November Cards, Giftables, and Layouts (featuring mostly City Sidewalks!)

For my local peeps, we still have two more CREATE DATES left this month!! If you want to join us to make any of the cards/goodies I've designed for November (shown below!), you can still plan to join us just after Thanksgiving on Saturday 11/26 (10am-5pm potluck) and/or Sunday 11/27 (1pm-5pm). PLEASE RSVP and let me know which date you plan to join us by leaving a comment here, on Facebook, or by calling/texting me at 760-220-0683.

 Cards featuring the Stamps of the Month! (October and November)

 Cards featuring City Sidewalks papers

Cards featuring Oh Deer! papers and Thin Cuts

Hand-stamped Snowman Treat Tubes (filled with Rolo's and/or Kisses)!!

Let me show you how to create these for just $2.00 each (chocolate included).

Cricut-cut Reindeer Stocking with a Candy Cane inside!!

(Designed by my super-talented upline/team-leader, 

Denise Anderson-Turley, of www.DelightfulDenise.com).

Let me show you how to create these for just $1.50 each.

Lastly, here are the City Sidewalks Scrapbooking layouts (below) that my scrapbooking workshop participants are making with me this month also! It's not too late to order additional kits (for Nov. 26/27th) if anyone else wants to join us! (as long as you rsvp to me by the evening of Sunday 11/20!!) Just $30 per kit (pre-cut for you by me) to create the three 12x12 festive Christmas layouts shown here!

November Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

THANK YOU for stopping by to enjoy our

November Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

featuring this month's SOTM:

New Year's Cheer S1611

If you've just arrived here from

DONNA's BLOG

then you are on the correct path.
If you get lost along the way, you can find
a complete list of all of the participating
consultant blogs here on MELINDA's BLOG.

This month I created a standard-size card using the
Cut Above Fiesta Card Kit (Z3222) for my card base.
*(This retired item is still available for purchase
here online for a limited time, while supplies last).
I also used Black, Lagoon, Peacock, and Whisper ink pads
to do the stamping. Embellished with clear sparkles, silver
shimmer trim, and mini staples (all from CTMH!).

Now you can continue on with the hop,
and be inspired by more creativity
using this stamp set by visiting
MICHELLE's BLOG next!
Enjoy the hop!!

September 6th Card Class! (6-9pm)

These are the cards I'm teaching tonight!

Let me show you how to create

8 hand-made greeting cards

(2 each of 4 designs!) on the 

first Saturday evening of

every month for $12.00

(that's only $1.50 per card!)

...OR

get your class for just $5

with any $24.95 or more

product purchase.

This month's cards feature

the brand new

SCAREDY CAT

and SNOWHAVEN

paper packs!

November Card Class (and Christmas Card Buffet)!!

These are the cards I'm offering at my Card Classes this month

(let me show you how to create these 3 cards for just $5):

PLUS, in addition to the cards shown above

I'm also offering my annual

CHRISTMAS CARD BUFFET!!

I have 8 different card designs

for you to choose from

(shown below)

You choose how many of each you want to make

with me (in person) for just $1 each...a true bargain!

(please bring/purchase your own adhesive to use

as that is not included in the cost).

19 PENGUIN cards available / 15 PRESENTS cards available

12 MARY cards available / 11 SNOWFLAKE cards available

12 TREE cards available / 16 SANTA cards available
 

10 HOLLY cards available / 12 WREATH cards available

 You have two opportunities to attend

with me this month on

Friday, November 22nd

and/or

Saturday, November 23rd

(anytime between 6pm-10pm)

Space is limited, so please message me on Facebook or send me an e-mail (stampwithjen@ymail.com) to reserve your spot ASAP! You can also reserve the exact number of each of the Christmas Cards you want to make when you RSVP...
card designs will be first come, first serve!
(Once I run out of a certain design, they are gone)!

December Events (Clearance SALE and Christmas Card Buffet)!!

Happy December everyone! I am really looking forward to the upcoming holiday season and hope you are too! I have just a few events planned for this month.
Please join me in my craft room for my

Holiday Clearance SALE and Christmas Card Buffet

Saturday, December 3rd from 1pm to 5pm

RSVP's are not required, but appreciated when you can. You can come and create any of the cards you see below for just $1 each (make just a few or as many as you want)!! These are just 4 of the cards I'm offering as I am still working on designing a few more cards for you to choose from using the Wonderland and Believe papers (think snowflakes, glitter, and elegant wintery scenes!) and I hope to get the rest of the card options posted here soon also. For the clearance sale I am offering all of my in-stock discontinued/retired products at 50% off!!...PLUS a bunch of my well-loved/used stamp sets at 50% off to pick from...in addition, there will be no sales tax/shipping on all of my "in stock" items because I need to make room for all of the new Spring/Summer products I'll be ordering in January (customers can start ordering from the NEW Idea Book starting February 1st), so come and get yourself a deal now!! Finally, if you aren't able to stop by this weekend, I am offering a few other dates this month for you to come by to shop and/or create with me:

Thursday, December 8th (9am-11am)

Thursday, December 15th (9am-11am)

Friday, December 16th (6pm-10pm)

Tuesday, December 20th (6pm-10pm) last chance this year!!

I hope to see you all here soon! Have a very Merry Christmas!!

I will also be selling my Scentsy products at the Harvey House holiday sale coming up on Saturday, December 10th from 9am-5pm, so feel free to stop by my booth that day to say hello and I will have a little hand-made Christmas "goodie" for you (as well as a lot of great gift-giving ideas)!

"Christmas Card Buffet" cards for October!

This card (above) features the NEW stamp set Glory to God D1483
shown on page 83 of the current Idea Book!

(the inside of the card above reads "...that puts Christmas in the air.")

These are the Christmas Cards I'm offering for you to create with me during October (on the 20th, 21st, and 27th) while supplies last for just $1 each!! Scroll down to the post just before this one for my full list of October dates and times. You may recognize some of these card designs as ones I've already offered at workshops in the past (and most of the papers and stamp sets used are now retired). I'm offering them up again now because I still have quite a few left-over pre-cut kits that I'd love to use up and keep from going to waste. I am also working on designing 8 more all-NEW Christmas Cards for you to create with me on Saturday, November 12th (4pm-10pm) and a few other play dates that I will be offering in November! I will be posting photos of the NEW cards here soon also! So you can get a head-start now by making a few of these Christmas cards with me in October (shown above) and then plan to join me again in November for even more Christmas cards using all-NEW stamps, papers, and embellishments!

"Sentiment-ally Yours" Heart to Heart Challenge!

The Heart 2 Heart Challenge Blog issued a fun challenge this week - to create something using only a sentiment stamp!! We can use any papers and embellishments we want to BUT no stamps unless it is a sentiment. So here is my card that fits those requirements:

This standard size card is inspired by Originals - Upper Level Focus (p. 42). It uses the now retired Aspen papers with two different stamp sets to stamp the sentiment, Holiday Jingle C1371 and Peace on Earth D1243 (also both retired). Ink colors I used are Outdoor Denim and Twilight. To achieve the fun pattern on the "Joy" stamp, I used the "dirty kiss and twist" technique. Now, I know what you're thinking, that technique doesn't sound like it should be done in public, but I promise it's not as bad as it sounds, lol. I simply inked a patterned stamp (from Argyle Backgrounds D1325) with Outdoor Denim ink and laid it on my work surface stamp-side up. Then I inked the "Joy" stamp with Twilight ink and stamped it on top of the background stamp "kissing them together and twisting about 1/4 turn" before carefully lifting the stamp straight up and stamping it on my Colonial White cardstock. (Ooops, I just now realized that I did in fact use one additional stamp other than the sentiments, so I guess this challenge was tougher for me than I thought and I hope that doesn't disqualify this card completely, lol).
Remember, you can click on my photo to see it larger if you want to see the fun detail that results when using this technique!

This card is just one of the many different cards I will be offering for you to make with me at my "Christmas Card Buffet" coming up on Saturday, October 15th (10am to 2pm) during our Relief Society Super Saturday Craft Day!! (This event will be held at my church where non-members are always welcome to join us! It will be a purely "fun and social" meeting, so there will be no "religious" pressure to be concerned about!) Those who attend can "snack a little" by creating just a few of the simple Christmas cards I will be offering this day or "feast a lot" and create as many as you want to for just $1 per card! I will share more of the cards I will be offering here on my blog soon, but you can RSVP now if you want to!

The rest of the November SOTM swaps!

Here are the rest of the swap items from my CTMH team's SOTM swap this time around. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Beautiful work everyone!!!

The first few November SOTM swaps!

Our CTMH team made some super cute swap items this month. Here are a few that I received. Addie made the 9x9 layout (top), Nikki made the 6x6 card (middle), and Staci made the standard size card (bottom). Aren't their creations just wonderful?!!