Build A Bear for Craft Club

These cutie cards are going to be samples for my after school craft club-they are 6th and 7th grade girls-eight of them. I want to give them some design freedom -but at the same time I bring the class to the kids so I have to be practical-last week I put out the papers for the girls to choose and all the pink was gone before the last of the girls picked so I knew I had to switch things up-fortunately the girls are very sweet so when I pointed out the some of the girls didn't get any pinks they pitched in and shared! I'll post a picture of that project soon. For this week I'm giving the girls-4 half sheets of kraft, one of Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Saffron, Regal Rose. a 4x4 square of each of the six DSP's from the Build-a-Bear collection and four envelopes. I'm toting along my Big Shot, 5 punches and 3 Dies-ink pads, blender pens, sponges, and markers as well as grid sheets. They will decide what to do with the supplies-copy my designs or make their own-they will have 12 dsp designs to work with and the four colors! These girls love to mix things up-I'm excited to see what they make! I pre-cut the whisper white circles but they will do the rest! I'm going to bring along glitter and two way glue pen and only bring it out if they finish early-We have an hour and a half and we ran over 10 minutes last week.

Tree in a Box!

I thought this die was too hard to deal with-I'm changing my mind-this was so fun to make-I don't have this die yet -we went to a meeting held by an upline-Jan and she gave us a challenge to turn this tree into a project-well I had been working on little projects for my craft club at GMA and was inspired to put the tree in an explosion box-had to alter the usual pattern to get the tree in but I think it came out very fun! This merry moments paper is lovely-so traditional and nostalgic. The Old Olive and Real Red and Chocolate Chip are so great to work with. Gets one in the mood to deal with Christmas-sort of! Might take more then super cute paper!

Sketch Class

Hi! I can't believe how long it's been since I posted-guess the start of the school year kicked my butt. Here is the Splitcoast sketch that I gave for home work-and the three cards I did as home work. I think these three have been my favorite so far!

Card Set Class

Saturday is my card set class-
This is the first set to choose from!

Card Set Class

This is the second set of cards for the Card set Class.

Butterfly Swap

Here is one of my swaps from convention-The circle was done with the embossing folder then sanded the high points to create the white the butterfly is a new punch from SU the color is Real Razzelberry and whisper white. The flower on the butterfly is the three flower punch-I use this more then I ever though I would. I ran the butterfly through the embossing folder and layer two on top of each other to give it dept- doesn't show much on the scan. Hope you like it.

Technique Class for August

Here is the technique I did for August with my class, all products are Stampin' Up! This has been a popular technique to use with this stamp all over the internet world so thanks to everyone that showed off their version. This new embossing folder makes a great easy background. This technique uses shimmering white card stock and aqua painters with classic inks regal rose, pretty in pink and so saffron. Thanks for looking!

Hello!

I have just finished up at the Stampin' Up convention in Salt Lake City Utah! It was such a blast! So much to see, do and learn!

First things first-I apologize for not keeping up with the blog sistahs the last week-I had planned to blog from convention but the internet access was not what I hoped for-it wasn't free and it wasn't wireless so in protest I refused to use it-I'm sure the Marriott corporation really cares-not-but at least they don't have my money. I'll be choosing a different Hotel next year. I'll blog more about convention later.

These three cards are from my new Sketch class. I designed this class to encourage customers to try new things and to dust off products they have been purchasing and not enjoying out of fear of diving in and designing on their own projects. Each participant made these three cards designed after Sketch on Splitcoast. I tried to show how one sketch can appear very different when different products are used. They also took home a sketch to make at home and bring back to share at the next class-a challenge so to speak.

Stained Glass Technique

Well I've been off my blog for too long-I had a wonderful trip to the West Coast for 12 long sunshine days. I came home to lots of catching up, weeding and work.

This card was one I did a couple weeks ago for my techniques class that meets the first Wednesday of the month-it is Stained Glass technique-which basically means it's velum paper embossed and colored from the back with Stamp and write markers by SU!, then it is layered on white paper. I like this layout by the way-I just had the first meeting of my layout club. It went very well and I'm excited to have four fun new ladies join a class! This card uses four of the "in colors" -I love that they come in the markers now!

Gorguss Girl for Emily

Here is a card I made to send to my Emily away at school.  I love Susan Wodcott's Gorguss Girls as anyone who reads here knows-my diverging from a SU stamp is an unusual occurrence.  I used some of the new "in colors" and the Razzle Dazzle stamp set.  The flowers are Hero Arts-I colored with Copics-I was experimenting with matching up copics to the SU colors-challenging!

DD Challenge-Gatefold Card

The latest Challenge for the DD group was to make a gate fold card-Well here it is! Inside and out side-The images are Sugar Nellies colored with copics.  The Paper and button and Die are all Stampin' Up!  

I finally got my All in on printer working!  Thanks to 5 hours of tech support from Epson and Apple yesterday!  What a Day started with a needle in my mouth (had a tooth filled) ended with tech support-you don't even want to hear what else I had to endure just suffice it to say-it weren't pretty!  Oh I made this card Sunday night so it was spared my ugly day!

Razzelberry lemonade-AGAIN

Okay-here is one more card using Razzelberry Lemonade DSP-are you sick of it yet?  This one does look different-there is no Razzelberry  I used papers that only show Dusty Durango and Crushed Curry.  I stamped the Razzle Dazzle stamp set on the textured card stock-I love that the in colors are available in 8.5 x 11 texture card stock!

Challenge Yellow and Purple card

I'm finally posting the challenge from a few weeks ago it was to make a card with a neutral base and purple and yellow of any shade.  All products are again the sneak peek for SU!  The Top note is DSP the Very Vanilla layer is stamped and sponged the Rich Razzelberry and Crushed Curry work just fine for purple and yellow.  

ATC

So one of the SS challenges was to make an ATC-I never made one before-so her is my first try!  I used all Stampin' Up! Sneak Peek products-"in color"'s papers and ribbon are yummy!