A DeLovely card for sis!!

Hello friends!! Did you think I fell off the face of the earth? Nope, I just melted from the excessive heat and needed to keep a low profile!! Man this summer has been a HOT one but I know its even hotter in other states so I really shouldn't complain. The heat is OK if you are near water. Speaking of water, I went to Lake Minnetonka on Sunday to check out something (friend of a friend's daughter's wedding). It was a glorious day and I even met a new friend at the lake and her adorable dog. Too funny. Lots of cute dogs and boats of all sizes there. Can't wait to go back this coming Sunday!!

I am mailing this card off to my middle sister. Sami's new dog Annie bit her early Friday while she was playing with Annie before work. Sami had to go to the emergency room and get seven stitches. Poor little sweet girl. I told her that because she is so sweet just like her older sister (me) that Annie had to take a bite out of Sami's mouth and find out just how sweet Sami really tasted. I have a picture of the inside of Sami's mouth with stitches and part of her lip but I don't think I should put it on my blog. Its kind of gross and I hope she doesn't get an infection.

Have a super week my friends. I will be busy again this week and am even going on a little road trip to Duluth with a couple friends. I can hardly wait to get out of town. Thanks for stopping. Hope you are having a nice summer. This card was made using Cosmo Cricket products from the DeLovely collection. Cheers and sunshine wishes!! Stay cool!! Tami

PS...I am sorry if you received this post numerous times. I had so many problems with blogger, AOL, and myself (proofreading skills). Yikes!!

Happy Birthday Mama Ellie!!

Here's a card I recently taught using Cosmo Cricket DeLovely. It went postal today for a VIP...Mama Ellie. Hope you are having a great week. TGIF!! Thanks for stopping by my poor little neglected blog. Happy Summer. Tami

Here's a little eye candy!!! LOL

Hey friends. Blogger gave me nothing but problems on Friday and Saturday nite so I couldn't post my class samples. How are you today?? Hope you are having a great day full of sunshine. I love my family and friends so much and I am so greatful for the little things in life. Its what matters most to me. Time to go sweep my front entrance and pick up the pieces from the horrible storms (no lie my plants are all hacked off from hail balls and horrific winds). I just want to cry but there are worse things that could have happened thank not good Lord. It was so beautiful out there on my little deck until Friday evening. Oh well...Mother Nature, I have BIG issues with you!! How dare you crumble my little world in just a few minutes. The beat goes on. Thanks for stopping by today. Its so humid here again. Yuck a do. What's a girl to do?? I feel like going to buy more plants but that's not going to happen. Should I just go look??? Finally Blogger just let me upload a photo after so many tries!!! Its so frustrating. I will try to post little Miss Beach Bum tonight. Thanks Candy for being my assistant photographer when Grandma Jan was not available. You rock!! Tami

I watered my card and it grew!!

SEE previous post. I felt the need to water my card. Nightie night. Tami

How does your garden grow?

Hello friends. How goes the battle? Its super late now but I wanted to post a card I taught Wed. at Smudges. Had a great time with the ladies and it was also our monthly ATC night. Our theme was cold drinks and Ruth Ann did a fabo job leading our group. It was a great day but quite HOT and HUMID. I've been keeping busy with life and other personal issues (bills, car). I have new classes next week at Anchor Paper and Smudges, Tues. and Wed. respectively. I've certainly had my share of DeLovely Cosmo Cricket goodness lately but I never get tired of the paper line. Its perfect for summer and I love it all. I have lots of class samples to share with you. I even have my own personal photographer Grandma Jan!! Thanks girlfriend. I appreciate all your efforts and kindness very much. Actually we are going on a little roadtrip this Sat. with our other friend Chris. Woo hoo. Can't wait!! I shouldn't be going but I just gotta get out of town again!! Life is good when you have great friends!! Don't you agree? We are family (think of the song)!! : )

Its time to hit the hay. Sweet dreams and I wish you a very pleasant Thurs. Its going to be another hot one again today with high humidity...87 degrees yuck. I plan to post another card later on today so I hope you will check back Jack!! Thanks for popping by the 'ole bloggie and please feel free to say *hello* yellow and be a good fellow!! Such a poet and didn't know it. Tami Whami
PS. Smudges sells the Pure Innocence stamps and I love them. Total sweetness. I used this line on my card and I would love more of these incredibly cute stamps! A girl can dream right?? I now own the ice cream cone girl. Can't wait to ink her up in just a bit. Sorry for the long post.

June classes at Anchor Paper & Smudges!!

If you like Graphic 45 paper, you will not want to miss this class. Tami will have four beautiful cards plus one bonus for you to make featuring Graphic 45 paper and other goodies. Tami can do incredible things with this line of paper. {written by Leslie}. Hope to see you there!!

Wednesday, June 9th
Two class offerings:
1pm - 3pm
6pm - 8pm
All class participant receive a 10% discount off items purchased the day of the class. Please bring your basic stamping kit to class.

Call Smudges (952) 974-9885 to reserve your seat.

DeLovely Cosmo Cricket Cards!!
Tami has whipped up some great cards using the new DeLovely summery paper line from Cosmo Cricket. You'll leave with 5 cards, sure to put a spring in your step for the summer!!

Wednesday, June 16th
1pm - 3pm

All class participant receive a 10% discount off items purchased the day of the class.

Call Smudges at (952) 974-9885 to reserve your seat.
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Anchor Paper Plymouth
(763) 550-0926
Call the store to register for class and bring your basic stamping kit.

Le Feminine Graphic Cards
Make five femine cards using beautiful Graphic 45 papers and other very vintage lovelies.
Tuesday, June 8, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Thursday, June 17, 1pm - 3pm

Macho Macho Man
Make five stunning masculine cards using Graphic 45 papers and other manish card embellishments.
Thursday, June 10, 1pm - 3pm
Tuesday, June 15, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Summery Cards
Make five adorable all occasion summery cards using Cosmo Cricket and October Afternoon paper and other fun products.
Tuesday, June 22
Two class offerings:
12:45pm - 3pm
5:30pm - 7:45pm

Please email me with any questions or class suggestions.

A quick Hello and Happy June!!

Hi friends. Hope you had a nice relaxing weekend. Here's a card from my DeLovely Cosmo Cricket Class which I'll be repeating soon at Smudges. I have lots of June classes booked at Anchor Paper (Plymouth) so check out their newsletter. Let me know if you have any questions by shooting me an email. Thanks Jan for photographing my card. I am loving DeLovely (the newest Cosmo Cricket line). Its perfect for summer and makes me so happy. I'll be back soon with another DeLovely card. Here's to a great and super cool week. Tami

You're sweet!!

Hello from HOT and HUMID MN!! Its so gross here. The weather hit 88 degrees yesterday and today they are saying its going to reach 91 but with the humidity it will feel like 97. Great no air conditioning.

I had a great action packed weekend. How about you? I was quite busy all weekend and didn't have a chance to call my family on Sunday. When I got home late last night there was no power in my neighborhood so I went straight to bed. It was so strange trying to feel my way upstairs to bed. I just emailed my sister again so I hope she will answer me so I can find out the blog candy winner. I am teaching the Graphic 45 classes today so another busy day. Not looking forward to going out in this yucky humidity but I have to. Thanks for stopping by friends and have a great Monday. Tami

PS. Sorry for the lousy and crooked scan of my *sweet* October Afternoon card but the original is now in Pine City for my upcoming June Afternoon Delight classes. That reminds me I have to update my June class schedule and send out more emails. Busy as a bee. That's me. Have a super duper week and stay cool...cool as a cucumber (I got your number)!! : )

A little cheer...

Good morning friends and happy Thursday. Today's going to be a fun play day for me and I can hardly wait to work on my outside plants and spruce things up a bit on the deck. The weather forecast is for more gorgeous weather and plenty of sunshine both of which make me SO happy. Sunshine wishes!!

Here's a card from yesterday's class at Smudges which I'll be sending to my sister and teaching again. I'm SO loving Pure Innocence stamps and October Afternoon papers. My Wednesday class went well and the ladies worked really hard on their projects. Can't wait for my next class at Smudges. Leslie and Trish are such nice women. Love them both.

Our ATC meeting was fun and we made several paper flowers. It was neat spraying them with assorted Glimmer Mist colors although my hands are still pretty stained!! Hope you all have a great day. I will NOT be participating in the garage sale. I am actually quite relieved and happy as its no picnic in the heat. I'll have my own garage sale some day and still plan to put stamps in a public sale next month. Can't wait for the weekend as I'll be spending some quality time with my girlfriends and another visit to Pine City on Saturday!! I appreciate my friends and am very grateful to have several wonderful people in my life. You are all so amazing and I feel so blessed. Its very comforting to know you can always count on your good friends through good and bad times. Thanks so much for your gift of friendship. Friendship is the greatest gift ever. A *special thanks* to all the wonderful people that support me with my classes. Its not always easy but I do enjoy it. Planning on bringing my car to the shop for repair on Monday. I'll mail the blog candy just as soon as I find out the winner and actually get the prize in my hot little colored hands. Thanks for the visit and do something fun today. Share the love. Peace. Tami

Two great classes next week!!

Graphic 45 at Anchor Paper Plymouth Tuesday, May 18 at 5:30 PM

October Afternoon at Smudges Wednesday, May 19 at 1:00 PM

Please EMAIL ME now if you want to attend either of these fun card classes and I will get you signed up. We always have a great time stamping and chatting. I am making up the card kits this weekend so hope some of you locals can join me. I am in LOVE with both of these fabo paper companies!! Can you say yummy beautiful papers?? Both classes are available as a "class to go" if you can't make the actual class.

Today's card is one I'll be teaching in the Graphic 45 class Tuesday evening at Anchor Paper. Both stores offer a 10% class discount so that's always a nice bonus!! Happy Friday my friends and thanks for stopping by. Tami

Updated May Class Schedule...Read all about it!!

New Classes are on the 'ole blog. I was finally able to update my May classes without any troubles with Blogger. Whew and doing the happy dance!! I hope you locals can join me for a class or two this month!! Smudges is now carrying Cosmo Cricket products and I am happy as a pig in you know what!!

Who's going to the Rubber Stamp Expo this weekend at the State Fairgrounds?? Leave me a comment and let me know if you are planning on going. I can't decide what to do but the right thing would be to stay the heck home and gather *stuff* for an upcoming garage sale next week and another new/used stamp sale in June. Then I can worry about *bringing* in more new *stuff*!! Can anyone relate to my situation?? Thanks for popping in today. Tami

Here's a cute picture of Sami's new doggie Annie. Isn't she sweet? I think so and I'm really happy for middle sis. Wish it was me!! Later.

Short and sweet!!

Here's a super cute Cosmo Cricket (Garden Variety)card I recently made. Very busy again this week!! Hope this post isn't too long!! Tami

PS. There's still time to sign up for my first Cosmo Cricket class at Smudges tomorrow Wednesday, May 5 at 10:30. Email me or call Smudges if you want to join us. We are making five sweet cards using a wonderful assortment of Cosmo Cricket goodies!! Can't wait. See you then. Happy Tuesday and thanks for peeping in friends. : )

Happy Birthday Pops!!

My Dad's birthday is coming up in May and I want to send him this card which just happens to be a card I am teaching Let's Get Graphic (Graphic 45 papers and tags)at Anchor Paper Plymouth Thursday, May 18 at 5:30 pm. Additionally, I bought my Dad a card from my friend Sherry as he loves golf and I just couldn't pass up her Graphic 45 card!! This year he will get two birthday cards because he is SO special and an avid golfer. He eat, sleeps and dreams golf. I am up late again taking care of business. I have a very busy Friday planned and will be dropping off my Graphic 45 class board at Anchor Paper . Finally getting a much needed haircut!! Looking forward to May 1st as its National Scrapbooking Day and lots of stores are having specials and Make and Take events. I am planning on joining my friend Ruth Ann for a little fun around town minus my wallet!! Yah right on that one!! I must be good as I've been very bad in April. NO BIG surprise there.

Next up...I feel like doing some blog candy again because I am almost at 20,000 blog hits and my sister Sami is adopting a new doggie today Annie. She and my Mom are driving over two hours to MA to pick up Annie. Sami had to go through an extensive adoption process for Annie who is a rescue dog and was even interviewed by a woman at her home. WOW but I totally understand why. I am SO happy for her and she certainly deserves to get another dog after losing Yoda last year. If you want in on my blog candy just mail Sami a happy dog card or any card for that matter. Just leave me a comment here and I will email you her address next week. The deadline will be in two weeks May 15 to get a card to her. You could possibly win a very nice prize . If she gets over 20 cards I will give out a second prize. I will have Sami put all the names in a bowl like last time and have Mother Ellie pick the winner on Sunday, May 16. Prize will be mailed out the following week or if you are local I will get it to you. Last time I did this Armie in Alaska won. We (my family and I) play fair so its a good chance to win some nice blog candy!! I will gather up the loot and have one of my friends photograph the prize(s) for me to post on my blog just as soon as I can. Thank you so much in advance if you do participate and I know this will certainly brighten Sami's day. Who doesn't love to receive happy mail and let's face it we all have lots of cards and supplies. Thanks fo stopping by today. Have a great Friday and a lovely weekend. Its raining here in MN. What are your plans for the weekend?? I plan on just *looking* and being a good girl. I will let you know how things go on Sunday so stop back then. Tami : p

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Thursday friends. I have my challenge card done for our little Smudges group. I wanted to use this beautiful *virgin* perfume bottle (Postmodern Design), the lovely Graphic 45 paper and other rich papers from Anchor Paper. I love working with the gold foil stickers. Easy peasy when you use tweezers. I want to thank my BFF Wendy for the clever *doily* idea. We had lots of fun collaborating on this *bonus card* Tuesday evening at Smudges during the Graphic 45 class. Group 2 cheated!! Ha ha Group 1!! Its always a blast at Smudges and speaking of that fabo store I better get my butt up to bed and get some much needed shut eye as my chauffeur Sherry will be picking me up at 9:30 today for some yummy Caribou Coffee and then onto our playdate at Smudges . Don't you wish you could come out and play with us?? I hope you like my card. I am very pleased with it and most importantly I have Mother Ellie's Mother's Day card made and will mail it next week. Thanks for the visit and what's up with hardly anyone leaving me any blog love? Its all OK because I can count on my regulars...Amy, Candy, Sherry, Jan, Mary. I'd like to hit 10 comments someday just for the thrill of it but for now I will live. Ha ha!! Have a beautiful day and make some art today. Tami

Hello and how do you do??

Had a blast at Lunds Sat. evening with the chicklets Cosmo Cricket style!! Its always a real treat getting stampy with my friends. Its very late and I need sleep before my big coffee date with another crafty chick Sherry, the button woman. Anyway here's my card, short and sweet. Have a great Sunday and if you attend church please pray for me. Thanks for stopping by as always. I will share a little late night humor with you but its really not too funny and thankfully the Lord was watching over me. It was raining and pretty wet when I got home Sat. evening and my eyesight with glasses is not the greatest. Anyhoo for some strange reason I had troubles backing up into my side of the driveway (I share with my neighbor). Well low and behold, bam...I backed right up into my BIG garbage can which smashed into the garage door. I was SO tired and SO scared to get out of my car and look at my poor garage door. Whew no damage that I could see but I will have to recheck it later in the daylight. Then I had to unpack all the crafty junk in my trunk...can you say SO much stuff!! It ain't easy being me!! Have a pleasant day. Tami PS...Dang girls where is the LOVE??

Life's a beach!!

Here's a card from my Graphic 45 class. I really loved how it turned out and enjoy working with their beautiful papers and die cuts. I've been busy as a bee with all kinds of things this past week so my poor little bloggie has been neglected. Sorry about that but sometimes there is just no time to blog!! It was great seeing everyone on Earth Day at Smudges. The birthday gal "Sandy Candy #2" looked fabo as always (loved your outfit and hair Sandra)!!

I still have openings for my Cosmo Cricket event this Saturday evening at Lunds. If you'd like to join us crazy Cosmo Cricket fans for some crafty fun fun fun Cosmo Cricket style just drop me a note on Friday!! I do need to know. We are making five cute cards using a nice mix of product lines. I am very excited because Cosmo Cricket products make me SO happy just looking at them and the owners totally rock the industry!! Thanks for stopping by and TGIF. I hope you all have a pleasant weekend. Adios amigas and nightie night. ~~Tami : ) PS. Our weather has been gorgeous but its going to rain on the weekend. Its OK with me as we need some water!!

Happy Easter (hop it was eggceptional and sugary)!!

Hello my friends. I hope your Easter Sunday was eggceptional and full of chocolate. It was a lovely day here in the midwest. Can you tell I love the weather?? I mailed this card to my west coast friend AMY (she's fabo and listed on my blog) and today I photolifted her picture of my card to post on the 'ole neglected blog. Imagine that? Thanks Amy and Sherry for the heads up!! LOL!! I can't remember if I ever posted the card but if not here it is. Have a great week. I have 71 Amuse stamps and several Savvy stamps for sale. Email me if you are interested. I'm really loving my own card!! Tami : )

Another card from the night owl!!

Woo loves you baby? Me. This Cuttlebugged owl card will probably go to my sister in her Easter box if a miracle happens this week. LOL. I've have lots of blogger issues this evening so I am frustrated and want to turn in. I went cropping two nights in a row and it was great fun. Planning on posting another card Sunday evening. Hope your weekend has been eggciting!! Mine sure was. Thanks for popping in and for all the nice comments this week. Tami

You're a HOOT girlfriend!!

Today's card is for a very special person!! WOO you may ask??? Its made from a Basic Grey card kit but I kicked it up a notch with a little Prima flower and brad/bling action!! Hope you likey!! I have lots of things planned for Saturday so I had to write my Saturday post before bed. Geez...has this what my blogging has come to??? Automatic posts for the weekend. I thought about throwing in the towel on Friday nite but I said "self, just fricken' blog and be done with it". Its really not that hard. Again have a super weekend and please excuse my potty mouth. HOOT HOOT for me and six days of blogging. Can I make it to one week??? Probably!! Tami

Sherry the answer to your question was a JUMBO Graphic 45 assorted MAN paper pack. I was expecting it to be an 8 x 8 at half the cost but I caved and felt obligated to go for the big one!!! I know naughty BAD TAMI and boy have I been bad this week. Old habits are SO hard to break. See you on Sunday my friends.

WOO loves you?? I do, I do!!

This one's for you all my fabo friends, students, and cyber chicks. I have to make it quick as I have to go get a few groceries. Its a good TV night so I am pressed for time right now and my computer has been acting up again. I constantly have to reboot it. Hope you had a most pleasant day. Sunshine makes me SO happy!! Need I say more. I've been working on Graphic 45 class samples and kits for my upcoming classes at Smudges next week. Any takers?? I love Graphic 45 and their wonderful products!! Thanks for stopping by friends. Sorry my card is a little crooked but WOO really cares right?? That darn scanner!! LOL!! Its better than no card or post!! See you tomorrow. Yay me, day three!! Tami :p