Deal of the Week July 13-19

Square Fire Rhinestone Brads
Price: $10.95 Sale Price $6.99

Open House projects

I had an SU Open House on Wednesday night. Not many people could make it so I let everyone that came make all 3 free make and take cards. I was going to let each person choose just one card just to keep things moving along for people that could only stop in for a few minutes to pick up the new SU Cattie and sign up for clubs.

I made the scrapbook page as a sample of how to use cards to create pages. Everyone loved it. I have to give a lot of credit to my design team, my daughters Cassie & Allissa, for helping me plan the designs to use and the colors combinations. I'm terrible at making decisions. I want to use all the colors and show hundreds of cards LOL. I guess that's why I signed up to be a demo.

Did anyone notice the card on the bottom left of the photo? Yup that's the card I did for Kerin's sketch challenge #20, which I happen to win:) Thanks Kerin looking forward to this weeks challenge and I hope all my fellow bloggers will join in on it.

SSC106 Challenge

Stamp set: Party Hearty
Paper: Tempting Tourquoise, Only Orange, YoYo Yellow, Very Vanilla
Inks: Basic Black, Choc Chip, Pink Passion, Tempting Tourquiose, Green Galore
Accessories: Real Red Grosgrain, Crystal effects, Texture plate (small polka dots), 3/16" corner rounder& Scallop punches.


My scanner doesn't show it but this is a very bright and cheerful card. My son, Zakariah, called from the UK just before I made this. I guess my excitement of talking to him came out in my color choices.

Deal of the Week!

Deal of the Week: Big Shot Doctor's Bag

You'll feel like a big shot carrying around the Big Shot Doctor's bag!

July 6-12

get the Big Shot Doctor's Bag for $49.99

That's nearly 30% off the regular price of $69.95!

Throughout July, be sure to check my web site every Monday at 10 AM (MT) for the week's new deal.

http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/michellefairbrother/promotions

Stamps, Paper, Glitter Sketch Challenge 20

Kerin's Sketch Challenge #20

Stamp Sets: Trendy Trees, sanded BG

Paper: Bordering Blue, Whisper White, Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss, & the new in colors - Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango, and Rich Razzleberry

Inks: Choc. Chip, Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke(ink pad and marker)

Accessories: Wide oval punch, Cutter Kit, Stamp-a-ma-jig and scrap paper

Technique: Thumping on middle tree, distressed edges on larger oval, Tearing on the grass layers.

Use the scrap paper to make a Template 1/8" larger than the wide oval punch layer. after cutting out your back oval layers with paper snips use the distressing tool on your cutter kit(page 191 in the SU Cattie) to distress the edges until the oval looks oval and not cut out by hand, if you cut out better than me you can skip this step lol. I inked the leaves on the middle tree with Mellow Moss and then thumped the stamp with the Always Artichoke Marker.

Mojo 93

Show us your Mojo every Monday

Stamp Set: Friends 24-7
Paper: Naturals White, Garden Green, Ruby Red, and the new in color Crushed Curry

Inks: The new in color Soft Suede

Accessories: Trio Flower punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, Choc. Chip 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon, Gold brads, and The Deal Of The Week, July 1-5th,The Scallop Edge punch 30% off

Where have I been?

Okay my 17yr old, Trevor, is at Boys State until Friday morning, we made it to both of my 11yr old, Cassie, soccer games over the weekend, Went to oldest, 20yr old Zak, girlfriend's,Leigha, Graduation on Sat. and party on Sunday. Plus my 15yr old, Allissa, and I made her a 3 layer Graduation cake. I did the baking, frosting and stacking & Allissa did all the decorating. Then on Tuesday We took Zak & Leigh, yes the one that just graduated, to the train station. They had an 11hr ride to Boston and then they fly to England so Leigha can be a Nanny for a friend of her family who is moving there. Chance of of life time for the two of them. They will be there for 2 months and will be going to Euro Disney and to Italy with the family they are helping. Anyway today I did a little, very little stamping. It felt so good to be stamping but now I need to update my blog.

From my Hubby

Jeff has been helping to work on our landscaping this year. He decided to double the size of our sitting area, by our little pond, so we could fit this table his parents handed down to us a few years ago. We still have to do the finishing touches but I love it. He also installed a new waterfall filter and larger pump in the pond.

I'm so thankful for all our rain. We have moved so many plants around I was afraid they would all die. Here's a few pics of all our gardens. We still need to get the mulch and I didn't get any annuals this year so it looks a little dull.

My largest garden. In the 5 yrs since I started this garden we have dug it up twice due to problems with the septic system. it always comes back bigger and better than before.

Over half of our plants were given to us by my family and Friends of my Mother's who needed to thin down their gardens. In fact I was given so many plants that a friend of mine has a garden close to the size of mine with plants I had no place to put.

Enjoy your day I have to bake cakes for a 3 tier Graduation cake, and some cupcakes, for my son's girlfriend Leigha's High School Graduation party on Sunday. Then the two of them leave for Boston on Tuesday to meet up with a friend of Leigha's that is moving to England with here two daughters. Leigha and Zak are going to stay there for two months to be nannies to the two little girls while the woman gets settled. The woman is hoping to get them to Euro Disney in France and also to Italy before they come home at the end of August just in time to start college. Talk about the chance of a life time. I wish I could have found a summer job like that when I was younger. Thanks for looking I promise its back to stamping now.

New SU Catties

Ok all my Chat & Stamp club members, I have your new SU Catties. They just arrived as I was getting ready to post to my blog. Look for an email letting you know when we will have a New Cattie party.
I plan on doing two new clubs:

• Stamping 101 - learning basic stamping techniques and how to use the tools.
• Picture This - Fun ways to scrap, display, and share your photos

Please Email me if you are interested in joining one of my clubs at Michelle.fairbrother@hotmail.com I hold all of my clubs at my house in Branchport NY.

The kids chore chart

Since I'm one of those awful Moms that make their kids do chores I made a chore chart to help them keep track of what chore they had for the day. Okay maybe I should say what chore Jeff, my husband, was going to make them do that day...lol they never listen to me. Jeff says I'm way too soft;)
Each kid has one main chore to do, that's the top row. A chore they my have to help me with on my bad pain days, that's in row two. The very bottom row is extra chores they may have to do or help with on the weekend.
The chores are held on by magnets and usually get moved by which ever child is being the bossiest that night. So yes you guessed it sometimes it was moved twice, the little brats. As life goes My oldest, Zak, when he got a job that ment he could just pay the younger ones to do his chore. I didn't care as long as the chore was done and nobody was fighting. Have a great day. I'm off to reorganize my stamps Out with the soon to be retired and making room for the new to make me inspired :)

scrap page #3

This is my 8x8 page. The Girl on the far right is the same Cassie that decorated the cake for her daddy in the other scrap page. I bought the Under the stars stamp set just for all of the camping photos I have of them camping in the Adirondacks.

Scrap page #2

My 12x12 page

This was a riot. One of the best things about getting behind on scrapping is reliving the day when you finally do get to the photos. She spent a couple of hours making this cake for her Daddy. Its hard to believe how long her hair is at just over 4yrs old. at this point we had already cut 15inches off her hair and donated it. I'm glade she like long hair because at 11 yrs old I would have to get her hair cut every week to keep it short. it grows sooo fast.

I'm on the road to stampin again

I'm back! Medication trial # 2 was horrible. Sleeping was almost impossible or maybe it was staying awake that was hard...not sure. How ever you look at it I was doing one or the other off and on night and day. The swelling in my hands has decreased enough to see my knuckles and I no longer feel like I have clubs for hands. I can even almost text on my cell and hitting only one key at a time, most of the time. Any way I never thought to share my Scrapbook pages I did for my Artisan Award entry. I'm not much of a scrapbooker but I was happy with them.


My Parents over fifty years of marriage.

Distressed Flower

Stamps: Embrace Life

Paper: Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White

Inks: Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango & a Black Stampin' Write marker

Accessories: Pretties Kit half pearl, Lg Oval and Wide oval punches, Bone Folder

Technique: Paper Distressing

This is Club card #3. To make the flower I used the bone folder to distress a 21/2 x 21/2" piece of Tangerine Tango CS until it was very soft and the CS was starting to separate. Then I stamped the flower and cut it out. Glued it to the White CS then gently pulled up the edges around the petals until they curled up slightly. I wish I could take credit for this idea but once again due to my bad med reaction I cased this card too. Thanks Monika your idea was awesome. I tried to leave a comment on her site but for some reason I wasn't able to. So when you check out her site, http://www.stampnmad.typepad.com/, please tell her I said Thank You.

Have a great day everyone! I'm off to run to town and when I come back I hope to catch up on some stamping Challenges I missed. When I do I'll post them. Happy Stamping!

Birthday Train

Stamp set: Choo Choo, On Your Birthday, & Right on Track wheel

Paper: Brilliant blue, Real red, Yo Yo Yellow, & Going Grey

Inks: Brilliant blue, Real Red, Yo Yo yellow,Chocolate Chip wheel cartridge, Green Galore, & Bashful Blue

Accessories: Dimensionals, Hobby Blade, & Boho Blossoms Punch

Here is club card #2. Even though it looks like a grey sky its not the sky is sponged blue. The dimensionals caused a shadow when I scanned the card. I have to say my sister Annette was about to shoot me with all the cutting they had to do this month:) Sorry Annette but since this was the last club until Sept you will be fine :P I love this card it's just such a fun looking card, thanks to rgardengloves on SCS for the idea, I'm sure my nephew will love it for his 2nd B-day.