Come out!  Come out!  Wherever you are!

I finally found my way back to my blog!  Oh how I have missed blogging with my cyber friends.  I am determined to figure out this blog posting thing so as I may join in future blog hops. I joined an amazing yahoo group VC Rocks and want to share some of my creations.  In a final plea for help I purchased a book written by Heather Wright - Porto titled Beginning Google Blogger.  My fear of 'all that techy stuff'' is being tossed in the can and I am ready for this challenge!!

I have been doing a bit of crafting.  My upline, Michelle Bushey Deslandes, shared a really cute card at our Cards for Cancer benefit and I couldn't leave it alone.  I had to play with the color combination until I came up with the "just right" look.  My winning combo:  Cajun Craze and I Dig You!!  Such an easy card to put together don't you think?

 As is was crafting and visiting with my sister who is in Vermont from Virginia, I needed a 'girlie' card for her to send back to a special little girl at home.  I remember seeing lots of ideas to make a cheerleader girl using punches.  Though I wasn't sure exactly what punches were used I did manage to put one together using her favorite color purple.  I can't wait to have time to play around with this idea some more soon!

 Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  

    ~Samie

 

Workshop WOW card ...

I CASEd Frenchie

I have been struggling to come up with an idea for an upcoming workshop with a group of ladies who make cards weekly.  What idea could I bring to them that would bring "oohhh's and ahhhh's" from them?  Lacking for mojo, I turned to the cyber world and began searching ideas from the many talented individuals sharing their artwork.  I found this card on a blog by an amazing woman named Frenchie from Wyoming (http://www.frenchiestamps.com/http://www.frenchiestamps.com/).  I thought "why not give it a whirl"?  I love it!  Not only is it gorgeous but my bringing this card to my group it incorporates many of Stampin' Up's amazing products!  It's a Win/Win!  Thank you so much to Frenchie for her tutorial and her inspiration!

Colors:  Rich Razzleberry, Very Vanilla and Always Artichoke

Stamps:  Blessed Mother

Tools and Accessories:  Stamp-a-Ma Jig, Dimensionals, Bone Folder, 1/2 inch circle punch, Build a Blossom punch, sponge dauber, tulipe embossing folder, crimper

So ... what do you think?  Will the girls drool over this GORGEOUS card?  Let me know what you think?

Happy Crafting,

     Samantha

Hartford Regionals ... share and update

 

I am so excited that the Hartford Regionals are just around the corner.  I have been looking forward to getting away after much stress and health issues over the past month.  There is nothing to lift one's spirits than being surrounded by an extended Stampin' Up family.  If you are attending ... let me know and we can look each other up!

I've been crazy busy lately.  I was honored to be asked to make wedding cards for a woman  I met through a mutual friend.  How exciting that was.  Then I finished card fronts and some 3d items for Regionals.  Now to come up with an idea for some graduation invitations (anyone want to share some fabulous ideas?), and some Easter gifts!  I am planning a scrapbook night with some girls on April 6th and this will be our first gathering.  I'm a bit nervous but confident that I can put something together.

 Eastern Blossoms Card Recipe

Stamps:  Eastern blossoms

Card stock:  Baja Breeze and Very Vanilla

Ink: Baja Breeze

Accessories:  Polka dots embossing folder, tulipe border embossing folder, SU pearls, SU Ovals Die