Goody Bag Projects

Our cardmaking guests received a really nice goody bag filled with beautiful paper, ribbon and embellishments. Here is a card made with the paper from the paper pack. The picture is an extra from Jessie's vintage class. Very nice.

Card Swap Winner

Congratulations to Sharon D who won the card swap. What a gorgeous card. It was a tight race. As you can see below, she had tough competition.
There was a really cute Christmas fireplace that you don't see in the cards below. That was sent away for Christmas for a friend who doesn't have a fireplace. I'm afraid I can't remember which wonderful person made the card. You can see it on the card swap video.

Vicki, you will notice that your card isn't showing below. It was given to a really nice little girl for her birthday. She loved the card which was light sage with a blingy flower and butterfly. Sorry Vicki. You and Marie are going to have to come on the next cruise, enter the card swap, so that we can have the picture of your card below. :)

Card Swap Pics

Class Fun

Here are some pics of the class participants having fun. We had a conference room reserved which was called the "Cardstock Group". The cruise director said we couldn't call the room a cardmaking class, otherwise non-registered guests would want to join the classes. It was only for our "Sailing with Scissors" bunch.

Glaciers

The glaciers were breathtaking.

Here are some pics of the train ride.

Some of us went on a really cool train ride. It was so warm and sunny that one of us fell asleep on the train...zzzzzzzz. You know who you are. It wasn't Ms. Gail who is pictured here, looking fab.

There was a film crew in a helicopter filming the sights and the train.

Is that Bob, Roy or Jim???

We had a three husbands who came on the cruise to provide moral support for their cardmaking spouses. You guys were really good sports. I'm not saying they didn't had fun, just ask Mr. Sudoko Runner Up Prize Winner. A round of applause for Roy, Jim and Bob.

You don't believe me about the Alaskan weather, eh?

Here are some more beautiful Alaskan pictures. Again, the weather was awesome.

Wow! That was fun!

We have been back for a while and it has been busy, busy, busy with the holidays coming fast. Now that Christmas is here, it is time to do some catching up.
We definitely had lots and lots of fun.
First, the weather was INCREDIBLE. We didn't have one day of rain or snow. It was sunny the whole trip.
Here is our ship - Rhapsody of the Seas. It looks like it is sitting on a glass table top.

5 hours to go!

OK Cardmakers, I'm so excited that I can't sleep. We are all boarding the ship in 4 1/2 hours. Wow! Can't wait.

This will be the last posting until our return. I can't wait to talk about all the fun!

Talk Soon.

Optional Excursion - White Pass Scenic Railway

If any of you are interested, several of us have signed up for the above optional excursion. One of our customers, Cheryl, recommended this tour. She said it was very good. You can sign up for it on the ship. Right now it is too late to book on-line; this has now been closed.

Are we getting excited yet???? Two more sleeps....yoohoo!

Card Swap Sample

Hello Stampers,

Can you believe we only have 5 more sleeps until the cruise. Wow!

One stamper sent in this pic of her cards that she will be swapping. The stamp is from Local King Rubber Stamps, http://www.localkingrubberstamp.com/

Very nice.

We have fifteen people participating but this stamper made twenty, just in case more people sign in.

---Please remember your wood mounted rubber stamp for the wood mount game.

Extras to Bring

Hello Stampers,
There are a few extras supplies that you can bring for enhancing your cards:

Jessie's Acrylic class - bring a blue ink pad and a black ink pad if you would like to ink your edges.
Jessie's Vintage Class or Pop-Up Class - bring a brown ink pad, again for inking your card edges. If you have a crimper (5 inches long), please bring it. Don't buy one special for the class because I will have one for you to use. You will love the card we will make with an envelope.
Jessie's Elegant Christmas Cards - blue ink pad, also for inking your card edges

Diana's card class - paper piercer and pad. If you don't have one, a push pin and a computer mouse pad work well.

Maureen's card class - same as Diana's class.

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Please bring lots of adhesive because you will be making lots of fabulous cards. Who knows, your Christmas Cards for this year may be all done on the cruise.
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Looks like someone is working on her card class kits

Wow, someone has been busy working on her card class kits. Can you guess which class this is?

Do you see your name?

The name tags for the Sailing With Scissors guests are ready and they are very cute. Can you believe we are less than 3 weeks away? I'm so excited.