Stampin Stresss Away with Carole'Anne

Class prep 1 card done 1 to go let stam our Stressaway

Gooooodddd Monday morning to you all
I sure hope you all had a super terrific weekend!
Mine was very busy oh wait I love it that way
Busy work - busy life oh yes soooooooooo very grateful!
My weekend started with working on Saturday with Kayla - we did an install on a cube van! ( I was awake at 1:00 am craziness )
The last two photos shows what we were putting on this cube van !
Install went great!
We got to have a nice late lunch- that's always fabulous
We then did other work related duties and gave my hummer a bath as well
The Saturday evening came to a close with a beautiful snow fall
That would be photo 3 (on Sunday morning)do you like my order here lol
I was up mighty early Sunday mornin
Spent a good part of the morning in my craft room!
Creating and prepping for class
Yeeeessss we finally get to have a nice big class
Fun stuff
I am very thrilled for you all to attend Sunday STAMP class
At my home Sunday January 27, 2013 at 12:30pm
So Kathy and Annette's group lets stamp!
Woop woop
Oh wait more exciting news
I have filled all the spots for my swap team
Yes super thrilled about that
I will reveal the team members during the week sometime!
I felt great playing and creating in my craft room
I even managed to get on my yoga Matt
Ouh and made homemade banana muffins and mini banana breads
Also made a nice homemade supper
And of course had some exercise when I shovelled for over an hour and a half!
Even managed to wash my floors!
Rocked out this weekend!
Happy happy
Did I say happy lol
Today a new fresh week i got me a beautiful week ahead !!!!
This is going to be grrreeeaaatttt
So for you all wonderful followers I hope you enjoyed my post
And I'll post one day during the week to introduce our swap team
Happy Monday friends
Embossed hug from me
Carole'Anne Sluchinski
Aka Stampin Stressaway

Monday catch up

Good Monday morning to you all
Hope you had a super greeeaattt weekend as I did
Such a beautiful weekend here in Alberta the weather the trees and my time with my family was so fabulous
I did a lot this weekend and feel ready to tackle the week!!
It's goin to be a really huge busy week and I'll say that I am excited for that
Just love the steady flow of orders coming in and nothing can make me so Hapoy and proud then to get phone calls from my original customers from 93 and 94 when I started this company.
I am very very grateful for their loyalty!!
So when we get done with some of the projects we are working on I'll share them with you
We also love our new customers and it makes me smile when a new customers says "where the heck have you been all these years I needed a. Company like you" woop woop that's a good feeling
Okay sorry enough of that
Sooooooooo I did a great 3hour yoga workshop on Saturday with Renee and Kayla. Soooo fabulous I also did a 90Yin on Sunday mornin. Makes me feel real good - inside and out yhahooooo
I also did cooking and baking of course
I will share a recipe tomorrow instead of Wednesday it's going to be that of a rhubarb cake - I got the recipe from Tracey and made this weekend. That would be the second photo!
Ouh and yeeeessss card two is complete for classes and all the prep work is ready just got to bag it and that will be done and ready
I have to also bag their little goody bags that I created for them!!!
So you see all the card prep and cards in photo one
The 3rd and 4th photos had to share the beauty of fall at our house. We have several geese hanging out still on our lake love that
The last photo is a giggle moment photo
Last week we went and had a quick dinner at jacks drive in spruce grove -Renée Kayla and I. (great place to eat by the way) we decided to sit outside as it was so nice out. The girls were trying to put the umbrella up and they were so struggling. I just stepped back laughed like crazy and snapped photos oh I know I am mean. But honest soooo funny they are way cute
Well friends going to sign off here
I Wanta make homemade soup before I head to work
I hope read some of your comments cause I so enjoy hearing from you
If you'd like to see something I haven't shared don't hesitate to pass it on k
Happy Monday friends
Embossed hug from me
Carole'Anne Sluchinski
Aka stampin stressaway

Classes update and creating time

Good day to you all
What a week it's been
Really happy it's the weekend
Hoping I can find some stillness
That's my goal
I wanted to share a few things with you
I have spent endless hours creating my second card for my Sept classes
I always try very hard to create something unique and that seems to have caused me some grief this time sigh
I am getting there just a little further
Anyways the first two photos are my attempts at my second card
The other two photos are yhummmy meatballs and then 1 cup cookies
Very good cookies if I may add!!

I will share recipes no worries

Sorry that this is a kinda lame post friends - I am honestly trying

between travelling and trying to keep two business' a float - and my other things that I do it's been a week of challenges - but hey what won't kill me will make me stronger

so I put my chin up and I say

I am doing this thing!

he he

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Now onto class info
Annette's group is set
Date: September 23rd
Note new start time 12:30!
Kathy's group will be on Sept 30th
Note new start time 12:30
Now October ladies will be a bit different
I would like to hold classes on Saturday and Sunday of the last weekend
So that would be Sept 27 and 28th
Please let me know which day would work best for you girls!
Then November will be Nov 25 and December 2nd
So again please let me know the dates that we will have YOUR class
Thank you ladies
Fun stuff coming up woop woop
So that's my news for the day
Embossed hug from me
Carole'Anne Sluchinski
Aka Stampin Stressaway

Christmas Buffet Sunday Class ready to go Happy Friday

Happy Friday to you all

whow I am really not sure where this week has good

good week 

just busy busy busy

which I am very very grateful and appreciative for keep them jobs coming

I love the work (so very very blessed to love what I do)

now we just need them boys to be working and this world woud be near perfect lol

anyways enough of work talk

I wanted to quickly share photos of the class buffet

7 cards we will have on Sunday

and I finally found a way to make little enveloppes work for the square cards that I created

I love the new 

SIMPLY SCORED DIAGONAL PLATE

(page 181 idea book)

it works great I just needed time to figure out the measurements 

phew I did it lol

so let me show you photos

woop woop

there we have it

all the cards are ready

now let me share the enveloppe

all scored

I used the newsprint DSP cause it's lighter then cardstock

and I used the DSP on the card 

so how perfect!

voila my square enveloppe made with Newsprint DSP

I am really happy with this and I know that the card will look fab in there

and so this brings me to the end of my post today

sorry it's kinda short uh?

I am heading to my 6:00am hot yoga class

last night's class was a hard one whow we love that Krista!!!

this afternoon after work I get to go pick tile - countertops - fixtures and paint for the reno's starting in the house

yes I am worried and I am going to be a tad stressed while all's happening

me and no kitchen could be tuff

but I'll make it lol

I want to leave you with one last photo that I took with 

YES MY NEW CAMERA (NO IDEA REALLY HOW TO USE IT YET LOL)

So this was taken yesterday after work

I maybe doing some deck sitting when the house is in shambles yhikes

lol

all right friends 

I better get ready to head out on this fine day

don't forget about the 

CALORIE FREE

BLOG CANDY

all's you need to do is post a comment

I know how easy right 

and I will draw a name for blog CANDY

so for this Friday this is it

wishing you all a super duper fabulous FRIDAY

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne Sluchinski
AKA STampin STressaway 

 

New Card Club announcements and sneak peak of the Card that will be created

Good day to you all

it's a nice Thursday morning here after a good storm last night!

Had a good day at work yesterday it was a busy one

Kayla and I did a couple of installs which is always great

I'll share a few photos at the end of this post

yesterday morning started with a nice Hot Hot HOT yoga class at 6:00am(love it)

then into work to get everything ready and assembled for installs

headed to the city and did the installs

they turned out gooooodddd

but before all that I played in my craft room from about 2:30am to 4:30am

I started working on my group class

BIG ANNOUCEMENTS HERE FRIENDS

New groups will be starting in Sept.

so I have two groups to choose from

They will both meet the second from last Sunday of the month

and the last Sunday of the month

are going to join the Club?

How's it work

well you get to come to a wonderful class at no charge

commitment is to come to attend the once a month class

you place a min of $30.00 order

and each person part of the group will be hostess for a month (1 of the 6 months)

you can choose to have an extra workshop (party) in your home to increase your sales if you wish

or just use your sales from your group

the average group has 6 people(which is a 6 month commitment) (Sept to Feb -no  December group classes)

sooooooo are you in for the group?

please email me at

stampinstressaway@me.com

to let me know if you are participating in the monthly club group starting in Sept.

first Group date will be Sept. 23

and the second will be Sept. 30

hope you will join one the groups FUN Way to get great Card creating time 

a little chatting with your friends in the group

some yhummy food and coffee

and FREE STUFF

it's a great monthly card class hope you will join one of the groups!

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all right so want to see a sneak peak of the card I am working on for groups?

theme for the Sept. class

UNIQUE CHRISTMAS COLOURS

cute

woop woop sneak peak 

unique colour for a Christmas card uh?

I just want to share a few more photos with you non stampin related

hope you don't mind

PS BLOG CANDY is starting today

I'll reveal the prize on Sunday 

so to enter your name in the chance to win

all you need to do is a post a comment

easy stuff uh?

Max is such a baby

he missed Kayla this past weekend and I know he is missing his Renee

so he getting some lovin here 

we had a nice storm last night

power even went out while Kayla was in the shower poor girl was stuck in the bathroom with shampoo in her hair

after about 1/2 hr she got Evan to poor a jug of water to rinse her hair

alot of screaming was coming from that bathroom lol

then the power came back on too funny

anyways I took some nice photos

can you see the rainbow between the trees

look at this it was a double rainbow

pretty don't you think

okay so this post is getting long

I'll post install jobs on the weekend

I won't be able to post tomorrow

I will have a huge day and will be short two staffed tomorrow

so I will catch up with you all Saturday 

hope you all understand

anyways friends I gotta run

I have Evan heading for Slave Lake this morning for potential work

please let them work angels do some magic for them boys

so for now that will do it

I hope you enjoyed this post and I'll be back Saturday

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin STressaway

so this was yesterday post that crashed on me let me try again - Christmas Buffet Card Class

Gooooodddd Morning y'all

sorry this is coming to you one day late

I had everything typed up all photos resized and loaded and ready to publish

and it crashed on me

sadly I did not have time to start from scratch to get my post up for you yesterday

sorry friends

positive thinking here and I will post what I had yesterday he he

first I would like to say that it was such a beautiful weekend on so many different levels

the weather was amazing

the company was even better

the accomplishments were out of this world

my house is in order

I got to go to yoga every day woop woop

so having said that let me share with you a bit of a sneak peak for my

CHRISTMAS BUFFET CLASS

Just a quick reminder about this event

it's a first for me

I will have several cards available to be stamped and assemble - you get to pick what you want to make

just like a buffett (but calorie free lol)

event date is

AUGUST 19TH

starting at 12:30pm

right here in my Stampin Stressaway Craft room

are you attending I do have some spots left

if you would like to join the fun

please email me

stampinstressaway@me.com

sorry enough of the details let's share cards now shall we

this little cup I used on one of the cards is embossed with the scented embossing powder

smells so good

two more cards

don't you tink that boot is adorable

and 4 more of the card baskets ready for you to create

wooop woop

I want to thank my mom and Annette who were my two little elves on Sunday

thank you so much for your help ladies

and thank you for sharing little lunch with me

and MOM thank you for the fav Date Squares (makes me miss my oven sigh)

great Sunday ladies thanks a million

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now I need to share a few more photos with you

on Saturday morning after my 90 hot Flow Yoga Class

I did my grocery shopping and errands

afterwords I treated myself to a Tim's Coffee

ouh but wait I have more

I waited till I got home and groceries put away and fridge clean

then I sat on the back deck

Oh my goodness I know I never get to do that in my world

I just had to take a photo of the cup with the beautiful lake background

I savored this time and coffee (wished My Margot was here to enjoy with me sigh tear)

and then back to my housework duties

 but I was real proud of myself to sit and enjoy my coffee

let show you who else enjoyed that time

oh yes Mr. Max and Mr. Charlie loved the back deck time as well

so that was in part my post I am sure where was more but I fergot now hehe

do want to mention that on Thursday will mark the start of a NEW BLOG Candy

woooooppppp wooooppppp

so make sure you post a comment to get a chance to win the new blog candy

I won't be posting tomorrow as I have a super busy day

which will start with 6:00am yoga

then follow with two installs in two different directions of the city

so I will be back Thursday and hopefully with a NEW MDS 2Plus creation

must call Stampin Up Today

anyways that will do it for me

wishing you all a really super terrifik Tuesday

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway 

 

 

New Class event announcement and Blog Candy winner

Good day to you all

hope you are well on this fine Tuesday

we are getting some rain today and I could easily be restin under a blankie lol

oh but nope not me lol

I have been at work since 4:45am

That's reason this is coming to you late

sorry

I did get to play in my craft room

yes just for fun too

I loved it

it was kinda brief from like 2:00am to 3:30am then onto work duties

but I have some exciting news to share with you

ready??

here we go

so first let announce my blog candy winner

YOU my dear NC friend guessed correctly as to what I was doing with my grandma's recipe and photo

Janet Swofford

(please email me with your address to send you my goodies)

and that guess is the new event that I will be holding

drum roll please

we will be creating a really

 memorable shadow box

oh wait not just any shadow box

we will be using a favorite recipe

it can be your own that you will give to one of your kids

or it could be your mom's or your granma's

what a fun wedding shower gift

or a special anniversary gift!

let me show you my box that I HAVE NOT decorated yet

cause that friends is for my sign up privilidge people to see lol

pretty cool uh?

so now it would be your turn to sign up for this unique class

I only have 10 spots

DATE: July 29th

Starting at 12:30pm

Location: Stampin Stressaway Craft Room

RSVP
click here to email me

I will supply the shadow box

the DSP

Fabric

buttons and ribbon

to make your shadow box super special

I hope you will join me in this really unique class

now onto other goodies

I metioned I was in my craft room this morning would you like to see what I started to do

I first took the mojo monday sketch challenge

then I chose an image from the new stampin up catalogue

and I am going to attempt to make it my own he he

I am not done with this process yet but when I am I will share for you all

promise

it will on Thursday

its coming along nicely

and then I should also have some very very fun new goodies that I ordered from the new catalogue

ouh talking about that

I have a special for YOU
PLACE AN ORDER THIS WEEK

(min order $50.00)

and I will GIVE YOU one new in colour stamp pad

and a retired stamp set from my collection

whow what a deal uh?

you can email me your order

or you may also order online

now this is only good till Sunday June 9th - so best get that order in!

all right one last thing

I have been asked how Max is doing so

let me give an up date and share a photo

so Max was recently diagnosed with Hypothoroid

and he was put on medication

his eyes and gums were really acting

so we had to treat that as well

so the latest is that he is on a less amount of medication

and he is doing so good

he has actually played with Charlie outside

this is a milestone friends lol

let me share a photo of Max hard at work

he is so cute uh??

lol

so that is it for me today

I hope you have enjoyed my post so much mish mash

but hold out and I will actually share a nice card with you all on Thursday

tomorrow I have cool recipe coming your way

thanks to Wanda

happy Tuesday to you from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA STampin Stressaway

 

Stamp a Stack and Class fun

Good day to you on this FINE TUESDAY morning

my week is off to a roaring start

which is always good in my world

I love to be busy and always so thankful for the business that keeps coming my way

I am blessed to have my own business along with wonderful friends and family

let me share some photos with you today

first I want to show you what I am working on for the

STAMP A STACK

the one that the theme is

ALL OCCASIONS

DATE: April 14, 2012

Time: 1:00pm

in my Stampin Stressaway Craft room

wanta see????

took all 6 of my stamp sets out

then decided to use cardstock that I don't play with much

tempting turquoise

should be fun fun fun!

let me say that this weekend was a busy one with lot's of extra stuff going on

good stuff ofcourse

estimators came and went to get the renos done to the house (oh yes I am sure you will be seeing photos of that along the way lol)

we had an awesome meal on Saturday night

honeygarlic meat balls (I premade them on Friday morning and seasoned them put them in fridge)

they were so tasty after being in the seasoning for 36 hours (baked them in low oven for about an hour)

I also cooked the shrimp in garlic butter sauce at the same time as meatballs

I made mashed potatoes

along with brocolli and my homemade cheese sauce - also made homemade chicken noodles soup

and the morning started with dreamy homemade waffles with whipped cream - Fresh cut up strawberries and homemade strawbery syrop

we were 9 at dinner love it!

on Sunday I planned ahead cause I had class (Annettes group)

so I made homemade chilli

and sheppards pie

I also did a spinach dip and took out lot's of my yhummy baking

my mom brought some super duper stuffed sandwiches along with my favorite squares (Date Swquares)

thank you mom so good (she got to stay for dinner - although the crew was kinda in and out - so we did not really get to all sit at the same time)

soooooooooooooooooooooooooo having said all that

let me share photos of class with Annette - Darryll - Penny and my mom

here is Penny showing her last card

our joyful Annette

you are such a hoot - thank you for the giggles

my mom's card

so cute uh?

Darryll was funny

he improvised his card a little

not exactly like the design I created

he used a few extra elements and extra stamped image

but I always tell my classes

THIS IS YOUR CARD AND SO IF YOU ARE HAPPY I AM HAPPY

well friends that is it for me today

I am heading back to the city again today

yesterday Renee and I were at the TOPS show

it's a promotional products show

today I am going to two more safety courses

uhg I will be done soon

I can do this - oh yes I can

Wishing you a super fabulous Tuesday and see you tomorrow with a much requested recipe

along with the blog candy winner

Embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA STampin STressaway

 

 

Happy Valentines day - it's a celebration of love for Stampin!

Happy Valentines day to each of you!

I am going to share photos of my class from Sunday

small group on Sunday it seemed everyone was on holidays

except my mom who was at home caring for Bill

I hope you feel much better Bill we worry and love you very much

We did have a nice Sunday dinner though - as a family

I KNOW we had tried to plan that since Rex's Birthday

We Celebrated 3 birthday's in one!

talking birthday's

it's Woody's Birthday today

(I'll share the card that Renee made for him on the weekend )

so Woody have a super great birthday today

all right so the first thing I will share with you are 3 photos from class

We have Darrell

how nice uh? that Darrell joined us on Sunday

they loved making the distressed card

this is Penny

I love how each card is a little different

even though it's the same elements

I always tell my class - it's your card - make it your own

my idea is just that an idea!

and then we have Annette

such a fun class and yhummy snacks Penny thank you!

your guys are awesome

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on Saturday morning I made 8 valentines day cards

one for each of my family members and one for Tracey at work

they each received a little something something from me

take a look at some of heartfel work I put into the cards

this is one of the cards that I created

I had fun cutting out hearts

embossing backgrounds

oh and I cut out a lot of letters too

that was fun

all right so I'll share my 4 out of 8 cards with you now

 

voila
they are cute uh?

they all had gift cards in them

ouh and I moved on to a different theme of cards

but I'll share those with you later

so for today I must run I have a big day ahead of me

lot's of decals to cut and lot's printing forms

and then I drive to Calgary for classes that start at 7:30am

so for now i wish you all great valentines day

Embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA STampin STressaway

Snow Class and our animals

Good morning y'all

so on this fine Tuesday I am finally working on an idea I have for my swap cards

I am late-  I know   my bad

but it's been hard to catch up

however I am happy to report that Renee is doing her praticum in our office

and boy did I have a day for her yesterday

oh yes I am happy to have her back he he (poor Renee lol)

and I have Kayla for a couple days full time as they are on cemester break

and Tracy is doing so great

Bless her heart - I am so fortunate to have her take Wanda's position

see good things do come to good people!!!!

anyways so I hope to have some nice cards to share by the weekend for you all

until then today I want to share some photos from my Sunday class

funny thing we missed our last class so we made snow cards LOL
they (the girls) are so awesome though and loved them

it was goooooooooooooooddddddddddddd

and Dar spoiled me with so many special goodies

thank YOU so much Dar (you are truly so thoughtful)

let's do some photo sharing

this Nancy who had just made a beautiful bow with Miss Lee's bow maker

she was so proud of her bow

here is Kathy

and in the back there is Kristen

Kathy's card

and this is Dar

she is a hoot! 

She done good uh??

thank you girls for a very great Sunday Class

I want to share a few photos of the animals since I have not done that in so long

here is my Max

this is right after spa day on Monday last week

too cute uh?

oh look at this photo of our beautiful Goldie and Charlie

Charlie is getting so big uh?

they were just chillin together in the hallway

here's Evan and Char - he don't like to sit for too long

my boys are home from the States with the new service truck

that was an experience I tell yha

I'll share photos over the weekend of the new truck

glad that they made it home safe and sound and that everything went well with importing the truck

and one last photo

did I ever mention to you that Max has a very hard job

lol

this is Max hard at work

he really does lay on the work table

he is sleeping here but he does supervise HA HA
anyways friends hope you do not mind my post today

I truly am grateful for you all and love to read your comments

I realize that my blog has not had a lot of CARD activity and I appologize for that

but I am getting there honest I am

so for now I wish you all a super terrifik Tuesday

and thank you to you my followers!

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA STampin STressaway