Pink Paisley Elephant

When I started this card I planned on using last weeks Sketch Challenge from SCS but once I got going I ended up changing it just a little and moving the white piece up and adding the eyelets. The elephant is "kissed" on the paisley background with Regal Rose and the ear is stamped in Rose Red, cut out and popped up with dimensionals. The Regal rose piece is stamped with Paisley and the rose red is stamped with Floral. For the ribbon I first tied the white on and then added the pink gingham and rose grosgrain.

I was talking to Dad earlier and he said to "stay warm" so I am passing it on to you cause it is really cold out there - Stay Warm and have a great day.

Btw- I wish Mom had waited another week to do her "Snow Dance" because Joe is away this week. After no snow all winter we get a storm the day after he leaves. Oh well, I do have good neighbors who plowed me out yesterday (I did shovel the night before but it wasn't really enough).

This is a card I did using the color challenge from last week and a sketch I found at Scrap Maps. They are great and have lots of sketches for scrapbook pages and cards. Another creativity booster.

The colors for this card are lavender lace, pink passion and gable green. These colors were different for me and I found myself wanting to use the white gel pen (lots) to soften the colors and tie it all together. The stamp sets are Hip Hip Hooray and Polka dots and Paisley (for the dots on the pink). I didn't have any brads in the colors I was using so I embossed them with versamark and lavender EP (they were silver brads). I found that when embossing on metal it doesn't take as long because it heats up faster and stays hot longer so be careful. Also tweezers are a must when embossing brads.

As you can see I am still on the white gel pen kick. We'll see if the next card has any on it.

Chocolate & Celery

This is one of the cards we did last night without the stickles (they were added to the centers of the flowers on top) and I had to change the ribbon cause I didn't have enough of this one for everyone.

The colors are chocolate chip, certainly celery, pink passion and apricot appeal. The flowers are stamped in white the dots are stamped in apricot appeal and the paisley is in certainly celery. I used my fav white gel pen on the paisley and it really made it "pop". The edges of the pink were cut with decorative edge scissors and that was popped up with dimensionals.

It was really nice to get back to class last night. I love getting out and seeing everyone once a week and to get to share my love of stamping with them is icing on the cake!

Find Joy

I found this card on Splitcoast a fewdays ago when I was looking for some imspiration and had to CASE it. I love the choc. chip and brocade blue together. I seem to be in a white gel pen mood lately (anyone in my class tonight will see when I show them the cards) so this was right up my ally. The stamp set is the Polka dots and Paisley again, I forgot to say last time that it will be in the Spring Mini that comes out in March. I have been having fun with this set so I'm sure you'll see more cards with it in the near future.

I finally got ready for tonight's class last night. I had been working on the cards over the last few days but couldn't really decide which one to use. It was kind of funny to be prepping for a class again. The Christmas break was so long it seems like forever since I taught a class. I am really excited to see everyone tonight. BTW we are using Stickles for the first time tonight. I have had them since November and haven't used them and the card needed a little "bling" so they were perfect.

UHU and a new card

First off, I recieved these UHU products before Christmas and haven't had a chance to use them until a couple of nights ago. I found a link to Maria's Blog where she is giving free samples of UHU products to bloggers. When I finally had time to play the other night I gave them a try and this is what I found.

The Scrapbookers Pen: I liked the consistency of the adhesive,it was fast drying and I liked the hold it had but for me it was a little messy. It didn't buckle the cardstock or make it look wet and it did dry clear where I messed it up a bit :) I am definately going to use it some more and see if I can perfect the use of liquid glue. Oh yea, and the applicator for this was like no other one I have seen. It is kind of like a plastic chissled tip so it spreads the adhesive nicely.

The UHU Glue Roller: This was more my style (I normally use tape runner type adhesives) and went on really nicely.I used this one for the card below and it held quite good. The application was really smooth, I had no problems with it skipping or anything. I will be using this one more too for sure.

This card was inspired by the patterened paper I had on my desk from a tin I did for Mom or Amy (I can't remember whose it was 'cause I did one for each of them for Christmas and yes I need to clean my desk). Anyway, I used another sketch challenge for the layout and the colors came from the paper. It is hard to see in the picture but the verse in the lower left corner says "simply said from the heart - thank you. I have had Simply Said for quite a while but haven't used it much so I did this card and 1 more (that I will use for class this week).

I think that will be my goal over the next little while- to use some of the sets I haven't used in a while. But of course I need to use some of my new ones too so I guess I have lots of stamping to do :o)

Faux Button Tutorial

Supplies:

cardstock
1/16" punch
1/2" punch
white gel pen
versamark pad
glassy glaze or Utee
heat tool
tweezers
powder pal (optional)

Step 1:

Punch 2 holes with 1/16" punch fairly close together.





Step 2:

Punch 1/2" circle around 2 smaller holes.





Step 3:

Draw "stitch" between holes with white gel pen.





Step 4:

Press into versamark pad






Step 5:

Press into glassy glaze, remove with tweezers then heat.





Step 6:

Finished button.





Step 7:

Add to card.

This is the first card I have made in weeks and it took way too long to make and it had nothing to do with the button. I guess I need to do lots more stamping this weekend to get going again.

I used both sketch and color challenges from SCS to help me along. I can't remember what sketch it was but the color challenge was from this week ( Cool Carribean, Basic Black and Whisper White). The stamp set is the free one we got from Stampin' Up! called Polka Dots and Paisley. Very cool.

My card is on Stampin' Up!

I just found it when I was doing my regular check for the highlights from the Regionals in October. I was thinking Mom or I might be in a picture but never expected my card would be there!

This is the card I demoed with the faux button. I was going to give the directions here but I think I will attempt a tutorial with pictures. I am going to do some stamping today so I will do it then.

The image of the horse is done with the reverse grid technique. I just did a searc for it as well and couldn't find it on SCS so I will either do another tutorial or give the directions later.

Gotta go get some cleaning done so I can stamp later.

Merry Christmas

I just wanted to say a quick Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you all had a great day. We definately did. It was really great having Amy here to spend Christmas with us, the kids were so happy to have another person to show their new toys to and play with.

We are almost all packed up and ready to leave in the morning the rest of the week with our familys. Hopefully the weather is good tomorrow. I do of course wish we had had a little snow for Christmas but hope it holds off till around supper time tomorrow.

I also wanted to thank Sandra for the surprise I found when we went to do the last 2 blankets. Hopefully we can get to Micheals in our travels :)
Oh and Joe liked his blanket we made at Donna's and was surprised. And I got some goodies from CompuPro and a gift certificate for there as well so I will get to do some shopping when we get back!

Ok we are off to bed to get some sleep before the long drive tomorrow. Have a great holiday everyone.

Sorry

For not posting sooner but you know all of the excuses -it's that time of year.

It was a nugget box. You can find the patterns if you do a search on Split Coast in the forums section for nugget boxes. Darla was the fist one to guess a box so she was the closest. I have her address and will be putting a card in the mail asap.

The base of the box is mellow moss and the paper is from last years mini cataloge, I can't remember the name of it. The make merry if from tags and more and we used markers to color in the stamp.

I am almost done my shopping, I am going out this afternoon to try to finish and we are getting together tonight with some of the stampers for a little get together and to make some blankets. Believe it or not I actually have 3 of mine done. I am going to try to pick up the fleece today to surprise hubby with one that I will do tonight.

I'll try to post some pics of the blankets we do tonight. Gotta go make lunch.

This is one of the projects we are doing on Saturday, but I am not going to tell you what it is :(

After Saturday I will post another picture for those of you that aren't able to come so you can see what it is.

I really do like to keep you all in suspense. I am the one who doesn't want to give any ideas for me for Christmas because I want it to be a surprise. I did do a wish list at CompuPro but I will be happy with whatever I get from there :) I love playing with new stuff (hint, hint Nicole).

Speaking of Christmas presents- I have been trying to not look at the "spoilers" on SCS to see what the gift from Shelli is for demonstrators. I have to say though that I am really tempted to see what they are saying about the gift. I am assuming it is a stamp set but I have no idea what it is.

Anyway, you can guess what you think is in the picture above and post it here if you want but I won't say if you are right or not :)

Hmm, maybe the first person to get it right will get an RAK (random act of kindness - a card) from me. You can post a comment here (sorry Mom-you can't play this one) and Sunday I will post a picture showing what it is and who won. Any guesses?

Just checking

I just tried to post a comment to Mom's blog and it wouldn't work. I was hoping I hadn't forgotten my password since it has been so long since I posted here! I guess it must just be a problem with her comments right now 'cause I didn't have any problems here.

I don't have anything to share right now. I am working on projects for Saturday. Well actually I just started last night, I have been sick for the last week and a half. I finally gave in and went to the hospital on Sunday and now have antibiotics so hopefully they will start kicking in soon. It figures I had a few days that I could have been stamping for fun and I didn't feel like it. Oh well, at least it will be over with before Christmas.

I am hoping to get some stamping in this afternoon so maybe tomorrow I will have something to show you. Maybe even a sneek peek for Saturday.

Pattern

Look at what I did!

Ok, it might not be too impressive to some or most of you but I have to say that I am pretty happy with this.

This is the pattern I drew on the back of the patterened papers for the class. Don't mind my names for all of them, if you look at the picture of all of the cards hopefully you can figure out which piece goes with which card. If not let me know and I will explain it better. If you click on the diagram it should come up bigger. The measurements aren't to any scale I just used "paint" on my computer and eyeballed it.

When I was figuring out my pattern I used grid paper and marked off 12 squares by 12 squares and then figured out my main pieces I wanted to get out of the paper (for me it was the tote and the tin) and then worked around those to create the other pieces for the cards.

I hope this helps some of you out and maybe will inspire some to make their own one sheet wonders.

OSW

These are the cards and tin we did in the One Sheet Wonder classes on Saturday. We also did a tote and a bookmark. All in 2 hours!
It was lots of fun and I think everyone enjoyed themselves. Hopefully it wasn't too stressful for anyone :)

I had a few people ask for the template for the OSW so I am going to attempt to figure out how to make one on my computer. If that doesn't work I will draw a picture (if I have to resort to that please excuse my drawing - it is pretty much as bad as my computer skills, no it is worse for sure!) and take a picture of it. Wish me luck.

This Thursday is the last one of this year so we will be doing Christmas cards and then on the 16th of Dec we get together and I will have 3 projects for everyone to do and I will bring my stamps and inks and everyone can finish up any last minute projects/cards or maybe be inspired and do some new ones. I can't wait, maybe I will even get some time to play.

Just in case...

anyone is still up or has a chance to check this in the morning here is another sneak peek. Since it was mentioned that I hinted that I might show 2 I thought I would give you one more :)

Of course this isn't one of the WOW cards because I just can't do that but I do have to say that it is pretty cute. This one was inspired by one of the swap cards I recently recieved and I decided to scale it down and make it a note card. Oops! Speaking of making it a note card that reminds me I forgot to pack something for it or I guess I should say for the envelope. I guess I had better add that to my list to put in my bag tomorrow.

Anyway, I'm off to finish my last few things and go to bed.

As promised...

Here is one of the cards we are doing tomorrow. I have to tell you that I had a really hard time doing this though because I like to keep them a secret (usually right up until we are about to do the card). So I need you to tell me if you like getting sneak peeks or do you like to be surprised?

I don't have too much left to do for tomorrow so I am hoping to get some time to play later. We'll see how the day goes though:)

Too cute!

This is a sneak peek at one of the cards we are doing tonight. It is a cased card from SCS that Roberta e-mailed me a picture of a few days ago. I wasn't going to do a Christmas card tonight but I couldn't help it.

I changed the card just a little to use what I have and just love it. I can't wait to until everyone does them tonight. The other card is with Carte Postale and I am very excited about that. This was my first time using Carte Postale and I am in love with this set. I am hoping to use it in my scrapbooking soon too.

I have been super busy getting ready for Saturday's stamp camp and last night I did a card for CompuPro's open house next weekend. Tomorrow I will upload a sneak peek at one (maybe even 2) of the cards we are doing on Saturday. I promise- I already took the picture so I have no excuses. Well maybe time but I am almost ready so I will be sure to make time.

More Scrapgala

This is the picture frame we made in the Hung up on Family class. I had this picture with me but didn't like the colors so I printed it in Sepia when I got home and dry brushed the edges a little to make it go with the frame better.

I really don't know what my favorite class was but I have to say that I loved this one and want to find more of these frames so I can do more and maybe even teach a class with them.

ScrapGala

I just had the best weekend. Mom, Amy (my sister) and I went to Monton for ScrapGala this past weekend. We had 2 full days of classes and loved every one of them. The teachers were awesome. Some of the classes were more fast paced and some were slower and more relaxing. The ones that I had at the end of both days were more relaxing and it was a nice end to the day. We made books, did scrapbook pages, made little holiday ornaments and even made a wall hanging.











All of the teachers gave out prizes and in Kah Mei's class if you won a prize you had to tell something about yourself or do something. Every once in a while you would hear someone in the hall yell "I love scrapbooking". We were in her class last on Saturday and when Amy won we decided that she would have to have a stamp on her cheek and then she got to keep that stamp.

This is all of the teachers when at the "Thank you" to the teachers. They all said that they can't wait to come back next year. They loved teaching here.

I really can't put into words how great these teachers were. I really hope they can all come back next year and am planning on being there.

I will take some pictures of the projects and post them later. I know I will have more to say then too 'cause I know there are things I wanted to say that I missed. I do have to get some of my house work done so check back later.

One Week

Well I can't believe it has been a week since I posted. It has been a really busy week so here is a quick recap.

Friday night was Alicia's party, Saturday morning we left for Dad's 50th party that night. Sunday we left my parents after lunch and we dropped Joe off in Sherwater. About 15 minutes after we left Sherwater Ian started saying he smelled something. We stopped at Tim's by the airport and Sasha (the dog) had had diarea (sp?) in the back seat. Thank goodness my sister was with me cause I don't know how I would have cleaned that up with 2 kids and a dog. We arrived home around 10:00 and then my neighbor took Amy to the ferry in Saint John Monday morning.

Monday I took Ian to have his picture re-takes for school because his first one had a clear line of snot from his nose to his lip. We had to wait an hour but I think it will be worth it.

The last couple of days I have been getting everything cut out for class tonight and working on my name badge for the scrapping weekend in Moncton this weekend. I am meeting Mom & Amy in Moncton tomorrow night. I am getting a babysitter to come until Joe gets here so I can leave a little earlier. I can't wait after this week I am so ready to relax and take some classes.

This is the name badge that I spent too much time on but there is a contest for the best one so hopefully I will win something and make it worth while :) You can't see it in the picture but there is glitter on my name and in the center of the flower. I used bravo burgandy craft ink and holographic embossing powder.

Ok so that wasn't a very quick recap but I hope you had a little laugh with me over the dog incident. I can laugh about it now that I have my van clean again!

Happy Halloween

I hope you all had a happy Halloween. This is a picture of my treaters before we went out. I took both of them to a few places and then Joe took Ian to a few more while Emma and I handed out treats to the last 3 (of 15) kids we had.

Ian is already asking when Halloween will be again.

So, today I can pre-order from the Winter mini and I have no idea what to order. I want it all! Well almost all, I'm sure there must be a few things I can do without :) Not sure just what though. I guess I had better make another list and try to narrow it down a bit.