Geneva, Switzerland

Okay.... You must be wondering how many towns they cover in one day!!!!

I had some problems with Internet connections so I'm loading several postings on a same day :-)

After Annecy, we overnighted in Verchaix (France), very close to Mont-Blanc and a ski resort of Le Grand Massif.

What a great little chalet with a perfect view over the valley!!! Now the only issue until that day had been the heat wave that was lingering over Central Europe. Well.... That night we got a relief of it in a form of a GREAT thunderstorm!!!! Let me just say... We didn't sleep that well that night. On top of it all, by morning it had turned into a light drizzle, and we were sleeping soundly, until we were woken up very soundly too - by a next door church bells that first rang 7 times (well... It was, after all, 7am). Then few seconds later, another 7 chimes.... Maybe the bell ringer has dementia and he forgot that he had already chimed the bells??? Or maybe he rang them too early and had to rang them again???

Then few minutes later the bells went off again - in a crazy, no orderly ringing, forever lasting dingdongdingelidong rampage. At the end, Tom and I were lying in bed laughing! 

We tried to sleep again, but the bells kept ringing every half an hour - so we got up, went for breakfast and headed towards Geneva (back to Switzerland)

Annecy, France

On our way out from Bienne, we stopped at Neuchâtel

And then continued past Geneva to Annecy (France)

Oh!!!! What a beautiful old town and clear lake!!!

According to the boat driver, it is the cleanest lake in Europe..... Well...  I wonder.... But it surely was turquoise blue (and cold!!!)

Bienne, Switzerland

It has been a hectic summer and we are now on our well deserved vacation in the Alps

We started our trip from Zürich and drove to Bienne.

Bienne is the capital of Swiss watch making and we visited the Omega factory - some pretty nice watches there (sorry, no pictures on my phone from there)

Next we are off to Annecy, France!

Stampin'Up! Convention Make & Take - FINAL part (5)

This one was my favourite one!

 

I learned how to make the envelope style bag into a treat bag!

 

Follow this link www.bit.ly/tagabag to see a video how it is done!

 

 

 

The base and the yellow frame of the tag are from "Tag a Bag Accessory Kit" (p.158)

 

The stamp is from "Tag It" (p.45), which is also this year's Ronald McDonald House Charities stamp set!

It cordinates with the Chalk Talk Framelits Die (p.187)

Stampin'Up! Convention Make & Take - part 4

I just LOVE these "Tag a Bag Gift Boxes" (p. 158)!!!

This one has a little cover with Bermuda Bay card stock.

TIP TO CREATE FEATHERS:
- Punch one circle each from the Calypso Coral Cardstock and the Crisp Cantaloupe Designer Series Paper using the 2-1/2" Circle Punch.
- Punch one circle from the Coastal Cabana Cardstock using the 1-3/4" Circle Punch
- To create feather shapes, insert cardstock circles back into the punch
- Fold feather shape in half
- Snip through both layers, then rough the edges to add dimension
- Adhere feathers to the box using Glue Dots

Stampin'Up! Convention Make & Takes - Part 3

This is the new (available as of August 1st) Mini Muslin Bag.

The original in the event was supposed to be stamped with the "Magnificent Maple" stamp, also from the Holiday Catalogue. Well, of course I don't have that stamp so I thought - well... I'm just going to use the wonderful "Truly Grateful". Well... would have been nice, if I would have chosen a bit more saturated colours :)

 

The sentiment is stamped with Cajun Craze, the other colours are Baked Brown Sugar, Smoky Slate and Crushed Curry. The ribbon is also Crushed Curry (Chevron ribbon)

Stampin'Up! Convention Make & Takes - Part 2

Keeping it with the "Hello, Lovely" -theme ....

this card uses stamps from "Hello, Lovely" and "Gorgeus Grunge" stamp sets. Both are my NEW favourites!!!

The colours are Bermuda Bay, Crisp Cantaloupe, Coastal Cabana, Old Olive, Summer Starfruit and Calypso Coral.

Key in using the Summer Starfruit is to stamp first off on a scrap piece of paper and THEN on the card (as you can see... I didn't read the instructions with my Summer Starfruit... - oh well)

The twine is White Bakers Twine which I held against Coastal Cabana ink pad and pulled the twine to ink it (you have to do this couple of times to cover it all - although I did want to leave some white showing)

Oh and the blue arrow is Coastal Cabana Core-dinations Cardstock, stamped with Coastal Cabana and afterwards sanded lightly.