Busy, Busy Bee

After teaching 5 classes and attending a VIP Customer Appreciation party at Ink About It in Westford, MA Thursday through Saturday, I flew back Saturday night in time to get my kids from a tennis function that ended as my plane was landing in Seattle. To say things are busy is an understatement! We filled Sunday with homework and a trip to the nursery to get onions and garlic to plant for winter, and then stopped by a specialty Chrysanthemum show - there were Chrysanthemums in sizes I'd never seen before (some were 6 inches across!). While I do plan on getting caught up on all of my current projects, including video of my visit to The Paper Garden, I wanted to share a fun happening with you. Stephanie's store (The Paper Garden in Sacramento, CA) had an article written about it in the Sacramento Bee and there are some great photos in the article too - click here to see the article. Notice that the photos are of Stephanie (meticulously straightening her perfect store), a Memory Box card display, and my snowman stamp on top of what I think is an A Muse stamp - the stamp companies of Seattle were well represented!

My trip to Westford was wonderful as always - Linda and Lori always take such good care of me when I'm in town and East Coast food is delicious. The trip was a bit of a blur, but it ended with a Lobster Roll (or was it a Crab Roll) - on toasted Brioche with Celery mayonnaise - and I am still savoring it! I will blog in greater detail about the trip in a few posts. 

In other news, our friends at the Stamp Addict in Southern California have been doing some fun things with our stamps and I wanted you to check it out. One of their instructors, Julia Quinsey, provided this project and instructions - and the card is great!

 

And here is the inside...

 

Memory Box Pop-up card

 

Supplies: D1278 Bird Tree

                 CL141 Night Before

                Spiceberry 6X6 paper set   

                Ink- Black Marvy Matchable

                Merry Christmas - Hero Arts Clear Set

                Hero Arts- Star gem, clear gems

                Mark Richards - gold nail head

                Red Sakura gelly roll

                Tan, Green, Ivory card stock

 

Tan card: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"

Tan card: 8 1/4" x 5 1/4"

Fold smaller card in half and cut in 3/4" at the center to form a pop-up mechanism.  Put smaller card inside bigger card and tape together.

Stamp border on card.

Tape on green layer: 4 3/4" x 3 1/2"

Tape on ivory layer: 4 1/2" x 3 1/4"

Use paper from Spiceberry set: Tree with writing : 3" x 2 3/8"

Calendar: stamp and cut out

Christmas ornament: stamp and punch out with 1 1/4" circle punch.

Attach green bow with Sticky dot

Add gold nail head (Mark Richards)

Add tiny star on tree(Hero Arts)

Add clear stick-on gem on calendar (Memory Box)

Add red dots on end of curly Q's with glaze pen

 

Inside: Attach 3" green circle with foam tape and memory box "Bird tree" Stamped in black(and cut out in Ivory paper) with red glaze pen berries and green leaves, stamp Merry Christmas inside.