Stamping "The Rock" with Lynda

It's not too late: Holiday Mini Stamp Camp - "Designer Packaging"

You've still got a few more days to register for my Holiday Mini Stamp Camp.  I'm particularly excited to share my "Designer Packaging" ideas with you this year - and you'll learn several different elements to add that designer touch to your holiday gift-giving!  (And of course you'll go home with several completed packaging projects that will be the perfect presentation for a very special gift.)

Please be sure to sign up before the October 31 deadline arrives; there is still room at each of the 3 sessions I'm offering!  (Nov. 15, 16, & 17)

Another October Stamp-a-Stack card

Here's a card that seemed to go over well at our October Stamp-a-Stacks.  And (drumroll, please....) it's a rare, "Lynda Original"!  The 3 stamp sets used are (Stampin' Up!®, of course) Jumbo Outline Alphabet, Happy Everything, and Holiday Tag Team.  And the card base is River Rock.

Thank goodness I had already uploaded this picture to my computer before everything fell apart last week.  This design would be very "do-able" for a pile-o-cards Christmas card project.  I think it would be very conducive to assembly-line construction.

If you'd like to do this card yourself, contact me to help you pick out your supplies.

Hey, where's my Stamp Class in my Mailbox?!?

Well, you see it's like this:  We live here in this awesome, beautiful place - with the tall trees and the sparkling blue water all around us - and the annual November winds.  And along with the November winds (which arrived a full month early this year), always come the power outages.  So we knew the winds were coming last Thursday, and I had my flashlights, lantern, and battery operated radio all set up and ready, and of course my computer system is always on a surge protector ..... but in spite of all that, something got zing'd and the computer and the printer quit talking to each other.

So it's been a long, long week - working for day after day with tech support, and so far all we've managed to accomplish is knocking out the function of all my *remaining* peripherals, as well.  So the only way I can get data into or out of my computer these days is via the keyboard or the internet.  My hotshot wireless mouse just sits there like a lump of plastic, my external harddrive (which houses my backups & many of my business files - to be safe) taunts me with all of its precious files locked tight inside, and there's no hope of using my DVD drive or the memory cards to upload pictures from my camera any time soon.  So - I guess you can classify me as significantly technically-challenged for the time being. 

Another October Stamp-a-Stack card

Here's another card from last weekend's Stamp-a-Stacks.  If you happen to have a feeling you've seen it somewhere before; I lifted it right out of the current catalog.  (Page 21, to be exact.)  You'll notice a couple of minor modifications from the original, but they're pretty minor. 

I fell in love with this card the very first time I paged through my brand-new catalog back in July.... and knew right away it would find its way into one of my stampin' events.  So last weekend it called out to me again, and my WCMD stampers got to make it!   Colors are Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, and Wild Wasabi.  Aren't they yummy?!?

No Tricks - Just Treats

For someone who's so NOT a Halloween fan, I have really fallen in love with Stampin' Up!®'s Creepy Crawly double-sided Designer Series Paper.  If you've been to my workshops or other events in the past couple of weeks, you've probably watched as this grouping of projects has grown, culminating last night with the wrapped Junior Mints box in the foreground.  Wouldn't these make great little rememberances for co-workers or friends?

Holiday Mini Stamp Camp - "Designer Packaging"

Registration is now open for next month's "Designer Packaging" Mini Stamp Camp - Nov. 15 - 17.  Save a few bucks by registering by October 20th, or if that's impossible, regular registration will continue through October 31st.  (But remember space is limited, so I would encourage you not to wait too long.)

Register online for this event or another by clicking here.

(Samples shown here are similar to the projects on tap...... but may not be exact.)

Guest Stamper: Michele Mattson

Michele emailed me pictures of some of the cards she made over the WCMD weekend, so I decided to share some of 'em here.  Some of her cards were copies of work she has seen elsewhere, and some work is original.  Today I'm posting one that I believe she said she copied..... although I don't know from where.  (So I can't give credit.)

This layout is so versatile, it would make a lovely holiday card simply by changing up the stamps - don'tcha think?   

Thanks, Michele. 

And if you've stamped, scrapped, or otherwise papercrafted something you'd like to share here (must be totally created with Stampin' Up!® supplies, of course.... and 'current' product is appreciated), email me a scan or picture and you may see YOUR name in this spot someday!

Card tally is up to 286!

Don't forget to report how many cards you made over the World Card Making Day weekend!  I am still accepting names & numbers to publish here.  You may either email me or click "comments" at the end of this post, and contact me that way.

Congratulations to all of you who participated in WCMD!

Holiday Glitz

Since I already had most of the ingredients of the Holiday Glitz card kit around here (the exception being the ribbon), I wanted to put a card together while using stamps other than the 4 suggested sets included in the promotion.  (Especially since i don't happen to own them, lol.)  So here is the result:

While it's hard for me to do something this simple in style, I think the added glitter really helped pump up the "glitz" factor.  So in spite of it "not being my style", I'm ok with how it turned out.  Newsletter subscribers, look for the specifics this week in your Stamp Class in your Mailbox - 12 weeks of Christmas.

Stamp-a-Stack sample

Here's one of the Stamp-a-Stack cards we did today. The stamped images (all one stamp, btw) come from the set Thoroughly Thankful, and are stamped onto vellum, embossed, and colored from behind with markers and aqua painter.