Card Shares

My June Monday Mailer partner got ubba-busy in June and wasn’t able to send me a card each week.  But, she made up for it at the end of the month and sent me 5 all together!  So, thought I’d share a couple with you today.

This one uses the cute Zoofari.  I don’t have this set, but Ashley does and I have borrowed it from her on occasion.

This card uses Just Jawing.  Since I don’t have young kids/teens, this set has just never done anything for me … cute card but just not my style.  But, it’ll make a great card to send to one of the granddaughters!!  They’ll think I’m cool!

5 Tomato Salad

 

• 2  tablespoons olive oil or salad oil
• 2  tablespoons white wine vinegar
• 1  tablespoon thinly sliced green onion or snipped fresh chives
• 2  teaspoons snipped fresh basil or 1/2 teaspoon dried basil crushed
• 1  teaspoon sugar
• 1/2  teaspoon Dijon-style mustard
• 1/4  teaspoon salt
• 3  roma tomatoes, sliced
• 2  medium red tomatoes, sliced
• 1  medium yellow tomato, sliced
• 1/2  cup red cherry tomatoes, halved
• 1/2  cup yellow cherry tomatoes, halved
•   Spinach leaves
• 1/4  cup crumbled feta, Gorgonzola, or blue cheese (1 ounce) (optional)
•   Freshly ground black pepper

For dressing, in a screw-top jar, combine the olive or salad oil, vinegar, green onion or chives, basil, sugar, mustard, and salt. Cover and shake well. Chill, if desired.

To serve, arrange tomatoes on a spinach-lined platter. Shake dressing well; drizzle atop tomatoes. If desired, sprinkle

From Better Homes & Gardens

Monday Mailer

Time for another Monday Mailer. I had fun making this one and it went in the mail this morning! I used the new Circle Circus stamp set along with the little whale from Pun Fun. The color combo is Bashful Blue with the new Crushed Curry. I put Crystal Effects on some of the "bubbles" and sprinkled Chunky Glitter on them. The whale is paper pieced from Bashful Blue Patterns DSP.

SU Deal of the Week #3

Fire Square Rhinestone Brads #109112 regularly $10.95 on sale through 9:50am July 20th, 2009 for $6.99 per package!!! These are a great addition to any greeting card, scrapbook page or gift.

Contact me to place an order!

Sharon

SU Product Guide

I don't know if you are aware that Stampin' Up has a Product Price Guide where you can find products in a specific price range for easy shopping. It's the perfect place to go to when you are shopping for a gift for a special occasion. It's broken down into products under:

• $10.00


• $25.00


• $50.00


• $100.00

What's even better is that within each price range, it's broken down further into categories such as:

• Stamps
• Vinyl art
• Paper Products
• Ink-cetera
• Accessories
• Tools
• Storage

Check it out HERE.

Frozen Snickers Bar

I wanted to share this low-cal frozen dessert .... perfect for these hot summer days. I wish I could make this for my son. It was a family joke - we used to call him Snicker Boy! When I was pregnant, I craved snickers!! He liked snickers but his favorite candy bar was Butterfingers.

Frozen Snicker Bar

8 x 8 pan
1 lg. Fat Free light cool whip
1 - 8 oz. Fat Free vanilla Yogurt
1 Jello sugar Free Choc. pudding (dry)
1/3 cup reduced fat crunchy Peanut butter
1/3 cup grape nut cereal

Mix all ingredients together and freeze

Cut into 16 bars = 1 pt. or 8 bars - 2 pts.

Yum!!!

Busy Day & a Monday Mailer for you

After being a “vegetable” all week (veggin’ ya know??), I made a full day of it today!  Started out this a.m. playing mahjong …. and actually won a couple of dollars!!  After leaving my friends house, I headed into Mooresville to meet my sister and my mom to go to a movie.  We went to see My Sister’s Keeper – a real tear jerker.  I actually preferred to book to the movie, but the movie was still good.  The two little girls deserve an Academy for their acting.  Marianne had not read the book and I heard her over there just sobbing.  If you get a chance, go see it!  After the movie, we did a little shopping …. high dollar stuff!  We went to the Dollar Store!!  Then we headed on over to Donato’s Pizza for dinner.  If you have a Donato’s in your area, their pizza is really good.  I love their thin crust. 

So, here’s the card I got this week from my Monday Mailer partner.  She, like me, hadn’t gotten her new Stampin’ Up goodies so had to make do with what she had.  It’s still a cute (and very bright) card – don’t you agree?  She used the new Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp.  The cupcake and flower are die cuts. 

Monday Mailer

I’ve been waiting all week to share the Monday Mailer I sent to my partner this week.  I wanted to let her receive it first. 

Anyhoo … you know, I love Michelle Zindorf’s work and try every so often to duplicate her cards.  This is the one I did this week:

The colors I used were:  Bashful Blue & Bermuda Bay for the mountains; Old Olive & Crushed Curry for the ground and the little tree.  I stamped the flowers with black ink and used my white gel pen to highlight them.  The cardstock is Bermuda Bay and Crushed Curry.  I’m pretty proud of this card!!

Stampingly, Sharon

In Color Combos

I’m starting to play around with the new in colors and find, like many others, I need to tone them down a bit!!  If you’re wondering what other Stampin’ Up colors will match with the new colors, here’s a helpful chart for you.

 

So, what do you think?  Need your shades?? 

To make your own “go together” colors, visit this site and pick your SU color combos.   It’s fun!  I’ve also added this site to my sidebar so you can check it any time you want!

Now, go CREATE!!

Stamp Classes

I’ll be doing a few classes at Stampers Alley in July and August.  We’ll be making various shaped cards.  I’ve been having fun creating different cards for this.  Here are the ones I will be doing July 25.  If you’re in the area, come join us!!

This is a mini backpack!  It opens up and you can put some small items inside.

This is a refreshing glass of lemonade!

This teacup actually has a teabag inside!

This goes on your water bottle to hold your drink mix!