Christmas Cards that I worked on at GCS

Here are a few cards that I worked on at GCS this past weekend.

Cards by Tammy C

Tammy C is mom to Kaci. She has donated 6 cards. Tammy has attended her 1st GCS event this past weekend, and was at the last Scrapfest. Isn't it nice to share a hobby with your daughter.

Cards by Kaci

I met Kaci through Patty Provance. Kaci has attended several of the GCS and Scrapfest events. Her and Marty are going to be proud parents of a baby girl in about 8 weeks. She will name her Bailey. Kaci has donated 8 cards.

Cards Cards and more Cards

A bucket was put out for the collection of Christmas and All Occassion cards for the Soliders. Well here is the count. We received 30 all occassion homemade cards, 57 all occassion store bought cards, 15 chirstmas homemade cards, and 2 store bought christmas cards. I would like to thank all the ladies that participated in this challenge.

I decided to head up a Card Lotto. Each participate had to make 4 handmade cards in order to enter the Card Lotto. We had 12 ladies that participated. Tammy, Kaci, Charolette and Michele were the winners. All of the cards that were turned in were just awesome.

Gulf Coast Scrappers New Orleans Event

This weekend was the Gulf Coast Scrappers New Orleans Event. I ended up going with 8 other ladies. Some of us were from the Scrappin Packin Mommas, Sugar & Spice and just friends and relatives. Since the theme of the event was Floppin around GCS, we decided to call ourselves "Flip Flop Gals". The weekend before the event the ladies got together and created a banner and shirts for the event. The banner had 6 pairs of flip flops on each side, each flip flop was 3D, we used ribbon, silk flowers, eylets and brads on the flip flops and used velcro to attached the flip flops and the paper piece suns to the banner. Charlene had the idea for the palm tree, which the tops were made with green poster board, umbrella frame, the leaves were stapler to the umbrella frame, then we attached gold balloons for conuts. The base of the tree were dowel sticks cover in paper painted to look like the bark of the palm tree, and we used Jackie and Jenny's monkeys to attach to the bark of the tree.

My tablemates were Peggy, Jackie and Tammy. The other ladies that sat on our row of tables were Shey, Charlene, Jenny, Janice, Stephaine, Zee, Lisa and Bonnie. Only 4 of the Scrappin Packin Mommas attended and they were Jackie (GoGo Momma), Patty (Momma 411), Tammy (Eastbank Momma) and our newest member Jenny (Spicy Momma).

....................................................................................................................I taught two Paper piecing classes at the event and they were successful. I also took 3 make n take classes, one class was a pocket card, another was making vintage flowers, and the last was making a wall hanging using corrugated cardboard as the base of the hanging.

Our table won the table decoration at the event. We also got lots of postive comments on our shirts. Our table won $25.00 as the prize and it was split 9 ways.

Just because they wanted too.....

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During the week at work Lizzy said that they might be a surprise at GCS (Gulf Coast Scrappers Event), so I thought they (Lizzy, Delanie, Patricia and Laura) would be dropping by with some entertainment. The reason I thought this is because Judy Hale emailed me to see if the SPM (Scrappin Packin Mommas) would be doing another skit again this year. Boy, was I

surprised when Laura walked into the cropping room with a special delivery. She held this beautiful flower arrangement and walked straight to me. I was so tickled to be able to receive it and my heart was touched by the reason for it. They gave it to me just because, and they recongize all the good things I do for others. Thank you ladies, you made my night with this special delivery. I am glad all of our paths have crossed. All of you are wonderful ladies.

Paper Piecing

This is a few paper piecings that I have made for my "For Sale Box " that I will have at GCS this weekend. I did not get to make as many as I would have like. Just had some busy weekends before this event.

A PIF that I received from England today!

Well I had a wonderful blog PIF (pay it forward) that arrived today at work. This was as a result for blog hopping and I happened across Jac’s blog where she was showing her PIF and then what the rules were. Now its my turn to pass some of my stuff forward so here are the rules:

RULES: The first three people to post a comment will recieve a PIF gift from me (4 handmade cards & a paper piecing). Then these people need to pass a gift forward (PIF) to three other people, does that explain it to everyone? You MUST have an active blog to do this AND you MUST pass this onto three people. So come on in and grab a gift and pay it forward!

Summer time paper piecings

Here ar a few paper piecing that I have made, more to come

Cards by Peggy

Peggy is a scrapping friend. We discovered this weekend that our mother's grew up on the same street in the city of New Orleans (Touro Street).

A while ago we discovered that we grew up in the same neighborhood a block away, on different streets from each other and did not know each other as teens. (Grovewood Dr)