Papaya Collage

Here are three cards made with the new Papaya Collage stamp set.  We did these cards at Ronda's new catalog kickoff.  I'm just really slow getting things posted.

Papaya Collage

No power

I'm sitting at McDonalds because I have no power at home.  So it's been a bad week for blogging.  I was up at my brother's cabin until Friday.  Then I came home because I had a class reunion on Friday night.  I was home about 1/2 hour when the power went off.  Now the power hadn't gone out during the storm so I checked with the neighbors and no one had power.  Called Consumers and reported it.  Later we found out that a Consumer tree trimmer, working in Elsie, had dropped a limb on the line.  So now it's Sunday morning and we still don't have power.  The estimate for restoration is tonight at 11:30pm.  Bummer.  When I get some power back I'll do some posting.  After a shower.  And some laundre.  Oh well, such is life.  Just glad it happened now and not when I'm trying to get ready to leave for convention.  The only good thing about it is that I now have all my swap cards done for Tues. meeting and convention.  It was cooler in the Paper Palace than anywhere else.  And the reunion was great.  Went to my cousin's house to take a shower on Friday afternoon.  Haven't had one since but Laurel will be home this afternoon so if the power doesn't come back on soon I'll be at her door begging for water.

A 3-D project or a stocking stuffer??

Here’s the 3-D project that we did last Thurs.  You can use any size notepad from small to large.  Then you just need to pick out a topper.  In this picture we used the large framelit from the set called Apothecary Accents.  The only thing that you need to be real careful about is that you don’t want to adhere the topper to the note paper.  Be sure to stick it only to the top of the note pad.  We added ribbon and a paper flower but in the second picture I had a flower and a tag. 

In this picture can you see that I layered the framelit?  It's really easy to do.  Just lay the framelit face up and trace around it.  You have to cut it out by hand but it doesn't have a lot of small curves so it's not to bad to do.  And can you see the piercing on the tag?  The template is from our new paper piercing pack.  With the template it's really easy to do. 

These notebooks will make great teacher gifts or stocking stuffers.  I found a pack of notebooks that are only 3" x 4" and they're in different colors.  They'll make great gifts.