5-17-10 IWIA Stampers Meeting

It's the end of the school year, and our attendance at the meetings have been quite slim. But those who do come, come prepared to work on their projects and win door prizes.

Mary Ham, yup... with 3 weeks to go until the little one is here, came. This is one of her projects from the CTMH Card Kits.

Alice came, and is typically scrappin' her heart out. But alas... she is succombing to the darkside and making cards. She did a really great job!!!

*** WORK IN PROGRESS **

Rachel was working on gifts for the teachers in her children's school. Her children attend a school where the mascot is a bluebird.

And Rachel was also making these adorable baskets;

Tahh dahhhh... Here is Rachel showing off her masterpieces.

It is truly great to see everyone who comes. I know the Moose Lodge loves seeing us there. Please come and invite your friends and family to come along too!

4-5-10 IWIA Stampers Meeting

We can tell spring is in the air... not many made it to the meeting. But those who did, had a great time stamping, chatting and just being together!

Here is Rachel on the left and Mary Ham checking out what she is making, her squash books. In the back, you can see Brenda talking to Shawna and Carly. I love seeing the fellowship and friendships being made. And sharing ideas!!!
Here is Alice hard at work;

Linda made this card. This is from http://www.raisinboat.com You can 'rent' stamp sets like you can video's from Netflix! Yeah... rent stamp sets!!! They are terrific!

Our first sketch challenge, and only two cards were made. This is Rachel's card;

And this is April's card.

Both ladies did a fabulous job!!! Very impressed!!!

April was working on this baby card;

And her bird house welcoming a new chick in the nest;

Can't wait to see you guys this Monday!!!!

IWIA Stampers - Easter/Religious Card Swap

Hey there stampers!!! What a terrific turnout for the Easter/Religious/Christian card swap. All of the cards were fabulous and it was really great to see everyone having such a good time. Smiles warm my heart and I was sweatin'! HAHAHAH

First.. I'd like to say;

Welcome Brenda, Alice, Andrea and Denise!!!

Brenda and Alice are new and came last week. They liked us so much, they came back... hahahah. Andrea is a neighbor of theirs and came this week. Hopefully she likes us a lot and will be back as well. Denise has been a member, but had her little girl, Madison late last year and now she's a little older and mom came out to play. Not without her baby bragging book of course!! Madison is soooo beautiful.


Back in the far left corner is Brenda & Alice... middle table, April is in pink, Carly (our youngest stamper), is in orange, and Mary Ham (mom to be) in black. In the right is Mary Helen in green and Mary Mc. working away...
Stampers are concentrating... in pink is Denise.

Kelly in the pink IWIA SHIRT (Hint... hint...) and Debbie T in white.

Donna with the cheesey face, Courtney with her headphones to drown out the dribble of stampers talking and Pam in the sweatshirt.

Donna loves the camera... or is it the camera loves her? She has a great smile!

April in pink and Shawna concentrating in the background... havin' a good time!

Shawna and Carly (Brenda & Alice in the background... Andrea in the blue shirt).

Ahhhhh... Mary Helen, Mary Mc. and Denise taking a break and toasting to another wonderful IWIA card swap!! CHEERS!!!

Now.. ahahhahaah... ONTO THE CARDS!!!!

April had brough this in... sooo darn cute!

Debbie T's book mark. You had your choice of 4 different colors;

Denise's card. LOVE the spring colors!

Here we start the "Donna Cards". Donna decided to stay up til 2am to make a ton of Easter cards since her stamp room was cleaned up. These are gorgeous;

This one is by Kelly; I love how she used the corner punch, and flower soft! OOOHHhhh AAAhhhhh.....
Linda's Card;
Inside with his little flocked tail;

Lynn He.. gotta love those chicks!!!


Lynn Ha. SOOOO pretty and even more beautiful in person;

Mary Helen's chick, so clever!

frontal view;

Mary Mc's card... love the chocolate bunny!!!

Pam's beautiful green card... love the color combo;

Shawna's GORGEOUS cross card. Absolutely beautiful;

I want to thank everyone for coming and having so much fun!!!! Don't forget, next Monday night, many people will be absent, going to the quarter auction at the Del Capri, but we will still be there if anyone who is not attending the auction, to bring a project and have some fun.

You guys are terrific!!!! I'm blessed to have friends like you all.

3-1-10 Meeting and Think Green Shoebox swap

FINALLY!!! The snow is starting to melt, and we were able to get out. Not only that, we had a stamper join us that has only been able to come one time... Karen... great to see you. She is a "sleeper" stamper. Her card was truly amazing. You will see it below.

Now... onto the fun!!!

In the back from left to right, you will see Pam, Courtney and Karen stamping away. In the front is Shawna and Debbie T's hubby. He came to support her since she just had knee surgery two weeks ago and nothing was stopping her from coming to the swap.
Rachel, pretty in pink...

Debbie T concentrating on her work...

Ohhh the supplies!!!

From left to right, Lynn Ha, Crystal and Donna. We had just gotten our stamp stash from Pam and it was like putting chum in the water.. it was a frenzy!!!

Kelly looking marvelous...

Mary Helen, wonderful as ever...

ONTO THE CARDS!!!!
The theme was Think Green. It could be any kind of card, i.e. birthday, St. Patrick's day, but we wanted them to be green. The ladies came up with some fabulous things... take a peek;


Debbie T.'s cupcake card;

Donna's card;

Karen R's card...

and a close up...

Kelly's birthday card;

Lynn made this card and brought it to share; (PS... she's addicted to Martha Stewart punches);

Mary Helen;

Mary Mc's

Pam's

Rache's awesome card... check this out... alot of work went into this...

the inside; (mom.. don't peek.. you might be getting this for Mother's Day!)

Shawna's frog card...

Again... another successful swap. Can't wait until the 22nd for the next one. The theme is Easter/Religous/Christian cards. The April swap is going to be Use your DSP/Patterned Paper.

Stamping Wishes to everyone!