February GMS Meeting Cards

So... if you haven't noticed, I am a little behind in posting! We had our Downhill for Diabetes ski and snowboard event and it was a huge success! We have raised $12,500 so far with donations still coming in!!
I am still wrapping up all the details from the event, so I thought I would finally post the make-n-takes that we did at our February Green Mountain Stampers team meeting. It was a great meeing with great swaps too(as always!), I will try to get those swaps up before the next meeting!

March GMS Meeting part3

We had another great Green Mountain Stamper's meeting this past Saturday under my upline Jennifer Heffernan in Addison, Vermont. We have swaps and demonstrations and some of the ladies bring in samples of their work to share. Jen also so wonderfully prepares 3 make-n-takes for us to do each meeting that are always great! Everyone brings some sort of good snack to eat so we have a table of snacks and drinks too.

This is a great group to be a part of! If you are interested in becoming a demonstrator and joining this great group, CLICK HERE for all of the details! You do not need to live close by! You can still participate by doing a long distance swap!

I do have to say that this is a group of GREAT ladies!

Below are only some of the swaps and samples... there are too many to show them all so I try to rotate people each month! Some I don't know who brought, so if they are yours, email me and I will put your name by them! (Sorry!)

Make-n-take

Swap by Shanti McKenna


Swap by Marti Jurnak

Below is one of the make-n-takes we did. The main envelope is 7-1/2" square, folded in half, then half again. Then just cut the bottom two squares on a diagonal and you have your card holder!

March GMS Meeting Part2

Swap by Betty Button

Swap by Tonya Ditzler

Swap by Gwen Landis

We had another great Green Mountain Stamper's meeting this past Saturday under my upline Jennifer Heffernan in Addison, Vermont. We have swaps and demonstrations and some of the ladies bring in samples of their work to share. Jen also so wonderfully prepares 3 make-n-takes for us to do each meeting that are always great! Everyone brings some sort of good snack to eat so we have a table of snacks and drinks too.

This is a great group to be a part of! If you are interested in becoming a demonstrator and joining this great group, CLICK HERE for all of the details! You do not need to live close by! You can still participate by doing a long distance swap!

I do have to say that this is a group of GREAT ladies!

Above are only some of the swaps and samples... there are too many to show them all so I try to rotate people each month! Some I don't know who brought, so if they are yours, email me and I will put your name by them! (Sorry!)

March GMS Meeting Part 1

We had another great Green Mountain Stamper's meeting this past Saturday under my upline Jennifer Heffernan in Addison, Vermont. We have swaps and demonstrations and some of the ladies bring in samples of their work to share. Jen also so wonderfully prepares 3 make-n-takes for us to do each meeting that are always great! Everyone brings some sort of good snack to eat so we have a table of snacks and drinks too.

This is a great group to be a part of! If you are interested in becoming a demonstrator and joining this great group, CLICK HERE for all of the details! You do not need to live close by! You can still participate by doing a long distance swap!

I do have to say that this is a group of GREAT ladies!

Above are only some of the swaps and samples... there are too many to show them all so I try to rotate people each month! Some I don't know who brought, so if they are yours, email me and I will put your name by them! (Sorry!)

Acrylic Block Background

So... someone was really using their head for this technique. I love when people come up with great ideas like this!

All you need to do is take your acrylic block (for your clear mount stamps) and stamp it into your ink pad and then press it onto paper. What a great background!
You can see the tutorial on Splitcoast HERE but it's pretty easy to do! When I did not spray the water on the block like the tutorial said to do I got a darker background.
This was the card that I did as the shoebox swap for the last GMS meeting.
I used the Peaceful Season stamp set with Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla Paper. I used Crumb Cake ink to stamp the block and Garden Green for the holly leaves.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

GMS Shoebox Swap

Here are some of the cards that we did at my last Green Mountain Stampers Meeting. We decided to do a shoebox swap instead of the traditional meeting and it was great! This is a great group to be a part of even if you are far away. You can participate in all of our swaps and activities long distance! And this month with the half price joining fee it is the perfect time!

To see more details CLICK HERE!

This bag is by Pam Tatko
This was a swap by Pam Tatko
This card is by Carmen Jochum
This is by Shanti McKenna
This is by Marti Jurnak
Thanks girls! Sorry about the horrible picture quality, I am away from home doing this!

Fall Pumpkin Swap

Stamping Demonstrators are the Best! Because of everything that has been going on with Ashley I was not able to attend my Addison stamping meeting that I go to every month even though I had already replied that I was coming and swapping. Something last minute had come up so I emailed to say I couldn't go. My wonderful upline, Jen Heffernan, collected all the swaps from the ladies for me and mailed them to me and I will give mine out at the next meeting! So even thought I couldn't go I am still able to share some of the swaps because of the wonderful ladies that are in this group!

This swap is by Heather Seeley

One of the swaps was this great pumpkin (above) which I just had to try right away! (My pumpkin is at the top of this post.) My version of it is using the Sweet and Sour Specialty Designer Series Paper and the Leaves#2 Die for the Big Shot. I used (14)- 3/4" x 6" strips of DSP to make this. I used the crop-a-dile to put holes in both ends and used a jumbo brad to hold it together.

First cut your 3/4" x 6" strips of DSP. Using the crop-a-dile punch holes in both ends of each strip. Use a jumbo brad and a piece of grosgrain ribbon through one hole. Then tie a knot about 2 1/2" down the ribbon.


Thread the ribbon through the other hole and then tie a knot on the outside also.


Spread out your strips to make the pumpkin and then add your leaves!

Thanks for sending the swaps Jen!

If you want to be a part of this wonderful group of ladies CLICK HERE for more details to join my team!

Mini Card Swap

I went to a mini gathering of Demonstrators over the weekend and got these great swaps and make-n-takes!

Here was my swap!

This make-n-take was designed by Rachael Ellison.

And here was her swap!

These two make-n-takes were designed by Shanti McKenna. The first is a slider card using two pennies and Dimensionals. The long slot is punched using the word window punch.

Here is her second make-n-take.

Thanks girls for a great Sunday afternoon!

September Green Mtn. Stampers Meeting

We had another great Green Mountain Stamper's meeting this past Saturday under my upline Jennifer Heffernan in Addison, Vermont. We have swaps and demonstrations and some of the ladies bring in samples of their work to share. Jen also so wonderfully prepares 3 make-n-takes for us to do each meeting that are always great! Everyone brings some sort of good snack to eat so we have a table of snacks and drinks too.

This is a great group to be a part of! If you are interested in becoming a demonstrator and joining this great group, CLICK HERE for all of the details! You do not need to live close by! You can still participate by doing a long distance swap and Jen sends out an email after the meetings giving us a rundown of what went on and everything that was demonstrated!

I do have to say that this is a group of GREAT ladies!

Here are only some of the swaps that I got... there are too many to show them all so I try to rotate people each month!

Swap by: Gwen Landis

Swap by: Jennifer Heffernan


Swap by: Heather Seeley


Swap by: Sharon Tisdale


Swap by: Tonya Ditzler
(I will be doing a post on this soon to give directions!)


These are the three make-n-takes that we did:



(I will be doing a post on this soon to give directions!)





And here are the demonstrations that we saw:
( I will also be doing posts on these this week to give directions!)
Demo by Carmen Jochum


Demo by Jennifer Heffernan

Thanks again ladies for another great meeting!