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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!!

Holiday Stampin' Fun With the SOS Stampers!

Stamp Clubs Are Being Formed For 2011!  They're easy, fun and a great way to gradually add to your "stash" of  stamping supplies!!  Contact me to get your "party" started!!

We celebrated Joyce's birthday and Joyce celebrated by having won two blog candy prizes!!  Everyone won a doorprize!  Claudia provided fun snacks and a yummy razzleberry pie with whipped cream!!  Just what hard-working stampers need!!

Here are Donna and Trudy with their poinsettia cards.  We used both clear and gold embossing powder to achieve beautiful, shiny flowers.

From left:  Kris, Joyce, Claudia and Barbara showing their handiwork!

Our Stamp Club Projects:  Gift bags, an elegant, hand-painted large Christmas Postcard gift tag, and of course our poinsettia card and coordinating envelope.

Open House Sunday!

The inside of our vintage card.

What a fun afternoon we had.  There was a seafood dip, chocolate, pumpkin pie, brownies and LOTS of stamping!  Tina, Claudia, Barbara Y and Barbara S, Joan Cz and Joan C, Mary Dent, and Kathy braved the mountain of supplies AND the dreaded spritzer :-)!!  We warmed up with a little glitzier version of the Red Hat Society luncheon gift tag.  We added silver embossing and little punches on the scallop circle.  Anyone booking a regular workshop in their home or at the Oasis will receive their choice of the decorator punch or the scallop border punch.  Yes,these are some of my random offers.  The first visitor to leave a comment gets a goody bag.

On the left is our vintage card featuring a shabby chic flower and a die-cut envelope with a message card on the inside.
On the right is our "blingy" holiday gift tag with lots of silver embossing.

Here's our fun and creative group of gals!

Thank you again, Sunday Stampers!!

Red Hat Luncheon

Hi, Stampers!

Such a fun day I had, getting to stamp with a lovely group of ladies from the Melbourne area!  I found a red fedora so that I could be in style!  And in style they WERE!  I have never seen so many creative hats and purple worn so elegantly and beautifully!  After lovely opening exercises, we were treated to a wonderful Asian buffet!  I have never seen so many fresh and delicious foods in one location!

So Swirly Gift Tag

Terrific ladies!

Finished products!

A number of the ladies are avid stampers so we then set out to create a special red and white gift tag!  Here we are rolling, punching and stamping!

Fall Creations!

We jumped right back into creating at the Stampin' Oasis with an Open House on Sunday and the SOS Stamp Club on Tuesday evening!!  So much fun with both groups!  I'm such a lucky girl to get to be around so many wonderful and inspiring folks!

Here are some of the projects we made.  Actually, these are the projects our SOS Gal, Joyce, made on Tuesday evening as we rode out torrents of rain and tornado warnings.  We kept an eye on the weather reports while stamping, "pastel"ing, folding, and punching!  You can see more fun stamping projects at  Joyce's Kaleidescope link

The Composition Book in the foreground is our Stamp Club Challenge for the October meeting.  Members will bring their finished projects for "Show and Tell" at that time.  I can't wait to see them!!

My wonderful kitchen is almost finished, with just a bit of electrical work to be done.  I could live there!  I love the large work space at the island where a sink WAS to go,  (That worked out SO much for the best!) the new fridge and bottom freezer, but most of all, the way I can visit while still being in the kitchen area.  The granite top also worked well for the die-cut machine!

Getting our Mojo on Monday Workshop!

Gotta love our paperclip bookmark and card!A beeyooteeful card similar to one I found in Success Magazine!  More later!!!!

SOS Stampers' Projects and Two Step Owl Punch

Little Punch Fishies
Here's our first project of the evening, cute little Marina Mist and Daffodil Delight "kissy" fishes created using the ornament punch and stamp and the small heart punch.  The "So Swirly" jumbo wheel created our swrirling waters.  All hearts, lips, and fins were treated to a layer of Crystal Effects.

Elegant Wishes
Our next Make and Take took a turn for the elegant.  So Saffron Cardstock (CS) was embossed with the Elegant Lines folder. To allow drying time,  prior to the workshop the paper flower was colored using 5 drops of So Saffron Reinker and 1 drop of Tangerine Tango.  I colored the leaves with 5 drops of Garden Green.  Gorgeous Vanilla Satin ribbon added a final elegant touch.

I love the new pearls.  We found that by loosening them slightly with your nail and then using craft tweezers, you can easily set them where you want.

Whooooooo gets all the demo projects?  Why the hostess of course.  Elaine got to keep all of my demo cards, a gift tag that I demo'd using the new Rectangle Scallop Embosslit, and a fun card using the Two-Step Owl Punch.  You'll also notice the Big Note and leaves die-cuts, and a moon made with a circle punch used to create this fun card.

Happy Stampin'!!!

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!! 

New Product Gift Tags and My New Shirt!!

NEW PRODUCT GIFT TAGS!  (IT'S EASY TO MAKE BEAUTIFUL STUFF WITH SUCH GREAT SUPPLIES!!!!)

Here are the gift tags for my SOS Stamp Club orders.  How fun to work with such luscious colors and fabulous accessories.  The product list is:

Paper:  Poppy Parade Cardstock (CS), Peach Pizzazz CS, Sunny Garden Designer Paper Series (DSP)

Stamps:  Punch Potpourri (Level 1 hostess stamps)

Ink:  Real Red Classic Stamp Pad

Accessories:  Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch, Boho Blossoms Extra Large Punch, Pear Pizzazz 1/2" Stitched-Poly Ribbon, Linen Thread

ATTENTION, SOS STAMPERS!!  IT'S A STAMP CHALLENGE!!

When you receive your new bag of supplies, you will also receive a "baggie" of coordinating papers:  CS and DSP in various shapes.  Your challenge is to create a card of your own design using the challenge supplies.  Using your own choice of ink, stamps, etc., just create!!  Bring your card to the July 20 meeting so that we can share your ideas!  Rules are:  NONE!!  :-)

MY NEW SHIRT!

Here I am in the Stampin' Oasis in my new shirt, a gift from my good friend and stampin' buddy, Linda.  Linda lives in South Carolina where she stamps with gals from her workplace!  I have enjoyed watching her creativity grow by leaps and bounds!!  She sent me this cute, comfy shirt with a great scrapbook logo!  I am so inspired by it, Linda, that I'm going to design a Stampin' Oasis shirt as an incentive gift for all of my stampers!   Thank you so much!!
(By the way, if you enlarge the photo, you will see one of our Sheltie's ears in the lower right hand corner.  That's Whylie,one of  our rescue Shelties, running to get into the picture.  He didn't quite make it but he was on his way.  He LOVES to have his picture taken!!)