Birthday Card Contest WINNERS!!!!

I want to thank EVERYONE who mailed me a birthday card. It was so FUN to come home and open the mail box each day to see what the postal worker delivered. I received 7 cards on my actual birthday....WOW...I have some pretty amazing friends.

So...who won the contest. I received 16 cards. I layed them all out on the kitchen table and Charlie, Alyssa, Michael, and Miranda took turns viewing the cards and picked the following cards as winners.

BECKY BENTON

KELLY THOMPSON

Each one of these ladies will receive a $50 gift certificate to go shopping the the Stampin' Up! catalog.

Again, thank you to all of you who were so kind and sent me a birthday card. I don't want you to think you are going away empty handed. So....I've decided to give everyone that participated a roll of 1/4" grosgrain ribbon color of your choice.

I will scan all of the cards that I received and post them tomorrow evening.

Take care & happy stamping!!!!

Pam :-)

Birthday Card Contest

It's hard to believe my birthday is only 3 days away. Don't forget about my Birthday Card contest. Send me a birthday card and my husband, son & daughter will pick their favorite card. The winner or winners will receive a $50 SU gift certificate from me. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!" It was brought to my attention that Tuesday is a Federal Holiday for Veteran's Day, so I've extended the deadline to Thursday, November 13th for the cards to arrive. I've received two cards so far and they are both BEAUTIFUL. It's not to late to get that card in the mail to me. The cards must be made with all Stampin' Up! products (retired is ok). Email me if you need my address.

Pam :-}

October Christmas Card Stamp A Stack

Ok...I know I'm a little late posting these pictures. These are the cards that we made at the October Christmas Card Stamp A Stack. We had 7 stampers sign up and we had a total blast. It was a bad weekend as it was the Saturday of Fall Break and many of my stampin buddies had other plans. I have one more Christmas Card Stamp A Stack planned for November (11/22). If you would like to come please email me to RSVP. You will get to make 2 each of 4 designs. The cost of the Stamp A Stack is a $25 product order (before tax & shipping). Hope to see you there!!!

Pam ;-}

OKC Thunder win FIRST home game!!!

We attended tonights OKC Thunder verses the Minnesota Timberwolves at the OKC Ford Center. Alyssa took on of her girlfriend Aspen and we all had a great time. The girls, and me of course, cheered the Thunder on to their first victory in the Ford Center. We ate dinner before the game at the old Ice House (not sure what it's called now), went to the Thunder retail store and picked up a t-shirt for each of the girls and a set of pom poms each. We then made our way to our seats that were courtesy of Chesapeake Energy in section 119. Our seats were GREAT and we could see the entire court. The game was fun and exciting. The girls made up their own pom pom cheer for defense. We were on our feet the last few minutes of the game as it was definately a nail bitter. It such a good feeling to have our own NBA team in OKC. We love supporting our teams and OKC proved that we were worthy of an NBA franchise when the Hornets spent a couple of years here until they had to move back to New Orleans. Can't wait for the next game I get tickets to.

GO OKC THUNDER!!!!

Pam :-}

Week 5 of McFarlin's Academy

It's hard to believe McFarlin's Academy is over. Five weeks of stamping every Wednesday night. Each week we made at least 4 cards. A couple of the weeks we made 5. My students were AWESOME. We started off with monochromatic stamping, moved on to adding color, then taught heat embossing, made cards using punches, and on the last night I taught some advanced techniques to include Joesph's Coat, Faux Mother of Pearl, Crayon Risist, and Polished Stone. Here are the samples from the last week.









Pam :-)

Stamp For The Cure

I can't beleive it's been a month since I've blogged. The last 30 days have been WILD to say the least. Between family birthdays, a trip to Dallas for the OU vs TX game, my Stamp Club, the 2nd of 3 Christmas Card Stamp-A-Stacks, and McFarlin's Fall Academy where I'm teaching rubber stamping one night a week in October...oh ya and my full time job I haven't had a spare moment for anything. I want to apologize to all of my friends for not being available and I want to thank my family for understanding the commitments that I made for October and being supportive & helpful.

I didn't mention above the other BIG project that I had going on the first of the month. I made a commitment to my friend and Co-worker Kim Keller that I'd supply a hand stamped gift item for each of the breast cancer survivors that participated in the Race for the Cure the first weekend of October. Of course when you sit down and design something you think...that was pretty easy...I can reproduce 500 of these...no problem. Well, I never realized how many 500 really was. There is no way I could have pulled this all of without a little help from a few of my freinds. I want to give a big huge thank you to Susan Carruth and Janna Hall who did most of the stamping for me and assembly of some of the gifts too. I also want to thank my friend and officemate at Chesapeake Sheridan Clark, and co-workers Kim Keller & Cathy Allen for pitching in on their lunch hours the last week and helping me to finish the assembly of the 500 gifts and stuffing them into large cello bags.

So you ask, what did you make. Well, I thought it was important to have a photo frame for each survivor to use for their race day photo. I came up with a cute chipboard photo frame and used the Hope is.... stamp set from Stampin' Up! that we were able to purchase a few years ago. In addition to the photo frames I also gave away six $25 Stampin' Up! merchandise gift certificates that were randomly placed in the servivors goodie bags.

Here are a couple of pictures...one of the gift item and one of the box of 500 gifts.

What made this project so rewarding to do was what I received after the race. It wasn't an order, or a workshop, or a new recruit....it was a hand stamped card from one of the survivors thanking me for the sweet gift.

I will do my best to post again this week with more pictures of the cards we've been making this month at all of my events.

Pam ;-}

October Stamp Club Projects

It seems like we just had stamp club and poof...it's time again. I worked today on making my stamp club samples and I am very very pleased with how they turned out. I hope you will be too.

If you are scrapbooking you will make the following projects.

If you're making cards you'll make the following projects.

Please let me know which one you want for club this weekend (scrapbook page and two cards or four cards). I need to know no later than Monday night (9/30).

Pam :-}

Stamping Classes In October

It's almost time for my annual classes at McFarlin United Methodist Church in Norman, OK to begin. I will be teaching Rubber Stamping 101 every Wednesday night at McFarlin from 7-9pm. Each week we will stamp 4 cards. The first week is monochromatic stamping, second week is color, third week is heat embossing, forth week is punches, and fifth week will be advance techniques. You must sign up prior to by October 1st. You can click on the link that follows to get to the Fall Academy brochure. Call or e-mail me if you have any questions. Hope to see you there.


http://www.mcfarlinumc.org/pdf/Academy2008.pdf


Pam :-}

Christmas Card Stamp A Stack

Today was the first of three Christmas Card Stamp A Stacks. I had 19 of my friends come hang out with me and make 8 Christmas Cards (2 each of 4 designs). Each person was required to place a $25 product order before tax and shipping in order to attend. I surprised everyone by giving away the level 3 hostess set and the hostess dollars. Rhonda won the hostess set and Carla won the hostess dollars. It was a relazing morning of fun stamping. Here are the samples of the cards we made today. I have scheduled October & November's Christmas Card Stamp A Stack's for Saturday, October 18th from 10 am to 1pm and Saturday, November 22nd from 10am to 1 pm. A $25 order is required to attend a Stamp A Stack. If you'd like to attend please call or email me to reserver your spot.

September Stamp Club Projects

I want to appologize to all of you for taking so long to post September's club projects. Things have been pretty CRAZY at my house and it's going to get CRAZIER over the next few months. I have lots going on in the stamping world along with being a employed full time...not to mention being a mom of two and the wife of an AMAZING husband who totally supports me in everything that I do. I am truly blessed. But we'll save that for future blogging...hehe.

We had a full house in September at stamp club with 27 of the 30 members attending. Each month is an opportunity for me to learn how to do my stamp club better for my club members. Club members had the choice of doing a scrapbook page, two cards, and a 3D item or four cards and a 3D item.

Recipe Book Class - WHAT A BLAST

Last week I held a recipe book class and had eleven stampers attend. We had a total blast and it was AWESOME to watch the stampers cut loose with their creativity. I got the idea at Convention 08 and decided it was a very doable class. I allowed each attendee to pick the DSP they wanted to use for their book. I supplied matching colored cardstock for their dividers and white cardstock for their recipe cards as well as ribbon to embellish their books. And I carted along my NEW Stampin' Up! Bigshot. Here are a few pictures of some of the books created. As I get more pictures I'll add them to this post.

California Cow's Video

My Brother-in-law, Rick Adams is FAMOUS. He is a third generation dairyman and RealCaliforniaMilk.com that produces the Happy Cow comericials has done a video profile on Rick. My sister said that it was a lot of fun filming. Enjoy the video clips...Rick is really GREAT with the kids and loves working with the different local schools to make the kids aware of the dairy industry.

To learn more about Real California Milk please visit http://www.realcaliforniamilk.com/

Pam :-}

BIG SHOT HAS ARRIVED!!!!!

I've been tracking my order since Tuesday morning and WOO HOO...my Big Shot has arrived. Can you say LOVE IT!?!?!?!?! I have played with it all night. Forget about all of the new stamp sets and punches I received. It's all about the Big Shot. Alyssa even got the Big Shot fever. We made little envelopes with the Stampin' Up! exclusive Scallop envelope template. Right before she was getting ready for bed she lost yet another tooth. "What are we going to put it in?" she asked...well DUH...how about one of those Scallop envelopes we just made. I'm sure the tooth fairy was be very excited to get a designer series paper envelope with Alyssa's tooth in it. Maybe I should have put a recruit brochure under her pillow....you never know. HEHE...

1st Day of School

Today was Alyssa's 1st day of school. It's hard to believe the summer is over. She was really excited and has been asking for a few days how long until school starts? I'm sure she'll have a great year. Michael even got up to see her off. He doesn't start school until next week. I received an email from her teacher today telling me what a doll she is. I'm looking forward to getting the phone calls from the principal telling me what a good student and citizen she is.

On A Personal Note....

Today was a day filled with lots of emotion. I did my best not to let it show. My oldest, Michael, made the decision to join the US Navy. He will complete his senior year of high school under the delayed entry program. He is scheduled to head to basic training in July of 2009. He will spend 8 weeks at basic training and then head to his A school for 14 weeks where he'll train to be a Navy Corpsman. Upon completion of his A school he can opt to do C school where he will train to be a Navy Corpsman for the Marines & Navy Seals. Mike's ultimate goal is to become one of the elite Navy Seals. I am very proud of my son. Many have asked me how I feel about his decision and my response is this is all in God's hands. He is in control and I will continue to pray for my son but add to my prayers for God to keep him safe and if/when he is deployed to protect him and bring him home safely. I am the proud Mother of a Navy Seaman.



On a side note, Alyssa is so proud of her big brother. She spent the afternoon decorating a cake for her brother. It's kinda hard to see in the picture, but she wrote NAVY in the center of the cake and put an eagle on top of it. She sprinked all kinds of red, white & blue sprinkles on top of the word Navy and the put in a couple of streamers. I don't think the fully understands what Mike joining the Navy means, but what she does know is that she loves him and is very proud of him.

Memory Lane - Convention 2006

Just thought I'd take a walk down memory lane. I still cry when I watch this video. It was the most amazing moment in my Stampin' Up! career.

Pam :-}

7 Days until Stamp Club

I can't beleive there's only 7 more days until Stamp Club. It's still not too late to sign up. There are two spots available. Call or email me if you're not signed up and would like to be. Here are 3 of the 4 cards we'll be making. The 4th card will be made using the new Stampin' Up! Big Shot.

Happy Stamping!!!

Pam :-}

Recipe Book Class - August 26th

Ok...You asked and I listened. I have scheduled a Recipe Book Class for Tuesday, August 26th from 7-9pm at Oakcrest Church of Christ on SW 89th between Penn & Western, classroom 203. The cost for this class is $35. You will get a full package of Designer Series Paper of your choice, a package of Small On Board Book Basics, and a package of On Board Chipboard - OnBoard Essentials. We will make one Recipe Book that night and you will go home with enough supplies to make a 2nd book to give as a gift.

If you would like to attend, please RSVP via email or phone no later than Monday, August 18th.

***Starter Kit Special***

Below are the details for the upcoming promtion to join Stampin' Up! and become a member of the fun and excited Social Inker Team. If you've ever considered being a demonstrator I would love the opportunity to visit with you and go over how it all works. Just call or email me and we can set up a time to have a coffee or soda and go over the program.



$99 Starter Kit Promotion


Dates: August 11-October 11, 2008


Promotion details:
From August 11-October 11, potential recruits will have the option of becoming a Stampin' Up! demonstrator by purchasing one of three special mini Starter Kits* priced at $99.


Stamp-Focused Starter Kit:

109515 Fun & Fast Notes stamp set $30.95
105548 Bold Brights card stock assortment (8-1/2" x 11") $7.95
101179 Basic Black Classic Stampin' Pad $5.25
104332 SNAIL Adhesive $6.95
100730 Whisper White card stock (8-1/2" x 11") $7.50




Scrapbook-Focused Starter Kit:

111570 Contempo Alphabet stamp set $40.95
113059 Simply Scrappin' Petal Party $19.95
105212 Pixie Pink Classic Stampin' Pad $5.25




Home Décor-Focused Starter Kit:

111656 Inspired by Nature stamp set $23.95
114088 Décor Elements Chocolate Classic Ff $3.95
114126 Décor Elements Medium Chocolate Long Stem Silhouettes $17.95
114285 Décor Elements Applicator $1.95
111835 Kiwi Kiss Classic Stampin' Pad $5.25


*Each kit also includes the same business supplies that are found in the standard Starter Kit (the Home Décor-Focused Starter Kit also includes 25 Décor Elements brochures). While all items in the Starter Kits are recommended, a new demonstrator may substitute a like item of equal or lesser value.

More Sizzix Samples

Here are some great projects that were showcased at Convention using our exclusive dies. Watch for more info on a Big Shot Club that will help you to purchase the Stampin' Up! Big Shot starter kit over four months.