Thanksgiving Cards

Greetings.. I've got 4 cards to share today, all of them are for an upcoming card making class I'm teaching next month, the theme being "Thanksgiving Cards."  There's also a woodgrain theme in the cards (a little dry embossing, a little CORE sanding woodgrain, a Lil Inker woodgrain frame embossing and a woodgrain stamp).  The class will be at my local Ben Franklin on Wednesday, November 6th from 6:00-7:30pm, anyone want to come join me?  

This last card is for the Lawnscaping Challenge "Patterned Paper" because I bought the new Lawn Fawn leaf dies and used some Lawn Fawn papers (Daphne's Closet).  And to get into the spirit of fall check out this stunning photo I took this afternoon of one of my favorite trees.

Snowman Card and card class photos

Hello!  So last night I taught another card making class at my local Ben Franklin and this time around the theme was Christmas cards.  When looking for inspiration for the card I decided to CASE Christina's recent card (scroll down to the tags).  I love that everyone in the class decided to accessorize their snowman in different ways, too fun!  Below are a few snapshots from the class, my next class will be holiday tags, November 28th at 6pm.  And since I can't seem to post something with a challenge this card works well for the Lawnscaping Challenge "dust 'em off"-- while I've used the Lawn Fawn set, I realized when looking for snowflakes that I've had the PTI Winter Penguin set for awhile and haven't used most of the stamps on there.  Which means this project also works well for the new A Passion for Papertrey challenge too.  And one last challenge-- since A Blog Named Hero is doing a fun Hero Arts/Lawn Fawn week I thought this would be a perfect addition to their latest challenge "Use a die cut or punch", I think adding tags to cards is a great to add another layer (for the CAS girl).

Materials: Lawn Fawn Frosty Friends, Hero Arts Miracle of the Holiday Christmas sentiment, Tim Holtz and PTI snowflakes, Stampendous white embossing powder, PTI aqua mist and rustic white card stock, Echo Park Very Merry Christmas patterned paper, May Arts White Sheer with Diagonal Stripes Ribbon, Twinery Charcoal twine, PTI Tag It Sale die, Versafine black ink, water color pencil, Martha Stewart scor-pal, Spellbinders circle die, white scrap paper

thank you cards

TGIF!  Been meaning to post the photos from my card making class at Ben Franklin from the other night.   

The theme was thank you cards, one can never have enough right?  And the fall colors in our little town are so beautiful.   

And this was the card I made for the class (I CASEd myself).  I used up goodies from August Artful Delight card kit, a SRM sticker sentiment and some May Arts natural burlap string.  And here are some photos of the class.  Loved how we took one idea and created a whole set of cards.  

My thank you card idea got turned into a baby card and a hello friend card, love it!  And really, since a card post without a challenege just doesn't work for my little blog, I'm excited to play along with the new and improved A Passion for Papertrey crew who are celebrating friends.  (I've used the PTI double sided banner die on these cards).    Want to come make Christmas cards with me next month?  And if you missed the Ribbon Lady's shout out to the birthday girl yesterday, post a comment here or here for your chance to win a free spool of May Arts ribbon.

Fall Cards

Greetings!  I've got some fun fall themed cards to share today, the ones above are the cards I made for my clean and simple fall themed cards class at Ben Franklin.  Below are some photos of the fabulous folks in the class making their cards.  I've got more classes scheduled, if you're in the area and want to come play here's a link to their class schedule, next up-- Halloween cards!

 

Sydney working with some fabulous May Arts woven burlap ribbon.

Hard at work, creating fall cards with Hero Arts newspaper background, SRM stickers and Inky Antics leaves.

And if you've made it this far I've got another treat for you, my first project is up on the May Arts blog, for a really great wedding gift idea click here.  Please leave me some love on their blog :)