January Class Sneak Peek!

Happy New Year!!  Can't believe it's already 2015!  I hope everyone had a nice holiday season.  It's now time to get back into the swing of things and time for another class!  This is everyone's favorite Stamping time of the year where we celebrate SALE-A-BRATION!  Briefly, the reason why sale-a-bration is everyone's favorite time of year is because for every $50.00 you spend (before shipping and tax), you can earn one free product from the sale-a-bration catalog!  If you would like to receive the sale-a-bration catalog or the new Occasions catalog, send me an email and I will send one to you!
This month's class projects will include projects using some of the sale-a-bration products as well as products from the Occasions catalog.  Typical me, didn't get a chance to prep samples for the class until yesterday.  I hope this is not a start to another year of last minute planning, believe me, I am trying hard to get things done on time.  Class is this weekend - Saturday, January 17 and Sunday, January 18 at my home from 10:00 a.m.  Please RSVP as soon as possible to save your space for these classes.  Here is a sneak peek of the projects we will be making.  In addition, we will be making tags using the all new Ornate Tag Topper punch (another tag topper!! Yippee!)

Class fees will stay at $25.  Demonstrators pay $12 and kits in the mail $35.  You will receive everything you need to complete the class projects.  I know you will love using all of these brand new items!!  Please be sure to bring your tool kit to class.  Having your own adhesive and scissors and whatever tools you use to craft (including your reading glasses!).  I am looking forward to sharing these projects with you as well as sharing the new products!  Hope you will join me for this fun class!
I will be working on some late posts from our December holiday party (the projects) as well as some other posts to share.  Thanks for stopping by today!

November Class - Gift Card Holders!

The final class of 2014 - Gift Card Holders for the holidays!  I had fun creating the gift card holders for this class after a lot of searching for inspiration and ideas.  I know you will love the projects!  This class is scheduled for this coming weekend, Saturday, November 22 and Sunday, November 23.   The cost is $25.00 for the class kit which will include everything you need to complete the projects.  Please remember to bring your tool kit which should include your choice of adhesive, scissors and anything else you need to craft with (including your reading glasses!)
Demonstrators pay $12.00 for their kit and kits in the mail $35.00.  Please RSVP as soon as possible to reserve your kit.  I will be making only 15 kits and kits will be reserved on a first come, first served basis.  I already have a few people that signed up at the last class so don't wait!  Here's a sneak peek of the projects!

Life is so busy for everyone and it's been a crazy year for me trying to juggle work and home life with 4 kids, 2 dogs and 3 cats, yikes!  Did you all know that I have 4 kids living at my house?  In addition to Nolan, we have his girlfriend Tanner living with us as well as one of Nolan's best friend, Philip.  His brother Eric moved in a short time after Philip and they've been living with us for about a year and a half now.  Not your normal family life for these kids, with no where else to go, my husband and I felt that we needed to help these young adults get on their feet and to make sure they know that they are loved and to guide them to make right choices in life.  Needless to say, this has been one my biggest challenge juggling the lives of 4 young adults.  There are some days that I am totally exhausted and sometimes want to give up.  I just thought I'd explain my life situation so you can understand why even more so these days, that it takes me forever to come up with projects and get them posted.  I'm a procrastinator to begin with, but life in my house just adds to this madness!
With that being said, I hope you will join me for this last class of the year.  In early December, I will be having my holiday party for those who have attended my class during the year.  This will be a potluck event and will include FREE projects as my gift to you!  I will be posting news about that event soon.  Thank you for taking a peek at my monthly blog post and I hope to see some of you this weekend!

The 50 Tag Class is back! Getting ready for the holidays!

By popular request, the 50 Tag Class is back! In this class, we will be making five (5) each of ten (10) designs.  Holy moly, right?!  Over the years of creating crazy tags with tiny intricate pieces, I've learned to simplify it especially when making 50 tags, right?!  This year, you won't be disappointed with the designs that I came up with.  I spent days combing through Pinterest to get inspired by all of the many wonderful designs and boy was I inspired!  Here is the sneak peek of what we will be making!

The class date, however, has been moved from the normal third week of the month (October 18) to Saturday, October 25 and Sunday, October 26 from 10:00 a.m. until we finish!!  You will need to bring your own tool kits making sure you have enough adhesive to make the 50 tags!  Your kit will include all materials to make the tags (cardstock, ribbons, accessories) including a pack of stampin' dimensionals and the use of the machines, dies, etc.  The cost for this class is $50.00, which comes out to only $1.00 per tag! Demonstrators pay  discounted price of $30.  I'm so sorry to announce that there will be no kits in the mail for this class as there are just too many pieces to cut and stamp and you probably won't get the kit until after Christmas (just kidding!) but seriously, it will take me a while to complete for you.
If you are interested in attending this class, please RSVP by email as soon as possible!  I will be taking reservations up to October 14 in order to prepare these kits.  The class will be limited to 10 people for each session in order to make room for all of the stations for each project.
Looking forward to seeing you for this fun class as we get ready for the holidays!  It will be here before we know it!

September Class Projects Sneak Peek!

Happy September!!  I thought that I was going to do a couple of Halloween projects, but when the Holiday catalog got released, I couldn't help myself to dive right into Christmas!  Here is the sneak peek for this month's class.

I'm so excited to share these projects with you!  We will be making two boxes using the all new gift box punch board.  It is soooo easy to use!  You will love making boxes for your little holiday gifts!  We will be making 2 cards (2 each of 2 designs) and 10 tags.  This class will be featuring all new products from the Holiday catalog.
The class is this Saturday, September 20 from 10:00 a.m. at my home.  Please RSVP via email to save your seat for this exciting class!  Class fee is $25 and will include all materials to make these projects - please bring your own tool kit (including adhesive, scissors and tools that you craft with).  Demonstrators pay $12.00 and kits in the mail is $35.00.
I hope you will join me for this my first all holiday projects class!
NOTE:  If you own a gift box punch board please bring it to class with you so you won't have to wait your turn to use mine.  Also, if you own blendabilities pens, you might want to consider bringing your own as you won't have to wait to color your images.  These are the colors that we will be using:
Cherry Cobbler - light and medium,  Ivory and Blush, Mocha and Bronze, Daffodil Delight - Dark.  We will also be using the regular Stampin' Write markers in the following colors:  Pear Pizzazz, Baked Brown Sugar and Rose Red.  This is not a requirement, but it might make your life easier if you don't have to wait to color your images.

August Class Projects!

For once, I'm on time to share the projects that we made from class.  I know I still didn't share projects from June and July, but I will!  I finally organized my photos so I can upload them on my blog.  I will get to those after I return from my trip.
This month's class featured a bunch of different techniques.  Here are the projects!  The first project was created because I was trying to use up these Altoid tins that my husband saves for me.  I knew that I would use them for something, one day.  Here is the decorated lid.  Used the new photopolymer stamp set called Christmas Bliss, love this set!! 

Here is the inside view, ten (10) tags inside!

 Here's a closer look at the tags.  I love the tag topper punch, makes life easy making all of those tags!

Love, love, love this slider card!  Inspired by Dawn's Stamping Thoughts.  You can see all of her awesome videos on her YouTube channel.

Here is the card when you pull on the ribbon, so cute!

A Christmas Angel!  This angel was made by Dawn O. using our bow Bigz die.  Here is the link to view how to make this easy angel

Another awesome card by Dawn Griffifth.  This card is called a Dutch Fold card, love it!!  You can view this video on Dawn's YouTube channel as well.

I asked for suggestions from the ladies who attend my classes and this was suggested.  It's a Cluster stamped card.  How cute did this turn out?!  Thanks Melita for the suggestion.  This idea was adapted from Papertrey Inc.  I used all SU stamps and inks for this card.

This card is called a Cascade card.  Very simple to make.  Many tutorials on YouTube and Pinterest too!

Thanks for stopping in to read my post today.  Thank you to the ladies who attended on Saturday.  It was a very small class, but we had so much fun!  Hoping to see you all in September.  We will be making a couple Halloween projects and get into Christmas!

Sneak Peek for August!

I can't believe how fast time is passing.  We are now in August!!  Here is my little sneak peek of the projects we will be creating this month.  I've been surfing YouTube a lot getting ideas from so many talented people out there.  Thank goodness for YouTube!!  This month, we will be making these fun projects that involve different techniques.  I had fun creating the cards and know you will too!  I hope you will join me.

This month, I will be having only one class on Saturday, August 16 at 10:00 am at my home.  If you cannot make the Saturday, please email me and I can do a Sunday class.  The reason for the Saturday only class is that I'm getting ready to leave for a trip to Las Vegas as the youngest of my hanai kids will be going to UNLV and I'll be going up there to help settle him in his dorm.  Thankful that my older sister, Cheryl and her hubby Rick will be going with me as I would probably get lost!  I'm actually looking forward to a mini vacation, but the priority is taking Eric to college and getting him settled in. (his name is Eric just like my hubby, so I've been referring to him as "brother", lol).   Anyway, back to the class!  Please RSVP via email as soon as you can so I can save a kit for you.  Please do not RSVP via this blog because as you can see, I'm not on it regularly like I used to.  The class kit is $25.00 and will include all materials and use of my supplies (stamps, inks, dies, machines).  You will need to bring your tool kit (adhesive, scissors, paper trimmer, scoring board, etc).  Demonstrators pay only $12.00 and kits in the mail $35.00 (this includes postage and your kit stamped, cut and ready to put together.  Note that the kits in the mail will take a little extra time so I can complete the stamping and cutting).
I can't wait to share these projects with you.  I am looking forward to seeing you at class!

July Class Sneak Peek Right here!!

I had alot of fun creating the samples for this month's class.  Thanks to my friend and partner, Wini, for lighting the fire under my butt to get going.  I think I was in one of those moments where I couldn't decide on the right project for the class.  I'm thanking Pinterest, YouTube and Blogs and all of the wonderful and creative people who inspired me for the projects.  I will try to find the links for the people that inspired me for the class projects.  Here is the sneak peek of what we will be making next weekend.

Classes will be on Saturday, July 19 and Sunday, July 20 at 10:00 a.m. at my home.  Please RSVP as soon as possible to reserve your space for this class. Cost for the class is $25.  Demonstrators pay $12.00 and kits in the mail $35.  If you are attending the class, no need to mail in your payment as I will collect at the class.  Please be sure that you bring your tool kit which should include your choice of adhesive, scissors, paper trimmer with scoring blade or you could bring your Simply Scored Board.
We will be making 5 fun cards.  These cards are more than just a simple ink on paper kind of cards.  We will be making a cool new and improved (simplified) waterfall card (I was inspired by Julie Davidson, thank you so much!).  We will also be making a card with a pretty floral band to close the card using the Flower Patch stamp set and Flower Fair framelit dies.  Another card we will be making will be a faux iris twist card, so pretty!  I am finalizing another project using the embossing folder and our chalk pen.  I hope it turns out!  It should be fun class learning how to make some cool cards.
I look forward to seeing you this weekend!!