Brenda Walton Evergreen Christmas

So excited to show off the new Brenda Walton Evergreen Christmas Collection.


They are great on layouts, cards, gift tags and more. We couldn't wait to


try them out too! Mom's been making Christmas cards. We said we were going


to start in July but time moves so quickly that we are finally getting started.


Hope you can see the card samples as they can be hard to scan. Be sure to


check back and see other samples as we get them posted

Materials used:

Bazzill Cardstock
SEI Suede Paper Christmas Mint
K and Company Brenda Walton Evergreen Botanical Grand Adhesions

Happy Candy-Ween

Sorry it has been so long since our last posting. We have been quite busy


with getting our new mail order catalog ready to print. We try to ship orders


on the same day they are received plus with all the new products that come in


and with doing our own website I'm afraid the blog gets neglected. We are going


to try and work on that. Wanted to share one of our card samples with you.


Samples are requested quite a lot so we are going to try and post new sample


projects at least once a week.

Supplies needed:

8.5x11 Bazzill Black

8.5x11 Bazzill Marmalade

8.5x11 Bazzill Dandelion
8.5x11 Bazzill White

Small Brown Craft Sack

Snow Marker

Rubber Stamp-House Mouse Sweet Find

Rubber Stamp-House Mouse Candy-Ween

1. Stamp Sweet Find on white cardstock and color with water colored pencils.
2. Cut orange marmalade cardstock in half and fold.
3. Cut black cardstock in slightly smaller to make mat and place
on top of marmalade.
4. Use Snow Marker to make lines on black mat to look like spider web.
5. Place small brown brown bag on top of black mat. You can also
easily make your own small bag by just cutting down a larger bag.
6. Cut yellow cardstock to 2.25"x3.5", orange 2.0"x3.25" to use
as mounts for your stamped image.
7 Stamp Happy Candy-Ween and mount on Yellow cardstock 1"x4

New Arrivals

House Mouse Design Of The Month for March has just arrived.


These little mice are so cute! Wouldn't want them running around


the house but they sure make cute cards. Supplies and directions are

listed below:



Stampabilities Gentle Rain Rubber Stamp
Stampabilities Rain Down On You Rubber Stamp

Black Ink Pad
Glittter Glue
Water Color Pencils

Yellow Ribbon

Yellow cardstock 3 3/4" x 4 1/2"

Dark Purple cardstock 5 1/2" x1 1/2"

Green cardstock 5 1/2" x1 1/2"

White cardstock 3 1/2" x 4"



1. Stamp Gentle Rain with black ink.

2. Color mouse and flowers with colored pencils.

3. Score the yellow cardstock 1 1/4" from the left side and fold over toward front.

4. Hold the stamped image and the yellow cardstock and rip the right hand side

downward.

5. Slip the stamped image under the small flap and staple in place.

6. Glue the green cardstock strip across the bottom half of the purple cardstock

about 1/2" from the bottom.

7. Glue the matted image on the green cardstock strip on the left side of the card.

8. Tie a bow with the yellow ribbon and glue on the green cardstock strip on the

right side of the card.

9. Apply glitter glue to each raindrop.

10. Stamp Rain Down On You on the inside of the card.

House Mouse Design of the Month

The new House Mouse Design of the Month has just arrived.
They are so cute! Wanted to share how to make a card with these

cute new stamps.

Supplies needed:

Stampabilities Morning Kick Start rubber stamp
Stampabilities Warm Cup of Coffee rubber stamp (for the inside)

Black ink pad

Heat gun

scissors

glue

black eyelets

small hole punch and eyelet setter

small spoon

markers

cardstock

black 5.5x8.5 (fold in half to make card)

tan 4x5 1/4

brown 2 1/8x3 1/8x4

ivory 2 1/8x3 1/8x4

Instructions:

1. Stamp Morning Kick Start with black ink on large ivory cardstock. Sprinkle

with black embossing powder and set with heat gun.

2. Color embossed image with markers. Highlight the cheeks with blender pen
dipped in pink.
3. Stamp Warm Cup of Coffee on ivory cardstock strip. Use scissors to cut out
the word friend.

4. Glue "friend" to the small peice of brown cardstock.

5. Set the 3 eyelets along the bottom of the left side of the kraft cardstock in a line.

6. Glue the kraft piece of cardstock with the eyelets to the front of the black card front.

7. Glue the stamped image to the larger brown cardstock. Since they are the same
size offset the papers to make it look shadowed. Glue this above the 3 eyelets.

8. Glue the matted "friend" piece to the top left side of the stamped image.

9. Glue the small spoon to the bottom right of the card.

10. Stamp inside with the Warm Cup Of Coffee verse

National Card Makers Day Card Contest

Dear Friends,
It's Hot! A great time to stay indoors, keep cool and make cards. What's so special
about handmade cards you ask. (Well maybe you didn't ask) but here goes. Cards
are a great way to keep in touch with friends and family and it's never to early to
get a head start on all those holiday cards. A handmade card shows someone you care
about that they are special, you are thinking about them and that you care enough about
them to make it yourself.

October 7, 2007 is National Card Makers Day and here at S and C Memories we are
celebrating by having a card contest. Winning cards will be featured on our website
and we will be awarding prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. You may enter as many
cards as you wish in any or all categories. Prizes will be given out for each category.
To have your card returned we ask that you please send us a self-addressed postage
paid evelope and we will return your cards as soon as the contest is over. The Categories
are as followed:

Birthday
Friendship/Thinking of You
Holiday: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas

We ask that you please use products that we sell on our website. It is ok if you already
have these products at home. All cards must be handmade and be sure to include your
name, address and directions for making your card/cards.
All entries must be in by September 24, 2007.

Send all entries to:
S and C Memories
PO Box 412
Ottumwa, Iowa 52501

Have Fun and Happy Stamping,
Sheli

Lesson 3 Embossing

Embossing is a simple technique of combining rubber stamps, pigment ink and embossing
powder. Take any rubber stamp inked with a pigment ink then stamp and sprinkle with
a generous amount of embossing powder. Shake off excess and put back in bottle.
(a little goes a long way) Heat with a heat gun. This doesn't take to long a minute or less.
You will be able to see the powder melt and turn to a glossy finish. Be careful when using
a heat gun as they are very hot!! and can quickly scorch the paper. Hint: A hair dryer
will not work as they are not hot enough and will only blow your powder around.
Embossing powder comes in a wide array of colors as well as clear. You can mix colored
ink with colored powder or if you prefer to give your ink color a glossy finish without
changing color use clear powder.

Sorry I haven't been able to write my lessons. I have been sick and that leaves all of the
day to day running of the business up to my Mom and keeping up on the new products and
orders. Mom is a hunt and peck method of typing so she only types short things. Keep
checking on us as we are trying to keep up and will post new things as soon as we can.