Aug 24, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Stamp, Scrap & Create Retreat
Sept. 25 – 28, 2014
Just a little sneak peek of one of the Make & Take projects….
Are you ready to get away from it all? Leave behind the family, the laundry, the cooking, the cleaning and come join us for a fun Stamp, Scrap & Create Retreat.
Join us at Monika’s House Sept 25-28, 2014.
There are a few changes – we are going to start on Thursday evening – come set up your craft space, bring an appetizer to share with everyone and hang out by the fire on Thursday evening – I’ll even have fix-in’s for s’mores. During the day Friday (if you don’t have to go to work or are otherwise committed) come work on your personal projects. Lunch will also be on your own (there are lots of places near by). We’ll officially start on Friday evening with dinner for everyone. Make & Takes will be scheduled for Friday night and Saturday. All meals included on Saturday. And we’ll have games and prizes Saturday night! Finish up on Sunday and pack up and head back home in the early afternoon. We have three Make & Take projects planned as part of the retreat – everyone will receive a Goody Bag with supplies and extras.
Bring whatever creative projects you would like to work on. You will have table space set up for the whole weekend – so bring your scrap-booking, card making, knitting, laptop for My Digital Studio, bring your sewing machine if you want to sew – the choice is yours.
We plan to feed you and pamper you with little surprises throughout the weekend! Games & Prizes too!
I have some space in my house if you want to spend the night here instead of going home or there is a hotel one exit south just a few minutes away. I have a couple of Queen beds upstairs, a queen and single sleeper sofa in the basement, some sofa space, and some air beds for the floor. Or stay as late as you want in the evening – go sleep at home and come back in the morning!
We will send out a schedule and list of what you need to bring in mid Sept. A non-refundable deposit of $25 is due with your registration form by Sept 10th – this holds your spot. We will be ordering supplies after the deposits are received. The remainder of the money is due by Sept 20th.
Spots are LIMITED – we are only opening this event up to 14 people! So reserve your spot today!
CLICK HERE to get the registration form. *** REGISTRATION IS OPEN ***
Cindy and I (Monika) hope to see you there!
Aug 23, 2014 | Demonstrator |
I have super exciting news from the Stampin’ Up! home office! The Short & Sweet recruiting promotion is here! It IS short: It only lasts from August 21-28. And it IS sweet: New recruits will receive $150 in their choice of Stampin’ Up! products for the $99 starter kit price. You won’t have to pay for shipping either! It’s a great deal, amazing business opportunity, AND it’s only available for a short time, so join today!
Follow the link below to join the fun directly from my Stampin’ Up! website.
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/monika/jointhefun
Aug 13, 2014 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Virtual Crop
Did you know that once a month I have a My Digital Studio Virtual Digi Crop on Facebook? My friend Cindy and I host a virtual crop on our Facebook Group – MDS Virtual Digi Crop. If you’d like to join the group leave me a comment here so I know to approve you.
Last night was our Virtual Crop for August and Cindy and I each had a challenge for the group. Everyone has until tonight to make their creations and then add them to the photo album for everyone to see. Then we choose a Pick of the Crop and you get a fun little badge to display on your own blog or Facebook page.
For last night my challenge was to create a planner – either a monthly or weekly planner. I created both. My weekly planner look like this –
I printed out my page and filled it in for this week. I have a some changes I’m going to make and I’ll print a new one for next week. I just use regular paper and keep it on my desk. I’m planning to write my shopping list on the back for dinner each night. I’m trying to do a better job planning out the meals for the week – I haven’t done that in many years. We were just all so busy going in all different directions. Now that Ryan is going off to college it will all be different.
And Cindy had us do a sketch challenge using one digital kit. Here is my creation for her challenge.
Thanks for stopping by today.
Aug 11, 2014 | Big Shot, Cards, Thinlits |
I loved the new Hot Diggity Dog stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Annual catalog. Of course if you are a cat person then you need to look at the You Little Furball stamp set instead. But I’m a dog person so I bought the Hot Diggity Dog set. Several years ago I created a bobble head Dog card, and then later a bobble head Frog card, well when I saw this set I decided to create a new bobble head Dog card. I think they are fun!
It’s harder to “see” in a photo but the little head bobbles. How do I do that? It’s not that hard really. I stamped and cut out the head – which is easy with this stamp set since the heads are all separate. The body is stamped on the circle underneath. Punch a hole in the circle and put a brad through it loosely – you want the brad to be loose so it can move around and wobble. Attach the head to the top of the brad.
Oh – and I also discovered that we have a dog bone punch. Really – we do. It’s the new little flower in the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack – just snip away two petals on opposite sides and you have the perfect dog bone! I added two of them to this card.
The card itself is made from the Circle Card Thinlits die and the Big Shot. I was also featuring the new Lost Lagoon In-Color on this card. Love that color.
Here is a list of supplies used:
Thanks for visiting today!
Aug 6, 2014 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Paper Pumpkin, Tags |
Did you get the Wish Big July Paper Pumpkin kit? It was a great one! Packed with tons of supplies to make 6 fun cards and 6 adorable boxes plus tags. Here is a look –
I also wanted to use the stamps and ink and make another card idea. And this is what I created.
My Paper Pumpkin subscribers were able to make this card free at my July Card Maker’s class. Everyone else was able to make it as part of their 6 cards for the class fee.
If you are a current subscriber you can now order refills for this July 2014 kit. Not a subscriber – then hurry up and join you can use the code HALFOFF2 and 50% off your first two months. You need to subscribe by August 10th if you want to start your subscription in August. JOIN HERE.
These are the additional supplies I used to create the alternate card idea –
During the month of August there is a Big Shot Promotion. Here are the details.
Thanks for stopping by!
