Shoe Box Swap Cards!

This is my sample card for my Sock Monkey in the Grass card. This is the card I created for the Shoe Box Swap organized by my Upline, Sherida. Each of us involved in this even cut and brought all the supplies to make 10 of our cards. We set up our "station" then move to the next available station to make that person's card. Below you will find the cards that I put together at these stations! These Ladies are pretty talented and some of these cards were pretty tricky to put together but we all had a ball and got LOTS of ideas!

This is Sylvia's card and she made each of us that cute little "wonderful" card as an added bonus! Sylvia is quite the lady, lost of wonderful ideas! Her tip of the day was to put one of your dabbers on the end of a marker for ease of use! Fantastic Tip Sylvia, Thanks!!

This is Sherida's card! Her layout was designed by Carole Kisch. I always love her cards they have an element to them that is just so classy and tasteful! I will use this layout in future, it's just beautiful - don't you think?

Deb made this card and I love it! She is not a fan of my beloved sock monkey but that's ok, she made a wonderful card with him, despite his ugliness! You can't love everything right? But when you have Deb's skills and creativity, it's a challenge to work with something you're not crazy about. Great Job Deb! *laugh*

I will have to try out this layout design too. Unfortunately, I didn't catch the name of the Demo that brought this card in for the swap. She did a fantastic job though! Don't you think?

This is Crystal's card and it was a tough one! The scallope behind the "dreams" stamp is actually 10 circles punched out and stuck on around the edge. The 3 pannels were stamped as one then cut into thirds before laying them out on the black backing. Lovely card and I will try it again - Thanks Crystal!

I think this was Amanda's card and I think it's my favorite of the night! I just got the Always Stamp set as one of my "rewards" for Sale-a-bration and this is the perfect card to make with it! So pretty and could be used for so many things!

Don't you just want to eat this card? Those cupcakes (missing their sprinkles - will fix that later!!) are so yummy looking with their thick layer of icing! This is a fantastic card to show off the new In Colours, don't you think??

Here is another example of the Sock monkey set. This time the Demo pre-stamped a texture stamp for the body of the monkey and you had to cut out his white face and paws/tail from another piece of card stock. I did it backwards and cut out the textured body and glued it onto the white card stock instead. I love the subtle banana background on the yellow piece. Great layout!

This is an example of the "chalk board" technique! The Demo for this card made a beautiful card and it's tied for my favourite. The new Designer Series paper Bella Rose, is featured on this card. The small strip of velum paper at the top of the Bella Rose, is so cool!

This is one of the new Hostess Sets that will be in the new catelogue - I should have ordered it! These flowers are so delicate and soft, I can picture so many beautiful cards that could be made with this set!

Thanks to Sherida who organized this Shoe Box Swap! Thank you to all the Demo's that participated, I just love your cards and can't wait to try them again on my own!

Happy Stamping Friends!

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