Cards from July's class

I meant to post this the other week but yeah. You know.

I held my first Stampin' Up class last month. It was a birthday card class and while only 2 people came, I think they both had fun and liked the cards we made. They had a choice of pink or blue for the balloon card (one made blue, one made pink as it turned out), they both made the succulents card, and then they had a choice of colors for the final card which was a birthday candle from the Feb. 2017 Paper Pumpkin kit.

I'm hoping to have a few people show up for this weekend's class, Small Holiday Gifting. We'll be making 6 projects- a votive holder, gift card envelope, candy wrap, 2 small boxes and one yet to be determined project.

Growing in Unity Girl Week! Day 5!

Well. This is it. Day 5. Already. It's gone quickly but it was a great experience once again.

Today I did something a bit different. Instead of a card, I made 2 lunchbox notes for my son. I keep saying I'll put these in his lunch but I haven't yet consistently. Maybe this is the year.

I stamped the image and sentiment of the I Loaf You card directly onto a trimmed piece of manila folder, colored it with watercolor pencils and a bit of white gesso. (It was a whole lot closer than my white acrylic paint. lol!)

The lightbulb on the shine card was stamped onto white cardstock and I used a gold watercolor pencil to make the illumination marks. I trimmed it, mounted it on the manila card and stamped the sentiment. Both cards were then trimmed with a bit of washi tape.

I hope I've given you a bit of inspiration this week and you've enjoyed spending a bit of time with me. Don't forget to leave your comments- I'll draw a winner on Saturday. Have a great weekend!

Ingredients:
Stamps: I Loaf You and Shine, Shine Shine: Unity
Cardstock: Stampin' Up
Ink: Momento
Misc: Derwent & Staedtler watercolor pencils, Washi tape: who knows?!

Growing in Unity Girl Week! Day 4!

Thanks for coming back for my 4th day of Growing in Unity!

Once again, I broke out a snarky stamp from an {after dark} set. She Used to Care is a set that just makes me laugh and I imagine a lot of friends would feel the same.

I hope you drop back by again tomorrow for my last GIU day! Have a great one!

Ingredients:
Stamps: She Used to Care: Unity
Paper, Ink, Embossing Paste, Mask: Stampin' Up
Misc: Copics

Growing in Unity Girl Week! Day 3!

Thanks for joining me for my GIU Day 3! It may no longer be Christmas in July but I missed that entirely anyway so Happy Christmas in August!

I love this set, Snowglobe Wonderland. It has a wonderful array of fun images that can be added to the globe to change the look. I went with the city fading into the background with trees in focus.

I clear embossed the glass of the globe, applied a heat and stick powder along with some chunky, holographic glitter, and then put on a layer of clear embossing glaze (Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel- UTEE) which is thicker and chunkier than the embossing powder used on the first layer. It's a bit tough to see but the snowglobe and sentiment were raised with dimensionals.

Please join me again tomorrow for day four and don't forget to leave a comment!

Ingredients: 
Snowglobe Wonderland: Unity  Sentiment: amuse Stamps
Ink: Stampin' Up
Paper: GCD, SEI, & Stampin' Up
Misc: Copics, Glitter: Martha Stewart, EP: Stampin' Up, UTEE: Tim Holtz

Growing in Unity Girl Week! Day 2!

Welcome back for my GIU week, day two! I'll just jump right into it.

I'm with many others and find mason jar stamps great fun to work with. I love the small ones in Jars of Love x3 and thought about making another shaker with them. Instead, I kept it a bit easier and just used the hearts image that came in the set. I channeled my inner Lisa Frank (if you weren't an avid sticker collector in the 80's and have NO idea who I'm talking about, have a look here and here.)

While it's a bit hard to see here, the jar lids have gold Stickles applied to them and all of the hearts have been coated with Wink of Stella.

I hope you've enjoyed this! Please stop back by tomorrow for another project.

Ingredients:
Stamps: Jars of Love x3
Paper & Ink: Stampin' Up
Misc: Watercolor pencils, Wink of Stella, Stickles