On Saturday our family attended a BBQ with some very good friends who celebrated their 25th Wedding Anniversary. Here is the card that I made for them for this occassion...

At the Hamilton Christmas Extravaganza we made a Waterfall Album using the Artistic Etchings stamp set (see page 95 of the Idea Book & Catalogue).

The Just Add Ink challenge for this week was to Just Add Christmas. Since I have been making Christmas cards on-and-off for the last month, It thought I would enter a Christmas Card that I created just recently...

Last weekend there was a demonstrator gathering however, due to the Hamilton Christmas Extravaganza, I didn't attend. Instead I sent my swaps along and got some really lovely ones back.

On Sunday we held the Hamilton Christmas Extravaganza. At an Extravaganza, five pairs of demonstrators prepare and teach a project, moving from table to table so at the end of the day everyone of the 90ish stampers who attended took home five lovely creations using a variety of techniques.

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The theme of this ATC swap was "the men in your life" or a masculine creation. I have to admit I had a lot of trouble with this swap and only figured out what I was going to create three days before I had to post them off! In the end it was the Masculine card that we made in the September workshops that inspired my ATC swap...

This card was inspired by the stamping we did on the Every Moment Fancy Favor Box at the Stampin' Up! training day...

We needed to send out our first Christmas cards this week so for my school holiday "card class" with my kids we made these three cards...