All occasion card workshop

On Sunday, April 3rd, at 12:00 noon, I'm offering an all occasion card workshop at my house.  You will receive kits to make the following 12 cards on which you'll be stamping to create the background paper.  The cost of the class is $30.00 and space is limited to the first 16 individuals who sign up via email to me.  (Disclaimer:  I used the wrong green card stock on the green cards - the workshop will use the correct color - and I don't like the black ink on these cards - I may change this to an embossed white image.)

The stamp set used in the February Stamp of the Month from Close To My Heart.  This makes an awesome background stamp and if I have time between now and the date of the workshop, I might come up with other samples.  At the end of the workshop, I'll raffle off two of the stamp sets used at the workshop in a no-charge raffle.

A chip off the old block??

My sister, Margie, primarily designs scrapbook pages but occasionally, she likes to make special cards to send to special friends.  Her cards are usually nice ... but yesterday, she forwarded a picture to me of the latest card she made and it is a WOW!  Hope you like it as much as I do!

Simple but pretty card

I really like the way this card turned out.  I used the new CTMH paper pack called "Bliss" as well as the January Stamp of the Month for the butterfly.  The sentiment reads "A true friend remembers your birthday" and I finished the inside of the card ("but not your age") with the same paper punched with a Martha Stewart border punch.  I've already received an order for 5 of these cards from Rose in my office - now I just have to get them made!

Don't throw anything away!

My class this week at SCS is all about using up your scraps.  EVERY ONE of us has scraps!  I have four rooms of scraps in my house and feel bad about throwing anything away.  This first card simply uses 3 scalloped pieces of cardstock in coordinating colors, as well as a fourth piece for the envelope.  I cut the squares on my Cricut and punched the envelope out.  I really like the way this turned out - just imagine the possibilities!!

The second card uses 4 squares of coordinating paper matted on cardstock.  I punched the butterfly with the Martha Stewart butterfly punch and then covered it with CTMH glitter gel - it is so easy to work with and leaves a beautiful finish to your artwork.

This card uses 8 circles of double sided paper (CTMH of course!) folded to make a flower - easy to do!  Again, I cut all the circles on my Cricut. 

One of the ladies in my class requested a "Get Well" Card - hope she likes this one.  It's really hard to see the embossing on all the white cardstock but I used a new embossing folder by Sizzix to criss-cross the paper.  And I used 130# white cardstock so the embossing is really, really deep - looks great in person.

Busy, busy weekend!

Well, it was a marathon this past weekend creating cards for my next class at Spruce Creek!  And speaking of a marathon, I spent all day Saturday watching the Glee Marathon on The Oxygen channel - that is such a fun, clean-cut program!

This is one of the cards I recently did at SCS.  I'll post my weekend creations later this week.

With Sympathy

Sympathy cards are tough to create - you don't want to be too frilly but you still want it to be pretty.  I think this one turned out perfect!

Where do all the hours in the day go???

It seems I never have enough time to do everything I'd like to (or have to) do.  As soon as I finish designing cards for one class, I've got to jump right to thinking about the next class!  The nice thing is when I can duplicate cards across classes.  The first two cards I'm doing at Mulberry Grove on Wednesday night - the theme is Valentine's Day and I had to modify my black and red card slightly.  Then I'm also repeating those two cards at Spruce Creek on Friday, along with the second two cards.  Hope you like them!