Holiday Box and a Birthday Card

WOOHOO!!
Here's my first box of goodies from the Holiday Catalog!!
Holiday Box

Here's the box opened up with a sneak peek of what's inside
Holiday Box Opened
Hmmmm….what's in there.
Holiday Loot
Let me just say YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE IT ALL!!
Copper Foil paper, Red Glitter embossing powder, FABULOUS designer paper and of course tons of great stamp sets.
There are so many good things I have to limit myself on this first order.
I know — it doesn't look very limited.  Hoping to start playing with it some this weekend.

Ok, on to another card from Saturday's Pool Party.
I'm dedicating this card to Annie — her birthday was yesterday.
This was Annie's favorite card Saturday — very quick and easy.
We used the My Hero stamp set, the Balloon Bouquet punch and the
banner framelit from Cupcake Cutouts.
Balloons Celebrate
Card Directions
1.  Card Base — Pumpkin Pie — 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" — score 4 1/4"
2.  Black — 3 7/8" x 5 1/8"
3.  Tempting Turquoise — 3 3/4" x 5"
a.  emboss with Sparkle embossing folder
4.  Black — 2" x 5"
5.  Festive Birthday Designer Paper — 1 7/8" x 5"
6.  Pumpkin Pie & Crushed Curry Scraps — punch out large balloon using
the Balloon Bouquet punch
a.  sponge edges with Pumpkin Pie & Crushed Curry inks
b.  add "highlight" mark with Chalk marker
c.  attach Thick White Baker's Twine to back of each balloon with dimensionals
7.  Pumpkin Pie scrap — stamp Celebrate with Memento ink
a.  cut out with banner from Cupcake Cutouts framelit
8.  Assemble card as shown

Happy Birthday Annie — I hope you had a great day.

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Country Livin’ Guitar

For Christmas this past year I surprised my husband with a guitar.
He’s talked about learning to play so I gave him that chance.
He’s been doing online classes and is doing quite well.
He’s not a country music fan but he learned a Kenny Chesney
song for our niece, Kelly and lots of fun songs for the
grand kids and great nephew.
I’m not a big country music fan either but I do like
Blake Shelton, so Tony is learning a Blake song for me.
So today’s card is to tell him how amazing he is!!!
It’s a pretty simple card — I used the Country Livin’
stamp set and Moroccan Nights designer paper.
Country Livin'
Card Directions:
1.  Card Base — Early Espresso — 4 1/4″ x 11 — score at 5 1/2″
2.  Delightful Dijon — 4″ x 5 1/4″
3.  Soft Suede — 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″
4.  Moroccan Nights Designer paper — 1 1/4″ x 5 1/4″ & 1 1/4″ x 4 3/4″
a.  punch one end of each with the Triple Banner Punch
5.  Early Espresso — 2 3/4″ x 3 5/8″
6.  Delightful Dijon — 2 1/2″ x 3 3/8″
7.  Soft Suede — 2 3/8″ x 3 1/4″
8.  Very Vanilla — 2 1/4″ x 3 1/8″
a.  stamp guitar with Soft Suede ink
9.  Early Espresso scrap — punch with Duet Banner punch
10.  Very Vanilla scrap — stamp banner from Thoughtful Banners stamp set with Soft Suede
a.  stamp “You are amazing” Early Espresso ink
b.  punch out with Duet Banner punch

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Summer Pool Party

Saturday I held a Summer Pool Party with two downline members.
We weren’t actually around a pool — but we did have a tiny pool with ducks floating. 
Each duck was numbered 1, 2 or 3.  Guests got to pick a duck for a prize.
Duck Pool
This was fun and made for some giggles throughout the morning.

We had a fun table setting that included beach ball tablecloth and there was a beach ball on the table — apparently someone was playing beach volleyball while I was taking this picture.
Table Set up
THE TREAT of the day was the fabulous cupcake flower tray.
Check this out.
Flower Cupcakes
Sandi, one of my team members bakes and decorates amazing cakes.
I saw these cupcakes on Pinterest and knew right away who to go to.
She did a fabulous job and everyone was very impressed.
Judy
Judy came dressed for the Pool Party.

We had all ages of stampers.
Here Ellie is showing us how to use the Big Shot.
Ellie
And yes, we did do some stamping.
I thought this cupcake card was a great one to start with.
Cupcake
We used the Sweet Cupcake stamp set and the coordinating
Cupcake Cutouts Framelits.
This is a great three step stamp set.

 

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