Seashore Settings

Well my first class for these cards is filling up fast, but not to worry it is being offered a few times this summer.  Here are individual pictures of 3 of the cards in this class.

These cards have been done using 2 different stamp sets Seaside from Crafty Secrets & A Guiding Light from Flourishes.  I had fun making these cards, there is a lot of coloring involved and I used my watercolor pencils for most of it. 

The striped patterned paper on this card is from the Capella line by Basic Grey.  Love, love, love this paper..

The third card is a CASE of one from Crafty Secrets. The sky is done with Momento ink, the water was done with a  brayer and a couple of colors of Color Box ink. I used watercolor pencils on the seashells.

Well that's it for now.  I'll post more in a day or two. Until then, Happy Crafting Everyone!!!

Dee

Happy Canada Day!!!

Hope everyone is enjoying their Canada Day celebration. I’m waiting for the fireworks. I can usually see them from my balcony so I don’t have to worry about heading out to find a good spot to watch them. I spent yesterday in my studio making cards. Of course I ran out of my favorite adhesive before I was finished. Then my other glue runner ran out as well.

I had to work today, but that is ok because I had to buy more adhesive and since I was working on a holiday I decided to treat myself to a few new inks and an embossing folder. Here is one of the cards I made yesterday. I think this one is cute for Canada Day. The stamp is from Bombshell stamps and I colored her with my Prisma markers. The card stock is bazzill vanilla and the patterned papers are by chatterbox ink Frosting Swirls and Candy Stripe. Well going to go watch the fireworks soon and hope Kit doesn’t get too freaked out by them.

Until next time, happy crafting everyone!!!

Dee

Summer Class Schedule

I will be teaching a few classes this summer at Scrap Arts.  Here is a list of classes and dates. The first 2 are new classes.

Seashore Settings

Thursday July 15th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Thursday July 29th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Sunday August 8th, 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Thursday August 12th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Friday August 20th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

$20.00

When life gives you lemons...make cards!!!

card class

Saturday July 17th, 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Thursday July 22nd, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Sunday August 15th, 1:00pm - 3:00pm

$20.00








The third class is one that I posted a few weeks ago.
"Dream On"
Card Class
Sunday July 4th, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Sunday July 18th, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Sunday August 1st, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Thursday August 5th, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Sunday August 22nd, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
$20.00

 The fourth class I posted June 22nd
"The Book of Birthdays"
Thursday July 8th, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Sunday July 11th, 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Sunday July 25th, 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Saturday August 21st, 1:00pm - 3:30pm
$25.00

I will also have a new class for August called Aged & Distressed. I will post the pics for this as soon as I have them ready. Until then Happy Crafting.
Dee

Birthday Book

I decided to put my Zutter to use a couple of weeks ago, and this is what I came up with.  It is a small birthday book.  Each page inside has a calender and a pocket to store a card in.  However, you could use it to keep coupons or tickets or whatever.  There is a page for each month of the year and a place to write important dates, birthdays, anniversaries etc.

The front and back cover are chipboard covered with patterned paper.  I love this paper from Prima, it is from the Watercolor Rainbow Collection and called Tropical Lagoon.  The waterlily stamp is from the stamp set Waterlily by Flourishes.  I colored it with watercolor pencils and the lily pads are painted in with dye ink and an aqua brush.  Inside I used a variety of stamp sets.

Also, Kit is really enjoying the new desk in my studio.  She doesn't look like it in this photo but she really likes all the extra roaming space. 

Well back to my studio to see what else I can come up with for classes.  Happy Crafting!

Dee

Tim Holtz Alterations!!!

I love, love, love the alterations die cuts by Tim Holtz.  Here is my first project with the Hardware Findings die cut I bought at Scrap Arts the other day.  I had so much fun doing this card.  I cut the pieces out of chipboard and card stock and layered them together.  I used Java walnut stain, copper pigment ink and brown dye ink on the hardware pieces.  For the background paper I stamped the verse stamp (Art Life & Beauty by Hero Arts) on French Vanilla card stock and the distressed with Tim Holtz distress inks scattered straw, vintage photo and walnut stain. 

Update on Father's Day card

I did not get a chance to finish this post yesterday so here are the details for the card I posted.  The background stamp for this card is a map stamp by All Night Media.  The ship and the greeting are from the stamp set A Guiding Light by Flourishes.  The ship was colored with prisma markers and the map was distress with Jumbo Java versa magic and brown momento ink.

Well time to go make some more cards.  Thanks for visiting my blog.

Happy Crafting

Dee

Happy Father's Day!!!

Here is a card I made for Father's Day.  I don't have time to post the details right now but I will later.  Have a great day everyone.  I'm off to teach a class this afternoon.  I will try and put more info on this post tonight.

Until then Happy Crafting!

Dee

Flowers!!!

I love taking pictures especially of flowers.  Here are a few from the last couple of weeks.  The first two are the same rose,  the first one was on a rainy day and the second one is the same rose 2 days later in the sunshine. The third picture is of poppies in the rain.  Yes it rains a lot here on the west coast LOL.  For the first picture I made the background black and white so the colors of the rose stood out more. 

Thanks for visiting my blog!  Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Dee

New Season New Look!!

I decided to revamp my blog for summer.  I'm not sure about the design but it will do for now.  I may get bored and change it again soon.  My Internet was not working for about a week or so, it is amazing what you can get accomplished if you turn off your computer LOL.  Anyway my husband and I made a trip to Ikea to get a new table top for my craft room and found one I really liked it was about 7 feet long or so and about $70.00.  We went to pick it up and thought hey this will never fit in the car and delivery would make it too expensive.  So we went into the as is department and found 2 table tops that were just over 4 feet long and 23" wide and I thought perfect and even more perfect is that they were only $6.00 each. I have units that i could put them on to make desks.  The only problem the units were not deep enough so I used some storage boxes behind them to make it fit.  It worked perfectly. The first picture is my desk and workspace before.

The picture below is my new desk and workspace!!!

So much better.  The room is only about half done there is still lots more to do.

I will post more pictures once I finish the room.

Whenever that happens to be LOL!

Dee

Class Information

These are the other items that will be taught in the "You're the Man" class.  The first is a card that measures 5"x5" and the patterned paper is from the Rusted Sun collection by Fancy Pants.  The stamps are from the Car Classics stamp set by Crafty Secrets.  Again I used water color pencils to color the image because I wanted a vintage look. 

Class Dates are

Sunday June 6th 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Sunday June 13th 1:00pm - 3:00pm

The next item for the class is a simple gift card holder.  I didn't color the images in for the sample but students will be able to color it however they like.

Here is the last item for my "Dream On" class.  It can be used as a gift tag or a bookmark. The other items in this class are the 2 cards posted on May27th and the Basket I posted on May 11th. The dates for this class in June are

Sunday June 20th from 1:00pm - 3:00pm 

Sunday June 27th 1:00pm - 3:00pm

These classes will be offered again in July.  I will have some new classes for July as well.  I will post them as soon as I have them ready.  I guess I better go work on that now.  Thanks for stopping by my blog.  

Happy Crafting

Dee 

Dream On

That is the name of my other class for June. Here are two of the cards for the class. The first one I call an Easel card with a twist. It started out to be a simple half fold card. I just kept adding to it and it turned into this. I had to take 3 pictures to show it in different stages. The card stock is bazzill Brown and Parakeet (2 of my favorite colors). The patterned paper is from the Brook collection by Crate Paper. Stamps are by Jillibean and Crafty Secrets. The next card is also using the same papers and tools and just a simple Happy Birthday stamp. I used the forest branches cuttlebug embossing folder and scalloped circles spellbinders for both cards. I used a fiskars border punch for the decorative edge on this card.

The flower basket I posted in my May 11th post will also be part of this class as well as a gift tag. I will post that in another post.

Thanks for visiting my blog. Happy Crafting!!!

Deanna

Car Classics

We just got this brand new stamp set from Crafty Secrets in at work and I couldn't resist. These two cards will be part of a class I will be teaching in June at Scrap Arts. I'm not sure of the dates yet but I will post them as soon as I know.

I really wanted to try a side step card and here is what I came up with. All the stamps are from the new stamp set and I used black and white bazzill and the patterned red paper is from the Fancy Pants Rusted Sun collection. I colored the car and the flag with red watercolor pencil and went over it with an aqua brush. I could have used my prisma's but I wanted a worn vintage look and I used a fine black marker to go over a few details on the car. The rest of the items are stamped and cut out and some are layered on black card stock. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

For this card I wanted that old vintage black and white comic strip look. The entire background is all done with a variety of stamps from the set. I just kept filling up the spaces with as many stamps as I could fit. I then stamped my main image and twisted the layering pieces to give it a different look. The solid blocks of black add a bit of impact to the card. I edged all the pieces with Black Versa Magic ink.

I have 2 more items for this class and will post as soon as I get the pictures and details ready. Also have another class coming in June and will post those pics soon as well.

Until then, Happy Crafting.

Deanna

Updates on older posts

OK so I promised I'd update a couple of posts as soon as I figured out some colors. For the post on April 10th the colors I used on the cat image were sand for most of the image and jasmine for the eyes (prisma markers). For the Mother's Day card I posted the on Sunday here are the rest of the details. For coloring the image the prisma markers I used were french grey 20%, light walnut, eggshell, jasmine, deco pink, walnut and cold stone. I also used a sakura clear stardust pen on her wings and the flowers. The patterned paper is from the 3bugs in a rug Little Chick line and the card stock is bazzill ruby red & african daisy.

The latest project on Stamp TV was so very cute I just had to give it a try. Here is my version of what Gina K. did. Not too bad for my first attempt at it. I didn't have any flowers to put in mine. The patterned papers are from the Crate Paper Brook Collection and the card stock is bazzill brown & parakeet. The stamps are from Crafty Secrets.

I've been in my studio quite a bit this last week and where I go Kit must follow. Here she is helping with some stuff I was working on last week. I think I need a bigger desk. This one just isn't big enough for the both of us. Not to mention all the mess I make while I'm working LOL.

Happy Mother's Day!

I remembered all my Moms this morning and yesterday. I have a few. So now I'm wishing all the other Moms out there a wonderful day.
Here is one of the Mother's day cards I made this week. This is using a new stamp we got in at Scrap Arts. It is Spring Birgitta by Swiss Pixies. I'm not usually a fan of these stamps because I find it disturbing that these cuties don't have any mouths or noses LOL, but this one is really cute. I thought the little bunny in her arms made for a good Mother's Day image. I will put up more details on this card tomorrow, when I have more time.

Until then, have a great evening and Happy Crafting!

Deanna