Fall Purse Sets

I can show these Purse Gift Sets now.  I made seven of these sets for my friend Judy who bought them for the ladies that work for her.  She is great about giving gifts for lots of different holidays and these were for Halloween, although we went with more of a fall theme.

I really like the purses that Becky Roberts creates, so I decided to design my own pattern.  This is what I came up with.  The nice thing about these purses are that they will hold 4.25 x 5.5 cards.  A lot of the patterns I have seen are for purses that will only hold 3x3 cards.

I hope the ladies at the office enjoyed them.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

September 2011 Stamp Club Projects

 My November Stamp Club is next week and I didn't even post the projects from September.  I hold my stamp clubs every other month.  This gives the ladies time to try out their new purchases before it's time to buy again.  It also works out well because we start in September and go until May so the ladies have a chance to order out of each mini.  We also finish up before summer starts.

At each club meeting we do three projects.  I usually try to do 2 cards and a 3-d project.  For September I picked a card that had several techniques involved in it - Emboss Resist, Background stamping, Tearing, Sponging - and then the second card was a clean and simple card.

For the 3-d project, although it was pretty simple to make, I still managed to slip in a couple of techniques on this project - punch art (check out the cute pumpkin) and altering punches (using a punch in a different way than intended).  We also used the big shot to make the box.

Hope you like these fall projects and thanks for looking,

Kim

 

Post-it Note Holder

This was another door prize from my Christmas Stamp-a-stack.  These would make great gifts for teachers, co-workers, secret sisters or for just anyone you want to give a little something to.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

Stamp-a-Stack Door Prizes

Here is one of the door prizes from my Stamp-a-Stack last month.  It's a dry erase picture frame. 

The pumpkin was attached with velcro so if you wanted to change with the seasons, you could just pull off the pumpkin, change the background paper (which is inside the frame) and pop a new embellishment onto the front.  Fast and simple gift idea.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

Best Friends Forever

Here is a quick notecard made with the set Best Friends Forever that we were given at convention.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

HOLIDAY MINI NOW AVAILABLE!

To view the new Holiday Mini Catalog, just click on the picture of the mini on the right hand side of the blog.

I warn you - your wish list will be long.

Kim

Brandy's Birthday Card

My oldest daughter Brandy turned 28 this month.  I had to stop and do the math because I couldn't believe she was 28.  Seems like I was 28 just a few years ago.

So here is her belated birthday card.  This is another image from the Easy Events set that we received at convention.  Love this set.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

Workshop-in-a-Bag

Here is a card that came in our Workshop-in-a-Bag that we received at convention.  It uses the free set we got called Easy Events.  I think you will see a lot of cards from this set.

Well VBS is over for another year we had our program at church this morning.  We had a great time and a lot of kids and hopefully the seed was planted.  I was excited because my grandson Ryan came from Ohio last weekend and went to VBS with me every evening.

Yesterday Ryan's mom (my daughter Jess) and his little brother Myer came home for a few days so we celebrated my granddaughter Hydi's birthday a few days early.  Jess and the boys will be leaving Wednesday and then we won't get to see them quite as often as Ryan starts kindergarten next week and they won't be able to come home whenever they want.  That's really going to stink!

Anyway, I will be AWOL for the new few days as I will be trying to spend as much time with them as I can, but I will be settling back into a routine soon.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

Convention Make-n-Takes

Here are three of the make-n-takes they had for us at convention.  I didn't think I would like the sets they gave us at convention, but they are really growing on me.  I'll share some more projects with these sets next week.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

Faux Tin Ceiling

Here's the card that I made for the WOW Swap at convention.  I call it the Faux Tin Ceiling.  I've seen something similar done with the brushed silver cardstock and I've seen it done with layers of embossing powder, but for my card I used aluminum foil.

We are in full swing at VBS this year and having a great time, so my posts will be pretty short this week.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

Halloween Treats

I guess since I've already started making Christmas cards, it really isn't too early to start on Halloween.  These are the new 1"x 8" bags that will be available in the Holiday Mini September 1st.  There is a ton of cool stuff in the mini, so if you would like to earn some of it free, contact me about hosting a party.

Thanks for looking,
Kim