I still have no voice ( Gee whiz will it ever end ?) anThe good news though is that I done alittle bit of stamping myself yesterday . I started preparing for my events that are approaching.
Hope you enjoy the beautiful swaps I recieved from Founders & they are giving you bunch of Great ideas for your projects .
I tried to post a card for each of the holidays ~Halloween , Thanksgiving & Christmas .
I added about 20 retired stamp sets to my retired stamp set gallery if you would like to check them out click HERE
Have a Awesome day and Thanks so much for peeking in today :)
As I sit here I am not really sure If I will be going to church or not this morning :( I have had no voice all week long But now I have a terrible cough and can't seem to stop when It starts .
I did finally go to the doctor yesterday and they gave me some cough syrup with codine to help with the coughing. Doctor said laryngitis can last 7-10 days and to try and not talk ( do you know how hard it is not to talk ?) which is what Jessie keeps telling me ( not to talk ) cause I sound sooo Terrible ..
It seems like forever since I went to church even though I know it has only been 2 Wednesdays and 1 Sunday that I missed due to Founders Circle trip and being sick.
I am very Thankful I made this past weeks 2 videos ahead of time before I left for FC trip since I came home and was sick all this week YUCKY!
Please Say a prayer for me & my voice that I can get some videos done for this upcoming week.
I was able to send my digital scrapbook in to get printed and I am waiting for it to arrive any day now . The Great news is that My Digital studio# 118108 will become available for all of you on Oct 1st .. YAHOO!
I am so excited for all of you to get this fabulous program I Just love mine and I will be making a calender soon also . stay tuned for my finished book I am so excited to get it
We finally ordered all of Jessie's Senior pictures this past Thursday evening , We are very excited to get them all back next week Plus then I can share them with you.
Jessie went to her Homecoming dance last night she went with a bunch of girls this year and had so much fun !
For my Sunday share video my friend Gwen sent me this adorable cat video ~ What a HOOT! and here I thought cats didn't like the water ( go figure ) .I guess this cat thought it was easier to soak his head under the faucet to get a drink ~ sooo cute :)
Many of you have asked me about Decor' Elements so I thought I would share this video on what they are and how to apply them ..
I also just added decor elements to my lap top after I seen Laura's
laptop at Founders ( She has a Much bigger family than I do but hers is sooo stinkin cute ) & I knew I wanted to add my family to my lap top too:) LOVE IT! ( Thank you Laura for the cute idea )
I also added Decor' Elements to my daughters Lap top awhile ago which I shown you then But here is Jessie's again .
You can click HERE to see the one I applied to my wall also.
To view the Definitely Decorative brochure with lots of beautiful designs in the Decor' Elements click
I thought It would be fun to start a new Video catagory and call it Happy Stamping.
This catagory will feature cards that are simple and quickly made.
I will make the whole card with you in each video except for the cutting and adhereing some items together to help speed up the proccess .
This catagory will be added to all my other video links HERE .
You will have to scroll down to view the new Happy Stamping video links .
Like most of you I love all kinds of cards Moving , spinning , pop up and lets not forget the technique ideas BUT sometimes it just fun to stamp a simple type of card, so this will be what this Happy Stamping catagory will focus on .
So does that sound like a bunch of fun or what ?
Today's Happy Stamping Card will be this Sweet Hello card . I stamped this card at Convention this past Aug So if you are a demonstrator and were unable to attend convention Here is one of our M&T's we made .
This card can be used for many occasions a Thinking of you card comes to mind as I write this But wheather you make one or a bunch to have on hand for those last minute grab & go cards this is the perfect quick & simple one you can send to everyone to make them smile :)
Click on over to myStamping Studio to view todays video and get the supply list there also .
Today will be the last founders circle post for at least a couple days so I can bring you my videos for the week :)
PJ party was Friday Night and I started loosing my voice I sounded like kermit the frog that night YUCK! anywho Update today: I still have no voice But I have a cold so thats double yucky .
anyway Lets talk about Founder's circle highlights of places we went and things we saw shall we :)
On the list of places to go was to visit Kanab Friday morning.
This is the one place I was so excited to go and see . Kanab is where SU! manufacturing facility is and we got to see how a Stamp set is made from start to finish.some of us even got to cut the rubber and box sets sooo funny how slow we were compared to the SU! employees that do this everyday .
I Just love that all our Rubber stamp sets are made right here in the USA
Oh my gosh if you only knew what there is to make 1 stamp set I am sure you would be amazed as I was and I have such a deeper appreciation of how things work on that end then I have ever had before .
We were not allowed to take photos of the
actual areas where the magic takes place But did get some photos of
Shelli's apartment on the top floor which is where people stay from corp and whatever else
they want to use it for . The apartment just screams
Shelli everywhere so beautiful and of course one of the
highlights before & after the tour is to head down to the famous SU! rock
and get your photo taken by it .
One of the cuttest moments when we 1st arrived at kanab was we were directed to the restrooms since they knew we all really had to "go" since it is a 2 hour rode trip there BUT before he pointed us in the direction he mentioned that they converted the Mens restrooms into Ladies just for US! OH How sweet is that .. NO not a Huge conversion Just a little small fine detail that most would over look ( see photo ) So Awesome !
After the tour we headed down the road to Kanab Park for a catered lunch YUMMY!!
Notice the super cute busckets which went with the whole theme the 5 days of Founder's circle~ Just darling .
Then after lunch we walked over to the park where all the scrap rubber SU! donated to make as a cusion under the play items of course this was way cooler with my shoes off so I had to jump in with my bare feet and feel all that rubber between my toes :) talk about a awesome and weird experience at the same time .
Then after photos were taken and rubber being tossed in the air we headed to a little country store called Dennys Wigwam and shopped for a little while .
I snaped this photo of the girls relaxed in the big chair how cute are they :)
This was Just one of the fabulous things we did at Founder's Circle which was a HUGE highlight for me and everyone that goes .
Please click on any photo to enlarge your viewing .
You can also check out my Gallery HERE of All the photos from Founders Circle 2009
Every night during Founders Circle we were so spoiled with pillow gifts .
I am sorry I have to distort the 1st pillow gift photo . Some of the items we got are not even released yet. I hear you all gasping ~ sorry ... If it gives you any comfort there was alot of GASPING in our rooms over all our Wonderful pillow gifts too:)
#1 Wednesday night we recieved this bundle of goodies all wrapped up in a pretty ribbon bow . Inside the bundle are the items listed below :
a FREE stamp set , a package of all the new 6 In color markers , and 3 spools of in color Polka dot ribbon. The in Color markers and ribbon were all tucked inside the 2 Gusseted envelopes . These were the items we also got to make our M&T's with .. so much Fun!
#2 Thursday night We all got The Secret Garden book all tied up laying on our beds . The sweetest thing is that Shelli Hand signed each and every book personally to each Founder circle achiever . How awesome is that ?
#3 Friday night ( PJ party ) We all returned to our rooms to find these AMAZING Stampin Up! Boots . OH my gosh I think I may have screamed the loudest when I seen these awesome boots sitting on my bed . 1st question came to my mind was How did SU! know my shoe size ?
The best part is that MY boots fit and yes I will be wearing them ( I Will share photos of that when I wear them ).
The Boots were custom made for us, cause I thought at 1st they applied decor'elements to them BUT Nope They were made that way~ Soo stinkin cute !
A few girls mentioned the next morning at Breakfast that they are going to put them on display with flowers inside ( Love that idea too ) BUT I am for sure going to wear mine . I added another photo to show you the SU! logo on the back . The journal that is in the photo with my fabulous boots was givin to us as the PJ party along with a Beautiful SU! Pen to write with.
#4 Saturday Night ( Last offical night of Founders circle ) After our Mystery Dinner date Saturday night we returned to our rooms to find this Beautiful Butterfly charm in super cute Matchbox( Hummm did everyone get a Purple box ( pale plum ) or was that something else they knew about me? HUMMMM) The Charm has 2 butterflies attached with the bottom butterfly engraved " Founders Circle 2009" Is that Precious or what ?
SU! Truely spoiled us from the moment we landed at the airport with bottled water and snacks to greet us for our Ride to St George .
When we arrived at the hotel we all signed up for a game to play I called it the butterfly game any who the object was to have all 5 butterflies you got ( same color ) you needed to swap your butterflies with 5 other founder circle achievers to end up with all 5 different colored butterflies Once you got all 5 different color butterflies you can go get your FREE stamp set . which by the way is a stamp set that has not been released yet also ( All 3 FREE stamp sets we all got are all Brand new from the Occasions mini )
BINGO was played on the bus ride to Kanab with SU! goodies as prizes ( Ribbon , button, clips , rub ons etc...) . But even if I didn't win at Bingo we all got a spool of 3/4" Polka Dot GG ribbon # 115608 and the Ho Ho Ho On board chip board pack # 117613.
Plese click on any photo to enlarge your viewing
Thank you so much Stampin'Up! you are truely AMAZING ! I am so blessed to be a part of such an Awesome company .
I feel as Though I have a smile embedded on my face from the AMAZING Founders Circle event so many of my friends asked me what the highlight of my 1st Founders circle was ?
There is NO possible way to narrow it down to even a hand ful of highlights that I loved the most ~ since I loved EVERYTHING That took place over the 5 days of Founders circle . So over the next Few days I will touch on just a few in details ~How does that sound ?
1st having Shelli at Founders Circle was sooo wonderful she was so accessible to all of us there I felt as though I was dreaming.
Shelli took time to chat with and share herself with all of us . She took part in everything we did ~
yes even swapping her card and stamping. This was sooo amazing :)
Next on my most memorable highlight are all the Fabulous friends
I made at Founder's .
Being the new kid
on the block at
Founders
everyone made me feel very special and so many friendships were started at this event
that I hope to have for a lifetime . So many of my friends I knew already made this amazing event even sweeter.
I added My photos from Founders circle in a gallery ( top right side of my blog ) I will touch base on these photos over the next few days But go take a peek if you like and please click on any photo here in my blog post to enlarge your viewing .
I still have many photos to upload so check those out later as well .
Have a Fabulous Day Stampers :) I have alot to catch up on so Thank you so much for your understanding :)
Today I wanted to show you one of the projects we made at club night & at Peggys workshop last week HERE .
This is a pop rock candy envelope holder which is the same thing I made for my Founders circle swaps HERE
but instead of holding a packet of Hot cocoa I added Pop rocks candy instead & this one is Halloween themed . LOVE IT!
For the background of my envelope I used the bubbles from the stamp set Halloween Hoot # 111582 The Skeleton & Happy Haunting is from the Scary Skeleton stamp set # 113244. I then added a small snip of Black Grosgrain ribbon #109027 .Then I added a Bunch of dazzling diamonds # 102023 to my skeleton
I had big plans to share my photos from Founders circle with all of you this weekend BUT my new notebook didn't have a photo edit program well at least none that I could find so I will share them with you when I get back home.
This morning I am on the shuttle bus heading to the Las Vegas airport Then I will be waiting to fly out this afternoon . Looking forward to being back home and sharing all my photos with you .
Today we will be making this pocket card . I made a pocket card video along time ago which you can view that card HERE ( That video has been removed)
But todays pocket card is going to have the pocket part going upward instead of to side .. either way you want to make yours will be the same, just decorate it going the way you want:)
I Just love this card Maybe it's because of all the sparkle and Plus it uses one of my Favorite stamp sets called Big on Christmas . either way we are going to have some fun today . So lets get going .
Todays supplies I will be using are as follows :
Big on Christmas #116578
Grateful Greetings stamp set # 116511 ( Holiday mini )
Todays video I will be showing you the Hot Cocoa Holder .
I made this cocoa holder for my Founders Circle swaps . I made 125 of them + 1 for Stampin'Up!
The good news is that I got them all finished YAHOO! and this photo shows all of them done and ready to travel to St George with me for the Founders Circle event .
Here are the supplies you will need for todays video
Cold & Cuddly stamp set ( Holiday mini ) #116523
Sassy Sparkles Jumbo wheel (Holiday mini )# 116541
Creamy Caramel classic ink #103220
Going Gray classic ink #103274
Word window punch #105090
Mordern label punch #116630
2 way glue pen# 100425
Dazzling diamonds # 102023
Bermuda Bay ink #115655
Bermuda bay 1/2" polka dot ribbon # 116610
Bermuda Bay Card stock #115317
cut at 2 3/8" X 2 5/8'" ( The video says 2 1/4" X 2 5/8")
BUT It should be 2 3/8" X 2 5/8"
Whisper white card stock # 100730
cut at 2 1/8 " X 2 3/8"
(1) Standard size envelope #107301
SU! envelopes I used are measured at 5 3/4" X 4 3/8"
Stamp-a-ma-jig # 101049
I have a video using the stamp-a-ma-jig if you woud like to see that Please click HERE
I will be leaving for the Founders Circle event this morning.
Oh my gosh I am so EXCITED! .
This will be one of my Stamping highlights of the year and I will be enjoying every moment .
Every moment .. I made another digital scrapbook page . I will be making at least 1 more digital scrapbook page of the actual Founders Circle event when I return home .
I will be sharing photos from the Founders circle event with you. so stay tuned for those photos .
Thanks for peeking in today . I also have a New video tomorrow stay tuned for that :)
Here are a few more digital scrapbooking pages I created .
This 1st page will be the cover for my scrapbook . I chose to use elements for my cover But you can also add photos if you like .
Here is my Back cover to my book
I am so excited to get these pages in a book so I can show you how Fabulous the finished book is . You can have SU! print out your finished book this is fabulous because all the pages will match the our Wondeful colors.
Because there may be some colors that may not print true to match with some printers.
Having SU! print your book will be a Perfect color match . You always have the choice to print yourself or have SU! do it for you .
This weekend has been so exciting . Friday night Peggy had her workshop with 24 stampers there HOLY MOLY! ( see photos) We had So much fun
Guess what ? I had my 1st Male Stamper in attendance at Peggys workshop His name is Karl .. That was so stinkin Awesome !!( see photo )
2 projects were made But I will share those later since I have both projects on video that will be posted this next week ( stay tuned )
Last night was my stampers club meeting and this is always a Fun time with my girls :) ( see photos )
Please feel free to click on any photos to enlarge your viewing :)
I wanted to let you all know that I will be leaving for Founders Circle event on this upcoming Wednesday.
I am so exicted !! .
I still have to finish my Founders Circle swaps. I have about 20 more swaps to make . Looking at the 99 or so I have done already is pretty impressive. I am looking forward to seeing what everyone has made for their swaps ~so much fun!
Here is my Sunday Share video .I Love Love Love this song . I actually posted a different version to this song HERE .
also if you want to view the Easter gift card holder I did a long time ago please clickHERE . The older video for the Easter gift card holder has been removed
This morning in between preparing for Peggy's workshop tonight for 24 stampers I made 5 more Digital scrapbook pages .
I will share them all with you over the next few weeks.
I also added a gallery for My Digital Studio just scroll down the right hand side of my side bar and you will see My Digital Studio photo gallery .
IF you want to see the blog posts for the projects you will need to scroll alittle further down and look under CATAGORIES then click on My Digital Studio then you can pull up all the blog posts for each of my pages.
My Digital Studio will be available in Oct so stay tuned for all the details
Thanks for peeking in again today and I will see you all again tomorrow.
Today is a sad day in the Griffith Household my hubby is leaving , BUT he will be back for Christmas in December YAHOO! and then Home for good in April 2010.
On a side note I wanted to share another digital scrapbook page with you .. I am so loving My Digital Studio.
Todays page is of Jessie.
When I get all my pages done I plan to make it into a 8" X 8" book the title of my book called "Fun times in 2009" at least that is what I am thinking of calling it as of today :)
The photo I picked of Jessie is NOT one of her final Senior pictures we chose But I love it all the same .
The following items were added to my page :
Stitching across the bottom, another flower with Brad and Hardware to the left of the writting . I also added the pixie pink writting . I love this page .
Please click on photo to view larger if you like :)
I am soo excited to get My digital studio in the mail today I have been having so much fun creating pages.
I even sent up a catagory on the right just for My Digital Studio items ..
I just created 2 pages and this is soo much fun I can't believe it .
Anywho here is the 1st page I created it seriously took me 20 mins to create ( after I figured everything out of course )
I LOVE IT! It is so easy and so much fun! Of course my 1st page is very very simple I did add the flowers along side of my photos and the larger flower on the top along with the text .
Todays card is just the cuttest thing especially since the person I sent it to will get such a laugh :) Thats the best part of this card for me Hee! Hee!
I made this card for my Favoritest cousin Ruthie as a thank you note for her giving me this Coach purse . Look at my cute little girl bear she is carrying a Celery " Coach " purse too . Jess & Rich both wanted me to add C's to her purse But when I tried doing this it just wasn't working right . so I am sticking with No designer lable designs . But I am sure Ruthie will totally understand the card LOL .
I used the stamp set Things I love#115229 for my background on my card I embossed with clear embossing powder #109130 on to the Creamy caramel card stock
The Build-a-bear items I used for my girl bear are as follows
Stampin'Up! Bear Bigz Die # 117977
Stampin'Up! Beary Essentials die # 117978
Stampin'Up! Beary Girl #117982
Pawsitively Prints designer paper # 118060
Yesterday was Jessie 1st day as a Senior . I had to snap a photo of her on her way out the door.
Plus this past week I got my flight information and these cute luggage tags all packaged up in this adorable Gusseted Envelope # 115693 from Stampin'Up! The package is for my trip to St. George UT. for Founders Circle event next week . I am soo excited .
I am having so much fun with Build a bear goodies.
Today I wanted to share this 8 1/2 "X 11" scrapbook page I made.
Most of you know I don't do much scrapbooking BUT Hold on~ All that is about to change since we got the new Digital Studio in the Holiday mini ( YAHOO!!) Stay tuned for that :)
anywho .. Todays page I used the build a bear Dies for my little pumpkin teddy .
He is sooo cute ! I used the Stamin'Up! Bear die # 117977 and the Hallowen costume my bear is wearing is the Stampin Up! Kooky Spooky die # 117979 .
For my sparkly glitter strip along the left side of my page I used sticky stip#104294 and then add the gorgeous orange glitter from the Fine Supernova glitter pack # 114287 How easy is that ? LOVE IT!
For some reason I always think that Lovely lilac and Green galore look so Great for the Halloween season and paired up with the Only Orange & Black makes it even better for my simple 8 1/2 " X 11" scrapbook page huh? . I just love these colors together :)
The Spooky nights greeting is from the stamp set called Halloween Frights # 111766 and that was stamped in the Crazy cool # 115211 Bubble
Wow it is Sunday already? Time is flying by so quickly . This past week has been busy with Family and friends.
This upcoming week may not be normal for my blog postings since I did no stamping this week.
Saturdays are usually my stamping day and video making day and neither took place since yesterday (Saturday) was spent doing other things .
This past Monday we celebrated our 21st Wedding Anniversary and Hubby loves his present I got him which was Scuba Diving classes which he started those on Friday PLUS he got me a Purple Coach wallet (Beautiful ) LOVE IT!
Then we went to Cedar Point and to Great wolf lodge Tuesday - Wednesday evening what a Great time we had there .
Click on any of the photos to enlarge your viewing :)
Todays video will be my September 2009 Thank you notes, along with the FSM tokens using the HI embosslit #115952
I used the Brand new stamp set called Twick or Tweet # 116497 from the New Holiday mini ..
Are you all in LOVE with this new Mini or what .. It is sooo fabulous .
Click HERE to view the Holiday mini . ( Sept 1, 2009- january 4th, 2010 )
Ok got alittle side tracked ~ sorry .
Any Who...
Thought I would give you all a Halloween themed thank you notes this month cause you all know October will be here before you know it HUH?
Simple thank you notes this month and If you would like to remove the layer and add to your own project Feel free to do that if you like . Click HERE for more details on my Frequent Stamper Miles Club or click the link at the very top of my blog under my Blog banner .
Here are the supplies I used for my September Thank you notes .
Twick or Tweet stamp set#116497
Black StazOn ink # 101406
Whisper white card stock # 100730
cut at 3" X 6" scored at 3"
images punched out with
1 1/4" circle punch #104403
Only Orange card stock #102837
with scallop circle punch #109043
Only Orange marker# 100051
Black Card stock#102851
with 1 3/8" circle punch#104401
& Tag punch #105934
Summer Sun marker #100077
Have a Fabulous day and Thanks so much for stopping by.
Today I wanted to share with you this sweet little 3"x 3" note card that I did the spotlighting technique on with the stamp set called Herb Expressions Stamp set # 113224
I did a video on spotlighting which you can view thatHERE
Today we are leaving for Cedar Point We will be back Wednesday evening .
I wanted to post a quick photo of Jessie lap top computer and show you that we added Decor' elements to decorate it up really fancy.
Jessie seen in the decor elements brochure that the Upsy Daisies decor elements was added to a lap top see on page 13HERE and we thought it would look really cute on hers so we did it . Don't you love it ?
We applied the Rose Red # 117921 1st
Then added the Pretty in pink #117922 over top and slightly off center of the Rose Red.
It was easy to do Just alittle time consuming But well worth it in the end .
The NEW Holiday Mini Starts today CLICK HERE to view ..Its FABULOUS!