Yes, I am alive!!!!

I am so sorry I haven't posted in a while. This has been a busy few weeks. Here are a few of the cards I have made lately. It is fun to make some bright and cheery cards!!! I am working on the Patriotic Book (posted in March, I think) getting the kits ready for classes this week. It ends up I am making 45 which is a nice number to kit, although my husband said last night as he was punching things out for me, please don't do this again!! I think I make about $.10 an hour because I put so much detail in my projects!!!!!! I also had to design 2 items for classes for the next quarter, but I forgot to take pictures before taking them to the store. I will do that soon and show all of you what I have been working on.

A week ago our family traveled to Seattle and we had the chance to take our children around to all of our favorite places and even drove by our first house and apartment. Boy, did the house look small!!! It was only 950 sq. feet but we had put a lot of work into it and really liked it. We also went and stayed out on the Peninsula and had a great time seeing the sights and enjoying the beach. Everyone went clamming one morning and then we enjoyed a very fresh homemade clam chowder. It brought back a lot of memories from my childhood. I loved it!

New Cards

I have been so busy getting ready for the next round of classes that the cards are slower in coming right now. This is a fun, bright birthday card with a great sentiment! Cupcakes are such the rage right now which makes it fun to incorporate them into a card, and who doesn't need birthday cards around!

This other card is also focused on food - ice cream! I just realized I made two food cards - I wonder if I did it subconsciously because I am on a diet right now!! So funny! Oh well, I guess it is better to look at sweets than to eat them! (I am really missing my chocolate!)

My friend Pat and I have also been working on a Christmas Craft Workshop patterned after our Scrapbook Retreats. We are so excited about it and are very busy planning and designing Christmas Crafts for the ladies to do over a 3 day period. It is being held the very end of September (plenty early so if you take home kits you will have time to complete them) and and will be 3 1/2 full days of crafting. I can hardly wait!!!! If you are interested, please visit our blog at Patreskapapers.blogspot.com. We have about 5 spots left!!

New Cards - Finally!!

It has been longer than I like between postings, but this last week has been crazy with catch up! Our 2nd scrapbook retreat was last weekend and was a huge success!!! It was so much fun! The food was great (thanks to our trusty chef, Lynn) and the company was incredible. We had great fun at our New Moon night and each had pictures taken with Jacob! We taught many classes and some new techniques. It was a wild and crazy three days that culminated in our first ever auction played with Pat and Teresa money. Fun, fun, fun! We posted our next retreat and within 24 hours we have almost filled up. If you are interested, please go to Patreskapapers.blogspot.com and sign up. Any questions? Email me and I can give you the low down.

On Friday, we are going to introduce our Christmas Craft retreat. 3 full days and nights filled with Christmas crafts - either from kits provided by us or your own. We will have a guy cutting wood at the retreat full time for anyone who would like him to cut their own ideas. It should be a fun filled preparation time. Go to Patreskapapers.blogspot.com on Friday to sign up!

Back to the cards. The pictures aren't the best - sorry. I'm suppose to be working on class ideas for the next quarter (July, Aug. Sept.) so I had to get these up fast. The flower pot card was cut from a Silhouette design and turned out really cute for those card people who like to have a "different" shaped card. The flowers pull out of the pot giving you room to write. Fun. I love how the bicycle card turned out. What fun colors I used - they are different for me but I really liked how it turned out. The baby card used some older Martha Stewart felt cut outs I had and then along the bottom I took a piece of Scor Tape and gathered the wide ribbon right onto it. I love Scor Tape!

Hopefully next week I will get up another giveaway - it makes me happy when I can help others! Have a great few days.

New Cards and a Giveaway

With the giveaway last week I did not post any new cards so you are getting them all at once! There are a lot of babies being born right now so I had a request for a baby card. I used the new Pitter Patter line from Making Memories.

The next card I used my new stamp from Stampin' Up which says, "May your layers be many and your frosting thick." I just love that line.

And of course, last but not least, is another chocolate card (can you tell I love chocolate-dark). I used my Cricut with my new Sweettreats cartridge which I am using a ton right now and really like it. Didn't the slice of cake turn out cute? The paper is from the ki line. I love the bright colors. Really fun!

I donated a baby card kit to the blog Kangaroo Moms.com for a giveaway. She only has it on until Wednesday (tomorrow), sorry I didn't get the info. on sooner. I have been scrambling to get ready for the big scrapbook retreat this weekend. It will be so fun - I can hardly wait. We have so many fun things planned including a big auction at the end of the weekend for bigger prizes. We made play money and everything - I'm eager to see how it goes, maybe it will become a regular event at our scrapbooking retreats.

Giveaway Winner!!!

It is exactly 12:02 am (yes, I'm still up) and the winner was just picked randomly by my husband. He picked a number and I counted down and the winner is................Kimberly from Sacramento.

Yeah!!! Thank you so much to all of you for making a comment and after I'm back from my scrapbook retreat I will have another giveaway - not sure yet what it will be but I'm sure it will be good. Just to let you all know - you had a 1 in 15 chance of winning. Pretty good odds so keep in eye out for the next giveaway. Thanks!

FREE GIVEAWAY!

Well, as I was busy making a card the other day I was thinking about how much I LOVE my edge punchers and if I love them so much I should give my current favorite one away. Off to the store I went and pulled one of the last ones off of the shelf at Heartland and purchased it to give to some lucky person! The punch is a Martha Stewart brand and is a fun butterfly punch where every other butterfly has pop up wings. I love it and it is perfect for spring which I need to appear here in Utah. (It snowed really good on Monday -boo hoo) Here is the deal, press the Home button at the top of my blog and choose your favorite card and then come back to my blog and comment on your favorite card. If you want additional chances, tell about the giveaway on your blog and send me a link through the comment area (then I get to see all of your fun blogs) and also everyone who is a follower on my blog gets an additional chance. Yeah - I am so excited, I will have to figure out my next favorite item for another giveaway. The winner will be announced next Friday, Apr. 16. Good luck my friends!

On to another item - I just made my first you tube video for my makeathomecards.com site. My husband (who was the cameraman with his Iphone) kept wanting to make it fancy and I kept saying no - I'm a real person with faults and weaknesses. (Yes, I'm heavier than I've ever been) It was exciting and frightening all at the same time. I'm sure my sisters and good friends will get a good laugh - which we all need! I have to admit, I was shocked by how old my hands looked! Better start using all that lotion I have around.

Scrapbook Page for our great retreat!

This is a fun page layout I did for our scrapbook retreat coming up April 22. I haven't scrapbooked any pages for awhile since I have been busy doing cards and classes, but I enjoyed putting this layout together. I like to leave a lot of room for pictures and made sure that the pictures will be the centerpiece of this page. I am really looking forward to our retreat - we have a lot of fun things planned and the food and treats will be just delish! (Is that a word?) Our retreat is just a couple weeks away and we are scrambling around trying to get ready. This will be the last kit that we post at Patreskapapers.blogspot.com for out guests to purchase.