Christmas Gift tags

I have been busy making tags for my Christmas Parcels this year.  These little cuties came from the Bundled Buddies Stamp Set.  I colored them with our Alcohol Markers and a few Copic Markers for the browns since our CTMH browns are still on backorder. 

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Laurie

Upcoming Classes

Class Schedule for Fall/Winter 2012
These classes are subject to change and I reserve the right to cancel if there is  not enough interest. 
Some of the classes fill up fast so in order to ensure a spot please pay a head of time.  Please email or phone to reserve your spot.

 
Christmas Card Workshop

Saturday November 10th at 1pm
There will be another class at 7pm if there is enough interest.
3 cards each of 4 different designs
12 cards total with envelopes
Cost $18
Space is limited so book your spot today by calling 854-2928 or email me.

November Scrapbook Workshop

Monday November 26th at 7pm
2 - 2 page layouts using the beautiful Avonlea Paper Packet
All supplies are included.  Must bring with you a basic scrapbook toolbox with paper trimmer, scissors, ruler, pencil etc, if you have.
Cost is $12
Space is limited so book your spot today. 

 

Advent Calendar

I am hosting an Advent Calendar Workshop on Saturday November 24th at 1pm. Cost is $55 and comes complete with
1 My Creations Cubby,
My Acrylix Advent Calendar Workshop Stamp Set,
1 pkg, Bitty Sparkles,
2 Dimensional Elements In Color Frame Sheets,
Instructional Brochure
15 sheets of cardstock.
All paper will be pre-cut so you can get right down to putting this cute Calendar together.
You must pre-book this workshop by October 29th so I can get supplies ordered.

 

Christmas Tag Class

Saturday December 1st at 1pm. 
If there is enough interest there will be another class at 7pm.
5 tags each of 4 different designs for a total of 20 tags.
Cost is $15
Space is limited so book your spot today. 

 

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Laurie

Advent Calendar Workshop

 

Only a few days left to book your spot for this awesome Christmas Workshop! 

I am hosting an Advent Calendar Workshop on Saturday November 24th at 1pm.  Cost is $55 and comes complete with

• 1 My Creations Cubby,
• My Acrylix Advent Calendar Workshop Stamp Set,
• 1 pkg, Bitty Sparkles,
• 2 Dimensional Elements In Color Frame Sheets,
• Instructional Brochure
• 15 sheets of cardstock.

All paper will be pre-cut so you can get right down to putting this cute Calendar together. 

You must pre-book this workshop by October 29th so I can get supplies ordered. 

Call 854-2928 or email me to reserve your spot today as space is limited. 

Thanks for stopping by…

Laurie

Advent Calendar Workshop

 

Only a few days left to book your spot for this awesome Christmas Workshop! 

I am hosting an Advent Calendar Workshop on Saturday November 24th at 1pm.  Cost is $55 and comes complete with

• 1 My Creations Cubby,
• My Acrylix Advent Calendar Workshop Stamp Set,
• 1 pkg, Bitty Sparkles,
• 2 Dimensional Elements In Color Frame Sheets,
• Instructional Brochure
• 15 sheets of cardstock.

All paper will be pre-cut so you can get right down to putting this cute Calendar together. 

You must pre-book this workshop by October 29th so I can get supplies ordered. 

Call 854-2928 or email me to reserve your spot today as space is limited. 

 

Thanks for stopping by…

Laurie

Happy New Year and a Christmas Layout

I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas and New Years!  I know I did.  I also enjoyed this fantastic weather we are having.  I did get to make a few layouts during the holidays too! 

I like the straight simple lines of this layout. Sometimes layouts get too busy and have too much going on and take away your attention on the photos. After all, we scrapbook to showcase our photos and story. So this layout keeps your attention on the photos first, then on the design of the layout. I will add my photos as soon as I get them back from the developer. 

Here are a few things I did on this layout:

· I stamped the Santa Image onto the layout with Archival Ink and then colored it in using my water brush and Holiday Red ink and Topiary Ink. My water brush was on the dry side so the archival black ink did not run.

· I traced the Dimensional Elements Stars onto my patterned paper, cut them out then used liquid glass to adhere the stars to the paper. I sanded the edges with my finishing files then finger daubered ink around the edges.

· I cut out my title on my cricut using the Art Philosophy Cartridge. Size was 1 inch.

· I placed the frame around the present.

· I inked our Color Ready Kraft Borders with New England Ivy Ink and attached them to the layout.

 

Supplies are From Close To My Heart unless otherwise noted:

X7145B Believe Paper

Believe WOTG Stamp Set

Z1377 Color Ready Kraft Borders

Z1489 Olive Mini Medley Accessories

Z1680 Dimensional Elements Stars

4475 Archival Black Ink

Z2135 New England Ivy Ink

Z2155 Topiary Ink

Z2127 Holiday Red Ink

Z1686 Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge

Others: water brush, Finger daubers, adhesive, glue dots, finishing files, liquid glass, paper piercer,

 

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Laurie

Christmas Tags

I made this box and tags for this Christmas season.  No supply list was made for these but I hope you will enjoy them and maybe get some inspiration from them too! 

May you have a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year and we will be back again in January for some regular posts! 

 

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Laurie

Gift Card Holders

 

I made these gift card holders to use this Christmas.  I never kept track of all the supplies I used (there were too many) but I wanted to show you anyways.  Happy Holidays!

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Laurie

Christmas is coming!

Here is a Christmas card I made a while ago.  I misplaced the list of all the items I used but I still wanted you to see it.  Hope you enjoy it.

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Laurie

A Christmas layout in June!

This page was inspired by another Close To My Heart Consultant, Corrina Mitchell.


I liked the layout that she had done so I scrap lifted (copied) lots of her design and added a few things of my own to customize it for me.

All supplies are from Close To My Heart unless otherwise noted:
Magic…Performance Sketch
Mistletoe Paper Packet X7130B
Colors are Cranberry, New England Ivy, Bamboo, White Daisy and Black
Exclusive Inks: Desert Sand Z2118
New England Ivy Z2135
Cranberry Z2116
Stamp sets: Tiny Typewriter D1222
Peace On Earth D1243
Adorn- able D1446
Mistletoe Level Two Assortment Z1330
Cranberry Brads Z1361
White daisy Brads Z1365
Nestabilities Labels Four
Flowers (unknown)

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Laurie

March Blog Hop...Techniques

Welcome to the March Blog Hop...scrapbook techniques. If you have just came from Corina Mitchell's site you are on the right track. 

 In this layout I chose to do some embossing.  This is fairly simple to do.  First you ink up your stamp with Versamark.  This is a "sticky" clear ink pad that stays wet a little longer than a regular ink pad.  Then you sprinkle your embossing powder onto the wet versamark ink.  Swoosh the embossing powder around until the entire image has embossing powder on it.  Then you tap off the excess powder and return it back into the bottle so there is no waste.  Next, you heat the image with your heat gun until the powder melts and turns shiny.  And then you are done!  On the above layout I embossed the design on the Christmas Ornaments on the left page and the snowflakes on the right page.  Also on the right page on the frame that surrounds the photo of me and my granddaughter I embossed it as well.

 To do that I took the Versamark in my right hand and swiped the edges of the cardstock frame on all four sides leaving a random pattern around the frame. Then I sprinkled the embossing powder around and heat set it just like I did when I used the stamps.  This gives a unique frame around the picture.

All supplies are from Close To My Heart unless otherwise noted:
Supplies:

Adorn-able D1446
December Word Puzzle D1313
Moments In Time D1339
Versamark
Craft Tray
Gold Embossing Powder
Cranberry and New England Ivy Ink
Cranberry and new England Ivy Finger Daubers
Omega Nylon Christmas Thread
Scotch tape for Masking


Now you can hop on over to Haley Dyer's blog here and see what technique she will feature! 
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Laurie

Clear Christmas Cards

 

Here is the cards we made for the November Club Meeting.  We did a few differnent things with these...generation stamping, rock and roll and we also decorated a clear card. 

Clear cards are awesome to decorate. But there are a few tricks to decorating them. First off there is a protective plastic coating on BOTH sides of the clear cards that you must remove before you attach your cardstock. You can do this by scratching your fingernail along a corner until it starts to lift then just peel back along the whole card. Then repeat that for the other side.

Another thing to think about is the adhesive you will use. Liquid glue will not work. The best thing that I have found to use is the ATG gun, that I use (my all time favorite adhesive) or Liquid glass. These will work the best. Also you must think about where you place your adhesive, so it does not show on the back side. For this reason I keep my adhesive a little ways in from the edge of the cardstock I am gluing. Also I place another piece of cardstock on the back to cover the adhesive on the back side.

Now for the fun part…I place some of the smaller elements on the front of the clear card and the larger pieces on the inside of the card to give it that 3D look you are going for. The best thing is to just sit down and play with it so you can see for yourself just how fun these clear cards can be.

All supplies are from Close To My Heart unless otherwise noted:

Mistletoe paper X7130B

Cranberry, New England Ivy and White Daisy Cardstock
Cranberry and New England Ivy Ink
Colonial White Edge Anchors
Cranberry Grosgrain Ribbon Z1103
All The Best stamp set B1357
Just for the Holidays Stamp set D1380
Christmas Melodies Stamp set D1324
Clear Scallop Circle cards Z1309
Liquid Glass Z679
Paper Shapers 1 ¼, 1 ½ circle punch
Paper Shapers 2 inch scalloped circle punch
Martha Stewart Rings border punch
Nesties Standard circles small
Nesties Standard Circles large

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Laurie

Joy

Here is a layout done with pictures taken last year on Christmas Morning.  It is Novalees's first Christmas.  She looked so cute in her Christmas dress.  Christmas this year will be fun too...as she will be able to open all them toys herself! 
I did not write down what I used for this layout so there will be no recipe for this one.  Sorry. 

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Laurie

Seasons Greeting from Edwin

Another Maggie Christmas card made!  This little cutie is Santa Edwin.  He is reading over his naughty list.  I hope I am not on there…ha-ha.  I used the Mistletoe striped paper but I wanted to add some glitter to it so…I took my quickie mini glue pen and traced over the red lines and sprinkled some micro fine glitter on there.  Then shook of the excess glitter and replaced it back in my jar.  The end results in some homemade glitter paper.  I also added some Polar white diamond flower soft for the fur trim on Santa Edwin. 

All supplies are from Close To My Heart unless otherwise noted.


Mistletoe paper X7130B
Colors are Cranberry, New England Ivy and Colonial White
Tannenbaum Stamp Set B1361
Mistletoe Level 2 Assortment Z1330
Paper Shapers 1 ½ inch circle punch
Paper Shapers 2 inch scalloped circle punch
Flower Soft Diamond Polar White
Quickie Glue Pen
Jewel Glitter Ritz Fire Red
Red satin Ribbon and My Bow Easy
Foam Dots
Copic Markers
Santa Edwin by Magnolia
Cardstock is Xpress Copic paper

Copics:
Skin: E000, E00, E02, R11
Hat, Coat and Mitts: R27, R24, R22
Boots: E35, E33, E31
Scroll: E43, E42, E40, E0000
Hair: E27, E25, E21
Socks: W4, W2, W0
Flower Soft Polar White diamond on the fur

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Laurie

All Through the House...

 This is a really cute board book that I made.  I actually made it to do a class but I have been having some medical problems this fall so I think I will just post it as artwork and I will fill it up with pictures that I take this Christmas season.
One thing I would like to point out is the board book itself.  These are really easy to decorate for any occasion. You can find them here on my website.  They are a very sturdy book. The pages are strong and I don't think you can bend them if you want to.  Great for long time keeping.  I think the next one I decorate will be for my new baby granddaughter we are expecting in February.  I cannot wait! 

The supply List is really short for this book and all supplies are from Close To My Heart.
Mistletoe paper packet X7130B
Mistletoe Level 2 My Stickease X7130C
Mistletoe Level 2 Assortment Z1330
My Creations Board Book Z1310

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Laurie

Christmas Card Workshop

Christmas Card Workshop:
Saturday November 6th
at 1pm
$20
Phone me before Wednesday to participate. 
Space is limited so book early. 

Another Maggie Monday!

 Yes, Christmas is coming...and it will be here before you know it.  I am trying to get some Christmas cards done early.  I colored this little one a long time ago but never made her into a card until recently. 
All Supplies are from Close To My Heart unless otherwise noted.

Colors Olive, New England ivy and Cranberry

New England Ivy patterned paper (retired)
Father Christmas D1449
Annotations D1307
Olive waxy Flax
Red ribbon,
Nesties tags 5
Martha Stewart branch punch
Flowers Unknown.
Tilda with Xmas Cracker #3021 by Magnolia

Copics:
Shirt, hat and socks: YG 96, YG93, YG91
Skin: E11, E00, E000
Hair: E55, E53, E51
Pinafore: E40, E0000
Shoes and Ball: E37, E35, E33, E31
Spica Lipstick for hat band and on ball.

 

Here is the indside of the card.  Very simple. 

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Laurie

Festive Gift Bags

I know I posted the Frankenstein before but I wanted to show you the snowman and the elf gift bags. These are so adorable!
I am not going to list the supplies I used to make these as I am thinking about holding a workshop making these in the future, but I just wanted to show you them with Christmas coming.

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Laurie

January Scrapbook Class

For the January Scrapbook Class we are going to make this layout. I seen something similar done by another Close To My Heart Consultant and thought it was awesome so I had to re-create my own version.

Class Date: Thursday, January 7th 2010
Time: 7 PM
Cost: $12
You must prepay in advance to attend.
Give me a call to book as space is limited and fills up quickly.

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Laurie

Christmas Gift Bag

This is a project that my club made on Wednesday night. These are so much fun to make. I taught the club how to make these pretty bows that you can use for any occasion, like Christmas, birthdays, showers etc. We also decorated the gift bag to co-ordinate everything!

My Club meets once a month and we make little projects like this, with no cost to you other than a commitment to purchase at least $25 dollars from the Close To My Heart Catalogue. Once during the duration of the club, you will get to receive hostess rewards, usually at least $75. For more details contact me and I will give more details.

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Laurie

Christmas Tag Workshop

I am holding a Christmas Tag Workshop on Sunday November 22 at 1pm. Cost is $12 and all supplies are included to make 20 tags. Give me a call to book your spot as space is filling quickly.

Thanks
Laurie