Good day Stampers.  I wanted to say a special thank you to all my online customers for your orders during this special Clearance Rack week.  I thank you so much for choosing me as your demonstrator, and for your patience through the clogged up website.  Stampin Up has tweeked it and it is running much smoother ( and faster), so if you did get frustrated with it at the beginning of the week, it is working well now.  Lori and I gave it a little test run yesterday, LOL…..man, there is a TON of stuff on sale in there…we got her the Watercolor Crayons for $7.99 can you STAND IT.?..

As promised I'm sharing pics of the other two cards from our watercolor classes this week.  Yesterday I made a new stamping friend, Lori.  She did an amazing job on her cards and we had some good laughs., HI Lori.

For this one we used the stamp set FAST AND FABULOUS (pg 13), it is a Hostess Level two, so you need to earn it by having a Party or Online order of $300.00 or more – and I can help you with that, LOL…

In the background you will see that we also used the writing and the postage stamp from the FRENCH FOLIAGE  stamp set available in the Holiday Mini (page 14) #120845 w #121166 c.  The Sentiment came from TEENY TINY WISHES (pg 157)  #115370 and there is a little "florish" stamped behind that which came from the stamp set TINY TAGS (pg 130) #118091 w #118592 C

The Background is Gold Embossed and the stamp is the EN FRANCAIS background stamp found on (pg 142) #109521.  We used some ribbon and a few punches, painted these flowers with the Pear Pizzazz and Concord Crush reinkers, to match the cardstock used.

and last but certainly not least, the stamp set STUDIO SKETCHES was used here for the main image,

and we used the CHARMING STAMP SET  (pg 130) #116519 for the background interest, the TINY TAGS  for the little sentiments on the ribbon, the VINTAGE WALLPAPER embossing folder (pg 214) #120175 on the background, along with Antique Brads and Metalic Brads found on page 187.

So – have you signed up for my NEWSLETTER YET?  You have one more day until the October one comes out to get the instructions for this card.  and I'll even show you the pic of the whole card, LOL

along with a fast and fun little technique for quickly painting those little flowers, I'm LOVING those flowers…  from the BELLS AND BOUGHS stamp set on page 19 of the Holiday Mini…and those pearls just set them off don't you think….this is a very elegant christmas card and many of my family will be receiving it this year.

NEW IN THE NEWS!

 Lee, CaroleAnne and I are teaming up to bring you

A COUNT DOWN TO CHRISTMAS

which will also be done through our Newsletters, and will start next week

If you need Christmas Ideas you won't want to miss a single post

Thanks so much for stopping in, I'm off to put the final touches on the newsletter for you, clean up the studio so I can start my BLOG TOUR projects….I have a pile of ideas swirling around in my Nogin, so hope they all splash out into something fabulous for you……stay tuned, tee hee…