Easel Card

Here is an easel card we will be making in my Monday night class.

I'm Back from Dallas

It was a great conference and I learned a lot but I am so very glad to be home. I left on 7/26 and returned home the evening of 7/31.  Long week.  I stayed at the Marriott Legend in Plano, Texas where the conference was held.  Beautiful hotel!  Plano is a quaint little town.  The hotel was right next to the square where there were all kinds of shops and restaurants. Unfortunately, we did not have a lot of time to shop as the conference was an all day event and there were receptions in the evening; however, we had one night free and we took advantage of it.  It was blazing hot however!  We ate at a great steakhouse on the 28th which just happened to be my birthday so that was a very nice treat!  The conference actually ended on Saturday afternoon and we planned on staying over and flying home on Sunday.  Therefore, we did have Saturday afternoon and evening free.  We went to the mall.  All I can say is 3 stories, unbelievable and no, we didn't make it through the whole thing.  It even had a hockey rink.  It was amazing!  We were exhausted by the time we got back to the room so we ordered room service and watched a movie.  It was great!

Again, glad I am back.  I have a workshop to prepare for so I will be posting some cards later in the week.

On My Way to Dallas

I will be in Dallas for the rest of the week. It is where the National Association of Legal Assistants is hosting their conference this year.  This is my first time attending.  I am going with my friend Ann who has been several times.  I am flying out at 6:45 a.m. Tues. 7/26 which just happens to be my 31st wedding anniversary and believe it or not Ann's as well.  I have to get up at 4 a.m.  That is just obscene!  I will be there through Sunday 7/31. I will also celebrate my birthday in Dallas.  We have a free night the 28th which is my birthday so Ann and I will paint the town.  

Hopefully upon my return I will have time to make some more cards to post.  I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Heartfelt Creations

I teach a Heartfelt Creations workshop with my friend Ann once a month.  She makes two cards and I make two.  These are my two cards:

Not Everything That Glitters is Gold

Bazzell cardstock                                                                 Flourish Dies
Neenah cardstock                                                               Glitter
Sizzix Die – Classic Scalloped Hearts                                  Ribbon
Leaves:  YG95 and YG97                                                   Pearls
Cattails:  YR24

Acorns:  bottom E57 tops E55

A Walk Through the Country

Bazzell Card Stock                                  

Heartfelt Decorative Butterfly Border Die
Neenah Card Stock                                  
Heartfelt Creations Posy Stamps
Pearls                                                       
Clear Gems
Posies:  RV00 and RV55
Flowers:  RV17, RV19 and RV55         
Walkway and stones:  C2 and C4
Grass:  G40 and G82                              
Trees:  G02 and G03

ShareaCard.Org

For those of you that do not know what Shareacard.org is please see the link on the left side of my blog.  I committed to Shareacard.org to send a card each month to the person featured as well as committed to send a card for birthdays for the month.  It is a worth while cause.  Please consider joining me in this effort.  The following are two birthday cards that I made to send:

Monday, July 11th Workshop

To those followers who are coming to my class
on Monday, 7/11 these are the four cards we
will be doing.

This is a sprig of daisies from Stampin Up.  Someone
was advertising SU stamp sets at work so I bought this one.  Love it!

                    

This is another Stampin Up set.  It is a window and then you stamp what you want in the window.  I thought I would stick with the daisy theme.

Then of course, we have the adorable Mouse House stamps.  I love these stamps.    This is Bring on the Rain.

This one is entitled Spring Blossoms.

It's a Girl Thing

The idea of this card came from some stickers I bought.  I didn't know what I was going to do with them at the time I bought them, but they were cute.  You all know how that goes!  Any way, I was in my favorite scrapbooking store, The Keepsake Element and low and behold there was some designer paper with purses on it.  Well, of course, I had to get it. I looked at the paper and decided that the base of the card was going to be red.  This is what I came up with.

 This is the inside.

Close-ups of the inside.