Time to Say Good-Bye

Be sure to check out The Angel Company's "Final Farwells" (clickable link). That translates into "discontinued list." Although it's always tough to say good-bye to some favorites, it also means that new and fun stamps are on their way!!! Yippee!!! Stay tuned. The new Catalogue and Idea book will come out at the end of June.

Sydney Envelope Book

We will make this adorable book/album at our March stamping class. The basic idea came from a project we did at Seminar a few years ago, and I've had it in mind to take it further and never have.




My friend Jennifer did a class similar to this a few years ago, so you can get some more ideas if you look here.



The class will be Tuesday, March 22. Class fee of $16 must be paid in full by March 7 to register. You will get the book and cardstock, patterned paper and hardware to embellish it. If you'd like to add matching accessories, I'm offering those at a special price. Contact me for more details.

Another case of CASEing

For a while now I've had my eye on a card from Card Creations, Favorite Occasions, vol. 2. I can't post a photo for copyright reasons, but you should be able to see the original inspiration here. As you can tell from my first card below, I hardly changed a thing becaus I loved its simplicity and color.

After doing the first one, I decided to change things up a bit and use Juliette paper and Vintage Plum embossing powder. It looks like I messed up with ink under the sentiment, but it's a fiber in the Aspen cardstock--I promise!

Hey, why not try it with Hemingway paper and Copper embossing powder too? I left the insides blank so I can turn them into cards for anniversary, birthday, just about anything!

Emma

I just LOVE TAC's Emma double-sided paper and thought it was perfect for a beautiful sympathy card.

The damask image is a Gift With Purchase (don't you just love those freebies??!?!), and I (again) used a card from Paper Creations as if it were a sketch. This one was on page 49 of the Spring 2011 magazine.

Happy Valentine's Day!

For my January stamping class I wanted to offer a nice Valentine's card that could easily be used for some other occasion. Combine that with the fact that our class was all about glitter that evening, I ended up designing this card with a glitter window.

We used the stamp set Linear Sentiments because it has a flower, star or circle that someone could use instead of the heart. I had never before tried a glitter window but was inspired after participating in a technique swap that another angel hosted. Even though you can't see it well in the photo, there is a stamped image under the ribbon, and the polka dots are with Versamark Dazzle.
Below is the card by Shirley H. that I received in the technique swap. I loosely based my design on hers.

Not sure what to think...

This time I CASEd my friend Amy K. I saw her card here (scroll down to the Amore card with the green bow) and loved it! I knew I didn't have anything that dainty or delicate to try, so I used one of my victorian images to give it a whirl. I'm not sure what I think of mine, but I LOVE hers and the one she CASEd in the first place!

The rhinestones are from the sewing department at Wal-Mart. ;-)

Birthday and Sympathy

These next two cards are CASEd from the cover of the same magazine as many of my previous posts. I used TAC's fun Catelynn paper for mine and punched my flowers using two sizes of our flower punch.


My first CASE.

A CASE of my CASE since I'm always needing a pretty sympathy card at the lastminute.