The last batch of samples from Playday at Upline's

This ice cream cone is from the new Summer Mini Catalog - looks good enough to eat,
doesn't it? And imagine all the colors you have to pick from!


This second card includes the new Island Oasis Designer Paper and the newest Bigz die - exclusive to SU! - Island Floral that goes so well with the stamp set Tropical Party - all in the new Summer Mini catalog.

I will be posting my May calendar of events in the next day or two. Would love to add your workshop to my calendar.

Play Day last Saturday samples

OK, I managed to get some of the samples from a SU! demonstrator Play Day at my upline's group. We had so much fun! Some of the demonstrators demoed some really cool Wows. Then we participated in a shoebox swap. I came home with so many great samples.

The first card - we used a stencil for the background paper, then the top layer is the exclusive SU! lattice die cut that was

sponged and then "smooched". Watch for smooching in the new Summer Mini Catalog - coming to your mailbox soon.

The second card uses another stamp set that will be in the Summer Mini Catalog. This set will be great for masculine cards as well as those vacation scrapbook pages.

And this last card for today is using the butterflies sizzlet.

This picture doesn't do them justice though. The butterflies on this card are actually cut from a pop can. Once you cut the top and bottom off a pop can, you'd be surprised how thin and flexible the aluminum is.

I will be adding some more samples in the next day or two.

In the meantime - go be creative with your stamps and ink!

More Swaps from Milwaukee Regional

There were so many great swaps at the Milwaukee Regional last Saturday.

Here are the last four swaps.

The last sample is the fork. Michelle Kuhn was swapping them along with a tutorial on how to tie the perfect bow on a fork. Michelle also did a Wow presentation at regional. She tied a big beautiful bow on a pitch fork!

I attended a SU! play day at my upline's community center yesterday. We did shoebox swaps. What fun! I will showing some of those swaps in the next few days.

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Happy stampin'

I'm back!

I know I've been MIA. Life is rushing faster than I can keep up.

I attended the Milwaukee Regional last Saturday. What fun!! And all the excitment is fantastic. I was only able to finish a handful of swaps, but that's ok, I got some really nice ones.

Here are the first 4. I'll most 4 more in a day or two. Then I will be posting swaps from this Saturday's PlayDay at my Upline's. I hope you'll come back again to check them out.

First Valentine of the year

I Just had to share my first Valentine of the year. My daughter's family had to have their golden retriever, Heidi, put down a week before Christmas. She had been in the family longer than the two boys, Nolan and Nicholas, so all took it very hard. This weekend they got a new puppy, Maggie. She's only 8 weeks old. And everyone fell in love with her at first sight. They all look so innocent, but some how I have a feeling there will be more stories to come! LOL