Last night several of us gathered together for a fun free Speed Bingo night!!! Chris Howe, Pam Cosby, Johnna Bixenman Clarke, and I shared some beautiful cards with fun folds and special cuts to help with your fall and Christmas card making. I will be sharing the pictures this weekend and hopefully the PDFS as well so be sure to check back in!
We interspersed 4 games of Speed Bingo and although we had a couple of rocky spots at the beginning, everybody was able to follow along and participate. ALSO we learned the use of the word “Snipe” from one of our gals – you just had to be there! – but by the end a couple of others resorted to it as well!! It was all fun and everyone had a good time which is the main thing!!!! Prizes were new but retired blends and embellishments!
The Stars At Night Bundle – Part Of The O Holy Night Collection!
When it comes to Christmas, I am a sucker with using foil for a touch of elegance. I am SO EXCITED with the O Holy Night Suite Collection, from the DSP to the stamp sets, the dies, the coordinating embossing folder, AND the adhesive-backed star trinkets. If you have yet to study this suite, LOOK!!! I can see multiple home decor pieces, ornaments, besides all of the beautiful cards and tags you can create.
I love pairing Night Of Navy with foils, as I did in this card. When I use gold foil I prefer the warmth of Very Vanilla and Night O f Navy, but I switch it with silver foil. The cool of silver foil HAS to be paired with Night Of Navy and Basic White!!! Do you agree with me?????
I usually decorate the bottom right hand corner of a card inside mat, but couldn’t do it here! I needed all of the stars above to surround the beautiful greeting! A word of warning – the Shining Brightly Specialty DSP is single sided, AND you only receive 1 of each sheet, so when designing for lots of cards OR for a class, it would be very costly to use as a full mat on the front. I simply added a one in strip to maximize my paper. Do keep that in mind!!!
The Holiday Mini Paper Shares Are Ending Soon – Have You Reserved Your Share?????
There are just FOUR DAYS LEFT to reserve your Holiday Mini Paper Share, Ribbon Share, OR BOTH!!! We have a catalog that is STUFFED with beautiful, fun DSP and the best way to purchase is reserving a 1/4 share of EVERY PAPER in the CATALOG! That will be over 140 sheets (most of them double sided) cut in 6 inch squares for $50. I’m also offering a Ribbon share as for $20, and if you reserve BOTH you receive a free pack of the cute gift card envelopes coming out! Click on the link below to reserve your share no later than September 5!!!
https://lolarist.com/event/2023-sept-dec-holiday-mini-catalog-paper-ribbon-shares/
Final Thoughts…..
As we head into the last hurrah holiday weekend of the summer, I hope you are able to take time for yourself as well as spending time with family and friends. We have a quiet three days ahead, then next weekend we will have a full house with Megan’s family coming. Evan’s family will be in and out since they live here in town, and the girls are going to be so excited seeing Cal crawling and standing up. Pool Boy decided we needed home made icecream next weekend, and he’s already working on the menus for meals. I treasure these times when we are altogether – and then I breathe a sigh of relief when everyone heads home and life returns to just the three of us – Jim, myself, and Shelby the canine diva.
Within an hour after everyone is gone I’ll miss them. Until next time, God Bless.
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