May Expressions!!!

 

Happy Mother’s Day weekend to all of you! I’m a little sad. . . we kind of had a tradition in the making of going into the park (Yellowstone) for Mother’s Day but this year the weather is holding us up. Parts of the park still have way too much snow and as much as I love going in to see all of the new babies and beautiful spring weather, Mother Nature has different plans for us this year. So we will hold off for a little while longer!

What better to cheer me up than the May card kit from Express the Moment?? The kit came just in time to help me stock up on on BIRTHDAY cards this year. That’s right, the whole kit is birthday themed with some great papers and embellishments by My Mind’s Eye, BBP, 7 Gypsies and a whole assortment of things hand picked by Kim.

Here are a few thumbnail shots of the cards I made with this kit – and don’t miss out on this bonus video with this months’ lesson on finishing touches.

At only $15 you can see what a great value these kits are. For you locals in the area, I will be at the ETM Crop next Saturday the 14th in Idaho Falls. I even get to host a booth which will be all about using your leftover supplies to make cards for the troops! Kim is generously donating some of her own leftover supplies so we will all get to practice. I can’t wait!

May Expressions–Finishing Touches!

 

If you enjoyed watching the video, feel free to browse older examples by going to my YouTube Channel  . . you will find some videos with older kits in them for more examples of what you get in your kits from ETM.

Thanks for stopping by, and Happy Mother’s Day to all of you Moms out there!

Istream Ustream We Allstream. . . .

 

Another wonderful thing that I have discovered lately is called Ustream. It’s sort of this mad mix of live video chat and YouTube videos. Once a week, Operation Write Home has an hour long program about their latest news and card making ideas. This is a great program – if you can’t catch it live, you can watch the recorded version later. (How convenient!) If you are lucky enough to catch the live shows, it’s a lot of fun, because you can chat with the other viewers, while the program is going on.

Here is an awesome use of “Ustream” in a complete sentence.  “I watched all of last weeks’ Ustream episodes on my laptop while my husband was watching NASCAR on the couch.”  - and yes, it was great quality time as well. We even shared a blanket.  :)

Here are a few handy links:

The Operation Write Home channel has a live show on Thursday nights at 7:30 MST.  This one is super fun – it includes segments like the reading of hero mail, and “Extreme Card Makeovers” which are always entertaining.

It’s A Colorful World channel has shows at various times that are announced – mostly by facebook or on the Stars & Stamps blog. These shows, by Sandy, focus more on tutorials and fun things to keep us card makers inspired and current with some of the latest tips and techniques.

Here is one of the latest shows by Sandy – it’s a tutorial about how to make this ruffle card. The tutorial shows are fun because you can find your list of supplies on the S&S blog before hand. Then you get to watch the show and make a card along with everyone else – then we can all post the cards back at S&S to share with each other. Genious! I love it. So here is my ruffle card. I went with Red White and Blue since Memorial Day is coming up at the end of the month. So……go Check out Ustream. You will love it too!!