Techniques Class & a Hedgehog!

First of all I wanted to share a photo of the projects we'll be working on this weekend at my third techniques class. This is going to be a fun one! Less people are coming than usual (I'm hoping that's because of Easter, not because the class stinks!!!) so it'll be a little more relaxed for me! Anyway, I thought you'd like to see what we'll be making. From the front, a stair-step fold card, a reflections card (this one makes a particularly good masculine card) and finally a double-gate fold card. I really like these so am hoping everyone else does. If you'd like to come along on Friday evening, or Saturday I still have a couple of spots open :)

And then there's the hedgehog! Sarah took this photo of him curled up in her hand. I must say, she adores him ... and he's bonded to her. Whenever I get close, he curls up and kind of 'huffs' at me ... very cute but he's a one-girl hedgie! Just thought you'd like to see him!

Not MORE snow

I could hardly believe my eyes yesterday morning, we woke up to 3" of SNOW! I've really had enough of the Christmassy White Stuff now! And then this morning we've had another dusting ~ blech! So what a treat to be able to make a spring flower pot to take my mind of all that white stuff! Lynn found some great directions for us over on Splitcoast. I'll have to give you the link later, right now Splitcoast is down (horrors!). It's so easy to do, the flower pot is tied shut with a piece of ribbon and then the flowers are stuck onto a piece of cardstock which slides down into the pot as in photo 2.

Recipe
Stamps : Fundamental Phrases (For You)
Cardstock : Really Rust (Pot), Delicate Dots DSP and other scraps for the flowers
Ink : Choc Chip
Accessories : Kiwi Kiss Ribbon, Scallop Edge, Dew Drops, Oval Punches, Big Shot, Cuttlebug Flower Dies. Leaves Die, 1/2 Pearls, Micro Beads & Crystal Effects.

A little Thank You

My Secret Sister (or not-so-secret sister actually) from the SCS MI Mingle gave me a really generous gift certificate for Papertrey Ink ... how exciting is THAT! I'm waiting for the April release to see what's new but if nothing appeals then I'm going to treat myself to Dawn McVey's set called 'Damask Designs', it's really beautiful. So as a 'thank you' I made this card for Vicki ... she's been a great Secret Sis and I love everything she sent me over the last few months ~ thanks Vicki YOU ROCK!

Recipe
Stamps : Cheep Talk
Cardstock : Baja Breeze, Choc Chip, Whisper White
Ink : Choc Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze
Accessories : Big Shot & Scallop Circle Die; Kiwi Kiss Ribbon; Dazzling Diamonds; Paper Piercer

As the SU Mini Catalogue goes live, so does a new promotion called 'Get Connected'. For every $40 you spend in the new mini catalogue, you get to choose any item on the 'Under $10' page at the end of the Spring/Summer '09 Catalogue! What a great promotion! Also, if you are the hostess of a qualifying workshop ($150 in sales) you will also get to choose from the 'Under $10' page.

Let me know if you'd like to have a fun evening with your girlfriends, stamping and seeing what's new from SU ... and get free merchandise at the same time!

SCS Colour Combo and Sketch

Phew, I'm just trying to catch my tail this week ... I don't even know WHY! But I wanted to take 5 mins to share a card I made yesterday for the colour challenge and the sketch challenge over on splitcoast. It's a quick and easy one to do and I really like how it turned out!

Recipe
Stamps : Simple Friendship
Cardstock : Bella Rose DSP, V Vanilla, Choc Chip
Ink : Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip
Accessories : Choc Chip Taffeta Ribbon, Fleurette, 1/2 Pearl (Pretties Kit) & Ticket Corner Punch

I'm WICKED!

Tee Hee. For those of you that know me personally ... that should make you chuckle! But I am WICKED this month because I've been asked to host the WICKED challenges over on the Demo side of Splitcoast. I know that not all of you are SU demonstrators, and therefore haven't got access to my challenges ~ so I thought I'd post them here in case YOU would like to play along! It's so thrilling to be asked to do this on SCS and I'm just praying that some people actually participate! Anyway, here are the challenges I set. The demos have the whole month to create a SU only card, or project and to load it to the WICKED gallery. WICKED stands for Wonderfully Inspiring Challenges Keep Educating Demos!

Challenge #1 ~ Colour Challenge
Very Vanilla, Mellow Moss, Chocolate Chip
Here's my Sample:

Challenge #2 ~ Use It Challenge
Use any SU Floral embellishment on your card or project
Here's my Sample:

Challenge #3 ~ Sketch
Here's my sketch and my sample:

Card #1 : Bella Rose Stamp Set, BG is the Damask Stamp from Friends 24-7
Card #2 : The Daisies #2 Die made from Pink Pirouette DSP and the outside of the Top Note Die
Card #3 : Cheep Talk Stamp Set and Good Morning Sunshine DSP. Scallop Circle Die and Big Shot and the Circle Scissor Plus for the 2 inside layers.

SCS MI Mingle 2009

Last weekend was the Splitcoast MI Mingle ... we spent Friday evening and Saturday at a hotel & conference centre in Bay City stamping, chatting & mingling! It was just such fun to meet up with old friends and to make some new ones too ... I'm now looking forward to next year when we can do it all over again!!!

Here's me and Michele (Plaid Pony on SCS) loading up the car. We live fairly close to each other so we shared the drive! We also had stuff loaded onto the back seats ... so you could say we had enough STUFF to stamp with!!!

... and here we are hard at work making the Coordinator Challenge Cards ... what a blast that was! From the left: Debra (debra); Robin (mzRobin); Roxie (morgainegeiser) (sitting at the back); Michelle (CMUGrad) (looking at the camera); Me; Jill (nenimlasj) (you can just see the top of her head peeping past Michelle); Michelle (MichelleGoodrich); Michele (Plaid Pony).

and here's one of my faves ... Standing: Robin (mzRobin); Rachel (Hillmangirl); Seated Me; Michele (Plaid Pony).

Happy Memories of a wonderful weekend away full of stamping, chatting and late nights! ... and the odd Pudding Shot or 2!! Well, maybe 3 ... was it 3? Ask Kim!