Word Bag Swap

Each month, I meet with a group of ladies that get together and swap cards. Some are Stampin' Up! demonstrators and some aren't. We've named our group Inkpressions and we meet on the first Wednesday of each month and always have a lot of fun and laughs.

We usually do one or two make-n-takes and have coffee & desserts that we all bring.

Every so often we have a Word Bag Swap instead of swapping cards. It's when we take one or two words and use each letter of the word to put something in our bag. Our words were April fools ~ quite appropriate, dontcha think for April Fools Day? I know, I know...I'm tardy on getting this baby posted.

We then make a list, meet, play a game to swap and then open the bags. It's always so much fun! This one was hilarious!

I picked my friend Yvette's bag and she was quite the clever little minx!

Her bag was a plain (unadorned/stamped/etc) handled brown paper bag with a ribbon tied around the handle.

When I opened it up, I found Swiss Miss Caramel Creme Hot Cocoa and...

a Ralph's Grocery Ad?"

So, she comes up to me & says

"April Fools! This is really your bag."

and hands me this:

And, then I was thinking, "Uhhh, I'm getting groceries? Well, er, uuum, ooookaay."

She's just standing there grinning as I pull out my grocery 'receipt' (the list of items in the bag):

Then she pulls out 'the real list':

...and then the laughter ensues. The little stinker pulled a great prank! She packed up all of the 'gifts' in the boxes & bottles she had bought from the grocery store! What an imagination!

So, here they are.....I'm posting first what the 'grocery list' was and then what was actually the item I got.

Airborne

Assorted rhinestones

Pringles Potato Chips

Precision tool & Paper clips

Ritz crackers

Reading Materials

Instant lunch

Ice cream card

Listerine

Lolly pops (See’s Candy)















Folger’s Coffee

Five bottles of Tacky Glue

Orowheat Bread

Orange items

Oatmeal

Oval Silver chain

Little Debbies

Lots of little fun things

Smuckers Strawberry Jelly

See's Candy "S"igars (chocolate cigars)

See how ingenious she was? I loved it!

I'll post my bag list & contents next.

Thanks for looking.

Kathy

Shoebox Swap

As a Stampin' UP! demonstrator, I am able to attend group meetings, Leadership meetings & Shoebox swaps. We usually swap cards with other demonstrators so we can go home with some wonderful, new ideas.

Shoebox swaps are so much fun! My upline holds one every quarter & we make 3-D projects. It consists of taking a completed sample of your project (and printed instructions if available) & prepare a packet for each person who will be attending. The packet will have everything in it (except for stamps & ink) with cardstock cut, pre-scored, etc. Then you set up a station for everyone to sit at (we rotate around the stations) and complete your project.

This was Evie's (my upline) project.....isn't it a sweet little hatbox?
She used two Stampin’ UP! clear circle boxes (what our buttons and brads come in) and glued them together with the big glue dots.

Then she covered it with Designer Series Paper and cardstock, embellished it with White Grosgrain Ribbon, Silver Brads (for feet), Rhinestone Brad & Flower Fusion flowers.

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I NEED to do that!

Let me start off this post by telling you a very cute story about my niece.
She's 3 years old and very precocious!
She makes me laugh all the time.

Including this time ~ my mother (her grandmother) made cupcakes & let her & her sister frost & decorate them with sprinkles, doo-dads, colored sugar, etc. Suffice it to say that the table & floor was a mess. A good time was had. A couple of months later she was visiting again & the 'toppings' were on the counter waiting to be put away from being pulled out of the pantry to look for something behind them. She looked at me, pointed to them and simply told me, "I NEED to do that."

Which leads me to showing you the box and cards we made at the card making class I demonstrated at Glendora Library.



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This box was actually made by me because I needed 21 boxes and only had 19. So, I sat down and designed the box & it (amazingly) looked very much like the 'bought' ones.

Recipe ~All supplies by Stampin' UP!© unless noted~

Stamps Kindness

Cardstock Whisper White, So Saffron

Ink Basic Brown

Punches Ticket Corner

Accessories Old Olive Narrow Organdy Ribbon (Retired), Silver Brad, Mono-multi glue, flowers by Prima

And here are the two cards that were made for the box

Recipe ~All supplies by Stampin' UP!© unless noted~

Stamps

Cardstock Glossy White, Real Red, Barely Banana, Mellow Moss, Brocade Blue

Ink Real Red

Punches 1 1/4" circle, 1 3/8" circle

Recipe ~All supplies by Stampin' UP!© unless noted~

Stamps none

Cardstock Pixie Pink, Pretty In Pink, Glossy White, Going Gray, Chocolate Chip

Ink none

Punches Circle Scallop, Flower (retired)

Accessories Paper Crimper, Silver Brad, Mono Multi glue

Kathy

"Green" Chipboard

A while back a friend asked me where I got my chipboard. I told her that the majority came from my work; on the backs of writing tablets, when we get logo paper for our printers, some of our flyers come in 'pads' & there is chipboard to keep them from bending/getting ruined.

I work full time in an office and the chipboard comes in many different textures & thicknesses.

So, I collect them all and take them home to be used in my favorite toy; My Sizzix Big Shot.

We also talked about 'going green' and that was the theme for our last Shoebox Swap.

So, my project used 'green' chipboard and (of course) my favorite toy, the Sizzix Big Shot.

Also, I've been collecting my oatmeal boxes, cereal boxes, gift boxes, etc (anything made out of chipboard) to use & I cannot tell you how much chipboard there is right at your fingertips!

I found the idea here...

If you're going to cover the chipboard with Designer Series Paper, why not use the 'green' stuff?


Me? ~ I'd rather save my money and purchase more stamps. lol

And, when you get a gift box from someone, use that too. I got the cutest one in black with white polka dots. Now, how cute would that be to use that for a die cut flower?




Love You Much Box
Recipe ~All supplies by Stampin’ UP!© Unless otherwise noted~
Stamps: Love You Much
Ink: Pretty In Pink Classic Ink
Cardstock/Paper: Pretty In Pink cardstock, Close to Cocoa cardstock, Whisper White cardstock, Candy Lane Designer Series Paper
Sizzix Big Shot & Die Cuts: Sizzix Big Shot, Top Note die, Join in the Cheer die
Punches: Heart to Heart
Accessories: Circle Fire Rhinestone brads, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Chocolate Chip 5/8” Grosgrain ribbon, Sticky Strip, Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive, pink & white felt (unknown), 'green' chipboard


Kathy

Fun with Crafts at Glendora Public Library

Have I ever told you that I love my library? I 'think' I have...lol.

Friends of the Glendora Library Foundation has invited me to teach card making and scrapbooking classes for a couple of years. Well, we have had leftover packets just sitting there collecting dust.

....what to do....what to do.....??

Have a Fun with Crafts day!

Last Saturday, April 4, 2009 we had such a class at my library. It's FREE to anyone who signs up. Space is limited so people who wait until the last minute sometimes aren't able to join us.

Here's the cards that we made:

One of a Kind Card
Recipe ~All supplies by Stampin’ UP!© Unless otherwise noted~
Stamps: One of a Kind
Ink: Regal Rose Classic Ink, Bashful Blue Classic Ink
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Gable Green, Whisper White
Punches: ½” circle, 1/16” handheld
Accessories: Regal Rose 5/8” Grosgrain ribbon, Silver Brad

Priceless Thank You Card
Recipe ~All supplies by Stampin’ UP!© Unless otherwise noted~
Stamps: Priceless, Wonderful Words (retired)
Ink: Real Red Classic Ink, Basic Black Classic Ink
Cardstock: Real Red, Confetti White
Accessories: Basic Black ¼” Grosgrain ribbon, Real Red ¼” Grosgrain ribbon

Baroque Motifs Blank Card
Recipe ~All supplies by Stampin’ UP!© Unless otherwise noted~
Stamps: Baroque Motifs
Ink: So Saffron Classic Ink, Certainly Celery Classic Ink
Cardstock/Paper: Certainly Celery cardstock, Bashful Blue cardstock, Delicate Dots Designer Series Paper (2009 Sale-A-Bration-retired)
Punches: 1 ¾” circle, Scallop Edge
Accessories: Certainly Celery ¼” Grosgrain ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, 2 way glue pen

Seeing Spots Thank You Card
Recipe ~All supplies by Stampin’ UP!© Unless otherwise noted~
Stamps: Seeing Spots, Boho Backgrounds
Ink: Basic Brown Classic Ink, Pretty In Pink Classic Ink
Cardstock/Paper: Pretty In Pink cardstock, Chocolate Chip Cardstock, Whisper White cardstock, sorry…the name of the Designer Series Paper eludes me…anyone? anyone? Bueller?
Punches: Scallop Circle, 1 1/4” circle
Accessories: Pretty In Pink ¼” Grosgrain ribbon

Baroque Motifs Butterfly Card
Recipe ~All supplies by Stampin’ UP!© Unless otherwise noted~
Stamps: Baroque Motifs, (retired)
Ink: Basic Black Craft Ink, Whisper White Craft Ink
Cardstock/Paper: Bashful Blue cardstock, Certainly Celery carstock, Delicate Dots Designer Series Paper (2009 Sale-A-Bration-retired)
Sizzix Big Shot & Die Cuts: Sizzix Big Shot, Scallop Circle die, Beautiful Butterflies die
Accessories: rhinestone (unknown), Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive

Kathy