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Dollar buy BBQ card!

Here is my dollar buy from Michaels.

Our dear neighbors are transferring with the army to South Carolina. They have only been our neighbors for a year. We will really miss them.

I created this card to honor them and celebrate the friendships of the neighborhood. My husband, Mike will be firing up the smoker and making pulled pork and ribs. Umm, all I have to say is its sooo good!

It should be quiet the get together. We are having it on a Friday night, so its really quiet fun!

Remember there is a Ft. Meade Shoe Box swap. If you belong to Split coast stampers, please check out the link here. If you need more information or would like to sing up, please email Tracy (the hostess) at TRACYLTRIPP@hotmail.com

Blog candy, I am adding a set of journaling clear stamps. My last blog candy winner can expect her package the first week in August. Since she is on vacation I will hold out mailing it until I hear from her again.

If anyone in the Ft. Meade area has any long (wood toped) folding tables they want to sell/give me that would be great.

I hope everyone will have a great evening!

Stamp Happy!

Loretta

Ft. Meade Shoe Box Swap!

Just a reminder, we are still in the midst of blog candy. Please continue to read my blog and leave comments!

Here are the details for the Ft. Meade Shoe Box Swap. It is being sponsored by my friends Tracy and Amanda are sponsoring. I am planning to go, but with some looming urgent family business can not committ at this time.

You may also view the SCS thread by clicking here.

Amanda and Tracy will host a shoebox swap on Saturday, September 27, 2008, from 11:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m., at Potomac Place Community Center, Ft Meade, MD. This Community Center has lots of space available for us to spread out.

Plus we wanted to let you all know this facility is handicap accessible. For those of you that do not have a military ID you are still able to come, you will just need to have a driver’s license or a state ID with a photo, and car info that is required by state law in order to drive onto post.There is room for 60 stampers with each stamper bringing a shoebox swap for 30 stampers to make.

There is a $20 non-refundable charge per stamper to cover the Community Center, lunch, dinner, snacks, prizes etc. Please fill out the attached form and mail in your $20 to reserve your space by September 13, 2008. No children under 18 years of age please. All cards are to be full cards. Please bring enough supplies for everyone to make your card including all cardstock, stamps, inks, embellishments, tools, etc. Please also bring your own basic stamping kit, which should include your adhesive and scissors to use on all the projects we make.

Please make sure all of your supplies (stamps, ink pads, scissors, punches, etc.) are labeled with your name, so we all go home with the stuff we brought. We’d like each stamper to have a sample and typed instructions in their box telling how to make their card. Everyone should have their swaps in baggies or envelopes containing everything each stamper needs to do your card.

This helps make the swap go smoothly.There are no vendor restrictions on cards or projects. However please use quality card stock like SU!We will have a door prize drawing for all who want to participate in it, please bring something altered or stamped along with a $5 value of product. It can contain partial packages as long as the value is at least $5.

Please make your swaps look pretty so whoever receives it will be surprised!There will also be small door prizes given throughout the day with a large door prize drawing at the end of the swap. All stampers will walk away with a door prize!

For all of you that would be willing to donate cards, we will be collecting them to give to the Fisher House on Ft Meade, for their families to use while visiting their sick/injured love ones at the hospital and/or to the Stamp for a Cause scs program.

It all depends on how many we get. We will also have a silent auction for whoever would like to clean out stamping/scrapping items they no longer want. Just let me know if you will be bring items for the auction so we can have space allocated for your items. So for a recap here is, what you should bring: -shoebox swap (no theme) for 30 stampers-door prize drawing (if you are wanting to participate in it)-any cards that you would like to donate to the Fisher House or Stamp for a Cause.-any silent auction items you are wanting to get rid off.

So start posting your RSVP’s. Please feel free to post or pm any questions you may have.Once I receive your form and payment, I will mark you paid.Amanda and I can’t wait to see you all there!

If you are interested in this swap, please email Tracy (Please type it in all capital letters). The email is: TRACYLTRIPP@hotmail.com.

Please join us for this exciting swap!

Todays card is on the masculine side. It is a Bella guy! I love the Bella stamps.

I hope you will continue to read and enjoy the blog!

Have a great weekend!

Like MOoo!

Finally! Some stamping time!

This is the card I came up with for the cow swap that I am hosting. The swap is full and we are ‘chatting’ at the present. I just love cows. The cards I am getting in return are pretty awesome as well.

Here is the recipe:

“Like Moo”

Stamps: Penny Black
Ink: Brilliance Black

Instructions:

· Cut pink card base so it measures 5 ½ X 4 ¼” folded.
· Cut patterned paper to 4” X 3”
· Cut blue card stock to 4” X 2 ½”, emboss using cuttlebug folder
· Blue layer measures 3 ¼” square
· White layer measures 3” square
· Stamp image onto 3” square and color with copic markers
· Add ribbon as shown, using crystal effects glue to attach the jewels.

I’ve also started working on my cards for a BBQ we are giving for our dear friends and neighbors who are getting ready to move to South Carolina soon. They are dear people and we will miss them bunches!

This evening, I am going through a literal ton of memorabilia from my mom. She sent me home with a lot of stuff. Some of the items I will be selling. Some will just be kept, and did I mention I have enough material to scrapbook for the next 10 or so years? Not counting the pictures I made while missy was here. I even have a 1GB card I still need to have printed of. Umm I think I’ll be busy.

I’m still looking at ways to re-vamp the stamp area. The computer desk I have isn’t working, there simply isn’t enough space to spread out. Which is bad and good, since most of the time it forces me to clean up the area and start on a new project. There is also something to be said for the ‘creative’ mess. It is challenging but so much fun!

I hope you are all doing well, and have a blog happy weekend!

A day in Baltimore

Above is a picture of my niece and my oldest son, Craig at the Cheesecake factory in Baltimore yesterday.

We waiting in line for 45 minutes to get tickets into the acquarium, we didn’t want to see the dolphin show, we just wanted to visit the acquarium. I get to the window at 11:40 and find out that we wouldn’t be able to get in until 3:00 pm. I had plans for last night (I hosted an Arbonne) party.

So we just walked around the inner harbor had lunch and came home. It was still a nice outing.

Today we are planning to go to the national zoo. It has been many years since we visited, so I’m looking forward to going.

To all who have asked if we enjoyed DC the answer is yes. I’m ashamed to say we live within 30 miles of DC and don’t make it there often enough. There is so much to do and see.

I will post pictures tomorrow of todays activities. Happy Sunday and Happy Stamping!

Friday — tomatoes!

Hello everyone and Happy Friday!

This is our last weekend with Melissa. I’m going to miss her! I do get my youngest son home in the deal, I’ve missed him greatly and look forward to him returning home.

The oldest kid is going to report to basic training in the Air Force sometime in August. I must admitt I have mixed feelings about him joining the service. I know that he needs the disipline the service offers as well as the need for some personal growth and maturity. However, I’m still the mom!

Melissa is practicing her guitar a little and enjoying the new friends she has made here. It is my hope that she will return and live with our family full time.

I have to admitt, girls are a much different breed. They are not nearly as self-sufficent as boys are.

I’m participating in a shoe box swap, a bunch of us here in the Laurel, MD area are carpooling up to Pa for the swap. It is August 9 and I am really looking forward to it. I’ve got everything pretty much ready to go.

I’m still waiting to here from the last blog winner, I will wait until this evening and then re-draw.

Sorry for no picture today. I’m working on getting more pictues uploaded. You can look forward to photos from Lurray Caverns. If you ever have the opportunity to visit them, it is worth the $19 a person.

Happy Stamping!

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