Christmas Card Workshop

I hosted my very first workshop 2 weeks ago!  i was very nervous, but excited!  well....aren't you curious as to what we made? 

of course, i won't disappoint you...here is what we did! :)

A very different kind of christmas card...which is why i love it!  gold embossing make the tree and "season's greetings" feel really elegant and flashy!

I call this the very traditional christmas color card.  bright red and green scream christmas!

i call this the country christmas color card.  it is a very subdued red and green, but then a little bling doesn't hurt anyone, does it?!?!

This is my modern christmas card....a deep red and deep green, otherwise known as cherry cobbler red and old olive green! 

Here is a close up of the tree and the little silver dots i used as "ornaments."  i like the dimension it gives the tree!

and last but not least....my FAVORITE out of the five cards!  a blue snowflake wonderland card with bling!  it has everything i love...blue and bling!

oh, and you can't forget about the inside...and some more sparkle!  a coworker of mine said the silver on the back ground looks like snow falling...love it!

so at the workshop, everyone made 25 cards....5 of each design!  it was a marathon of a day, but everyone said they had a lot of fun, but were definitely tired at the end of the day.  i also provided lunch and a special project...i found online how to stamp on a candle....i know...you are dying to see some pics....ill  post some soon and how we did it.  it was really cool and what a great homemade gift for the holidays!  

i now, can't wait for my next workshop!  don't know what it is yet...but there will definitely be more in my future!  happy weekend everyone! :)

Wreaths for The Beth Longwell Foundation silent auction

hey all! 

i hope middle of october finds you all well and getting ready for the holiday season that is FAST approaching! :) i love fall!  it is my favorite season!

my cousin beth passed away from lung cancer in 2007 and a foundation was started in her name. every year the foundation holds a silent auction and new this year, a movie screening!  my aunt, beth's mom, was in town over labor day weekend in seattle and asked if i could make something for the auction. i of course said yes!  i had made the wreath for my mom and mother in law (see below) and she saw those and loved them so i suggested a trio of wreaths.  the wreath idea took shape and because the holiday season was fast approaching, i decided on a fall wreath, a holiday wreath and a valentine's day wreath!  here they are for the viewing: 

The Fall Wreath

close up of the fall wreath

The Holiday Wreath

Close up of the winter wreath

The Valentine Wreath

Close up of the valentine wreath

as we speak, the wreaths are on their way to my aunt's house!  the foundation is in novemeber and i can't wait to hear how much the foundation raised this year to support my cousin and what she loved best, education and helping children.  :)  love to my family and beth, forever.

the past month and a half....continued....again

WOW....i look back to what i have done the past month and a half....and im shocked because it doesn't seem like i did anything except go to work and answer student questions!  lol!

my coworker came to me and asked if i would create something for a friend's wedding.  all my coworker said was that something to put pictures in, their house is kinda country and that i had free rein to create something!  so......here is what i came up with......

the big brown spots on the top right and bottom left are for the pictures.  the bottom right spot looks bare right in the photo here, but i put a quote there...it looked nice, i just forgot to take a picture of the completed frame.  :(  It is in a frame i got at half off at hobby lobby!

and the best part.....i got 2 more orders for frames like this for christmas presents!  :)

the past month and a half....continued....September Card Class

September's card class was a lot of fun!  i am trying to use only 1 stamp set for all the projects/cards i do for the month's class.  i think it shows people how much you can do with 1 stamp set.  september's stamp set was Button buddies!

here are the cards....there were 6 cards, 3 inches x 3 inches....cute little note cards!

Cherries!  and yes...they do move back and forth! ;)

Flower card

inside of flower card. not all cards had a saying.

flower pot!  love the black pot and the colorful flowers!

Piggie card!

inside of pig card

baby card!  love the neutral-ness of this card!

slug card!  notice the slug trail...the best part!  :)

onto the next post....

:)

the past month and half....continued

Next project on the list was decorating my coworkers cubbicle and office for her birthday!  Here is the banner i made.....

the complete banner!

close up of 1 letter. i had 3 different backgrounds. this is #1: cupcakes!

second background: party hats!

third background: strips!

and my favorite part of the banner..........the die cut cupcakes at the beginning and end of each word!

I love making my coworkers banners!  they are so much fun and i always try to do something different...sometimes that gets tough, but for some reason my brain always pulls through!  :)

the past month and a half!

i can't believe it is october!  where has the time gone?!

i know i have been MIA for awhile....super busy at work with the start of the quarter and just getting things worked out.  but that doesn't mean i haven't stopped crafting! :)

here are some things i have done in the past month and a half......

wreaths for my mom and mother in law, kim!

My mom's wreath! 

My mom decided that she likes the wreath as a centerpiece instead of hanging it! i love when my crafts turn into something completly different than what i imagined!

My mother in law's, Kim's, wreath!

Kim put it in her "garden room"...looks great!

Another project that i worked on was creating strawberries out of paper!  there is a picture in the new Stampin' UP! catalog of them and i just had to figure them out!  so, i went online and found out that the strawberry is made from a flower die cut.  Well, i don't have the die cut....so i improvised.  i printed out a picture of the die cut, then blew it up to the size i wanted on a copy machine, cut out the flower and made that into my stencil.  i know it seems like a lot of work for a little strawberry, but i had to do it!  :)  here is one i made, in the early stages.  I will try and get more pics of the "bushel o' berries" i made my mom...super cute!

more to come in subsequent postings!  :)



 




MY VERY FIRST CARD CLASS!!!!!!

so when i became a stampin' up! demonstrator, i was nervous about starting my own classes.  i knew that i could do it, but just the shear fact of putting it all together and making sure enough people would want to attend scared me.  but....i finally got the push to set up a class and my first one was last thursday!

the jazzercise lady, julie, in town that i have known for a few years now, just got her own studio about a year ago, i think.  i was lifting weights for a class i take through her, and started to look around and thought to myself, "i wonder if julie rents her space out?" i was having the hardest time trying to find a space to hold my class in cheney.  every place i contacted, churches, parks and rec, EWU, etc, wanted to charge me more than i was able to pay to rent a space for 2 hours.  well, i asked julie after pumping iron, and she said she does!  i was so excited and we worked something out and i was able to hold my first class last thursday!

i had developed the cards a while ago...like mid july...cards were done, supplies were ordered, prematurely, and i was ready to go.  here are the cards the ladies who came to class made....

Flower Bouquet Card

Poppy Card

"The earth laughs in flowers" Card

here are pics of everyone making the cards and having a good time!

the welcome table....i heart the vases of daisies!!!

Janelle, Rosee and Michael

Carissa and her 2 friends

Kaitlin

Rosee, Michael, Janelle, Ashley and Krissy

dough buddies!

you may be asking yourself, what are dough buddies?

dough buddies are my mom and raren's newest idea...gluten free donuts!  they are having fun in exploring this new business venture, but needed a little something from me.  what you may ask did they need from me...i don't cook! lol!  they wanted a sign.  so originally i did something a little to big, no pictures of that...it wasn't that good, but showed it too my mom and then our heads came together for this.....

I took 1 inch strips of patterned paper and then scored them to make accordians.  glued the ends together, and then hot glued the middle so that when i went to turn it flat they would really stick.  hot glue was the best thing i have tried for these.  the letters are stickers that i found and i hot glued them too just to make sure they would last and survive the trip through the mail.  i glued the whole circle onto a punched out circle on the back...just for stability purposes.  you can kinda see in the close up pictures another circle punched out underneath the letters, that was put there to hide the hot glue mess! 

i love that my mom interlocked them!  it makes it flow better, i think.  great job mom!  good luck to you and raren!  im here for any creative things needed for dough buddies! 

everyone else...look for dough buddies coming soon to your area! :)

rosee's birthday bash!

in our office, we have a fun way to celebrate each other's birthday. we each draw a name out of hat and you are then responsible for that person's birthday celebration!  the person who drew rosee's name has been out of the office for an extended period of time and wasn't going to be in the office for rosee's birthday. so...deb and i put our head's together and decided we were going to throw rosee's birthday bash!  

as you can guess....i offered to be in charge of decorations! ;) i first chose the color scheme...something bright, bold and fun....i used stampin' up!'s melon mambo, tempting turquoise and concord crush. then i chose a stamp set...flower fest (from stampin' up!)...i chose this set because a lot of the flower stamps have a matching punch so it makes it super easy to cut them out!  they turned out great together.  here is the banner i created...

close ups of the banner...

deb said she would take on the cake duty and we were discussing what else to do...well...rosee loves fruit and i came up with this fun idea....FRUIT KABOBS!

you can see on the table there were more flowers that i just stamped and punched out...to make my own confetti to sprinkle over the table and i covered her desk too!  you can also see i scattered jewels, as well...love the bling!

these were so much fun to make!  i made the picks to put the fruit on...stamping the image, punching it out and then...of course...had to have a jewel on it!  ;)  the plan was to cover the white styrofoam, but once the skewers were in the styrofoam, they were so close together, there was no way i was going to be able to cover it up.  i had silver packing stuff...kind of like tinsel for a christmas tree...to cover it up.  oh well...it was a lot of fun to make!

next...the card...of course!

Envelope and card

i used versamark ink to emboss the flowers that i used on this card...and of course, added some bling!

the inside

we had a great day at the office celebrating rosee!  i love how everything turned out. happy birthday rosee!!! i haven't had many projects to do, so this was great!  until next time my faithful followers....:)