October's Cards Halloween/Thanksgiving

Wow Thanks to these AMAZING ladies who turned in cards this month! We had quite a few turned in and many ladies did more than one set! Kudos to Liz Hadfield who made 30 yes THIRTY cards!!!! WOW Liz you are amazing even if you do grit your teeth while making these amazing cards they turned out SO CUTE!!! Your creativity amazes me!!!Isn't the window idea great? When you open the card the ghost is in the inside!

I like this next card. the Ghoulfriends is so darling!!!

Thanks Liz for doing 30 cards! They took alot of work and you did a great job!!!

Our next card is from Jenny Leishman. Her card is SO way cute and I would love to hear how she did it! Here is her Halloween FRANKENSTEIN!!!
Way Cute!!!

The next card is from Hollie Crockett. She did an amazing job and from what she said her cricket was not working very well so I am glad she was able to get her cricket working so that we can have her AMAZING cards!

See WAY Cute!!!

The next card comes two cards come from Kim Winborg. She did a great job with these two cards! Thanks Kim!!!

These last two cards are ones that I made. I used my birthday presents from my mother-in-law Carolee Jones and her artwork she creates for Art Gone Wild. If you are interested in anything you see with my cards please go here
The first is made with the Happy Oven Stamp Sets!!
Then...the oven door opens!!!
And there is a TURKEY inside! Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Then the inside with the pumpkin!

The next card is the one I made for Linda. These are the simple circles template! They are super easy to make just very time consuming.
Then turn the page....
then turn the page AGAIN!
That is the end....Thanks for all your amazing cards ladies! Remember for those of you who want to participate this next month cards are due on November 20th....Lots of weeks left to plan. And the theme is Christmas. Remember you can either make 30 tags (3 for each person) or 10 cards OR BOTH!!! I just completed 60 tags over my Fall Break and plan on some cards now! If you have any questions or need some help making some cards or what not let me know and I would be glad to help!!!

September Cards

Well this month our theme was CONDOLENCE/INSPIRATIONAL....as per request of Jill Gebert so ladies please let me know what cards you would like done! I would love to get your ideas.
So this month we did not get as many cards as we have been so ladies PLEASE remember that they are due on the due dates specified! I am not going to call anymore since school has started and I am busy, busy, busy as I know most of you are too! :) We got 9 great cards this time and I think they all turned out great!! :) Thanks to those ladies who turned cards in!

Our first card comes from Karyn Peterson. Her cards are always so extremely cute! I love Karyn's cards and she got them to me WAY early too! Here is what she did this time:


Our next card is brought to you by ( Do I sound like a commercial 'closed captioning brought to you by:) anyways our next card was made by Chelsea Kerr. She did an amazing job and I like the way the card is different!

Kim Winborg made this next card and it is so simple yet so amazing! I feel as if I am always saying cute cute cute BUT I LOVE the word cute when it comes to cards! :)
Elsie Kelly made this next card. It was nice to get a card from Elsie this month I missed her cards last month! She always has such cute ideas!
This card is by me. I do not feel as if my creative juices were flowing when I made it and I feel as if I have made better BUT lets just say this theme was really hard for me. Hope those who got my card don't mind it too much.

This card is from Liz Hadfield. She always comes up with such ingenious ideas! I love how she incorporates alot of 3D ideas.
This next card is by a new member to our card group......drum roll please.....JENNY LEISHMAN! Welcome to our wonderful card group!!! This is Kim Winborg's sister or sister in law I can't remember but there ya go! She did an amazing job and Kim has told me she already has her Halloween/Thanksgiving cards done for next month! She did a great job and I am SO grateful she is in the group!!

This card comes from Nicole Norris. She always does a fantastic job! For those who were able to go to her CTMH workshop this last week I am VERY jealous!!! I wanted to go so badly but was unable to! Hope it went great Nicole!
So for this last card it is made by me but for Linda Perkes. I felt my creative juices flowing a little more this time, but still once again I felt like this was a hard theme did anyone else??
Well that is our cards for the month! Thanks Ladies!!! Oh and if anyone you know wants to join let me know! As long as they have a liaison for the group as Chelsea has Karyn and Jenny has Kim that I can give the cards to they are more than welcome to join. Just let me know so I know who to give the cards to etc.

OH AND ON AN AMAZING SIDE NOTE BOOKTABLE IS HAVING A SCRAPBOOK THINGIE ON THURSDAY FROM 5-8!!! I AM SO EXCITED WHO WANTS TO GO WITH ME????

Just thought I'd post these....

So my parents asked me to make them some wedding cards as my dad usually asks my mom to 'throw one together' 5 minutes before they leave for a reception. I am SO grateful that they let me do this!!!
Anyways we bought the stuff on Saturday and I borrowed my mom's cutter to cut all the paper so that it wouldn't bend as much on the trip back. We got back to Millville around 10:00 on Sunday night after my fireside in West Valley and I got straight to work!!! I finished on Monday afternoon and am quite pleased with myself. When I am designing cards for others to give away I try to make a card that they would like and I think my parents will like these cards. Also where I had to make so many I tried to keep them all the same design. 54 cards later these are the reaps of my labors.


I think they turned out great and I can't wait to hear what my parents think!!!!! I am grateful that they love me enough to let me make them these!!! I enjoyed making them so much!! Thanks Mom and Dad for giving me this opportunity!!!
If you ladies want to do wedding cards we could work this in for January. Please give me your input of what themes you want to do. We could redo themes we have already done or whatever just let me know what you would like!!!

Next Month

Just wanted to say Don't Forget NEXT MONTH'S CARDS THEME: Condolence/Inspirational as per request of Jill Gebert!

August Cards: BABY

Wow this month we had a great group of cards turned in! We only had 10 cards turned in BUT they sure were cute!!!
Lets start off with the cards from Anjanette Dahle this month. She decided to make 20 cards which any person is able to do if they would like. You will always get 20 cards back but I am not guaranteeing that you will get all different card! :) It always depends on how many people turn them in. Anjanette did a boy card and a girl card. They turned out very cute!


Next we have Marjorie Davis. Marjorie went with the cute layered sticker look for her cards this month. I like it alot.

Jill Gebert went ahead went with the sticker look as well. Stickers were a common theme this month and I think it is great especially for baby. Jill's cards turned out very cute this month!

Kim Winborg's cards were very simple yet extremely cute! She stamped a design on the cards and then HAND COLORED all of the cards. She dressed it up with some design paper and some stamps along the bottom and in the inside! Great Job Kim I Love them!!!




Chelsea Kerr did a very elegant card this month. What I want to know is how she does the raised up ink...is it embossing??? Hmmm we'll have to wait for her to comment for us to know!

Karyn Petersen did a cute pull out card! Very ingenious and creative! I love it!!! She did 5 girl and 5 boy so not sure what you got but they were both cute!!



Liz Hadfield came up with a very cute idea of a diaper. I think it is extremely cute and adorable!! Great Job Liz!!! She did 5 boy and 5 girl so hope you got one you needed!!!




The cards I did for Linda are very simple yet down to earth, something I think Linda would have come up with herself. I took a very decorative piece of flowered paper added some ribbon and used my cuttlebug to cut out a die for the purple square and embossed the yellow with the carriage! Please let me know if you see any of my cuttlebug stuff you like and would like to come and use it!!

My cards were very simple. I stamped "It's A..." with a cute picture of either a monkey or a lion on the front that I stamped using a stamp set from Close to My Heart. I then stamped Baby on the inside so that I the card could be used as a neutral card. To finish it off I hot glued on 3 buttons to add some embellishment!



Great Job ladies!!! I can't wait to see what you come up with for the month of September!!! Condolence/Inspirational! Remember if you need help with making your cards or coming up with ideas don't be afraid to give me a call or stop by!

Art Gone Wild

Looking for new card ideas? Here is a company that my wonderfully talented mother-in-law works for called Art Gone Wild. I have used several of their things and LOVE THEM!!! If I had all the money in the world I would order from this company. Here is the link to their new fall/winter catalog:
http://agwstamps.com/c_contact_files/AGW_FALL_WINTER_10.pdf

Happy Crafting!!!

July Card Group - BIRTHDAY!!!

Hello Laides!!! I wanted to let you know if you have something to post here let me know! :) You can email me your post and I will post it here for you! It can be for more than just our cards we can post your lovely creations that you have made in other ways!!! :) Just shoot me an email it is in the ward directory!
Anyways onto our July cards! I am so happy to say that we had a lot more 3D cards. I see such a difference in how the cards were designed and I loved seeing the difference!

This first card comes from Marjorie Davis. Once again a very versatile card. She does classy very well.

This card is from Karyn Peterson. I look at her cards and admire her creativity! This card is amazing!!!


It is just so adorable I have to comment again! Really HOW did you come up with the Karyn! You are a creative GENIUS!!!

We have a new lady who has joined our card group. Her name is Chelsea Kerr and she is Karyn Peterson's cousin. She saw all of our cute cards from June and asked if she could join. I didn't see a problem with it as long as I could just give her cards to Karyn so I said YES!! Her cards are very cute and creative. I LOVE the 3D she used in her cards.

This card comes from Liz Hadfield. She is so creative as well. I love her cards. I already have her baby cards and I can't wait to share them with you all!!!

This card came from Hollie Crocket. I LOVE the simplicity of it. It is so cute but the colors she chose scream BIRTHDAY!!!

This card comes from Catyse Easton. I love how her cards changed from last month to this month, although you can see a certain style coming through

This cute card comes from Jill Gebert. She hand colored all of those! Cute right?

This card comes from Elsie Kelly. I love the colors and design. It is one I might steal for future reference. And the paper looks as if it is hand stamped...I wonder if it is....want to share if it is Elsie?
This is Kim Winborg's card for the month. She is such a bright person so it doesn't surprise me that her cards are very bright! I love the colors and flowers!


Anjanette came up with this next card. She had several cards in the bunch so you may have gotten a different card from her but this is the one that I had.
This next card by Nicole Norris takes the cake...haha pun...you'll see why. It is very creative and I am in love with it!!!
This is the card that I did for Linda Perkes. I have tried to create a card that looks like Linda. She is so down to earth I couldn't help myself when I picked out the paper for her card. I used an olive green base paper with a on-lay paper that is a grayish color with a white flower design. I picked this paper up at the S.E.I outlet store in a pack of pre-cut paper, like scraps from one of their projects for 50 cents and I still have left overs after making 10 cards! If you haven't been to S.E.I outlet I highly recommend it!! It is great!!! I then took a piece of white paper and stamped the stamp I picked up at JoAnn's. I took the edges of this paper and edged them with Olive Green ink from Close To My Heart (Again Nicole here's a plug for you!). I was quite pleased with how it turned out!
This last card was mine. It took ALOT of work but in the end it is worth it. I cannot take credit for the design as I got it from my old Close To My Heart consultant Kris Keys. If you want directions on how to make this card please email me but you all got one and I think it is pretty self explanatory. If you have questions just ask me!! :)

Well Ladies this is it once again! I can't wait to see the rest of the Baby cards. I have a few but not enough so PLEASE get me your cards!!! :)