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Last night I spent a wonderful evening with my friend Lisa at her home with family and friends! Thank you Lisa! Boy, we had a good time playing with my stamps, and even made the best of it when I had forgotten the brown ink for my owl and he had to be Staz-On Black! Yikes! Anyway, we discovered that the owl was a very big part of her life right now as there must be an owl mascot at Brandeis University where her daughter is now a student! How funny to see that owl pop up!Anyway, here are the 3...

I recently had a request for a Halloween Birthday Party Invitation! What fun!! It was for a 7 year old girl and I definitely saw something on Stampin' Connection which started the wheels turning! I'll tell you right now -- the outside was definitely cased from someone!I recalled seeing the Out on a Limb little witch being used for the front of a card and I fell in love with her! Well ... so did my client! Check out this adorable card ("IMHO", as Jan Tink always says ... "in my humble opinion!"...

We had a wonderful time at our Stamp Out Breast Cancer Event in Dracut Massachusetts today! There were several demonstrators there: Selene Kempton (organizer, Stampin' 411 operator, lovely and so generous lady!), Tami White (# 1 in SU company and such a neat person!), Marilyn San Clemente (my upline! my mentor! my friend!) to mention a few. Here are some photos (just a few):Selene, with her husband, who helped her out ALL DAY! She was very busy calling out raffle numbers like a Bingo Operator...

Hi all! I finally got around to completing my card for a challenge put out by Sharon Fields (Created by You). She does Saturday tutorials weekly (I wish I could even blog weekly!), and challenged her readers to also try the Mica Flake Faux Mother of Pearl technique. Of course, I LOVED her project! She did both a card and some jewelry (which some lucky reader -- hopefully moi! -- will win!).In Sharon's samples, she used the silver glitter paper -- since mine was in transit but I had the red...

This is this week's card class: 3 cards and a 3D card-sized tea envelope.Personally I love these cards. Most of them were a re-take of cards in the present Idea Book and Catalog. I love showing different ways of viewing cards in the catalog -- it doesn't just show the stamp sets, but the limitless ways to use these stamp sets for cards, 3D items, scrapbook pages, etc!I guess I don't have an inside shot of the tea envelope, but it has 2 scallop envelopes on the right side, cut with the Scallop...