Wilderness Weekend at the NRA Whittington Center

On October 14-16, 2016, I am planning a bundled class using Wilderness Awaits and Lovely as a Tree stamp sets. The bundle will include stamp sets, ink pads and several items for $62 per person

I have made arrangements with the Whittington Center to stay in their Competitor Housing. I have booked 5 rooms that accommodate 2 people with twin beds. Some of the rooms have a private balcony. The cost for both nights per person is $44. The chef at the restaurant has agreed to provide meals for us at $25 per person for the entire weekend. 

I will be announcing this to my customers is a few days. I am so excited to hold this class in such a beautiful setting with the abundant wildlife that will there for viewing. This is also during the elk rut season so we will be able to hear the elk bugle. How exciting is that.  Here are some of the pictures of where we will be staying.

Tried my hand at resist embossing

I must admit I love this technique. I used the stamp set Thoughtful Branches. I stamped the tree trunks with early espresso and then stamped over them again with versamark and the added clear embossing powder. I then stamped the trees again with the branches stamp in emerald envy and the other in old olive followed by versamark and the clear embossing powder again. Using the stramp to add snow mounds to the bottom of the card I used the versamark and embossing powder again.

I sponged the background with daubers and started with soft sky the pool party and finally dapper denim. I stamped the sentiment with early espresso directly onto the card and assembled it. A simple card but so beautiful. I can't wait to try his technique again.

Birthday Fiesta

Got together with my sister today and she had ordered the Birthday Fiesta and Fiesta Time Framelit bundle in a workshop order. I had looked at this stamp set several times in the catalog and thought it was cute but never ordered it. After playing around with it yesterday, I decided it is one of the must haves to add to my collection. There are so many cute things on here. This card is what I can up with using the bundle and the Festive Birthday Suite. Cute, Cute Cute!

Creative mess

this is what my table and craft area looks like while I'm working. No wonder I can't find anything in it. Lol

Holiday Catalog

Sneak preview of the Holiday Catalog that goes live September 1 and a couple of the stamp sets. Lots of great product inside!

Mr. Funny Bones Shaker Card

Finally got to play with this set from the holiday catalog. I wanted to make a shaker card but wanted to make it different. After much thought I decided to stamp the skeleton parts with versamark and our white embossing powder and use them as part of the shaker elements. Love the way my skeleton turned out.

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On a creative roll

With this scrapbook layout. My granddaughter took this picture of herself and her mom found it. To me she look absolutely beautiful here and I knew it had to be a layout.  I used the Flourshing stamp set to heat emboss the border in white embossing powder. The flowers were stamped using all the colors of the stamp pads I currently have and then I fussy cut them.  I layered them to add dimension  and used dimensional on some of them. I stamped the sentiment in calypso coral, added a bow to the A and added DSP to the photo. I love the way this turned out and my granddaughter did too.