Great week!

Im soooooo excited!  I now have 2 lovely ladies who have taken advantage of the AMAZING offer for the starter kits at 50 percent discount...  You still have a few days left so call me if you dont want to miss out! 

I also have a few more Operation Write Home cards to share and this months Club projects so...

Operation Write Home "people cards"!

As before, images were all colored with the Stampin' Up! Marvelous Markers...

Arent they fun!  Im working on some very famous characters at the moment so come back soon!

Club projects to follow in another post!

TTFN

C xx

Random Cards!

I wanted to share with you a few of the cards that are wending their merry way to distant hot climbs as we speak!  Im only showing cards that I made for Operation Write Home as I dont have permissions to show any others....

Arent they fun?... The Background papers, inks, punches and ribbons are all Stampin' Up!

More to come another day!

Comments please....!

TTFN

C xx

October Class projects....

Heres the projects our group did this month...  The theme was "getting the most from your inks".  I gave everyone a sheet of paper, divided into sections and instructed them how to use different techniques in each space... we did stamping off, rock n roll, wheels, markers and 2-step stamping.  Consider them all edumatated!!

Then we used the stamping off technique to make this Christmas Card using the Lovely as a Tree stamp set...

You cant really see the sparkle here, but on the centre tree we used some wet glue (tombow Multi) and Dazzling Diamonds glitter.  BLINGIN!!

I made the girlies a little thank you gift...

And inside were these little pots of Halloween Hand Sanitizer from Bath & Body Works... There was an orange bottle too, called Candy Corn!  Arent they cute?

I used some Basic Grey cardstock, Basic Black ink, the Wicked Cool stamps and some of the Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz, along with the Rich Razzleberry 1/8" taffetta ribbon and some punches.

I found this idea from a lovely lady called Kimberly Van Diepen...(Instructions and VIDEO HERE).  You should take a look at her blog HERE. She is amazingly talented and generous with her designs too!!

Lastly as a quick project I had pre-cut all the pieces for this 8x8" scrapbook page, and told them to go for it and see what layouts they could come up with.... Everyone's was different!!  Fabulous!!

Instructions:

Christmas Card

1. Cut your Crumb Cake card base (8 ½” x 5 ½”), score and fold at 4 ¼” to make a standard size card.
2. Cut a piece of Early Espresso card to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Use the scallop edge punch along one long edge. Put aside.
3. Cut a piece of Very Vanilla card to 3 ¾” x 5 ½”. Using the Night of Navy Ink, stamp the main tree image about 1/3 of the way along the vanilla card (on the left side). Immediately (without re-inking) stamp again on either side of the main tree, slightly overlapping the first image. The second and third tree will be lighter in color and look like they are in the background…
4. Stamp your greeting on the right side using the stamp-a-ma-jig and Early Espresso ink.
5. Glue the Vanilla to the Espresso card stock.
6. Tie the Vanilla ribbon around and tie into a knot below the main (darkest) tree.
7. Glue to main card.
8. Use wet glue to add highlights on main tree image, add glitter and set aside to dry.

Spooky Scrapbook Page

1. Cut a piece of Old Olive cardstock to 8” x 8”.
2. Cut your “Wicked Cool” patterned paper to 4” x 8”.
3. Cut a Basic Black photo mount to 4 ¼” x 6 ¼”. (for a standard 4x6 photo)
4. Cut a piece of Tangerine Tango card to 1 ¼” x 4 “ for your title.
5. Use the Curly Label Punch on some Rich Razzleberry card. Fold the punch out in half. Cut one large tag from the large tag punch also in Rich Razzleberry.
6. Using some Old Olive ink, & stamping off once, stamp the witches hat (from the Wicked Fun set) onto white card. Using Basic Black ink, stamp “spooky” over the top… Center the image in the window of the large tag punch and punch out.
7. Assemble the tags on top of each other, slightly offset. Add a brad. Wrap ribbon around the photo mount, add tag. Assemble page as shown.

Hope you enjoy!!

TTFN

C xx

Operation Write Home....

So I know you are all curious to see the cards from my all-day Operation Write Home card Party... So here goes.. 

107 Cards!

I offered 4 kits for those inexperienced card-makers.  Everything was pre-cut and I typed up instructions for each card.  I had all 4 kits at one table, one kit per seat, and the ladies had great fun rotating around... Was a bit like musical chairs at one point!!...

These are the finished Kits!!

These cards were donation by 2 lovely ladies... The blue cards (at the top) were illustrated and watercolored by a HUGELY talented lady!...  Thank you girls!! 

These cards were "free-styled"...  (alot are mine... I seem to have got the coloring bug!!)

So, yesterday I spent the day coloring a whole village of people!! 

16 more cards to add to the pile once I finish!! 



I would like to thank everybody who came along to help, made donations or dropped cards off.  This was a huge success and lots of fun too!  YOU ROCK!!

Back tomorrow with those Class Projects I promised....

TTFN

C xx

Fun Times!!

Well, I think Ive finally recovered from my 12 hour stint on friday!!  Operation Write home was a HUGE success!  I had 10 people either show up or drop by and donate cards and we made a grand total of 107 cards for the troops in one day!!  (Oh and a cash donation of $60!!) 

Now, Im not mailing the box out till Friday, as I have a few card fronts given to me by my friend and Upline and I have to mount those onto a card base and then stamp the OWH logo on the back of all the wonderful cards....  SO!!  If you have any spare cards laying around that you arent going to use....  Leave me a comment with your email and I'll give you my address to send them too!

I will take some photos of the cards before I mail them out so you can see the AMAZING work the girls did!!...

Thank you again to everyone who helped make such a difference for the boys and girls who risk their lives for our freedom on a daily basis. 

C xx

Whats been keeping me busy...?

You may well ask?  Where have I been?  Well, this is a pet project Ive organised for next week.  Im really excited to be supporting this organisation.  I have a friend who's husband used their cards while in Iraq and she really loved recieving them. 

The concept is simple.  Please take a minute to visit their website and if you can make a donation.   If you want to just send me some of those extra cards you have in your stash, please email me or leave me a message... Im more than happy to pass them along.

Normal service should resume shortly, I have a couple of cute class projects and instructions to share next week so stay toooned!!

TTFN
C xx

Being Wicked!!

Well, my first official Stamping Class was last week and I promised to share our projects with you...  To start with I handed everyone an instruction sheet which also had a chart on it.  This had some of the standard card sizes on it, what size card you need to start with, where you score, and how to make a gatefold card in each size too.  I then had the ladies cut a few of these and write the sizes on them.  I think it was quite helpful to actually see and cut these themselves (it also helped them "get to know" their paper trimmers). I hope so anyway. 

So from that we moved on to our project which was a standard A2 gatefold card...This was based on a card in the SU catalog, but I adjusted it to the standard size.  Here's the instructions...

1. Cut your Rich Razzleberry* cardstock to (A2)

8 ½ x 5 ½” . Score at 2 1/8” and 6 3/8” to make a gatefold card.

2. Use the “Bat” stamp randomly all over the (folded) card front with VersaMark Ink. Stamp the “Cobweb” in white craft ink on 2 opposite corners. Set aside to dry.

3. Cut 2 pieces of white card (small) 1 ¾” x 2” and (medium) 1 7/8” x 2 ¾”.
Cut 2 pieces of black card (small) 2” x 2 7/8” and (Large) 3” x 3 ¾”.
Cut 1 piece of patterned paper to 2 ¾” x 3 ½".

*If your card base is a dark color you will need an insert of white card cut to
3 ¾” x 5”.

4. Use Black ink to stamp your candlestick onto the SMALL white panel. Then using the stamp-a-ma-jig, stamp your greeting onto the bottom of the MEDIUM white panel with Black ink. Set aside to dry.

5. Glue the patterned paper onto the LARGE black panel.
Paying attention to how the card opens(!) put glue on back of ONE HALF of the LARGE black panel. Glue into place on card front.

6. Once ink is dry, glue MEDIUM white panel onto SMALL black panel. Use dimensionals to attach SMALL white on top of this and add Rhinestone.

7. For the button, cut a small sliver of black card, thread through the holes and tie like thread. Stick to card with a dimensional.

8. Stick liner to inside… decorate if wanted. Decorate envelope.

And heres the Supplies you will need...
Wicked Cool stamp set.  Wicked Fun Designer Series Paper. Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black and Whisper White cardstock. Basic Black Classic Ink.  White Craft Ink.  VersaMark Ink.  Brights Buttons. Rhinestones.  Dimensionals.

Hope you likey!

Enjoy...
C xx

New look blog! New Projects!!

Woo Hoo!!
I think Im almost there tweaking the blog... Bear with me as there might still be a few little gremlins hiding out somewhere.  If anything goes awry while youre visiting, please let me know so I can fix it!

Im so excited to be starting a new Stamping Club next week with some of my favourite ladies.  I hope to teach them some basic stuff as well as the fun bits!  So heres a few little packages of "Card Candy" Ive been creating for the last couple of days.  Each hostess will get to choose one as a little thank you.  (And there will be new ones added so hopefully we wont come to blows over who wants what!  Although...  with this bunch...  its possible!)

Fun Huh?  
I actually really enjoyed making these little treats, something I will be doing alot more of I think!  Let me know what you think & which is your favourite...
Please also feel free to give some some ideas what Im missing on my new-look blog!  Thanks for visiting!

TTFN
C xx

Under Construction!

Or should I say having a makeover!!!  Bear with me for a couple of days... Its time for a good old re-vamp-a-roonie in blog city.... in a few days it will all make sense.  I hope.
Luvs ya!!

Back soon

When the kids go back to school and I get a spare minute to myself I will have a new post for you!!  Honest!
C xx