Christmas Card buffet from last Sunday

Hello again, Just wanted to pop on real quick to show you the cards we made at our last christmas card buffet. It was lots of fun and we have more to come. This first card I already had posted but thought I'd post them all together.  This one was one of my cards. I found it somewhere and tweaked it, sorry dont remember where I found it so I can't give credit where credit is due. Just know that I appreciate it.

 This next one was actually a card from the holiday section in the main catalog and I tweaked it quite a bit to make it my own. I love how it came out. I sold alot of them so others must have liked it also.

 This card I also got from another person, Darn I wish I knew who, I do like to give credit but can't remember because when I'm saving them I dont remember who or where they came from. I did tweak this one too but not by much. Color definitely and placing of ribbon.

 This one was one of Sharlene's and the ornament is actually 3 dimensional and very cute. The picture doesnt do it justice. I dont know who she got any of hers from either so I will apologize to them now but thanks for the ideas.

 I think this one was her own creation, she used foam for the snowflake and it was lovely. The glimmer brad in the center just added the bling to match the glimmer paper.

 I love love love this card, This too was Sharlene found and tweaked it a little. Just might have to make some for my holiday cards this year.

 Another one of Sharlenes, Love the dazzling gems on the tree, picture doesnt show them well

 Another fun one, Not sure where she got this but I love it.

 This one As soon as I saw it I wanted to make it. I did it almost exactly like the original creator did. Thats how much I liked it. It was sooooo easy too.

 Last but not least my peace on earth one that I copied from Robin Merriman and tweked her idea just a little. Hugs Robin. Thanks for sharing.

Our next buffet is in Hinesburg at the Hinesburg Community School at 12:30 on October 1st and we will be making an assortment of cards. Details will go out via email soon so watch your email. This is National Card Making Day so come and join us and celebrate this fun day.
Hugs Everyone.
P.S. Be sure to keep coming back I have some more ideas coming up soon and some new ways to earn free goodies on my blog.
Gwen and I have been working on a class to go and are very excited to have some of our OWN creations that we will be doing for this one. We are meeting tomorrow night to finishe up the last card and the details. We are going to try to do one either every month or every other month depending on our designing time.
Off to bed now. Good night

And the winner is.........

Ok so here is the results of the Birthday Blog Candy prize winner.......
True Random Number Generator
Min: 1

Max: 9

Result:
8

Here is what the winner said.........

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday, Betty!!! Hope you enjoy the day and the next year.
-Mindy Brown
September 8, 2011 11:54 AM


Congratulations and thank you all for Playing and for the birthday wishes. Here's to another great year.

Card Buffet Cards

Here are 2 of the cards for our Christmas card buffet. I will show the rest later but this is to hold you over until after the event. Hope to have a full house. The cards are AWESOME if I do say so myself. If you want to see the 2 of Sharlene's go to my facebook page, hers are on there. Thanks for stopping by.

Bettys Birthday Blog Candy

This is blog candy in celebration of my birthday on Friday. THis one will be quick but I will give the Winner choice of what they want with a $20.00 gift of pick your own, This is to show my appreciation of your support over the years. My stamp career started in May of 2003 and is going strong but only because of all of you and I appreciate you. My career would not be what it is without you, downline, sideline, upline, customers, hostess and friends. Thank you all.
Hope you all have a fabulous Labor day weekend.
Please if you dont know how to leave a comment, send me an email or call me and I'll help you through it. I had quite a few posts last time but would love more to have a chance to win.
Mine and Gwen's class idea is almost finished so be sure to watch for more info coming soon.
Have a great day.
This post will run until Saturday Sept. 10 and I will draw the winner on the 11th.
Thanks again for all your support

upcoming idea

Today I want to talk about an upcoming project that we have coming up. We are going to do something similar to a class to go, We started working on the cards last night and they are coming out great so far. I am very excited and can't wait to share this idea with you. Keep coming back to see what we are doing. I do have some cards that I'm also working on to post that are going to be the cards for the christmas card buffet on Sept. 11th. I will post a couple of them before the event and the rest afterwards. Have a great day and I hope you all have a great Holiday weekend. Also, be on the lookout for an email, My birthday is coming and I always do a my birthday special and more blog candy too.
Hugs

Wnner of Blog Candy

And the Random Generator says.......

Result:

9

The Lucky Person that was in the number 9 spot is........Jen Lesage

Jen said...


Betty, I enjoy reading your Blog when I have the time. I think that the Collapsible Trash bag is cute. Also, love the new In Colors for this year.

~Jen Lesage


Congratulations Jen and Send  me an email so I can get your goodies to you. :)

upcoming card buffet

We are going to be doing another Christmas Card Buffet, September 11,2011 at 12:30 at Friendly's in Colchester. Cost will be $5.00 and $2.00 per card, there will be 10 cards to choose from, pick as many as you wish and feel free to make duplicates. Details will be emailed out soon. If you are not on my mailing list already just email me and I'll get you on the list to be invited. Thanks and hope to see you there.

Todays Card Buffet

Here are todays Cards from mine and Sharlene's buffet, Today was her first one, She did great. Hugs To Sharlene. Those that came to support us today, Thank you very much. It was fun and great for Sharlene to do so well on her first time. Most of our cards were cased and tweaked but not sure who to give credit to. I know I got a few of them from Chat at Me,My Stamps and I. Her blog is listed on my blog. Thanks Chat.

crazy week

This week has been and will be even crazier. I have busy days and nights. I will continue posting as soon as I am caught up. Remember that BLog candy ends on the 29th. So make sure you go to that post and post a comment to be entered to win.
Hugs to all

upcoming event

I just wanted to post that I'm having trouble with my email. They had me shut off again for sending too many at once, UGH. I have to switch email company. So, now I have limited access until tomorrow, My stored addresses are not all in there so if you are interested in attending either event, please email me and let me know. I have one this Saturday at Friendlys in colchester by costco and another one next Saturday the 27th both are at noon and if you didnt get the email just let me know I'll resend it to you.
Both events are card buffets with different cards and with Different consultants doing it with me.
When I do get a new email set up I will send out an email to you all from my new email address.
Thanks for your patience.
Hugs

Convention highlights

http://youtu.be/zJDAMx5K3Lk

Card buffet card

This is one of my cards for the Card buffet this Saturday August 20th at Friendlys in Colchester at noon $5.00 admission and $2.00 per card choosing from 10 cards, choose as many as you wish.
I wanted to show you this card, because I got this idea from Tami White's Blog and I added to it. I loved the idea. You can view her card collection here, her cards were made by Teresa Howe http://stampwithtami.com/blog/2011/07/fun-with-the-new-in-color-collection/

What I liked most about the card was that it was using the new in colors each on its own card. So here is my tweaking of the card.....Island Indigo

Thanks for looking and until next time........

Blog Candy Giveaway

Hello again,

     Today is the day for BLOG CANDY. The items up for grabs are the Wisteria Wonder 8 1/2 x 11 card stock, Notecards with envelopes, Mini Clothespins and the new Stampin Up Collapsable trash bin that I got at convention this year.

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post before August 29th at midnight. I will do the random generator draw shortly after that and I will post the lucky winner.
Some of you couldnt figure out how to sign up last time, so if you just leave a post without signing up then dont forget to leave your name in your post (first and last name) because it will show up as anonymous or something and I wont know who you are. So Good luck to all and keep watching for some more card samples from Convention in the next few days. Have a wonderful weekend.

more convention stuff

Sharon and I got to walk for our 20,000 in sales. Next year my goal is to do at least 30,000. I'd like more but I'll settle for that. LOL. 30 would just make earning FIJI a little easier. I would love to see Sharon make it with me too. We have both been walking for 20,000 together for at least 3 years now and I think its time we bumped it up a notch. I couldnt do it without all of my customers and hostess/club members. Thank you all for your support over the years and looking forward to many more. If any of you want to join me in this business, just let me know. I'm always looking for new recruits. Hugs to you all.

The second photo is just before leaving the stage, everyone usually waves or holds their hands up high for a photo opportunity. I LOVE CONVENTION and I LOVE STAMPIN UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have a great night everyone, I wont be posting tomorrow because I have a party but keep your eyes open for Blog Candy coming up this weekend.

If you dont know what that is, Its FREE STUFF.
Come back soon
HUGS

Christmas in July card buffet cards

Ok so we held a christmas in July card buffet last weekend and everyone wanted me to post the cards we made. SO, here they are. 3 of them anyway. I will post the others when I get them out. I dont have a copy of Tammys.

These were all Convention Swaps that I received and copied and tweaked. The snow much fun one I didnt change at all.  The Gold ornament one was from Amy Celona and I dont remember who the other 2 were from. I love them all though so thanks to the creators.

Thanks for looking. See you next time.......

forgot to post

Sorry, I forgot to post, I took some photos of my most recent card buffet so I will post tonight when I get home. Plus I have the blog candy post almost ready too so be sure to come back.
Hope you all have a great day.

Sun Hat

We had an evening that we could have been creative and made a sun hat and this is my decorated hat. It was kind of fun to make so even though the contest wasnt done correctly, it was fun.

Finally some convention stuff

Hello everyone, Its been awhile but I want to try to start posting regularly. I am going to be doing blog candy within a few days so be sure to come back. Here are some photos from convention , the first photo is of my SAM, Becky and I. she will not be my SAM anymore because the program ended but if I reach exec. then I can get her back with a new program. She has been quite lovely to work with and I will miss her. Hugs Becky.

The next Photo is of My new helper with Stampin Up and his name is Rhett. I ran into him while on my VIP tour of the Stampin Up Facility

He and I have chatted once since then and I think he might be helpful to my business so I'm kind of looking forward to working with him. I am ready to earn FIJI. Thats our next trip to earn and this year its supposed to be easier to earn with the new program. We will soon find out.

The next photo is of the owner of the company, SHELLI GARDNER and I. Shelli came into the VIP room for us to have a photo opportunity with her. I had her sign my binder because I already had her sign my catalog when we got them on the cruise.

Now, speaking of the cruise, the next photo is of Amy and I, Amy is the corporate team member that I got to have dinner with on the cruise. She was quite fun and I was surprised to find out after our dinner that she was pregnant but I couldnt tell then, Now in this picture you can certainly tell.

I happened to turn around and she was standing right there so we were both surprised to see each other. So we took this photo op so that I could show slim how pregnant she is now. LOL

Next, is our fun photos with my new friend, Gail that I met on the cruise.

The others in the photos are my roommate and friend Sharon and Gails friends Christine and Anne. We have all become friends and it was quite fun to hang out with all of them. Convention was so much fun that we can't wait to do it again next year.

 Oh and we can't forget our waiter at Olive Garden. He was lots of fun.

Ok so thats all for now but be sure to come back and check things out more often. I will have some awesome swaps to post soon too. Thanks for coming to look.

upcoming events

Here are my upcoming event dates, times and places. I will be sending out emails for all of them, if you are not on my mailing list, email me and I'll make sure you get on the list.
July 10th is the next event. This is my customer appreciation event and will be held at Hinesburg Community School at noon. The fee will be $5.00 to help cover food so come hungry. The projects are free.
The next event is July 31st and that is our Christmas In July card event. We will be doing this at Friendlys in Colchester in their back room at 1230. This location works out pretty well. Details to come.
August 27th we have another Card buffet at Friendlys in Colchester at 1230
Be sure to come back soon. I will be offering Blog candy SOON
Thanks

Upcoming News

Hello,
    Alaska was a fabulous vacation, I always love being spoiled on a cruise. Now on to new things. I am going to attempt once again to regularly update on my blog so please spread the word and pass the blog link around to all your friends. I am hoping to get some other people to help out with postings as well just so you have some new ideas regularly.
    First off, I'd like to mention all of the upcoming events that I have scheduled so far. I have a card buffet on June 18th at Friendlys in Colchester at 1230 and another one on the 26th same place and time. If you want more info on either event, Please email me.
    Next I have my customer appreciation event date scheduled, that will be on July 10th At Hinesburg Elementary School at 1230. I hope that lots of you can make it. Also, if you are interested in attending please email me.
  I have a few ideas that I will be posting on here soon so keep coming back for more information.
Hugs
Betty