March Creative Images Meeting

We had a great turnout last night, only missing a few, especially, Linda.  Our hearts are with you, Linda.  We collected dues and will get it to you ASAP.  There were 15 ladies there last night, including Lona’s guest, her husband Herman, who even turned in his own blinged exchange card.  Our exchange card theme this month was “Add Some Bling,” and we all did that, for sure.  We also had our first challenge of the year, using a coaster, and Tange did the project, a darling little Easter card with punched bunnies.  Click on any picture to see details, then “back” to return.

First up, our exchange cards, starting with Dani’s ship, a tri-fold card, closed . . .  

. . . then opened.  Love the sentiment.

Here’s Connie’s “Fancy a cuppa” card, with steam added to the pot with red jewels.

  

Here’s Janice’s scalloped circle card with a bunny, jewels and some carrots.

This is Ella’s black and white “Smile.”  What is the “B” for?

Here’s Helen’s glittery, embossed, bejeweled flowers.

Here’s Herman’s shiny love with diamonds and glittery stars.

Here’s Holly’s “you’re a natural” card with jeweled butterflies.

I added tiny pink jewels to this pink card from my stash.  Up close, I see one fell off!

Jeannie used a feather, jeweled butterfly and flower on her birthday card.

Lona made this ornament with a gold star, gold butterflies and put a gold ball inside.

Rosie blinged up this little Easter House Mouse.

Pam glittered up these roses on this Spring birthday card.

Tange used an embossed medallion, a doily, pearls, ribbon and buttons on this card.

Theresa used glitter, ribbon and jewels on this “Just for you” card.  That is one perfect bow!

Therese put an ATC collage with jewels, watch parts, lace and flowers on her bejeweled card.

Therese made her birdcage card for the challenge using a coaster and won first prize!  A bird is out of the cage and an Asian lady in it!

Dani made this purple and green card for her challenge.  I think she die cut the leaves and fruit from the coaster to win second prize in the challenge.

Tange used her favorite saying on this spiral bound post-it note cover made with two coasters, to win third prize.

Honorable mention in our challenge are Theresa’s shadow box, Janice’s vase of candy and Lona’s Treasures.

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Last, but not least, we have Tange’s Easter card project.  This is a pic of Ella’s finished bunny card.

That’s it for this month.  Next month’s exchange theme is Pretty in Pink.  See ya’ll then. 

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Pam’s SAB Workshop

It’s been a while since I last had a workshop. I’ve not been feeling well and lost my mojo for a while. Pam couldn’t let Sale-a-Bration go by without someone having a workshop, so she jumped in and made me find my mojo. I had received a lot of the Occasions and SAB sets for Christmas from my sweetie and finally got them out and actually did something with them. As a little bonus, Pam and her first two guests got to play with punches before we did the make and takes when more ladies arrived. First, we played with Therese’s Owl punch and the SAB set Punch Pals. With the addition of Little Leaves die and the Framed Tulips embossing folder, we made this little cutie with the googly eyes. We paper pieced his little waistcoat.

Pam wanted me to demonstrate the Build a Blossom set and punch, so the ladies got to stamp and punch enough petals and leaves to make a flower in the color of their choice. Here’s my sample.

For my first make and take after the rest of the ladies came, I was inspired by a card on Splitcoaststampers made by sharonstampsalot . I changed it a little bit, but basically CASE’d it to make this card with the Baby Blossoms set. Used the Framed Tulips border and Springtime Vintage DSP and the new Baja Breeze seam binding.

I had to have the Easter Blossoms set in the Occasions mini so I would have the dogwood branch, but the little girl made a couple of pretty cards, too. First, I made this one, using Dawn Griffith’s gathered ribbon technique video 1/2" Seam Binding ribbon bow that she did on Jan. 28, 2011. I fussy cut the little girl and stamped off the dogwood on the inside so it would be paler than the sentiment. Looking at this up close, I have the DSP on upside down! Oops!

My second make and take was CASE’d from Angie Juda’s Be my Valentine Trifold Card video tutorial that she did on January 4, 2011. I used the Easter Blossom girl again and the same dogwood branch and DSP as the above card to make this pretty card.

I made these little party favors with the Lucky Shamrock stamp, “gold” coins and Pearson mint patties. Pearson still wraps their mints in foiled paper instead of putting them in little plastic/foil packages like York does now.

I made this post-it-note holder as a drawing prize that Connie won. I altered a $1 post-it holder from Michael’s.

Last, but not least, I was inspired by Diana Gibb’s Feb. 22, 2011, blog entry here to make this cheery hostess gift for Pam.

Everyone loved their make and takes, party favors and prize/gift, and a very good time was had by all.

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February Creative Images Meeting

We had a light turn out last night for various reasons, all good, but we managed to elect out new officers (congratulations to new President Connie and to Holly, Connie’s Vice or Co-President, whichever works best for them) and to re-elect Tange as Secretary and Linda as Treasurer.  I have been elected, probably for life, as historian/photographer/blogger.  So, I’ll keep doing what I’ve been doing, taking pictures of all our cards and blogging them.  No scrapping, though. 

The February meeting was moved up a week so as to not be meeting on Valentines Day, the second Monday of the month .

First, some old business from the January shoebox swap.  Therese found her post card for the postal exchange.  Lovely.  Glad she brought it to share.

The February exchange theme was “Four Seasons.”  Everyone who came brought a card, so the treasury didn’t make any money last night!  Click on any picture to see detail, then hit back to return to this page.

First up, Ella’s card with lots of my favorite fussy cutting and watercoloring.  Love what she did with the Lattice embossing folder to make it look like burlap.

Connie put lots of embellishments on her card.  Lovely sentiment stamp.

 

Dani colored and punched these four seasonal elements for her card.  Love the dancing pig!

 

Helen used a favorite Earth photo to express her seasonal theme.  Brads were perfect touches.

 

Holly took these four solid images and stamped them in seasonal colors on a pre-embossed frame.  Very effective and easy-peasy.

My tree stamp came with the little clump of leaves stamp which I used to reflect the seasons.  I used white gel pen and glitter on winter quarter.

Lona sponged the sunset/sunrise on this Winter card.  A lovely impressionist look.

 

Therese die cut this elaborate window frame for her water colored seasonal images.

Pam used her markers to color these four seasonal arrangements.  Love the cardinal and bluebird.

 

Tange used lots of bling, glitter and a cute dragonfly charm on her Spring card.

It’s amazing that everyone came up with such different ideas for the same theme.  We do good work.

Helen had the project last night.  She had containers of bubble liquid (the kind kids play with) with about 8 drops of red reinker in each container.  We each had our own straw to blow bubbles, then dip a piece of glossy cardstock in the bubbles, repeating as necessary to get the effect we wanted.  They dried during the meeting, after which we assembled our Valentines similar to Helen’s sample.  Always great to learn something new.

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Ponce Inlet Lighthouse

While I have the time and ambition, I’ll finish up the pictures of places I went with Bob and Misty so she can sincerely regret going back to snowy St. Louis!  Misty and I both love lighthouses and this is the second one we went to and climbed all the way to the top.  She saw some more on her way home along the Panhandle, but this one is the best.   Here’s Misty and Bob with the sign.  Another gorgeous day!

I like what this sign says.  Click on it to read the creed of the Lighthouse Board.

Pic on left is looking up from the bottom and on the left is looking down from the top.  203 steps.  Phew!  Looks kind of like a Nautilus shell.

Here’s Misty and I at the base . . .

 

. . . and at the top!

Here it is in all its glory.  Rigging and scaffold for repairs.

Tiny moon!

Views from the top.  Russel and Greta at the bottom in second pic.

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Very cool to be able to drive down to the beach where we saw Black skimmers, hundreds of them!

Here’s Bob and Misty’s Odyssey, living up to its name.

Last glimpse of the Light from the beach.

That’s it for Misty and Bob’s big adventure.  Thanks for stopping by.  As always, comments are welcome.

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