Stamping at the Moose

Monday nights the IWIA Stampers (stands for I Want It All... hahahaha!),  we go to the local Moose Lodge and bring a project to stamp.  It's open to all crafters, knitters, stitchers, painters, whatever is your thing.  If you are in the Baltimore area and want more information, please email me.

Anywhoo...  I was cleaning my stamp room a bit (and boy it sure needs more cleaning!), and I found my chicken card I made for the Bel Air swap last year. It was during Hurricane irene.  My friend Lynn took my card since we high-tailed it out of the state to my parents house. But I found the box and it had a few pieces that were undone. So I finished those up.

And I needed sympathy cards.  Another friend, Robin P.'s mother passed away.  God Bless her.  And another friend, Crystal T.'s mother passed away a few days later.  I'm so glad I was able to get 7 of these done.  It's sad you need cards like this, but I'm happy to have them now.

Swap card for 8/28/10 Perry Hall Swap

I am really excited about this swap.  Cindy, the hostess of the huge swap, wants a theme specific card. So, I did a Sympathy card.  What do you think?

April's Stamp Club and cards stamping with friends...

We had our stamp club meeting last week. April Prachniak, http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/mystampplace/blog

April makes wonderful cards.  Here is what we did;

A close up of the pansy. I's prettier in person. I think the shimmer paper deflected some of the light, because this is gorgeous. And I love it that it was with the Stampin' Up! Butterfly punch.

This was using the watercolor on the shimmer paper....  it makes the rose gorgeous!!!

Then this past Thursday, a few friends came over to stamp.  I was hoping April would make this for my stamp club next months club.  We saw this in the Stampin' Up! Success magazine.  So she came over to make it and we found it would probably be too much for 6 stampers to make along with 2 other projects for club night.    But alas, she did make us all the monkey and is going to challenge us to do something with it...

And I met a gal, Kelly Kleinsmith.  I met her at Pam Parto's stamp class one evening.  She lives within a mile of my house!!!  It was fate!!  Kelly is really getting into stamping and had a great time.  She had brought this card she had made.  Isn't it gorgeous?!?!?!

And then Shawna and I brainstormed one day.  We are both in need of cards for our boxes.  Instead of making a card when needed, we have 'go to' boxes.  So once a month we're going to meet and make 24 cards each.  I'll give her 1/2 of mine, she will give me 1/2 of hers.  If others join in that evening, we'll split the 24 that we make.  Here is Shawna's sympathy card. This is so beautiful...