Meandering Book

Meandering book
to meander is to stroll and wander

This book flips and folds and as you look through the pages, you open it up to a 12x12 "quilt" like page!

I made one up before, using the Petal Pizzaz (Petal party Meander Book), but this one I made using the designer paper Island Oasis. I love the bright and cheery colors of Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, Rose Red, So Saffron and Old Olive.....now all bright colors!


The book will fold up closed, and I have a special closure so that it will open up easily and hold together closed without tying any ribbons!

Opening up the pages reveal more color and almost all the patterns in the Island Oasis Pack!

The compact size makes it easy to show friends or family the fabulous trip you took or event that you attended without bulking up your bag!

I will be doing a class on this in AUGUST!

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Happy 4th of July!

Using the Table Setting die, I cut out the flames and the the tag which can look like a candle or in this case, a firecracker! I cut strips of Not Quite Navy and Whisper White and adhered them to the tag. The fire was made from So Saffron, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie. The stars were punched out using the Large star, and small star (retired).

Whatever you end up doing today, remember why we celebrate this holiday here in the US!

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Re-sign up as a demonstrator for 35.00!

Flowers Never Fade

ONE of the new papers in the GREENHOUSE Gala is this one. I am not thrilled at orange, brown and green. Not my favorite combination AT ALL!

But, when you combine them with Baja Breeze, I guess it can be softened....Do you still only see those icky colors, or can you see some of romantic retro appeal that I started to see? I like the finial and then started to see some of the curves instead of the colors. I added word window which had brads added to the card, and the strip with the antique eyelet, with the pumpkin striped ribbon (retired) tied with jute. Combined with Flowers Never Fade, and the finial from that set, I think it has some possibilities!

It still isn't one of my favorites but I am hopeful, it will inspire more creativity........

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Greenhouse Gala and New Accessories

One of the NEW Papers is called Greenhouse Gala. At first, I wasn't very excited about it but I love this color combination! Old olive, and Baja Breeze. I love Baja Breeze! I am so glad they brought it back!

The scallop circle is the NEW Jumbo Scallop Circle which is 2 3/4" in diameter, combined with the 1 3/4" circle and the 1 3/8" circle.

It is also accented with Chocolate Chip strip of cardstock that was punched with the pinking hearts border punch and (retired) Twill ribbon in Old Olive.

The flower brad is chocolate chip and now comes in so many colors! There are 20 NEW colors that are in 4 different sets in the NEW Colors!

All the accessories (Buttons, Brad and Flower Brads) come in these combinations:
Brights: Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Rich Razzleberry.
Subtles: Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Rose Red, Marina Mist, and Perfect Plum
Regals: Cherry Cobbler, Cajon Craze, More Mustard, Garden Green, Night of Navy and Elegant Eggplant
Neutrals: Early Espresso, Basic Black, Whisper White, Crumb Cake (kraft), Very Vanilla and Basic Gray

I am so excited about WHITE! Who would've thought White would be exciting! :D


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NEW Catalog 2010-2011

DO you have the NEW Catalog & Idea Book?

It is full of some wonderful new stamps, designer papers and accessories, as well as the NEW Colors from the Renovation!! I hope that you will love it too!

If you would like to get YOUR copy, you can click here!

Looking forward to OPEN HOUSE on Saturday July 3rd at 9:30 to 1:30 pm. Let me know if you can make it! email me!


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Using My Digital Studio on my phone!

In January, I lost my cell phone...not your ordinary cell phone, my iPhone..now, since I have it locked (i know that isn't fool proof) it at least protected non geeks from taking the phone and keeping it for themselves. I lost it at CHA, so I think overall, most people who are there, at least have respect for property. I promptly reported it to the convention center and also to the CHA reps (THANK YOU CHA!) ...they assured me that in July 09, that 6 iPhones were lost and turned in and people were able to recover their phones. I was assured that it would show up....

I also have the tracking feature so that if it is lost, it can be tracked to a location too, but that doesn't help when you know where it is, but no one has contacted you...because they don't know who to contact!

Well, as things go, I got a call on the last day, and my phone was turned in! I put labels on my phone so that if in case this happens again, then at least my phone would have some identity.

On Tuesday, I got the new iPHONE 4.0, and so to protect my phone, I also put in password protection. The problem is that once you put in the password, there is no way to identify who the phone belongs to, I didn't want to stick labels on my new phone so I knew I needed something else so I used MDS to create a 'home' page with some information to call another number (and my email) so that I can be contacted to reconnect with my phone...





Now, I really hope this doesn't happen again, but if it does, at least there is some way I can be contacted!!!










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Baby GIRL are sweet too!

I had to do a pink card! I had to make it sweet and pink and cute...just like the boy card!

I used the scallop border that was available during Sale A bration, and love how cute it trims off the swiss dotted texture cardstock. The tees were cut and I added wire hangers which was from a big box craft store.

Pink pirouette, and so saffron with a touch of Rose Red, sweet and cute!

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