Michael Strong Blog Hop

Welcome to the Michael Strong Tag Blog Hop.We hope to give you some Holiday inspiration for the Season of 2011. 13 blogs have joined together to make sure you see lots of creativety with some of Michael Strongs favourite stamps.
Not only do you get lots of inspiration, but there is also a prize to win: Michael Strong stamps!
While you are hopping, you also collect 13 letters and make a sentiment out of it. This sentiment you mail to: Hetty (buzzy4you@hotmail.com) and on the 7th of December the prize winner will be announced.

This is my entry - I created the tag with the background stamps from Club Scrap and of course the tree from Michael Strong collection and then ran a piece of card stock through my Cuttlebug with the "Dotted Swiss" embossing folder and attached the tag to the car.

 I also made a cute card with his Snowman stamp on some red card stock that I also ran through the cuttlebut with the Dotted Swiss embossing folder - the Merry Christms stamp from Club Scrap and then did a faux stiching .  I really like this Snowm Friend stamp from Michael Strong.

Thanks for stopping by....my letter for the Scaventer hunt is the letter "I" (i).  Once you get all the letters and the quote solved - don't forget to send your reply in an email to Hetty (buzzy4you@hotmail.com  Your next stop on the list is Dorly

Mind you: people from all over the world are taking part, so it can happen that their blog is not in the air yet.
Go back at some later moment in time and see what beautiful artwork they have made.  If you get lost go back to Hetty's blog and get the links for all the rest. 

I hope you have a great time on this fun hop and don't forget - if you find one that isn't loaded yet, please come back later.

New Cards

I have been making "Get Well" and "Sympathy" Cards to send out when necessary to members of our 55+ Community here in Arizona.  These are some that I've made recently.

Scraplift Page for a challenge

I belong to Paper Artist Online   and took part in a "scraplift" challenge recently - this is what I posted:  Background paper is from Club Scrap's "Natural Resource" kit, embellies are from "Destination", Natural Resource", and "Papillion" kits.  Photos are all taken in Colorado.

I also took some time to do a quickie Birthday Card for my 5 year old Grandaughter.  I used Club Scrap's "Jubilee" Kit as well as images from Comics and the Birthday greeting from "Apothcary".  I'm sure she'll enjoy it :)

Thanks for looking.

Books I've been working on

I finally decided to put together the cute "On the Go Organizer" book that came in the July Club Stamp Kit.  I'll be posting pic of the outside and the inside.....

The inside has an accordian fold pouch on the left side and a notepad on the right with pen holder.
This should be good for shopping list, coupons, etc.

I usually only put enough pages for cards for each month - this one I added an additional page to put in cards for Thinking of you, Note cards, Sympathy and Get well cards on the back page.

These are quick and easy to put together and make great gifts.

A Fun Place to Shop for Stamps

If you're in Vegas - you'll want to make a stop at "Viva Las Vegas Stamps" - the link is on the right hand side of my blog and you'll find directions on how to get there and be able to view a great gallery showing off their products.

Just tell them I sent ya :)

Thanks
Diana

Altered Puzzle Pieces

I've been a member of "PaperArtistOnline" (PAO) for many years.  A friend of mine had an Altered Puzzle Piece swap and convinced me to get included - I finally finished up my puzzle pieces yesterday and am getting them ready to put in the mail to her.  We do 3 pieces and send her 2 and she'll swap out and send me 2 of someone else's - I plan to use them as wall deco in my house as I do some remodeling.

Each piece is approx 8" x 8" - I originally intended to use some old denim but didn't get it worked out so I remembered I have several books from the "Big Band" era  - combo books for Piano, Clarinet and Sax from when my father use to play in dance bands.  They paired up with some fun stamps from the All That Jazz collection from Club Scrap.  Added some homemade flowers, ribbons and stick on beads

Thanks for stopping by - and if you decide to look into a fun group to share your paper crafting projects with check out Paper Artist Online.

Hope to see you all again soon

I'm Back

I've been away from my blog for a while.  Hubby and I took a 5000 mile motorcycle trip form our home in Arizona to enjoy the big "WingDing" Goldwing motorcyle group rally in Knoxville, TN.  We  had a great ride and I will be posting some layouts and photos from the trip soon.

I also just went through cataract surgery on both of my eyes and will have to go back from some laser repair of some scar tissue that has appeared, creating some difficulty in seeing.

I am attaching the cards I did last week for the Michael Strong Yahoo group.  I chose the "Hetty's Coffee" Stamps for creating these cards.

I am going to start doing better at adding things on the blog.  I hope you come back for visits :)

This card was using a sketch that Hetty picked out for this month in the Yahoo Group - for info on joining this fun group check out : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/enjoyMichaelStrongstamps/

The bottom 2 photos are a Pocket Card I did - the top picture shows the card with the card inside the pocket and the bottom pic shows the card out of the pocket - the technique is a "Attached Pocket Card" from the "Fancy Fold" CD from Technique Junkies.