Lauri's Stampin' Corner

Stampin' Up! is offering free digital downloads!  You can access the free downloads from MyDigitalStudio.net after completing a quick survey. Celebrate Digital Scrapbooking Day with Stampin' Up! for a four-day online event. Digital Scrapbooking Day is November 5, but we'll keep the celebration going from November 4-7! The event will include free downloads, blog posts with exciting project ideas all weekend long, and the announcement of the 2011 My Digital Studio Contest winners. The downloads can be added to another program too on your computer if you don't have the My Digital Studio program yet. Be sure to check it out! I must have jinxed us on the snow comment. I opened the curtains this morning and looked out and it's SNOWING! How's that to put me in the Christmas mood? So pretty looking out, but I'm sure glad I don't have to get out in it today! Brrrr! Faith so wants to go out and play, so we'll probably do that if it's not all melted when

I've finished 15 more Christmas cards in the last couple of days. I know that doesn't sound like much, but I feel pretty accomplished when you do it between playing with kids! I'm also cutting extras of each for the card class this weekend. No more snow here yet to put me in the Christmas mood, but I'll put on some Christmas music instead! I found a sample of this first card on our demonstrator web site that Micki Daniel, a demonstrator from OH shared with us. I love the Christmas Lodge stamp set from the Holiday Mini Catalog. It reminds me so much of the Alpine Inn in Hill City, SD where we moved from. They have the best steaks and desserts! Oh, it makes me homesick and hungry! I added Dazzling Diamonds to the snow and used the shimmery white paper so it has a lot of  dazzle in real life! You can see it better in this picture of the inside, but the color is a little darker to bring it out. I just couldn't get a really good shot of it. Don't you think it looks

What a crazy week this has been with Trick or Treats on Monday night and shopping in Salt Lake over the weekend! I haven't had much time to stamp yet this week, but hopefully that will change today as we get back to "normal" around here! UPCOMING CLASSES: I'll be doing a Christmas card class this weekend with 3 easy to duplicate Christmas cards. Don't wait till the last minute to get those cards done! Join us 9:00 am to Noon on Sat, Nov. 5th. Cost of the class is $5.00 or free with an order of $25.00 or more. RSVP to me at llrandolph@msn.com . Bring a friend to share in the fun!   Other classes coming up are a scrap booking class on Sat, Nov19th . Scrap booking gift ideas for the holidays. Easy and fun to keep the stress out of the holidays! Light lunch will be provided for those that would like to stay and scrap with us after the class. Bring your supplies to work on your pages until 3:00 PM. On Dec 3rd , wrap it all up with a class making gift tags, tissue