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It's been a whirlwind since the SU Regional Convention!  I was fortunate to be asked to judge choirs in Seminole, Flagler, and Volusia Counties last Thursday and Friday!  I drove back and forth because we had family dinners planned with our out of town family from Colorado!  Busy but fun!!


In between we had our SOS Stampers' meeting at Michelle's grandma's house!  Beautiful refreshments and fun, enthusiastic stampers!  Who could ask for more!  We celebrated Claudia's birthday and Donna was the doorprize recipient!!

 Michelle and I in our official SOS shirts!  Each hostess will get one of my hand-painted/stamped shirts

when it's her turn to be hostess!

Elise, Kris, Vera and Joyce working on the first project, a Sweet Summer greeting card.

Trudy, Claudia, Terri, Donna (stop hiding, Donna! :-)) and Michelle showing of their Sweet Summer cards!

Here is our Mystery Card!  I didn't bring along my original so that we could enjoy the surprise of seeing the Japanese lantern appear!  I CASEd this card from my SU Regional table-mate, Janet Goshorn's beautiful swap!  Janet gave inspirational credit to Lee Ann Graff!

Amy and Steve's "Save the Date" Invitations!  Amy, Steve, Nate (What a guy my husband is!  He

paper-trimmed relentlessly!) Alba (Amy's maid of honor) and  I cut, trimmed, stamped, embossed, corner punched and stuck pearls on 100 invitations and envelopes Sunday afternoon!  

More bookmarks and some felt die cuts for my felt display board.

My melted flowers!  I learned how to make these gojus flowers at Regionals.  Christmas ribbon, organza, heat tool and  wooden rub-on tool and VOILA!!  A demo for the SOS meeting.

An oldie, but goodie!  Inspired by Cheri Wenger.  Doodle wheel (O how I miss that one), gold embossing.  I created  several of these to demonstrate card-making at the Pizza Gallery, a wonderful local eatery that featured lots of fun art!

Open House Sunday is coming up next Sunday, April 10, from 2-5 pm at the Oasis! 

 At that time we'll have a special drawing for a stamp set from the names of "commenters" on our last blog!  Thank you so much, gals!!  Our next drawing prize is one of the SU grab bags so be sure to leave a comment on today's blog!

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Demo!

Well, in a good and bad sort of way!!  Our kitchen reno is finally underway in earnest and believe it or not, I know the worst is yet to come (tunnelling through the concrete floor on Thursday to relocate the plumbing and drain)  but......next month this time all should be well!  (Hmmmm....too bad we can't get that same wallpaper that was under the cabinets!! LOL)  Today the soffitt comes out.  More mayhem and destruction.  What price progress!! 

SOS Stampers, we'll meet in the living room on Aug. 24!!

But Now For Some Peace and Diversion!!

Here are a few cards I've enjoyed creating.  The "C Is For Cat" card is pretty much CASE'd from a card on the internet!  I just had to give it a try!

The next two cards are from my favorite new stamp set!  I love it because if you had to be stranded on an island with only one stamp set, this would cover about everything!  My good friend and mentor, Cheri Wenger, gave me some artist's canvas that worked great with the Elegant Lines embossing folder and some Soft Subtle Pastels!  (I'm going to be creating an album using canvas in the near future!!)

Happy Stamping!!!  Ree

Sweet Inspiration!

Here is a picture of the incredible and entirely edible wedding cake created for my duaghter, Deborah's, wedding by my DAL's SIL! :-D  We knew Sue was super-creative but this is just incredible!  All of the roses, leaves, and jasmine flowers were hand-created and edible.  The shells were pearly white chocolate!  Not only does the cake look fabulous, the taste was........mmmmmmm. The bottom layer was lemon with lemon filling and the middle layer was chocolate with rasberry filling!  (Note the emphasis on WAS!)

Here is my inspiration for the SOS Stampers' meeting this coming Tuesday evening:  One of the make and takes will incorporate the color and floral themes of the cake.  I wish I could bring samples to the Tuesday evening meeting but.....That's the problem with a REALLY delicious (non-commercial, non-generic) cake.  Everyone wants a little of both flavors!!