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Hostess Appreciation PJ party Part VI

Ok we made it through all the fun postings with my hostess appreciation PJ party But this is the last Project we all made .. A big Thank you goes out again to my bestest gal ANGIE for her great idea on these super cute note pad / grocery lists .. I knew we all had to make one of these too .. I had to think about what image I wanted to use for the focal image on top since I didnt have her cute Butterfly that she used .. So this is what I ended up using for ours .. Very simple and super cute project .. You could also add a magnet on the backside and attach it to your frig if you would like .. I just love these note pad covers sooo cute .. details on this M&T at the bottom of this post ...

Here is Gina with Jessie hugging her at the table were this project was set up .. across from her is Kelsey. what a sweet photo dont you think ?

Speaking of Kelsey and Gina .. here they are with their awards they got at the event .. I am sad cause I didn't get a photo of Carol with her award .. Sorry Carol... :-(

Here in this photo Philly and Ronnie and everyone else that came in were to stamp their goodie bags with their name on it .. so they had something to carry all their goodies home with them . Notice the color ink we used ..HUMMM could that be Lovely lilac and laverdar lace ?? Hee! Hee!

Here are the girls really thinking about their answers for my game we played called NEW catalog quiz .. which no one could use thier catalogs Just only their memory . questions like How many Background stamps are in the new catalog ?? 25 girls ( lised on pages 136-138 & 118 & pg 129).. name the new IN colors , what is the product that has 420 pieces ? The pretties kit girls ( page 188) ... There were 10 questions in all and we had a tie between Gina and Philly their prize were a package of glue dots ..

Here is a photo of Jessie and her ice cream sundae looks yummy huh? so many sprinkles just makes it sooo pretty huh?

And lastly One more group photo of my girls stampin ... what a Blast we all had and what a blessing you all are to me .. Thanks girls for being apart of my life and showing your stampin spirit by wearing your PJ's to the party .. You all are the BEST!! Thank you for a wonderful year last year ...Looking forward to the upcoming year with you fabulous girls ..

Ok still not totally done with sharing one more goody from the party .... Here are My thank you notes to them with their photos inside to add to their 6x6 they made . They have already been sent out ( This past Monday actually) so I think it is safe to post this photo of those now ..

Back to regular posting next week & Cards for the troops tomorrow. Thanks for looking at all my party pics and Hope you all enjoyed this weeks posts ..

Until later.. Happy Stampin!!

Details on Hostess M&T:

Stamps :Be happy , Doodle this ( back side of not holder)

Ink: Pixie pink

Cardstock: Pixie pink and whisper white

accessories : 13/8 circle punch , scallop punch and stciky strip .

Posted on October 20, 2007 at 07:07 AM in 2007 Hostess Appreciation PJ party_ | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)

Hostess Appreciation PJ party Part V

Here is a really super cute project we made .. Its an envelope bag thats holds treats or whatever ..In this case Its CHOCOLATE which is always good thing right ?? YUMMY!! I also added some purple sparkly filler inside to jazz it up even more .. These are such cute small gifts for teachers, Co workers really anyone .. I seen this cute envelope and Just knew we all had to make these .. How adorable don't you think .. and super easy to make Just seal your reg sized envelope and then take your lg tag punch and punch inward from both sides ( just one punch on each side ) leaving enough space at the bottom to create a bag then take your scissors and cut down to the tag punch line to form the handle .. I made ours in a Christmas Theme since this Holiday is fast approaching and my girls are always looking for simple things for their Christmas gift giving .. details on the M&T will be listed at the bottom of this post ..

I had to share this photo of me and my Mom as we were waiting for the girls to start arriving & Jessie took this super funny photo of the 2 of us .. My mom is soo cute with that sweet face of surprise in her eyes and then I grabbed the popcorn bowl really fast before she snapped the photo and acted like I was stuffing my face with all the popcorn in the bowl .. Really I was Just acting girls. hee! Hee! As you can tell the popcorn in the bowl didn't even touch my lips it was a last minute thought to grab the bowl .. But since I had already been eating popcorn it shows up in my mouth anyway .. Please click on photo to make larger and you will see what I mean .. way to funny .. Also each girl got a Dixie cup recovered with Dashing DS paper ( which you can see on the table in that photo also ) Thank You ANGIE for such a sweet idea .. Each cup was filled with 3 Reese peanut butter cups.. and also each girl got every one of the recently retired INS. sheets that I had left over with a coupon book for the upcoming year( I just printed the coupons out on computer paper using a business card template and used my cutter kit and perforated the coupons for easy tearing ... Just rolled up all the INS. sheets and the coupon page and tied with ribbon ( lt blue of course ) looked like a diploma But extra thick of course :-)

Then Here is a photo Jessie took of me posing with the stars and clouds of course curlers and pink silky sassy cat PJ's make this photo just fabulous HUH girls? Hee! Hee! Yea right ...

Thanks you so much for peeking in today and sharing your Friday with me ..

Until tomorrow .. Happy Stampin !!

Details On Hostess M&T:

Stamps : Snow burst, and Holiday & wishes

Ink: Bashful blue & Black

Cardstock : Whisper white & bashful blue (for small tag )

Accessories : Reg sized whisper white envelope, Lg tag punch , Lt blue gingham ribbon & dazzling diamonds

Posted on October 19, 2007 at 06:07 AM in 2007 Hostess Appreciation PJ party_ | Permalink | Comments (13) | TrackBack (0)

Hostess Appreciation PJ party Part IV

Oh my.... Still sharing the goods from the Hostess PJ party .. Hope you all are enjoying the photos and projects too girls .. This next project was a 2 for 1 M&T as you can see the post it note holder also Holds a Jumbo paper clip to hold post it note holder closed , of course a project would not be complete with out MR spider/man Hee! Hee! and all those googlie eyes and dazzling diamonds too wink wink .. My Glitter Queen Harriet Overheard me mention at our last club meeting that I needed more googlie eyes for the PJ party and the very next day at our glitter queens meeting she bought me over a bag of googlie eyes . Thank you Harriet .. Mr spider just needs those googlie eyes ya know .. and since there were so many of him stamped on this project I needed at least 150 of them boogers .. sooo he is sooo cute don't you think ?? details on this M&T project are listed below ..Here is what the post it note holder looks like opened up .. It seems every year I incorporate a Post it note holder into my hostess party & This year was no different ..

Thought I would share a photo of Susan and her super cute Winnie the pooh bear slippers while she was eating her pizza I snapped this photo of her ..

Here is Susan & Harriet w/ curlers in her hair .. How cute is she .. We all laughed when she walked in with that cute bonnet on it.. Hey a girl don't want to mess up her curlers when she is stampin ya know Hee! Hee! Wish we could do it all over again .. I love having my hostess party every year and I so love my girls .They are the best bunch of ladies I have ever known .. Thank you girls for brighting my life with your wonderful friendship .. your all the BEST!!!

Until tomorrow ... Happy Stampin!!

DETAILS ON Hostess party M&T:

Stamps : Booglie eyes , Haunting halloween ( stars for the background)

Ink: White Craft ink , Black

Cardstock : Black , Whisper white , Pumpkin pie , creepy crawly DS paper

accessories : 1 1/4 & 1 3/8 circle punch with the scallop punch , word window punch , corner rounder punch ,sticky strip , SU! going gray marker, Dazzling diamonds, googlie eyes, Crystal Effects, Pop up glue dots ( for Jumbo paper clip ).

Measurements for post it note holder :

cut cardstock at 3 1/2" X 11"

score both ends at 5 " then after thats done, score again at 5 1/2" this will give you the center score line between the 5" score lines .. Hope this makes sense .. the center 5 1/2" score line will be folded in mountain form ( peak will be upwards ) and the 5" score lines will be the valley fold ( peaks down ward ) .

Posted on October 18, 2007 at 06:08 AM in 2007 Hostess Appreciation PJ party_ | Permalink | Comments (12) | TrackBack (0)

Hostess Appreciation PJ party Part III

Ok are you feeling like you were at my Fabulous PJ party too ? I sure wish you were cause we all had such a AWESOME time .. Did I mention all this week through Saturday I will be showing casing all the goodies from my party ? If you Miss something click on the link under Hostess Appreciation PJ party under catagories on the left hand side of my blog ... Stay tuned Cause we still alot more to come ... The next project we made is a envelope card I had seen on Amy's Blog awhile ago and Thought this would be a super cute M&T for my girls. This card is actually a LG opened end envelope Just folded in half which makes the card itself .. pretty clever huh? I kept this card pretty simple in design since I added a few extra elements to decorate it .. Just added Dashing designer paper and then used alot of my punches . You can get all the details on what I used for this project at the very bottom of this post girls .. Here is what the card looks like opened up . very simple right ? the River rock insert with the tiny flowers on the top pulls out with a Christmas saying ..

And Have to share a couple photos of my girls making this envelope card .. Looks fun right ? well guess what this card is alot of fun to make you have to try one yourself .. the 1st photo starting from bottom left is Carol (which she won for highest in Sales for the East siders club this year she got one of these cards remember ?) then my mom is next to her , the top right is Ronnie and then Philly ..

The next photo of my girls making this card are Gina( In purple robe which is FABULOUS don't you think ? wink wink ) ( She won an special award for the one stampin Queen that visits my blog every day and posts a comment every day as well .. she won a SU! pink coffee cup ..which is on backorder until 11-1-07 so I added a photo of her cup in her card so she could see it ) then Philly is sitting across from Gina and then there is my favoritest cousin in her heart Jammie's ..

Such cute girls in their PJ's and slippers don't you think?

Thanks for peeking in today and have a wonderful day girls

Until tomorrow ... Happy Stampin!!

Details on M&T:

Stamp set:circle of Friendship, Many merry messages

Ink: Always artichoke , Real red

Cardstock: Dashing designer paper , Real red, River rock Whisper white

Accessories : Designer label punch , rectangle hand punch , 1/2 " circle punch , corner rounder punch , red gingham ribbon ,Lg opened end envelopes , dimensionals & white gel pen

Posted on October 17, 2007 at 06:09 AM in 2007 Hostess Appreciation PJ party_ | Permalink | Comments (13) | TrackBack (0)

Hostess Appreciation PJ party Part II

Ok more goodies to share today girls .. gee whiz It seemed like I was uploading photos for 2 days .. got lots .. this was one of the M&T's at the event also .. this is a really cute envelope card ( details on this M&T project will be at the very end.. I just love this envelope card. Here it is when it is open, inside is a piece cut from a regular white paper bag and I used adhesive on both sides to hold it in place .. all my girls loved this M&T too and so will you ..

Ok girls want to see who won for the cutest slippers and cutest PJ's .. here is an up close pic of the slippers that won ... They belong to my favoritest cousin Ruthie just the sweetest fluffy slippers ever .. and Of course she loves her PIG right Ruthie Hee! Hee! wink wink!!!

Here is the photo of the winners circle the cutest PJ's went to Laura .. how cute are her pajamas.. Goes perfect with the cloud theme of the party HUH? both girls won by everyone voting on who they thought were the cutest and the jars they are holding were the jars I covered to hold the votes .. Cute huh? Both girls won a aqua painter with 10 sheets of water colored paper.

6 girls won for my 1/2 hour ticket drawing. Here is Philly when she won. Jessie is giving her prize to her which was a sheet of dimensionals .. I set a timer for every 30 Min's starting from 7:30 to 10:30 pm all winners got a sheet of dimensionals .. Which we all love those dimensionals HUH girls? :-)

Thanks for stopping in today...

Until tomorrow ... Happy Stampin!!

Details on M&T:

Stamp set : Season of Joy( current mini)

Card stock : Wild Wasabi, River rock and Whisper white

Ink: Wild wasabi

accessories : 1 3/8 circle punch , 1 1/4 circle punch , Velcro , dimensionals

Measurements on card :

5 1/2" X 8 1/2"

score at 2" and slide piece down to 5 1/4" and score again.

When cutting your white/ brown paper bag dont use the bottom part of your bag .. you should get 2 pieces from a regular size lunch paper bag

Posted on October 16, 2007 at 06:07 AM in 2007 Hostess Appreciation PJ party_ | Permalink | Comments (12) | TrackBack (0)

Hostess Appreciation PJ party Part I

Ok girls Brace yourself .. Lots of girls in their PJ's and Lots of stamping going on .. I have heard a few of you were wondering what the Big surprise was that was going to be announced at my event this past Friday .. I am sooo happy to be able to share this now .. and BOY was it soooo tough not saying anything before the big day .. the BIG surprise was that all my girls were going to make 8 Make and takes Plus stamp a bag to carry home all their goodies from this event .. YAHOO I don't think I heard so many of my girls gasping for air with the announcement .. Hee! Hee! years past I only did 2 M&T's at my Hostess appreciation party .. so Instead of handing out a lot of awards I thought I would reward all my girls with LOTS of M&T's and Boy was it fun ... We had Pizza, Popcorn and Ice cream sundaes YUMMY!!! for one of the M&T's I had them make this 6x6 scrapbook page( above ) and then we all had a group photo( see that photo below ) and then I am mailing them the photo/s to add to their page , everyone also made this matching checkbook cover at the same table as the 6x6 page . ( sooo cute right ?)

Dawn is Pressing the rewind button for a few Min's ...

Jessie helped me cut out all the stars and clouds for the back drop for our group photo which you can see that from this photo I took of the church hall where the event was held .. The blue background are (3) $1 store table covers pretty cute huh?

Ok back to your scheduled reading :

We also played 2 games .. This was one of them GUESS HOW MANY BUTTONS are inside the stamp set box ( without opening it ) win the buttons and the stamp set inside ... My favoritest Cousin Ruthie won she guessed 452 and there were 454 buttons inside( Yes I counted all of them myself ) this stamp set called Cute converse... Here is Ruthie dumping all her new buttons into her goodie bag .

2 group photos were taken and I myself do not like the 2nd photo OF ME as much as the 1st sooo the 1st one is all thats is being posted on my blog away .. I will say that for the 2nd photo I Can't believe I laid across my girls laps .. OH my we laughed so hard I was really crying from laughing so hard ( Yes tears were flowing down ).