Pink Camo Dogs & Circle Flip Book

My husband and I are such suckers for fun new things for our three girls. Today we went to buy dog food and found some really cute dog sweaters. They were 25% off AND we also got a FREE camo fleece lined coat. So, of course we had to get one for each of the girls, right? Well, we brought out three "small" sweaters and our three "small" camo coats and tried them on them. Our girls are really quite small, but would you believe they were all too small for them. So we loaded the girls up and took them with us to go back and exchange them for mediums. Because they all decided they had to go potty by the time we got there, my husband was busy taking them all out in the grass while I went to get the medium sizes. We got back home and now they are all too large. As soon as we put the coats on them, they stepped right out of the armholes. Actually, the coat fits quite nice on Lucy; I think she's the bigger of the three. I guess we'll wash the sweaters to see if we can shrink them some, but the camo coats won't because they're nylon..... but they are still cute and I had to share. What's better than three girls in Pink Camo????

I found this cute little Circle Flip Book and had to try one for myself. These are really easy and fun to make. These will make such cute gifts with photos of a fun event, graduation, birthday, baby, etc. The instructions for this book can be found on Splitcoast Stampers. The large circles are made from cutting around a salad plate, then folding into fourths. Check out the tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers and make one for yourself. All you need to do is decorate it for the event. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my project.

Decor Elements

FINALLY!!! I finally did it. I put my Decor Element (the Create definition) on my wall in my stamping room. While I was struggling to get it first off the graph paper, then onto the wall I then remembered that I had read it should be at room temperature. I know it was at room temperature; however, I had it stored on an outside wall which may have made it a little cooler than I would have thought. I struggled a bit, but it really is pretty easy. I had originally planned to separate the "paragraph" and put it in a line at the top of the wall along the ceiling. Now, I'm glad I didn't do that. I think my next project will go much easier now that I've done this one. I think the hard part of this one is all the letters. There are so "many" areas that didn't want to pull away. My next project is Organic Outline. The images are extremely large, so for one, they will be put up one at a time so I'm anticipating a much easier transfer. I'm planning to put those in my bedroom around the bathroom entry; I'm really anxious to do that project. As soon as I do, I will show you how it turned out. Anyway, I am attaching photos of this project and actually, I think it looks pretty awesome.

I found the cutest box with acetate windows on all four sides and of course I had to try it. You can fill with candy or another cute gift for Christmas or with a change of decoration for any event. I think that if I were to do this again, I would probably make it smaller. Like the box I made a few days ago, it is so large, it takes a lot of candy to fill it. Depending on who or what the occassion is, it can be scaled to whatever size you would need it to be to accomodate the contents.

Fall/Winter Retiring Stamp Sets - 10% Off

THE RETIRED STAMP LIST IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can purchase these stamp sets through January 18, 2009 while supplies last, but between today, 12-9-08 through 12-23-08, you can purchase them for 10% OFF THEIR LISTED PRICES. AND NOT ONLY ARE THEY DISCOUNTED, BUT ANY ORDERS $70.00 AND OVER DURING THIS PROMOTION WILL HAVE FREE, YES I SAID FREE SHIPPING. The free shipping will save you AT LEAST $10.00 with that size order. The following link will bring up the listing of the stamp sets, their retail prices and the discounted prices.

http://www.stampinup.com/us/documents/US_10_percent_off.pdf

Take advantage of this awesome sale and call or email me with your order. You can also take advantage of the online ordering. Just go to my website http://www.janetelam.stampinup.net/ and click on "Shop Now". If you order online, you will be eligible to earn a free stamp set from me.

Now, don't forget, these sets are only discounted between 12-9-08 and 12-23-08. They will still be available while supplies last through January 18th, but only at the retail prices again.

Meeting Demonstration

Our demonstrator group had a meeting on Friday night and Carrie Rhoades, one of our demonstrators showed us how to make the cutest snowflakes. I took a few pictures of what she did, then I came home and made lots. My husband is so funny. He doesn't really pay a lot of attention to what I do, but this time he kept asking if I was going to make more and when a friend came over to visit this afternoon and saw them, my husband asked me to make one for his wife. LOL. I have a large pot beside my front door that has Weeping Willow branches in it; I decided that was a good place to hang my snowflakes on so I took a picture of that you can see how they look on my Weeping Willow Tree :) These are so really pretty and easy to make. Not only are they cute to hang from your tree or on something like this, they would also make really pretty Christmas package decorations to attach to ribbons.

Fall/Winter Sampler Promotion begins today

Starting today, 12-1-08, spend $20.00 on regular merchandise, then you can order any stamp set in the Fall/Winter catalog sampler at 20% off. Click on the attached link to view the sampler.
http://www.stampinup.com/us/documents/Sampler_US.pdf
You can call, email me or order online to have your order delivered direct to your door.

Christmas Class Give Away

I made these cute little favors for my Christmas Card class this week. They are sooo cute. I cut out the scallop circles from brown felt using my Big Shot, then I bagged several peppermint sticks in a cellophane bag tying shut with the gold elastic ribbon from the Mini Catalog. I stamped the "Do Not Open til Dec 25th" from the Winter Post stamp set then punched out with the Label punch. Then I tied some more gold elastic ribbon through the punched hole in the label and tied again about an inch up. Then i tied the wide red & white striped ribbon from the Mini Catalog around the felt and peppermit sticks and attached the label with the gold ribbon to the knot and tied into a pretty knot on top. I found the peppermint sticks at Walmart. What a fun and easy gift for friends and co-workers. What do you think?????