Dog-gone Awesome

This card is made with colored die cut velum with stamps from Avery Elly and tree die from Gillian Vance designs.  The vellum is attached underneath die cuts and dog.

It will most likely be one of the cards in my May 22 and May 23 Spring Stamping event in Mentor Ohio from 1-4.  Eight cards will be made for $25 with complete directions with photo and envelops included.  Please let me know as soon as possible if you are planning on attending.  Thanks!!

April Mojo Class - Quilt

This card is made from scrapes from our Soulful Stitches Class!  I love the look of the word 'Thanks', which is raised, is only half cut so it is attached to the paper below it.  The cross is shiny and the cross, hanging tag and papers are from Our Daily Bread Designs.  The word die is from Avery Elly and comes with three different sizes of the words with different fonts.  We will be making it in Mojo Class next week so be sure to sign up for it TODAY!! 

April Mojo Class - Lemons

Here is another card we will be making in our April Mojo Class this month.  The background paper is the cool think about this card but it does not show up well in the photo.  We will make it in class and it has shinny purple dots on purple paper ... nice look for Spring.  The stamp and words are from Avery Elly and are colored with Copic markers.  Great card to give to someone who needs a little lift.

Thanks cards

Everyone needs thank you cards, so I made up a few quick ones to sell this weekend at my craft show at St Pasquale, Saturday March 22, from 9-4.  Hope to see some of you there!  I have lots of items for Easter; new wedding, anniversary, graduation, get well and thanks cards; and other items as I have been showing earlier this month on my blog for my last show.

These two cards are made with a fun new word stamp set called 'Pretty Phrases', 'Botanical 2' and 'Calico' all from Paper Smooches.  See the sets below.  This company has some fun word stamps with great script writing and stamps to build your own designs.  Let me know if you see any thing you like and I will order it for you.  The die I used for the vase is called 'Bottled Up' from Avery Elle and the technique I taught in my March Mojo and will be teaching in my Dynamic Distress Stains classes.  The Dynamic Distress Stains class is a class where I teach 32 different techniques on how to use the Tim Holtz Stains in your card and craft projects.  We make a tech book. Let me know if you are interested. 

Mojo Time

This week is Mojo Week so be sure to let me know if you are attending one of my classes.  I still have openings in the class today at one.  This is a great card for any age birthday and easy and fun to make.  The die cut balloons are from Elizabeth Craft Designs, Word stamp is by Avery Ellie and I used a balloon set from Hero Arts.  You can purchase all of the supplies from me also.

March Mojo

This card for March Mojo class uses your scrapes of cardstock for the main focal point.  You can put different words on it for different occasions.  This fast card is easy to make with all you basic supplies.  Classes will be starting this Sunday and go through next week, let me know which class you would like to attend.  I used word stamps from Paper Smooches called 'pretty Phases, floral stamps from Avery Elle called 'Petals and Stems', Distress Inks, and random paper scrapes. I can purchase any of the supplies I use for all of my projects for you if you are interested in them let me know. 

Playing with Stains & Stencils

With all of this cold snowy weather I have had some time to play!!  I was playing with my Distress Stains (my favorite things right now) and stencils to see what I could do.  I used a stencil from The Crafter's Workshop for the background giving a tiled look. I applied the stain with the Tim Holtz Distress tool tapped it into a puddle of stain and dabbing with an up and down motion over the stencil.  I like that look the best.  For the fern, I made my own stencil with a Spellbinders foliage die and dabbed the stain right over the stencil and it soaked in a little more.  Not the look I really like.  But it is good to try different ways of doing things. The flower is cut with a die from Elizabeth Craft Designs called Flowers #1 and cut from vellum!!!  I then used my Distress Stains to color the vellum.  I love this look a lot!  The word stamp is from Paper Smooches called 'Pretty Phases' and the little dots are a stamp from a set called 'Petals & Stems' from Avery Elle.  I also added a light blue Stickles for dots.  I love how it came out!!