Monday Morning Craft Club

This is a picture frame we made in Craft Club for April. We used On-Board Basic long boards cut to 6 x 5 3/4 and window sheets. The paper was adhered with glue stick and then it was run threw the big shot to create the frame. Window sheets were used to create a pocket on the back of the frame to hold a picture in place.

Color Renovation!

The most wonderful thing happened while I was away on Vacation-and it had nothing to do with me. But I'm sooo excited I have to share. Stampin' Up made a huge announcement- They are completely revamping our color offerings. There are five new colors, many great in colors coming back from the past-and 30 colors retiring-making room for new in-colors that will be active for two years at a time....LOVE IT!!!
This is so fresh and exciting I can't wait to see what else is in store!

We will be changing to 4 new streamlined color collections - each containing 10 colors.

The current colors that will be retiring in June are:

glorious green

green galore

gable green

yoyo yellow

only orange

pink passion

pixie pink

orchid opulence

lovely lilac

brilliant blue

close to cocoa

creamy caramel

really rust

ruby red

cameo coral

summer sun

bordering blue

brocade blue

ballet blue

taken with teal

handsome hunter

pale plum

blush blossom

apricot appeal

barely banana

mellow moss

sage shadow

almost amethyst

lavender lace

basic brown

going gray

This should give you plenty of time to stock up on your favorites! DONT WAIT!!!!!

RETURNING IN-COLORS

Baja Breeze, Melon Mambo, Pink Pirouette, Rich Razzleberry, Riding Hood Red, River Rock, Soft Suede, Tangerine Tango and Wild Wasabi

NEW COLORS:

Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight, Cherry Cobbler, Cajun Craze and Early Espresso

Kraft will be re-named to Crumb Cake- and will have matching Ink-

Yeah!

Sweet Pea Club Class Number Two

These are the second set of Layouts for my sweet Pea Club Members-The Friday Morning Group has completed these however the Night Group was not able to do that Friday and the next Day the basement flooded and I lost my work space till we recover I'll be holding class in my kitchen-oh well-life goes on.

These Papers are so lovely! The felt flower are stitched and adorable-they were so fun to work with!! I love a pre purchase class because having an advance headcount gives me the freedom to be generous with the embellishments!
All products are from Stampin' Up!

March Project Scrapbook

First Friday of the month is almost here! Project Scrapbook time! This is the layout-Very cool Basic Grey and Basic Black -embossed stencils. Photos are 4x6 and 4x3.

Technique for March

Water Color with Craft

This month we will dabble in water coloring with craft ink on dark paper-the colors pop-and you can emboss right into the watercoloring-this is done with iridescent ice!

Shutter Fold

This is one of the two projects for February's Last Monday of the Month Club-It is a tri-shutter fold-I just love this card-who ever designed the pattern was a genius! I love this cheerful paper-it's retired but I have a lot left over so I'm using it up! We will use a bunch of the new punches though! The second project is a sweet treat project I'll post that later! Sorry the closed picture is sideways-I can't figure out how to fix it!!

Sweet Pea Club

These will be the first Two layouts for the Sweet Pea Club-These are done kind of Shabby Chic-They are using the same paper in two different colors-The Quote is done using MDS. This was a creative challenge for myself separating out the papers and deciding what products to use together. I decided it was most time efficient to do similar papers together for the two layouts.

Memories Page

Project Scrapbook is today! This is my monthly scrapbook class, I saw this ribbon weaving technique in Creating Keepsakes Magazine this month and had to give it a try so it is the class for this month! I love the vintage feel that grew from the ivory ribbon inspiration. Class participants will choose their own colors and image to stamp. I am going to put Vintage Vogue out in addition to Chocolate Bunny.

Valentine Waterfall Card

Waterfall cards have been around for a while but they were new to some of the ladies in my class this morning -I hope they all enjoyed making this cute card0we used Pretty in Pink and Real Red the new punch set and the I heart hearts stamps-I just love how this card came out and everyone did a super job-we also made a pillow box-I'll post that later!

Love Pennant

This is the sample for my Crazy for Love Pennant class-$15 includes all supplies-Wednesday January 27-12:30-2 ish. This is a fabric pennant swag but requires no sewing-just an iron will put it all together. Any unused kits will be available for sale. I don't know about you but I'm crazy for it!

December Project Scrapbook

Well I know what my New Year's Resolution needs to be-wow-my last post was last month! Her's December's project Scrapbook-I was inspired by Embellished Emotions a book I've had for a few years, I wanted to do a masculine page with this black and white DSP from the Holiday Mini-

Project scrapbook-November

This month we are focusing on sewing on paper, This layout uses both machine stitching and hand stitching.
Using the sewing machine allows adhering the window sheets without adhesive showing through. I haven't been able to find the pictures I want to use on this page -I will be adding a Let it Snow Title. Class is this Friday-November 13th.

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.