August Creative Images Meeting

We had a good turnout on a dark and rainy night, with ten ladies bringing exchange cards following our theme of “A Bird in the Hand” and Linda and Ursula providing the matryoshka nesting dolls card.  In the future, if we can’t think of something to follow the theme, just think of it as a guideline and bring along whatever card you want.  Our treasury made some money last night for non-exchange card participants, me included.  I knew it was a guideline, I just couldn’t decide on a card.  My bad.  The ones we got were pretty good, though. 

First up, Therese’s fussy cut hand holding an egg over a couple of pretty blue birds.  What came first, the egg or the bird?  Click on any pic to enlarge it, then back to return.

Herman cleverly combined this photo of cupped hands with a gold-embossed hummingbird.

Here we are, side by side.  No rhyme or reason to this silly blog doing that.  sigh.

On the left is Holly’s birdcage lady holding a bird in her hand.  On the right, Jeannie made this gorgeous peacock.  See, a guideline.

On the left is Lona’s red-cheeked birdie.  I miss red-winged blackbirds sitting on top of cattails.  On the right is Melanie’s mitten holding a little bird.

Nancy Nottingham was a guest last night and she made the bird on the branch with button accents.  I think she is joining our group.  On the right is Pam’s little birdie told me. 

Back to single file.  sigh  This beautifully colored cardinal was done by Rosie, a head start on Christmas.

Tange made these three beach chicks, coloring them brightly and adding yellow flocking for fun. Love those purple sunglasses!

Below are Linda and Ursula’s two project samples.  They provided everything to cut out each layer, down to the hair, the buttons, ribbons, googly eyes and rhinestones for the hair.  Great job, ladies.  Mine will go next month to my twin great nieces.

Here’s Rosie’s, Jeannie’s and Melanie’s projects.  Rosie is sending hers to her granddaughter who’ll be five (I think).

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That’s it for now.  Next month our challenge cigar boxes are due and the exchange theme is “Fall Harvest.”  Thanks for stopping by. Comments always welcome.

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July Creative Images Meeting

We had thirteen ladies at last night’s meeting and the treasury didn’t make any money since everyone had their exchange cards.  The theme this month was “Lady in Red.”  We also had a swap of ten sympathy/thinking of you cards that six ladies participated in and got to take home their four left over cards.  Lona did a great Spirelli technique for her project. 

First up, the exchange cards.  Once again, some are side by side, some not and no rhyme or reason to how or why.  Oh, well.  These first two are Pam’s dress made with SU’s red glitter paper, a row of pearls and a flower.  I’d wear that!  Connie made the Scrappy Chick.  Inside it is full of little images of scrappers’ stuff.

This card has black and white designer paper (I think) for the background of Dani’s lady in a red hat.  The lady in the cloche hat is Ella’s.  Hats were popular!  The gold flower and gold cord set it off nicely.

Herman made this Boticelli-looking lady, surrounding her with a lovely border and brads.

Holly made this womanly card in black and white.  She popped out the lips and the moody sentiment in red.

Janice made this pretty little formal.  Love the red glitter on the bodice and the red ribbon belt.  Jeannie made the vellum and mulberry card with one of her ATC’s for the focal point.

Here’s my Gibson Girl, done with masking and stamping off. 

Lona made this vintage stamp.  A different look from Herman’s, with the same face.  The card with Dorothy, Toto and the ruby slippers was done my Melanie.  She put red glitter on the shoes!

Therese made this fashionable lady.  On the outside it says, “Fashion is something you buy.”  Inside it says, “Style is something you own.”  Theresa made the darling little girl in her red dress.

These first three swap cards are by Connie, Janice and me.

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These three are by Theresa, Pam and Lona.

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Lona did July’s project.  Here are her four Spirelli samples.  I’ve seen Spirelli cards, but this is the first time I got to make one.

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Here are three finished projects by me, Janice and Melanie.  Great project, Lona!

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That’s it for now.  Next up, I’ll be scheduling a  workshop for the new SU catalog.  Thanks for stopping by. Comments always welcome.

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Angie Blew Me Away!

Anybody who has read my blog, knows that Angie Juda is one of my inspirations.  She is one of Stampin’ Up’s best demos and always earns cruises and trips to the Founder’s Circle.  Angie does great video tutorials  on her blog, http://www.chicnscratch.typepad.com/, and is super generous with all her knowledge about stamping.   She does Ustream videos which I have not managed to participate in live, but you can go to her channel and look at them all.  Her latest Ustream video, recorded July 1, is a page-by-page look at the new Idea Book and Catalog.  If you don’t have your hands on a catalog, yet, this is the next best thing.  http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15755397  She flips each page and talks about her favorites.  Loved it, even though it was an hour and a half long.  Check it out!

Thanks for visiting.  Comments welcome.

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Eagle Cam Highlights for 2011

Since my post yesterday, I checked the eagle cam one more time and saw a great 2011 wrap-up video by bigrediggy.  I almost cried watching it show babies from eggs to hatching, wingercizing, branching and finally flying off.  So glad all three babies made it.  I guess living next to a fish hatchery has its bennies!  No starving survival of the fittest crap.

A great way to say goodbye till next year.  Thanks for stopping in.  Comments always welcome.

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Empty Nest Syndrome

Now I know what it means to have empty nest syndrome.  No kids to fly from my coop, but the eagles have definitely spread their wings and learned to fly.  What am I going to do now that they are gone?  sniff.  If you want to watch some videos on them as they spread out from the nest to eventually fly, check this out:  http://www.youtube.com/user/raptorfan81  Raptorfan has lots of videos of branching, flying, etc.  As I was trolling around looking at youtube, I  found a great video of a sudden storm on June 15, before the eaglets were quite grown or branching.  The wind started howling and the nest was rocking.  Poor babies scared to death.  Mom flew in and they mobbed her trying to get under her!  But they were just too big, so they hunkered down around her.  It’s 16 minutes long, but worth it: 

Gotta love it.  Thanks for stopping by.  Comments always welcome.

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Theresa’s Workshop 6/18/11

Theresa just loves having workshops.  She earns such great hostess bennies and gifts.  LOL  We had eight ladies at Saturday’s workshop and we made fun cards with a retiring set and cool guy cards with The Open Sea set that Jeannie loaned me.  Janice let me have a couple pieces of her Nautical Expedition DSP.  Thanks, Jeannie and Janice! 

First, I made a couple of samples with The Open Sea that I used as drawing prizes. This first one is a center step card I learned how to make on Splitcoaststampers.com.  Frances Byrne did a tutorial here.  This technique uses a base that is 5 1/2” x 11” and you end up with a square card. 

I modified the sizes of the center step card to make two cards from one piece of cardstock, 4 1/4” x 11”.  Didn’t seem to make that much difference and the ladies loved making these for either Fathers Day or a guy card.

For our other make and take, everyone got to pick two of the motifs from the retiring Fun and Fast Notes to make two cards, plus a couple of images to take home.  I made these samples.

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Here’s a closeup of the last one.  I didn’t use the little Christmas tree.  Too hot to think about Christmas!

From seven other cards, I made this hostess gift for Theresa, a simple little stationery holder.

 

Here’s the ladies enjoying themselves and a nice pic of Theresa’s “no bake” cake made of multiple layers of a crispy sort of pancake she cooked in a frying pan, layered and frosted with whipped cream.  Yummy.

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That’s all for now. Thanks for visiting.  Comments always welcome.

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June Creative Images Meeting

Last night we had 12 ladies with several out of town or busy or whatever.  Linda was given a pass on the exchange card as she just got home from out of town and Jeannie gave me one for her exchange card even though she decided a family reunion in Virginia was more important than our meeting.  Sheesh!  Some people!  The exchange theme for June was birthday cards and we got some nice ones.  In no particular order, here we go.  Click on a pic to enlarge for details and back to return.

First is Ella’s, using a butterfly diecut and some gorgeous gold cardstock.

 

Connie made this bright button card with a cute saying. Yaaaay for cookies!

Holly made this uniquely topped card.  I think she cut it with scissors, but I couldn’t hear what she said.

Herman did a great job coloring, fussy cutting and layering this birthday cake.  Lots of bling, too.

Jeannie made this lovely green card.  I think she mounted an ATC on here.  Not sure.

Janice used her Big Shot and several embossing folders to make these cupcakes.  Great idea!

Therese used an embossing folder, too, but the green centerpiece was fussy cut and an oval punched for the center.

 

I learned how to make this square step card in a tutorial on Splitcoaststampers.  I borrowed Jeannie’s The Open Sea stamp set and Janice’s Nautical Expedition DSP.  Jeannie gets this card from the exchange.  Ms. Shipp will like that!

I think Lona embossed her trees in black for this stunning card.

Pam said she finally got to play with her Build a Blossom set and her punch to make this great card.  She had fun with embossing folders, too.

Rose made this great kid card, coloring, fussy cutting and popping up this little unicorn.  

Theresa made this pretty card with a gold stained-glass styled birdie.  She added tiny butterflies, too.

Connie prepared an awesome project and provided everything needed to make this little memory booklet.  The letters are “thickers” that she added adhesive to with her Xyron machine.

 

Three little pages pull out on each side to do what you want with.

Here’s Janice’s and Pam’s finished projects.

That’s it for now.  Next up, Theresa’s workshop pics from this coming Saturday.  Thanks for stopping by. Comments always welcome.

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