Halloween Costumes

Ok, so I can finally show you what I've been up to the last couple of weeks....  Our department's group costume was... a 6 pack of diet coke so we have been creating Coca-Cola Costumes!  They turned out so cute!  I drew the logos on grey sheets and then we just had to paint the logos and then sew the sheets into tube dresses.  It just took me a bit longer because I had to do three of the costumes (two people were out of town on a business trip), but really, they were pretty simple.

We even decorated our office to match (Thank you Melissa for the decorations!)

...and of course we gave out Coke and Diet Coke to all of our visitors.

My Boss asked me to make up some award certificates for the costume contest.  I couldn't just do plain and boring....

And then I had to stamp the goodie bags of course.....

And that is what has kept me busy the last couple of weeks...whew...it was a whirlwind...but it was fun!



Chaos and Costumes

Whew, it's been a whirlwhind around here!!  Every day I go to work, go home, walk the dog and then head to my stamp room where I'm busily cutting paper, stamping images, designing projects, using the cricut, packing kits... I'm thinking that maybe I'll be brave and take a picture of the chaos tonight.

On top of that I've been helping dream, create and design the halloween costumes for our department.  I'm hoping to finish up my prototype tonight and prep everyone else's so they can "do their homework" over the weekend.  I'd love to tell you what we're going to be, but... I can't.  We don't want the other departments to know what we're up to.  I will tell you something though... one of our "props" is music....hmmm.... (Feel free to email me and I'll tell you what we're going to be...unless you work at GCCCD or are good friends with someone who works at GCCCD...in which case I cannot trust you because you might be a spy!)

Halloween Treats and Tutorial Link Party

Ok, I have to make this quick... I'm on my lunch...   I'm participating in a link party on Tresa's blog.  Today's theme is tutorials.  Read her post and then start enjoying all the fun tutorials that are posted.

Check out the cupcakes that my upline (Bren Yule) made for our unit meeting!  Aren't they just ghoulish?  I'm whipping up a batch tonight for tomorrow's crop/workshop.  Hope to see you there!!

Thank you to everyone who has told me how much they enjoyed the tutorials I did recently.  I'm working out the bugs and almost ready to record a few more...AND...heads up to my long distance customers.  I'll be creating some great videos of some of my projects and kits I'm doing for the Santa's Workshops!!  So stay tuned.  You too, can join the fun!

Halloween Treat Bags

Ok folks this is just the beginning of paper bag fun!!! I bought a whole case of these cute little bags and I have oodles and oodles of ideas swimming around in my head! I can't wait to share them with you. I'm sure a few of the projects at our Santa's Workshop will feature them!

Tips and Techniques
Stamp up a hole page of these cute little monsters from the Party Animal set. Put the stamped images (I like to cut them into squares so I'm working with one image at a time), a pair of micro tip scissors and colored pencils in a zip-top bag. Clip the bag to a clipboard and you're ready to go. Grab the little kit and color while you're watching tv, during your lunch at work or while you're waiting for kids at soccer practice. Before you know it you'll have a whole little stash of these monsters ready to go.

I put together about 20 bags in less than a half hour. I cut the tags on my cricut, sponged the edges, added a spider web and a scrap piece of patterned paper and boom they were done!!

I'm thinking a little box of these goodies might be headed to the dispatch team at hubby's work.

Close To My Heart Supplies Used:
D1437 Party Animal
D1439 Spook Alley (spider web and saying)
X7129B Hooligans Paper Pack

September 2010 SOTM Blog Hop!

Woo Hoo!! It's blog hop day.  I can't wait to see what everyone created.

If you came here from Jill Lucas' blog, you're on the right path.

This month we are featuring D1443 Share the Magic (set of 12)  I love, love, love this stamp set.  Maybe it's because I have always loved a good coloring book and these images remind me of coloring book images. Or maybe it's because they remind me of those fun Christmas Cartoons/Specials...  All I know is I love them and they make me happy!!

I am having a blast designing projects for this year's Santa's Workshops, so I was really excited to start playing with this set.  I used a cardboard cd holder to create a fun gift.  You can slip a gift card, gift certificates, movie tickets or candy into the little pocket.  Even with all the coloring, this little gift went together super quick!!

I stamped the trees on one of the printed papers in the Mistletoe paper pack.

Supplies Used:

• D1443 Share the Magic (October 2010 Stamp of the Month)
• X7130B Mistletoe Level 2 Paper Pack
• Cardboard CD holder
• Prismacolor colored Pencils
• Desert Sand Ink (sponged edges)
• Black Ink

Need Colored Pencil tips?  Check out the video tutorial I did. 

Colored Pencil Tutorial 

Now it's time to hop on over to Misty Jackson's blog to see what she came up with.

Update and Colored Pencil Tutorial

Yep, I disappeared for a bit. Here's life in a nutshell

1. Car was in a minor accident

2. Car ended up being totaled. I was shocked! 

When we went to clean the car out at the dealership I saw the smiley on the back and had to take a picture.  There were other cars that were obviously totaled and they didn't have smiley faces so I have no idea why ine did.  Maybe they like AAA.  Maybe they liked my car.  I decided it was a good sign that things were going to work out fine....
3. There's a lot to do when your car gets totaled, but let me just give a little shout out to AAA.  They made the whole process smooth and easy. 
4. Spent the next week or so looking at cars online, test driving cars at the dealer, narrowing down what I wanted....
5. Meanwhile I told Tony, the king of craigslist and cars, what I was looking for and he found me a great deal!! One owner, always serviced at the dealer, 58,000 miles, beautiful condition... I had to buy it! So here's my new (used) car.  So far I am loving it!!

6. Still have a bit of work to do.  Got most of the DMV stuff done.  Now I just have to get my tow hitch installed and I'm upgrading the stereo to one with an auxiliary port. You can blame the stereo on the rental car.  I loved hooking up my ipod!!

All that means that I haven't had time to even go in my stamp room, but I created this tutorial and totally forgot to post it. So, enjoy... and I hope to take some more pictures and finish up a couple of projects in the next couple of days...

Ustream, I stream...we all stream....

oo Hoo!  After hours and hours of trying to figure it all out, I finally created my first ustream broadcasts.  It's actually a pretty easy process, we just had extenuating circumstances... like... my laptop is too slow and then I couldn't figure out how to override Joshua's internal webcam so that we could use the external one I bought.

But you don't really want to know all that boring stuff.  Here are the two videos I created. 

If you're coming to the Hooligans workshop tomorrow, please watch the first video.  It gives you some tips and tricks you can use.

(Ok, so I just watched the video... little did I know that I hit the cord to the camera, moved it... and you get to see the top of my head a couple of times....  Dang, I hadn't blow dried my hair yet so I look even more bald. LOL.  Oh well.... Hope you love me anyway....)

What else would you like me to make a video of?