Here's a close up of their finished projects and a very small picture of the inspiration project on the mini catalog.

And here are the proud artists with their creations!  Not bad for 6 1/2 and 3 years old!

Here is the mini scrapbook that the students at my Big Kids, Little Kids Mother's Day class made.  They used the Tea Party Designer Series Paper and Whisper White cardstock for this project.

The base of the scrapbook is using 114519 Bag w/Scallops Sizzix die cut.

Fold it in half and then fold in half again.

This is the inside of the scrapbook with places for three photo's.

This is the outside of the scrapbok with one place for a photo.  Where it says "i love you" is where the child writes their name and the year the scrapbook was made.

A customer asked me to make this Christmas frame in Bravo Burgundy and Handsome Hunter colors.  I like how it turned out.

The first theme for October’s scrapbook club was birthday pages made in primary colors.  The Big Shot "Alphabet Simple Letters" has become my favorite alphabet die cut.

The Big Shot "Big Bold Cupcake" sizzlits die cuts were very fun to use.  Crimped the bottom of the cupcake and added brads to the top.

I’ve been wanting to try the Big Shot "Lattice" die for a while.  Glue dots work the best to make them stick to cardstock.

The second theme was Christmas featuring Merry Moments designer series paper, Old Olive, Real Red and Very Vanilla cardstock.

Embossed words in Iridescent Ice embossing powder and punched with the ornament punch.  Added silver cording on the back held with a brad.

This page features the styled vanilla hodgepodge hardware kit with retired real red striped grosgrain ribbon.

 Again, the embossing was done with Iridescent Ice embossing powder.

My Scrapbook Club met this week and made four 12×12 pages.  I will show you the four pages without photo’s and with my Christmas photos.  I tend to take a lot of photo’s and then worry how I’ll get them on my pages.  Page 1:  11 photo’s on it!

Page 2:  7 photo’s on this page.

Page 3:  12 photographs on this page!!

Page 4:  5 photo’s on this page.

I’m pleased that I got 35 photo’s on these four pages.  I love using the large oval punch and the 1 3/4" circle punch to get head shots of people.  It is quick and easy to do too.  I like to blend the small head shot photo’s with my larger photo’s.  Now I just have to do my journaling and then into the cabin scrapbook album they go!

This card is made by Peggy K.

This card is by Amy M.

That’s it for posting Christmas cards.

My downline, Amy M., made these two ornaments.  The one on the left was used with the silk flowers from the Pretties kit.  The one on the right was used with circle punches.

Here’s a closeup of the silk flowers.

Here’s a closeup of the circle punches (folded).

It amazes me that people can think up such creative ideas.  Of course, I love copying them!  Okay, that’s it for Christmas posts.

This card was made by Wanda.

This card was made by Liz.

This card was made by Sue A.

They did a great job on their cards!  I just LOVE getting handmade cards in the mail, don’t you?

When I make 150 Christmas cards each year, I can’t get too fancy because I would never get them done and I would be overwhelmed.  I know some people gasp when I tell them how many cards we send out each year and they have asked how we get these done before Christmas.  We both have our roles in getting this many cards sent out each year and have a good system in place now.  

In all honesty, I don’t start making the cards until usually the second week of December.  Since our son got married this year, I knew the family photo would be in our cards, so I watched for printing specials early in the year.  Since purple was the wedding color, I also got the cardstock ordered early.  I update the mailing labels, create the return address labels, as well as the label for the back of the photo and print all of these.  Dan buys the postage stamps.  Dan is in charge of the envelopes.  He puts on all the return address labels, mailing labels and postage stamps.  He puts all the labels on the back of the photo’s.  Then he divides the envelopes in two piles:  one for him (his relatives, his friends, our mutual friends) and one for me (my relatives, my friends, some of my customers).  Meanwhile, I’m making the cards, assembly line style, whenever I find a few spare minutes.  I had them all done and didn’t like any of the inside verses I had, so I decided to search for one on the Internet and typed it on mailing labels, which I put inside the cards.  Then we both dig into our piles of cards and start writing inside each one of them.   It is always a huge relief to drop the last of the Christmas cards off at the post office.  But the most fun is getting so many great cards in the mail and hearing from family and friends!

About a week ago, I got to go to my manager’s house for a bonus Achiever’s event.  My downline, Denise, got to go with me.  Do not faint!  But, I, Sue Lehrer, really did make this Frosty the Snowman box!  I had no problem with making the front and back of him.

It is the folding and cutting to make a box which really challenges me.  But Denise helped me more times than she probably wants to remember!  LOL