Lakeshore Stamping

Vintage Style

I want to share with you today the card I made for my wonderful downline and my amazing stamp club of twelve ladies for Mother's Day.  All of these ladies mean so much to me and I especially love sharing stamping with all of them. 

It uses the great new stamp set Elements of Style from the Summer Mini catalog.  I also tried out the new Smooch Spritz from the Summer Mini on this card.  Here is a better picture that shows the Smooch Spritz...

I used the Vanilla Shimmer on this card.  I just love all the sponging as most of my stamping friends know :)  I am off to my stamp room to create more projects.  I am headed to the zoo tomorrow with my daughter's class for the day.  It is suppose to be a hot one.  I am excited to spend time with her and her wonderful class. 

I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!

Colorado Weekend

The weekend of May 14th, I traveled to Colorado Springs for my upline, Kimberly VanDiepen's, last Demonstrator Meeting in Colorado.  She will be moving to Washington D.C. in June.  This event was a full weekend of fun and I didn't want to miss it. Of course I was able to spend it with my wonderful sister, Amy, which made it even better. 

Amy was a trooper, this was the first time she left her 3 month old baby for the night and although she missed him we had a great time together and visiting with stamping friends.  Thanks Amy, I enjoyed our sister time together :)

On Friday night, we made 15 cards...yes, 15 cards...it was AWESOME to have all the paper cut and just sit down and stamp from table to table...heavenly!  Thanks to Christy, Cathy and Kimberly for all their hard work to make this a nice relaxing event for us demonstrators!  Here are just a couple cards to share with you...

This card uses the new Blissful Bride set out of the current Summer Mini Catalog.  What a beautiful set especially if you are planning a wedding or have lots of wedding to attend this summer.

This card uses the stamp set, Upsy Daisy, it is one of my all time favorites and can be found in the Idea Book and a new set from the current Summer Mini catalog, Favorite Thoughts.  It is a great set for us women and our favorite women in our lives.

On Saturday, we learned more about the "workshop" and did a Make-N-Take using the new On Board Briefcase Book from the Summer Mini.  I will share those pictures with you later as I still need to take them :)

Then Saturday evening, we made this awesome Magnet Board using Sheet Metal for roofing and our wonderful Write Stuff Specialty DSP.  I love the colors in the pack of paper!

I used the wonderful stencil, Elegant Trio which can be found in the Definitely Decorative catalog.  I love stencils and I have fallen in love with this one since using it this weekend! 

The flower chipboard pieces is made with our wonderful On Board Book Basics and cut out with the Big Shot using the die, Flowers Layers #3.  I then cut out the pieces again using the DSP and adhered them together.  On the back of each flower is a magnet put on with our Tombow Multi Purpose Glue...this glue is great!  LOVE IT!  The Crop-A-Dile punched the holes for the ribbon...you can't live without a Crop-a-Dile!  This tool is great for these kind of projects.

On Sunday, we shopped...it was great.  Amy is my personal shopper and she makes it fun for me!  She had me trying on all sorts of things and of course I had to buy too!  Lets say this...I have a GREAT start to my wardrobe for summer!!

I've been busy this week preparing for a Stamp-A-Stack and I hope to share with you later this week some of the great cards!

Have a Terrific Tuesday!

Fun Times!

Two weeks ago I spent a Friday night and all day Saturday with one of my wonderful downlines, Crystal.  She made the long drive from Pinconning to Holland for the weekend and we were able to spend some great time together at the Holland Spring Seminar.

On Friday night we learned more about using the Big Shot with fabric.  I do NOT sew at all...okay maybe a hair flower or two but that is my limit.  Jill Olsen came and we had a great time learning more about quilting using the Big Shot dies from Stampin' Up!  Here are a few of her wonderful samples!!

On Saturday, we learned more about workshop ideas and then made a dozen Make-N-Takes.  Our table received the Perfect Plum color for the color to work with and all of the samples were made with the stamp set Flower Fancy.  We were brought back to simple card making with some cool folds that I haven't used in a while and it was nice to go back and remember those.  Here are just a couple samples.

I had a wonderful time with Crystal.  It is nice to be able to spend some one on one with a downline and since we live over 3 hours away from each other, I am glad she was able to make the trip so we could do what we love together...STAMP!!!

I attended a Demonstrator Meeting in Colorado last weekend...I'll be sharing soon!

Hope you are having a great sunny weekend!

Summer Mini Swap

Lately, every quarter our team has been holding a card swap between the demonstrators in our team who are all over the United States. This quarter was a swap with items from the Summer Mini Catalog.  I LOVE the Elements of Style stamp set, which we actually received FREE from Shelli at Leadership, so I've had it for a while and it is now available for you too!!!

I used the technique Poppin' Pastels to make this card.  I inked the flower image in VersaMark and then used my sponge daubers to add the Stampin' Pastels over the VersaMark and the color just pops!  I used Chocolate Chip and Certainly Celery pastels to color the flower image.  The base of the card is Kraft Cardstock sponged with Soft Suede.  Certainly Celery and Very Vanilla are the other card colors.  I really like the softness of this card, I hope you do to.

Don't forget to check out the scrapbook promotion that just started.  See the right column for more information.

Have a great evening!