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Hi all!  I wanted to share a cute photo of tonight's "card" class projects!  I can't take too much credit for them -- I found two of the three featured projects on YouTube, complete with tutorials.  Loved them though and at elast changed the colors of the box or the ribbon of the two projects! Notice the cute berry basket?  I added 1/2 of a Tea Lace Doily and attached a cute tag to the front.  Donna Griffith shared this tag trick at Stampin' Up!...

I was putting together a  class the other morning, and was having trouble coming up with a fourth card.  I asked my daughter, Lyndsey, for some ideas.  She had the usual ones: do birthday, Easter, St. Patrick's Day ... wait, I can't do St. Patrick's Day -- I don't have an appropriate stamp set!  What's one to do?!Luckily (no pun intended with these lucky shamrocks!) I was also doing a technique for this class -- voila`!  I had my idea!!I ended up doing a shaving cream...

Well, I'm finding a quick second to add photos of last night's 3D Valentine class.  Check them out!!This first photo is a group photo of 5 of the 6 projects we did.  I have a few closeup photos of some of them too!I used the envelope punch board to make this cute cookie envelope!  The measurements on the board give paper sizes for 4" x 4" envelopes, and 3" x 3" envelopes -- I wanted to use a paper size of 6" square, so I figured my own measurements:  I scored and punched at...

I've been doing cardmaking for quite some time -- I was a great customer before I decided to be a great demonstrator!!  (Sorry, tooted my own horn -- not like me!!) Since I've been buying Stampin' Up! cardstock (c/s) for so long, I have full sheets, half sheets, textured sheets, pieces of DSP, little pieces of Glimmer Paper, etc.!  I had to figure out a way to organize it.  I don't have a super stampin' space yet, although it has lots of tables for card classes and Open...

I never did tell you the story about my journey to Stampin' Up!'s Leadership Conference in Orlando last week!  I live just north of Boston, which means I was right in the eye of what is affectionately now known as "Storm Juno", the Blizzard of 2015.  I had just finished working 12 hour shifts for the weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), and the storm was forecast for Monday afternoon and evening, with my flight scheduled to leave out of Hartford, CT on Wednesday, 2 days...