It's back!

Yay! I got the header back.  It's the little things in life that give me so much joy. 

My New Look!

If you have been reading my blog before, you might have noticed the new look.  This was actually by complete accident and I'm really not sure that I like it.  I would love to know what everyone thinks about it.  I guess my biggest problem is that I miss my Header with my logo, the flowers, color and whatnot.  If I can figure out a way to get that header back then I might just get used to it.

Wedding Card in Cream and Wine

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I fell in love with the poem by F. Scott Fitzgerald and decided to use it on the Wedding Card for my Daughter and her new wife, Joanna.  I can't really tell you where I got the dies or who made them, but I just love these dies.  I can tell you the design of the card itself isn't completely mine, It was the sample image that came with one of the unbranded dies that I bought.  The wedding color was Wine and Yellow.  I tried to get the overall theme of the wedding into the card.  I embossed the inside mat on the left with an embossing folder by Darice and used glitter pens by Kaiser to color the details of the embossing impressions.  The card is inside a keepsake box and the top picture on the right is the box top.

Engagement Card

I found a very similar card to this on Pinterest and thought it would make a nice Engagement Card and this is my adaptation of that card.  I  this for my daughter and her fiancee to congratulate them on their engagement (Officially).  They are married now, the wedding was October 12, 2018 and it was just beautiful.  

The heart is cut from the a Cricut file and it's tucked behind a die from Spellbinders, Shapeabilities called "Iron Works".  I curled it a bit so that it would poof up in the center and allow the heart to slip under it.  I placed a piece of clear Vellum over the mat and the paper pattern is by Prima "Cherry Blossom" pad.  The flower gems in the corners are sticky gems that I bought ages ago at Michaels Arts and Crafts store. I made a matching keepsake box and that is what the card sits in.  The top of the box in under the box bottom.  The card is approximately 5 1/2 x 5.

Catching up

I know, I know, I've been terrible with keeping up with my blog.  What can I say, The day needs to grow more hours.

Anyway, I thought I would show off some of the things my class has been doing.  I am going to close my Michael's Facebook page, the postings are rather redundant and If I have to choose one to devote the time too, it will be this blog.  I hope that everyone who has visited the Facebook page will take a look here to catch up on what we have been doing and what you have been missing.

I have started Custom Classes.  These are one-on-one class sessions and can be anything from learning Cricut Design to taking a missed classed.  I certainly don't know how to do everything, but you never know, I just might know the thing that you're wanting to know. 

These photos are not in any sort of order, but here we go:

The class is making paper flowers and loving them!

Here I think we are making large pinwheel center pieces.

Another one of the monthly scrapbook pages, this one is inspired by a pin that I saw on Pinterest.  I would love to give credit to the original author, but it was too many pin's deep to find.

This is a scene stamping technique that I learned from a tutorial that Theresa Momber was kind enough to upload to YouTube.  I just loved the card and after making it for awhile, I thought I would pass on her beautiful ideas to my class.

We made some Christmas Lanterns and they turned out super cute.  Again, I must thank Pinterest for the idea.

This was an Easter project.  I used Tim Holtz tissue paper, floral napkins and the Graphic 45 "Time to Flourish" and "Botanical Tea" paper stacks.  It was a very pretty project.

This past Christmas it seemed that everywhere I looked these glass blocks where being decorated with vinyl and stuffed with tiny lights, so I jumped on the band wagon and the ladies in my class turned out some beautiful blocks.

We got busy with the d.i.y. Christmas gifts, one of which were the etched mugs and bottles.  The beer mugs turned out especially well with some custom monogram work done, thanks to my trusty Cricut Air.

I saw these pocket folios on YouTube by My Sister's Scrapper and fell in love with them.  I made four before deciding to teach her wonderful project to my crafty ladies, they also loved them.