Creative Images November Meeting

Sorry it has taken me a couple weeks, but, hey, it’s still November!  Been busy with friends and getting ready for Christmas.  Gallons of my Christmas Mix and pounds of fudge, oh my!  I should be getting boxes ready to mail to family, but since I was already on my puter to work on Christmas card letters, before I get busy elsewhere, here goes.

Remember in my last post, I bragged on how it had finally cooled down!  Ha!  After a month of record-breaking heat, it has cooled down again, but only for a couple days.  Thanksgiving weekend will be in the 80’s!  Waaaaaa!

We had no themed exchange card for November, but we did have our Christmas tag swap and the eight who came, all brought twelve tags. Click on any pic to see details, then back to return.  Here goes.

These first two tags of cute polar bears by Cheryl B remind me of the Coke ads of a while back.

Cheryl M made the Christmas tree with holly tag and Ella made the clear tag.  Somehow, when I picked up my tags from the swap, two of these acetate tags stuck together and I ended up with two!  Since my friend Misty was here from St. Louis, I gave her my extra, and one of mine.  She loved seeing all the tags in real life.

Jeannie made this white embossed on dark blue snowman and I made the blue snowflake tag.

Pam made this evergreen branch with an ornament hanging from it and Pat R made the happy snowman.

Therese made these die cut reindeer cards.

Cheryl M had the November project and provided three different designs of her acetate card.  She provided excellent written instructions and I made a copy for Misty to take back to St. Louis so she could make some, too.  Great project, Cheryl M, thanks. 

Pat R made one of these cute chocolate holders for each of us as a happy Fall favor.  Yummy!

Thanks for stopping by.  Comments always welcome.

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September Creative Images Meeting

We had our meeting on September 9 and since I’ve slept since then, let’s hope I can manage to blog them sensibly.  I did process the pics, i.e., resize and rename them, a couple weeks ago with a little help from Pat R, so we should be okay.  Our theme was Autumn, challenges were due and Jeannie had the project, color burst water coloring.  So, here goes.  Everybody that brought in an exchange card, did great Fall submissions. We owe a quarter if we don’t have an exchange, but Pat J got a pass for her really good excuse!  Her house burned up! Sorry, Pat, I couldn’t help it.

First up, Cheryl B’s cute little House Mouse flying away on a Fall leaf. 

Cheryl M (more on her later!) made this little row of pumpkins for a good Fall birthday card.

Ella did this fallen leaf with lots of texture by dry embossing.

Jeannie sort of had the same idea as Ella with her diamond shapes.

My card on the left is a CASE of Cheryl M’s swap from a couple months ago.  I really loved her card, obviously!  Pat R made this darling shaker card with tiny leaves flying around.

Therese didn’t do a card, but she brought in this cute Halloween treat bag for her exchange.

Next we voted on our challenge entries.  Too bad we had no fourth prize, as we had four entries!  I was amazed at all of them. The challenge was to do something with a Cricut cartridge box, a little oar, and some paint chips.  I had absolutely no idea what to do, so didn’t.  First is Cheryl B’s outside and inside, a little jewelry box. Be sure and click on each pic for details, then back to return.

Next is Cheryl M’s box with a pretty snowy scene on the outside and inside was a little Christmas in the snow and woods.  Her oar was what held the box open.

This was Pat R’s box with a door and wreath on the outside.  I love her mail slot!  Inside is a window on Fall and a doggie in the recliner looking out the window.  I think Pat R won first prize.

Here is Therese’s challenge with butterflies and flowers.

I’m sorry, but I don’t remember who won second and third prize.  Slept since then.

Jeannie showed us a new watercolor technique she found at Stampfest using a very intense finely powdered medium.  Here are pictures of her samples.

The leftover powder on your palette can be used to die ribbon, etc.

Cheryl M shared with us her news that she and her man of 40 plus years were getting married in the new year!  Here’s her engagement ring.  Best wishes to both!

Finally, because I can, here’s a teaser on what I’ve been so busy with for last week or so.  Getting ready for a Stampin’ Up workshop at Pam’s this Saturday.  The snow be getting deep in Ocala!

Will post pics after the workshop to show you all what I did with all these snowflakes and the gold embossed ones not shown here.  I have silver and gold glitter everywhere!

That’s all for now.  See you in October.  Comments always welcome.

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Creative Images June Meeting

Our meeting on June 10 was well attended and we had a good exchange theme, Circus/Carnival/Fair.  We also did a swap of six thinking of you cards.  Five ladies participated in the swap, so we each got one of ours back.  Yay!  I might have messed up on identifying the swaps since the ones I have pictures of are not the same as the ones I got (one of which was not signed).  If I did not name them right, let me know and I’ll fix it.  Click on any pic to see details and back to return.

These first three look like three versions of the same stamp, maybe.  The first one maybe not, the next two for sure.

First is Cheryl B’s ticket to happiness.

Next is Ella’s Admit one.  She carried out the theme inside and on the envelope!

Therese’s “not my circus, not my monkeys,” is something I can definitely hear her saying.

Here’s my hot air balloon.  Learned how to do the reflection in a Paper Pumpkin video. I used that washi tape inside and on the envelope, too.

Here’s Cheryl M’s lion at the circus card.

Pam went nuts with punches on her clown card.  Cute!

Pat J did his happy clown card with lots of fussy cutting, but what’s up with the clown with his head in his lap?!  I think Pat said she did the balloons with sponge daubers.

Jeannie forgot the theme, but this is a nice “ship” card from her stash.

 

Our swap netted us some nice thinking of you cards.  First, here’s Cheryl B’s sunny card, I think.

Here’s Cheryl M’s card made with one of my favorite 3-step stamping sets from long ago. I think I need to dig it out and play with it.

Here’s mine using DSP and a matching embossing folder, sanded to show the white core.

Here’s Pam’s looking very soft with pastels and tiny pearls. 

Here’s Pat J’s using DSP.  All of hers were different.  The one I got has a buckle on it, but uses same colors and DSP.

Cheryl B did our project, a waterfall card.  Here are two of her samples. The one on the left is not quite finished so she could show us how it goes together. I finished mine and it looks a lot like the masculine sample, but it has a ribbon on the bottom for the pull.  I like the feminine one, too, and that’s what I put together for Helen to finish.

Last, just because I can, here are some thank you cards I made for Pat J to pick one as my thank you for her online order.  She chose the one with rainbow “THANKS.”

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That’s it for this month.  Thanks for stopping by.  Comments always welcome.

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