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Hello!

Sorry for not posting earlier but we had a power outage monday morning and our desktop fried :( Anyway....after a few days at the computer dr, a new power supply added we are all good to go!

Here is one of the make n take's we made at the Vancouver Regionals last Saturday!!!! The projects were really over the top so we stamped as much as we could given the timeframe there, and brought the rest home to finish. I was proud of myself as for once I set aside time the day after Regionals and completed ALL the make n takes...before I put the supplies away! Anyway this was one of my favourties...it uses lots of neat accessories. Hard to make out but there is dazzling diamonds around each of the circles with the letter on it. Can you see all the neat accessories on the close ups?????? Posting more this week so stay tuned!!!

Happy Stampin'
Kerry

crafttime

Hello!
Mikayla had her friend Tess over yesterday and they seemed kinda bored so I asked if they wanted to make a craft. Of course the answer was 'yes'....they are 10 yr old girls :)
Anyway I saw this idea ages ago and finally got the girls to try it out. We used felt with the Top Note die and stitched them together to make a small purse. Used the embosslits for the white flower and a rhinestone brad for the centre. Non SU ribbon for the handle. Cute eh?

Kerry

KISS

Greetings!

Here is a perfect example of KISS. (keep it simple silly)

I really loved this card on SCS on quickly made one up for myself while I have my friend, Lynn's stamp set! I hoping to make a bunch of these ones up for myself this year to use. Its stamped on Shimmery White cardstock which is hard to make out in the image.

Have a great day!

Kerry

Holiday card class card #2

Hello again,
Remember that angel card I shared awhile ago? Anyway here is the replacement card I had to come up with! (cardstock needed was backordered so I had to have a plan B)
I'm quite happy how it turned out, I like the tone on tone look the vanilla piece that has been embossed with a textured plate gives...(hard to make out...maybe click on the image to make it bigger?) The snowflake is gold embossed and the tiny snowflakes on the bottom are stamped using the Champagne Shimmer paint.

You can make the square mediallion by using a piece of cardstock 2.75 x 2.75 and then using the scallop edge punch to go around the edges...Make a great focal point!

Anyway love to hear from you!
Kerry

Holiday Card class card #1

Hello,

Here is one of the 2 designs the ladies made at my November Holiday card classes this month.
I've been loving all the different things you can do with the Shimmer paint (found in the Holiday mini) and here is another way of using it...
You put 4 drops or so of the shimmer paint in a small spray bottle with rubbing alchohol...shake well and spritz over your cardstock. Here I used the Champagne Mist Shimmer paint...it is soooo pretty in real life - adds a real sparkle!

Thanks for stopping by!
Kerry

Gr 1 card

Hello on this dreary day,

Here is a card I just did with Kylie's gr 1 class this morning.
I had premade all the scallop circles and had run them thru the Big Shot with Petals-a-Plenty beforehand. Each scallop circle was enough for 2 cards. The rest is pretty basic...we're dealing with 5 and 6 yr olds....it went really smoothly though and I think the kiddies had a great time! It also went quickly if you had wanted to do something like this yourself...no more then 5 minutes per group of 2 kids...I was in and out of the school in an hour and a half!

Stay tuned for more cards tomorrow!

Stay dry!
Kerry

Stamp club

Hello,
Here is one of the cards that was made at stamp club
I love my Big Shot and we used it twice on this card.
Elegant Bouquet impressions folder on dsp and then you rub over with a sanding block and it exposes the white core. It really makes the image 'pop'. The butterfly is also a die. I love the new in colour Rich Razzleberry and tend to reach for it alot these days!

Stay tuned for the next card tomorrow!

Happy Stampin'
Kerry

Cork Board

Well, its official. I have 3 full time students now...my youngest daughter started gr 1 today. I think tomorrow will be the test as today was just a short day. It's going to be so quiet around here without all their chatter etc....just my son and me.

Anyway last week I had a date night with Kylie (my 6 yr old) and I asked her what she wanted to do (movies, bowling, dinner etc...) and she said "I want to stamp!"....She really is a demo in the making I think! Anyway it was alot of fun to stamp with her! Here's one of the projects we made. I had picked up some cork sheets at the local dollar store and I wanted to make a cork board. I thought of my scallop die and 'voila' this was created! Kylie made her own as well which she'll later give to her teacher.

BTW I ordered the My Digital Studio this evening so I'm excited to share upcoming digital scrapbooking projects with you! Its a whole new world for me so I"m going to take baby steps - but I'm super excited!

Have a great week,

Happy Stampin'

Kerry

Staff Appreciation gifts

Hello on this last weekend before school!

This is my 3rd year now as chair of the Staff Appreciation committee at our elementary school. Last year having a newborn and lack of sleep it was enough to get the girls ready for school, let alone anything beyond that.
Today though I was inspired to make welcome back little gifts for each of the staff at our school. Well thankfully it came along quite quickly thanks to my trusty Big Shot and box #2 die!!! Of course my sidekick Kylie was a HUGE help too! She ran all the cardstock thru the Big Shot while I start assembling, then once she was caught up she starting folding the scored lines and putting the small bit of sticky strip needed on the one tab. As you can see I only used my retired 12x12 cardstock. I also used the retired Curly Label stamp set with matching punch. OH, and a non-SU (gasp) stamp that says teacher on it. All in all I think it took us maybe 2 hours start to finish to make 31 of these. Inside are some peanut free chocolate. Tuesday morning I'll put one in each of the teachers mail slots....Hope they feel welcomed back as we sure appreciate them all!

Have a great weekend,
Happy Stampin'
Kerry

hI THERE

Glad you could pop by for a peek.

I'm having so much fun with my new holiday mini goodies! Some projects I'm not sharing yet as they are for upcoming classes and clubs but here's a card I made using the new Sweet Treats stamp set in the holiday mini. I love the little cups fit perfectly in the images. You get Christmas ornament , Halloween, a flower, and a Hot Air Balloon. So unique and cute! Its hard to make out but I used my texturz background on the eggplant. (click to enlarge the image)

The new Holiday Mini is now available to order from. You can take a look at it here. You should have by now if you're a regular customer of mine received yours in the mail. If not please let me know and I'll get one to you!

Happy Stampin'

Kerry

Big Shot Hero

hello,

I was doing my catch up on blogs this morning before the kids wake up and I came accross the winning entry for the SU commercial that us demo's could make. You have to watch this video that Linda and her husband Matt made. Her blog is Where the rubber hits the road and you can watch it here. Its only 30 secs or so. What do you think? I thought it was too funny :)

Anyway have a great day!!!
Happy Stampin'
Kerry

Butterfly

Hello fellow stampers,

Well I'm back from a wonderful holiday in Penticton, B.C. We had a wonderful time with our 4 kiddies. Beautiful weather and lovely time with my parents as well. I love it there, and look forward to our annual trip every year.

Here's a card I made beforehand that I had planned for a downline stamping night. Unfortunately I cancelled due to an extreme heat wave and us not having air conditioning. It was only the 3rd time since 1880 or something we had it that bad. 44 degrees with humidity or something like that!!!! Needless to say it was survival mode for that week!
I used my new Elegant Bouquest impressions Embossing folder and sanded the Razzleberry Lemonade DSP to expose the white cardstock. The butterfly is from my Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die.

More to share in the upcoming days to hope you come back for a visit!

Kerry

New Catalog Kick Off Party!

Good Morning! Happy Saturday!

I just wanted to share some pictures from my New Catalog Kick Off party that I hosted this past Wednesday! It was a great turnout and I was so happy to see so many of you! 23 ladies were able to come out and visit, stamp and eat some munchies. Congratulations to the ladies that won door prizes too!

If someone brought a new friend then they both got to choose out of my basket of goodies.


OK, for the life of me I couldn't get this picture to upload the normal way! I took it and it displays normal on my camera and the computer but when I upload here its sideways! Arhhhh glitches. Anyway I thought you'd still get the idea :) Each lady got a wrapped chocolate bar as a thank you gift for coming. I used my Big Shot and the large Scallop, some ass't ribbon and the Oval All stamp set and scallop oval punch. Making 30 of these went quite quickly as I had my helper, Kylie. She did all the Big Shot cutting for me while I did the ribbon.






Another project Kylie and I made was wrapping the Lindt chocolate with label stickers. I stamped in the New In Colours on a label sheet with my Fifth Avenue Floral and then Kylie and I wrapped each little chocolate with a label. YOu could do this with any occasion - it really looks special :)














The 2 make n' takes. With up to 30 woman coming into my house and I to really think about this. I've never done this many at one time. Anyway I loved this idea on saw on another blog a few weeks ago. I especially loved it as I had the Box #2 Die already! I just ordered some In Colour 12x12 cardstock and I was ready to go.
Each lady got to choose their paper and polka dot in colour ribbon.

Lastly is the card. Everyone agreed it was a nice, easy layout to use in the future. On In Colours used. As well as Upsy Daisy stamp set.

Everything went really smoothly and I was happy to find homes for most of my retired items. Now I have some $$ to play with ordering some NEW product...oh how to narrow down my wish list! Anyway thanks for stopping by,

Happy Stampin'
Kerry

june club

hello,

So glad you dropped by.

Sorry for the fuzzy pic but wanted to share one of the projects the club ladies made this June. I saw this idea ages ago and filed it away to make one day in the future....well the time came to try it out! I love this card idea....its hard to make out but the cup is made using vellum paper and its rounded out like a cup. There are lemon's in the cup too, behind the straw. The Gable green matt uses the textured plate, creating lots of wee little dots. Lastly a strip of sticky strip is on the top of the cup, sprinkled with dazzling diamonds.

Hope you like :)

The other project the gals made was a paper wallet, complete with faux leather! I forgot to take a picture before I gave it to my Dad so sorry about that.....it was super cool, though and I plan to make more in the future...plus purses and clutches too. I even brought the sewing machine out so they could stitch around the edges and middle.

Stay tuned for more projects I"ve made lately,

Kerry

Brayered Roses

Hello ladies (and men???)

Here is the 2nd card my club ladies made in May. It uses the Manhatten Flower embossing folder. For this card though you use the reverse side - not the embossed, raised side. I used the technique that Patty Bennett came up and you can find it here.
The white cardstock is the Shimmery white so it is so pretty in real life.
Also used Baroque Motif - one of my all time favourite, versatile sets.

Enjoy!

Kerry

Shimmery delight

Hello!
I can't believe May is almost over!
We've had a busy month with birthdays, Mother's Day and year end activities with the girls.

I'm helping my friend with her pictures which will go in her adoption profile by scrapbooking them with her. We're half way done....finishing tomorrow evening hopefully.

Here is one of the cards the ladies made at May club. The tutorial is found here on Patty Bennett's site. She is my stampin' hero! It was a huge hit and we all love the look you can get with this simple technique. I encourage you to try it at home, you'll get addicted :) The leaves are made using my Big Shot. The paper behind the rose is using the Taste of Textiles cardstock...its so pretty in real life, esp with the rose being on the shimmery white cardstock. Behind it all is a layer of vellum too, which soften it even more. You like?

Well I better get on with my day. We've moved the girls rooms around once again so its chaos. I'm also helping in Kylie's Kindergarden class today.

I love being a mom, but its definatley wearing MANY hats!

Baby Shower invites

Greetings!

I was asked to make 30 Baby Shower invites for a friend of mine. Here they all are spread out while the 2 way glue dries with dazzling diamonds on the stars. I used last years Saleabration stamp set (love it, keeping it)...as well as this year's Saleabration designer paper. On the barely banana strip I ran it thru my Big Shot with a texturz plate (tiny dots) to add some interest.
For large quantities of cards (example when I made Baby Gift thank you's last year) I love ordering the note cards and envelopes from the Catalog. You get 20 prescored card bases + 20 white envelopes.

Anyway I have my All Occasion class tonight so I'll share those cards this week.

Have a great day!

All Occasions Class April 09

Hello,

Here are the 2 cards made my April 3rd All Occason class. Each lady made 5 of each, going home with 10 cards with envelopes.

This first one caught my eye a few months ago while I was blurfing , and I filed it away to use at a future class - once I had my new circle cutter - which I do have now I knew I wanted to make it!

I loved the card made by StampingJo.com and used her card as my CASE. I did add the scallop circle matt and kiwi/vanilla ribbon. Also changed the colours up a bit but the layout and idea is all hers! Thank you Jo!
I love how this card uses all my circle punches. A great way to use up scraps!

In honour of this card I made cupcakes for the snack last night! Chocolate with pink vanilla/almond flavoured icing.

The next card was inspired by one I saw on SCS but I did change it up quite a bit.

I loved how there was so much texture used. We used the texturz plate, rubbed with choc ink to make it 'pop!'.
Secondly used squares of the Parisian Breeze DSP which is textured as well.
I had a bunch of sentiments out which everyone could choose what they needed for events coming up.

All in all it was a great evening!

I have one more in May if you're interested in joining in. Check out my website for more information :)

Happy Stampin,
Kerry

i'm back

Hello on this sunny, spring day!
Thanks for all your advice and well wishes! I kept my 10 yr old home for the following 2 days once Chris went back to work, lived on T3's and muscle relaxers and gradually my back got better. 2 days ago I went to a Massage Therapist (ouch, so not a spa massage!) so things seem to be getting better! Thankfully :)
OK, onto stamping, since this is my stampin' blog!

For my March clubs I wanted to introduce Watercolour Wonder crayons. For the first project - the mini pizza box they watercoloured the mini card using aqua painters, crayons on watercolour paper. LOVE using this techique! OH, did you notice I used my new embosslit too - the flower on the top of the box! The embosslits are made to cut and emboss as it goes thru the Big Shot. For the leaves we just used the small oval punch, folded in half and sponged with ink.

For the 2nd project - the Easter Card they used the crayons and directly coloured on the rubber, got it wet and then stamped. Not sure if you can make it out but the card is on a hinge and opens upwards....inside it says 'Easter Greetings'.

Hope you check back soon as I'll share the cards the ladies made at my All Occasions class last night. Plus some pic's from our Palm Springs holiday!

Have a wonderful weekend,
Kerry

Kids Bday party

Greetings on this soggy, November day here in B.C.

As mentioned last week here is a picture of the projects made at the 10 year old birthay party I did last weekend. The book and clipboard are from my local dollar store. The other project uses the Top Note die for my Big Shot - its a topper and in the cello bag the girls got were 2 stampin' spots and a stamp that the mom bought for them. Also not shown was a diaper fold pouch that the girls put all their loot into....

Thanks for stopping by,
Kerry