June News

Wow it feels like forever since I last posted. I know it's only been a week, and I had a good excuse. I have moved into my new house.......YAY!!!! I am so excited to be able to organize all my stuff in my new room for Crafting and the computers. I hope to be creating soon. In the meantime, here is what I have planned for the month of June. I would love for you to join us for any of these dates...

June 5 - Clock Workshop (FULL)
June 18 - Seniors Center Workshop. Create a 2 page layout or 5 cards. Ask me for more Info.
June 19 - Scrappin Workshop - Blue Ribbon 2 page layout. (Still Room on this one)
June 21 - Lakeside Colony Workshop. Create a 2 page layout or 5 cards.
June 29 - My Birthday. One year older, but not necessarily wiser. Hehe

Close to my Heart is having a special promotion this month, check it out - Stampaganza

I hope you have a wonderful June and look forward to creating with you this month.

Little Birdie

I was playing around making some cards the other night and this is one I thought I would share. I wanted a card that you could maybe give to a guy. It fits that criteria I think. I used the bird stamp from the June word puzzle, and the sentiment is from the May Stamp of the Month - Say it in Style. The paper is from the Creative Basics Silhouette Kit, and the brads are the new black bitty brads.

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Have a great Weekend,

BIC14 - Be Inspired Challenge

I made this card for an Inspiration Challenge. This is the picture you are supposed to use for the inspiration on your card.

And this is what I came up with....I've had this Little Treasures set for so long now and never got around to using it. I stamped the jar on Vellum using Staz-On. Cut it out and cut out a bunch of little Jelly Beans in Moonstruck, Sweet Leaf, and Orange. I placed them on the back of the jar and put a line of Crystal Glass around the outside edge of the jar and adhered to White Daisy cardstock. The Jelly Beans move which is so fun. The rest is pretty self explanatory, but if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.

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My Brain on Paper

I have to write stuff down or I totally forget what i'm supposed to be doing and where. LOL
I bought this calendar at Wal-mart at the beginning of the year and i've been meaning to cover it for some time now. Well I finally got around to doing it so here it is, my brain on paper. Whatcha Think??

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Paper - Caprice Reflections Kit
Colors - Chocolate, Honey, Crystal Blue
Ribbon - Chocolate Grosgrain
Buckle - Chocolate Mini-Medley Accents
'C' Stamp - Homestead Alphabet

Gettin Crafty with the Seniors

I am really excited I get to start teaching classes at the Seniors Centre in my town. I will be doing a 2 page layout that they can put together or a set of 5 cards. As always with my classes, I pre-cut everything so I think it will be perfect for the ladies and maybe even gentlemen (you never know, there may be crafty old men out there) to create and record their memories. This is the set of 5 cards that I have created for them to do in June.

I wanted to keep it somewhat simple for them because we are just starting out and I don't know their level of craftiness. So I included the use of some brads and some ribbon. In the following months maybe I will throw some more stuff at them, but for now, nice and easy.

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Paper - Paper Garden Reflections Kit

Colors - Petal, Sweet Leaf, Blush, Buttercup

Ribbon - Blush Polka Dot Grosgrain

Brads - White My Accents

Stamps - Friendship Blessings, Say it in Style (May SOTM), For Every Occasion

Chalk Board - Dressed up

My 3 year old has been having a really hard time with the fact that her older sister gets to go to school every day. So I decided to make her a little chalk board so that she can play "school" at home and I can help her learn her alphabet and numbers. My sisters would attest to the fact that all I ever wanted to play when I was a kid was school and I was always the teacher. So I guess i'm well prepped for the task. All I did to make this board was decoupaged on the wood and smoothed the paper over it. After it was dry I used white paint on the sides and then painted over the paper with the decoupage glue again. This way sticky little fingers will come off a little easier. LOL It was pretty basic and easy but it made her feel special, so that's what matters most.

Card Sketch Challenge - SC176

I decided to try out one of the sketch challenges on SCS... This is what I came up with.

I cut out some layers from the Creative Basics Silhouette Collection and matted the upper one on White Daisy CS, then inked the edges in Black. I also inked the edges of the base Bamboo CS in black. I added some black bitty brads in the upper corner, I just love these, they are so cute. After adding ribbon (It comes with the Creative Basics kit, how easy is that) I stamped a sentiment from the May stamp of the month on Colonial White. Then I put it all together on a card base.

Did you participate in the same challenge? I would love to see what you come up with. Post a link if you did in the comments section.

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Sarsparilla Layout

I was looking for pictures that would go well with this paper pack and I found some of our engagement pictures. They were taken at my parents farm amongst some old machinery and cars. I thought they were quite fitting for the pattern and colors in this kit. I used the dimensional flowers that are self adhesive, and the new bitty black brads.

Another Mother's Day Card

I made this card using some paper from an old kit. The stamp set is Simple Beauty, the March Stamp of the month. I then colored the image in using soft chalks.

Colors used are Olive, Smoky Plum, and Colonial White.

Enjoy,

A Mother's Day card for my Mother

I wasn't going to post this till after Mother's day because I didn't want her to see the card I am going to give her. Then I remembered that I haven't told her about my blog yet, so shhhhh. I had some fun with this card I cut the flowers out of Vellum, then inked the edges with Cocoa ink and a sponge blending it inwards. Then I adhered some Petal cardstock to the back of some clear Craft Buttons with Liquid Glass. While I was waiting for them to dry I stamped some stems on the Simple Pleasures B&T paper using the Friendships Blessings stamp set. I also stamped the sentiment using the Simple Beauty Stamp set. After all was dry I trimmed around the buttons adhered them to the flowers and assembled them on the B&T. I then mounted all on a piece of Desert Sand cardstock and mounted on a card base. Enjoy !!

Gift Basket Giveaway

Congratulations Jackie

She has won the Bag full of goodies, I know it said basket but I just didn't have a basket big enough to fit this stuff.

Here is what she won....

• 24 sheets of B&T paper (various patterns)
• A father's day stamp set
• Page elements to put together 12x12 layouts
• 8x31/2 size cards
• A sampling of all the just blooms flowers
• A sampling of all the craft buttons
• An assortment of embellishments
• A pillow box gift box.

I will be giving another bunch of goodies away at the end of the summer catalogue so watch for how you can get your name in on that one.

Mother's Day Cards

I have been making some Mother's day cards as the holiday approaches. I had a lot of fun making these two. I was using paper and punch outs from the Serendipity Kit that was a special promo a few months back. Then I stamped the images using the White Pigment Ink and Chocolate Ink. After it was all dry, as the pigment ink takes a little while to dry completely, I put it all together using some bigger brads to hold the flower layers together.