As you saw from my last post, I spent this past weekend up north celebrating and spoiling my Silver Elite team member, Cheryl Lee at my parents’ cabin. This is the 3rd year we’ve done this (click here to view photos from last year). And it is so much fun to just get away, create projects, and pamper Cheryl (with the help of my mom and dad).
We headed up on Friday morning, stopped for lunch at our traditional place (The Beanery in Aitkin, Minnesota),…
…and then arrived, unpacked, and were stamping away by 3 PM! My mom helped me cook and serve yummy meals, and my dad did the dishes afterwards. Those two put their all into this weekend, and it felt like we were at a Bed & Breakfast. (I’m blessed.)
Here are the gifts I gave to Cheryl: a personalized pink bag filled with a few goodies (including a pack of Medium Whisper White Envelopes and a roll of Silver Metallic-Edge Ribbon), and a pack of the Lily Impressions Designer Paper embellished with a pretty tag. AND…this bag (purchased through and personalized by Tamra Davis at TaDa Moments) has silver embroidery to go along with the main color of the event!
I like to throw in silver embellishments when I can when I make my gifts for this event. So I used that fun Silver Metallic-Edge Ribbon and a Silver Leaves Trinket on this tag.
I even added a Silver Leaves Trinket to the zipper of the bag.
This was an extra special gift that I included in her bag.
I decorated this Mini Pizza Box with the some of the same supplies I used in her invitation (see below) and an image from the Love What You Do Stamp Set.
Inside was an etched Clear Block D (also personalized by TaDa Moments) as a memento of her earning this event.
I gave my dad a giant candy bar wrapped with the pretty Lily Impressions Designer Paper and my mom a personalized pink bag and a pack of the Golden Honey Designer Paper.
Cheryl (bless her heart) gifted us, too! We each received a mini bundt cake. She gave my parents a pretty flowering plant. And I received this hand crafted bag with a pretty stone necklace inside!
I love how she used a strip of coordinating designer paper across the front of the bag to hold the card.
Over the course of the weekend, we each stamped 13 cards and one 3-D project. Here is one of cards we made Saturday morning – part of a set of 8 card variations made with the Seriously The Best Card Kit that I’ll be sharing in detail here on my blog next week.
Click here to see another set of 3 cards we made that I shared on my blog on Monday. And stay tuned for more posts (like the hexaflexagon card) coming soon for the rest of the items we made.
A week before our event I sent Cheryl this vellum z-fold invitation.
Here are the details if you wish to recreate it…
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PDF Tutorial… Click here to access and download a direction sheet for this project.
Measurements
- Melon Mambo Cardstock: 5-1/2” x 4-1/4” and 2-1/8” x 5-1/8″
- Lovely Lipstick Cardstock: Scraps for stamping and punching two umbrellas
- Vellum Cardstock: 9-3/4” x 5-1/4” scored parallel to the short side at 2-1/4” from one end and 4” from the other end
- Whisper White Cardstock: 5”x 2” for the outside and 5” x 2” for the inside of the card
- Best Dressed Designer Paper: Scraps for stamping and cutting two umbrellas
- Silver Metallic-Edge Ribbon: 15”
Directions
- Stamp and punch two umbrella tops from Lovely Lipstick scraps. Stamp and fussy cut two umbrella tops (cutting right to the black outline) from pink floral prints from the Best Dressed Designer Paper. Adhere with SNAIL. And embellish top of each with a Rhinestone.
- Stamp sentiments, rain drops and umbrella handles onto Whisper White Cardstock layers. When front layer images, position umbrella tops first. Use the Basic Black Marker and a ruler/straight edge to extend the length of the handles.
- Then adhere umbrella tops using Dimensionals.
- After cutting, scoring and folding Vellum Cardstock, adhere inside white layer first so it’s attached to the inside widest section but centered under the narrow 2-1/4” wide part of the Vellum. (You’ll be able to see through the vellum to line things up.) Flip Vellum over, add adhesive under the white cardstock area, then attach to the wide Melon Mambo base layer. Add the front white layer to the narrow Melon Mambo layer. Then add this to the top of the 2-1/4” wide Vellum section. Because of the way the card opens, there is no need to worry about the adhesive under this front layer.
- Wrap around and tie on ribbon. Secure knot in place with a Glue Dot.
Since this is Cheryl’s 3rd year attending, we spent time reminiscing about previous years… trying to recall which year had the huge snowfall, which year we ate certain meals, etc.
This year the weather was pretty darn perfect. It was super cold on Friday, the day we arrived and on Sunday, the day we went home which was fine for traveling. But it was much warmer on Saturday when we ventured out on a walk. And the sun shone pretty much all day every day.
It’s a beautiful location and I am looking forward to next year already! We had a wonderful time together.
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Wow, looks like you all had a fabulous time. I love the gifts that were exchanged. 😉 What a stunning Z-fold card. Thank you for sharing the tutorial.
I am really enjoying all the pictures you have taken. It’s wonderful when you spend quality time in such a beautiful place. Your gifts are so pretty and the food looks good. Thank you for sharing this lovely event.
Thanks Loretta. We feel pretty blessed to have this land. My family purchased the property when I was only 5 years old. And over the years have built it into a wonderful retirement spot for themselves.
?Thank you Darlene! So glad you enjoyed the card I shared and the tutorial. I’m trying to include PDFs more often now.