TEA FAVORS

Today is our church's bi-annual Holiday Tea.  

My "job' was create a favor to be given to all the ladies at the tea.....my budget was .50/each.  That was quite a challenge!  

Thankfully, years ago my husband worked for many years at a paper company (perfect job for a stamper's husband) and during that time he brought me home TONS of ivory/vanilla colored card stock.....this enabled me to make the following refrigerator magnet. 

 I printed the verses out on the computer and then punched them all out with the Decorative Label punch.  All the leaves were cut by a friend of mine, Janeen, on her Circuit.

I bought the Christmas fabric that SU has on sale for .99 in the Clearance Rack to use for ribbon....it was much cheaper (and I think it turned out much cuter!) than purchasing ribbon.  So we just tore the fabric into strips for the bow on the cello bags.

Here is a picture of all 296 magnets.....wrapped and ready to go!

Here is a picture of what the ladies will be receiving....

I, of course, could not have accomplished this without LOTS and LOTS of help from friends at church!!!

Until next time, find some time for stamping!!

Blessings, Cindy

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I am SO READY for some cool weather here in California.....it's October and we're still having 100 degree temperatures!  Weatherman promises that we're suppose to be cooling down in the next few days.  Then again.....it'll cool down and I'll whine about it being too cold :-) 

Today's card is one that we will be making on Monday at Stamp club. 

I used the French Foliage set....such a beautiful set!!

This card was inspired by a card that I saw on Stamping Connection.....it is a demonstrator only website where there are thousands of examples for endless inspiration.

That's it for today.....thanks for stopping by!

Until next time, find some time for stamping!

Blessings & Hugs, Cindy

FRENCH FOLIAGE

 Today's card is one that we will be making tomorrow in Stamp Club.  I used the Triple Time Stamping technique......it's super easy and yet looks super cool too!

 I didn't have a place to put the sentiment I wanted to use.....so I just left the front plain and put the sentiment on the inside.  Here it is.....sorry, the picture came out yellow for some reason

The skeleton leaf  is stamped in Crumb Cake after "stamping off" once.....the leaf would have been too dark under the writing without stamping off first.

I will share the second card we made next time...so come back for another visit!

Until next time, find some time for stamping!

Blessings, Cindy

GIVE THANKS

Today's card is one that my stampin' friends are going to be making at our stamp club this month. I saw a card similar to this one on a stamping website.....which I changed up just a bit.

I made the circles by using the masking technique. I punched a circle from a scrap, making a template, and then sponged the middle circle, then masking off the center circle with the punched piece, I put the punched template on each side and sponged the other 2 circles.

I love fall and the cooler weather.....and I love making cards in the colors of the autumn season. Cooler weather also get me in a cooking mood....which my family certainly enjoys!

Here's some details......card's base is Early Espresso, punched edges are More Mustard, the circles are sponged with More Mustard, Cherry Cobbler, and Daffodil Delight, ink is Early Espresso.

Until next time, find some time for stamping!!!

Hugs, Cindy

GIVE THANKS

Today's card is another card that I did last Saturday.

I wanted to use Hand-Penned Holidays that I recently ordered from the Holiday Mini....I LOVE this set!! I'm looking forward to getting lots of use out of this one! I also used French Foliage again....which I think I will use bunches as well.

Well....that's it for me....more later.

Thanks for visiting!

Until next time....find some time for stamping!!!

Hugs, Cindy

FRENCH FOLIAGE

Today's card is one that I made last Saturday while stamping with my friend Jamie.

It was inspired by a card by Carrie Sampsel that I saw on Stampin' Connection.....a demonstrator only website where I get most of my inspiration.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the stamp set French Foliage....perfect for any autumn card.

After not stamping regularly for a couple of months....it is taking me a bit to get back into the creative swing of things. It's easy to forget how much fun stamping is.....I love it!!!

Well, that's it for me today.......Thanks for visiting!!

Until next time....find some time for stamping!!

Hugs, Cindy

FRENCH FOLIAGE

Hi Stampers,

Today I'm sharing with you a card that I made the other day using the now retired (sniff, sniff) French Foliage set.

I am so hoping that this set will be brought back in the new catalog which will come out July 1....but, I think the chances are pretty slim :-(

I wanted to make a card using the technique where you ink your clear block and then stamp a background with it....super easy and I LOVE the look! There seems to always be more than one way to use a stampin' tool!

Well....here's the card.....

The card's base is River Rock. I also used River Rock to stamp the background words and the block background. I stamped the sentiment and the leaf in black, along with the "splatter" marks.

Nothing hard about this card.....I'm considering using this as my second card for Stamp Club on Monday.

Well, that's it for me today.....I'm looking forward to a relaxing and fun weekend with my family. I think we are continuing our quest for a boat for my husband's birthday....might even include a shopping trip to Ikea!!!

Until next time, find some

time for stamping!!

Blessings......Cindy

FRENCH FOLIAGE THANK YOU

The other day, I was in cleaning up my leftover supplies from stamp club and thought I would just use some up since they were all there just beggin' to be used.....I used all the same supplies that I used in this card.....I just changed the images and the ribbon and left off the brad.
This is what I came up with....

I LOVE the new seam binding ribbon....it's SO SOFT and easy to use.

Well, I need to run.....my stamp room is going to get painted today and I need to get in there and clean some stuff up. Yesterday it was all taped off with plastic covering everything so that the guy could texture over the parts of the wall that had been cut into etc. because of the remodel. So, hopefully after today we can push the cabinets back in place....they have been sitting in the middle of the room for almost 2 months.

I'll be back soon.....

Until next time, find some

time for stamping!!

Blessings......Cindy

SIMPLE FRENCH FOLIAGE BOOKMARK

Hi Stampers!

Here is the really simple, one layer bookmark that I stamped the other day. I sometimes forget that you don't HAVE to put layers on a stamped project to make it look good....the stamps themselves are beautiful enough to stand on their own. The French Foliage stamp set that was in the Holiday Mini is a perfect example of a set that doesn't need much to make it look GREAT!!!

All I did was stamp directly on a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock with a variety of colors (Soft Suede, Dusty Durango, More Mustard, Early Expresso and Basic Black.....so easy and I love how it turned out. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this set and am just crushed that it is not listed as one of the carryover sets.....I'm hoping though that SU will bring it back in the main catalog this coming July. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that!!!

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Well, that it's for me today....Have a wonderful day!!!

Until next time, find some

time for stamping!!

Blessings......Cindy