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.

Quick & Easy

In the Quick and Easy section of CARDS, March 2007 (page 148) there was a square card that caught my eye. I don't normally do square, but I sometimes do tall just to be different. That's where I went with this one. The set is a retired TAC set.



Once again I CASEd my CASE and made the two cards below so I could add to my stash. Not so sure I like the stark contrast of the black/white with the Belle Rose ink.

Instead of using plain white ribbon, I made my own polka dot ribbon with Palette ink and satin ribbon. The stamp is a big square stamp that I stamped repeatedly. I'm pleased with the result and hope you are too!