Around the Bend!

I love it when worlds collide! When MemoryWorks (a direct sales company I work with) started selling Fiskars products I was so excited. Since I love my fiskars tools (and even demoed for them for a couple of years) it was a fabulous match. One of the biggest questions I got was "is there a way to go around the corner with the border punches?" the answer is YUP...and Teamworks leader Lacey Igo "cornered me" (hee hee ;) to post a simple tutorial on it... enjoy!

Around the Bend

Cards for Troops

I must admit, I tear up at parades when I see the veterans march past. I also tear up when I say the pledge of allegiance. I am so grateful for our freedom here in the United States and even more so for those men and women that have sacrificed so much to serve and protect them.

I love having opportunities to give back to the troops and when my friend Diane asked me if I would create some "card kits" for a cards for troops event at her church. Operation MOMS Cookies sends care packages to our troops and the cards would be a part of them. I was more than willing to not only put together card kits but help with the event as well.

Knowing I had small group last night immediately following AND knowing my jr/sr high girls love creating I asked if they could come with. Five of us left early grabbed a quick lunch at Micky D's then went to help make Christmas cards for our troops.

Tables were set up all over the room with supplies to make dozen's of different types of cards! They girls went from table to table creating and I stayed at mine helping those that wanted to play with the tools I brought (Fiskars squeeze punches, stamps, stickles and more.)

The girls and I were joined with about 30 Men, women, teens and children from Our Savior Lutheran. The ladies there had YUMMY oatmeal raisin (my favorite of the two) and chocolate chip (the girls favorite) cookies and lemonade to keep up our strength. All in all we spent 3 hours crafting cards. We had a blast!

When all was said and done yesterday afternoon, Diane was excited to share that they had 1502 cards! What a privilege it was to be a small part of it!

It's Class time!

So November 20th will be the date for a back to back jack of crafting classes

Join me at SCRAPBOOK JUNCTION

I'll be teaching a Cricut 101 (basics of the expression and create machines...we cover every single button and learn how to combine things to make cutting easier) Cost $20 bring your machine, a font (that has upper and lowercase letters) and a shape cartridge (something with simpler layers) Class time 10am-12pm

and Cricut 201--We go further in this class and talk about the basics of layering, doodling, using the deep cut housing blade, and cutting out materials besides paper (transparency, vinyl, chipboard, fabric and more) bring your machine, a basic font cartridge and a shape cartridge with simple layers. Cost $22 (we do a project with this class plus get samples of ton to stuff to cut out!) 1pm-3:30pm

Coming up the beginning of December.

Looking to make a unique Christmas Gift? We will cover the basics of etching, creating custom stencils using your cricut machine. We will create 3 different projects, a mirror, a votive holder and a frame. Date will be announced Call Scrapbook Junction to register or for more information!!

Raffle for Charity!

Two of my favorite things!
Operation Christmas Child and scrapbooking come together in a fabulous raffle for charity!

Scrapbook Junction in Minooka, IL is the home of a fabulous gift box loaded with wonderful crafting supplies from Fiskars, Creative Options, 7 Gyspies and MORE!!! The basket if valued well over $100 (easily $150 when I tallied things) Tickets cost $2 a piece or 3 for $5 and if you purchase $5 worth of tickets you get a free 6 x 12 sheet of alphabet rub-ons!

All proceeds benefit Operation Christmas Child

Operation Christmas Child is a wonderful ministry that sends the good news of God's love by giving gift filled shoe boxes to needy children all over the world at Christmas time! Tickets can be purchased at Scrapbook Junction through the 22nd of October!

Special thanks to Lead Fiskateer Angela Daniels and Scrapbook Junction for sponsoring the raffle!

Cricut Classes

It's that time again! Are you just looking for some instruction on your Cricut machine? Join me at Scrapbook Junction for:

Cricut 101

September 28, 2010

6-8pm

Cost: $20

Bring: Your bug, font cartridge, shape cartridge, scrap paper to work with and coordinating paper for project. This is a hands on class and you will cover all the basics of using your machine.

Cricut 201

October 5, 2010

6-8:30pm

Cost: $22

Bring: Your bug, font cartridge, shape cartridge, scrap paper to work with and coordinating paper for project. This class goes a step further and you will learn about doodling with your bug, cutting through a variety of materials, layering cuts, using the deep cut housing blade and more. Will create a project in class.

For more information visit Scrapbook Junction

The things you do for swag

Wonder what I have been up to???

I just got back from the CHA-S trade show where I had a BLAST!! I'll post more on it later but in the mean time head over to Scrapbook Update to find out all the "Things you do for swag".

A hunting we will go

I've been having some fun with Fiskateers over at Fiskateers.com with a scavenger hunt swap. There was a catch to this swap. All items from the list had to be from their stash. NO PURCHASING ANYTHING. Participants were given the date and time the list would be posted and then they had to find the items on the list and get them to me as fast as possible. Points were awarded, prizes selected and winners named.

The swap was a lot of fun! Thanks to everyone that participated!!!