project for our first club meeting...

So I have decided to start with this lovely stand-up calendar as our first club project that will take place at Down Memory Lane on April 26th from 1:00-3:00 pm. I hope to see many of you there!!!

This calendar has all the months of the year split up into the four seasons. It would be a great gift or a nice addition to your desk. I will attach the club information again to this post so you can hear more about it if you missed out on the last post!

Just Let Me Create Club with Stacie

We will meet the LAST Sunday of each month from 1:00-3:00 pm beginning on April 26th. Cost will be $5.00 per month you plan to attend. You can come one month or every month! I will need to know the last week of each month if you will be attending the following month so I can get enough supplies. Money must also be paid in advance. You will only have to bring your basic tool kit which includes: paper cutter, scoring blade (for paper cutter or stylus/bone folder), scissors, adhesives (different kinds is good), pop-up dots, black and brown markers/pens if you have them.
We will create a project or two each month. Some examples might be: cards, gift card holders, mini projects, coaster frames, gift ideas, etc.
I will have information and pictures of the projects on my blog each month at http://www.justletmescrap.blogspot.com/.
You may pay with Cash or Check ONLY which may be dropped off at Down Memory Lane for your convenience.
Call 715-279-0076 to sign up or send an e-mail to justletmecreate@yahoo.com
Feel free to contact me with ANY questions!

let the creating continue...

Well I had a great weekend in my scrapbook room and decided today to take some time away from scraping and cleaning and create a card. I have collected MANY cupcake stamps over the past few months (more than I should have!!!) and decided it was time to use them. So here is a card that I made today. It measures 8 x 3.5. Close to My Heart does a lot with 8 x 3.5 cards so I thought I would try one!
Cardstock - Bazzill (yellow) and Close To My Heart (cocoa and sorbet), Patterned Paper - We R Memory Keepers (Promenade - Ferris Wheel), light green dew drops, Scralloped Circle - Cricut (Accent Essentials Cartridge), Stamps - Close To My Heart (Say It In Style) and Inkadinkadoo (Birthday Cupcake set), Ink - Close To My Heart (Cocoa), Ribbon - American Crafts, Cupcake Frosting - Flower Soft, Cupcake Base - crumpled vellum
I am a little behind on the whole challenge as today is the 12th and I only have 4 layouts done but I do have all of the photos taken and I plan to work on them tonight if possible. I have to teach a class tonight at Down Memory Lane so I won't be home till later and I also have to watch the Bachelor. Cuttlebug class tonight, super cute cards...go check them out at http://www.downmemoryln.com/class-calendar.html . I hope to be home by 7:30 so I can watch the Bachelor and do more layouts. Today I took a photo of my husband playing playstation. He has Mondays off and he likes it when I scrapbook because that leaves time for him to play his games. I am also going to a Scrapbook Til Midnight this Friday night and an All Day Crop on Saturday of this week. I am excited to hopefully get a bunch done. No one is signed up with me so I plan to take my mp3 player and all of my stuff and settle in. Can't wait!

A few cards...it's about time.

So the Open House is done and gone so I have had a little more time on my hands in the past couple days after the T-Ball games and taking care of a 10 month old. She is crawling, getting more teeth, and standing up to almost anything so she is becoming a handful. My husband has been busy lately with trying to get some things done at home for work...boy was I glad that it was him putting little red letter stickers on metal plates and not me!! I guess that is why he is so valuable at work. Anyways...I finally got some time to create some fun things. I have been wanting to use my cuttlebug more to create some cards and I had been waiting to get a new cutting mat because mine was terribly warped. I could hardly even get it through the cuttlebug and did not want to break it. I also finally got the Swiss Dots embossing folder which I used at work yesterday and totally LOVE it! So, I have been going around printing off cards that I like and want to scraplift so here are a couple of them. The problem is that I can't which blog I got them from but here goes.

This one actually was my own creation but I saw something similar with layering two different colors over the top when you emboss so I had to try it.

This card I had seen on a blog and loved it. I am not totally sure that I like the one I created althrough it is almost identical. I tried to find some Close To My Heart stamps that would give the same effect and I think I managed that but the colors are not the same and the colors are what stood out to me. The card was actually red and orange but I think their colors went better together. These colors (CTMH autumn terricotta and cranberry) just don't give the card the same effect. I might have to search the blogs again for this card to see if I can find it to get the exact colors they used.

Well that is all for now. I do have another card to share but I think I will save that for next time.