5th Annual Splitcoast event

Melissa sent me a note, thanking her for posting her swap... and I'm thanking her for her comment and her card.... !

5th Annual Splitcoast event

Love the Chef... he's retired too... tooo baaadd

5th Annual Splitcoast event

I made this one for the non vender swap ... background paper is non-su....

5th Annual Splitcoast event

I'm back,,, and hopefully I;ll have more samples to show you this week... I'm not sure if i did this one or not, but enjoy...
    Spent the weekend with Kaylee at the cabin... we had a really good time,, giggled and laughed all weekend..

5th Annual Splitcoast event

This one was a swap also... and we recreated it at my SU workshop last Sunday,, this stamp set is retiring.. I should order it, shouldn't I?

5th Annual Splitcoast event

Kinda hard to see this one, I didn't take it out of is package,, its a tri fold card.. NVR... very pretty in person.

5th Annual Splitcoast event

5th Annual Splitcoast event

5th Annual Splitcoast event

This was my NVR (non vendor related) swap for the event.  I used the same stamp set for all 3 of my swaps.

Another shoebox project using the pinwheel stampset from STAMPIN'UP!..
Most of the projects were very simple and quick... some took a longer time.  I guess i like the idea of a shoebox project to be quick, simple, not a lot of pieces or construction to it.  Not that I'm in a hurry to finish, but I stamp and assemble pretty quick..and only because you are doing a sample card to give you an idea of the project so you can copy it in your own way.  Some of the project I didn't do, because they were too involved.. cute but took to long to finish.  I ended up waiting for others to finish.   

5th Annual Splitcoast event

5th Annual Splitcoast Event

I know its been awhile... 2 months to be exact, but with Molly here everyday, I get a little behind in things.So, this weekend  since hubby ain't home, I'm working on getting my swaps from the Spiltcoast event that I went to in Apri  uploaded and start posting. There's at least 60 items I have to take pics of and maybe I can get them all done today and start putting them on here. And,  Hopefully I can get the camera to cooperate. I already had to delete pics that I thought were good, and now I have to start taking pics all over again for uploading. Lets just say that my fingers did some walking thru the camera and screwed something up....
Have a great weekend.

New Samples

I used a designer paper on this one.. it 's double sided

cut 2 1/2 by 4 1/4 to fit the card,

I used the big shot flower die to make this card
I'm pretty sure I CASED it from someone..Thanks to whom
ever.

End of the Month Catch up.. Welcome back Celeste

Welcome back, Ms Celeste.... and family,,, hope you had a nice trip,, considering all the rain you had.! I'm almost done with your cricut. I want to cut another paper doll for Kaylee and some clothes.
I'll bring it all back during the week.

I had completely forgotten to show everyone the Mothers Day gifts I made for my daughter in law, Erin, and my next door neighbor, Barb. The top one is a note pad and pen and the cards in the middle fit in the little envie bag on the left.

The bottom is a gift bag on the left and the flower pot box on the right filled with what else, but cards for Barb. They both loved their gifts.

Not much else going on here. Yesterday was Spring Fling for our B.O.C.E.'s functionally handicapped high school students. They had a great time,, dancing and eating and just hanging out. It was held at South Towns Academy High school in Hamburg, in their gym. The theme was "Hugs and Kisses". The classes made decorations for the walls, paper chocolate kisses, cookies for the table, vases for the tables, x's and o's to hang on the walls. We even had a D.J. with his sound system, and of course, a dance contest. Our judges were Justine and Mr. Brennen. The winners were... drum roll please.....

Mrs. Cassettas class.

They were awesome! Next year, we may have to pry the trophy out of their hands! Our thanks goes out to the Principal, Mr Braun and all the help he provided by sending some of his students to help with setup and break down afterwards.

Next up is our graduation for our functional high school students. A very nice dinner and awards ceremony is held at Grand Mannor in Clarence.

And after that.. 12 more school days til the end of this year.! Wow, how time flies!

I just finished my swaps for the Clarence Spring event on June 13th, I'll post those tomorrow, and now i'm trying to figure out and finish my swaps for V.C.Rocks (Virtual convention), and my gift for my online virtual roomie, Sue.

Have a great weekend..

Memorial weekend

I'm getting ready for Memorial weekend. Car's packed, most necessities are in the car, just need to get cooler packed and then picking up Kaylee in about a hour. I haven't done any stamping this week, spent most of the time with having an intimate affair with Celestes cricut machine. So, I thought I would post something that I did a while ago. At least I don't think I posted it. This is PolkaDots and Paisley stamp set. The more mustard piece of cardstock is actually the flap for opening for the front of the card. Torn and stapled to the back. Its much easier to see in real life then try to explain in writing.. so just enjoy!

Hope you all have a peaceful, restful, enjoyable Memorial weekend.

See Ya'll next week.

Special card for Julies babies

I made this card for Julie's twins Christening next weekend. Thanks to Lorraine, she gave me the instructions for the cross....here's a link to her blog.

The white background is StampinUP shimery white cardstock, and the sizzix swissdot embossing folder, can't see the dotted background too well tho. The flowers are from the pretties kit, and little crystal flowers in the center I bought at our local stamping store....

Thank, again, Lorraine.

More Splitcoast swap samples

3 more cards from the WNY Splitcoaststampers 2009 2nd annual event. the pretty flower was made by AWALANDER,, ain't it pretty!

Baroque motifs made byPam Toman

The golfer by Cheryl.

In the mail today, I received my swap from Debbie Hill. She was having one of those days, and left her swaps at home, and she promised to send out the cards when she got home... tomorrow I'll upload it..

As for my Stampinup order that was due in today....

I had 3 boxes coming in ... I waited and waited and waited.. checked the SU site for delivery... and waited .... and finallllllyyy the UPS truck pulls up... different driver... shoulda known right? well he brings me 2 boxes... uumm excuse me, but theres supposed to be another one... trying to be nice of course.. so he gets in truck looks around,,, NOPE only 2... the route was split between 2 drivers, he says,, if he finds it he'll bring it back.... uuummm ok,,, (and it was my FREE Saleabration set, besides)... about 2 hours later the other driver shows up ... and sure enuf there was my 3rd package in his hot little hands... not trying to be over eager,,, i gently tore it out of his hands and ran in the house.... yippee... all in... whew... I was a little worried there for 2 hours, anyway...

but, I did get some new dies! yeah!! can't wait to play.... gotta go!!

check back soon.

I just got back from the 2nd annual Western NewYork Splitcoast Stampers Get together!

Wow!! Is all I can say... what a great time.... great food,, awesome swaps,, holy cow... here are 3 right now.. these 3 were Non Stampinup swaps, so I didn't get any names or stampsets,, thank you ladies... these are beautiful. I participated in the StampinUp only swaps and as soon as I can get them scanned in my computer I'll get them posted here. So keep checking back.

We all received a giftbag upon registration, which was filled with lots of goodies.

At our places at our tables we also received another gift, a small journal for taking notes.

After setting up our "stuff", swaps, shoebox swaps, gift exchange, we finally sat down to start our shoe box swap.... some really cute things were made by all.
As soon as I can I will scan and add here.

Lunch was incredible.... everyone brought in either a salad or dessert, and there was plenty for all.. and really delicious and luncheon meats, rolls, drinks, vegies, condiments were supplied.

There was also a drawing for some really nice items.. of which i won NONE!.. but there was a big shot machine, a package of Dirty Dozen card samples, and the big big big one, was a handmade wooden inkpad holder, large enuf to hold all 48 inkpads, refills and markers... but alas, I didn't win that either.

Afternoon activites were a make and take, a demonstration by Lisa Kind and Cheryl on Copic Markers... I like them, we practiced on some cupcake images, but at this point in time I don't know if can afford to buy them, not yet anyway.

Then on to make and takes, gift exchange, card swapping out, birthday challenge, and done! we finished all at about 4:30..

ON TO BUFFALO STAMPS AND STUFF.... we received coupons for the store, so of course I had to by more stuff for my new bigshot!

Well thats about it... my feet hurt, my back hurts, and I'm exhausted.. but I had a great time and can't wait til next year!

Big Shot Samples, Cheep talk

These are so cute!! aint they??

I just gotta get one of those BigShots! Holy cow! Celeste and I stamped these the other day. The scallop die is used to make the card!! see the edge over on the left..?? Thats the fold. These are cute for mini notes, although they do fit in an invitation envelope. And those butterflies..?!!! Celeste spent a lot of time cutting those out with her Cricket Machine....

You can find her blog here where she talks about her kids for now. Next time I get over there, I'll show her how to upload card samples. SHe's very creative, as you can see from all the samples I've done with her.

So,, Next TIME CELESTE!!!we start uploading pics.

Here's that Flower

Now we all now that this flower was in the Occasions Mini...and there were a lot of questions on how it was made... well guess what???? I found a tutorial on how to do these... I had shown them to Celeste and she said she'd try to figure it out.....well,, after I show Celeste how to make them I'll post the link to the other persons blog.

These really are easy,, its just that the directions that were on the SU website, didn't make any sense... NNNOOOOWWW I get it.

So, Celeste... neener neener neener...!!! See you Monday.... Have a great weekend, and

Happy Passover, Happy Easter.. and have a great weekend ya'll!