I Interrupt Your Winter Bright Programming

To show you this fantastic RAK that I received in the mail yesterday! I joined my friend, Courtney's, RAK Club for November and this is what I received from Melissa. Enclosed in a hot pink gift bag with a super cute Season of Joy tag (with lots of bling) is a Season of Joy card, hot chocolate holder, and a pair of lavender gloves. I'm sorry the picture is so light but you'll have to trust me that this is a fabulous gift set! I asked her how to make the hot chocolate holder and she told me that she just took the card stock and wrapped it around the hot chocolate and then secured it. I'm thinking I'll do something like that for DS's classroom for Christmas this year!

I hope you all enjoy your Saturday! See you tomorrow!

More Winter Bright

This is a coaster book made with the Winter Bright Kit. It uses 4 coasters, all four designer papers included in the kit, and some of the pink and green textured paper. Add some of the stickers and ribbon and you're all set! I have to say...I'm loving making these projects! I bought two more Winter Bright Kits so I can make more of the projects, bundle them together, and then give them to my friends! I'm so excited to see their responses! The Crop A Dile was the perfect took to put the holes in the corners of the coasters...it was just effortless!

Hope you are having a great day and that if you went shopping today you got all of the deals you were looking for!

Just FYI

Just so you guys know. ..I have decided to start a blog that has all my "personal" postings. What this means is Live-Love-Laugh-Create will now be a stamping only blog. Cool huh? If you'd like to keep up with what is going on in the Ames family house you can click HERE to go to We Live, Love, and Laugh Together blog.

Oh, and to get us started off on the right foot I am offering a blog RAK for the person who posts the most slammin' Black Friday deal they've ever gotten! Go check it out!

Wrapping Up The Holidays

Stampin' Up!'s new promotion called Wrapping Up The Holidays starts today and is good through December 15th. Here is a list of what is available and the prices. Items from the current Holiday Mini Collection listed are the only Holiday Mini items extended while supplies last. All other Holiday Mini items will be available until November 30th.

112409	Holiday Tag Bundle	$4.95
110380	Tags for All Stamp Set* (20% off)	$24.76
110264	Designer Gift cards* (30% off)	$4.55
109862	Chocolate Chip satin ribbon*	Buy 1, get 1 free!
109863	Purely Pomegranate satin ribbon*	Buy 1, get 1 free!
108333	Tin 3-Pack	$9.95
110147	Celebration wrapping paper*	$17.95
110228	Hand Selected Accents & Elements (25% off)	$8.21

There is no limit to the number of items a customer may purchase, but Holiday Mini items are available only while supplies last.

The Holiday Tag Bundle includes 15 of each of the following pieces:
-Whisper White card stock
-Real Red textured card stock
-Soft Sky Prints Designer Series Paper (Dotted Diamond pattern)
-Real Red twill tape
The pieces for this bundle make 15 cellophane bag toppers that are perfect for neighbor or teacher gifts. These pieces are from the Holiday Glitz card kit.

The satin ribbon offer (buy one, get one free) is good on both the Purely Pomegranate and Chocolate Chip ribbon. Customers may select any combination of ribbon for their free ribbon. For example, a customer can buy one Chocolate Chip and choose a second Chocolate Chip or a Purely Pomegranate ribbon for the free ribbon.

The Tin 3-Pack contains three empty Accents & Elements tins. These tins have never been available for purchase separately.

I'll be placing orders through out this promotion so please let me know if there is anything I can get for you!

I'll be back later today with a neat Winter Bright Project!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is one of those days where I get all sentimental and mushy! I am thankful for so much in my life but on the top of the list is the fact that I'm thankful for my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ without whom I would not know what true life it about! He has brought me through so many situations that without Him I would never had made it. He has brought me to my wonderful husband. As I sit in my warm house with the egg casserole in the oven I thank God for my Todd. He is the love of my life and I just can't imagine my life without him. Of course my kids are on the top of the list. I mean seriously...who has better kiddos than I do? No one!!! I am also very thankful for family that lives away from us. I miss them much but know they are thinking of us. I am thankful for my friends both in town and cyber. You guys are awesome and make me so happy! I'm thankful for the troops that protect not only our right to freedom but for the rights of others too!

Aren't you happy that I'm done being thankful! I told you I get all mushy! I hope my friends in the States have a fantastic day and that my friends elsewhere have a day just as good!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Hersheys Kiss Holder and a Puzzle

Good morning my friends! A couple of weeks ago I offered a class to my customers called Winter Bright Extravaganza. The idea is to take a Winter Bright Simply Scrappin' Kit and make lots of projects with it. Well, a couple of people signed up for it but I was unable to make it a go. I decided I was going to make all the stuff myself and share them with you. These Hershey's Kiss Holders are an example of one of the projects we would have made. So easy and really...so much fun to make! So there are two pictures...one of the front and one of what the holder looks like from the side with the Kisses in it. I got a CD of the instructions for all 12 the projects created with this kit from Erika Martin's blog called Stampin' Mama. Wouldn't these be great little gifts to make for your co workers to just leave on their desks?!

The other picture I wanted to share with you is something that we sometimes do at the holiday times. We will pick out a puzzle, put up the table, and everyone will take turns (or cooperatively) working on the puzzle. Kinda a fun thing to do as a family! Oh, and even though it is in a different order...you can see where I got the idea for the name of my blog from that picture too! :o)

So, no artwork tomorrow as the boys and I will be making the turkey and stuff. (Todd has to work during the day.) Know I wish you all a very....

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Reverse Masking and Stampin' Up! Special

I tried the Reverse Masking technique last night and I LOVE it! It is so easy and so striking to use! This post has both of the cards that I made last night along with a photo of the template that I made for sponging the color on in the oval shape. A template could be just as easily made in square or circle shapes too. Maybe even a star, heart, or other fun shapes would work! I'll link HERE and HERE for the cards so you can see the colors that I used to make them. It is fairly straight forward though.










Oh, I must tell you that Stampin' Up! is running a special starting on November 23rd...ready?

With the holiday gift giving season approaching, we know that you and your customers will want to wrap your gifts in true Stampin' Up! style. To help you, we'll be launching our Wrapping Up the Holidays Campaign from Friday, November 23 through Saturday, December 15. This campaign features a number of existing catalog items, and a couple of new items chosen just for this offer. These items will include:

Holiday Tag Bundle (item 112409) A new item just for this promotion! This bundle includes several pre-cut pieces from the Holiday Glitz kit and makes 15 quick and easy toppers for gift giving.

Empty Accents and Elements Tin-3 Pack (item 112410) A new item chosen just for this promotion!

Tags for All Stamp Set (item 110380) 20% off!

Hand Selected Accents & Elements (item 110228) 25% off!

Designer Gift Cards (item 110264) 30% off!

Purely Pomegranate (item109863) and Chocolate Chip (item 109862) Satin Ribbon Buy 1, get 1 free!

Isn't that just great?! I am SO excited about several of these items and will likely place an order on Friday so if there is something you'd like just let me know! I'll, of course, give you more information as I get it!

Christmas with a capitol C

Hey, everyone! I think you will love this video! If you like the sound of the Go Fish Guys they have GREAT CD's for kids and with that time of year coming up they would make great, faith filled presents!

Let's Eat!

I love Thanksgiving! It requires a little bit of planning and work but oh, my..the yummy rewards you get from it! Typically Todd and I put Thanksgiving dinner together as a cooperative effort but this year...he's working during the day. So...I guess I will have Jon, Scott, and Kyler help me out this year. After all they need to know how to cook too...right?! Anyway, I decided to make little place cards for the table this year. I'm not sure why as it is just our family plus Scott's girlfriend but I thought it would be cute anyway. I've used the Cartoon Turkey and Gobble 'til you Wobble sentiment from Cornish Heritage Farms again and then wrote our names on them. I will come back and link you to SCS HERE so that you can see what I've used to make them (in case you can't tell).

I hope everyone has a super fantastic Monday! See you tomorrow!

Isn't it beautiful?!

My new blog banner is my banner for winter time and since we've now had snow...I can change it! Thanks Nicole!!! :o)

Guess What?

It is officially winter here! We are having our first snow of the new winter of 2007! The kids just had to go out and play in it! So much fun!

Why have I been so quiet recently? Because I'm working on several things at one time from work to stamping to family stuff. Whew! What fun!

I'll be back tomorrow...hopefully with some stampin' pictures!

Have a relaxing Sunday evening!