Monthly Team Meeting Card Swap - May 2015

Good day all :)

Yesterday was our monthly team meeting and the inaugural Card swap. This is a new thing that we decided to implement and we had 5 participants. Here are the cards I received:

Uses the Paper Bird Hostess Reward Set (host a Gathering to earn this one)

Uses the Happy Everything Stamp Set ($3 from the sale goes to Operation Smile)

Uses the Exotic Flower Hostess Reward Set (host a Gathering to earn this one)

Uses the Wavy Blooms Stamp Set

We have some amazingly talented women in this group! I am blessed to be a part of it. Well, I need to go make something while my creative mojo is visiting. Until next time......

Our monthly Stamp Group....

Happy Day everyone!

I just had to share some cards that I received in our monthly swap with my dear friend Julie. We meet every month and I get inspired. Here are some of the cards I received in the swap:

Then we learned to make two new cards. Here they are:

I think for the next snowman I will give him a bowtie :) Thanks Julie for another great class! Until next time...

It is the Stampin' Up Card swap time....

On the topic of sketches, each month we are given a sketch and color scheme by our friend and local consultant Julie. This month there were 3 squares and then a sentiment on card front and the colors where brown, pink and green. This month I managed to get all 3 colors in on one card . Here are the results. We are supposed to make 5 cards but since only 4 fit on the Cricut mat I did 4. Normally I come home with 1 or 2 extra so I am not worried.

I designed the card fronts to have the 3 squares cut out on my Gypsy. This is the first time I have ever done it and think it is great! I did the one iris paper folding card and decided that I must have been crazy as I was not working off a template. I love coloring these images and they are from a SU set I borrowed from a friend.


I am enjoying working from sketches very much. You can get the general idea so feel free to cardlift it :D Until next time.....

I'm Baaaaaacccckkkkk......

Hi there all! I hope this blog post finds you well on this hot and humid summer afternoon. I have to say that it has been a wild week here at the Casa de Bermudez. One child severely sunburned (when not with me ) and a general running around. That all said and done, it was a productive weekend in the card making department. I attended my monthly Stampin' Up technique class and swapped my cards. I also got my Scrappy Jack June cards made and finished my July swap cards for next months card class. I was a card making fiend. I also got one project made for the next blog hop I am participating in. 

It will be on July 9th and 10th. I have one project done and an idea for another. Now to get back to the Craft Cave do get it done. I hope you will be joining us for a fun and creative way to use your scraps (you know we all have them )

Well, let's get on with the show and tell for the day. If you have any questions about the cards, please feel free  to email me at susanascorner at yahoo dot com. First up is the cards that I received for the swap. We all make 5 card fronts so I usually get two of my own back. I decided not to wait and I turned them all into cards already:

Next up, the cards that we made at the class. We played with different techniques with ink, different kinds of paper/stamps and premade cards.



I became so inspired that I took my card sketch for July and came up with these:




Since I had a brain moment, I ended up making these cards that were NOT with the right colors :

I plan on entering these in the Made It Myself Monday's challenge. You can find the link HERE

Unfortunately I cannot share the Scraps Blog Hop or my Scrappy Jack cards yet. I also have several scrapbook pages to share that I made yesterday. Until next time....

Stampin' Up May Card Front Swap

As promised, I wanted to share the card fronts I received in the swap. Since this is my 3rd post in one day (whew!) it will be a short one. Thanks to Erin (Comfy on My Cloud), Julie (Stampin' Up) and Jean for these wonderful card fronts:

We will be doing another card front swap in June. Until next time.....

Stampin' Up Monthly Card Get Together.....

Thanks to my friend Erin for transporting me (and carrying my stuff) so I could see my stamping friends. We had a card swap where we made 5 card fronts and we were to trade. They were based on a sketch provided and we were given specific colors to use. I will share the pics of what I received tomorrow. After our swap we made this card...

This card spawned the first of the five card fronts for our next challenge. We were to use a square and a border punch. Here it is...

All items used to make this card are from Stampin' Up.

I am submitting these for You Had Me At Craft's Made It Myself Monday blog challenge. Come on over and join the fun.

I am also blessed to have won 2 blog hop prizes recently. The first arrived from Paper Patch Crafts. You definitely want to check out her page. Here is a pic....

And last but not least, I completed my card organizer project. I wanted to share with you some of the insides of the folders. I have decided not to embellish the insides as they are not going to be seen and covered by the cards placed inside.

 This last project has me thinking about another project that involves my other current interest; couponing. But that is for another day. Until next time.....

It was a Scrap-a-Doodle-Doo Day!

Greetings and salutations my scrapping friends! I have to say that today was the perfect day for a road trip. I have the bestest hubby in the world. I have been wanting to go to a scrapbook store in Northern NJ for the longest time. Since we had to have a follow up sleep study (we both HAD sleep apnea) and I had pre-admission testing (surgery is Friday) we decided a road trip was in order. We went to Scrap-a-Doodle-doo in Ramsey, NJ and were greeted by Norma (aka Mama Doodle). We were given a tour of the shop as a private crop went on in the other room. I found some items that I had not seen before and it was Tim Holtz Dreamland. I can't wait to play with my new stuff but decided to post now that Blogger has come back up. Here are some projects that I have made or were made for me in the interim. 

This is a card front for a Stampin Up swap we are doing (1of 2)

This is a another card front for a Stampin Up swap we are doing (2of 2). I need to make 3 more!

I received this album for free and decided our grandson needed his own album.  I took  a feminine album  and hid the ladybug with a dinosaur :)

This is the front of my Mother's Day card my hubby made all by himself

Here is the left inside of my Mother's Day Card. He writes so beautifully but I chose not to  show it.

Being as tired as I am there will be no creating tonight. We are settled in and will watch the season (and series) finale of Smallville (what will we do with our Friday night. While it is on I am going to relink all my cartridges since I had to factory restore my Gypsy. Provocraft's customer service was excellent and very helpful. If this restore does not work then they will replace my Gypsy. So please cross your fingers for me. 

Remember that the winner of the 200 blog follower giveaway is being picked tomorrow. Please leave your comment on THIS POST (that can be found below). Thank you all for being a part of this blog. Until next time...