Work Room Clean Up

Yesterday and today I've been trying to clean out and straighten up my work room as I have rearranged the computer room and found stuff I can take to the thrift store. Among the mess in my work room, I found several shoeboxes filled with the samples and kits I had made last year when a group was to come to my house to make cards. They never came and I forgot about the kits so I made up some of them today.

I have several more kits to make cards from (five or six cards in each set)for the rest of next week which will put me way ahead with the greeting cards I will need in the coming months.

Stampin' Up Challenge

This Sunday, Donna and Emily are having an Open House with some 'make and takes'. They have challenged us to bring a card using Stampin' Up supplies to this event for a contest. My two cards are shown below. The cardstock is from the In Color line; I used Rich Razzleberry, Bermuda Bay, and Crushed Curry. The printed papers are from the same color group in the double-sided Designer Series group. The organza ribbon is no longer available from Stampin' Up but can be purchased at craft stores. The stamp is from "Merci" and I used Marvy glitter gel pens to outline the design after stamping with black ink.

Christmas 2009 Scrapbook Update

In August, I attended a Christmas Album workshop hosted by Donna and Emily to make a 6-inch by 6-inch Christmas album. I made one for each son and his family, then decided to make one for myself. Here are some of the pages from my sons' albums. Notice that I used the pages I made at the workshop as part of 8-inch by 8-inch pages.

Titusville Girls' Club Meets in Virginia

Smart Art Card

I subscribe to a newsletter from Australia which sends me four card templates twice a month. This morning I made a version of one of the cards for January 1,2010 which they named "5 Today. You can see samples of their work at www.smartartcards.com and also subscribe through that site.

My Craft Bargain of the Season

As I mentioned earlier, I hoped to get to the dollar store for marked down cards in order to get the envelopes. Lucky me! I was able to get a dozen boxes of 16 cards each, so I now have 192 A2 size envelopes for a total cost of $6.36. I could have gotten many more but restrained myself. I plan to do the same again next year.

Purple Dotted Tissue Box Card

This is another card I made using a piece cut from a tissue box for the background. I needed one more birthday card to get me into January. I also had to make four more Christmas cards today. Somehow I miss counted, again! (p.s. after reviewing my Christmas Card address file a couple weeks ago - in January 2010, I discovered where 15 cards went!!! I had made them then immediately mailed them to the Holiday Mail for Heros in Capital Heights, MD!!! I didn't miscount just had a senior moment that lasted for a couple months! LOL!!!) After everything goes on markdown after Christmas, I'm going to stock up on envelopes by buying the dollar store boxes of cards and discarding the cards. Hopefully I can buy about 15-18 envelopes for about 50 cents a box.