Bookmarks, Birthday Cards and Other Fun

See – this could be dangerous!  Giving me my own blog…two entries in one day!  I guess I have lots to say and share after all. 🙂

I forgot to mention in my last entry the other massive project I’ve been working on.

At the end of January, I’ll be teaching a scrapbooking class at the Crop Classix event in Cape May, NJ.  Since I’ll be teaching a class, I get to put a little something in everyone’s ‘goody bag’ that they get when they check in.  So I needed to make something simple for 175-200 people. 

Well…let me tell you – NOTHING is simple when you’re making that many of them! 

I decided to make bookmarks and include them inside one of SU!’s Winter Mini catalogs in each bag.  Here’s what they look like:

I think they’re really cute.  Or at least I thought I did until I had to make so many of them – now I’m quite sick of looking at Suzy Stamper!

I still need to get working on the samples for my scrapbooking class.

But first…after much harassment from my friends (and you know who you are), I decided to hold a Birthday Stamp-A-Stack this coming Monday night.  What am I, crazy!?!?!  I’ll be in Houston all weekend – not sure exactly when I’m going to prepare for this one. 

But I could really use the money and I actually enjoy coming up with Stamp-A-Stack cards.  For one of the cards, I may use a sample I made recently for a birthday party for 4-year-old boy and girl twins.  I wanted to use the same stamp set on both of the cards, but vary the images and colors slightly. 

I like how these turned out.  I sent out an email this afternoon for the Stamp-A-Stack and have had 9 ladies register already.  I usually limit it to just 10-12 people due to the size of my small house.  Maybe I need to find a larger venue…

Oh, and I also had to come up with a simple make-and-take for my stamp clubs.  I CASEd the idea of a one-layer card from the SCS message board (that place is such a great source of inspiration!) and came up with this one:

The first club really liked it.  Sometimes it’s nice to try to create a card without all the bells and whistles of embellishments.  And those stamps are so pretty, it’s easy to make a nice card.

I also got a phone call last week from the editor of Take Ten magazine asking me for some submissions for an article.  So I need to come up with 10-15 cards for that.

Oh, and I need some make-and-takes for Cape May.  And door prizes for Houston.  And a lovely basket for a fundraiser for my daughter’s preschool.  And I’m teaching some sort of class at my church’s Scrapbooking Ministry event next Saturday – I need to choose a project for that.  And I just picked up some of those metal mailboxes from the Target Dollar Spot today…those women on SCS are enablers!  I may play with the mailboxes for a little fun tomorrow.

We’re still using those beach towels – who has time for laundry?