Local Stampin' Up Classes in May

Hi there!  I am so excited to share a little peek at two classes I'll be teaching next month.  I'll be teaching at a Stampin' Up! crop my friend Keisha hosts every so often in Woodbridge, VA.  You can pop over to her blog for more details about the crop.  Now you are more then welcome to sign up for the whole day but if you'd just like to pop in for class, that works too!

Here are the details for my card class:

Kaleidoscope Card Class

with Tessa Wise

Join us in making 5 unique cards featuring product from the Stampin' Up! Celebrate the Everyday mini catalog.  The colors come from the Kaleidoscope DSP collection and the stamps are from the Perfect Pennants set.  We will be exploring fun techniques such as shadow stamping, dry embossing, misting and heat embossing.  It will be lots of fun!!

$20.00

May 17th, 2014

1:00 pm

Westridge Swim and Racquet Club, Woodbridge, VA

And here are the details for the scrapbook class:

Oh Happy Day Scrapbook Class

with Tessa Wise

We will create a two-page layout that will hold 7+ photos!  There will be lots of stamping and a few diecuts for this one- it features the Starburst Sayings bundle from the Celebrate the Everyday mini catalog as well as the soon to be sold out I Am Me DSP collection.

$20.00

May 17th, 2014

4:00 pm

Westridge Swim and Racquet Club, Woodbridge, VA

As I said above, Keisha is hosting the crop and will also be taking payments.  She will have the Paypal link set up on her blog :)  Please let her know if you'd like your own set of stamps or extra paper added to your classes.

I'm really looking forward to these fun classes and cropping with my good friends!  I hope you'll be joining us!

A Borrowed and Blue Card

Hello!  Today I'm sharing a fun card that was recently published in Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking Magazine!  After a long break, I started submitting again around Christmas time and it's so fun to see my work in the magazine!  This one was created for the Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue call- isn't that fun?

I loved coming up with bits and pieces from my collection to work with- I pulled out the Memorabilia collection by Teresa Collins Designs to start with and found almost everything within it.  I found the library card and knew it would be my borrowed piece!  For my blue, I cut a heart out of that pretty blue patterned paper.  And for my New, I added some shiny sequins and a bit of the gold scallop border strip.  My something old was the only thing that came from elsewhere- it's an old book page that I punched into a scallop.  I thought it went along with the library theme my card ended up having :)

I'm so glad I got to share it with you today!  If you subscribe, check it out on page 36 of the May 2014 issue of Paper Crafts and Scrapbooks Magazine- you'll see a little shout out from Susan Opal in the From the Editors column, too!!

Stop And Go Blog Hop!

I'm so excited to be hopping along with the Stop and Go Blog Hop today!  My friend Miriam designed this fun stamp set for Neat and Tangled Stamps- she is so creative and I love her concept!  Her stoplight is perfect for so many reasons and I love the sentiments she came up with to go along with it!  

If you haven't come from Taheerah's blog, be sure to pop over and check out what she created.  You can also start at the beginning of the hop and pop over to the Neat and Tangled blog to see what Danielle made.  While you're here though, you might as well look at my card :)

 

I decided to make a collagy sort of card- embellishing the stoplight with a few sequins and some washi tape.  There are two sizes of GO stamps so I used both with green ink to add some color and emphasis to the sentiment.



I had a lot of fun working with this one!  If you haven't hopped through the list of participants yet, be sure to make time to!  It's a very inspiring group and they've made the cutest cards with the Stop And Go set:

Danielle

Miriam

Alexandra

Amy

Cheiron

Kelly

Laura

Taheerah

Tessa (that's me)

Don't forget to leave a comment- Danielle and Miriam will both be offering up a free Stop and Go set, one from the Neat and Tangled blog comments and one from the participant's blog comments.  Comments will close April 26th, and the winners will be posted on April 28th.

Thanks for stopping by today and have fun hopping!!

Newton's Nook Designs April Release- Wild Child

Good morning!  I'm back with one more card for Newton's Nook Designs April Release!  Today's set is my favorite of the release- it's called Wild Child and features the cutest little baby animals and their mamas!  Here is what I created with it:

I just love the giraffes!  I smile each time I see them!  I stamped them on to white cardstock with Memento ink and colored them in with my Copic markers.  After I was done, I fussy cut around them.  I also stamped the grass out on to a soft green cardstock and cut around it as well.  

Once the cutting was done, I put together my card.  I started with a white card base, adding a panel of the aqua striped paper to the center.  I added the grass next along the bottom of the blue panel.  The giraffes went down next- I used foam adhesive to pop them up.  I stamped the sentiment onto a cloud punched out of white card stock.  I added it to the card with foam adhesive as well.  A few sequins and a bit of pink twine was added to finish off the look.

Would you like to win Wild Child?
This set will be given away to Two lucky winners! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs release posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday, April 17th at 9 pm Central Standard Time to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, April 18th. 

We are also having a giveaway this week on our Facebook Page so make sure to head over there to enter that too! 

Check out all these awesome Design Team and Guest Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Taheerah Atchia

Christine Drogt

Samantha Mann

Larissa Heskett

Crafty Math-Chick

Danielle Pandeline

Valerie Ward

Tessa Wise

Jamie Greene  - Guest Designer

Elena Joldersma - Guest Designer

The team really made some cute cards with this one, didn't they?  I hope you have time to pop through all of their blogs- you'll be happy you did! :)

Thanks for popping by my blog today, too!

Newton's Nook Designs April Release- Versatile Vases

Good morning!  I'm back with a card inspired by another lovely stamp set from Newton's Nook Designs April release.  Versatile Vases is a great set- there are so many things you can do with it!  Here is what I made:

Have you heard of the masking tape technique?  I saw it while perusing the internet the other day and wanted to try it ever since!  It reminded me of sea glass in a way- all mottled and imperfect.  I thought it would make a perfect background for Versatile Vases.

I used a few lighter Stampin' Up! inks to get this look.  The newer foam pads come out a lot more colorful than the older felt ones, just so you know :)  Once my background was dry, I started stamping.  I started with the mason jar, then added the blossoms and finished with the sentiment.  This look didn't take long at all!  I embellished it with just a bit of glitter on the flowers and a small piece of linen thread tied around the jar.

Would you like to win Versatile Vases?
This set will be given away to Two lucky winners! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs release posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday, April 17th at 9 pm Central Standard Time to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, April 18th. 

We are also having a giveaway this week on our Facebook Page so make sure to head over there to enter that too! 

Check out all these awesome Design Team and Guest Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Taheerah Atchia

Christine Drogt

Samantha Mann

Larissa Heskett

Crafty Math-Chick

Danielle Pandeline

Valerie Ward

Tessa Wise

Jamie Greene  - Guest Designer

Elena Joldersma - Guest Designer

I hope you have a chance to visit everyone on the team- including the guest designers!  Such a talented group! :)  They really did a great job with this adorable set!

Thanks for visiting me today, too!

Newton's Nook Designs April Release- Love Grows

Hi!  It's time for another Newton's Nook Designs release!  This one is super cute- I love the sets this month!  Today we are showcasing the Love Grows set- it's a mini set full of beautiful roses and pretty Mother's Day sentiments.  Here is what I made:

The line drawn roses were just begging me to watercolor them!  Hee!  I stamped the larger roses onto watercolor paper with Versamark and embossed them with white powder.  I used my Distress markers to color them in a little and then blended with my aqua pen.  I had so much fun painting them!  Once they were dry, I fussy cut around them.

While my roses were drying, I created my card base.  I used watercolor paper as my base and rounded the bottom right corner.  I stamped the vines with gold Delacata ink and added a couple of embossed small roses as well.  I watercolored the small roses in the same way I had the large.  Next I added a splattering of gold mist.

Once everything was dry, I added the large roses to the corner and stamped the sentiment in black Versafine ink.  This one was so fun!

Would you like to win Love Grows?  
This set will be given away to Two lucky winners! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs release posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday, April 17th at 9 pm Central Standard Time to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, April 18th. 

We are also having a giveaway this week on our Facebook Page so make sure to head over there to enter that too! 

Check out all these awesome Design Team and Guest Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Taheerah Atchia

Christine Drogt

Samantha Mann

Larissa Heskett

Crafty Math-Chick

Danielle Pandeline

Valerie Ward

Tessa Wise

Jamie Greene  - Guest Designer

Elena Joldersma - Guest Designer

I hope you have time to pop through everyone's blog!  Todays cards are beautiful!!

You Are My Happy Card

Hello!  I thought I'd share a fun card I made recently- yes, another embossed card!  Hee!  I've been using my TC Ebosser like crazy lately!  This card features the new Teresa Collins Beautiful Words folder and I've used it on a diagonal here.  I really love using it this way- it might even be my favorite eBosser technique!

The embossing turned out so nice I wanted it to be the star of this card.  I kept the embellishments simple, using a few bits and pieces from the Teresa Collins You Are My Happy Collection.  A little bit of twine from the Twinery finished off the look perfectly.

Well, I'm going to keep this short- I have a bunch of stuff to get done today and better get started before the day gets away from me!  Thanks for stopping by!