Apr 11, 2013 | Cards, Ronald McDonald House Charities |
I wanted to share some pictures from our visit this week to the Ronald McDonald House for some stamping time. We had kids and moms plus some help from one of the dads and the volunteer coordinator at the house. It was a fun night and everyone that participated enjoyed themselves. Jenn designed the card that everyone made – here it is –
The volunteer demonstrators take turns designing the card and bringing the supplies. Some of the guests follow the card exactly while others get creative.
Thank you to everyone that came and helped – Jenn, Leishman, Bryan, Suzi and myself. It was a nice escape for the guests at the house even if it wasn’t for very long.
Feb 14, 2013 | Big Shot, Cards, Create with Connie & Mary, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Spring Catalog 2013, Valentine's Day |
Happy Valentine’s Day! We made Valentine’s at the Ronald McDonald House on Tuesday night. And since today – Valentine’s Day was going to be a Create with Connie & Mary challenge day I decided to use the sketch for the card we were making at the Ronald McDonald House. Stampin’ Up! has a partnership with the Ronald McDonald House Charities and demonstrators from all over volunteer time to get crafty with house guests everywhere. I go with a small group of demonstrators to one of the houses here in the Atlanta area – we try to visit every month. And since it was the week of Valentine’s day of course we had to make Valentine cards.
This weeks Challenge at Create with Connie & Mary is a sketch challenge. Plus you can get daily inspiration right now if you join Create with Connie & Mary Spring 2013 Online class. They are show-casing items from the Stampin’ Up! Spring catalog plus Sale-A-Bration! Lots of great ideas and its not too late to join.
Here is a look at the sketch for this week –
Since I wanted a Valentine card – the first thing was to take the flower and make it a heart. Then I just played with the rest until I got something I wanted. I ended up turning the sketch for my card. It needed to be a simple card for everyone at the Ronald McDonald house to make. And I pre-prepped several pieces ahead of time so they just had to glue them on.
Here are some details on this card –
- card base is Primrose Petals and I used the hearts folder from the Adorning Accents Embossing Folders to add hearts across the bottom (I did this ahead for them)
- Above the embossed hearts is a scalloped piece of Pool Party card stock – this was cut with the Tasteful Trim Bigz XL die (I cut these ahead of time too)
- They stamped a greeting above the scallops – they had a choice of four different ones – “Happy Valentine’s Day” from Wacky Wishes, “Be My Valentine” from Delightful Dozen, “You’re in My thoughts, You’re in my Heart” from Word Play, and “happy valentine’s day” from Teeny Tiny Wishes – all the stamping was done in Real Red ink (it’s best to have only one color ink to choose from when we stamp there)
- I punched hearts from the More Amore Designer Series paper using the Full Heart punch (I punched all these ahead of time). They added them to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- I also had a couple of hearts from the Hearts A Flutter stamp set that they could use. They were able to write and stamp on the inside of their card and decorate the envelopes too.
- We had cards for grandma’s, auntie’s, mama’s, and sister’s.
- Signed and sealed and ready to be delivered!
Here are some photos of our Stampers’s this week.
I hope you gave some love to someone close to you and even to someone you didn’t even know! I know everyone had the Ronald McDonald House that stamped with us really had a fun time.
Visit the Create with Connie & Mary site to see the creations from the rest of the design team and to submit your own creation for this new challenge. Plus don’t forget to check out the 2013 Spring class going on right now!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Stamps: Wacky Wishes (and others listed above but not shown on this sample)
- Card Stock: Primrose Petals, Pool Party
- Accessories: Full Heart Punch, Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Adorning Accents Embossing Folders, Tasteful Trim Bigz XL die, More Amore Specialty Designer Series paper, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Jul 25, 2012 | Cards, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Stampin' Up! Convention |
These are some of the swaps I created for the Stampin’ Up! Convention this year. I used the Moving Forward stamp set. Which was one of our Prize Patrols on the last day of Convention! Since I didn’t make 3000 of these I know not everyone got one of my swaps but everyone at convention needs an idea for this set because now we all have it. So here you go!
This set is the Ronald McDonald House Charity stamp set for this year. And this year Stampin’ Up! will be donating $3 from the sale of each set. How exciting is that! I miss volunteering at the house. Our schedules have been a bit messed up or there weren’t enough families at the house (that is actually a good thing!) for us to come. Once the fall gets here I hope that we get back on a regular schedule with the house so that we can go stamp with the kids and the families each month.
These may look a little familiar since I based my swap on my Color Challenge card for Create with Connie & Mary from the week before convention. I still had the stamp set out and all the colors and thought I should just make cards with all the images. Look how cute they turned out. You can read more about that card HERE – these swaps are a little bit simpler just because I made so many and needed to eliminate a couple of steps. Come back tomorrow for this weeks new challenge.
So used to on my blog if someone left a comment I got an email and then I could reply back to the person. I try to do that. But now I don’t seem to be getting those emails anymore! So if I didn’t reply to you that was why. I’m going to try to go back through the comments from the past few weeks and reply back to you guys. Thanks for the comments – I do read them and love getting them.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Monika
Sep 23, 2011 | Cards, Ronald McDonald House Charities |
The Ronald McDonald House that is. This month when we went to visit the Ronald McDonald House they had all boys. And the boys had fun stamping with us and making cards. I thought I would share some pictures with you. Christine designed this months card and I forgot to take a picture of it but you can see it in the pictures with some of the boys who are holding up their completed cards.
After the boys made their cards some of the mom’s came and joined us and made their own. I was helping Junior who has been there when we came before. Jenn watched the baby so Junior’s mom could make a card. The mom didn’t speak English so Junior was instructing her in Spanish with what she should be doing. He may be a future Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator!
Another fun evening at the Ronald McDonald House. Joyce, Christine, Linda, Jenn and I were all there to help this month. Each month we take turns designing and preparing cards for the house guests to make.
Thanks for checking in today – have a nice weekend! I hope to have posts for Saturday and Sunday. This week has been Fall Break at Ryan’s school but he was taking Driver’s Ed all week so he wasn’t very happy – he still had to get up early, sit in class all day and do homework each night. Today he wants to sleep. And then we may go get his Driver’s Permit since he doesn’t have that yet and needs it to complete the behind the wheel driving portion of the course.
Aug 22, 2011 | Cards, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Thank You |
Last week we made another visit to the Ronald McDonald House. When we go there we always meet someone new. And not only are we there to stamp and provide some distraction. But sometimes we are there to listen to their stories. This month a grandmother was their with her granddaughter and she talked to us for a long time, she had a lot to get off her chest and even though she didn’t want to stamp we finally talked her into making one of the cards for the scrapbook she was making her granddaughter. They had traveled here from Tennessee.
I designed the card this month – we (the demonstrators) take turns designing the card and bringing the supplies.
The card featured the Owl punch – I made up all the owl ahead of time. The card is Poppy Parade and So Saffron. The Designer Paper is retired, and so are the stamp sets – the Sanded background and the Family Phrases. The branch is from the Bird Punch. Here is the card in the other direction –
And some pictures I took while everyone was stamping –
This little boy was so cute! And so excited to make a card. He even wrote a note inside and then was so sweet to take it to his mom – hiding it behind his back. He came back and made another one – I think it was for his grandma. He was 10 years old with a big smile – he didn’t say much but was happy to be there with us.
Have a great week!
Jul 30, 2011 | Cards, Ronald McDonald House Charities |
Right after I got back from convention I went with Jenn, Joyce, Christine, and Nadine to stamp with the kids and families staying at the Ronald McDonald House. I always enjoy going down there and spending time with the families and giving them a fun evening activity. This month Joyce designed the card using some old Stampin’ Up! stamp sets.
It was a fun card featuring a Lion face and then everyone had their choice of greetings that came from one of this years Sale-A-Bration stamp sets. Everyone got to do some paper tearing to accent the side of their own card. Here are a few pictures of the fun evening we had.
we had a busy night with a full table most of the night
Jenn working with one of the girls.
Christine and one of the girls
Nadine was helping this cute girl with her cards.
These two brothers were practicing their lion ROARS!
If you would like to learn more about the Ronald McDonald house here is a link to the Atlanta site – http://www.armhc.org/aboutus.html We are volunteering at the Peachtree Dunwoody house. If you are a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator and would like to join us please contact me. If you don’t live near me contact Stampin’ Up! to find the house near you and a group of demonstrators that you can join. It is always a joy to go down and stamp with these families!
This month we all laughed as some of the kids were in the room next door dancing away to the WII – they were having a blast.
Thanks for stopping by today!
