Demonstrator class - pics

Wow it's been 2 days sense I posted, sorry about that. It's been crazy here. I do have good news to share. I finally have a car again! It's been about a month without a car and let me tell you, I am excited!
Today I'm going to show you pictures of some of the fabulous ladies in my group of demonstrators. Ok I'll probably show you another project too! So I lied to all of Tuesday, I said I wouldn't be doing any stamping yesterday, but I did get a lttle bit of stamping done. But I can't show it to you. Why you might ask? Well I've decided to enter Stampin Up's Artisan Award contest. This is a contest that Stampin UP holds once a year. They pick 10 winners who receive a $500.00 Stampin Up shopping spree, $500.00 cash and the prestige of being one of the top 10 creative demonstrators in the company. Will I win, probably not, there are tons of talented demonstrators out there, but I figured that if I don't try I'll never know. I can't show you the projects until the contest is over, which isn't until the end of April, but I do have to tell you that the project that I was working on yesterday, blew my mind that I came up with it all on my own and it's all started with something I was going to throw away.
Ok, I've been going on long enough, so here are todays pictures.

This first picture is of Mel sewing together her little felt bag with Joanne giving her moral support in the background.

The next picture is Laura and Kathy working very seriously on putting their sweet pea stitched flowers onto the front of their felt bags.

And then my camera battery died! So if you would like to join us at our next fun demo class, contact me about becoming a demonstrator.

Here is one of the projects they did the other night. I did this project weeks ago and then I went on the computer and saw someone who did one almost exactly the same. I think it's funny that 2 people can have almost the same idea. I'll have to find a link to her pic so you can see how similar they are.

We put a cello bag of valentines m&m's inside, but you could use it for gift cards, a little photo album, how about 10 tags and You could do a 10 reasons I love you gift.

This project uses the I heart hearts stamp set, which right now for everyone of these I heart heart stamp sets that is purchased, Stampin Up is giving $2.00 to the American Red Cross Haitian relief fund. If you would like to help out please feel free to contact me to purchase your own I heart hearts stamp sets. I will also be giving $2.00 from every I heart hearts set purchased from me until Feb 28th.

That's it for today. It's bitterly cold here (negative degrees with the windchill). I'll be staying inside as much as possible today.

Get some stamping in today if you can.

Have a great day and happy stampin!

Angela

Good Neighbor Houses

So I think that I have enough projects done, and pictures taken for the rest of the week, so even if I don't get much crafting time in with having the baby here I should still be able to update my blog. Plan ahead I always say!

Today I have a really super cute project for you. I used the new sale-a-bration stamp set good neighbors. I have to admit that when I first got this stamp set, I was scared of it. I think it's because it seemed like a lot of work, but I'm not really sure. So yesterday I brought it out and played with it and I have to tell you that I REALLY LOVE THIS SET. It's super cute, and great for a neighbor card, just moved card, welcome to the neighborhood, from our house to yours, friendship card, love card, thinking of you card or pretty much anything. The options are vast. I think that at first I got stuck because it was houses but seriously I can't put it down. So needless to say, you'll probably see more then one post this week using this super duper cute set. I also used the welcome neighbor designer paper pack that you can also earn during sale-a-bration for every $50.00 purchase. This paper pack is also super cute.

This card today is for my neighbor, at Christmas time she came over with a very nice basket of goodies for our family and it was so sweet of her. We don't really know each other well, but my goal for this year is to reach out more to my neighbors. So I'm going to give her this card as a thank you as well as the candy holder (wait till I tell you what I used to make this). I will also make her a pack of thank you cards as a gift (haven't gotten that far yet though).

You can tell in this side view that some of the clouds and the houses are popped up on dimensionals. I love dimensionals!

Here is a peek at what the inside of my card looks like.

So I made a matching candy holder out of something I was going to throw away. Can you tell what it is?

It's the packaging that paper clips came in. How cool is that. I think it will hold ghiradellies perfectly. I have 4 jolly ranchers in there right now, because thats all I had at the time.

Here is a close up of the candy package. Look closely do you see the bushes on each side of the house. That was my 5 year old daughters idea. She was sitting with me while I was stamping and she says to me, "mommy, your clouds look like they could be bushes." I thought to my self, how brilliant! So I gave it a try and she approved. So don't be afraid to use your clouds as bushes!

So what do you think? Those are my projects for today. I think these houses are just so super cute.

Want this set, here is 3 ways to get it.
-Purchase $50.00 in Stampin UP products from me
-Host a workshop with me, with sales totalling $300.00
-Sign up to be on my team of demonstrators, receive a FREE stamp set of your choice from the catalog, 15% off the starter kit and I'll throw in this stamp set too!

Angela's helpful hints:
-before you throw away packaging, think about what you could use it for.
-Love the grass, cut a strip of your favorite color green and cut down about half way with your paper snips all the way across your strip of cardstock. The grass was fun to make, it made me think back to when I was a kid, we used to do this all the time in school.
-To give your card an extra special touch, decorate the inside of the card too!
-Use those clouds as bushes, go ahead I dare you!

color combination: old olive, tempting turquoise, whisper white, pumpkin pie

Thanks for visiting with me today.
Have a great day and happy stampin!
Angela