Card for Hobby Lobby Class, July 9, 2011

This is the card I will teach at the class on the 9th of July. Hope all my students love it as much as I love making and teaching this card. Martha Stewart edge punch was used on the bottom and inside. The butterfly is a nestability as well as the ovals (3) on the front and the Labels 4 on the inside. The sentiments are Close To My Heart stamps that are discontinued. This is the first time I have embellished with a bow. And of course, there's pearls on the card and rhinestones on the butterfly.

I wanted to use this paper, so I put this card together to see what the paper looks like. I think it turned out really nice and was simple to make.

My Sister loved her Birthday Card

This design is my favorite card right now. It is time consuming, but very easy. And I used my new Nestabilities Labels Eighteen and new Just Right Stamps on the front of the card. The roses are hand made and all flowers are punched as well as the leaves. The butterflies are a Martha Stewart punch (3 butterflies on the same punch). The edge lattice punch is also a Martha Stewart.

Z-Card for Hobby Lobby Class on Oct 1

Everyone attending the class will learn to make the z-card, and the floral arrangements. The roses are hand made as well. This card is very "bling," but very easy to make, believe me!

Birthday Card for a Friend

Inside card for Croppinsville Class

This is the card inside, for Croppinsville Class in Collinsville on June 18. (See the front below).

Card for Croppinsville class

This card will be taught at a class in Collinsville, June 18th @ 1:00-2:00. You will learn to use copics (not certified) and how to make this rose. And if you are not in love with Graphics 45, you will be when the class is over. We will have a great time, please join us. If you would like to learn to make this card, please contact me or Croppinsville.

6x6 Black & White Embossed Card

This is the card we will do this Saturday 5/21 in the class at Hobby Lobby.

Easter Card

Egg is Nestabilities; Gold embossed pattern is a Waltzing Mouse Stamp; The edge was punched with a Martha Stewart edge punch. The gold paper is from India and the flower was punched with a McGill Creativity punch. The blue paper is Stampin Up and the Vanilla Cream Cardstock is Close To My Heart. I embellished with pearls. The card is 6x6.

Purple Rose

A rose I made with Grunge Paper. Each layer was cut with Marvy flower punch(4 layers). I used Dusty Concord Distress Ink and distressed it. I will teach this at a Hobby Lobby Class.

Easter Card w/bling

Sorry about the image I couldn't get a better scan. The egg was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder(diamond shape) then embellished with pearls. The stamp of vines and roses is a Stampin' Up Woodie (there is a bird behind the egg that I didn't want to show). The roses are colored with Copic Markers and the blue flowers were bunched with a small punch(maker unknown), the center of the flowers is blue Stickles.

Monochromatic Easter Card

The egg is cut with a nestabilities die. The scallop is punched with a Fiscars Edge Punch. The sentiments are from Close To My Heart. The card stock used for the egg is from Core'dinations. This is one of two cards that will be taught in the April 19th Hobby Lobby. (If we have time for both).

Get Well Card

Get Well Card for Hobby Lobby class. Fun and easy card. Nestabilities-Label Seventeen; The bug is a Martha Stewart Punch; the sentiments are woodies from Hobby Lobby.

Happy Birthday card for Hobby Lobby class

The class at the Hobby Lobby at 71st & Mingo will be 19 March 2011 @ 1:00 - ?. This is the most fun you can have with cardstock. I will teach how to use a Cuttlebug, embossing and cutting. You will learn to make lace w/an edge punch, and a few other tips and techniques I have discovered. Call me and reserve your place in the class and get a list of things you should bring. There will also be a class on 26 March 2011 @ 1:00, at the same Hobby Lobby. This class will be how to make a Get Well card with different tips and techniques. If you don't have a "bone folder" it is an essential tool to have.

Back home from India...

This is a tri-fold card to Cheryl & Kumar. They made lunch for Ava, Jim and me. We had Lasagna made with lamb, a salad and desert. We had a great visit. Cheryl is a nurse and noticed I had a hard time breathing and a nasty cough, so she suggested I go to the clinic she works, to see the doctor. As soon as we left, they took me to the clinic to see the doctor. He told me I had an upper respiratory infection and prescribed several medications, which I picked up right there at the clinic. That was the last week of my vacation, but the medications kept me going.

6x6 Thank You card for the Kotez'. Ava, Jim, Caleb and I visited Cathleen & Morne' Kotez' and their 2 children. They are from South Africa. Cathleen and Morne' made dinner for us, of Lasagna, salad and desert. We had a nice visit with them, but Ava and I had shopped all day and I was pooped, so didn't join the conversation much.

Ava's friend, Christine, has 5 children of her own and runs a foster home for girls. I got to meet her, 3 of her children, the doggie, and all the girls in her care. Her children and the girls in her care were mannerly, beautiful children and very happy. This is her Thank You card for letting me visit with the children and giving me a tour of how they lived. Her husband was away at the time I visited so, I didn't get to meet him.

Ava's housekeeper, Premila, is one of the sweetest persons I know, and also the best Chai maker in all of India. I would like to have hid her in my suitcase and brought her back with me. I will never forget her. I picked pink for her Thank You card because my favorite Salwar she wore was pink, she looked so pretty in it.

My Thank you card for my sister is a Z-fold card. She took me everywhere, shopping, visiting, to Mysore to the Palace and to the Taj Mahal. Taught me to bargain with India-n's and was the best tour guide ever. Since being there 9 years she has learned a lot about the culture and living in India.

I have returned from India. My "Vacation of a Life Time" was very interesting and super fun. My sister, Ava, was the best "tour guide" ever. My brother-in-law, Jim, was the sweetest and let Ava and me have some quality time together. He also made me square eggs for breakfast most every morning. The other mornings he made pancakes or French toast, (what a good brother-in-law). But, I enjoyed having him with us when he could come on a visiting or shopping trip. My day out with my nephew, Caleb, was one of the high-lights of my trip. He is an awesome nephew and a really good guy. I have designed thank you cards for Jim and Caleb, that I hope will let them know how much I appreciated them in making my vacation memories good ones. The gray and black 3x3 card is Jim's card and the brown & vanilla cream 3x3 card is for Caleb.

Happy Valentines Day-For Hobby Lobby Class

For the front if this card, I distressed the 8 1/2" x 3 1/2" card with Ranger Distress Ink, Forest Moss, Stormy Sky and Victorian Velvet. I cut the hearts with Nestabilities scalloped hearts and rounded the corners with 1/2" Fiskars corner rounder. I cut a vanilla cream cardstock 8 1/2" x 7 and folded it to 8 1/2" by 3 1/2 and ran it through the Xyron, so the front would have adhesive on it and attached the distressed card stock on top, leaving the cutout hearts open with Xyron adhesive exposed and ran different colored Martha Stewart seed beads over each scalloped heart. I added small flowers connecting the hearts across the card and put rhinestones or beads in the center of each flower. The "Happy Valentine's Day" stamp is a Close to my heart Acrylix stamp. The inside of the card: I used 2 of the cut scalloped hearts and stamped "be mine forever" from Close to My Heart. The corners are also rounded with Fiskars 1/2" corner rounder.

Male - Happy Birthday Card

The card is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. The car is a Tim Holtz stamp and the Happy Birthday is an acrylic stamp from Close to my Heart. The belt, I ran through a Fiskars crimper, the buckle is from Sizzix. I distressed the card with Ranger Distress Ink -tea dye-. Inside: I used a Fiskars boarder punch to punch the black edge and the sentiment is a Close to my Heart acrylic stamp. This card will be taught at the Hobby Lobby 6/23/2010 class.

Z-Fold card

All the stamps are from a Hero Arts stamp set. The front flower is stamped on a Nestabilities Labels Three. I embellished the center of the flower with small blue rhinestones, the flower in the inside is embellished with a large blue rhinestone. The front edge and the left side of the inside of the card was cut with Tim Holtz Alterations, On the Edge. The dotted paper is BoBunny. The paper, stamp set and Tim Holtz Alterations are all from Croppinsville.

Z-Fold card for Hobby Lobby class

This is a 6x6 card. The edge of the front is punched with a Fiskars boarder punch, as well as on the inside. The flowers are a Penny Black stamp from Hobby Lobby stamped on a Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Three. I embellished the flowers with Flower Soft, Fuchsia, embellished the corner with beads. The inside flower is a Hero Arts stamp from Croppinsville, I embellished it with small rhinestones. The sentiment stamps are Close to my Heart. The butterflies on both the front and back are a Martha Stewart punch. The polka dot background paper is BoBunny from Croppinsville. The edges of the card is distressed with a Close to my Heart ink pad, Spring Iris.

Card for the 2nd Class at Hobby Lobby

The front: Background was embossed with Argyle Cuttlebug folder. The lace across the middle of the card was cut with a Fiscars' boarder punch on both long edges. The Thank you was embossed with purple on a Spellbinders Nestabilities Label Four with a Close to my Heart stamp. The corners were cut with a Crop-a-Dial corner punch as Deco and embellished with beads. Inside: The border punch was also used on this, only in purple, just on 1 side. The Labels Four was used again and embellished with rhinestones. The sentiment is a Close to my Heart stamp and embossed again with Purple.