Name in a frame, a super GIFT!

Yesterday was so fun! Sara and I drove to register her at College. She got her classes all set and we had a fun time learning about college life. Well the things that the admin says, nothing from the mouths of those kiddies. Anyway, we took off at 6am, driving til 9 then we were in Morris all day. At 3 we left, took Sara to a friends in Zimmerman for the night, drove home here and picked up two friends for a drive over to Cottage Grove. WHEW! Got home around 9:30? Well then I just crashed...
Tons to do today, with the kids home including my nephew Mathew. They have a super long list of chores as I have lots of makeup work from being gone yesterday.
Saturday Maddie had a birthday party, or was it SUNDAY? I think the older i get...well you know:) ha ha ha, anyway for her friends birthday party I whipped up this NAME IN A FRAME! They are so super easy to do, with coordinating everything from TAC. I started with the Miss Moxie papers which are the easiest for me to use. Surely there are faves for everyone, and this is mine. Bright colors, perfect with black and white for contrast its amazing! This is one longer scrap of Miss Moxie that I had. I stamped her name and my FAVE SWIRL in black NOIR PALETTE ink, highlighted a few dots with my WHITE EXREME GEL PEN and added a shadow to the letters with my GREY TOMBOW MARKER. Seriously, I buy frames whenever I see them on clearance usually paying no more than $2. I have a box of them all the time so can whip out a quick gift anytime!

This is one of my most wanted classes so yes, there will at at least one this fall with the detailed letters and tags. There are some in my stampdog gallery if you want to take a peek at my old site:) Here is the link STAMPDOG

My BFF Heather is off for a cool show today in Kansas City, and called me for mapquest directions before 7am this morning. GOOD LUCK HEATHER! She is rocking the entire country with her button creations. This is the header I swiped to show you today. Its some of her fantastical work. If you are coming to seminar? Hey you just have to get some of her work ordered and WOW its so affordable for hand made custom designed jewelry. Wait til you see her pandants. And to think, its all from BUTTONS! Thats just crazy...

She is one amazing girl! GOOD LUCK GIRLFRIEND!



Well I am off to stamp and sew all day. There are about 30 bags to finish for seminar orders and I leave for Heathers on Tuesday morning. I am SO EXCITED ABOUT THAT!

Rockin Roxie Album ready to go

Allrighty, I told you I would post this when I got it all done. I sure love the way it turned out too. Here is the link for all the pages and tips so CLICK HERE to see it all.

I used the Rockin Roxie album kit on sale just like I showed you yesterday. Scroll down to that post and see what you can get. These album kits ROCK! Ok, now the coolest? They are 2 for 1 right now so about $5 for all the pieces. The only things I added were our black and white ribbons, and a few eyelets from the coordinated Miss Moxie papers.

Yeah, I had to use my fave swirl stamp again and black all smooshed over the pages and pieces. This album started out featuring Madison, then I changed it to a book about my TAC stuff so I would have something to share. But them it struck me that Adam, my dear 12 year old really has not been featured so its his turn. Isnt he adorable???

Miss Moxie Mini book fun!

Good morning! I just have to share this cute mini book that I made at my friend Saras house a week or so ago. Its again a cute little meandering book, made from one page of 12x12 TAC paper which is perfect poundage for these:) I apologise for the order of the photos, as blogger is not cooperating and wont allow me to move them about so if anyone out there is computer land and has ideas PLEASE send me a note at brissebunch@yahoo.com cause I would love to hear your ideas.

The whole idea of these cute little books for me is to remember an event or memory. I struggle with full scrapbooks but love these themed ideas for gifts, or just to keep in your purse and show off fall photos of the kiddies. BTW I took some incredible shots of Sara for her senior photos this past Sunday and WOW! I will give you a sneak peek, just remember that they are unedited still. I took about 700 photos that day, including some of her childhood, ok EARLY childhood friend Camille who is a daughter of my dear friend Mary M. THATS a funny story how we met and we share it all the time. Hilarious!!! I will share that in the next post, with Saras sneak peek photo!

This was the last page, and I was super proud of myself. A family tree page! I cant wait to fill it with photos after I finish the kiddies pics for the season.
I really love how my fave swirl is always the perfect fit for open space. And I like the idea of adding scrappers floss to these ribbons, for added texture without added bulk. THe scrappers floss is amazing, and you get 30 yards of it for just $3.50. See it here SCRAPPERS FLOSS

YAY! Mary got a new job

So I was making this card for my awesome sister in law Mary, who btw is amazing with my kiddies. Anyway Mary was laid off from her job after more than 20 years and guess what? SHE GOT A NEW JOB! HOORAY mary. we are really happy for you so this is your congrats card...ok, the parts anyway. The first pic I wanted to show you how to stamp off. That is a term if you have a stamp and use it part way on and off the paper . This kind of keeps image traveling.
Next here is the fave paper that I adore, Miss Moxie. Its super neat with the black NOIR ink and my fave swirl from curls and swirls. SO awesome that I had to share how many neat things I have made with the same paper and inks this week or so.
Here is my new stamproom table. I am excited to share this as we didnt know if I would have a cool place to stamp when we were moving. YAY! This is a huge laundry room and I am SO grateful that we have space for my toys:) GOD IS GOOD!

Dora lookalike?

I just had to quickly share this adorable scrap page of my boss Jeff and his adorable little granddaughter! Isnt she sweet???

yes I used my fave swirl stamp again, black which I love and the miss moxie papers and just love it!

Scrapbook in a tin!

Hey stampers! We want to share with you some more of our cool ideas for the Twin cities Stamping Gala coming up in just one week! AMAZING isnt it that the year flew by and we are onto another fun weekend? Here is a sneak peek into our awesome Friday Night special make and take. REmember that our angelic make and takes are ALWAYS free to you. We appreciate you taking the time to hang out and shop so come and make one of these aweseome brag tags sure to show off your fave kids or pets...how about both? hee hee

So here is my lovely daughters Maia 18, and Sara 16. madison is in there too but you cant see her hanging on my purse. She is 9 already. I tied some ribbons to the ring I used to hang the tags on my purse. How stinin cute???? the other brag tag above is my two boys, Adam 11 and Mike 14...

Here is one of our awesome classes featured at the stamping convention here in the twin cities. First of all this cool project is perfect for those of us that love a fast and fun scrapbook without making a big book! Its the scrapbook in a tin class and you are going to adore making it. We started out with these 5x7 tins that include the folded cardstock (heavy duty of course) and two covers. Now we didnt use these covers for the class so you can do all sorts of things later with them. You can make another project, and remember to use that cropodile cause that is the BEST for making holes to hang things. Its fun...

So anyway, the class with the scrapbook in a tin, and all that makes these awesome pages is just $25 and includes all supplies as well:) Contact Bonnie about signing up or your local Angelette to get your name on the list. EAch of our classes is just for 8 special stampers so hurry and sign up.
This is the fun cover all decorated and ready to enjoy. We used the Miss Moxie collection for this project and loved the results! My daughter Sara is the featured beauty in the photos here:)