampin'
Kerry

NEW Decor Elements!

DECOR ELEMENTS


Did you know that Stampin' Up has introduced a new product line? It is a very versatile and easy to use vinyl sayings, letters and images that you put on walls, glass, tiles etc.... I finally got mine up last night. What do you think? Not sure why that stripe showed up on this picture...its not on the wall.

You can view this exciting new product line here. Its available for purchase as of July 1st so let me know if you'd like to place an order.

punch storage

Hello there!

While blog surfing I came accross this great idea to store punches! sararedman bought some cheap curtain rods, spraypainted them black and attached them to her wall!!!! I love this idea and i'm inspired to run to Walmart to buy some! What do you think?

I love storage ideas as I'm constantly trying to improve my stamp room and make it more organized!

Hope you had a wonderful weekend! We bought some blueberry bushes at the local Flea Market today so will have to get those planted soon....(ran out of time today)

Happy Stampin'

Kerry

LOVE wall hanging

Hi there, Well I had fun last night making my own Wall Hanging - inspired from my friend Rosella. I thought this would make a great Valentine decor!


I used the On Board Simon Lower for the letters and inked them with choc chip craft and regal rose craft. Once dry applied versamark and irridescent ice embossing powder to add some sparkle! Used my coasters and modgepodged the new Loves Me designer paper over them. Finally just embellished it with the phrases from Love Matters stamp set from the Winter Mini. LOVE the phrases in there. Also used grosgrain ribbon, gingham ribbon and buttons.

Soooooo I was thinking of offering this as a class in February. Is there any interest??? If you'd like more information please email me at ckschwen@shaw.ca and I'll give you more details.

I have a workshop tonight so just packing everything up....its my neighbour 2 doors down so this will be a first where I walk to a workshop!! Hope the rains holds off!

Thanks for looking,
Kerry

Lunch Box tin

Good Evening friends!

What a wonderful evening stamping! I was hoping the girls would go to bed well and they all did so that left me with some stampin' time! (hubby is at work). I finally was able to get to this cute little tin I"ve had for a month or so.

I used the new Enchante designer paper from the Winter Mini Catalog. (www.stampinup.com) I thought I would Modge Podge it but ended up using lots of Sticky strip instead. (double sided tape) Having the 2 sided paper is so nice as everything coordinates so well. I also used a On Board Simon tag that I trimmed down a bit as it was quite long. I covered the whole tin and i'll add another picture showing the top angle. Another thing I did was run some of the ribbon that was too bright thru my Creamy Caramel ink pad to tone it down a bit.....made it more elegant looking I think.....what do you think?

HOpe you enjoy it, its fun making new things.

Happy Stampin'

Kerry

Greetings!

Well i'm in the midst of a windstorm but its dying down so that's good. No power outage so that's good!

Here's a frame I made for my friend and downline, Lynn for her milestone bday last week. I got her permission to upload it....I used the Level 1 hostess set Friends and Flowers and modge podged the wood frame. I love the colours of this Simply Scrappin' kit!

We had a FABULOUS time at our Christmas party last night. 7 gals were able to make it in my firstline and we did a shoebox swap, (beautiful by the way, i'll upload them as they are too good not to share), They also made this mini coaster book



We also had appy's and the most awesome, homemade white chocolate, milk chocolate cheesecake that Janet made - YUMMMMMMMMMMMMY!



Here's the Joy Fold card that Janet brought as her shoebox swap! I loved the White Crayon Resist technique that she used! The other swaps are under my NEW photobucket slide show that my friend Cindy thankfully shared on her blog www.imagine-dream-create.blogspot.com THANK YOU!

Off to work on my Christmas cards,
Have a great night,
Kerry

Good Day!

Thought I'd share some artwork that I made a month or so ago...I got the inspiration from my friend, and fellow SU demo - Sarah Froese. I bought these wooden frames at Michaels and decorated them with our Decorative Paper - the line I used is Recollections by Stampin' Up! I attached some brown grosgrain, burgundy grosgrain and some stitched cranberry too. Lastly stamped and mounted some Hodgepodge Hardware..snipped the end of the brads off before adhering and used glue dots to adhere the hardware....

These make a wonderful gift for the holidays, and i'm planning on making a few more to give away to Grandparents!!
The pic is hard to make out but its of my oldest and youngest in Disneyland this past April, 2006.

Have a great night,
Kerry