January Technique Class Thursday, January 5 at 6:30 p.m. or Friday, January 6 at noon

When we make this card next Thursday or Friday, class attendees may choose to use the "Celebrate You!" or "Hope Everything Looks Up Soon!" sentiments instead if they'd rather and even change the kite design, but as shown it makes a sweet Valentine. It isn't easy to resist rolling the pennies from side to side whatever your age.  The spinner is SO easy to place on this card. (Punch the old style word window twice as far in as you can from the top. Then line up the 1/2 inch circle punch and punch as far in as you can from the sides-easy peasy!)  The Send Me Soaring set may be my favorite from the Occasions Mini!

Next, up is the Ghirardelli Holder that is perfect for a quick gift from a friend.  My friend Trina gave me several of these for roomie gifts at convention last summer. Aren't they cute?  All I did was convert them to Valentines using a stamp from the new Take it  To Heart Set.

This intensely colored card is lined in red (in case you're worried) and has the new Real Red Dazzling  Details on it with the Red Glimmer paper.  I saw the white embossed heart tags (though I used different ribbon, stamp, embossing folder and added bling) on Pinterest, and the only credit said "from etsy"-sorry.

This card is made with stampin' Up!'s new Hearts Framelits....You may also choose to add a stamped image to the center, but you can decide at class.

The card does not fit in a regular envelope, and is obviously not a full fold, but there is plenty of room to write! :)

Not many techniques this month...It is more of a Valentine class I guess. :)

Christmas Giftables Buffet Saturday, December 10 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

I hope you can join me for some cute stocking stuffers, gifts and gift card holders as we get in the holiday spirit with Hot Cocoa, muffins and Christmas music!

You'll choose only the items YOU would like to make from a variety of choices. We'll make S'mores kits, Snowman Soup, M & M tubes with Santa, Reindeer or Penguin, Present gift card holders, Stocking gift card holders, Shaker cards, clear glass ornaments, "Folded Fan" paper, ribbon and glitter ornaments and possibly some other ideas as the time approaches. 

The deadline to sign up will be Friday, December 2nd at 3:00 p.m. This is firm because I may need to order some things for the class. 
1. Folded Fan ornaments....you can customize it to your liking, taking bits and pieces from different ones. Cost is $1 per folded fan layer (I'm accounting for the glitter)...I will also warn you that cardstock is more difficult to work with than our First Edition newsprint designer series paper.

Please specify: $2.00 ornaments: 2-layer snowman with Crochet bow or Celery with Red Satin bow and button

$1.00 ornaments: Single Layer Snowman with Very Vanilla Velvet Ribbon, Pine Cone, Mistletoe or Monogram.  (I don't care for the Holly anymore :) )

You can also be creative and make what you'd like...just let me know which ribbon so I can have it ready.

The M & M tubes will be $1 each. Sara Mattson-Blume created Rudolph, and Patty Bennett designed the Santa.

Stocking Gift Card Holders (You are allowed a jingle bell on either the Blue or Red, but if you are going to mail them, the bell would be smashed.) are $1.50.

Present Gift Card Holders are $2.00.

Please specify: Holly and Roses, Blingy stripes and dots, Ornaments or Pine Cones

Candy Bar Holders including Hershey bar are $2.00.

Clear Glass Ornaments with Ribbon hanger and Mica flakes inside: $2.50.

Choose Penguin, Little girl or Polar Bear

Snowman Soup (includes cocoa pack, candy cane, mini chocolate bar and marshmallows):

Choose Wild Wasabi green, Pool Party aqua or Bashful Blue true light blue: $2.00

Stockings with candy cane and mini hershey $3.50  For the neatest look, plan to emboss the main portion with  the Petals a Plenty folder as shown in the second and third pictures.

Choose Red and Celery, Red and white only or Cherry Cobbler and Vanilla 

Try this adorable S'mores kit with enough ingredients for 2 microwavable S'mores. This great idea came in a swap from my friend Kim Bolzenthal.

There's a lot of sticky strip on this one: $4

Gift Tags:

Hinged top tags: 4 for $1

These four punched tags include bling and dimensionals (so you can attach them to your gift)...They will be four for $1 and are quick and easy. We'll stamp the "To: From:" inside in Black so that we don't mix the inks.

You might choose a little set of 3X3 notecards which can be included in gifts when you want to write a little note to the recipient...For $5.00, you'd make the box and 4 3X3 cards of your choice.  (More than 4 are shown to show you your options, and the 4th card in the masculine set is just like the front of the box.)

This set was designed and a similar set given to me by my friend, Holly Krautkremer.

Here are the last set of gift tags. We're making the Certainly Celery ones (the other one uses last year's designer series paper). Choose red or blue and choose a button ($1.25) or shimmer paper ($1):

December Technique Class December 1st at 6:30 p.m and December 2nd at Noon.

Join me for Technique Class and make 4 projects for $10 (free for 6 month/$25 Stamp Club members or with a $50 order and $5 for my downline or with a $25 order). Just let me know by Wednesday at 7pm if you'd like to attend please.

First up will be this dryer sheet technique card. We'll add glitter after stamping and put Dazzling Details glitter glue on the snowflake.  I had to try not to use blue because the other two Christmas cards have blue on them, but I'm happy with these Christmasy colors.

This card is a CASE of a CASE...The original crafter was Trish Miles, and I received a swap from Desiree Spenst.  Thanks for sharing ladies! 

I changed the purples to green for my card.  Look for my posts later this week on my main blog showing how I've CASEd the ideas of others for my needs. I thought it might be a helpful thing to share.

I first saw a Wiper card on Janine Tinklenberg's blog, and when I saw this set, I had to make a wiper with it!  I hope everyone enjoys making it as much as I did.

Open:

As Christmas gets going in the real world, it is time for a Valentine's card in the crafting world...I think you could give this one to a friend or your mom as well. This set has some other nice sentiments for the inside as well.  We'll use the Poppin' Pastels technique for this card. This is MOJO217 which is this week's sketch.

Stamp A Stack #3 November 17th and 18th

Stamp A Stack events are 16 cards for $22, and you need to provide your choices (please use the bolded, colored names I gave the cards) with your RSVP by Sunday, November 13th at 7:00 p.m. Prepayment is typically required for a Stamp A Stack, so you will need to pay even if something comes up unforeseen for this class. (There will be a time for you to come stamp them before Christmas-we can work it out.)

Shimmer Snowflakes

Red and Silver Star

 Marina Mist Snowflake Stocking

Dasher: Plain, Holly or Poinsettia



I've already had a request for these two cards to repeat from Stamp A Stack #1:

Over the Hills of Snow

Aqua Crown

November Technique Class November 3rd at 6:30 and November 4th at noon.

Join me for Technique Class and make 4 projects for $10 (free for 6 month/$25 Stamp Club members or with a $50 order and $5 for my downline or with a $25 order)

I've titled this month's technique class, "Oh, Christmas Tree". The "why" will be obvious when you see these cards. :)

This is an easel card and can be embellished with either the smooch accent ink or dazzling details blitter glue.

We'll color some glitter paper for this one to add more options for that gorgeous stuff as well as some gold embossing for elegance that almost equals the Cherry Cobbler quilted satin ribbon.

I CASE'd this card from a convention swap and just changed the color from Night of Navy to Garden Green. I used a marker to color the tree trunk, changed the location of the ribbon and added Dazzling Details around the scalloped oval sentiment.

Our last O Tannenbaum is a CASE of my friend Janine Tinklenberg.  I didn't change much at all...just the ribbon and a very slight shift on the colors.  I love this card, and I think you will too!

Stamp A Stack #2 October 13th and 14th

Stamp A Stack events are 16 cards for $22, and you need to provide your choices (please use the bolded, colored names I gave the cards) with your RSVP by Tuesday, October 11th at 7:00 p.m. Prepayment is typically required for a Stamp A Stack, so you will need to pay even if something comes up unforeseen for this class. (There will be a time for you to come stamp them before Christmas-we can work it out.)

Golden Vanilla Season

Cherry Cobbler Star

Flakey the Snowman

Stocking and Roses Pocket Card

You can add a ribbon and round tab punch top to the pull out portion if you'd like, but I liked the clean look-not sure why.  You can add a notch for a wallet size picture or gift card in this one.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Elmer the Elf



October Technique Class-Thursday, October 6th at 6:30 p.m. or Friday, October 7th at 6:30 p.m.

Join me for Technique Class and make 4 projects for $10 (free for 6 month/$25 Stamp Club members or with a $50 order and $5 for my downline or with a $25 order)  Lots of variety this time!

We'll make this wreath card using the Big Shot:

This bat, created using the Petal Cone Die and Spider Web Embossing folder, was designed by Shelli Gardner, Stampin' Up! co-founder. I think he's adorable!

This little turtle is a tilt card that moves from side to side for fun.

Finally we have the Epsom Salt Technique shared with me in a swap by my friend Kim Bolzenthal: