A little of this, a little of that!

So I had a very QUICK class last night. We made this cute tub using our new Decor Elements. They are SO easy to use. Contact me & I can email you the directions.

I then had some time to work on Andi's scrapbook. I felt SO bad that she is 14mo already & I didn't do ANYTHING. So I'm going to show you what I worked on last night. I was quite happy & can't wait until Nov 5th to work on it some more. Will you be there?

Then today I REALLY needed to work on Deb's b-day invitations & well, what do you think?

Some Great Crafttin' Days

Man was I in my glory this week. I was stampin' & craftin' 3 days in a ROW!!! PLUS I have a workshop on Saturday so that's 4, WOO HOO, go me :-)


On Wednesday I had my open scrap night with I think the MOST amount of woman I've had yet, 12. I was so amazed that we all found the space to work. All felt very accomplished at the end of the night. Can't wait to do it again next month!!! sorry I don't have pictures, next time

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Thursday was the kid's craft day with 11 in total. The kids really enjoyed themselves & the projects & want to do it again, this time, get this, SCRAPBOOKING!!! startin' em young ;-)

Here they all are with the completed project, aren't they cute!!!






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Then today my friend Stef came over. She wanted to stamp SO BAD she sat in over an hours worth of traffic to get here & then sat in WAY longer traffic to get home. Now that's a TRUE stamper ;-)


We decided to get together once a month & make hostess gifts & door prizes & whatever else we feel like. Here are the things we made, some are incomplete. I will finish them up & add at another time.

Hope you enjoyed this weeks entry & until next time, Happy Craftin'

xoxoxo

Traci :-)

Easy Christmas Projects

Hello Everyone! I can't beleive it's October & I was working on projects for Christmas. It'll be here before we know it. My friend & I decided we are going to do our church's craft fair again this year so I better get crack-a-lackin' anyway.

I have my monthly sideline meeting tomorrow & we had to come up with a project using the Spoghtlight on Christmas stamp set. I looked through my monthly Stampin' Up! magazine & found a cute paperbag project & just changed EVERYTHING but the layout.


You like? I do & it took me all of 10min to cut & put together. Now we all have 10 min right? Get to work & email me your project.


Here is what I used;

Spoghtlight on Christmas stamp set
Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Night of Navy & Natural White Cardstock
Riding Hood Red, Night of Navy & Chocolate Chip Classic Ink
5-Petal Flower Punch, Lg Star Punch, Lg & Wide Oval Punches & Scallop Edge Punch
5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Stampin Dimensionals & sm stapler


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Nanci's workshop was a fun night, not everyone showed up but we all had a GREAT time. They got to use the NEW & AWESOME Bigshot & made the Basket & Blooms project. I think I have a few buyers in the future :-)

When we finally got started after a few door prizes they made 2 Christmas cards using the I Wish Simply Scrappin' Kit (SSK), yes you heard me right cards using the SSK. Stampin' Up! is bound to have products to use for ANYTHING!! I can squeeze out 60-80 cards using one kit & 1 pkg of solid cardstock.
Here are the cards I made.







Thanx for looking. Until next time when I have some time to stamp & play!!!
xoxo
Traci :-)

Halloween Treat Cups Tree

I know, I know I've been MIA for a little bit. It's been a little hectic over here these days & I didn't have ANY chance to play. I had no choice for this one since it's for my class tomorrow night. This was a cute project that was shown to us at convention & when I saw it I JUST HAD to make it. I'm giving it to Debra's classroom for Halloween. Boy what am I going to make for Christmas???? Something with the Decor Elements I'm sure. So anyway I hope you all enjoy this cute project.

Here is what I used;

Ghostly Greetings DSP
Chills & Thrills Rub-Ons
Halloween Frights stamp set (holiday mini)
Elegant Eggplant ¼” grosgrain ribbon
Old Olive 5/8” grosgrain ribbon
Pumpkin Pie ½” striped grosgrain ribbon
Black gingham ribbon
Silver brads
1/16” & 1/8” handheld punches
1 ¾” & 1 ¼” circle punches
Tag punch
Sticky strip, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Crystal Effects
Basic Black, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie & Elegant Eggplant Classic Ink Pads

Order from me 24/7

Well you heard me mention it at the end of the summer & now IT'S TIME!!! You can now order from me directly through my Stampin' Up! website. All you have to do is go to www.craftinwithtlc.stampinup.net click on Stampin' Up! Products -->Shop Now & there you go, shopping. You will have to create a customer id by clicking customer login.
Now whenever you need to have that right away item fell free to go ahead & order this way. If you would still like to email me your order you may do so, this is just ANOTHER option for you. I am so excited for this new feature & I hope you are too. Email me if & when you place an order this way & tell me your experience, what you liked, didn't like yadda, yadda.
I don't think I can have the privelage of this feature so I'll have to take your word on it.
Anyway have fun with it.
xoxox
Traci

First Day of School!!

I know I should be doing work but I JUST had to share with you a few pictures of my Debra's 1st day of Pre-School. I just can't beleive how fast that went, she's old enough to go to school, YAY!!! I have to say she was VERY excited to go this morning, partially b/c I've been playing it up. She tends to be just like her mom when it comes to something new a little apprehensive but then watch out she is GUNG HO!!! So I had to make it exciting for her, i think it worked ;-)

So here she is with her GINORMUS backpack, I mean come on why must they make them get such a big one, just to hold a folder, lol
Gotta wear shades!!! It's a sunny morning :-)
Here she is with Uncle Keith, he is just as proud & excited as we are. I know we can count on him to be there for all her firsts, luv ya bro xoxox
Look I found my name, I'm a green apple :-)

Getting ready to leave. What a great day!!!

The process of thank you cards

So you get a nice gift for you or MANY for a child. The right thing to do is send a thank you. Now to come up with a layout, that's MY hardest part. Well luckily today I was reading my Stampin' Success, a magazine with great samples & ideas that we demo's get every month, and came across this cute page in there
I thought "hey i have a similar picture of Andi that I could use" so I printed out my pictures got all my supplies ready & went to work. I had to make about 20 thank you cards from her birthday party. The first thing I did was make my first one, LOVED IT!!! Now to get to work, First I punched out all the pink pirouette scallop circles & riding hood red 1 3/8" circles. Then I stamped thank you using the seeing spots stamp set added a small button & assembeld those
Next I cut my kiwi kiss & baja breeze card stock & used the scallop punch. I adhered those to my kiwi kissThen I cut my whisper white card stock & stamped her name using kiwi kiss starting with the last letter first so I knew how far in I'd have to go. Then I stamped the flowers in baja breeze then added the picture & adhered that to my main page Finally I added my flower using dimensionals & here you go a BEAUTIFUL thank you card that doubles as a photo, I made these 5x7. Whose not gonna want to put this picture out on display, she's just too cute :-)I hope you enjoyed the process as much as I did making them. I have to tell you that these took me only about 2 hrs to complete from start to finish. I had a GREAT helper :-) So you too can make your thank you's, invites or whatever. You just have to MAKE THE TIME!!!
Until next time happy stampin!!