Stamp Clubs are forming

Hello, I am getting ready to form Stamp clubs for the year.

You may be asking, What is a Stamp Club??
A stamp club is a great way to learn techniques, how to use different
products and you don't have to worry about making a mess or cleaning up your house because I hold all the clubs at my house.  Plus you get together with new and old friends.  Want to make your
own Christmas cards?  Make little gift items?  Sign up for club and learn how.




How it works:
A minimum of 4 people and max of 6 per club.

Each person in the club is committed to participating in each meeting
which is based on the amount of people in the club.  Usually it is
once a month.
     *For example:  if there are 4 people in the club, there will be 4
club meetings and each person is committed to purchasing a minimum of
$37.50 per meeting.
   

*If there are 5 people in the club, there will be 5 club meetings
and each person is committed to purchasing a minimum of $30.00 per
meeting.
     *And if there are 6 people in the club, there will be 6 meetings
and each person is committed to purchasing a minimum of $25.00 per
meeting.

Each person will have an opportunity to receive hostess benefits st one
of the meetings.
     *That means you get to choose free stuff from the catalog and
benefit from promotions going on at the time of the meeting. (And
Stampin' Up has a lot of promotions!)
I will go over everything at the first meeting so don't worry.

Comment below by Sept  30th if you are interested.  I will send out a doodle poll to everyone that signs up to determine when the first club night will be.

Bitterroot Stampers Club (Season 4) Mar 25th (Marti B. is hostess)

 

 

I have been a little behind with my blog posts.

Hope you can bear with me, I will be getting caught up.

 

This Month (March) is the last month of Sale-A-Bration

There are 4 new items to choose from this month. 

 

 

Marti was the hostess and she has made a wonderful curry soup.  Yum!

 

The Bitterroot Stampers wanted to do a card swap

and this was the meeting that we swapped.

I will post the swaps on this blog after I take pictures of everyone's creation.

 

Below are the projects that we made at club this month.

This is a small notebook

The colors are crushed curry and blackberry bliss.

 

The Card Below uses the Chalkboard paper and the chalk ink.

A close up of the accessory details (ribbon and rhinestones) 

 

Below is a sour cream container.

Just perfect to hide some Easter treats

 

Close-up of the little Easter Tag.

I love the Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper.

 

 Lastly, I made everyone these cute little

Bunny treats using punches.

I found these on the internet and had to copy the idea.

I had a lot of fun making these

 

Bitterroot Stampers Club (Season 4) Jan 15th (Judy L. is hostess)

Bitterroot Stampers club just got done.  I had sooo much fun tonight! 
Judy L. was the hostess this evening and she made some delicious green chili with chicken.  It was so good!  I was lucky enough to get the left overs!  But there wasn't a lot left over as it was so tasty.   She also made Mexican wedding cookies too!  Marti was the lucky one to take them home. 
Marti also brought our adult beverage for the night.  We all had "dirty girls"  Made with root beer and Orphan Girl liquor.  Orphan Girl liquor is a bourbon cream liquor that is made in Butte, MT.  They tasted like root beer floats.  Thanks Marti, they were awesome.

Everyone made 6 cards and went home with 7 tonight. 
The Bitterroot Stampers are going to do a card swap for their club night in March.  They wanted to have a couple months to design and make them.
Here is how this card swap will work:
Each person will make 6 cards (all the same).  The challenge will be to use the same card layout.
Here is an example of the layout:

I borrowed this layout pic from the Sunday stampers BlogSpot.
The shape on top of the banners can be any shape that you would like.
You can use any color scheme that you like.

In March, when the BS club meets we will give each person in the club one of our cards.  Since there will be 6 people everyone will go home with 6 different cards (one of each persons design).

The BS club would like to challenge the Sapphire Stampers club to a card swap too.  I don't know if they realize that everyone would have to make 12 cards.  It would be a lot of fun, and everyone would go home with 12 different cards!  Something to think about... Maybe we could do that for Customer appreciation day in May!!

I can't wait for next Tues Jan 20th when the Sapphire Stampers have their club.

Bitterroot Stampers Club (Season 4) Nov 13th (Jackie C. is hostess)

Jackie made a delicious corn chowder soup with bread for dinner.  Yum!

We also had pumpkin bread with cream cheese frosting and we washed it all down with Almond Joys!

Fun Christmas projects for this class.  

I'm going to post the pictures of the projects when I post about the 2nd club (Sapphire Stampers)

Bitterroot Stampers Club (Season 4) Oct 27th (Shirley M. is hostess)

It's the start of another season, Season 4, for the Bitterroot Stampers (BS Club).

Since this was the first get together for the season we selected dates and hostesses.

We also decided that we would meet at 4:30 each night.

 Shirley M. was selected for this meeting.

Here is the schedule for the next meetings.

November 13th- Hostess, Jackie C.

Skip December

January 15th- Hostess, Judy L.

February 25th- Hostess, Donna S.

March 25th- Hostess, Marti B.

April 22nd- Guest Hostess, Darlene V.

Everyone brought some really good finger foods to snack on. 

These ladies set the bar pretty high for treats!

Below, Tomato Brochette, Pumpkin Bars, Egg Salad and Pimento Cheese Sandwiches, Little tarts, 

and the most adorable spider deviled eggs!

All were delicious

 

Here are a few pictures of the cards we made.

We covered several techniques in this meeting.

 The card below uses watercolor paper and spritzing the stamped images after stamping for a watercolor effect.

We also incorporated some washi (wasabi for some) tape.

The colors used on this card are Blackberry Bliss, Crumb Cake and Crushed Curry.

We also used a piece of thread from the burlap ribbon for the bow on the gold button.

We love the crinkle effect it has.

 The card below was a really fun technique.

It is a variation of the emboss resist technique.

We first stamped a piece of Kraft paper with the hardwood stamp using versa mark so that we could heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Then we took a cherry cobbler ink pad and saturated the entire piece 

(we wore gloves for this step, very messy)

After inking we wiped off the excess ink with a tissue.

The last step was to iron it between copy paper to remove the embossing.  We did this step twice.

The result was this distressed wood grain effect.  LOVE IT!!

We also took the thread from the burlap ribbon to use in the button and give the burlap ribbon a fringe.  The leaves were cut using the leaf die and the big shot.

Colors: Hello Honey, Cajun Craze and Mossy Meadow

 The card below used the baby wipe technique.

I made an ink pad using a baby wipe and re-inkers.

The colors that I used were: Blackberry Bliss, Tangerine Tango, Hello Honey, Mossy Meadow.

The paper for the card is Soft Suede.  

The ribbon is Blackberry Bliss and the wooden leaf accessory uses another burlap thread to tie.

A few more things to mention, Donna's Sister Darlene came to this meeting as a guest.

We sure did enjoy her being there.  Wish she lived closer to enjoy all of our stamping fun!

But to coax her back, we made her the guest hostess in April.

And hopefully Marti's sister, Peggy will be able to come in April as well.

Bitterroot Stampers- Meeting #4 May 2nd

Shirley M was the hostess today and she made delicious enchiladas with corn bread, a green salad and Kahlua cake for dessert.  It was a Cinco de Mayo theme.  I made strawberry Daiquiris and Piña Coladas not even knowing that Shirley was going to have a Mexican theme.

Here are the projects from our 4th get together:

We made coasters and a card using the embossing technique.

Everyone came up with some really neat ideas for their coasters.

Joni's coasters below:

Jackie's coasters below

Shirley's coasters below

We also made a card that used embossing for the flowers.

I got this idea from a fellow Demonstrator friend.  Thanks Patty

I will post a picture of the card later.

Updated later:  Finally the card

For this card we used: Very Vanilla, Choc Chip and Baja Breeze cardstock

Set:  Betsy's blossoms

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Clear embossing powder