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.

All Ashore That's Going Ashore!

Here's our family photo aboard our cruise ship!  The food, the fun, the company, EVERYTHING was wonderful!!  Er...except for one very important detail which is why our otherwise fabulous cruise company will go unnamed!!

The Silver Lining
Here's that one very sad detail--at least for those of us that were looking forward to a card-making class.  
The director emptied out some thin papers, glue sticks, colored pencils, a few chalks and said we could use the so-called "supplies" to make Christmas cards.  Okaaaaay!  Well, I decided I would imagine what I would do with a meager set of supplies if I was stranded on a desert island.  This little Christmas tree card was the best I could do, spoiled girl that I am!
But.....all was not lost!  I met a lovely lady, Dee-Dee, who also has lots of "toys" and while we commiserated on the sad state of affairs of the supplies offered to us, we also discovered a mutual love of creating scrapbooks and cards!  We promised to communicate and I look forward to sharing ideas with my new-found friend!!

Fall color "thank you" tags for my Open House attendees!  Our orders will be in on Tuesday!  Yayy!!

My goal is to create 10 creating cards every other day so that I can get my stockpile up for gift-giving and everyday use!  I used my favorite embossing folder, Elegant Lines, some of my favorite text stamps from Perfect Punches and Word Play, along with Sahara Sand, Whisper White, and Early Expresso Card Stock (CS) to create a "stack" of cards.  The 5/8" Chocolate Chip satin ribbon and the perfect little pearls resulted in a stack of elegant greeting cards.  This evening it's Bravo Burgundy and Always Artichoke CS along with Just Believe stamps and those gorgeous antique brads.
More to come!  

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!