10-24-09 Card making class

I taught another fun card making class this past Saturday. We made fall and Christmas cards. There was lots of catching up, laughter, fun and creativity flowing in the room. I thought I'd share some pictures from the class with you. Enjoy What is Sylvia looking for? Could it be the bows that we couldn't find?

Is she hard at work, or what? No time for talking, gotta get those cards made.

Lois had a day of scrapping; this was her second class of the day.

Georgia let Sylvia in on a little surprise and I caught her with her mouth open; smile for the world-wide web.

The incredible mother-daughter duo. Christina, thanks for hanging in there with us. I hope your dance instructor was understanding.

Another mother-daughter duo. Card making is fun for all ages.

How about that embossing? Looks pretty serious from here.

Taking some time out to catch up.

A Busy Bee

There are so many wonderful, new and fun products available; I've been playing with as many of them as I can. Last week I purchased a couple of Smoochs, a few bottles of Tattered Angels, lots of chipboard flowers and ink pads. I've been using them for layouts, cards and altered projects. I'm glad you all can't see my eyes; if you could see them, you'd think I haven't slept in days. To be honest, I haven't. But, who needs sleep, when there are so many fun products out there, waiting to be played with. Here are a few of the things I've been working on. As always TFSB. The pull-out card from the pocket has a birthday sentiment on it. The chipboard flowers and kraft paper envelope were painted with Tattered Angels.

I found this cute tin can at Archiver's and just had to alter it.

Did I mention I also ordered some stamps from Verve Stamps? Love them.

It's never to early to start thinking of Christmas

Fall is here and I made a couple of fun layouts for Sunday Night Layouts at By Design Scrapbook Boutique.

Girls night out with my mother and sister. Don't you just love the Prima flowers?

MyVerve stamps are getting plenty of use.

I was playing with the new Ranger embossing powder.

Gratitude

Gratitude. That word expresses one of the emotions I feel when I see my son and my dad together. They have such a wonderful relationship. I have been trying to scrap this photo of them from Father's Day weekend 2008, for a while, but I just wasn't feeling it, until I saw this transparency that read Gratitude. Because the transparency has a fall theme, I thought I'd build the layout around it. The big flower is a chipboard flower that I misted with Tattered Angels, then painted the edges with one of the new Smooch paints. I also painted the edges of the leaves. Gotta say that I love this new paint.
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2009 Children's Cluster

The new fall papers are in and they are FABULOUS. The papers and rub-ons are from Vintage Poppy. Here's my first fall layout of the year. I have to let you in on a little secret; though the theme of the layout is fall, the pictures are actually from last spring. I love this picture of my son, with his friends and thought it would be perfect for the layout. I think it worked fine; we just won't tell anyone it's from the spring.
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Cards, Cards, Cards

I haven't posted anything in over a week, not because I haven't been making cards; I've been busy doing just that, and doing layouts to teach at the store and for the monthly kit club. I'm also making cards for a card class I'll be teaching October 24th, at By Design. I'll share some of what I've been working on. Enjoy and as always, TFSB

Serving up slices of Lemon Meringue

We're serving up Lemon Meringue this month at Le Bistro Rose Kit Club. The layouts, card and painted wooden frame are my contributions to the meal. We are given a kit, filled with great papers, cardstock, ribbon and embellishments, and asked to work exclusively from that. We are able to add paints and a few other items. Talk about challenging your creativity, but at the end of the day, I can say that I had a great time. Head on over to the Bistro to see the kit and other great creative dishes: http://www.lebistrorosescrapbookkits.typepad.com/

A Day to Remember

I participated as one of the designers for yesterday's Sunday Night Layouts (SNL) at By Design Scrapbook Boutique. Here's my layout. I wanted to make the layout as bright and fun as that beautiful summer day was. The green, blue and orange combination helped to achieve that objective.
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Our Summer

So much fun; that's all I can say. Yesterday, while I was in Michael's, with a coupon of course, I saw this paper mache book. I thought about the Lumiere paints, distressing inks, distressed Stickles and Tattered Angels glimmer mist I had at home, and the crackle paint I could purchase at By Design Scrapbook Boutique and WALLAHHHHH, here's what I came up with. I'm going to store paraphenalia and extra pictures from our vacation inside the book.
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Football #37

This is my son's last year in middle school and I'm sure the last year that he'll let me make stuff to put on his school locker. I'm going to take advantage of it too. He's playing football again this year, #37, so I cut this football and will be adding magnet strips to the back of it, to hang on his locker door. I cut the football from the Sports Mania Cricut cartridge, layered it then covered it with Mod Podge to perserve it. He was actually pretty excited when he saw it; I was excited that he was excited. I told you, I'm going to take advantage of this year.
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Same Papers

Sometimes, I can't get enough of certain patterned papers; such was the case with the papers below. I had a few cards to make last week, for different ocassions. I used the papers on the first card and thought, "hmmm, I really like this paper"; so as you can see, I used it each time.
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Flip Flops Anyone

One of my son's classmates had a pool party this past weekend. The party invitations had the cutest flip flops on them; very bright, festive and summery. I looked at the invitation a couple of times and thought I'd incorporate flip flops onto her card. I always have such a good time when I'm able to do really "girlie" type project, so I had a blast with this card.
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A card for Joseph

My little nephew turned 2 last week, so I wanted to make a special card for his big day.

August Card Class

Here are pictures from the card class I taught this evening. The theme for this class was "some to keep and some to share". I was trying to encourage the ladies to make cards and share them, so we came up with the idea that we would make 2 of the same cards for a couple of the patterns, so that the ladies could keep one of them, while sharing the other with a family member, relative or friend. Well, let me tell you; it didn't quite work that way. Some of the ladies stamped a different sentiment on the other card, so that they wouldn't be identical, thus justifying the reason for keeping them both. One of the ladies, decided she'd give one to her husband and one to her daughter, because they were in the same house and then she'd be able to see the cards all the time. Three of the ladies, that were there together, decided they would share the cards with each other; the end result being they'd still have the same number of cards and the sames pattern; LOL. We'll have to try this sharing thing again. But anyway, we had a wonderfun time and I'm looking forward to the next class. Stay tuned.

Card Class - Sharing ???

I will be teaching a card class tomorrow night at By Design Scrapbook Boutique. The ladies will make 8 cards, with 6 different designs. For two of the cards, we will make the same card twice. We're doing this so that the ladies will have cards to share. During the last class, I learned that the ladies don't share the cards they make in my classes because, according to them, they want to keep them to look at, put in their office at work or in their quiet "girly" space. I asked them if they would share the cards if we made multiples of some designs; their answer was yes. We're going to give it a try. I hope that the multiples will go in the mail Friday morning. It's amazing the things you learn while scrapping with other ladies. I thought that was so funny. I will post the 6 cards after the class. After I do that, I need to get started on my items for the September kits. If you like monthly kits, go on over to the By Design online store: http://bydesignscrapbookboutique.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=130&zenid=d39d41ea43526957a12d8c9d90dacec4 and sign up for the new monthly kit club.

Aaron turns 1

Aaron is a wonderful little boy, whose mother is in my Sunday School class. Aaron's birthday is this weekend and he will be a year old. He is such a warm and happy toddler, though some Sundays he's pulling my hair, blowing spit bubbles in my face and choking me with my very own necklace. Still, the next Sunday, I'm excited to see him all over again. We have decided as a class, to celebrate his wonderful year of life. He will be having surgery next month, so we're all praying for him.
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My BFF's

Last Friday night my girlfriends and I celebrated another "Birthday Club Night Out" and of course, Gringo's was on the menu. These are my best friends. My baby sister is on the end in the orange shirt and my scrapping buddy and enabler is in the red shirt. We have all been friends for many, many years and we this is our 15th year of "Birthday Club Night Out" celebrations. I am planning to scrap the pictures this weekend, so I'll share the layouts with you.

2S4Y Challenge #32

I had plans to be a scrapping over-achiever this week. I had planned to combine two challenges into one card, but it didn't work out quite that way. I wanted to participate in the 2Sketches4You, by using the sketch, and the UseIt challenge, by using the colors. alphabet stickers and a tool I hadn't used in 6 months. Well, I did manage to use the colors, but I couldn't find just the right alphabet sickers; so I threw in the towel and went full speed ahead with the other challenge.

This Way 2 Paradise

Talk about paradise; we did a jungle tour excursion while on vacation. My son wasn't old enough to have his own ATV, so we agreed to share. One problem, he didn't let me drive. There were a couple of times when I thought he was trying to get rid of me; he would take off really fast, before I had a chance to hold on and then he did this "spinning out" thing in the sand dunes. He almost succeeded that time. Next year, he'll be a little older and maybe we won't have to carpool.

Red and White Birthday

My middle sister had a birthday last week, her 46th; not sure she wants me to tell that. I've had the houndstooth CuttleBug embossing folder for a while; yes, I had to have it when I saw it in Jo-Ann's, no, I hadn't used it until last weekend. What can I say, I am a hoarder of all things scrap related. Anyhow, I saw this great sheet of houndstooth pattern paper and the thoughts started clicking. I embossed the white cardstock with the CuttleBug folder. I also bought these great Prima flower stems. I just love them, don't you.
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