I’d like to give you a great tip I came across for stamping on slick things with Stazon ink.  Stazon is a permanent ink that is similar to using a permanent marker.  You can stamp on things like vellum, acetate, metal, etc.  When you stamp on these things, they’re somewhat slick and it’s very very easy for the stamp to slide just a big.   I was doing some swaps where I was stamping on acetate.  After messing up a few of them when the stamp slid a bit, I grabbed my Stamp a Ma Jig and used that.  It worked like a dream to hold the stamp in place as I stamped.  If you aren’t familiar with this great stamp placement tool, contact me and I’ll be glad to explain how it works, or even give you a demonstration. 

I hope everyone has a fabulous and very blessed Christmas and New Year. 

God Bless,

Deb

Novemeber 23-30, 2009

Product Offering:

  *This bundle is only available while supplies last. 

My son has not deployed and I’m very thankful for that.  He had to have surgery nearly a month ago, and is healing well, but isn’t there yet.  The surgery went very well, and he should be fine, it’s just a long recovery process.

We are also going to be moving about 3 hrs from here in a couple of months.  He’s taken a job in a town just outside Dallas, so we’ll be moving to that area soon.  It will take awhile though to wrap up everything here and save enough to actually move.  Getting everything ready will be slow going also as I can’t do too much at a time.   I’m sad at the thought of leaving our church and family and friends here, but we believe this is the direction God is leading us, so all will be fine.

Now on to some cards.  As I said these were made with SU’s new digital program MDS.  This software program is amazing.  It is loaded with 100′s of stamps, a lot of designer paper, ribbon, hodgepodge hardware, all sorts of embellishments.  It has designed templates you can change or you can create your own.  You can make cards, scrapbook pages, calendars, and much more.  You can print it yourself, send your projects by email, turn them into DVD movies, or have it professionally printed through SU so you are sure to get exact colors.  I have sent both of these cards off to be professionally printed, so if you’re in the area and would like to see them in person give me a call and I will let you know when I receive them.  I just sent them in today, so I should have them in about a week I’m guessing.

This is the first one I did and the neatest thing is, I don’t own these particular stamps.  Well I do have the Baroque Motifs that I used at the top for the swirl, but I don’t have Winter Post which is the set the deer came from.  I don’t have the DSP I used either, but with MDS I have all these things and can create them digitally.  You can even do a hybrid project.  Don’t want to do it all digitally but don’t have a dsp or stamp that you want to use?  Design that part digitally, print it off, then add your own hardware, ribbon or other embellishments.

This is the second one that I did.  We even have punches like this butterfly punch, then you can fill that with the color you want, and even add the polka dot dsp.  I was even able to make it look like I’d stamped on the ribbon.  How kewl is that??  The program doesn’t currently have the cottage wall dsp, and that is my favorite, but I was able to use various stamps to make something very similar to the cottage wall dsp and I used that at the bottom.  If you’d like to see this program in action, give me a call and we can schedule a time that you can come over and see how it works.  Since I don’t have a laptop  you’ll have to come to my house to see it.  Hope all is well with everyone reading this.  God Bless you all, and I’ll try to do better about posting.  Please bear with me.

Wow, 3 posts of fun stuff in one day.  Katie bar the door!! I’m on a roll now.  lol

Part One:  September 1st to November 30, 2009, host a workshop of 250.00* or more and receive almost any item in the Holiday Mini Catalog for only 10.00  This does not include hostess sets or My Digital Studio.  But it does include some big ticket items like the movers and shapers dies etc.

Part Two:  October 1st to November 30th, 2009, host a workshop of 400.00* or more and you will be able to get the My Digital Studio (MDS) for 1/2 price!!  From everything I’ve seen about this software, it is absolutely amazing.  See my post before this one for more information about MDS.   

 Beginning Oct 1st, 2009 if you host that 400.00* workshop, you will be able to get both things.  The 10.00 mini item, plus the MDS at 1/2 price!!  I am really hoping to be able to hold my own workshop so that I can earn this.  If you’d like earn these as well, contact me and I can help you have either an in home workshop where you invite your friends over, or have a catalog party where those familiar with stamping can just place orders.   Workshops are simple to host and a lot of fun. 

* Workshop amounts listed are for merchandise only, before tax and shipping.  These offers must be done through a demonstrator and are not available by going to the online store at Stampin Ups website.

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Today’s offering is a 6×6 recipe scrap book page.  I will include the recipe since it’s a bit fuzzy in the scan.  6×6 pages are a great way to share recipes.  For this one I printed on SU’s vellum card stock.  You get (20) 8.5×11 sheets for 6.50, and there are some amazing things you can do with this stuff.  Love it!!   I inked the cherries with our many marvelous markers (my son later told me they were upside down and he’s right).  If the cherries were dipped in chocolate, the chocolate should have been on the bottom.  Oopsie.  lol  I then stamped the cherries on very vanilla card stock, printed the recipe in vellum and attached the vellum on top of the vanilla piece with the stamped cherries, so the cherries show through the vellum.  The ingredients list was done on the tag that pulls up, and then tucks back down behind the directions part.  I really love pages that have moving parts.  I did the title on the computer.  6×6 pages are a great way to begin scrap booking since it’s not much larger than a card.

Recipe:  18 oz. of chocolate chips.  I like Ghirardelli milk chocolate chips.  1 can sweetened condensed milk.  Splash of vanilla, Maraschino cherries, and cherry juice.

This is all done in the microwave, and the recipe might be on some cans of sweetened condensed milk.  In a microwave safe bowl, combine chocolate chips, and sweetened condensed milk.  Add a little cherry juice.  Zap it for 1 minute on high, give it a stir.  Keep zapping in one minute intervals, stirring between each one until it reaches a fairly smooth consistency.  This is usually 3-4 minutes.  You can keep the cherries whole, or chop them.  I usually smash em between my fingers, it’s easier and quicker than chopping.  Add as many cherries as you like now, and more juice if you like.  The more juice you add, the less it will set up, but I have no issues eating fudge with a spoon so I add a lot of juice!!  lol  Put some wax paper in an 8×8 square pan, pour in the fudge and let it set up in the fridge for a couple hours.  Or, if you’re like me….forget the pan, forget the fridge, let it cool til the temp is somewhat below molten lava stage, grab a spoon and dig in!!   Once you’re happily sprawled out on the couch with your eyes glazed over in your chocolate coma…..someone who really needs Pieces when it comes to fudge can put it in the pan and refrigerate it.  lol