LAST CHANCE - Occassions Calendar/Card Holder Class

If you missed out on this the first time around, or would like to come back and make another book as a gift, this is the last chance for this class!

Have you ever been in a situation where an occassion (birthday/anniversary) snuck up on you and you didn't have a card ready? I am hoping to put an end to that with this great class!

An Occassions Calendar/Card Holder Class. It will be at my home on March 14th at 7 pm. Class fee will be $20.

You will make a wire bound book with a page for each month. The pages will contain a paper that has the month at the top with lines below to write in birthdays and anniversaries or other important occassoins. It will also have a pocket to hold cards so that you can plan ahead to make sure you have a card for each person on the list.

*Due to this being an evening class, we will not be making any cards to go with the book this time around.

Please RSVP with payment by Sunday, March 4th, to be eleigble for this class. You can pay using paypal on the "Classes" page or you can make arrangements to pay me in person.

Gift Giver's Class

I will be holding a Gift Giver's Class for all of you who make homemade gifts to give to your loved ones. We will be transferring an image (photo) to canvas and painting an easel for it to sit on, stamping on candles and making a coupon book for your signifigant other, child, friend, etc. on Sunday, February 12th, 2012, at 1:30 pm.

This class can be anything you want it to be - a nice way to surprise your significant other with a romantic gift for Valentine's day with some steamy coupons or to let them pick the restaurant or movie of thier choice....a gift for yourself to decorate your home and a nice coupon book for a friend for help around the house or a fun night out....or give each of the gifts to different people in the family - the picture to your dad, the candles to your mom and the coupon book to your kids to get out of chores or extra tv time.
The class fee is $30 and I will need to have RSVP with payment by February 8th, 2012, if you would like to participate. For your convenience, you can either pay on the "Classes" page through pay-pal or contact me to arrange payment.

Trick or Treat!!!

I have the BEST treat for you!!  Stampin' Up! has decided to extend the Free Big Shot Promotion until November 11!!!!  What a great Halloween treat! If you decide that you want to get in on this deal of a lifetime, please let me know.

I don't get many trick or treaters at my place, so I decided to give treats to my co-workers today.

I designed the tabs in My Digital Studio - it was really easy!  Just Pumpkin Pie background and then the Distressed Dots stamped twice (once with Basic Black and once with Concord Crush).  I also printed the "A Tasty Sweet" stamp from MDS.  The Bat, Jack-o-lantern and Spider were all stamped the old fashion way using Spooky Bingo Bits.  I really like the versatility of this set and am very happy that I bought it.
The candies are Sixlets - they are chocolate flavoured candy...seems a bit odd to me, but they are great colours and pre-packaged and fit perfectly into the cellophane bags!

Tonight I am supposed to be going to Zumba dressed in 80's garb...we will see about that.  I'm sure I have enough brightly coloured clothing that I can pull it off, just don't know if I have the energy!  I hope to post about the reason I think I am so tired soon.

Holiday Mini Swaps

I LOVE swaps!  On our demonstrator forum website there are quite often opportunities to join swaps, but most of them are in the US, so when one comes along that is Canadian I have a hard time passing it up!

Here are the TWO cards that I made for the most recent Holiday Mini Swap.

This card was very easy for me to come up with.  I knew right away that I wanted to use the Gently Falling stamp set, Spice Cake DSP and Spice Cake Fabric.  If any of you know me, these aren't really are not at all my colors, but I can't get enough of this Spice Cake paper!  The leaves are stamped in More Mustard (the lighter ones have been stamped off before stamping on the card) with the lines stamped in Soft Suede to match the papers.  I either distressed the edges of the papers or sponged the edges of the papers, just to give it a bit more of a rustic feel.

I did not put a sentiment on the front of this card, as I thought that it could be used as many different things - Thanksgiving card, Thank You card, Birthday, Thinking of you...really anything that you would like it to be and I would hate to limit the recipient.

This card did not come so easy to me.  I had the idea for the sketch that I wanted to use, but I couldn't get the ribbon to look "right".  I think that my friends were getting sick of me asking them what was missing and them telling me that it was ok, but I just didn't like the way it looked.  That was when I got the fabulous idea to add the brad to the center of the bow.  You can't really see it in the picture, but it is actually a double bow (two loops) and is held together in the center by the brad.  The "joy" is stamped with Versamark and then heat embossed with Cherry Cobbler embossing powder and the cardstock colors used are Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla.
This is a simple card, but I think it is that simple elegance that I love so much about it.  And I know the girls in my classes like it too, as they were asking when we would be making this card!

I hope to be back in a few days with the cards that I recieved in the swaps.  There are LOTS of great ideas and I can't wait to share them with you...just need to have the daylight to take the pictures.

Have a great weekend!  Hope you find some time to play!

In-law Anniversary

So it just happens that my In-laws anniversary is the day before ours.  It is good because we will never forget when it is, but September is a very busy card month for me with all of the birthdays and anniversaries in my family.

When trying to figure out what kind of card I should make them, I settled that I would use a sketch from Clean&Simple as that is one of my favorite sites for sketches.  It was for sketch 157.  I then used the Color Coach from Stampin' Up! to come up with the color combination and here is what I came up with

I really liked the way it turned out and it even reminds me of the colors from their wedding, at least what I remember from photos.

Well, off to get my bum kicked by Kelly at Zumba tonight.  It is my first night back after over a month, almost 2, off.  I love doing it and I am excited to go, but I know I will be sore tomorrow!