Is what we are all saying instead of cheese, at Susan's hostess appreciation dinner on Friday night, all Tramps present, except for Beth and Anne. We had a great time, projects were fun, games challenging (we about wore the pages of the catalog looking for answers) and dinner delicious.



We tried to squeeze everyone around the table but late comer Karla (can you believe it) had to sit with the Domestic Goddess's  (not), we sat at the Lucky Limeade table.



Make and take 1



Number 2, all used new in colors calypso coral, wonderful wisteria and lucky limeade, new ruffled ribbon and the sweet for the sweet stamp set.



Some of the exchange cards, Lois's Pig card won second prize, Mary's card is the blue doily at the lower right (I have upside down), 



I cased the idea for my son in law  Bill's birthday card, love those angry birds.




Mary provided the cards for yesterday - sweet doily  in crumb cake



and pennants for me!!



I am working on an idea for Tuesday - have a great week all!

Cindy

The Tramp's will get the joke... I have been away to long, but have had a busy summer.
I am always making cards and scanning the internet for fun ideas.

The card above is one of my July 4th cards, I love the image by Flourish, it reminds me that patriotism begins at home and very young.


The card below is a STMH stamp set I fell in love with, the lanterns are a retro summer image i find oh so cute.



Last Saturday the girls came over and I hosted the next two cards. I love the butterfly from the SU breast cancer set and the tissue paper flower adds to the shabby chic look.



I use the butterfly again and sweet CTMH paper to create this cheery card.
I support SU's efforts for breast cancer awareness,  it has/is affecting several ladies I care a lot about




Yesterday Susan came over for a new catalog party, I am loving the new in colors and ordered lots of fun stuff, dies, stamps, ink, paper....

Beth, you would love this card, we used a punch to get the flower image. 



Sue used the pennant die set to make this simple and charming Christmas card. Love the cloths pin and limeaid/cherry cobbler combo.


Is this not the cutest!!  and how simple with the postage stamp punch


More punch fun, squares and the new blossom multi punch cut in half to form the bow on the package.



I have a goal to keep better updated, See you Friday night!!

Cindy

Saturday was windy, but we stayed safe sitting around the table showing off our "cranky projects"

My card #1 featured a cardstock run through a plastic folder then sponged with white craft ink, the brown polka dot and white pieces were cut with a spellbinders die, the white piece was stamped with the birdcage and layered along with  the polka dot piece over the brown and blue stripe. the sentiment stamped in brown on white, before the die was placed on to cut a brown marker was run around the inside of the die to give a brown rim to the piece and then it was popped up on the card, the whole piece was layered on a craft base.




My second card used a MFT pennant die, the base cut in white and pennant and ruffle in pinks, the "Happy" was stamped on scrap paper and punched with a 1/2 inch punch and placed on top of the pennant piece, a piece of white embroidery  floss was used to hang the pennant. The "birthday" was stamped in black and tag cut, the ribbon flower was attached with scor tape.




Lois used the basket die and then the two sides were run through the textile die to give some texture, 3 tags were punched and stamped and tied with seam binding. the ribbon used on the outside of the basket is really cute.
 


Paulette's old fashion car die is fun, it could be done in any color, she picked black with rust ink highlights.


Who loves flowers, Mary!! the sweet two tone die cut flowers and button center, make a fun card.


We were careful to stay hydrated, carbed up and moved around to prevent stiffness.

Hope you like the cards.

Cindy

The snow is finally all gone and the tulips and daffodils are coming out of the ground. Next I need to time rabbit ravaged trees and clean out flower beds. But in the mean time, lets stamp!!!

I hate to bring on the winter gods again but, the weather is finally being tolerable.

We cut fun embellishments from the paper and added ribbon and buttons to finish it off.  Thanks Karla.

Sorry for the delay in posting, I needed a little time to process the job change and we have not been meeting due to the horrible winter weather and I had the flu.

Lois, Karla, Anne and I went to Susan's open house on Friday, what cute cards, loved the ribbon used on each card and the ideas were too cute.

I used glitter on a card with out a court order...
I saw a cute card using a cupid stamp, one of the layers had glitter on it, i made the card with out and did not get a look I liked, So I got my glitter out and tried it on the card, and it did make a cute layer, but OMG what a mess, I had glitter everywhere and had to change my clothes, the laundry room floor sparkles yet today. Here a couple examples of the card. It is hard to see but there are "gems" off the tip of the arrow.

Oh look it's snowing again!!  Appears this is the trend for the new year.

I need to catch you up on what the Tramp's are up to---
December 14th we enjoyed a Christmas party at Pizza Ranch, we had a fun time with the "rude" staff and everyone was in attendance. I made everyone play "TRAMP BINGO" using bingo cards a I made using the SU Bingo set. I thought it was great fun. Winners got to select a Christmas gift. I also made ornaments and a candy cane puzzle. Lois provided penguin chocolates and Karla also had candy and small gifts.