Friday Night Lights -Mother's Day Project

Okay ladies, I'm ready to unveil my exciting new workshop. I have to say, I'm sooo excited about this - I hope you all like it as much! I don't know if I'm the only person in the world who struggles with buying gifts for other people but I have a feeling I'm not. I was trying to figure out a nice way to incorporate Stampin' Up into Mother's Day this year, thinking about what type of Mother's Day card we would create in my clubs and Stamp-a-Stacks and while browsing online I saw another demonstrator who was holding a workshop to create a little basket with cards and I thought "Aha! That would be perfect!" and so, here it is:

And then I thought, well, there might be ladies out there who would love to give this basket to their mom's but might not think that was enough of a present (I'm famous for this, I always feel like I need to add a little something more) so I thought, "hmmm, what else could we do?". Well, for those ladies who think their mom is going to love this and want to make it herself why not give mom the basket and the stuff needed to make it. So, for those who are interested you can purchase the workshop and the punch and the stamp set (or a variation of that - see details below). Every card in the basket was made using the Build a Cupcake punch or Create a Cupcake stamp set. The punch and stamp set are both from our Occasions mini catalogue which ends on April 30th so if you want to purchase the workshop and punch/stamp set I'm going to need people to register by April 15th (this also allows enough time for Stampin' Up to ship our product in time for Mother's Day). If you just want to participate in the workshop you can register right up until May 5th (or until I run out of space). So, here's a breakdown of the details...

What: Friday Night Lights - Mother's Day Card Basket

When: Friday, May 6th @ 6:30pm (just in time for Mother's Day on Sunday!)

Where: My place

Who's Invited: Everyone who wants to give their mom a lovely homemade gift this year.

Cost: There are four different ways you can register for this workshop...

1. Just the workshop: $25.00

2. Workshop & Build a Cupcake Punch & Create a Cupcake stamp set:

Wood: $78.99

Clear: $69.09

3. Workshop & Build a Cupcake Punch: $49.51

4. Workshop & Create a Cupcake stamp set:

Wood: $54.43

Clear: $44.58

**If you order the workshop with product you will receive a discount on the cost of the workshop ($10 off when you order the punch and stamp set, $5 off when you order the punch or stamp set).
I hope everyone out there gets as excited about this project as I am! If you want to register please leave me a note in the comments section of this blog or email me at lisaferguson@rivercitystamping.com. If anything about the details was confusing or unclear please feel free to ask me questions!

I'm so looking forward to creating this lovely gift with you and am hoping that Friday Night Lights projects might become a semi-regular part of our lives! Now, I'm off to hunt down some supper and maybe a new ottoman!! :-)

Woot, woot, gotta love a good cupcake...

So, we're mid-way through Spring Break (insert big sigh here) and I'm well on my way to achieving my "get organized during Spring Break" goal. I spent today prepping for the April 16th Stamp-a-Stack and I've got to say, if you ain't gonna be there you gonna be sad!! Sorry for the poor English, it just seemed like that was the right way to make that statement. :-) Okay, so let's start at the beginning...I'm planning my third Stamp-a-Stack for April 16th. The first one I hosted was in February and was a bit of a gong show. The next one was in March and other than the fact that I hadn't finished prepping for it as of an hour before it started it went much more smoothly. So for April I wanted to be totally organized and on top of things, hence my "get organized during Spring Break" goal. I decided that I wanted to showcase the cupcake punch and stamp set from our current mini (ending on April 30th). When I first saw the punch and stamp set I thought they were cute but figured, really, how many cupcake cards does a person need to make. Well, how ignorant I was because let me tell you ladies, there is sooooo much more a person can do with these lovely cupcake toys. So, without further ado here are our April 16th Stamp-a-Stack projects... Our first card incorporates the cupcake punch (and stamp set) and yet takes it someplace completely different, using the bottom of the cupcake as a bucket to hold popcorn, and the top of the cupcake is the background of the popcorn. This card was created by one of the ladies on my Stampin' Up team and was sort of the jumping off point to get me inspired to use this set in all sorts of different ways. (Unfortunately there's no name on the back and so I'm not sure who created it.)

Our second card is going to be in honour of Easter. Again, we're using the cupcake punch and stamp set to create little Easter baskets which we will then fill with colourful eggs (the "eggs" are created using the smallest heart from the Heart to Heart punch and dsp from Sale-A-Bration). The fluffy white clouds are the tops of the cupcakes from the cupcake punch.

Our third card is again using the cupcake punch to create the hot air balloon basket, and the clouds. The "grass" is dsp from Sale-a-Bration (for those who are going what the firetruck is dsp, it means Designer Series Paper). I saw this idea on line at the Stampin' Up demonstrator idea board (Stampin' Connection) and fell madly in love with it. There were several super cute examples but in the end I decided to go with this one. I love, love, love it!!

Now, as productive as I was today I was not able to complete the fourth card yet (not because I'm lazy but because I don't have all the supplies). So, there will be a fourth card for the Stamp-a-Stack and we will actually be using the cupcake punch and stamp set to create a card with a cupcake on it! Just for something different! ;-) Our final card will be bright, spring-inspired colours and will be a Mother's Day card. I may post pictures of it later (once my order arrives) or I might just leave that one as a surprise for my ladies at the Stamp-a-Stack...we'll see.

In the midst of prepping for the Stamp-a-Stack I spent some time playing with the set and creating other projects, the picture below shows a bunch of them all together.

Now, look closely at the picture...do you see the Early Espresso cupcake basket on the right hand side of the picture (when you're looking at it). This is, I think, the most funnest (I feel like Winnie the Pooh there) project yet!! I'm putting out a call for ladies who would like to get together and create a beautiful, hand-crafted, heartfelt Mother's Day gift for their deserving mom's (or friends, sisters, co-workers - whatever!). I'm planning my first ever Friday Night Lights bonanza. On May 6th, in time for Mother's Day, we will meet at my place and create a lovely basket filled with a variety of homemade, and adorable, 3.5x3.5 cards.

I will have more pictures and a price for this fabulous class posted tomorrow! If you want in please leave me a note in the comments, email or facebook me or you can even be old fashioned and phone me!

Just a few other little notes, I was prepping all my ribbons for my ribbon club and was struck by how pretty they all looked all jumbled up together and it made me want to take a picture of it, so I did! And it was a good thing I looked at them all again because it made me realize I had completely forgotten to give my ladies Pumpkin Pie ribbon - a travesty! (And Tam, I have your Pumpkin Pie ribbon sitting on my desk!)

(These cards are two of the projects from the March Stamp-a-Stack, all using the level 2 hostess set, Fast and Fabulous)

One last picture before closing tonight...spring in Winnipeg! Everyone gets the itch to be outside doing outside type things. In Addie's case she was desperate to use her new bike that Grandma gave her for Christmas, seeing as outside is muddy, snowy, icy and just generally yucky we put on her helmet, put baby in the back seat and lampchop in the basket and tooted around in the basement. It was almost as good as the real thing!

So, check back in tomorrow for all the details about our Friday Night Lights - Mother's Day event and some more pretty pictures.

Tuesday night and all is right...

I'm sitting here looking at the clock on my computer going, I should really go to bed...but maybe I'll just do a quick blog entry! It's such a shame that the Manitoba Education system doesn't arrange to have school start at like 10am - it would really suit my night-owl tendencies so much better (and what teenager wouldn't benefit from an extra hour or two of sleep in the morning?).

I had card club tonight and it went really well. It's funny, when I started this business it would take me a few days (and at least a couple of hours each time) to prep for card club. Now, I can pull it all off in an hour or two and I think the projects are always so much fun! It's nice that it's not so stressful anymore. Here's what we did tonight...(both of these projects were cased from my Stampin' Up leader, Kristyne Brandt - thanks Kris, they're delovely!!).

This card was created using the Apple Blossom stamp set, I'd never actually played with it before but I really love this card. I think it is so very sweet! Everything (except the ribbon) is using the In Colours and I just popped a few pieces off the page using dimensionals. Super fun!




Isn't the owl soooo very cute? I had lent (is that a word? I don't think so, loaned?) my medium size scallop punch to my sister-in-law because I had a totally different plan for tonights club and then my order didn't arrive until tonight and so I had to scrap that and do something different so I ended up using the large scallop and giving him wings, which I think is still completely adorable.

The other great thing that happened today is my (very big, very expensive) Stampin' Up order finally arrived today!

I love when I get home from school and there are Stampin' Up boxes on my front porch - it makes me happy! It's sort of like Christmas, and this order especially because usually everything is for my customers but today most of this was for me - although I'll be using most of it in club/stamp-a-stack projects so I guess it's still for my customers but whatever!

Well, I do have to teach tomorrow and I was pretty much braindead (see! again, how do you spell that?) today so I should probably stop playing on the computer and go to bed! To quote my daughter..."Tata for now, kisses!"