MFT''s Snowmen and shoes!

MFT just released some new stamps this past week. I know, i'm late in showing them off. My mojo has been dragging.

Here is one of the new stamps from MFT: A Scarf for Three by Stephanie Fizer. (This image is already sold out but Kim has placed a new order for them, just not sure when she'll get this one and the other two Stephanie Fizer sets in)

I embossed the image in silver and watercolored with chocolate chip, really rust and baja breeze, the color challenge colors. Sanded was used in the background while the snowflakes are from MFT's Baby, it's cold Outside. This was for MFT's Who's that Girl challenge where you were suppose to use an element from a set in a different way. So I made my own design paper with the snowflakes. Distressed edges and added ink to the paper. Layout is from this past week's Featured stamper, Terror3. I used this card of hers. I changed colors and images.

stamp: a scarf for three, baby it's cold outside - MFT; paper: chocolate chip, really rust, vanilla; ink: baja breeze, really rust, chocolate chip, versamark; accs: ribbon, hodgepodge, silver embossing powder, aquapainter

Shoe Therapy anyone??

Using Sketch challenge 196 I designed the following card. "Window Shopping" is this month's Who's that Girl set released from MFT. I used just the single shoes and the small table for my card. The table in the middle is the actual size, for the other tables I stamped them off the strip to make them look shorter. The shoes are cutout and added with glue dots. I used Prisma color markers to color them. Distress inks was sponged on the edges. Far East mat stack design paper was used for the other layers.

stamp: Window Shopping - MFT; paper: close to cocoa, vanilla, black, far east mat stack; ink: distress inks; accs: prismacolor markers, sponge, glue dots

Most Dangerous Chocolate Cake EVER!

My uncle loves to send me recipes that he finds on the internet. Just the other day he sent me "The Most Dangerous Cake" recipe. Interesting! So interesting that I just had to try it out to see if was for real. Here you go. Don't say I didn't warn you!!


5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake


4 T flour
4T sugar
2T cocoa
1 egg
3T milk
3 T oil
3 T chocolate chips (optional)
a small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug

Spray your mug with PAM. (I forgot to do this and I had a few chips stick to the bottom of my mug.)

Add dry ingredients to mug and mix well. My mug is 4 1/2 inches tall.

Beat egg and milk in a seperate dish. Add oil.

Add liquids to the dry ingredients and mix. Add vanilla and chocolate chips, mix again.

Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 2 1/2 to 3 minutes at 1000 watts. (my microwave is 11oo watts so I cooked it for 2 1/2 minutes.) The cake will rise over the top of the mug, don't be alarmed! (This is tooo cool. My cake went at least 3 inches higher than my rim.) (this is right after i took the picture above, the cake goes back down into the cup right away.)





Allow to cool a little and tip out onto a plate if desired. (this can serve 2 if you feel like sharing or in my case, 3 little kids)

So why is this the most dangerous cake recipe you ask?? Because now you are only 5 minutes away from a chocolate cake ANY TIME!!




Remember, I am not to blame for any weight gain, acne, chocolate cravings etc. What you do with this recipe is your own fault! :) For those out of country, T = Tablespoon.

This recipe and varitations are floating all over the internet so I have no clue who is the orgianl owner of this recipe.

MFTOPG2 Inspiration by Jen

I know I'm a day late in posting this but I wasn't feeling the greatest yesterday and also had a stamp camp I had to get ready for. If anyone would like a cold, I have one to get rid of, CHEAP! lol

So for Friday's MFT Oldies Plus Goodies challenge, Joanne and I picked one of Jen's cards to use as inspiration. You can see Jen's card here that we picked out. Play along, don't forget to put MFTOPG2 in the keywords so we can see your card. Cards need to be posted by Monday, Sept 29th, 9:00 am EST to be in the running for a $5.00 credit to MFT store. Next week we are Thinking Pink!

So I was inspired by Jen's layout and her middle strip that she had as black and white. I changed my colors but kept the same layout including the middle strip the same just used chocolate chip and white instead. I used an Annie LaPoint stamp, "Take a Break" for my image. I colored in the leaves and part of the tub with inks. Using Silver Liquid Pearl, I applied it to the tub. It gave the tub an old fashion look. I adhered Flower soft to the flowers with some Crystal Effects. I distressed the edges with three different inks. As for my sentiment, it is actually two different sayings from Sassy Sayings (MFT) that I cut apart to make a different saying! That's the cool thing about acrylics, you can cut them apart and still put them back together and noone would know the difference!

stamp: sassy sayings, Annie LaPoint's take a break - MFT; paper: print sampler, chocolate chip, white, almost amethest; ink: black stazon, almost amethyst; metallic silver, old olive; accs: ribbon, scallop edge punch, white gel pen, rhinestones, liquid pearl, flower soft, crystal effects

Olivia's First Christmas

I know.. you are asking whooo in the world is Olivia. And that it isn't even close to Christmas yet so how can it be her first??

Let me introduce you to Olivia the owl! She is available from Treehouse Stamps and is already for Chirstmas with her own sayings. I used Ashley's brainwave challenge which was a color challenge: kiwi kiss, chocoalte chip, riding hood red, kraft. I don't own any riding hood red and only have kiwi kiss cardstock, so I used old olive ink and real red cardstock/ink. Layout is for the sketch challenge 185 on SCS.

Pretty basic card. Not much stamping as I was able to run up to mom's and cuttlebug some pieces with two different snowflake folders and an ornament folder. I stamped Olivia on Kraft and watercolored her a little with chocolate chip. Cutout her hair bow and added it with a glue dot. The snowflakes (in white craft ink) are from "Everybody's Favorite" stamp set also from Treehouse Stamps.

Olivia is sitting in her snowcovered nest that is made from the Martha Stewart branch punch. I added white liquid applique to the branches and Olivia to make it look like snow.

stamp: Olivia's Christmas, Everyone's Favorites - Treehouse Stamps; paper: kraft, real red, kiwi kiss, chocolate chip; ink: chocolate chip, real red, old olive, white craft, black stazon; accs: cuttlebug, kiwi ribbon, martha stewart branch punch, liquid applique, aquapainter

New MFT Challenges

I'm happy to announce that I am one of the hostesses for Friday's challenge in the MFT forum. Joanne and my challenge is "Oldies Plus Goodies" where some weeks we will be featuring specific sets and other weeks will be an inspiration challenge featuring either a card from one of the Design Team members or even a card from the MFT gallery.

This week we picked "Hearts Galore", this is one of the sets that is on Limited Edition status at MFT. If you play along on SCS, please add the keyword MFTOPG1 so that we can find your entry as one lucky participant will receive a $5 credit to the store and be entered into a monthly drawing for $25 as well!! You've got from not until Monday (Sept 22) 9am EST to get your card uploaded on SCS to be available for the drawing.

For my first card, I used MFT's Thursday Sketch Challenge as my layout. I used the happy together birds from the Hearts Galore set. Colored the image with Prismacolor makers. Yes, the birds are colored, I used "Wheat" color as i didn't want them too strong. But then I pulled out the distress inks and went a little crazy! hehe And the distressing tool found itself into my hands so I had to use that too. I used the SU scallop punch on the strip, distressed the design paper and notched the corners.

One thing I LOVE about acrylic stamps is that you can cut them apart if you cut straight and still be able to use the stamp whole or in pieces. The sentiment I used on the strip actually is the last line in the poem that comes with the set. Instead of inking up just that line as I was using black distress ink and didn't feel like masking, I simply cut the last line off of the poem and inked it up separately. Cleaned it and put it back with the poem as if nothing was wrong with it! How cool is that?

This is to be my husband's anniversary card as it will be 15 yrs next month! (I know, I'm a little early now just don't let me forget I have his card made!)

stamp: hearts galore - MFT; paper: barouqe burgundy, chocolate chip, creamy caramel, design paper; ink: distress inks; accs: scallop punch, distressing tool, ribbon, notched punch

For today's Limited Supply 186, Wendybell had us going with a White Out! Only white cardstock with a black, any brown color or gray was allowed plus only ONE other color! No SPONGING (how could she do that to me??!!) allowed on the white at all! OH!! And only ONE image and ONE sentiment was allowed too!!

So I used Hearts Galore again! :) This time I used the cup that has a heart attached to it in the steam and then postioned the sentiment above it. Being acrylic, you can bend them however you would like to position them, so I made the sentiment go around the image just a little. Background white is cuttlebugged with the hearts folder. Image is colored in with only Real Red as you had to ink that matched your cardstock! I did add a little crystal stickles to the heart which was allowed. A simple but striking card.

stamp: hearts galore - MFT; paper: real red, black, white; ink: real red, black; accs: stickles, cuttlebug, scallop regtangle punch, ribbon

Silhouettes

Hey!! I am back! We got our internet power back Wend night around 9:00pm. If you heard any screaming, that was us, we were so happy! lol It's amazing how much you take everything for granted until it is taken away from you for an amount of time. So now life can get back to normal (whatever that may be) around here.

The Ways To Use It challenge 184 was Silhouettes. Remember that order I tracked down from UPS the other day? Well now I have Upsy Daisy and Pocket Silhouettes to play with! I made a very, very, very simple card with Pocket Silhouettes that i am not even going to post as it was just way to simple. So I went back to the drawing board with Upsy Daisy.

Using the colors in some of my last scrap pieces of Afternoon Tea dp, i went to work. I stamped the flowers in versamark and embossed them in Iredescent Ice onto a piece of Afternoon Tea dp. I then took my brayer and brayered Wild Wasibi over the entire piece until it was covered as dark as I wanted it. Used a Swifer cloth (tissue, paper towel work too) to buff the image. I embossed "You're in my mind" in black on another piece of Afternoon Tea dp. Did some faux stitching on just about every piece of paper. The layout I used was this weeks Sketch Challenge 194.

stamp: upsy daisy - SU; ink: versamark; paper: wild wasibi, groovy guava, afternoon tea dp; accs: white gel pen, iredescent ice and black embossing powder, brads

Still no net

To all my loyal followers... we still have NO NET at home :( and my oldest was up all night sick!! Life goes on! :) Hope to be back soon!! Until then... stamp me some cards. lol

Under the weather with Hurrican Ike

I know it is not uncommon for me not to post every day so some may not even notice that I have been missing from the Internet world the last few days. I am only able to post this as I am up at my mom’s who has Internet connection, I don’t have it at home and have no clue when we will get it back. Here is my story:

We knew we were to get some remenats of Hurrican Ike but were not prepared for what we did get. Wind! After church on Sunday we came home and I started lunch while hubby turned on racing.

Time: 1:00. He also tried getting on the internet which he could not even after going through all the necessary steps of restarting etc. Customer service was no help as it was a recording and told us to check online with a 24/7 live chat. Ummm DUH!! No net, can’t do that!! I don’t think we even made it to “GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES!” when the cable went out. (that right there should have been our clue that it wasn’t going to get any better)

Picture an unhappy husband as now he can’t watch it on TV nor can he get the net to work to even watch it on there. *lightbulb * Hook up the bunny ears and tune in the TV that way as racing was being broadcast on a local channel. Happy husband for all of 5 secs when the ENTIRE power goes out!

Time: 2:30/3:00 What to do now that we have no power? Let’s go outside and see whatever one else is doing. By this time the wind is really picking up so you had leaves blowing down the street along with dirt. The neighbor thought he had heard the tornado siren so the kids came in the house to “pack” just incase. I happen to look out the window when I saw the kid across the street come running over to our side at full speed. I look out even farther and this is what I saw:


If you think that is impressive, wait for the story that goes with it. The neighbor had just been on this side of the tree, started walking back to his house, was right on the other side and it came down! The kid didn’t see him after the tree came down, thought he had been crushed, hence him running over so fast. Thankfully no one was hurt and it didn’t land on the house at all.


We spent the rest of the afternoon outside watch the neighbors clean up the area even though the winds were strong. (We later find out we were out in what was considered Level 1 Hurricane winds!) And during this time, my middle daughter gets sick! Evening comes, we lit candles and find out that one of our local pizza haunts has power! Finally something warm as the wind (now it is raining) has made it kinda chilly outside. I really wanted some coffee!

Time: 8:30 still no power. Benjamin and I play Uno while everyone but sickie goes and gets the pizza. We finally get to eat, play a couple more rounds of Uno (which I won 2 out of 3) and decided to go to bed. Hadn’t been in bed too long when POWER comes back on!! yayyay Time is now 10:50!!

So you probably think that is where my story ends? Not at all. Remember my sick daughter? Well guess who got it right after the power came back on? Yup, that’s right, ME!! And then half way through the night the little one gets it too!

Monday comes with school going from being on a 2 hr delay to being canceled. No biggie, right… well we still have no internet/cable power! And of course a few of us are still feeling weak from the night’s sickness. So Monday was a complete wash of sleeping and vegging all day long. I did no stamping what-so-ever. Even had another 2 hr delay today!

Hence my card: “Feeling under the weather?” This card is for the color challenge (riding hood red or real red, going gray and always artichoke) and for MFT’s Monday challenge of using Rain or Shine and having some bling on the card. I went simple to stress just how I’ve felt the last two days. Crystal stickles were added to the dots on the boots while Frosted Lace was used on the umbrella dots. Scallop oval made with the round corner punch. And I used SU’s scallop punch all around the card edge.




Ps. Have to share this, I’ve fallen into that “chase the UPS man” category! I was expecting a SU deliver today but with the winds, wasn’t sure if it would make it and having no internet, couldn’t check to see if it had been rescheduled. The UPS happened to stop next door so I walked down and asked him if he had anything for me! Now UPS doesn’t deliver here until 3:00/4:00 unless it is next day air. He checked and he had my package. Being the kind UPS man or after seeing that craze look in my eye when he said he had it, he rummaged through the brown truck and gave it to me!

3-D Pointsetta card

The featured stamper was posted early Saturday night and since I was still up, I did it! The card I picked can be found here. I changed colors, stamp image and made a faux tag.

The stamps I used are coming soon (like next Friday) from Treehouse Stamps. So here is a sneak peek of "Christmas Favorites". I picked the pointsetta out of the set to use as I love pointsettas. I watercolored it my favorite pointsetta color... Pink! Well actually it is pretty in pink, regal rose and purely pomegranate! When i first saw this pointsetta, paper toile came to mind.

I stamped the pointsetta on the square piece (which I framed in by using a sliver krylon pen) and watercolored it in. Then I stamped the pointsetta three more times and watercolored them. I cut out the first one completely and using Helmar's liquid scrap dots, adhered it to the square piece. The next one I cut out again but this time I cut off the bottom layer of leaves and adhered it. The last pointsetta I cut out but this time i cut off both the bottom layer and the middle layer so I was left with only the top layer of 5 leaves and the middle. Adhered it and added yellow stickles to the middle of the flower. (I know, sounds confusing but it isn't. I have added a close up picture so you can see the dimension)

I left it to dry and went to work on the rest of the card. Stamping Joy (from the same set) all over the purely pomegranate piece and then tore the cardstock and distressed it with the ink. Tore wild wasibi and distressed it with ink too. Stamped Print Pattern in Regal Rose onto Regal Rose. The sentiment Happy Holidays (from the same set still) is stamped in Purely Pomegranate.

Back to the flower.... I used the slot punch on either side and the word window punch for the strips. Very carefully I adhered it to the cardfront as the Stickles are still not dry!! They take forever.
stamp: Christmas Favorites - Treehouse Stamps, Print Pattern - SU; ink: purely pomegranate, pretty pink, regal rose, black stazon, wild wasibi; paper: purely pomegranate, regal rose, wild wasibi; accs: brads, aquapainter, liquid scrap dots, stickles, sliver krylon pen

close up of the poinsetta

Thanks so much Topiarie

Today's Ways to Use it (#183) was to use a white gel pen. Oh, my. I LOVE my white gel pen. Almost can't make a card without it now a days! I use the Stampin' UP white gel pen. Thursday is also the day that Cindy, over in the MFT forum, posts the MFTsketch so of course I had to combine them.

Labor day week we recieved a fruit basket from some clients of hubby's. They had sent it because he had worked on their projects over the Labor Day weekend. He asked if I could make a Thank You card that he could send to them. So here it is:

stamp: build bouquet, sassy sayings - MFT; paper: far east dp, night of navy, vanilla, brocade blue; ink: old olive, distress inks: vintage photos, walnut s tain, broken china, faded jeans, weathered wood; accs: silver cord, white gel pen, flower soft, distressing tool, corner round punch, coluzzle

I used Build a Bouquet that Kim over at MFT has on sale right now. I only used two of the circles and stamped them in old olive. The pot was stamped in distress inks broken china and faded jeans. Used my gel pen to outline it and the stems. I then distressed the image with distress inks: weathered wood, broken china, faded jeans, vintage photo and walnut stain! Added some more white gel pen in the corners and picked up my distressing tool that was still siting out from yesterday and went to town. The pattern paper is from a mat stack called Far East. I used the corner round punch to do the scallop edge and a coluzzle to cut out the circle.

Now you are probably wondering about the "stuff" on the topiarie? It is called Flower Soft. Mom and I first saw this product at CHA and wanted some then. We found a company here in the States (Flourishes) that sells it as it is from overseas. You just glue it on where ever you want it. I used Helmar's acid free glue that dries clear. I took a side view picture so you can get more of an idea of how it sticks up.

Wanna get cozy with the MFT crew? Want excuses to buy more stamps and play with the ones you have? We are changing up our forum to make it tons of fun for the MFT lover in you! On Sept. 13th, we unveil our MFThemed Forum Days!

Play along with Who’s That Girl? Monday
Find out more about MFT crew and fans on Thread Starter Tuesday
Chat it up MFT style Wednesday nights at 9pm(est)
Get a little sketchy on Thursday
Hum a little Oldie PLUS Goodie on Friday

What’s in for you? We thought you’d ask! So we decided to offer a $5 store gift certificate to one lucky winner each day! And on top of all that goodness, the daily winners will be thrown into a monthly drawing for a $25 gift certificate! Now that’s a reason to celebrate, don’t you think?

Keep your eyes peeled and be ready to party on Sept 13th. Wanna know a little secret to get you started? You’ll need Rain or Shine for the very first challenge, so from now through Sept 13th, it’s 20% off, just to get you in the mood!

Shabby Chic Simply Said

Ashley's BrainWave challenge this week is a color challenge: Chocolate chip, Regal Rose, Certainly Celery, Taken with Teal and Pink Pirouette. Well I don't own Pink Pirouette yet so I used Pretty in Pink.

I went completely Stampin' UP! products with this card today. I used the set called Simply Said along with Scattered Sunshine wheel, Sanded and Canvas. I used Chocolate chip, Regal Rose, Certainly Celery and Pretty in Pink for my color choice. And I distressed, distressed, distressed, distressed and distressed. Oh, did I mention I distressed? Not only distressed with ink but also with the SU distressing tool. I have flakes all over my floor!

I watercolored the main image with the inks and aquapainter, distressed the image with pretty in pink and chocolate chip ink. (I use a sponge to do that) For the main background, I inked up Sanded in Certainly Celery and dabbed on Chocolate chip before stamping. I then stamped Canvas in Pretty in pink on top of it but that is hard to see. I randomly stamped some of the outline flowers in Regal Rose.

My layout is actually today's Sketch (SC193) on SCS. There was an optional piece of a punched out accent in the bottom right hand corner which i decided to leave off.

stamp: Simply Said, Sanded, Canvas, Scattered Sunshine wheel; paper: chocolate chip, pretty in pink, certainly celery, vanilla; ink: black, chocolate chip, certainly celery, pretty in pink, regal rose; accs: distressing tool, sponge, ribbon

Entertainment books

This isn't something I would normally do but wanted to pass this on to my US and Canada friends incase someone out there is interested. It is that time of year where the kids bring home Fundraisers to sell and earn money for their school. Well this year our school decided to sell Entertainment Books.

Don't know what an Entertainment book is? It is a book of great selection of money-saving deals that you can use at restuarants (usually buy one get one meal free), hotels, drycleaners, grocery stores, sporting events, movies and so forth. In Ohio, the Dayton book has a coupon for LaComedia which pays for the book itself as the coupon is one complimentary Adult dinner theatre package when a second Adult dinner theatre package is purchased.. up to $69.00 value!! (If you have never been to LaComedia.. I highly recommend it. The food is sooo yummy and the shows that are put on.... I can't wait to go back.)

If you would be interested in buying an Entertainment book and helping support our school, please go to www.Entertainment.com/support and enter the account number 931787 so that our school, Graham Elementary, gets credit. You will also have to choose a student to give 'credit' to (they get prizes for so many sold) which would be one of my children, either Benjamin Hillman (he just started Kindergarten) or Allison Hillman (4th grade). Deadline for ordering one using the account number is Sept. 8th.

Thank you.

Friends & Lattes

I am forwarning you now, you may want to grab a cup of coffee now because when you are done with this post, you will be wanting a cup! :)

Treehouse Stamps is releasing a set every Friday this month and tonight's release is a coffee set called Friends & Lattes.

This set was perfect for the Limited Supply challenge today which was to make a card using any color of orange and a coffee image! I decided to make a Criss Cross Pocket card. I embossed coffee beans in clear on the Pumpkin Pie cardstock and then sponged on tons of distress inks. I used a coluzzle to cut out my circles and a corner punch to make the scallop edge. The coffee cup is stamped in distress ink and embossed in clear. After coloring it with Prismacolor pencils, I used distress inks again and went wild! lol For the inside, I only inked up the first part of the sentiment and stamped that, added some doodles and once again distressed with distress inks.


I made this card during the week for the sketch192 and color challenge 182 (Monochromatic). Of course that was also the same time my batteries decided to die! Once again I used the Friends & Lattes set from Treehouse. The coffee cups were masked and embossed in black. The coffee beans and Thanks a Latte were stamped in distress ink. Now the fun part, I distressed each piece with distress ink. Only the main image was stamped on white cardstock (not that you can tell now). Used decorative scissors for the mat.
stamp: Friends & Lattes - Treehouse Stamps; ink: distress inks - browns, black; paper: chocolate chip, close to cocoa, creamy caramel, white; accs; ribbon, black embossing powder, decorative scissors, sponges

All this posting about coffee has made me want some. Even though it is after 8:30 pm, I think I will go make some coffee and add a scoop of ice cream to it too! YUMMM

MFT teen gift set

What a challenge! The ways to use it yesterday was to use the 'fancy' design paper. If you didn't have any then you were challenged to make your own by adding glitter, etc. Can you believe I don't own any fancy design paper?? So I had to make mine.

Carmen is attending a birthday party this weekend for one of her friends and need some kind of gift. Well what better set to use than the "Hey Chica!" set that was just released from MFT. I altered a picture frame and a notebook.

To make my 'fancy' paper I used a retired Scrappin Kit from Stampin' UP! called Friends & Flowers, I embossed Baroque Motifs in the corners in Iridescent Ice on the notebook. On the frame I stamed in River Rock and used a two way glue pen to adhear Dazzling Diamonds. Both items are really sparkly in real life. The girl was colored with Prismacolor markers. Now they may look a little different in colors, but it's the same colors just different paper used. For the frame I embossed the girl right onto a chipboard, for the notebook I used regular white cardstock.



stamp: Hey Chica - MFT, Barqoue Motifs; ink: black, river rock, versamark, blush blossom, pretty in pink; paper: scrappin kit Friends & Flowers, white, chipboard, so saffron, ruby red; accs; dazzling diamonds, two way glue pen, hodge pode, ribbon, nestiblities, iridescent ice embossing powder

Christmas already?

Now that school has started, I am starting the challenges on SCS earlier in the mornings then usual. It's great to get the stamping done and out of the way and have the rest of the day to play... ummm I mean clean. lol Today was no different as I knew what soon-to-be released MFT set i wanted to use and it worked perfectly for the sketch.

Merry Christmas? is a fun set and the image is exactly how I feel when I get done wrapping presents! I embossed it in black and then used my Prismacolor markers to color. Now, instead of paper piecing the 'wallpaper' in, I cut out the entire 'wall' with my xacto knife and just stuck the paper behind the image. Added some crystal effects to the ornaments and used silver stickles for the garland. Distressed the design paper with some distress inks as I didn't like it so white.

The only problem I had with the card was when i went to take a picture, my batteries were DEAD!! And of course I couldn't find any batteries in the house that worked! So after our walk, my mom took the card back to her house and took the picture and sent it to me. I have batteries charging as I type... hope they are ready soon!! Can't live without my camera.

stamp: Merry christmas? - MFT; paper: burgundy, white, black, dp, green; ink: versamark, distress inks; accs: prismacolor markers, crystal effects, stickles, cuttlebug

My Favorite Things (www.mftstamps.com) is having a New Release Cocktail Party on Wednesday, Sept. 3 from 9-11 p.m. Eastern time. This month there are SIX new sets being released, plus one from a new line at MFT: BCDzyns.

*The Girl Who Wants It All special for the The September Collection, which is one of each set being released, except for the BCDzyns set, is $58.95.

Head over to the MFT forum on www.splitcoaststampers.com to find out all the details and to find out how YOU can be the next MFT Guest Designer.

We hope to see you there on Wednesday night.

Labor Day Picnic '08 (long post)

Every Labor Day we have a picnic at our church. After we have eaten, the kids are ushered outside for games/races/cotton candy/snow cones/big blow up slide (or bouncy thing). Each year it's a different kind of theme and this year was no exception. With 12 different booths for the kids to visit, welcome to the
GGC Carnival.

Jorden and Mercia eating popsicles while waiting for the gates to open.
Carmen was suppose to be setting up but I caught her playing Balncing the Plate.

A group of clowns. I mean the helpers for the booths.

Carmen on the inside of the closed Carnival.
Kids waiting to get into the Carnival.

My brother and his wife maning the Cotton Candy machine.
One of the 'games'... Allie fishing and eating cotton candy at the same time. What talent!
Hannah, the face painter. Hannah at work on Jorden. Jorden as a cat.
Even I got into the act and had my face painted. Hubby says I look like the girl on Comfy Couch! lol
I'm still trying to figure out which one is the real clown! lol Not sure I want to admit that that is my hubby in the Ohio state shirt! lol
Pie eating contest. Carmen had to feed her Uncle (yes, I said Uncle!) apple pie. They didn't win.
It's not every day you get to see a clown on an Unicycle! My kids on the BIG SLIDE! Notice the "BIG" kid at the top? My brother! Even my hubby went down but I was never around to catch him on it! My mom got this picture of Carmen and Cayla. Carmen was a true clown as she was all decked out in Michigan colors right down to her shoelaces!
Shelia and Steve, a happy clown couple with Elizabeth the clown in the middle. Remember Hannah, the face painter? She is their daughter. The clowns all had to take a train ride! lol Even Steve (6'4) managed to (some what) fit into a barrel! I love this picture! Jorden and Johnathon having a conversation. Not sure if he wanted her popsicle or liked her face painting. So hard to understand 'toddler' talk!
Another game the kids could play. Notice the yellow ball soaring through the air that didn't make it into the clown's mouth. Jorden getting a pink balloon dog, another booth the kids could visit.

Well if you have lasted this long, I thank you. I wanted to post all the pictures in the same thread since I have MFT releases all week long. If you would like to see more pictures, I have more on my facebook.