RAD Open House Tour Starts Thursday, Feb. 4th!

Tomorrow is day #1 of our RemARKable Open House Blog Tour –you are going to wowed by the creativity and imagination of my fellow team members.Each RemARKable on this tour is offering the same class to their customers that includes the HOUSE PDF/Pattern, and an IDEA sheet with a total of 30 house ideas on it. As one of my customers if you have not yet registered for the class it is being held on FEBRUARY 27th at 2 p.m. and again at 6 p.m.

Today, I want to share with you a card that I made for one of my stamp clubs last week. I used an embossing folder to create the background for this card, and then I embossed an additional sheet of card stock (rose red, this time) and used it to punch out the flowers with our new large Flower Punch. The center of the flower uses felt flowers from our Sweet Pea felt flowers embellishments! I topped it off with a ribbon slide from the Very Vanilla Hardware kit. I love the way this card turned out! See you tomorrow for our exciting Open House tour! (Pun intended, as the houses really do open up! lol

Open House Tour Coming Soon!

The RAD Open House Tour begins tomorrow - with our first view of the houses, and let me tell you, having seen them, this is one very creative group of ladies! These little houses make great gifts. I will be having a class in March, where we make one of the BASIC houses, and when you take the class, you will be given an idea sheet that shows 30 creative ways to make this house! Hopefully these will provide inspiration for your very own house. Remember, come back tomorrow to see my house, and more importantly to go on to the other members of this group to see lots of other ways to design a house!

Now for today's post! This is the 2-page spread that my scrapbook class did this month. It is very similar to the 2 pages that we made at Jan Wakeland's RAD weekend in December. I love the look of a quilt square on the page at the left. I grew up in a quilting household and so this one really appeals to me. My two little granddaughters really liked the snowman. I just need to get some of the snow pictures on the pages! Remember, come back tomorrow and see what is New in the neighborhood!

Love Birds

Good morning! Just had to share this card with you. I found it while I was blog hopping, and decided to make a couple of changes and make it for my anniversary card to my husband! Hope I haven't lost it by then. lol The base is real red adn the next layer is basic black. The white layer is embossed with an embossing folder. I used the new heart embossing folder to make hte red heart, and the layer on top of it is punched with our large heart punch. It is embossed vellum. the little heart is made with the new heart punch, as are the birds. The beautiful red bow is made from our new red satin ribbon and is topped with a red corduroy button. I truly believe my favorite new punch is the birds punch. In fact, I am doing a class on February 6th, called "Birds of a Feather" and we will be making a mini bird house and 3 Bird cards. I am really looking forward to this class. I will share some of the samples after the class is over. Thanks for stopping by!

Brenda

Good morning! Doesn't this little turtle make you smile?? Hope he arrives at his destination by February 14th! lol He is on the last page of the big catalog in a set called Very Thankful This set is also the Ronald McDonald House set of stamps for this year. Every year Stampin Up chooses a set of stamps and donates $2 from each set sold to the Ronald McDonald House Charities! So in addition to being a great set of stamps, you are helping children! The strip of DSP is from the Sending Love DSP, and the pretty little felt piece in the corner of the card is from the Sweet Pea felt pieces. Colors used were White, Chocolate Chip, Rose Red and Pretty in Pink. The heart is punched with the large heart punch. This is a quick and easy card to make. Hope you enjoyed stopping by today.

Good morning! I wanted to share this card with you this morning, because it is made using one of the sets of stamps that you can get free during our "Saleabration" sale. For every $50 you spend on merchandise, you get one item free! This set is called Things I Love. I used the new scallop border trim punch to create the lacy effect on the bottom of the card. I used the 1 1/4" and the 1 3/8" punches to layer the little images. The inside says: but most of all you! Isn't that a sweet card? It would make great images for scrapbooking also!

Thanks for stopping by.

This morning's cards are for Valentine's day, and they use some of the new accessories that we have in the Occasions Mini Catalog. The first card uses the heart from the Always set of stamps. I embossed it on Pretty in Pink Card Stock. Then used the new pinking hearts punch for the border on the white. I placed 2 pieces of our new Sweet Pea felt flowers on the new pretty in pink 5/8" satin ribbon. The words that are in the middle are a little hard to see but they are also new - from "Well Scripted" in the mini catalog. They say, "Love you Much" Valentine's Day is such a great opportunity to go all out with accessories! Love it! I also love that it is Saleabration season! For every $50 in merchandise that you buy, you get to choose something free! Woo Hoo! Stamps, paper, punches! Email me for more information: HalfwittStamps@aol.com

The second card was made by my wonderfully talented downline, Bev Joplin! She has taken our Build a Bear dies and created a valentine bear--all dressed in his tux, ready to take his best valentine out for the evening! He is prepared! He has both candy and roses! Maybe you should show this to your husbands, give them a nudge in the right direction! lol I love the use of the new scallop trim corner to create the corners on this card. The designer paper used is Razzleberry Lemonade!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!! Well, ok, so I am a few days late with the greeting, but now I am feeling it, and I wasn't earlier! lol I have been spending time cleaning, straightening, and decluttering my house. yes, it really took this long, and unfortunately, no I am not finished yet. But I feel ssoooo much better! We did get together and make Happy New Year, thank you cards and that was fun. I love the snowman. He originally was a stamp with lines on it for kids to write a Thank You card. I cut that part out and glued it to the back of my stamp, so I could just use the image for making a snowman! And a little glitter was of course necessary! The bird is from Fast and Easy notes, and I used these cards also to say Thank you and happy new year for my Stamp clubs. I love fast and easy cards! Ok, I just love cards--fast, easy, hard, cute, complicated, etc. These 2 were cased from other creative stampers. I love the stamping community.

Thanks for stopping by.

Brenda