Back from convention 2013

I had a blast at convention.  I have been with Stampin Up! for 5 years and every year I can't imagine how they can top it. But, they do.  These are my cards I brought to swap with other demonstrators. 

Have a great day!

Where have I been?

Wow, what happened to November.  I have had an whirlwind of a month.  We went to the mountains to show Barry's sister Biltmore Estate and where Allison goes to college.  She got stuck at the airport with a nor-easter and couldn't get out. 

Me and my handsome hubby Barry

My beautiful kids Allie and Michael

Then...the following weekend Barry and I flew to NY on a Saturday morning to celebrate his sisters 50th wedding anniversary with his family.  We flew home Sunday evening.  It was alot of fun but exhausting.

This is us with our great niece Chelsea.  She is a cutie pie.

Then...Our dear friends from Rhode Island came for our annual get to together Thanksgiving trip on Tuesday and left yesterday.  Today I got to go to My Martha's to play with stamps.  Can I just tell you what great therapy stamping, creating and sharing are.  As I try to adjust back to my routine I can say I am exhausted and excited.  I have a card class on Saturday and I have peeps coming.  So if your in the triangle area call me and get in on the card class.  I will blog pictures of the cards we are doing.

Thanksgiving day Carol and Marcels son Evan and My Michael

Allie and her boyfriend Kevin

Me and Carol

 Oh, I forgot to mention My Michael turns 26 in two days and My Allie turns 19 in 4 days.  I just need to breathe....
Have a great week.
Liz

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Election Day

Today is one of the most important days of the history of the United States.  I am sharing some of my Artisan Award projects that I submitted for the annual contest Stampin Up offers to its demonstrators.  My theme was the elections, mostly because my Allison will be voting for the first time for the president of her choice.  I am going to put my walking/exercise shoes and walk to my polling station.  If you haven't voted get out there and DO IT! Whether a Romney or Obama supporter your vote counts.  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find something creative to do today, after you vote. :0)

 

October Cards for Class

I have been meaning to get these posted for two days.  These are samples of the cards we will be making in the class this month.  Class this month is Saturday October 13th. Small fee but so worth it. Please let me know if you are attending.  Thanks for popping by!

Welcome October!

October is one of most favorite times of the year.  Its my Birthday month.  Its like a celebration all month long.  My husband is usually all about me this month.  I have the following schedule for October and November:

October & November Schedule

                  

• Wednesday, October 10th- Open house- drop by and introduce yourself, see my craft room, and make a card to take home.  This is free.  Bring a friend and receive a coupon for free shipping on a future order through me.   Starts at 6:30 ends at 8pm
• Saturday, October 13th- Holiday/ Christmas cards. Jump start your holiday cards and make 5 cards for $15 or 10 cards for $25. 10:30am to 2pm 
•  Friday October 19th - Scrapbooking.  No fee to use my neat gadgets, bring your own supplies. I will have snacks, tea and water.  Begins at noon and goes until 11pm. We can order food to delivered.
• Friday November 2nd - Holiday/ Christmas cards. 5 cards $15.00 or make 10 cards $25.00.  You bring the chicks I will bring the chocolate. We can have a glass of wine and cheer on the incoming holidays. 7pm - 9pm
• Saturday November 17th - Open house- drop by and introduce yourself, see my craft room, and make a card to take home.  This is free.  Bring a friend and receive a coupon for free shipping on a future order through me. Starts at 10am ends at noon 

          All dates require me to prepare product in advance please RSVP 2 to 3 days in advance.  Unless noted I will include everything you need to make your prodjects.  I will post the cards for October classes on my blog.  November cards will be posted the end of October.

I look forward to creating, inspiring and sharing my passion with you.

October Promotion

Playing with my FREE Ribbon.

With every $40 you spend in September you earn a free roll of "In Color Ribbon".  I was playing in my stamp room and came up with this.  There is three different colors on my tree. My snowflakes have rhinestones in the center to give it some sparkle.  If you want to earn free ribbon visit my online store.
Enjoy your day & thanks for popping by.
Liz

Fall Gift Project

Pumpkin Spiced Coffee
Yummy.  Yesterday was my first break this week to catch up on my creating.  I have been slightly busy with life and work.  My Allison came home from college last weekend for the long holiday.  I was so happy to see my baby girl.  Tomorrow is open stamping at my friend and upline Martha Armstrong you can see her blog here.  She has been a Stampin Up Demonstrator for 15 Years! I am going to be celebrating 5 years next summer.  Stampin Up is a great company to be affiliated with.  I have been getting discounted stamping products & scrapbooking products for all these years because I chose to be affiliated with such a quality & caring company.  I would love you to join me whether you just want it for discounted and early ordering on products or whether you want to share it with friends and host your own parties to earn some extra dollars. 

I have a promotion going on: You can order from me everything to make some cards for Halloween.  Look at my older post from last week.  All the details are there.

So back to the Pumpkin Spiced Coffee.  I was at Starbucks ordering my first Pumpkin Spice Latte of the season.  I order it skinny. No whip and skim milk.  It is still packed with calories but ordering it skinny helps my brain wrap around I can have it all! They had these packets on the counter and immediately my mind went ticking to what a great fall gift and oooh I can craft something around it.  Its a win-win for me.   This is what I made.

 

To make this is you need:

Coffee packets

Designer Paper: Howlstooth & Scaringbone Stampin Up

More Mustard Card stock Stampin Up

So Saffron Card Stock Stampin Up

Very Vanilla Card Stock Stampin Up

Basic Black Ink Stampin Up

Soft Suede Ink & sponge Stampin Up

Very Vanilla Seam Binding for bow, Stampin Up

Full of Blessings stamp set Stampin Up 

Bigz Die Autumn Accents Stampin Up

Bigz XL Die Petite Pocket Stampin Up

If you are interested in making this yourself and need to order the supplies I can put a kit together and sell you the kit.  The kit will include your own stamp set to stamp the images.  I can't image anyone that wouldn't love a gift of coffee.  email me bhaddon@nc.rr.com

Enjoy your weekend. 

 

 

September Promotion

Start shopping at my online store today: http://lizhaddon.stampinup.net

Recipe for Beautiful Cards

My friend and upline with Stampin Up Martha has put together a great collection of cards.  It is made from one of our new products in the 2012-2013 Annual Stampin Up! Catalog.  She is selling the instructions.  If you are interested in purchasing the instructions from her I am coping and pasting her blog message.

 

Here is my card class using the Razzleberry Splash Simply Scrappin' Kit.  This is a kit for scrapbooking but can easily be used for cards.  The cards are lovely.  There are 16 cards and there is product left over to make more cards.  Once you start making them, it's difficult to stop.  They are very fast and easy.  I am offering the complete and easy to follow instructions to make the 16 cards for $6. Instructions will come by email.   You can buy the kit that has everything to make all 16 cards  including 16 envelopes and free instructions for $35. plus postage to you.  You will need to use your glue dots and adhesive.  This is a fun project to work on at home.  Just email me at stamp4martha@nc.rr.com or pay with PayPal at the same address.  I hope to hear from you soon.  Martha

via www.stamp4martha.com

 Have a great Sunday!

Pillow Gifts for my Roomies

It is customary to make something special for your roomie.  I am rooming with Debbie and Martha but, my group has four rooms so I had 12 of these gifts.  Enjoy. 

Quick Thank You notecard

We had dinner with our dear friends on Sunday nite and it was so pleasant and relaxing.  I enjoyed it and still keep thinking about how nice it was.  So this morning I thought I would send her a hand made card to say Thanks for a great evening.  I whipped this up it in a matter of minutes .  Hope your having a great hump day.

The size of the card is 3.75x 5.5.  Stamp set is Betsy's Blossoms (clear mount #126006, wood mount #126004) Thank you is from Sassy Salutations ( CM #126707).  

Blossom Punch Card

While Barry was at his band practice I have been a busy girl.   I went to Allison's soccer game.  They played great and were winning but in the last 10 minutes the other team won the game. Michael was out.  I had the house to myself so I went to my craft room and went to town making cards.  This design is inspired by another Stampin Up! demo but I put some twist and curl to it.  Very easy to make.

 If you would like to order products to make this card please email me at bhaddon@nc.rr.com and I will get you all set up to order it. 

"You Suit me to a Tea"

I can not believe it has been two months since I posted! I have been meeting with my upline and dear friend on Wednesdays and we have been so busy making cards and 3-D items.  This is an exciting time to be a demonstrator with Stampin Up! they are so good to us demos! Currently Sale-a Bration is going on.  For every $50 you spend you earn a free stamp set from our gorgeous Sale-a Bration catalog.  If you don't have one let me know I will drop one off or mail you one.  

On to my project.  The tea cup you see is CASE'd.  which means its someone's idea.  This cup came from a fellow demonstrator name Connie.  It was so easy to make and it is just gorgeous in person.  You can order the products from my online store.  Contact me if you need help.  

Isn't it darling!  I love it. 

Next up is a really neat technique that I found by another demonstrator but I made my own. It was another way of dry embossing with left over scraps.  This is my creation.  You might have to click on the picture to see that the dress has been dry embossed (raised).


Have a great weekend.  I will try to post more often. 

Rock Star Birthday and Butterfly Birthday

 Where did last week go?  I was so busy with my Real Estate and then I went to Jean's in Virginia to stamp and play with Jean, Tammy and Martha.  We were stamping like crazy and made some WOW cards, 3-D items.  Saturday was our downline meeting in VA and there were 20 demonstrators in attendance.  Lots of very exciting things are happening in Stampin Up! Don't miss the boat, join today I can walk you through all the steps to success.  Email me and we will set you up.  These next two cards are are cased with a twist.  Another demostrator had posted this and they caught my eye and I made a couple of modifications to make it my taste.  If you would like to order any of the cards made email me and I will send you a price.  Thanks for stopping by.  Hoped I helped your creative side today.

Happy New Year!

Do you have any resolutions?  I have many.  Just to name a few: Exercise (not unusual), blog more, have more crafting classes and sell more houses.  On New Years Day I tried not to do laundry, clean or do anything negative because the saying goes what you do on New Years Day you do all year.  Guess what I did? I Stamped! The following can be ordered from our new mini occasions catalog set to begin January 4th.  Email me bhaddon@nc.rr.com I will get you the list to order online http://lizhaddon.stampinup.net or from me directly.  Thanks and Happy 2011.