Lauri's Stampin' Corner

One of the techniques that we worked on in our scrapbooking classes was sponging. When I saw the Summer Smooches stencil available in April, I wanted to make my thank you cards for the month using it to show another way to add sponging to projects. I love the stencil, but didn't think it would take me forever to get the cards made! (I cut out parts and pieces for 30 cards!) Finally, I've finished most of them...still a few to go though! Ingredients: Summer Smooches Decor Stencil, French Foliage Paper: Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz, Newsprint, Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, In Colors DSP Ink: Soft Suede, Pear Pizzazz, Poppy Parade, Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight Accessories: Sponge Daubers and sponges, Scallop trim punch, Victoria Crochet Trim, Summer Smooches Fabric Brads, Snail Adhesive Don't you just love those fabric brads? These are not cards that will going in the mail, that brad is just too thick, but worked great for hand delivery in my orders! Inside, I

I wanted to share with you some of the scrapbook pages that I did at our overnight. Some of the pages are completely done, but some still need journaling or embellishments added. I feel like I got so much accomplished! Remember, it's not about being caught up, it's about doing it!! I used the scallop punch to make the clouds, then sponged them to add a little color. The alphabet set is a retired one...love it and couldn't get rid of it!! I love the fact that it punches out with the 3/4" circle punch and doesn't have to be cut out! I made the kite on this page to match the kite that Faith and I had made that day, then used the inset embossed technique to give some texture. I punched some mittens out of the oval punch and scalloped square punch and hung them with the mini clothespins. I need to do some others that I can hang by the journaling for the page. Isn't this just the cutest little mitten muncher that you've ever seen?? T

We had so much fun at our scrapbook overnight! Thank you, Staci for letting us invade your house with all our stuff! (And it was lots!) We filled up the room! What a fun way to share tools and ideas!! Katie got cold, so had to wrap up in her sleeping bag! She looks like a mummy! Donette was laughing at her! There were four of us that stayed the night and I was one of the last ones to go to sleep! Staci and I were up until 5:15 AM, then I was back up with Katie again at about 6:30 to start in again. Katie, with a young baby in the house, is used to not getting a full nights sleep, but me, not so much! I did really well on only an hour of sleep, but really crashed on Saturday night as soon as my head hit the pillow! What a fun weekend to get some pages FINALLY done! I worked on 10 pages, with just a few final touches and journaling to add to them, Katie did 11 pages, Staci 11, Donette worked on an album in progress, then several other pages, Carolann worked on cards, and Michael