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Good morning ladies,

Thank you for all the prayers and well wishes!  I made it safely and have been busy chattin’ it up.  So exciting to be here. Only have a quick minute, but I thought I would share these beauties with you.  The catalog is AMAZING.  YOU may pee yourself when you see it.  SERIOUSLY!

Aren’t they cute with the catalog????

There ya have it.  I will be back with more fun.  Be patient my friends. 

I’m sitting in the Phoenix Airport twiddling my thumbs as I wait to board the next jumbo jet headed for sunny Florida!  I have a quick card to share with you this morning.  It’s a card using the Love You Much Bundle. 

Okay, now to some REALLY important FUN stuff!  I typically do NOT offer blog candy, however today I want to!  This will be a FIRST for me. Yippie.  So here is the deal…  Write a comment on something you LOVE about Stampin’ Up! or Stampin’ Up! products from NOW until January 10th, Midnight Mountain Time.  I will pick a winner on Sunday, January 11th and the winner will receive a special gift from Leadership!   Can’t wait to hear from you!  Now, get on your knees and pray for a safe flight.  I hate flying.  :( 

I hope each of you had a VERY Merry Christmas.  We had a wonderful day and spent it with my brother, SIL and their kids as well as my parents.  It has been a while that all of us have been together. The kids were occupied with new toys and just quiet as they could be.  I feel like I ate all day.  The good news is my face *AKA Sinus Ickyness* is back to normal and I am feeling much much better. Ahh the joys of being on vacation. 

The weather here was in the 70’s and I hate to admit to my cold weathered friends but we had the air conditioner on.  Doesn’t seem right considering it’s December.  Honestly, I’ll take it.  I know what I am going back to. 

I will leave you with a few fun projects I did before I left.  I hope you had a great Christmas.  Just enjoy the season. 

Oh, and I think I miss my stamps!

 I only have a few minutes before I have to transform myself getting ready for the last day of my craft show.  Yesterday was unbelievalbe.  The biggest crowd I have seen yet.  Our table was CRAZY looking by the end of the day.  Hardly anything was left.  I got home around 430pm and started working on two things we ran out of quickly.   Here is one:

These flew off our table yesterday along with the chocolate covered  peppermint sticks.  Here are a few other things I had done for our show.  

I found these two things at the Home Goods store and *loved* giving them a decorative lift.  I think they turned out pretty cute and they were also GONE. 

Lastly, here are a few chocolate boxes that I did!

These hold the "G-delli" (don’t know how to spell them right this second) chocolates.  I will have a few more designs of this one to share later.  I have done TONS of them. 

Have a fab Sunday.  Off to transform myself. 

Holy Cow!  I can’t believe it’s Saturday ( very early Saturday!).  Where in the world did the week go? 

I’ve been super busy again this week getting ready for another craft show.  I am pleased to announce this is the last one.  While I really do enjoy meeting so many great people at these events they are a lot of work to get ready for.  I am sure many of you can relate.  I have a few things to share tonight and I will try REALLY hard this weekend to upload some of the projects I have been working on especially for this show.  I have to say a big thank you to my friend and partner Christy for the hard work she has put into these shows as well.  We do entertain each other at the shows and I couldn’t do these at the pace we do without her. 

So, I have to share FIRST these super cute tags we did at my Christmas Tag class this past week.  We did 20 tags total, 4 of each design. 

This first one is a Top Note Die Cut just folded in half.  I used the Ski Slope designer paper and stamped the snowflake from Winter Post in VersaMark and then used Iridescent Ice over it to add a little fun shimmer.  I love using those Felt Flowers.  (I know, you have heard this 1000x). 

This is my favorite tag for a couple reasons.  I added Cinnamon Sticks to the top and they just smell GREAT.  Then of course you have Kraft paper and honestly what doesn’t look good on Kraft?  Exactly!  Anyhoo, I used Winter Post stamp set, again!

This one uses all kinds of trinkets.  The chipboard frame was embossed with Iridescent Ice.  I used the Curly Label punch and the Big Oval Punch.  The Scallop was made using the Big Shot Die Cut Scallops #2. 

Now, these last two tags were not my original ideas. I have no clue where I had seen the original designs, but I changed them up a bit and these are what I came up with.   I just love that Reindeer tag.    Hopefully many of you have purchased that Country Living Holiday Collection Kit.  Again, fabulous stamp set and great kit contents.  I love the stamp set.  I stamped the Enjoy stamp and embossed with Iridescent Ice, again.  :)  Then I took some clear wrapping paper and wrapped it to look like a piece of candy.  Super easy and fun.  The Reindeer uses the Scallop #2 Big Shot Die Cut.  

Have you made your Holiday tags?  I hope this was a little inspiration for you.  

Okay, one last thing!  I waned to make some quick cards today to add to the collection of cards to sell.  I really enjoy using our Rub Ons and they make cards sooooooooooo simple and fun.  I used them on this card below. 

Hope your week was super fabulous and your weekend is filled with stamping at some point.