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Best Wishes .

Hi Stampers :

Happy Tuesday  Friends !

I'm Baaaacckkkk !

Ok now that may be a little scary especially since Spring "break" (No Pun intended )  is going on  LOL~ 

I have been stamping that last week and a half  getting things ready for my Stampers club meeting this past Saturday . What normally took me  a few hours to prepare for my girls coming over seems to have taken me over a week  . 

I wanted to share with you the cards I made for my Hostess this month Gina . I used the following items on her (5) cards .

Wishes your Way stamp set

• (w)# 129153
• (c )# 129156
  

Secret Garden stamp set

• (w)# 129141
• (c)# 129144

Secret Garden Framelits # 129372

• Secret Garden Bundle

( Stamp set + Framelits= 15% savings ) 

• (w)# 131100
• (c)# 131099

Midnight Muse classic ink #126860

Midnight Muse card stock #126843

Very Vanilla card stock #101650

Print Poetry designer paper stack # 129312

Basic Pearls #119247

1 3/8" Square punch #119877

Word Window Punch #119857

Have a Wondeful Tuesday friends !

Until later.. Happy Stampin!

Happy Valentines Day !

Hi Stampers:

Happy Valentines Day friends !

Here is the card we made at my stampers club meeting lastmonth .

Here are the supplies used on todays card :

Rose Red card stock #102544

Very Vanilla card stock #101650

More Amore Designer paper #129309

Rose Red Seam Binding Ribbon #121884

Linen Thread #104199

Word Window Punch #119857

Handheld 1/16"punch # 101227

Hearts a Flutter Framelits #130159

Silver Glimmer paper #124005

Small Heart punch#117193

Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set 

• (w)#115370
• (c)#127802

Until later... Happy Stampin!

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Just Because...

Hi Stampers :

Happy Monday friends !

Here are  the cards I made for  Holly our club night  hostess this past Saturday night .

I used the Elegant Butterfly punch #127526 along with the Bitty Butterfly punch #129406.

1 3/8" Circle punch # 119860

Baja Breeze card stock # 111352 & Rich Razzleberry card stock #115316  with the Fabulous Sale-A-Bration  designer paper called Sycamore Street .

The greeting is also from  Sale-a-Bration . The stamp set is  called Vintage Verses.

Guess what ?

Sale-a-Bration starts tomorrow YAHOO!!

The Biggest time of the year starts

• January 22, 2013 - March 22, 2013

Today is the last day for the Valentine bundles. 

• Click HERE for more details on those .

Also  my  Glitter Queens are having a  Sale-a-Bration Blog hop  which starts tomorrow- Friday January 25th , 2013  .

I will post the 1st link to the blog hop tomorrow morning .

I am very excited to see  all their beautiful creations.

Don't miss the Blog hop  & Sale-a-Bration both starting  tomorrow !

Have a Wonderful Monday Friends !

Until Later .. Happy Stampin

Witches Broom from Club night .

Hi Stampers :

Happy Wednesday friends !

We made  the Witches Broom Treat holder at club Saturday night .

 I changed my tag up alittle and colored it in with Wisteria Wonder and we also doubled the coffee filters to make the broom fuller .

We also added a Itty Bitty Shapes punch #118309 ( flower ) with the Silver Glimmer paper # 124005

If you missed that video click HERE to view .

P.S  I have (1 ) new video for you this week and that will be posted  Friday . I was hoping to get the 2nd one filmed this week But  time didn't let me get that done .

I will share with you tomorrow what  we made for Jessie to give out to her co workers  for Halloween . 

Thanks for peeking in today. See you tomorrow .

Have a Wonderful Wednesday friends !

Until later.. Happy Stampin!

Double Pocket Treat holder ...

Hi Stampers :

Happy Monday friends !

Here is one of the projects we made at

club night a couple weeks ago .

I will "Hopefully" be posting a video on it soon.

I used the Ghoulish Googlies designer kit # 126914  along with the Googly Ghouls stamp set

• (w)# 128060
• (c) # 128063

These two items when purchased in the bundle you will save 15%

• Bundle Wood-mount # 129852
• Bundle Clear-mount  # 129853

I also used:

• Basic Black card stock #121045
• Pumpkin pie card stock #105117
• More Mustard classic ink # 126964
• Stamping Sponges # 101610
  
• Designer Ribbon Slides # 127834.
• 1/8" Mini Silver Brads # 122941

Have a Wonderful Monday friends !

Until later.. Happy Stampin! 

Thinking of YOU.

Hi Stampers :

Happy Monday friends !

Here are  the cards I made for our Stampers Club hostess  ( Carol) this past Saturday night .

I used Very Vanilla  card stock# 101650 for the base  along with the Comfort Cafe designer paper  # 126898

I used Pool party card stock #122924  and punched out the butterflies with the Elegant Butterfly #127526  I then added a basic Pearl #119247 to the butterfly .

I sprayed the whole card with the Champagne Shimmer paint # 116806  mixed with Rubbing Alcohol  .

I also added some paper piercing along the bottom edge of the Pool Party card stock  with the Esstentials PaperPiercing Pack # 126187 & the Stampin Pierce Mat # 126199

The greeting is from the Sweet Essentials stamp set

• (w)#121907
• (c)# 126457

Have a Fabulous Monday friends !

Until later.. Happy Stampin!

Club Hostess Cards...

Hi Stampers :

Happy Wednesday Friends !

Here are the cards I gave to our Stampers club hostess ( Janet ) this past Saturday night.

I fell in love with a card I saw on Stampin Connection and I knew I had to use her idea  . Thank you Debra Currier.

Here are the items I used :

Bright Blossoms stamp set

• (w) #125495
• (c) #125497

Summer Smooches designer paper #125409

Friendly Phrases stamp set

• (w)# 126149
• (c)# 126151

Rich Razzleberry classic ink #115658

Rich Razzleberry card stock #115316

1 1/4" Circle punch #119861

1 3/8" Circle punch #119860

Lucky Limeade classic ink #122935 and

Lucky Limeade card stock #122926

• cut at 3/4" x 5"

Have a Wonderful Wednesday friends . Thanks so much for peeking in today.

Until later... Happy Stampin!

Bright Blossoms club card

Hi Stampers :

 Happy Monday friends !

Here is the card  we all made at club night Saturday night . It's the 3-D card  which you can view that video HERE .

I used the Calyspo Coral card stock

• In Color Assorted pack 12" x 12" # 124338

along with the Bright Blossoms  stamp set

• (w)#125495
• (c) #125497

with Calypso Coral classic ink #122939

and Lucky Limeade classic ink # 122935

The Petite Pairs  stamp set

• (w)# 122495
• (c)# 122497

was used for the inside  of the card ( below) .

Layer measurements are as follows

Whisper White # 100730

• cut at  3 3/4" 5 1/4"

Summer Smooches Designer paper #125409

• cut at 3 1/2" x 5"

Smaller layer :

Calspo Coral

• cut at 2 1/4" x 3 1/4"

Whisper White # 100730

• cut at 2" x 3"

Summer Smooches designer  paper #125409

• cut at  1 3/4" x 2 3/4"

Punches used  :

• 1" circle punch 110868
• 1 1/4" Circle punch # 119861
• 1 3/8" Circle punch # 119860
• 1 3/4" Scallop circle punch # 119854

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Have a Fabulous Monday friends !

Until later..Happy Stampin!

Stampers Club project #2

Hi Stampers :

Here is the 2nd project we made on Saturday But  with  a slight change of plans LOL .

This was suppose  to be the finished  card BUT of course I forgot  to cut  the Blushing Bride  base piece  of card stock ( shown above )  so Thankful my lovely Momma had  Whisper White CS handy  so  we used  that instead .

My club  girls are all so amazing  and they really  understand how I am  sometimes ~ Forgetful Hee! Hee!

Trust me I am much harder on myself  than my girls are on me   All my  girls  are all so easy going  and I am so very thankful.

Here is the  finished card  and what it looked  like on Saturday . I  still love it  and actually  the Whisper White base makes the flower and greeting pop  more . Its  pretty cool  to see  the same  card  but  with  a different base color it kinda changes  up the whole  card HUH?

Supplies used :

In color designer paper pack #117158 ( Blush Blossom) 

Whisper White card stock #100730

Build a blossom  stamp set #

• (w) #121923 
• (c) # 121994

Blossom Petals punch # 121808

I have a video on this Tri fold pocket card HERE  if you would like  to check that out .

I should have known better  when  I mention that  this project HERE  may be one of my videos  this week ..

Sorry change of plans  April has snuck up on me  and  Friday  will be my April Thank you notes video   and tomorrow  will be a  quick Q&A video

• Punches Old vs New~  
• Update on my Shellac Nails ( 5 days later ),
• Quick tip with older punch ( which one do you have ?)
•  2 of the MOST requested items I get asked about  

  I will get that album on video for you next week  ( sorry) 

Today  I will be finishing up my Monthly newsletter for April .

Have a Fabulous Wednesday Friends .

Until later.. Happy Stampin!

 

Stampers club project #1

Hi Stampers :

Happy Tuesday Friends !

Here is 1 of the projects we made  this past Saturday night at  my Stampers club meeting.

I posted a video on the Fun Flowers book mark HERE

There were a couple things I did different to these .

I used the tiny  flower shape circle that is cut with the Fun Flowers  bigz die#121812 and cut slits on each scallop then add a Basic Pearl  119247 to the center .

The I used the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing  folder # 117335 on the  middle flower after I cut them out  with the Big shot #113439

I also used Pink Pirouette card stock #111351  along with Whisper White 5/8" Satin ribbon # 114616

Have a Terrific Tuesday

Until later.. Happy Stampin!

Stampers club Hostess cards .

Hi Stampers :

 Happy Monday Friends !

Here are  the cards I made for my  Stampers club hostess ( Carol)  this month .

I used the Fun Flowers Bigz die # 121812

with Pretty in Pink card  stock #100459

The greeting is  from the  Sale-a-Bration  stamp set called 

 So Happy  for You

• (w) # 121853
• (c) # 123220

  You still have time to get this set for Free until this Thursday March  31, 2011! Sale-a-Bration  details HERE

I also used the Perfect Polka Dots  embossing folder # 117335 on  the strip ( 1" X  4 1/4")  and then  used the 1 1/4" Square punch # 119865  to punch a banner  tail on one end .

 I finished  the cards with  Basic Pearls # 119247

This months club theme seemed to be everything pink, I will show  you the items we made over the next couple days .

Have a Fabulous Monday and Thanks so much for peeking in today.

Until later... Happy Stampin!

 

Stampers club project #2

Hi Stampers :

Here is  the 2nd Stampers club project we made  this last Saturday . I just love  any cards  that move / pop up/ slide  and well this card  fits  the bill  for my excitement.

I  seen  my friend Jan Tink had a video on this  card HERE ( Thank you Jan ) .

 Then  I got  the new Bitty Bat Punch #119279  and well Since Laurie is one of my  girls  that Just LOVES  Halloween, I  Thought is  was Just perfect  for Club night .

Inside the opening I used the Batt from the stamp set called  Batty for You # 116574

I used the XL scallop circle punch#118874  then working inward I used the  scallop  circle punch # 119854 then the 1 3/8" Circle punch # 119860.

 The Happy Halloween stamp on the inside is from the stamp set called House of Haunts # 111574

Colors I used  for card :

• Pumpkin Pie # 105117
• Concord Crush # 119792
• Black # 121045
• Pear Pizzazz # 119795

Have a Fabulous  Day Friends !

Until later.. Happy Stampin!

Stampers club project #1 .

Hi Stampers :

Here is one of the  club projects we made Saturday night .

I am just  Crazy over this brand new Owl punch #118074 (Love it ! ) 

The  designer paper is called  Sweet & Sour#117390  and  is  so pretty .

For the base of the  card  I used  Peach Parfait #119794 and the  Scallop trim border punch # 118402 I used Rich Razzleberry card  stock # 115316

Birthday Wishes greeting is from the  Occasional Quotes  Level 3 stamp set . Then Punched out with the  Word window punch #119857 and  then layered on  to the Modern Label punch #119849

The  Silver Brad serves  as a small closure  for my card .

Until later.... Happy Stampin!

Hostess Cards for Laurie ...

Hi Stampers :

Here are the cards I gave my Stampers club hostess Laurie  this past Saturday night .

 Love the  Level 2 Hostess Only   stamp set called Punched Posies   from the Summer mini .

 I used  Concord Crush and Pear Pizzazz  for the colors. 

The greeting is  from Occasional Quotes  Brand new Level 3  Hostess only  stamp set.

I also used the  Large  Oval punch # 119855  &  Scallop  Oval punch #119856 with the Scallop Circle  punch # 119854 & Butterfly  punch # 119848

Lets not forget the Dazzling Diamonds 102023 & the 2 way glue pen # 100425

My Club  girls are Always  such a Hoot   we  found another use  for the  Rhinestone Jewels # 119246  on page 188 in new catalog .

 We all wanted  to  turn our Stampers club meeting into a Nose piercing party  LOL  So stinking  funny  I just about peed my pants  from laughing .

Not  sure if the photo picks up our new nose piercing But  either way  dont we all look Fabulous with our new Nose bling  Hee! Hee!

We missed  Carol & Darlene  wish they could have got their nose pierced with us Hee! Hee!

 Until later.. Happy Stampin!

Gina's bunny gift's for club night ..

Hi Stampers:

Here are  the adorable  bunny  holders that Gina made  for all of us . 

 These little bunny pouches  hold a Reese's peanut butter  cup .

 Oh my  goodness sooo stinkin cute!! Love those googley eyes .  

 Gina  said  she  used a piece of 6"X 6" designer paper  and  cut that in half  ( 3" X 6")  Ran it  through the Crimper #101618 then just wrapped it  around the  candy bar.

  Added the  Scallop trim border punch#118402 ( FREE in  sale-a-bration mini )  to give more height to cover the  candy  inside .  Gina said  she folded  the bottom like she  was  wrapping a Christmas gift ..

All I can say is~ LOVE IT!!

Thank you Ginnnnaaaaaaa!!! 

Thanks  for peeking in today.

 Have a wonderful Wednesday .

Until later.. Happy Stampin!

Hostess cards for Gina .

Hi Stampers :

Here are  the  cards I made for Gina  for being our Stampers club hostess .  

sooo cute and sooo simple.

I used the stamp set called For all you do #115360

with the  Ornament punch #116794 ( which is  still available )

Here is a cute photo of Gina Holding her Hostess cards .

Thanks for stopping in today ..

Have a Fabulous Tuesday !

Until later... Happy Stampin! 

Stampers club Saturday night ....

Hi Stampers :

This past Saturday night we had our stampers club night .

The girls  in the  1st photo are  cutting their  Small folding boxout. Just Look at the concentration.. LOL

What a Super fun night . Gina was our hostess  and I will show  you a better  pic in a couple days on what she brought us all for gifts  ( so stinkin cute ) 

You  can take a sneak peek by clicking to enlarge the photo below if you like. :)

Any-who I thought  I would share a  couple photos  from Saturday night  with you . We missed Kelsey and Laurie  for club night but I have  your projects  made for you .

My Favoritest Cousin  joined  us  and she  got  to show off her new tattoo I  just had  to take a pic of it  to share  with you  all today . OH my  goodness  look at  that beautiful  Purple  flower ...

Ruthie's Tattoo is sooo amazing in person.  Just happy  it is  her that got it  and not me .   Ooohhhh the pain !  

Have a Fabulous Day friends  

Until later... Happy Stampin!

Stampers Club Night 12-6-08

Hi Stampers :

 This past Saturday I had  our Stampers  club meeting and I thought I would share  some photos  with you .. JoJo  was our hostess for  this event  & 2 of my Stampin  Queens  brought their  Christmas cards to show all of us . I  want to share them with you  today since their cards  are sooo Awesome . I was told by both of my Stampin queens  that  a couple cards were cased   from others  on SCS and wanted to make sure I  mentioned that( They didn't remember  who though )  . Please click on image  to enlarge your  viewing .

   The 1st 2 are stamped by Laura W.  I  don't know which is my  favorite since I  love them  both since they  are using  one of my  favorite  Christmas stamp sets  this  year ( Christmas classic # 111566) . Fabulous cards  girlie .

 

 

The next photo  are the cards  that Laurie N made  she actually  brought the Santa  candy bar wrapper and also the  matching card  for me .. YAHOO!! Is he  just the  cuttest thing or what ? The  other 2 cards  are also  stamped By Laurie BOY do they sparkle too ( she used the Holiday Lineup stamp set # 111648  for  those  .  

Here are  some other random photos  of our Club night . I also wanted to let  my Club  girls know that  those that  couldn't make it  to  club night  ( Philly, Laura, Kristen, Jenny & Carol ) both  club projects  will be featured this week in Video  format  . We always have so much fun at our  club  night . I would try  and explain  a few of these  photos  BUT that may take  to much time Hee! Hee! I suppose you  Just had to be there  to  understand :) 

Have a Fabulous Monday  Stampers and I will see  you  all again tomorrow

xo

Dawn

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Happy Sunday stampers !

Today I thought I would share  a couple photos  from my  club night  Friday  along with  the couple photos of  what was happening outside .. Here is our  Hostess Kristin  with her hostess  cards I made her.. ( I used the SUMMER PICNIC DS paper  along with BIG BOLD BIRTHDAY stamp set  OOO and look at the new STRIPED Bashful blue GG ribbon too ) OH my  goodness Kristin  brought  us such  awesome goodies to eat & MY favorite was Kristin's Chicken Spaghetti YUMM-O!! .Here are a couple upclose photos of  Kristin's cards I made her . We had our Club meeting  at my moms home  this month  and  since it   stormed outside   everyone was saying we  should have been at my house in the basement  :-) 1st Tornado  watch until 9:00pm , then the sky was  doing freaky things  then the  down pour of Rain  and then Hail .. Gee whiz it  was such a weird storm,  But nothing  could keep us stampers from having a Great time .. My club girls are a Great bunch of  women. I had a Request for  my Stamp-a-stack event  in May so I will get started working on  that event .. Will keep you posted girls  when  this  fun night  SO if YOU want to come  and join the fun with us in Pontiac  Michigan you can . I will share sneak peeks of the  cards we will be making in the upcoming weeks :-)

Hey  Guess  what ?

I have   my  Stampin with Dawn Videos  available  now ON DVD.  These are the ones  with Music. You know the ones right ?  Click on over to my STAMPIN SHOP and scroll  to the end of the post to view what's on this DVD and  How to order yours today ..

Have a Fabulous Sunday girls.

Until later... Happy Stampin!

Stampers Club project this month ...

Here is one of the 3 projects I  have my Stampin Queens making this month for  our club night .. Don't you just love the pink and cho chip  color together ? I used the SCALLOP PUNCH ( 1 half  of the punch )   for the  frosting on the cake .. along with the new BOHO PUNCH  for the  little flower .The 2 sets I used are from the  Sale a bration sets  called LOTS OF THOUGHTS  &  BIRTHDAY WHIMSY .

HEY Don't  forget

We are  down to the  last 5 days to be able to get these  fabulous SAB sets  for FREE  you have until March 17th  so Act quickly .. You can get  any of the FREE SAB sets  for every $50.00 spent  ( before S&H and tax)  don't miss out ...

Plus  the Starter  kit is  on promotion right now until March 17th also for ONLY $159.00 thats 20% off  and Click HERE to look at all you get for that  price  HOLY MOLY!!  Plus  you can customize  your  starter kit also.. You can  purchase that starter  kit  HERE Just call me ( my PH # is listed at the top left hand side of my  blog ) or email me   with any questions you may have  I would love to  chat  with you  about becoming a   Glitter Queen ~ Plus before  you  start  entering your info to purchase the  starter  kit  to be a  SU! demonstrator you will need  to enter my personal password and I can give that to you  when you call or email me .. I look forward to  talking with you about becoming a  Glitter Queen .

Thanks  for stopping by  today and sharing  your  day with me.

Until later... Happy Stampin!

Photos from the SCS Michigan event today ..

Wow what a great time  I had putting  beautiful faces to all the  awesome  bloggers and SCS stampers I met  on today .  Had a Chance to take a few  photos  so I thought I would share them with you .Car pooling with Harriet and Dawn  was  super Great and made the  drive so much sweeter.  Thanks  girls :-) I got to met  so many of you. Here  are a few other photos   I had a chance to  get  while we  were there .

This photo  has JEN & SHARON with us . What a  Great bunch of gals . I  enjoyed  chatting with them, Plus learned a few new things to boot  gotta love that.:-)Thanks Sharon  for your Great tip on tieing  a ribbon bow  AWESOME!

Then my   blogger friend ROSE ANN was pretty busy  telling us about the copics and she even brought  extras  for us to be able to use the copics also.YAHOO!   I was able to chat with her  for awhile   and  she even gave me a MR Crabby pants shadow box card  which I will show you all later  this week ( Its is soooo  stinkin awesome ! )   But I was able to snap  this photo of her while she demoed the copic markers  ( which are Wonderful~ Thanks Rose Ann you did a Fabulous )   

Then  to  top off this wonderful event my  blogger friend LORIEN bought in a HUGE box of cards for the troops  OH my  goodness ..Thank you  so Much  Lorien! Such beautiful cards girlie. Here is  a photo of her and I,  What a  Hoot  we had  laughing while stamping (Note to self : Make  Mr crabby pants with Trousers .. Hee ! Hee! ) Only  Lorien would appreciate that  :-)  Thanks  for a wonderful time  girls. I look forward to seeing you all again  one day soon .

Until later... Happy Stampin!!

The OTHER project we are making for my clubs this month .. ..

Hi Everyone : Just wanted to show you  the other project we are making this month at my  club meetings ( which my  2nd  club meeting is Tonight   in my  stampin room in Pontiac, Mi ) This project is just perfect  with the  designer paper  SPECIAL This Month (  which is Ending  tonight .. Call /email me to  get in on this awesome  special before its gone ) ..  These  6 pointed stars are  quite easy  to make I  didn't   even have to use any adhesive what so ever .. (  SIDE NOTE to My East side  club girls~  I will re- show this  at our next  club meeting  since we use  sticky  strip  and  it did not  work out  to great  I will  show you  again  BUT with out using  any adhesive this time ..Trust me it is FABULOUS!!!  )  such a super cute idea  for   adding  embellishments to  Christmas presents   or   decorating the Christmas  tree /  windows of your home ..  I also use   the ELASTIC  Silver  cord  in the  current mini ( Just love this  cord )  For My 6 point  star I used  the DASHING Designer paper , I also ran the edge of the 2 way glue pen  down the  edges of my  star  so I could add  a  little  sparkle to my  star  with dazzling diamonds .   Speaking of using  these cute stars  for  your gift wrapping ..My Uncle Doug  asked me if I would  like to  donate   something  for  this event  that he is  part of .. If you look  really  close  at this  basket I gave him  you  will see the Star  on the  outside  with the  ribbon .. pretty cute huh?Speaking of my Uncle Doug You have  got to check these  photos out of  the accident  he was in this week ..  you  can  view them HERE on my  other blog.

( Inside basket  includes  2 stamp sets, stampin spot ( black )  Christmas cards ,  Christmas bow ,  chapstick holder with Reese  chapstick  balm ,  snowman candy wrapper chocolate bar ,  sponge,  gift box with chocolate ,  dixie  cup   recovered with DS paper  with chocolate ( of course )  Current  SU! catalog ,   stampin techniques  booklet ,  demo pamphlet, and a Christian Track,& The Star on  front of basket   )

Thanks  so much for  sharing a  part of your  day with me  .. Hey come back later this afternoon  for  a  quick Friday tip   from yours truly  :-)

Until  tomorrow ... Happy Stampin!!

Christmas Stamp camp sneak Peek ...

It is not to late to  pre  register for my Christmas Stamp camp.  We will be making  these  projects shown in these  2 photos   (2 Money card holders ** Money Not included Hee! Hee!)** & bow) PLUS  3 gift bags w/ 3-4 more bows + matching  note cards   w/ envelopes  PLUS   double  gift  pouch with 4 matching note cards & envelopes   16 projects  total . YOU   don't want to miss all the fun ..  Email me   for more details  girls .. Deadline for pre-register and pre-pay is This  upcoming  Friday November 23rd ...

Until later... Happy Stampin!!

Club meeting tonight ...

OH boy  tonight we will be stamping in  Warren  Michigan  with my East side stampers  ..  Sure wish you  all were  coming  cause   we always have so much FUN FUN FUN!! We will be making this card  .. Seriously  this card is sooo much more beautiful IRL . 

This is  one of my  favorite  techniques lately  Embossing resist  and  Just love my  spritzer tool  and  those icicles  that were made with Crystal  Effects ( But for club tonight  these icicles  strips  are already made up since they take  awhile to dry ) Don't worry girls I will demo  them for you  to show you how  super easy  they are to make .. Thanks  Corinne  :-)  I used  Night of navy, Certainly  celery  and whisper white card stock  with  certainly  celery  and Brocade blue classic  ink with daubers   over the   clear embossed area on  whisper white  the  SNOW wheel  was inked with  Night of navy   classic ink  and the tree and  swirls  are from the  SEASON OF JOY set  all of which are gone after this month girls .. I then added the   COLOR SPRITZER TOOL  with Night of navy marker Then finished  card off with dazzling  diamonds ..  pretty snazzy huh girls ..

Hey  girls are you  counting the days  till the retirment list is Out like me ?

Until Tomorrow

Happy Stampin!!

My Hostess Book

I resently  purchased this super  cute  ON BOARD BITTY BOOK and  decided  when I  got  it I would  use it  for all my hostess's  this  upcoming year ( ya know a simple way for me to  keep track of  who gets invited to my next years Hostess  Appreciation party )   pretty  clever huh?  Hee! Hee! .. I used  the ROUND UP  simply  scrappiing  kit  for decorating it  and I just love love love how it turned out .. each Hostess will get her photo  taken at  her club night or  workshop   and  I will  design a tiny  scrapbook page to  slide inside the pages which are  3 1/4 X 3 1/4  size  such a  cute little  book , Notice  the cute  photo on the very back .. I thought it would be nice to see who all  was invited  to this past October  Hostess appreciation party .. I also added  a few  sliver  eyelets  on the  overside  album sleeve( which comes with the book  all for 9.95 +S&H and tax )with my  CROP-A-DILE (which I love ) This  book is sooo easy to  decorate  and so many things you  can use this book for .. I will be making  another  one for  my  Daughters Homecoming   again this year.. These make really nice  personal   gifts for your loved ones for the  upcoming Holidays .

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DAWNS SIDE NOTE: I just wanted to clear up that  this book is for ME  not  for all my hostess's  I  take a photo of my hostess  and  add them  to a  scrapbook page to fit inside  this  book .. It is for me to refer back on  all my hostess's I had  for the upcoming year .. Hope  this helps .. 

Yesterday was a whirl wind  from the min my  feet hit the floor  what a  AWESOME   day ..  I will be sharing photos  of  our trip  to the  Detroit Science  Center on my  other blog " COUNTING MY BLESSINGS" this week  OH and lets not  forget  today is Thankful Tuesday  over there too  girls

Thanks so much for peeking in today and Hope your Tuesday is  as Wonderful as I think YOU all are .. .

Until Tomorrow ... Happy  Stampin!!

Glitter Queens Meeting this past Saturday ..

Hi girls :

  Our Glitter Queens  meeting was alot of fun  and we were  stampin the time away .. I  knew I wanted to  do at least 2 M&T's  since it was soo long  since I held one . Sad to say but it  was nearly 1 year ago since our last get  together ( Bad Dawn I know  HUH?) .. Anyway .. We all made this cute Christmas card  which I cased  from  ANDREA. Our 2nd M&T was centered around  the Manila folder tag book we are seeing everywhere . I used  1/2  of  the folder  to make  this smaller  version    Here is what  that looks like finished .  I just think these are the cutest thing   Here are our  shoebox swaps  from our meeting ..

1st is Harriet's card she used  the  spooky  skyline  jumbo wheel and the  Home is where the  Haunt is .. along with  chocolate chip  and pumpkin pie  Cards  stock and the  creepy  crawly  designer paper .  she also  added  Hodge  podge hard wear  buckle  and  mustard  GG ribbon

Here is my moms   shoe box swap .. she  used the  baroque Motifs  set along with the happy Birthday saying from the Voila' Set  . We used  bashful blue  Cardstock  with Night  of Navy classic ink with the dauber . both cards used  Dazzling diamonds  of  course  cause it  is  by all means a GLITTER queens  meeting ya know  Hee! Hee!

Lastly here is my  shoe box swap card .. I used the  season of Joy  set  with river rock  cardstock and  the DASHING  designer paper  with of course the  white  gel pen ..    For the Ink I used was  Always artichoke ( tree)  and River  rock  and Real red . Our glitter queens meeting was  alot of fun ..  and sooo sorry  a few of my  girls  couldn't make the meeting .. There is  always next time .

Until later ... Happy  Stampin!

Club meetings this September ...

This  card  was our Other Club project for the month of  Sept .. Don't you just love  Gate  cards ? I  was sooo excited about  doing this card   Not only  cause  we got to use Mr Spider  again  and those googlie eyes .. But I just love this  type of  fold   I used  Groovy Guava  and Black  Card stock  along with whisper white  and  the new  double stitched  Groovy  Guava  ribbon ( Love that )  We also added  glitter to  the  2 spiders  on  club night BUT  this  sample does not reflect that sorry .. ( It is soo much better with glitter ) Wink wink . This was also my  1st draft in making the card  before  our actual meetings so I stamped the inside with  the  web wishes  greetings .. ( retired )   What a Great Bunch of  fun girls we have at our club meetings ..  Never a dull moment thats  for sure .. sometimes  I  laugh  so Hard I think I may PIMP's ( pee in my pants )    Our East side club  was on the 21st of September   and Our  Stampers club 6  was  this past Friday night . Susan was not able to make  it to  our  Stampers club meeting this month ..  HI Susan we miss you !!! Have a Great Monday girls  and thanks  for popping in

Until later... Happy  Stampin!!

Measurements for gate card :

4 1/4 X 11

score each end at 2 3/4 "

Layerd pieces measure   

4"x 1 1/2" ( Black )

  3 3/4" X 1 3/8 "whisper white

Club night this past Friday ..

This past Friday night was  Club night   Here are some pic's  of our  fun stamping time together.. Our Hostess was Susan and she  brought  us all gifts  I of course got a purple one  they hold either a  photo or a recipe card   they are sooo cute .

  Here is mine  up close .Thank you Susan . 

Here are some more photos of  my  stampin queens  . Here is Laura and Kelsey getting ready to leave  but not  before checking out my  display  board 

Here is our Hostess Susan( middle )  with  My Mom and Robyn .. YUP Robyn came ( YAHOO!)  and had fun stamping .. (Funny thing yesterday  at church Robyn  told me  she   was dreaming of Stamping .. Maybe it was the seed I planted  when I told her she  would  Hee! Hee! ) I actually have a  really awesome photo of her and her cards  that  she  made  with  us  But I will  wait to post that  cute photo   later this week cause  I want the cards to be a surprise for my  club  girls this Friday night with my East Side Stampers . Harriet  was  on vacation  and we all missed you girlie ( Hi girlie ) .. Big Thank you to Susan  for  her  cards for the troops  also .. Thanks  for  stopping in today ,  and Have a Marvelous Monday  girls. We are getting lots of Much needed rain this morning .

Until later .. Happy Stampin!!

Happy Friday girls...

  For our club night   a  few  weeks ago Harriet gave us all this   super cute folder with all  kinds of goodies inside .. what a sweet   gift  we all got from Harriet ..Thank you girlie ..  and then last week  Harriet  brought over these  3 Candy bars she made  ( Yes Harriet is a Glitter Queen  also )  and cased the idea from  our  Stampin Success magazine .. She gave one to me , Jessie and  my mom  are they cute or what .. Thank you   again Harriet they look YUMMY!!  ..  Our  club meeting  was  alot of fun . Here are  the cards my girls  made that evening. We always have so much fun on our  club night .. Speaking of which tonight is our August  club night  stay  tuned for more fun  photos  of  our  Stampin night together . Until later ...Happy Stampin Girls!

East Side club meeting Photos & goodies ...

Howdy  girls ..  I seem  so far behind ..   I  am finally  getting around to posting  what all happened  last Friday night  at my  East side club ..OH boy we had a blast .. Our Hostess  Gina rocked the house  with tons of food and  Then look what she made for all of  us  that  attended  the club night . Her goody  held  so many  cuttle bug  Samples  WOWZIE!!  See that top one  laying  down ? I have that one on its way to me as I write this ,. I just love  her goodies she made for us . Can you see the  sour cream container  she also gave us  that held mints ..  What a Nice thing  Gina  did  for all of us .. Thank you  GF!!  Ok  here are a few of the photos I got  from that club meeting also ..  Here is our Hostess Gina   with  what she loves to do . (Stamping  Of course ) and  here is  Trish .

Trish is  such a sweetie   she has opened her home for us on a  few club nights. Her basement is  sooo Perfect for  our  meetings ..  Thank you  so Much Trish  for  letting us use  your home on  Club night .

Ok on  to  the next photo . Here is  Our  sweet and Crazy Laurie .. OH my   she  had me laughing   so hard a  couple times .. ( Remember us  Girls chatting  about  my hubby's BIG return  home  Hee! Hee!   ) Laurie  does not  Like her photo taken so This was the best one I got that night .. I have more  of her  in my  web shots  if you  must see  her  Hee! Hee!

Then there is  Carol and Jenny in the next photo .. OH my  we all crack up with Carols  Darth Vader impression.. Hee! Hee!  and sweet Jenny  is still  trying to convince her  hubby  that all we really  do at these club meeting is Stamp  Hee! Hee! Like  what could there be that brings such pleasure and smiles to our faces  than  Stampin .. Ok besides that Wink Wink ..  What a HOOT that meeting was!  come to think of it Its always  fun stampin with friends,  having FUN chit chat and eating  Great food ..   HUH?

Then look at this super cute card Carol made  for me .  She also made  our Hostess Gina one too .. Lucky us HUH? Plus I got more cards for the troops  from Jenny  too .. Thank you  girls for making  our club night so much FUN!!!

This was one of the  2 projects we made  that night  using the  Baroque Motifs set .. I would show you the other BUT  I have another stampers club tonight and we have to  keep  at least one of the projects a surprise  Right ..

OH boy I feel another fun night  tonight coming on .Yesterday evening Steve  fixed  our computer ..YIPPEE!  which I had no  worries  about him  fixing the  situation  ..What I was concerned about was  Jessie and I  hooking it all back up ..  Jessie is sooo SMART!! and so is my  best Gal Angie ..Hee!Hee!  Jessie and I just labeled the  cord's  and it was a breeze  Thanks GF!!

Thank's  for  peeking in and see you tomorrow ...

Until later ... Happy Stampin!!