Christmas Card Class

Yep, its a liiiittle early for a Christmas Card class, but this is for church, what can I say? I have designed and and am teaching a bundle of five Christmas cards. What do you think? This one is my favorite. I adore these silhouette images. So perfect for the holidays! (yes I KNOW the ribbon and the DP on the red card are retired....but I'm clearing out my stash)

Just for me!

Remember I said I needed to fill my display board? I slightly exaggerated. I have 13 on my board. So this card is going on my display board! I used Taylor's Sketch from last week and had some fun! She had circles on her upper section and I wondered what stamps would fit in place of circles.... And I love the result! Supplies:

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Occasional Quotes

Ink: Basic Black

Paper: Rose Red, Daffodil Delight, Basic Black card stocks

Accessories: Black grosgrain Ribbon, Bitty Buttons

Vroom Vroom!

This was part of my August card class. Such a clean, simple card...the design inspiration is found on page 41 of the new catalog! *grin!

This groovy car is only available until Tuesday. I have really enjoyed this set, especially for masculine cards. And these buttons are becoming a fast favorite! So cute and easy to use! Supplies:

Stamps: Sentimental Journey, Pocket Silhouettes

Ink: Night of Navy

Paper: Riding Hood Red, Night of Navy, Certainly Celery & Whisper White card stocks

Accessories: Bitty Button

Ice Cream Anyone?

UPS came yesterday and I got to make FIVE cards last night! Ohh that was nice!

This super cute set is in the Occasions Mini, so its only available until Tuesday! This card uses the OCC Sketch challenge this week, and is full of new items. Supplies:

Stamps: Sweet Scoops

Ink: Crumb Cake, Melon Mambo, Peach Parfait, Certainly Celery

Paper: Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Peach Parfait card stocks, In Color Patterns Pack (pear pizzaz)

Accessories: White grosgrain ribbon, Bold Brights Buttons

So, that exchange student scrapbook? I ended up with 63 pages. about 1/3 of them I wasn't able to stick the photos on and thus journal, but I stamped them. I am ready to switch gears and start getting some stamping done for family and friends, and I really need to fill up my card display board! I have some stamp events coming up and I only have about 8 cards to display! Yikes!

Today's card has been put in the MAIL! Whoo hoo!

Supplies:

Stamps: Unchartered Territory, Sincere Salutations

Ink: Basic Black, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Bashful Blue

Paper: Crumb Cake, Pure Poppy, Whisper white card stocks, In Color Paper Pack

Accessories: Neutral Buttons, Blender Pens, Watercolor Pencils

I haven't used Pure Poppy until now. It is a bit brighter than Real Red. I thought it would go well with the lighthouse, and I loved the stripey paper. Adds a touch of nautical-ness.

Have a great Monday!

August Page 3

Here is the third page from my August class, that wouldn't load correctly last time. I was going for a patriotic color scheme that didn't HAVE to be 4th of July. And I used pictures of my sister when she was little. She's on a stick horse, doing barrel races.
August classes were pretty simple. I felt like I was starting all over in the creative process. So this page showed a technique, rather than a fancy page.
Supplies:

Stamps: Just Perfect Alphabet

Ink: Real Red

Paper: Whisper White & Pacific Point card stocks

Accessories: Paper Daisies (which we dyed with Real Red ink refill), Neutral Buttons, small star punch (I missed that it retired!!! OOPS!)

Exchange Student Pages

For the past few summers my parents host a Japanese exchange student for a month. And they're required to make a scrapbook, which is actually super handy for the student. I really wish someone else had done my Germany trip, then I'd know what everything was! *grin*
Anyway, when you're cramming to get this much scrapbooking done, as quickly as possible, you go super simple...and I stick with a border style because some of these events hadn't happened when I was making the pages! I also used a lot of retired products, especially card stock! With that new color renovation, I have a lot of card stock to use up! tee hee!
So here's the first few pages I've done for this year's student...annnd it keeps flipping most of the pages I'm loading, especially the ones I've cropped...so what you see is what you get today! LOL!
Supplies:

Stamps: Grunge Rock, Taffy Alphabet (retired), Whimsical Lower Alphabet (retired)

Ink: Wild Wasabi, Orchid Opulence (retired)

Paper: Whisper White card stock Supplies: (all retired!)

Stamps: Alphabet Appeal, ...forgotten the balloon set.

Ink: Basic Black

Card stock: Orchid Opulence, Barely Banana, Green Galore, Ruby Red, Only Orange, Ballet Blue

Accessories: Balloon Punch Supplies: (all retired!)

Stamps: Whimsical Lower alphabet

Ink: Tempting Turquoise

Card stock: Yoyo Yellow, Sweet DP

Aug Scrapbook Class round 1

I am home for the rest of the summer so I SHOULD get some regular posts going again! How's that? :) Well * I * am excited about it, I need to fill up my display board! I haven't had a chance since the new catalog came out!
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Here are the 8x11 pages I did for my August scrapbook class. I went with a summer theme but still tried to keep it openly applicable for everyone. So here's a beachy/water layout...

Supplies:

Stamps: Unchartered Territory, Just Perfect ABC

Ink: Crumb Cake

Paper: Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake card stocks

Accessories: Neutral Buttons
a camping kind of page...

Supplies:

Stamps: Under The Stars, Just Perfect ABC,

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, More Mustard

Paper: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip & Very Vanilla card stocks

Accessories: Vanilla grosgrain ribbon, Linen Thread
and the red white and blue page refuses to load correctly...darnit!
But there's something new to look at, and I will be a lot more consistent now!

Super Simple!

This is the end of my August card class sneak peeks!

Its really simple, almost single layer, but I really like how it turned out.

Supplies:

Stamps: Pendant Park, Occasional Quotes Ink: So Saffron, Old Olive, Soft Suede Paper: So Saffron, Whisper White