Mambo And Her Rich Twin

I love making the same card in different colors.  They look very different.  Obviously I added brads to the pink one, otherwise they are twins.  The pink is using melon mambo and the purple is rich razzleberry, thus the title is born!  The rich razzleberry looks brown in the photo, but I assure you it is an amazing purple shade!  These cards were very quick to put together, but took forever to cut!  This was one of the cards we made at my last class.  Hopefully, it will help entice you to sign up for my next class coming up.

I hope you have a great weekend!  Mine will be wonderful and busy!

Sheri

The Love Workshop

I had a workshop this week.  We made 3 fun projects.  The hostess made tons of yummy food!  Food and crafting....I am certain life doesn't get much better!  Bandit stole our hearts in the first project.  If you look closely you can see the white gel pen we used on his heart and tail.

The next project was a little nugget purse.  Both the Bandit tag and the purse used the Big Shot two tags die.  The second photo shows the loot!  My boys were arguing over who gets to eat the chocolate out of this one.  Never mind that there are 120 more undecorated ones in a bag.  I guess that proves my theory that goodies really do taste better when they are decorated first!

Side view.

This card makes me very happy.  It is fairly simple, but still eye catching.  Unfortunately, you can't see the sparkle in the photo.  The designer paper is from the new mini and has glitter already on some of the flowers.  Then we added more shimmer by spraying the images with shimmer paint mixed with rubbing alcohol.  The edges of the love you much stamp were sponged with pretty in pink.

As always, if you have specific questions just ask.


On a side note, I still have some openings for my upcoming all occasions card class on January 29.  Let me know if you are interested.

Have a fabulous weekend!
Sheri

Blogger Of The Year...

OK, so maybe not this year, but I can set my sites high for next year, right?  I kind of jumped ship the second half of 2009, but I am back!

I still have not mastered the new photo software change.  In my opinion, it not very user friendly.  I have to find the photo and put it on my desktop just to get it to my blog.  I am sure there is an easier way, but I don't know what it is.  My hubby is going to have to give me a tutorial or let me go back to my old ways!  I guess if I used it a little more often and gave you all some eye candy, I would know how to use it by now.  

Moving forward...I made this card in the midst of the craziness of the holidays.  It is using the Dasher stamp and basic brown ink.  I used white craft ink to ink the edges of the kraft paper.  I used a glue pen to make random dots on the background and on the edges of the vellum and then sprinkled with dazzling diamonds glitter.  

If you didn't get a Christmas card from me this year it is not because you didn't make the "list" it is because I didn't make the list!  I could bore you with lots of excuses, but I won't!

Now for exciting stuff!  Stampin' Up!  is having my favorite promotion of the year.  It is called sale-a-bration.  It is the chance for you to earn free stamps.  Who doesn't love free stuff?  For every $50 you spend you get to choose a free set, paper, or punch from the sale-a-bration catalog.  To see the fabulous catalog you can visit my website:  www.sherismith.stampinup.net or you may simply ask me for a catalog.  If you hostess a workshop and the total is at least $300 you also earn a free set.  If you would like to join my team as a demonstrator you earn another free set.  The starter kits are 15% off as well.  This is the really abbreviated version, so if you have any questions please let me know!

Have a great day!

Sheri

Flying By To Say A Quick Hi...

Saturday was a workshop.  This is one of the projects we created.  It was a lot fun!  There were some new stampers and some young stampers.  I can NOT get enough of this ornament punch.  I feel obligated to let you know that it is only available until January 5.  So please let me know if you "need" one.  I say need because how could you not want one? 

The stamp set is Delightful Decorations which is also only available until January 5.  My to-do list is growing much quicker than it is shrinking.  The good news is that in about a week everything that isn't done won't matter any more ;)  I hope you all are enjoying this wonderful holiday season and keeping your stress levels to a minimum!

Have a grand day and let me know if you have any questions about my card or otherwise!
Sheri

Computers 101

Sorry for my extended absence.  I am a creature of habit maybe a little more than most (especially when it comes to computers). There is a little love hate relationship with them!  I love them when I know what I am doing, and not so much when I don't!  My hubby switched the pictures to a different computer than I was using before.  It is a different program and works differently.  It might be the equivalent of me rearranging the furniture and him getting up in the middle of the night and not really remembering and stubbing his toe.  That would only happen until he got used to the new set up.  Well, it's the same sort of thing for me.  Once I figure things out I am golden until he changes something again.  My point of is that I finally had him show me how to upload from the other computer.  Remember when I was fussing about not being able to find the spell check but being able to cross out anything at the touch of a button? I figured it out...with a little help from my man.  

This is another card from my last class.  Man, I have managed to stretch those cards out much longer than I planned.  It's a little strange looking at this springy number with Christmas right around the corner, but you have to remember it was like 90 when I created it.

Speaking of class, my next class is December 19.  I had to change the date.  I still have some openings so let me know if you are interested in taking it.  It is a 10-10-20 thank you card class.  Just in time for the holidays!

All products used are Stampin' Up!

Vintage Flakes

I love the vintage look of this card.  I had the perfect embellishment opportunity.  I eyeballed the greeting.  It was heading downhill.  I was going to leave it but it was sloped a little too much for me to let it go.  So, I cut out another piece of brown an restamped the greeting and edged it with white ink.  You'd never have known I messed it up if I hadn't told you!  The snowflakes are popped up with 3-D glue dots.  I pierced around the kraft piece and roughed up the edges a bit.  I used Winter Post stamp set for the snowflake and Home For Christmas for the greeting.  Chocolate chip and kraft are the cardstock colors.  Add white craft ink and satin ribbon and you have all the ingredients!

I guess I'd better get stamping because I only have 4 more samples from my 10-10-20 class to share!  I will reward myself with crafting time as motivation to get my house cleaned.  Nothing says I love you like clean sheets and homemade cards ;)

I will have family in town for Thanksgiving so my blog may be neglected next week. 

Have a wonderful day!
Sheri

Simple, Yet Elegant

This card is super simple, but so classy.  This is a new background stamp named Medallion.  Love it!  This one is pretty straightforward.  Some layering with a big brad in the center.  When I mail it I will probably add a greeting in the white space, but I wanted to wait and see what occasion arises.  The color of ink and paper is bordering blue.

I forsee  foresee predict (darn missing spell check)lots of quick posts in the near future.  I feel like I am on a magic carpet flying through life.  I am hanging on tight and hoping I don't fall off.  Do you ever feel that way?  

So, I am tossing around the idea of adding a class to my calendar on Friday, December 4 in the evening.  I think it will be a gift type class.  One idea is gift tags.  I actually have several other ideas but I wanted to put a feeler out there and see if there is any interest.  Leave a comment or email me and let me know.  Thanks.

Hope your day is filled with fun!
Sheri

Rolling Hills

At first glance this card appears to be pretty basic, but let me just tell you...if you receive this baby you better frame it! I love how it turned out, but I slaved over designing it.  It also takes a long time to reproduce.  So that you can really appreciate it I am going to give details:  the striped background is actually background paper.  the polka dot paper was stamped as was the foreground flower paper.  Each layer had to be hand cut to get the rolling hills.  The tree stamps are two step stamping.  For those of you that don't know me, I am an eyeballer (that sounds really weird).  I actually broke down and used the Stamp-a-ma-jig for this one.  The trunks had to be stamped then added the leaves.  The middle tree is actually cut out.  The rest of the card is pretty self explanatory, but I will always answer questions if you have any. 

All products are Stampin' Up!  The paper is old olive, really rust, whisper white, and certainly celery.  The ink is soft suede, really rust, old olive, versamark, white craft, and crushed curry.  The stamp set is Trendy Trees. 

I have no complaints or funny stories today...just the facts!

Have an amazing Monday!
Sheri

Seeing Spots

My card class was today and was lots of fun.  I had some new stampers.  I LOVE sharing my crafting passion with others so that made it a great day.  I had a teenager that stamped for the first time and she did a fabulous job!  The colors in this card make me very happy!  The dimensions are 6"x3".  The design on this card works well for someone with limited supplies.  The only fancy thing I used was a circle punch.  The image is from the hostess set called The More The Merrier.  The colors of paper are tempting turquiose, melon mambo, lovely lilac, black, and whisper white. 


So, if you see any misspellings send me email telling me to get a dictionary just mentally correct them and feel sorry that I am so computer illiterate! I did some sort of upgrade, and now I don't have to be a genius and know how to write code to get the strikethrough feature.  I just have to click a button.  However, I have to be a genius spelling bee champ because I don't know where spell check went.  Once again, I am too stubborn to ask my hubby don't want to bother my husband with such trivial help.  I like to save it for the big stuff, like flat tires.  Now don't go fussing at me for sounding like a helpless female who can't change a tire.  I could, but if my fingers are going to get black stuff on them, I want it to be ink or paint that's all.  How was that for a random tangent?

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and thanks for looking!
Sheri

2 Down 8 To Go...

Here is another card for Saturday's class.  I think this skunk is so cute.  The sentiment says "I stink you're sweet!"  It could possibly mean different things.  The way it is written it is supposed to mean I think you are sweet.  If you add a comma you could use this as an apology card:  I stink, you're sweet!  The stamp set is called Pun Fun.  I used real red, very vanilla, and black card stock.  The skunk is stamped on watercolor paper with stazon and colored with a blender pen and watercolor pencils.  I added a little gel pen to the flower petals.  All products are Stampin' Up!  If  you have any questions, let me know.

Have a fun filled weekend!

Sheri