July Class - The last three

Here are the last three cards that we made this past weekend. This first card is such a real fun card to make. It's called a double slider card and what makes this card slide is a strip of plastic from a grocery bag! Yup! a piece about 12 inches long cut from a plastic bag. If you would like to try to make one of these cool cards, you can follow along on a video that I followed by Dawn Griffith. Her blog is called Dawn's Stamping Thoughts. Dawn is the video tutorial queen! Check out the video to make use this technique HERE! Here's what the card looks like when you pull on the ribbon. The top and bottom messages comes right out! Pretty cool, huh!

I love these animals from the set called Animal Stories. The flowers are all from the Garden Greetings set. Inks are pink passion, old olive and pumpkin pie. The giraffe was stamped with Melon Mambo ink. I used the

This next card uses the stamp off technique where you stamp the image and then without reinking the stamp, stamp off to the side of your already stamped image. This creates a shadow.

Here's the inside of the card...

This is the last card, another Sympathy card. This color combo is a pretty one...Bermuda Blue and Creamy Caramel. I used the ticket punch for the corners on this card front.

Here's the inside...

I'll post the bonus project tomorrow! We had so much fun. Thank you all who made it to this month's class and also to those who ordered kits! I can't believe that both classes were full! Thank you all for your support! I am working on August and the big September 50 Christmas Tag class...so please stay tuned and come back to see the announcement for these classes.

July Class Projects - first three

This month's class was a card class. We made 2 thinking of you cards, 2 thank you cards and 2 sympathy cards. I'm posting 3 of the 6 cards that we made.
This first card is a thinking of you card and uses the new in-color cardstock Dusty Durango. We stamped color on color using the set Circle Circus. The chocolate chip strip was wound through a crimper and we stamped and cut out the butterfly from the Simple Friendship set. The butterfly was stamped in Kiwi Kiss, which just retired, but I just had to use it! The sentiment came from a level 3 hostess set called Kind and Caring Thoughts and was punched out using the wide oval punch.We did the gatefold for this sympathy card and this in-color is called Crushed Curry. This color is a bit strong, but was toned down using barely banana and chocolate chip. I kind of like this color combo. I used the eyelet border punch to add a bit of softness to the card. The flower on the front of the card is also from the Kind and Caring Thoughts set.

Here's what the card looks like opened. Both sentiments are from Thoughts and Prayers. I stamped the flower in the middle of the verse inside of the card using So Saffron ink.

I love this tree from the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set. Added little rhinestones to the branches. This in-color is called Soft Suede. The frame around the image is the new in-color called Rich Razzleberry. I really like these new in-colors. The ribbon is also new and is the new in-color called Bermuda Blue. You can get this ribbon in all of the new in-colors.

The sentiment is from the set called Oval All and fits perfectly in the scallop oval punch. I had to make a small slit on the left side of the card on the fold so that the ribbon can be inserted through.

I'll be posting the other 3 cards tomorrow, so don't forget to come back to see them!! I'll also post my bonus project for attendees!

OMG! how can this be??

I know what you guys are thinking, that I'm such a little brat! But I tell ya, I feel like the luckiest girl around! Got this sweet rak from my GGF Joy. She really spoils me to bits! This gift was to thank me for helping her with 35 party favors that we made in like one day...talk about being pumped up to do a project! We jammed, yeah Joy? Glad it turned out really nice and that Nan was happy with it. Thank you so much for my beautiful card and for the cute custom sized box with Dandelion stamps!! I love it! At class on Saturday, I received this yummy rak from Jenny. She cut out the Hello Kitty in vinyl using her cricut machine. So clever! This container is super cool cuz it locks in the freshness of these yummy furikake mix. Not to worry though because these treats were gone in a heartbeat! Love that it's pesonalized too! I love my card too! It was embossed with the HK embossing folders and she added dew drops to it too! Thanks Jenny!! See you on the 26th at D's! BTW, if you need party invitations or favors done, Jenny is the one to see. She has so many orders for these cute invitations!

Got this cute box from my GF Joyce. This is one of the latest xclusive Sizzix dies by SU. I can't wait to get this die! I was really excited to get this box that I didn't even realize that there was something inside! Haha, so lo-lo yeah? Thank you!! I love these chick stands...Joyce, I used the one you gave me last year to death! Thank you for thinking of me, so sweet of you!!

Last, but definately not least - with no photo though...Thank you to Irene for the ink refill for my Memento ink pad and for the of papers! Holy smokers Irene! I love the metallic look of the papers! Thank you so much for thinking of me!!

I have the sweetest friends!! I really need to start making some thank you cards for everyone...I guess I'll need to take a blog break soon so I can get more stuff done, huh...we'll see. Maybe I can pull off doing it all....

Thank you once again, ladies, for spoiling me rotten! You make me feel so special!

Easy bookmark

While reading my Stampin' Success magazine (a publication for SU demonstrators), I came across instructions to make easy peasy book markers. It's so easy, I whipped this one up in 5 minutes, no kidding! I love the sock monkey, he's just too cute! I thought that this would make a great little addition if you are giving a book for a gift, or if you just want to make a whole bunch of them and bag them up for a gift for a friend who likes to read? Anyhoo, I did a short tutorial for you just in case you wanted to make some! Start off with a 4x4 or 5X5 piece of cardstock or DP. I used chocolate chip CS for my bookmark.

Score the square at 2" then turn and score 2" again

Your piece should now look like this. Can you see the score lines?

Now, cut away 1 of the squares like this:

Put some adhesive on one of the squares (as shown)

Adhere as shown:

This is the finished bookmark! Easy 5 minutes, right??

Here's my bookmark on one of my favorite books! I hope you try this out, it was so much fun to make!

Supplies:

Cardstock: chocolate chip, baseful blue, old olive

stamp: sock monkey

ink: chocolate chip, green copic marker

accessories: scallop circle punch, 1 3/8" and 1 1/4" circle punches, chocolate chip stampin write marker (for dots on the scallops), dimensionals.

Thanks for your visit today and for always leaving me sweet comments. They are appreciated!

A Thank You for Elena

I was blurfing a couple of weeks ago and stumbled across yet another island girl's blog. This blog was called Bearsaurus...addicted to crafts. Elena posted her beautiful crochet flowers that she hand crocheted! She was offering free flowers to the first 10 people and yippee! I was was one of them. So I was so happy to receive not one, but 2 bags of flowers and also some crochet butterflies as well, ahh...so talented. THANK YOU Elena! Here is my thank you card to Elena. This Tri-shutter card has been very popular in blogland lately, so of course, I had to try one. This is one of the projects that Joy and I did on the 4th,. I had to use this new stamp that I bought from Cute Stuff...this stamp is called Mermaid Emma and is from CC Design's Sugar Plum series. Sooo cute! The cute sea animals DP is also from Cute Stuff, just love it! The rest of the DP are scraps from my huge stash of scraps!
Here's the close up...

The bling and pearls are from Pineapple Cove. They are having a sale this whole weekend...up to 60% off. These blings are on sale too and I think they come out to less than $2/card...go get some!
Hey, thanks for stopping in today. I appreciate all of your visits whether you comment or not...Happy Saturday! Gotta set up for my class today...we're gonna have fun and I can't wait to see everyone!! More tomorrow!

The shopping is HOT this weekend!

OMG! talk about places to spend your money this weekend! First, Pineapple Cove over at Kahala Mall is having a huge sale this weekend, starting TODAY! There will be Free Make & Takes (while supplies last) and everything in the store will be on sale (up to 60% off!) excluding only two items, Bazzill Cardstock & Core'Dinations Cardstock. Clearance will be 60% off. In addition, spend at least $25 and receive 1 year FREE membership to our Crafting @ the Cove Club. Sale ends July 12. My friend Linda will be helping Manle on Saturday, July 11, so if you are in the area, stop by to check it out and say hello to Manle and Linda!

The shopping is also HOT at J's Knicknacks this weekend too! Starting Thursday, July 9th thru Saturday, July 11th, all Cricut products are 30% off of the retail prices. Also all Sizzix pop-up dies are 40% off of the retail prices. All sales are final, no returns or adjustments from previous purchases and does not include items on hold prior to Thursday July 9th.

Finally, don't forget to check out the large selection of Hello Kitty dies at Fisher Hawaii too! If you are going there to buy your school supplies, you gotta check out the craft stuff for you! The marvy punches are also on sale, and the prices are really unbeatable!

Have fun shopping this weekend...if you are signed up to my sold out class this weekend, I am looking forward to seeing you!

Thank you for visiting today and HAPPY FRIDAY! Have a great weekend!

Three more cards

Happy Friday! No furlough day for me today, I was actually looking forward to a day off, but I do love my job!
Here are the rest of the cards that we made to go inside of this box.Boy, did we have trouble designing this card. I handed it over to Joy and here is what she came up with. So clever! a shaker card! Cute little whale and lots of beads! We used one of the tags for this card, that's why we ended up having 9 tags in the box.

Here's my least favorite card out of the 5. I started running out of ideas as it was getting later and later. I'm sure I could've come up with something better if my brain had some rest, but we just had to finish it up that night. Crazy!

Thanks for spending a part of your day on my blog. I'm glad you wanted to see the rest of these cards. Card class tomorrow and Sunday. Be sure you come back next week to check out the projects. I promise I will post them!