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Wow Wednesday - sepia, crinkle, & ribbon rose

This month is going to be fun!  Check out the techniques, then reserve your space for Wednesday!

 

This one uses the sepia technique, one I found from Technique Junkies.  My favorite part is that I don't have to color in that whole cardinal, branch and berries!

This is the crinkle technique, again from Technique Junkies, though I think it should be called Faux Crinkle Paper, so as not to get confused with the Crinkle inks we've done before.  Whatever it is called, I can see lots of good things happening with it!

Finally we're doing the ribbon rose.  This idea I found in our Stampin' Sucess magazine, but it called for laying out rows of sticky strip then trimming.  I hate to waste anything crafty, so I punched a circle from sticky paper and started wrapping!  This has lots of potential - wedding cards, girlie cards, anniversary cards...

I hope you can join me this Wednesday at 6:30 for some fun.  Contact me right away to reserve your space!

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Wow Wednesday - glitter stencil, craft smoosh, vitalized vellum

Oooh, I have found a couple new favorite techniques!  I can't wait to play some more, but for now, these are tonight's offerings for Wow! Wednesday (for which there are a couple more spaces!). 

 

I love our new line of Decor stencils, because they coordinate with our stamps, but they can also be used alone for great projects.  This card uses the flourish from Vintage Ornaments #2 with our glitter stack.  Guess I don't need to explain the technique, glitter stencil, then!

 

This one I showed in my October newsletter, but it uses craft smoosh, an easy technique that can snag you up to four backgrounds at once!  I love purple and silver together, so used my elegant eggplant craft ink and our Encore metallic silver ink refill.  

This last one is very subtle - can you see the snowflakes from Snow swirled in the vellum?  I don't use my vellum very much, but vitalized vellum is a great technique for this specialty paper, and can be used in scrapbooking too!

If you are kicking yourself that you haven't signed up, you're in luck!  There are still a couple spaces left!  You can sign up below, or email me to register. 

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Wow Wednesday cards

Remember I told you this month that the Wow! Wednesday class would be a trip down memory lane?  Here are two of the cards we'll do using techniques learned over the last year.  I hope you can join me!

 

This card uses both sponged stencil and faux metal.  I pulled in the En francais background stamp for an easy but pretty card. 

 

This happy birthday card is just fun!  There's not too much too it, besides the faux seersucker, but the colors are so bright and fun - this would be a great kid card, for which I am always short!

I hope you can make it this Wednesday at 6:30 to create the gift bag and four cards - it's just $15 and includes all your supplies.  You can reserve your space below or you can contact me with questions. 

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Wow Wednesday re-visited

During September, I like to revive some of the 33 techniques we've created over the past year.  What I love about September is that I'm not limited to just cards, so this month, on September 9 at 6:30, we're creating a gift bag with four cards to give, keep, or share!

 

Can you see that the background uses crinkled inks?  I love that technique - how often do you get to play with plastic wrap and create sometime completely original? 

 

This is a close-up of the medallion on the front - it uses glitter sticker and is so sparkly!  The stamp set used is our new Autumn Splendor from our new Holiday mini brochure.  Perhaps between now and the class next Wednesday, I will add a sentiment.

This little bag will hold four standard cards that use several more techniques from the past year (including sponged stencils and faux alligator),and it's only $15 for your supplies!  I know you'll want to create this project, so use the link below to reserve your space, or email me right away.  There is only room for five more, so don't wait!

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Wow Wednesday - sponged stencil, faux seersucker, marker misting

One of this month's Wow Wednesday techniques follows up on last month's with another stencil technique, sponged stencils.  While you will recognize the Kind Thoughts stencil used for the card, I finally have different one to share for the technique page, but you'll have to come to the class to play with it!  For the card,I just had to use our new Melon Mambo, and teamed it up with tempting turquoise and chocolate chip.  And this technique only requires a stencil and a sponge or sponge dauber.  Simple card, but I just love that stencil! 

The next technique, faux seersucker, is an easy on as well!  All you really need for that one is a crimper and some cardstock!  I pulled out one of my new favorite combinations, not quite navy and rich razzleberry, paired with certainly celery, for a regal card.  And I loved playing with Fifth Avenue Floral - what a great stamp set! 

 

Finally, we'll be marker misting for another simple technique!  The Upsy daisy stamp set was perfect for this - I love the variation in the color.  Can you tell where I got a little happy with the mister?  I paired pretty in pink with rose red for a greater variation between the pinks. 

This class will be in my home on Wednesday, August 12 at 6:30 pm.  For $15, you will create one of each card, plus a technique card for each technique so you can recreate them at home!  Make sure to reserve your space here or use the button below.  If you would like to send a check, please email me for payment information.

Or you can purchase a completed set for $20 if you can't attend by using the paypal link below. 

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Wow Wednesday - watercolor stencils, madras plaid, chalk lines

First, if you haven't tried to win a super prize pack for my blog-iversary, then you need to go here right away!  It's easy and the prize pack is great!

Second, here's this month's techniques.  The first one (above) is watercolor stencil - I love our new stencils and had to find a way to use them in my cards and scrapbooking pages, so here's my first idea!  And I just had to play with the new melon mambo - what a pretty, summer time pink!

The next technique, madras plaid, reminds me of when I was a kid.  I had at least four of those silly dresses, but they were so comfortable!  So we're going to go back to the 80's a bit and pull this one out!  But we're using our new crushed curry, paired with mellow moss and always artichoke for something up-to-date.

Finally, chalk lines is a super easy technique.  This one can be simple, fun, elegant, fancy, and more!  I used real red, glorious green and yoyo yellow on this fun, summery card.

I hope you'll join me if you are in driving distance to Troy, MO and stamp with me!  You can reserve your space below or send me an email. Remember, the $15 class fee covers your supplies and materials to create a 6x6 technique page for each technique, plus each card with envelopes shown here. 

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Scrapbookin' on Saturday - fun on the fourth

I really wanted to share a scrapbook page using our Country Living summer cookout kit since today is Independence Day, but alas, mine does not arrive until Monday, so I thought I'd show this one instead!  I'll make sure to use it for a page for next Saturday, but until then...

What I love about this page, besides the cutie patootie! is that I didn't have any Designer Series papers in the colors I wanted to use: real red, brilliant blue, and whisper white (I will Monday!).  At first I was bummed, then realized I have all these great supplies, so contemplated how to make it myself. 

1. I grabbed a strip of glossy white and cut to size. 

2. I applied alcohol to three cotton balls, then added a single drop of ink in real red, brilliant blue, and bashful blue. 

3. Finally, I swiped each cotton ball across the strip to create my own Designer Series paper! 

I used my new alphabet, Taffy, I received free from Sale-a-bration (did you know I earned SIX free stamp sets during Sale-a-bration???) in whisper white ink for the title, then added the small words with our small star punch.  I had to add the real red and stars elsewhere, so added the photo corner punch too. 

I love this - another great use for our re-inkers!  And it's so easy!  You might understand now why I purchased the re-inkers all together (you can purchase them by color family) instead of as I needed them; plus, you get a discount when you purchase them as a set.  So when are you going to get some alcohol and re-inkers and create something fantastic?  And don't forget to enter to win a fabulous prize box - check it out here.

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Wow Wednesday - faux alligator, window sheet etching, wrinkle free distressing

This month has some great techniques!  The first is so simple - faux alligator.  The card, in honor of the name of the technique, is old olive and certainly celery.  Even though I promised myself not to make an all green card again, I just had to!  And since alligator skin is always unique from piece to piece, I pulled in the sentiment from Define your life stamp set.

The window sheet etching technique is great for larger, bold stamps.  If you look closely at the flower image from Inspired by Nature, you'll see that some of the ink has been "etched" off.  The sentiment is from Oval all, which is in its last month as part of our Occasions mini brochure.

This last technique, wrinkle free distressing, has to be this month's favorite, though I like the others as well (can't you just see pink alligator skin???).  It's so simple - and I used taken with teal, which I don't like, but for this application, with always artichoke and so saffron, looks great!

This class will be in my home on Wednesday, June 10 at 9:30 am or 6:30 pm.  For $15, you will create one of each card, plus a technique card for each technique so you can recreate them at home!  Make sure to reserve your space here or use the button below.  If you would like to send a check, please email me for payment information. 

Or you can purchase a completed set for $20 if you can't attend by using the paypal link below. 

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Wow Wednesday - retiform, faux mulberry paper, dye embossing

I love this month's techniques!  They are so easy to create and use supplies you probably already have!  These techniques can also be used for masculine projects, which, if you are like me, is a real bonus.  Plus they are all three safe for scrapbooking as well. 

The first card uses the retiform technique - a really easy technique that makes me really messy! I thought the Sense of time stamp set from our Occasions mini brochure was perfect for this.

This card shows the faux mulberry paper technique - you are not going to believe how easy this is!  And the stamp is from Lovely as a tree, one of my favorite seasonal/masculine stamp sets.

And this last card uses dye inks to emboss (the kiwi kiss grass stamp from Inspired by Nature) - yes, so now you can emboss in your favorite In Colors!

I hope you can join me Wednesday, May 13 at 6:30 pm for this class.  You'll make the three cards above, plus three 6x6 technique pages so you can recreate the technique on your own.  You can use the paypal link below or email me to reserve your space.

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Wow Wednesday - grid, bleached out, serigraph

I love techniques that don't require a lot of supplies and are easy to make multiples.  These three are ones I can see using again - that makes for a great Wow Wednesday class!

This one uses the grid technique with Upsy daisy and Sanded stamp sets.  I was trying to avoid using chocolate chip (again!) so I came up with the barely banana-so saffron-night of navy combination.  I almost used elegant eggplant, but I know that I use it too much!  I stamped the sentiment in Night of navy on barely banana, punched with our keytag punch and sponged with barely banana ink.  And I had to add the night of navy narrow grosgrain ribbon - it was too plain without it!

This technique, bleached out, is one I'll have to play with, but it's so easy!  Just stamp and then "erase" with bleach using a blender pen or aqua painter!  And I just had to use the new set, Oval all, with our new scallop oval punch from the Occasions mini brochure!  I added a few circles with our Seeing spots set in basic brown. What I like about this technique is that it forces me to get away from whisper white or very vanilla as the focal point.

This is one of my new favorites!  This is the serigraph technique, and requires white embossing powder and a brayer with three to four inks.  I wanted this card to be feminine (since next month is Mother's Day) so brought in a bit of rose red to soften the creamy caramel, close to cocoa, and chocolate chip inks.  Unfortunately, neither of our moms drink coffee, but I guess I could give this card to my husband for me (that way I'd make sure I'd get one)!

This month's Wow Wednesday class will be held Wednesday, April 8, either at 9:30 am or 6:30 pm.  Make sure to reserve your space by emailing me or by using the paypal link below. 

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