A Little Late -- But Who's Keeping Track?

Okay, I know I'm a little off schedule for this card, but last night I had an incident. Those of you who know me are not surprised. My life is full of "incidents"! So yesterday I subbed and had a great day. I got home and was doing some dishes and cleaning up a little before I took the kids to church for King's Kids (choir). The inside of my mouth started feeling funny on one side and then my cheek started sort of itching. I went to the bathroom to see what it looked like and my cheek was swelling up! Then I realized that my eye had been itching on the way home from school, so I took off my glasses and, sure enough, my eye was swollen on the outside edge. I was having an allergic reaction to something -- I still haven't figured out what -- so I had to take some Benadryl. It was all I could do to get home from church before I fell asleep, so I really just "lost" the whole evening! I think I slept from about 7:30 until 5:30 this morning.



So, now that I have awakened from my long winter's nap, here is the card for today! This is another from my Birthday Bash workshop in early January. (I think it looks better in person, but would probably look better in a photo rather than a scan.)

Here are the details:

Stamps: Party Hearty
Paper: Pink pirouette, Rose red, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White
Ink: Chocolate chip and Rose Red
Accessories: Scallop edge, non-SU scallop square, 1/2 inch circle and pink pirouette striped grosgrain ribbon

The party hats have stickles on the tops, but you can't see that in the scan. The ribbon is fed through both holes from the front and the crossed over and fed back through the opposite hole. It seems to lay a little flatter that way than if it is tied in a knot.

Well, I have to go (frantically) get one more card made for my 10 for $15 workshop for tomorrow night and then cut all 5 of them. My friend Kimmay offered to help me cut, but I'm not sure I'm even organized enough to take her up on it. Besides that, she might call the health deparment if she had to come in my house! I'm sure there are laws about children living in these conditions!! But hey, who has time to clean house when you've gotta' stamp?!?

Have a great day!

Today is "freak out because I'm not ready for my Friday workshop" day! I woke up this morning with NO cards even designed, let alone cut. On some weeks this wouldn't be such a big deal, but this week I am teaching Wednesday and Friday, so today and Thursday are all that are left. I'm thinking that maybe on Thursday I should cut -- just a thought! Well, it's looking better now than it did this morning. I have 4 of the 5 samples almost finished. I just need to fine-tune them a little bit and figure out the 5th.

Anyway, I am sticking to my goal of posting a card each day for 5 days. This picture is really lousy, but it's actually a scan. Part of sticking to my daily goal is to NOT take time out to re-take pictures! So, you'll just have to forgive me!

Here are the details:

Paper: Barely banana, bashful blue, certainly celery, bashful blue DSP and shimmery white

Stamps: Crazy for Cupcakes

Accessories: markers, ribbon and dimensionals

I LOVE this set! I thought this card turned out really cute and the ladies at the workshop seemed to like it, too.

Well, that's all for today. See you tomorrow!

Today's Birthday Card

Okay, here I go -- 2 days in a row I'm posting a card! That's a record for me. Here are the details for this birthday card from my Birthday Bash:

Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Basic Black, Baja Breeze Designer Series Paper, Whisper White

Stamps: Pick a Petal, Bitty Birthday

Ink: Baja Breeze

Accessories: 2 Way Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds, brad, ticket corner punch, word window punch

This card is really simple, but cute. Stamping the bow is a little tricky, but if you stamp the first two bottom "petals" straight across from each other, then stamp the one straight up and fill in between with the other two, it seems easier to get them spaced evenly. Other than that, everything is pretty straightforward. Of course, as always, the glitter makes the card! I always say that glitter makes everything pretty!

Thanks a lot for looking! I have to go make some cards for my workshop this weekend. But wait -- it's only Monday -- no need to start too soon . . .

Have a great evening!

Another Busy Week

Where does the time go?!? I can never believe how long it's been since I've posted. The last week has been blur between trying to get gift bags finished for an SISF swap to photo frames for an event at church. All that and throw in a trip to the emergency room (he's fine -- "just" a migraine) and the week is gone and I'm not ready for the one coming up!

I wanted to get something posted (just in case anyone out there is looking) because I'm teaching 3 days this week and have a workshop on Friday, so I'm not going to have much spare time. I was looking back over the last few posts and realized that I didn't post any of my cards from my birthday bash back at the beginning of January. (Yes, I threw myself a party and people paid to come!) I really liked all of the cards, so I think I will (try) to show you one each day for the next 5 days. We'll see at the end of the week how that worked out!

I love the way this card turned out! The colors and supplies are:

Cardstock: Yo-yo Yellow, Pacific Point and Whisper White

Stamps: Bitty Birthday

Accessories: Corner rounder, Scallop punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, whisper white ribbon, Cuttlebug Happy Birthday embossing folder, both tag punches (inside), dimensionals and tissue paper.

I got the adorable idea for the real tissue paper from someone on Splitcoast Stampers -- sorry, I can't remember who. The gift is raised up on dimensionals.

For the inside, I stamped "And many more" from Party Hearty in Pacific Point on white and punched it and layered it on a large Pacific Point tag.

I hope you all have a great week!

Some New Ideas

Monthly Card Service

So last week I was having a conversation with a friend who said "Tomorrow is my mother-in-law's birthday, so I have to go buy her a card." That got me thinking -- do my friends realize that I sell cards?!? So here's what I'm going to do -- I'm going to offer a monthly card service. For those of you who like to give handmade cards, but either don't like to make them or simply don't have time, I will do it for you. Here's the deal:
Give me your order by the 15th of the month and I will have the cards you need before the 1st of the following month. The cost will be as follows:

Each month I will create 10 unique cards.
Unique cards -- $2.50
Duplicate cards -- $2.00
All orders will include envelopes.
For exampe, if you want 10 different cards, the cost will be $25. If you want 10 cards, but just 5 designs (2 each of 5 unique cards), the cost will be $22.50.

You can specify birthday, thinking of you, sympathy or whatever you want or need for that month. 5 of the 10 cards will be made at my monthly workshop at Noble Roman's.

Monthly Hostess Clubs

This is an idea that I've been thinking about for a while. Here's how it works: 5 people commit to being a part of a monthly group and to spending $30 per month on Stampin' Up! product. Each month, the group will get together for a short time (maybe at my house) and I will provide supplies to make a project. The project will cost a small fee (less than $5) to recover my cost. Each month, one of the members (chosen at random) will be the "hostess". That person will receive AT LEAST $15 in free merchandise and a Level 1 hostess set. Any additional orders can increase those hostess benefits.

What are the benefits, you ask? Besides receiving hostess benefits, with a small group, we will be able to use some accessories that I am not able to use in a large group setting, due to the cost. Each month the project will feature either a Designer Series Paper pack or an accessory. Some of the projects will be similar to the "table favor" gift that I give away at my monthly workshops.
Please note that the number of members does not have to be 5. More members would make the monthly $ commitment less. I also think it would be really fun to do a club focusing on scrapbooking, too. Let me know if you want to be a part of one of the clubs.

February Ribbon Share

I often hear people comment that they love Stampin' Up! ribbon, but they don't need 15 yards of one color -- go figure! So, from now until February 15, I will be taking orders for a ribbon share. I have divided all of the colors of SU 1/4" grosgrain ribbon randomly into groups of 5 colors. (White is duplicated to make it come out even.) I will purchase a spool of each color in a group and cut it into 3 yard lengths, so each participant will recieve 3 yards of each of the 5 colors in that group. The cost to participate is $6 per color grouping. That is the cost of one spool of ribbon (including shipping and tax). For $24, you can have 3 yards of every color (6 yards of white) of 1/4" grosgrain ribbon that Stampin' Up! makes!

Here are the color groupings:

Group 1: Basic Black, Apricot Appeal, Bravo Burgundy, Bashful Blue and Mellow Moss
Group 2: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Elegant Eggplant, Sage Shadow and Always Artichoke
Group 3: Very Vanilla, Real Red, Night of Navy, Certainly Celery and Chocolate Chip
Group 4: Pumpkin Pie, Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive and Whisper White

Send me an e-mail at stephanie@thehiggins.com or leave a comment here to let me know which color groups you want to participate in. If I get 3 or more responses for any color group, I will also participate to make it work. If I don't get at least 3 responses for a color group, I may not be able to order that group.