MEMORIES

Inspired by the framed scrapbook pages I saw at Sharin Memories in Olympia I created and framed this page using my mother's wedding photo.  It was fun to make and a beautiful way to display a favorite photo.
Visit - http://www.sharinmemories.com/ to see many of the framed pages she has in her store.

November 09-new members

Here are some pictures of our newest members-Ruby and Cooper! As you can see they had fun and worked hard at our last meeting.

laughing, eating, talking, stamping...

Our evening started with a meal of baked potatoes with all the trimmings, salad, cheese, crackers, and two fabulous desserts. After all the eating, laughing, talking, and with happy tummies, we were ready to stamp. Our new Stampin Up representative Julie brought three card projects to make using new stamps and products from the mini catalog. What a great time we all had!!!! Thank you Marcia for hosting.

Stampin Up mini sneak preview

Here is a great website that Marcia found showing card samples using new stamps from the upcoming mini. Have fun!

http://www.stampinpretty.com/

Here are the pictures from our June swap. Grab your tub-o-popcorn... we made it into a movie!
Enjoy!

Inky Fingers on the GO

Our first "Scrap Shop Hop" on July 11th took us to three local stores. Dawn, Monique, Caryl and Cari piled into Dawn's car and enthusiastically headed out-first to Toadilly Scrappin' in Gig Harbor. A first visit for Dawn and Monique and they loved it!!!. This store has a great selection of decorative papers and embellishments, the staff is very friendly(in fact, the owner even took our picture and entrusted us to watch her store while she visited the restroom!) and their scrap page samples are beautiful! We took LOTS of pictures and basically spent our wad of cash there.

Our next stop was Artco on 6th Ave in Tacoma, and after Toadilly Scrapin', this was no big deal. Of course, by then we were hungry too, so we were not quick to impress regardless.

So off to South Hill and Red Robin where we had nice sit-down lunch filled with chatting, giggling, reviews of the previous stores we had visited, and some yummy food. The last stop on the tour was Scrap'n Book. While we were impressed with their selection (still not as good as Toadilly though!)the prices are higher and the store is not as nicely laid out. Can you guess which store we prefer?

It was a full and fun day and we are looking forward to having ALL the Inky Fingers join us for our next "Scrap Shop Hop" when we venture forth to the scrappin' territory to the north.

Bachelorette Party Invite

My co-worker Mechelle is the Maid of Honor in her friend Heidi's wedding and the Bachelorette Party is a camping trip that a group of them are taking in August. Mechelle wanted to make some cute, camping-themed invitations for the trip, so she came over and we transformed my dining room table into "Bachelorette Invite Central" (see photo above). It was a lot of work (turns out she is an over-achiever, too!) and lots of creative fun. As you can see, the invitations are super-elaborate and very adorable. So many personal touches were included, I will note some below with the pictures. Hopefully you can click on the image to see a larger version of it, but I've had a problem posting photos lately, so keeping my fingers crossed:

The champagne bottle (which we MADE, complete with tin foil topper) has a "couple's name" made up of Heidi and her fiance's last names along with the date of their wedding.

The shooting star above says, "...and then the heavens smiled..." in honor of Heidi and her fiance's Moms who have both passed away.

Internal shot of the complete camping scene. We had to cut out and color everything except for the fire, skillet and marshmallow stick. Note the couple's initials "stitched" on the tent.

The open invitation with pull-out extended...

A close-up of the camping scene - love the sleeping bag and plaid blanket!

The pull-out, with postcard-style instructions that Mechelle printed on the computer. Notice that the camper has little cans trailing behind, like a "Just Married" vehicle.