Bee HappiLeaCraftin with Tamara

     I have been wanting to do something with the Stampin' Up! treat bags for a long time! I still have the white ones and some white ones with polka dots, the Crumb Cake ones and now the striped ones. I love the gold striping on them, already decorated 😉      I saw Angie Juda's had done a video on her Chic' n Scratch Blog with the Seasonal Chums Bundle and the brown treat bags. She did a couple different variations and I really thought it was cute and gave it a try myself.      This will be one of the projects we do this month for my group nights. They are really quick and easy so won't take long at all! * The retired bag with the snowflake on it is run through the big shot with the Embossing Folder (EF) folded over the desired side to be embossed. * Cut a Doily in half and a strip of DSP to 1 x 6" and use the triple banner punch * The circle is the second largest I believe and then the scallop is in the Layering Circles Fram...

Well, I am terrible at staying current on my blog!  I'm hoping now that my life has settled down a little bit, I will be able to be a little more up to date on it! I had a bit of a rough summer, but I'm not going to bore you with all the details. I will get right to the point and post a few of the cards from March to September :)                                                                                                   

I have to admit I fell behind a bit! I haven't posted February's club cards yet because our weather has been nice for a few days so I had to go out and play :-) I go out and get the drain on the corner open so there isn't a huge lake. I live beside a seniors home so they are always trying to walk downtown and having a puddle on all 4 corners makes it rather difficult for them to get anywhere. I try and keep my corner open for them :-) Anyway, I was really happy with the cards for February. Everyone was really happy with how simple but nice they were. I made sure to ask everyone of they were happy with them and didn't find the cards we've been doing, too easy. They all said they were fine so I'm taking that as a No to being too easy ;-) I am really pleased with this one and how it turned out. This is the first card I have used glitter with, I always just used Embossing Powder but I really like the glitter. It is a CAS from Pinterest but I can't s...

I want to apologize to anyone who is following my blog.... I can't believe I have been so slack this year! I haven't posted since December! Here are the cards that we have done in the group up to April. I have to admit again though just how much I love Pinterest as a lot of my cards are CASed from there. Everyone has such great imaginations and I just can't get mine to work most of the time!   These were the 2 we did for April. Again, simple but very pretty!  These 2 were the ones we did in February. I cased them from Pinterest  Everyone in my little group got the Watercolor Winter Kit at the end of the year in 2014 and that is what we started the year this year with. A good start to the cards for 2015 with the kit having 20 cards alone. Everyone should have lots by the end of the year ;)  These ones were the ones for March. We went fairly simple this month :)

I was cuttin'er pretty close this month! I just finished the cards today for my club nights which are now this coming Tuesday & Wednesday evenings. I used some of the new stuff out of the 2014-2015 Holiday Mini Catalog. This mini is jammed packed with awesome product and I am lovin the Photopolymer stamps that Stampin' Up! is coming out with! So much cheaper and come it the cases so are so easy to store! Both cards are using the new Nordic Noel DSP. The top card it the Letterpress Winter Photopolymer stamp set  This one is using the Festival of Trees Photopolymer stamp set and the matching tree punch. These to can be purchased as a bundle to save you a bit so you can buy more ;)  This one is also a Mojo Monday Sketch, 349 ☺ Happy Stamping ☺

With 3 days to spare, I got the second card done! It is yet another Mojo Monday Sketch, #355. I had a blast making this one! I knew right away, as soon as I saw the sketch, that I wanted to use it. ☺ Happy Stamping ☺

I am on a roll this weekend! I got the second card finished for Club Night this month.  Now I can relax and not worry about not getting everything done in time. This month was a little busy as I was also getting the basement ready to have everything here instead of at one of the local churches.  It will be so much nicer being at my place seeing as I usually forget something and end up running home. This way I just have to run upstairs! Happy Me!! With the inspiration from this weeks Mojo Monday Sketch . I really enjoy doing the Mojo Monday Sketches, it really helps when you struggle with designing your own cards.  Check out the Mojo Monday Blog and find your own inspiration with new sketches every Monday! ☺ Happy Stamping ☺

I am trying, AGAIN, to be on the ball. I managed to get a door prize and one card for my Club Night. One more card to go and I will be ready! It is yet another CASED card that I liked on Pinterest . It is by Brianna Thompson, of mommy-stamper.blogspot.ca   Her card is really nice but I thought it needed a little more so I added  layering and brads to the snowflakes. Such a pretty card! It uses the Stampin' Up! Gorgeous Grunge stamp set , it has become one of my new favorite stamps sets. The snowflakes are the Festive Flurry stamp set that also comes with Thinlets and can be ordered as a combo including both . ☺ Happy Stamping ☺

It seems I have fallen a little behind in posting thing on my blog.  There hasn't been too many things but I like to try and keep up to date with my blog! Here are the cards we did in my Card Club for May! I have to admit that this card it a CASE but I just love it. I found it on Pinterest of coarse and used slightly different stamps as I didn't have the ones she used but the colors and layout are totally CASEd. I love the Triple Layer Card and had done one a while back but decided to do one again for Card Club. I really love how easy it is to do but how difficult it looks, my ladies were a little worried that they were going to have to try and match it up, lol   ☺Happy Stamping☺

It's been a while since I've had a chance to post anything so I will take this time to do just that! Here are the 2 cards we did for April's card club, really quite simple. This one was called a "Z" fold where I found it but its rather simple. Cut a 81/2 sheet of CS in half on the short side so it measures 4 1/4 x 8 1/2 then score at 2 3/4 & 5 1/2, and decorate! For the Punch Art Snowman..... For his body I used the circle framelits and for his top hat I used the vest from the owl punch and the word window. I also use the word window for his scarf but did another card and used ribbon and liked it much better. ☺ Happy Crafting ☺

Here are 5 cards done with the November 2013 My Paper Pumpkin Kit. When they came out with being able to purchase the refill kit I thought that would be perfect for my Card Club! I made sure that everyone would be ok with it first and got for each of my ladies. I have included my instructions on each card if you would like to use them for any other cards. They are really quite simple and are basically just the measurements for everything Card #1                                                                Card #2                                                            Card #3                       ...

That was cutting it pretty close! I finally got the cards for Wednesday done! Without further ado...... This is the first one that I did and I used a Mojo Monday Sketch, #328. I liked it because it was very fun and simple to create a cute card.  This is the second one I did. I saw a card on SplitCoastStampers that was done like this but I added the soda cap top. My Mom had shown me how to run the caps through the big shot to squish them so they aren't so big. I ♥ the idea ☺ ☺Happy Crafting ☺

I finally got my butt in gear and got January's Club Cards done! I really love the Mojo Monday Sketches and find that I use them a lot. I used last weeks sketch for Card #1, Mojo 327 and Stampin' Up! set Santa's List Card #2 is also a Mojo Monday Sketch. It's an older one, Mojo 312  and I used the Kidoodles stamp set from Stampin' Up! I have to admit, I totally forgot about this little feller! I won't do that again, he's too cute! Happy Crafting!

This is an AMAZING kit!!! I got it with my starter kit when I signed up with Stampin' Up! It has been hanging out in my craft room for the last 2 1/2 months.  So I decided to ask my Card Club ladies if they would like to do the kit for November. We aren't holding a group in December so I thought it would be perfect... 8 cards instead of 2. They all agreed so that is what we'll do. They are a very easy card to make and I am all about simple and not too fancy but these are just a little too simple for me. I decorated them up just a bit with some inspiration of other & Pinterest! Simply Created Kit Merry Little Christmas Card 1 I have to admit I messed up this one just a little bit... Hopefully you can't even tell. I used Cherry Cobbler to color the stamp instead of Real Red.... Oops! Simply Created Kit Merry Little Christmas Card 2   Simply Created Kit Merry Little Christmas Card 3     Simply Created Kit Merry Little Christmas Car...