Elf Ornaments

I tried out a new tutorial I had printed off ages ago and never got around to making. Playing with some stuff for the Christmas Craft Fair to sell for Scouts.

Totally packed scrappers!!

We had the van looking like a low rider heading back from Scrapfest at MOA. I can't believe we finally got it all in there but we did, here are a few pictures of the totally packed up van.

Scrapfest Hero Arts Class

Chelsea and I took two Hero Arts classes with Jennifer at Scrapfest. She even let us take this picture before class, it was totally fun, we had a great time.

MOA Make and Take Boards

Time to Re-live 80's Hair

It is my 20 year class reunion this weekend can you believe it. I can't possibly be that old. So in honor of this humble occassion and for my friends at the Stamp Shack lets revisit all of my 80's hair from Kindergarten to Senior Year shall we.

Brad Paisley

Make and Takes

The purse was an Archiver's make and take and the ornament was from Cosmo Cricket. Both from MOA.

Tim Holtz Class

This is the project at made at Tim Holtz's class Windows to the Past. OMG it was so fun, he is just an awesome teacher.

Inchie Swap

This is the group of inchies from one of my latest swaps, all made by very talented ladies. All photos were posted with the permission of the artists. If you were in this swap and you do not see your card, then I didn't have your permission to post, if you shoot me an email I will add it to this posting. Also I am human and do make mistakes, so please let me know if I made one here. In other words if you name is spelled wrong, I missed one of your cards, or just anything I managed to bungled please let me know so I can correct it.

1-Lisa Kalbfleish-Lisa
2-Chelsea Comer-spredbirds
3-Ellie Werner- Ellie
4-Cindy Hoch-GSMom385
5-Michelle Clark-emmcee
6-Lisa Guyon-lisaguyon
7-Joan Nancy Anthony- Nancy
8-Judy Ladewig- dgbearsmom

9-Michelle Moore- 3darlings

10-Suzi Ferguson- Suzi_F

11-Patt Pope-Patty

12-Shirley Duerst-shurlyjean

13-Myrna B Saldana-MyRnAbS

Balloons Balloons Balloons

I never had a change to post photos to the blog from this year's Indianola Classic. So here are a few of the highlights.

Out with the old in with the new

Before with our water damaged floor. Yuckco.

We are getting closer, this is after the cabinets were removed, new sub floor laid and then new tile floor is in and counter is coming this week. I can hardly wait, ham and swiss is getting a little bit old.

The Cast is OFF!!

Yippy!! The cast came off yesterday and now she is just in a wrist brace for a couple of weeks. After that she only has to wear it if she plays soccer. She is totally stoked because she can play in the tournament this weekend in Stuart. Mom is still a little scared because if she gets hit, or falls hard she can break it again. Glad Dad is taking her to the tournament. I am going to be working at the ITU World Cup Tri in Des Moines. Still going to be nervous until they are both back safe and sound that night from the tournament.

Bookem Danno

Well I did, I booked the room for the MOA trip. It was a little bit more than I wanted to spend but worth it to be so close to everything going on.

My Stamp Collection

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GS Anual Meeting- Last One

Well they had the last anual meeting of Moingoina Council last night. Makes me sort of sad to see it go. October 1 we become the Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa Council. I am sure the name will grow on me, but it hasn't yet. It was an awesome night. They awarded April the Moingoina Award she will be in the last group to ever receive it. Suzanne and me received the Appreciation Pin. I almost cried when the read letters from my troop. The girls were so sweet. It was a fun night although I am disappointed they didn't give awards to all the people we nominated from South Central Warren Service Unit, everyone was very deserving.

First Inchie

This is my first inchie card. I made it for Jennie's swap on the PCMB board. I can see that these are going to get really addictive. I used Technique Tuesday's new limited edition set for birthdays. the leaves on the front are the flames from the candle in the set. Inside is a Happy Birthday verse. The layers are flower punches I use for quilling.

Peek A Boo Card #2 for Swap

This is card #2 for Mary's swap. I think it turned out much better than #1 maybe I am getting the hang of this. Items used pink cardstock, cuttlebug embossing folder of flowers, Stampendous images for flowers and butterfly, Hero Arts for sentiment.

Toao's Peek A Boo swap

This card is for Mary's swap with her peek a boo template. It was much harder than I thought it would be to make this style of card. My first one went into the round file. But attempt 2 appears to be ok but not my favorite work. Photo two is the inside. Items used, Bazzill sparkly cardstock, image colored with prisma pencils and gamsol. Stamps are Great Impressions for the kitty images and Inkadinkdo for the sentiment. Clear glitter pen used to accent the images.

Bleach Tech from Card Club w/ The Chix

Becky taught us a new technique of stamping an image, heat embossing it then applying bleach to the card stock to bleach out areas of the stamped image. You can then color it after it dries if you wish. I left mine white in this example to bring out the design in the stamp. I love the way it turned out. The sketch I used was from www.scraproomblueprints.com and was #19 by Mary Yontz. I just love working from sketches. I also have adopted Erin's style of taking photos of my cards. I love the look of adding parts you used to create the card into the photo.

The Shack is Down

Boo hooo, the shack is down right now. Well I guess I will go to bed.