Sunday, November 10, 2019

LeakyCon

I'm a huge Harry Potter fan... or so I thought. I recently found out there was an entire convention devoted to #Potterheads and it was going to be in Boston, easy to get to from NY so I bought tickets to go. After attending I discovered that yes, I'm a Harry Potter fan but not nearly as big a fan as I thought. There were people there who had these amazing, homemade costumes. There were people there who have attended all ten years of the LeakyCon conventions and there were people there who could quote all the movies and all the books. It was amazing interacting with this community of fans who could understand and appreciate any Harry Potter reference I made.

About a week before the convention I found out that attendees swap ribbons and other items with each other. It was too late to have ribbons made but I finally had an excuse to use all the Harry Potter themed stamps in my possession. I decided to make bookmarks since Harry Potter fans are very likely to still read books. I made the book marks in four colors to represent the four houses of Hogwarts.

LeakyCon Bookmarks

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Friday, November 8, 2019

Countdown to Christmas

I love Christmas...the music, the movies, the smell of pine trees, the taste of eggnog...so it would come to no surprise that I'm already embracing the season.

When I saw that Stampin' Up! had an advent calendar, I was super excited because I didn't have an advent calendar but then remembered that I live alone and so if I filled it up, the daily items wouldn't be a surprise. But then I thought that my sister and nephew might enjoy the daily surprises. It could be something they do together, creating new christmas memories and traditions, opening each box together every night.

The calendar was easy to put together. Actually the hardest part was deciding where I wanted to place each square and because I'm a little OCD and didn't want any similar squares near each other, this took multiple tries (after a few attempts of placing the plain squares down, I decided it would be easier to decorate every square and then work on the layout).

I didn't purchase the coordinating stamp set because it wasn't really my style and I wasn't going to stamp any of the squares at first, but decided that the plain squares needed a little extra love. I used stamp sets already in my stash to case the designs displayed by Stampin' Up!.

I can't wait to go shopping for treats to fill the boxes this weekend!! I'll give the calendar to my sister when I see her at thanksgiving. Happy Holidays!!

Countdown to Christmas


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Tuesday, November 5, 2019

A (Blackberry) Bliss(ful) Wedding

On Saturday I went to the wedding of a dear friend. She looked beautiful, the groom wore a velvet tuxedo jacket of deep emerald and the bridesmaids wore blackberry bliss dresses of their choosing.

 I didn't know the groom was going to wear green in advance but I knew that the bridesmaids were going to wear blackberry bliss so I knew I had to incorporate that into the wedding card. I also knew that the bride loves desserts.

 I was inspired by cards from Linda Cullen and Amy Koenders so I added those cards and links below for your viewing pleasure as well.
A (Blackberry) Bliss(ful) Wedding Card


Linda Cullen

Amy Koenders

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