My Hamilton Swap

This was my swap for Hamilton. I had three color choices. They were all created using More Mustard, Cajun Craze and Old Olive as the main colors. Leaves were made with more mustard, Cajun craze, old olive, always artichoke.pumpkin pie, and early espresso. I planned on making 50 but I ended up with 80.




I had CASED this card from my own design I did for Heather's shoe box swap on Friday night.

To create the frame I used the Paper Cutter and measured in 1". You can use the piece that you remove from the frame for the bottom layer on the inside of another card.

No Syracuse Regional BUT fun at Missy's

Yea I was supposed to go to the Syracuse Regionals with my sister Annette as my guest. We had been watching the weather closely and Annette decided to leave work early so we could drive up Thursday afternoon ahead of the storm. We had already prepaid for our hotel room and planned on staying 2 nights. Yes we beat the storm made it to the hotel and finished up our swaps and cards for the shoebox event we would be attending Friday night before doing anything....We were so excited and chatting about everything that we might get to see and do (this was our 1st SU event ever).

Our Swaps

Then I turned on my lap top...opened my e-mail... and there it was :(

The e-mail from my upline Missy...

FRIDAY REGIONALS CANCELLED

...my heart stopped.

After a few moments of silence Annette and I decided the room was paid for and we were going to make the best of it and stay in Syracuse for the 2 nights we had planned. Plan started to form... ideas started to roll... decisions were made... Call Missy

Missy informed us she had ladies from out of town staying with her for the regionals and yes THEY WERE STAMPING!!! we were so excited... but then we looked out the window and reality...The Snow :( and we were stuck in the hotel thinking about the ladies gathered at Missy's house stamping, sharing stories and eating Carols homemade cookies, sad sad sad moment.

Okay so on to plan B

Feed our broken hearts at the hotel resturant

Drown our tears in the hotel pool

Relax our sore stamping muscles in the hot tub

Put on our PJs and cheer on the USA Olympic Atheletes 

Get a good night sleep and hope tomorrow is better.

New day, sunshine, going to Missy's house to stamp

It gets even better

Get to Missy's house...a dear friend Carol VanBork is there :|

Start meeting new friends and...

Missy's house guest was Heather Summers yes thats right Heather from Stamp with Heather and her friend Anne P:)
Swapped some cards, Stamped our shoebox items

Mine                                                                        Annette's

Went to lunch at a fav of Missy's- Copper Top Tavern YUMMY

Went to a new quilt store, Calico Gals

Then off to Hobby Lobby
Wegmans to grab some dinner things and back to Missy's for more fun!

    Missy's                                                Heather's

  Carol's                                                  Carol's                                               Anne's

I have to say it was the BEST SNOW DAY EVER!!!!!!



I will be posting instructions on Annette's shoebox swap as soon as she sends them to me.

Syracuse regionals swap

My Swap was inspired by the Mojo Monday 125 challenge. I made 68 swaps. I hope they reschedule the regional so I will get a chance to swap them.

It can hold a gift card or even cash

I will be posting pics of my Annette's swaps soon plus our shoebox projects that we took for an event Friday night but also had to be cancelled.