Here are the other cards from my recent Card Buffet:

Featuring:  114484 Elegant Thank You Stamp Set

Featuring:  115442 Birthday Bliss Stamp Set

Featuring:  114365 FYI Stamp Set

Featuring:  118392 Vintage Labels SAB Stamp Set

Featuring:  118870 Scallop Trim Corner Punch and 117193 Small Heart Punch

At my February downline meeting, I challenged everyone  to use some of the greeting cards, from my recent Card Buffet, and turn them into scrapbook pages.  As demonstrators, we tend to tell our customers that a scrapbook page is really just a big greeting card.  Here are the scrapbook pages some of them created.

Featuring:  114982 Holiday Blitz Stamp Set and 118386 Whimsical Words SAB Stamp Set

Featuring:  117690 Vintage Vogue Stamp Set

Featuring:  113252 Thoughts & Prayers Stamp Set

Featuring:  118134 With All My Heart Stamp Set

With this greeting card, the layout was copied, but a different stamp set was used and different colored cardstock.

Featuring:  118378 Good Neighbors SAB Stamp Set

Featuring:  115764 C is for Cat Stamp Set

I’m proud of them for doing something that was challenging and out of some of their comfort zones!

Last Friday, my daughter came over to help put up the Tres’ Chic Definitely Decorative wall art.   It’s all my daughter’s fault that I bought this.  She walked into our house one day and said that the Tres’ Chic wall art would look awesome in this opening above the stairs.  I thought about it and realized that she was absolutely right.

I bought the Tres’ Chic in black, medium-sized (27 3/8" x 53 1/2") #119541.  The Tres’ Chic wall art can be purchased in 4 sizes and 5 different colors.  Contact me if you want more information about ordering it.

Here is the blank wall opening that was recently painted.  Most people put a painting or large floral arrangement in these openings.  Since I don’t like to do what most people do with decorating, I was excited to try something different.

I am afraid of heights and try to avoid ladders.  My daughter doesn’t really like heights either.  She really didn’t like standing on a ladder over a staircase, but she was a trooper, and did it.  The Tres’ Chic wall art comes in about 8 numbered pieces.  Each piece has "x’s" where you line up the pieces so they are straight.  The directions said it would take around 1-2 hours to put this up.  It took us about 1 1/2 hours, including interruptions from the grand girls.

We were both so excited when she got the first word done! 

Here is Melanie’s glowing face with the finished project.  We were worried that all the words weren’t going to fit, but they did! 

Then my "interior decorator", that would be Melanie, said I should get black candlesticks with red candles and put on either side of the Tres’ Chic wall art.  All I have is my mother-in-law’s crystal candlesticks.  So you know I’ll be on the hunt for black candlesticks.  She was right–again!  I value her opinion on alot of things, including decorating!  Everyone who comes to the house, now stops and looks up at the Tres’ Chic wall art, and have glowing comments about it.  I LOVE IT!!!

It was a much smaller group of my downline who were able to make it to my Stampin’ DIVA Day.  We met at lunch time on Super Bowl Sunday, so everyone could be home in time to watch the game.  We had a wonderful time eating, stamping, scrapping and sharing business ideas.

One of the last projects for them was making fabric flower pins using the Big Shot Die-Cut Machine.  They turned out great!  Thanks for a great day gals!

If you have been thinking about becoming a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, I would love to have you on my team.  The starter kit is reduced 15% until March 31, plus you get a free stamp set of your choice.  Contact me and I can help answer your questions or concerns.

I love being able to dig into my stamping and scrapping supplies and find ways to make my decorating projects unique.  While shopping for treasures, I tend to pick up frames and pack them away until I need them.  Here are some frames that I have been working on lately. 

This frame was black, so I painted it a beige color.  Then I lightly sanded it to make it look distressed.  I cut around the images of my daughter and son-in-law and mounted it to a piece of  #118401 Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper.  I punched the sides of the paper with the #117649 Pinking Hearts Border punch.

I couldn’t find a photo of my newest grandbaby, Ashley, that fit perfectly in this shabby ol’ frame.  First, I put her picture on Whisper White cardstock, but it just looked washed out with the white frame next to it.  I used the #113439 Big Shot Die-Cut Machine with the #114521 Oval Scallop Frame, using the #116478 Groom Specialty Paper (black stripes).  I love how it looks now!  The black oval frame draws your eyes to the beautiful baby!

This was originally a bright white frame.  I lightly sanded it and painted it a mustard yellow color and sanded it again to shabby it up.  It was still too plain, so I added a piece of #112454 Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware with the word "cherish" from the #115108 Warm Words stamp set.  This is my son and daughter-in-law’s first family picture at Ashley’s baptism.