Class Pages

January - Bo Bunny

 I live in Cleveland and we get tons of lake effect snow every year so you can never have enough snow layouts! I read this quote somewhere "Snow is Winter's Butterfly" and knew it was a perfect title for a layout. When I saw Bo Bunny's paper, it was a match made in heaven! I love their stuff.


 February - 3 Birds

 3 Birds Warehouse is in Cleveland and they have a mega sale every December. My mom went last year and saw these kits for a $1!!!! The only thing I added was a couple buttons and some twine. The solid paper was all in the kit, I just took it out to do some cuts on my cricut with the Teresa Collins Sophisticated cartridge.



 April - Teresa Collins

My favorite class page of all! the border, grid, phrase and bird are all from one sheet of paper that I cut apart and layered on a 12x12 yellow. I got the inspiration from the Teresa Collins design team blog. For the second page, I fussy cut apart the yellow flowers from a third of another sheet of pattern paper and layered them over each other. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way this turned out!

I am so sad to say this is the last class page I will do, for now that is! I didn't know it at the time, but after April, I decided to discontinue my local classes. I am still working out details of doing some sort of packaged kits without the class, but that is a couple months out at least. I have so many projects to work on before that! But, this is definitely giving me time to work on those other projects, along with maybe getting some of my own scrapping done in between! Something I haven't done for about 3 years!

 

 

Christmas Cards 2012

Merry Christmas!!!

I wanted to share my Christmas Card for this year. I knew I wouldn't have a ton of time to work on them with all my other crafty projects I am doing as gifts so I choose a simple card to make. I love the way it turned out!!

DCWV mat stacks made this card super quick and easy. I used their Christmas mat stack from this year. I cut 1inch strips from different pattern papers. I didn't have to cut the other length since I was using the mat stack so just 1 cut! I told you these were quick. I cut the reindeer (that may look familiar to you, I told you it was my new favorite Cricut cut!) from Christmas Solutions Cartridge. I added a red bling to make it Rudpoph and used Close to Cocoa Stampin Up marker to color the lines on the cut and the feet.

Hope this goes to show that hand made cards don't have to take forever! There is still time to make yours :)

~Liz

Gift Card Holders 2011

Hi all!

It is that time of year for all things Christmas :)

My Mom and I participated in our job's entrepeuner show again this year and made more gift card holders! You can see some of last year's here. 

I have a lot more pictures this year and want to give a little info on how I did some of these so I'm going to spread this into a couple of different posts.

This is one of my favorite ones this year. For the ornament on the right: I took Tim Holtz tissue tape and stuck it to a non-stick craft mat. I used alcohol inks to color it red. I pulled the tape off the mat and tore the edges to fit onto a white panel that you can see in the picture below (upper left holder). I punched out the ornament using a Stampin Up punch. I used the punch piece on the holder above and the negative below! For the negative I just put a piece of gold cardstock behind the image and used a gold Krylon pen to edge the panel and the holder. 2 items from 1 great technique I saw in a magazine :) Definitely going to be doing that again!

I loved the way all of these turned out and everyone else must have too because we sold out!!!

More Christmas holders to come next week! Hope to inspire everyone to work on their Christmas cards (if you are as behind as I am!)

~Liz