Johnny Jump Ups

Hi Everyone,
Valentines is now over and I did share some of what we made a week ago, however, I'd like to share a card I made for my hubby for valentines.  After I made it and gave it to him I started looking at it and decided that the heart replacing the letter "O"is too big and would look better with a small heart placed in the middle of it.  Next time!

I found a really sweet kleenex and used it to make the background

using the felted cardstock technique.

This past Thursday was my "Flower Power" class where I teach the class how to make a different flower from punches, paper, ribbon, etc.  We did Johnny Jump Ups using the small heart from the trio heart punch. Some inspiration from Penny Flowers had me putting together a larger flower.

 

inside I put "You"

Check back for a tutorial on how I made these flowers

Velum Valentines/CASEd cards

Hi fellow crafters,
Thank you for all your kind emails and wonderful comments.  Some of you have asked about the felted cardstock cards in my recent post.  You can find a tutorial for that on Splitcoaststampers.  Also the mittens used in the mitten card and the peek-a-boo card is an original die I purchased from Sizzix a few years ago before I became a demontrator for Stampin Up.
I get inspired by the strangest things sometimes and pull in all kinds of resources when I'm teaching a technique class. 
I have a couple of cards to shared that I CASED.  The following two were inspired by Kirsteen Gill

Bravo Burgandy and velum with vintage white seam binding

Elegant Eggplant with white velum and vintage white seam binding.

The ladies loved doing them!

I don't know who to give credit to for this card.  Please if it's yours, let me know!  I loved it so much, I changed very little!  I used Real Red for the card base instead of Whisper White, changed the sentiment and added cherry cobbler dazzling details to the heart.

Thanks for the inpiration!

We also made treat holders with the matchbox die and a goodie bag for some other boxed candy.



Now go and get crafting!!!





Look what's popped up!

Hi Crafters,
Last class we did pop-up cards and these are some designs I popped up with. LOL.
They were so simple and easy to do.  Hope you like them and become inspired to make some of your own.

Outside of card

Notice the cake has no candles

Then...

voila!!!

a little sparkle for enhancement!!!

outside

You could place a sentiment along the crimped strip before crimping.

I chose not to place a sentiment to keep the suspense because when you first look at the card,

you're not sure exactly what's going on until you open it up

inside

Felted Cardstock Class

I'm kind of going backwards with some of the cards we did in Thursday night card class but I hope to show all of you  a little inspiration of what we did in class.  The following cards we done in class using the felted cardstock technique.  It is so simple to do!

Paper napkins, saran wrap, an iron and voila! Instand background pieces for use.  I played around with a lot of napkins. The ladies duplicated the first 3 (adding their own little touches and sentiments) and the rest were ones I played around with.

Love the ooohs and awhs everyone gives and the "it's so simple" phrase.

Hope you like what you see and can get inspired to create your own background basics.

And to think...all from a simple napkin!

A Fresh Start

Hello to all my blogger friends and followers.

It's January and like all good resolutions, a fresh start it is.  Not necessarily a new look but a fresh start.

I cannot access my old blog due to technical issues so the old will sit in cyberspace till who knows when, but the good news is I am alive and doing well as is the fresh start of a new blog including a slight name change.

Christmas has come and gone, very quickly I might add but I'd like to share a little card we made in class - All that glitters

It was a lot of fun and so easy peasy to make! Mostly  punchin' and gluin'