Easter Card Class

Hey-have a peek at my Easter cards-class is this Wednesday night-I think they are pretty cute what do you think?

Sanded Texture Card

The Demonstrator Website had a video on using the new to SU texture plates and they mentioned that you can sand our DSP to get the texture to pop-so I had to try it out-and here is what I got! both background papers are old olive print pattern plain paper run through the texture plate and then sanded gently-the flower is a Pretties Dyed to match the cameo coral paper-

Pretty Pink Always Cards

Well I will thank my customers Jackie and Lori for asking me to make a flower for inspiring my retro flower card and then Geraldine  and Amanda for talking about pink and asking me to show them how to make the flower the other night for these cards.  After class I went and put the flower I made demoing how to make the flower on a card and this is what I got-and since the paper was out I decided to keep going and try out my new Butterfly die.  I learned a couple tricks as I was making these-one if you heat the pop up glue dots with the heat tool and then push the flower into it the flower holds together way better.  Both flowers are now hanging with out popping up and coming apart.  the other thing I discovered is that if I use a Q-tip to ink the edges of the die cut edge it makes a much neater well contained inking then using a sponge or dauber-and I can throw it out when I'm done-it takes a lot longer but the edges on this card were worth it since the style was fussy not antiqued.  What do You think?

Anti-hoarding Challenge

Okay here are my six cards together in one picture-don't they look nice?  and this is my favorite card it's my own take on a gate fold card.  I cut the paper to 11x4.5 and then scored it along the 11 in at 2.75 from each end.  I layered on 4.25x4 inch panel and I punched the word window twice to create the "latch" and put the label die cut popped up over the holes, I used these new over sized brads to hold the latch onto the card.  The whole thing locks together since the panels layer into each other as you close the card.  I just love SU's Bill board letters that I used for "Hello"-read the next post to hear more about the challenge.  I was thinking last night that from now on when I get a pack of new paper I will automatically cut 4 inches from one of each sheet and then cut that to 5.25, 5.25, and 1.5 and perhaps start curing my hoarding.  This was so fun-I love this paper even more-and luckily for me SU puts two of each in every pack so I still have one more piece-but I love these cards so much it was worth cutting the paper all up!

Anti-hoarding Challenge

Here are five of the six cards for the challenge I was host of-all products are Stampin' Up! of course.  I can only put 5 pictures per post so this will require two posts.  This striped paper was my absolute favorite of all the new paper-I was so afraid to mess up even one little panel-but I pushed through and it was worth it.  I found that using one piece of DSP all the way through was quite liberating and opened up the creative flow-I didn't waste time on color choices and style choices the paper dictated all that and it freed up my creativity to focus on design of layout and use of tools and so I was able to let go of some hardware and buttons and brads-I got to play with some new dies and I was pushed to be more creative because I wanted the cards to be different but the same so I looked to my tools and stamps since my paper was taken care of!  It was fun!

Celebration Class

I looked at my blog and realized I haven't posted in a week!  I couldn't believe it-what a hectic week-getting valentines done-for the mail deadline for Emily and for Reilly, David had a Semi formal Friday night and wanted an Aqua Blue shirt to match his Date's Dress-not the easiest color to procure.  I entered my Celebration Class to the Stampin' Up Class Challenge-so I won't show any detailed pictures.  But here's a little peek at what I will be making with my class tomorrow night!

Retro Flower Card

I decided to take a stab at this flower that is all over the place right now-I used this paper from the Retro Style watch Collection at stampin' Up!  I went with Chocolate Chip Craft Ink for the Sentiment-it doesn't show up so well in the picture but it does look nice in person.  I don't know who but someone started the idea of using the scallop punch for the edge and then scoring between the scallops-it was super easy and cute too!

Spring/Easter Wall Art

This is the Sample for Monday's Wall Art Class-I used the New Tea Party Paper and the new Stampin' Up Billboard Alphabet.  Class Fee is $5 and will be from 5-7PM.  

Valentine decorations for me!

Well I went a little nuts with this paper from the Love you much bundle-I recovered a couple ugly valentine signs I picked up on sale and then made this heart bouquet and these new owl die cuts-so cute-made the phrase with the calendar alphabet!  Super fun!

Banner for Valentine's Day

This is a banner I made for my front bench for Valentine's Day.  The paper is retired Stampin' Up, the brads are SU flower brads, three heart punch, and chunky glitter, I cut off the scallop edge and flipped it over to the other side sliding it up a bit, I cut it out in DSP and layered on retired Pomegranate Card stock.

Happy Heart

This is the Happy Heart Set from the Holiday Mini-it made the big catalogue!  Yeah!  these are Kissables in the small cello bag don't they match the Candy Lane paper great!-all Supplies are Stampin' Up!  

More Digital Pages

These are digital pages-This is my daughter, my niece and my Sister-the finished page I will print and give to my Sister-in-law, the square of just pictures I will print and scrap for my self.  This is how I like to do digital!

Hybrid Page

This is a hybrid page.  I edited the picture in photoshop and added the embellishment phrase that was purchased on line-I added journalling and printed the rest is paper and felt(felt flowers by SU) used crcuit for letters and scallop flower background embellishments.  

Digital Scrapbook Page

So Stampin' Up will be releasing digital scrapbook software later this year-the buzz is all about what is this and how does it work-so this is a fully digital page.

This is a little chipboard Album for the third in the series of classes I'm doing with the Love you Much Bundle.  The pictures seem to be in reverse order-guess I should have posted the last page first-etc... live and learn!  I used words and such from a bunch of different sets-now they are all over my craft table!  I wonder if they will ever find their ways home?  The cover is embossed with craft ink and clear powder-Everything is SU except the chipboard itself.  

Valentine Card Class!

I had a lot of fun creating these cards for the Valentine bundle class.  I hope everyone likes them!  this is a fun set!

Valentine's Day Wall hanging

Here is the first of several projects I'll be doing in my January Classes.  They will be featuring the Valentine's Bundle on special from Stampin' Up! this month into next.  It was a fun easy project.  

Coaster Calendar

Hi -I haven't posted in over a week-I just seem to have a hard time keeping up the week we go out to New Mexico to visit my DD.  I made this right before we left for my Kids crafts class.  Unfortunately no one signed up, I will be making a bunch to give as gifts-I hope if I have time.  I have so many things I'd like to make and so little time.  So hopefully I'll get my blog rounds done soon and get to enjoy everyone else's creations as well.  The Christmas countdown has begun and we all are rushed I'm sure-so thanks for looking and enjoy the process!  All products are SU! except the calendar.  

Mom and Me Christmas Class

Here is the first of the crafts for this class!  this will be on December 14.  Kids must be over 8 and you don't need to bring a child to attend!  I hope to have picture of the rest of these class projects up soon!

Little Gifts Class

Here are four of the class projects-a cany tin and car freshener, the large jar is the drink Mix-a Minty Hot chocolate and the small jar will have a candle poured in it in bright white-choose which style to make when you arrive!  this class is Friday December 12-RSVP by December 5.