Card, "Eddie's" bookmark, Wendy's Teacher gift

Made the blue/gold/red birthday wishes card below for Sally's Saturday which was yesterday -- the stamping/scrapbooking/let's just have fun get together on the third Saturday of each month -- Sally calls it PC@PPC which stands for Paper Crafts at Pittman Park Church. I'm still on a masculine card kick! Sometimes Penny and/or I will prepare a card that the attendees can make -- and each person makes a card and pays $1 per card for the supplies. The last two times Penny did one card and I did one card. I had taken this picture before hand of the card I prepared for everyone to make (so they would have a sample to look at). Again, this was CASED from someone on splitcoast stampers. When I went trying to find it again several weeks ago so I could see how the card was made, I couldn't find it -- so I don't know to whom to give credit. I just thought it was a really nice looking masculine card -- something about that gold strip and the red ribbon at the bottom. The stamp sets used are Baroque Motifs and the sentiment is Sincere Salutations. We used a sentiment from retired Cheery Chat in the inside. All were embossed with Versamark and gold embossing powder. Cardstock used is Night of Navy and Brushed Gold. I'll have to upload later the card Penny prepared for everyone to make. It was really, really pretty too - makes me want to go get the stamp set she used too! The just having one or two cards like that has been working out well - it gives us something in particular to do and then we also have time after that is done to work on our own card or scrapbooking projects and to share information about cards and scrapbooking. I do believe a good time was had by all yesterday! Next month Melrose, with Penny's help, is going to teach us how to quill. She has some really awesome quilled shapes she has made, and she has showed us briefly how it is done and the tool and paper that is used. I'm looking forward to learning it! Have seen some cards on splitcoast with some really awesome animals made with quilling.

"Eddie" Olliff made some bookmarks for Community Bible Study, and they turned out so cute. She gave me one, and I wanted to share them with you. The really neat thing she came up with -- attached to the bookmark, is the little coin holder with the little seed cross in it. I asked her how she made them, what tape she used -- and she used the SNAIL adhesive, put it down in a cross shape, and then arranged the seeds with her finger on the tape. Then she closed the coin holder so that it stayed closed, stamped the little seed packet on it, and sponged the coin holder. The ladies just loved them! The pictures below are a close up of the coin holder seed cross, then one side of the bookmark with "Bloom where you are planted" - the perfect saying to go with the seed cross, and then the other stamp and saying on the back.

This next picture is a Junior Legal Pad Holder that Wendy Weaver did for end of the year teacher presents -- I believe this one is for a male teacher. She brought it to Wednesday night supper at church to show me and I asked if I could borrow it and take a picture of it. She used the Wood Grain technique we learned in our May stamp club meeting. That made me feel really good to see the technique being used --and so quickly after we learned it. The Junior Legal Stamp Pad holder is really nice! They would make nice Christmas presents too. (Which reminds me -- we need to start thinking Christmas cards and get an early start on them so they will be ready when it is time to mail them!)