Easter Card Class

So I am way behind at getting this posted, nothing new there LOL. This is the Easter Card Class I am teaching at Scrap Arts. I have already taught the class once. If you are interested in taking this class you can contact Scrap Arts.

Two of the cards bases were actually cut out on the Cricut. The Child's Year cartridge is amazing, there are so many wonderful cards on it. The vanilla and brown Bunny card was cut out on the Cricut, I then covered a piece of brown card stock with sookwang double sided tape and attached it to the inside of the front panel and then added brown fun flock to the bunny die cuts. The same method was used for the Easter egg cut out card. I used the tape and a white piece of card stock for the inside and then used glitter ritz ultra fine glitter for the eggs.

The stamps on the Waterfall card, chick card and the gift bag are from the Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps Easter Set. The patterned paper on the Waterfall and Chick cards is from The Three Bugs in a Rug "Little Chick" line, I love the colors in these papers. So much fun for Spring. The papers used for the gift bag are Sprout, French Vanilla and the patterned paper is from Basic Grey Marrakech line.

February Challenge

Well I managed to get my page done last night so I could take it to work today. I've been meaning to scrap this photo for a while now. It is from a charity event we attended almost 2 years ago now.


I was planning on doing something very different for this challenge but, maybe I'll save that idea for next month. It was a black and white ball we attended, hence the black and white theme.


The card stock is bazzill and the patterned paper is from Imaginesce (daisy downpour, black tie optional). The black swirls were cut out on my cricut with Ashlyn's Alphabet Cartridge. I colored the small chipboard frame black, the love charm is from Making Memories and I used a couple of antique rose bling and a pink floral pin to finish off my 3d element. I think I covered all the requirements for this challenge. I'm feeling inspired now, I think I'll have to go through my pictures and get more printed up so I can make some more pages in March. Maybe I'll manage to get a page a week done instead of just one a month :)

Happy Crafting Everyone!

Deanna

March Class Schedule

I'm a little bit behind getting this info up but, here is the schedule for my March classes at Scrap Arts

Pocketful of Memories
Sunday March 7th
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Thursday March 18th
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Birthday Greetings
Sunday March 21st
12:00pm - 2:00pm

I hope to have some new classes designed for April. We've been so caught up in the Olympic spirit here in BC I haven't been doing much for crafts lately.

I am planning to go do a scrapbook page in a few minutes. That's if I can find a picture to scrap.
I'm trying to decide what to do for the February Scrap Arts challenge. The challenge is as follows.

Love Theme.....can be anything you love
for example your child, your parents, your husband, chocolate, puppies etc....the possibilities are endless
1 photo
3d element
Bling
1 pin decoration
Red, black, pink or white, color theme
2 patterned papers

What to do? I keep going through my pics but I just can't decide. What I really need is a giant picture of chocolates :)

Well, the page is due by tomorrow so I have to think fast LOL. I'll let you know what I come up with in my next post. I hate these one picture challenges. I think I'm going to have to take over making up the challenges. I will make sure to say use 2-4 photos on all them :)

Happy Crafting
Dee

Olympic Fever!

As you can imagine the last week in Vancouver has been all about the Olympics. I have been so busy watching the games that I haven’t spent much time in my craft room.

I did make a few cards for Valentine’s Day. Most of them have been on the blog already. Here is another I made using the new Webster’s pages we got in at Scrap Arts a couple of weeks ago. Same idea as the last one the hot air balloon was cut out of another sheet of Webster’s paper, I then used Versa mark ink and clear embossing powder on it. I used a swirl stamp to add some more detail to the corners. The Love & Forever stamps are from Crafty Secrets Cherish set.

New Look for Spring

It is about time to start the spring cleaning. I decided to start with my blog, much easier then the house LOL. I love love love green as you can probably tell. I have been working on my craft room again. I've rearranged it several times over the last year. I think I finally have it designed in a way that I can live with for awhile. Of course Kit always has to help with this process. I made the mistake of taking her chair to use at my desk. Needless to say she would not leave me alone while I was in it, and if I got up for a minute she would curl up in it. Now that I've given her chair back to her I manage to get a little more done. Here are a couple of pics of her snooping while I was cleaning up.

Too much new stuff

I'm not complaining or anything but, working at a Scrapbook store when new products come in is dangerous. I'm like a kid in a candy store and I want a little of everything. We got so much new stuff in at Scrap Arts last week. Tons of new papers, bling, embellishments, punches, smooch, and more. I couldn't help myself; I had to buy a little bit of everything LOL. My favorite though is the new paper line Postcards from Paris from Webster's Pages.


I had to make a card out of this and I'm hoping to make a scrapbook page as soon as I get some pics printed. The name of the patterned paper I used for this card is Paris Couture and the card stock colors are Bitter Chocolate and Dawn. The butterflies are repeated in the paper so I was able to cut them out and pop them up with foam dots. I did use versamark ink and clear embossing powder to make them a little stronger. I used the same technique on the popped up flowers as well. The sentiment stamps are from the Clear Arts Stamps "Cherish" set.

Did I mention we got new bling...lots and lots of new bling LOL. I had to buy a bunch of that as well. The ones I used on this card are from Kaiser Craft and the color is Antique Rose.

Happy Crafting everyone!

Dee

More Bombshell Cards

I just love these Bombshell stamps. I have been having so much fun making cards with them. Here are a couple of cards I made this week. Of course with these great new stamps I had to go and buy some new Prisma Color markers LOL. The patterned paper for the first card is from Creative Imaginations. The rhinestones on the charm were clear so I colored them with a prisma marker, so they would match the card.

The patterned paper for the second card is from K & Company "BW Madeline Painted Roses". The xoxo stamp is from Autumn Leaves "Love with a Flourish" stamp set. I forgot to write down what prisma markers I used. I will try and figure it out later and post the colors I used. Next time I'll try to remember to write them down as I go :)

Happy Crafting Everyone

Dee

January Challenge

Can you believe it's the end of January? I really wanted to do a bunch of page challenges this month. But...I only managed to get the one for Scrap Arts done. The challenge was 1 photo, spring theme, brad or eyelet (not both), chipboard & paint.

I don't like using paint for scrapbooking. I have tons of paint for other crafts but not a fan of using it for scrapbooking. It's too messy & I usually end up with paint everywhere. Also Kit is always trying to stick her nose in the paint.

The flower picture I took last spring. I really love the picture but I must have spent 2 hours trying to decide on paper and colors. I'm happy with most of it but I would undo the stamping if I could LOL. I have a real problem leaving blank spots on my pages. The chipboard oval was painted and I stamped the word beautiful on it. I really love this picture and I think the purple & green paper make it pop. Amazingly this was my first attempt at paper piercing on a page. I messed up a few times on other pieces of paper. The patterned paper is from the Basic Grey Eva line.

I will attempt to get more pages done in February, I may even go to a crop or two.

Happy Crafting everyone!

Dee

New Bombshell Stamps

My Hubby is so wonderful!!! He ordered me 4 sets of stamps from Bombshell Stamps. I have been wanting these for awhile now. They are wonderful stamps, he got me the mounted stamps which come precut and ready to go, just need an acrylic block. I have been playing with different color combinations. My first actual card I did is here and the prisma color and momento markers I used are pictured below. Brown & Parakeet card stock. The main image was stamped with Momento Tuxedo Black ink, the rest of the images were stamped with Momento Rich Cocoa. I distressed the edges and inked them with Versa Magic Jumbo Java. The two small images have been popped up with foam dots.

I stamped out all the images on some white paper to practice coloring them in. Here are my first two attempts. I like the color combinations. I made a few mistakes but I had fun.

Valentine Samples

I will be teaching these 2 cards in my upcoming Valentine card class. The first one is a tri shutter card. This one is done with Brown & Foxy bazzill card stock. The patterned paper is Madeline Painted Roses from K & Company. The Sweetheart stamp is from the Love with a Flourish stamp set by Autumn Leaves and the Love Forever stamps are from the Crafty Secrets Cherish set. It is hard to see in the picture but there are some other images stamped with pink inks and versa mark ink. The front panel is stamped with designs from the Flourish Edges stamp set by Basic Grey.

The next card is done using flock and glitter. I did this much the same as you would do the burnished velvet technique. I did the flocked background first and then the pink glitter hearts. The card stock is Mud Pie and Petunia. I used chocolate lotto fun flock and micro fine rose copper glitter ritz glitter. The xoxo stamp is from the Autumn Leaves Love with a Flourish stamp set.

More Class Samples

Here are the rest of the samples for my Birthday card class. The first is a wiper card. The little piece on top tucks in when the card is folded up. I used French Vanilla and Parakeet Bazzill card stock. The patterned paper is called "Peek-A-Boo" from the October Afternoon "Ducks in a Row" line. The flower stamp is from Crafty Secrets Kewpies stamp set (ink Momento Pear Tart)

This Birthday card is a small 3 1/2" square card. The colors are Mud Pie & French Vanilla. I used the Swiss Dots cuttlebug embossing folder. The stamps are from the Crafty Secrets Mouse Party set. I added a few bits of color with water color pencils.

For this card I wanted to do a shadow box style. I cut the scalloped oval out with and popped it up with 3d dots. I used a smaller scalloped oval for the greeting. The card stock colors are Hazel and French Vanilla. The patterned paper is the other side of the Peek-A-Boo paper. The greeting is stamped with Oasis Green versa magic ink and edges are done with Sea Breeze versa magic ink. The dragonfly and small flowers were stamped with versa mark and are from the Crafty Secrets "Wildflowers" stamp set. The flowers were cut out on the cricut.

Birthday Card Class Samples

I am teaching 3 classes in January. The first one is the Pocketful of Memories. The other 2 are card classes.

Here are 2 of the 5 cards I will be teaching in my Happy Birthday card class. For the first one I used a few different stamp sets. I believe the tree branches and leaves are from a Hero Arts set I have, the bird and nest are from Crafty Secrets set called Fairyland. For the background I used cuttlebug embossing folder Forest Branches. The image has been colored in with watercolor pencils. My friend Marie sent me a sample picture of an easel card the other day, and I decided to try one for the class. I love this cupcake from my new cricut solutions cartridge Home Decor. The bazzill card stock is Artesian Pool & French Vanilla. The patterned paper is by October Afternoon ( I just love their new lines). I put some of the sookwang double sided tape on my paper before I cut out the frosting for the cupcake. After I cut it out I removed the backing and added blue fun flock to make the frosting fuzzy. The cupcake is popped up with 3d dots.

Happy New Year

Happy 2010 everyone, hope you had a great holiday season. I got lots of crafting goodies for Christmas and fully intend to use them ASAP. I did use the Heidi Swapp Clear Snowflakes I got on a page I did the other day.

We had a December page challenge at Scrap Arts . The challenge was 1-2 photos /Winter themed/ Glitter/ Inking/ Dry embossing/ 3D Embellishment. We didn't get our white Christmas this year so I used a couple of pictures from last year. These are not the greatest pictures but they're all I have at the moment. The patterned paper is from the Basic Grey Marrakech line. I used my Ashlyn's Alphabet circut cartridge for the title. I used a pearl to dot the "i". I also used pearls on the snowflakes to hide the 3d and glue dots. I used the snowflake cuttlebug folder for the embossed pieces then added diamond stickles over it for the glitter. The glitter is hard to see in the pictures. I inked around all the papers with some Versa Magic Ink. When I figure out what colors I used I will post them LOL.