I have been selling a lot of my retired sets lately. I only have 20 left

heres the list. Anyone wanting one email me directly and we can work out delivery, whether I can ship it to you if I have too. :)

Set Name		Sale
Animal Alphabet		25
Big Blossom		10
Borders Mini		9
Business Memos		15
Flowers of Grattitude		15
Fun Filled		10
Great Shapes		15
Letter Perfect Backgrounds		10
Little Layers Plus		15
mini messages		12
Phrase Starters		10
Phrase Starters II		10
Riveting		15
Smorgasborders		15
So Very		12
Swirl Frame Fun		20
Stippled Stencils		20
Symbols of Salvation		10
The Art of Life		12
Toucan of My Love		15

I also have pictures of them all on my computer if you want to see one of them I can email it to you. :) Thanks a bunch. Michele

This was my set up for the big retreat. Unfortunately I didn't get to use my cricut machine at all Like I had hoped for but We had a lot of fun. I was sitting in front of this set up with all of the croppers facing each other in a big circle. This is a great space but we are on the hunt for a new location. Too many restrictions in a library. Maybe we will find a hotel that has affordable rates. I am ready to go to a retreat where I am not the hostess also. I never seem to get anything done when I am in charge. We sure did have fun though, there were door prizes, a 100% raffle, great food, fun and laughter through most of the weekend. :) I even got to do a few demos, people were curious about some of the cards I had made. They wanted to see how to put glitter on a page and I showed Pat how to make an ornament with a piece of paper and 2 microscope slides.

A Special for a Special Friend and Her Special Boy!

Some of you have seen or heard about a scrapbooking video?? Well I found out about it through my upline Erika, she put it on her blog and really helped promote it. Now they want to help her promote a cause special to her. Her son Zach has autism and she has helped design a stamp set for a charity and all kinds of things like that. Well now there is this:

Starting NOW through January 1st, 2008, MockUTV is donating $1 from each copy of this awesome DVD sold towards a charity that is near and dear to my heart: Autism Support Daily

Did you know that one in every 150 children are diagnosed with some form of autism? That's ONE TOO MANY! And did you know that's only the number of children that are actually diagnosed? And did you know that many of these children "fall the through the cracks"? There ARE things that can be done about this and YOU can help!

And get this......you even get FREE shipping on the DVD! Talk about a win-win for everyone! This is the perfect gift for any papercrafter and scrapbooker on your Holiday wish list or even as a treat for yourself....and the best thing is, you're supporting a VERY worthwhile cause!

You can check out a bunch of great links on the MockUTV site:

• Inside Scrapbooking's home site
• Zach's Page - Zach's bio and lots of great links to sites on autism
• Purchase a DVD and help support Autism Support Daily
• Preview "Inside Scrapbooking"
• Learn about MockUTV
• More fun free videos
• don't forget Molly's blog I have link to it down below. It cracks me up everytime I read it.
  

The other card using the Weathered background stamp

This is one of my favorite cards of all time. I was pretty proud of myself because I came up with this idea all on my own. I used versa mark pad on the weathered background stamp then stamped it on glossy stampin up cardstock, then went over that with the blue frost spectrum pad applying with a rubber brayer. See how the ink resists on the versamarked design.

Then I stamped the image in
black stazon ink. I used a window sheet to stamp the lower image on and flipped it over and rubbed it onto the bottom part of the card. then layered in black and white cardstock.

The stamp set I used for the image is called Summer by the sea.

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This is a card I made for my workshop last Monday. It uses vanilla card stock and mellow moss. The background on the card uses the weathered background stamp set with creamy caramel ink. The leaves are embossed in gold glory embossing powder, then i stamped the Thank You on creamy caramel card stock with the same ink color and punched it out using the large word window punch. The set used is called Stem Silhouettes from the mini winter catalog. A link to the catalog is in a few posts back. If you scroll down you will see it. Then next card I show you will be using this same weathered stamp but will look completely different. The two eyelets at the top of the card I put in after as people at the demonstration wanted to see how to do eyelets. I need to get the gold cord now to tie a bow in the two holes, I think that will complete the card nicely.

Look at all you can make with a Simply Scrappin Kit

No stampin involved just inventive ideas from my upline. I want to teach a class on this and use the Secret Garden Kit. Its really nice, it has a lot of greens and floral stuff. Totally girly which I really like to use when I can seeing how I have a husband and two boys. Don't get to do too many girly scrapbook pages or cards. Erika, my stampin mom, upline inspiration, said in her blog that this kit is her FAVORITE EVER Simply Scrappin' kit and I am tending to agree.

The little pink triangle has hershey kisses in it, well it did untill I decided I needed chocolate. All of the projects above were made with the Winter Bright Simply Scrappin' Kit.