By the Tide 8 Card Set

 This is the first card set I have for you in July.  How awesome is this?  A 8 card set with fish, lobster, shell, and a cute little sea horse!

There's a variety of cards here: sympathy, thinking of you, hello my friend, just for you, and more.  As always you can customize your sentiment to meet your needs.  Most of these would make great man cards.  I always need boy birthday cards, too!













 I am offering this card set on Friday, July 12 at 4:00.

You'll make 8 cards for $20.00.

Here are closer pictures of each card.  I hope you'll come create with me!

 I just love that lobster!  I'll show you how to watercolor him!

We'll use a masking technique to make these two cards.  I love the effect.

Please RSVP by July 10th.

Two-Fer Challenge Card

I have said it before and I'll say it again...

I love a two-fer of any form.  Two things in one.  I love when I can combine two challenges in one.  What's really impessive are those people who have combined bunches and bunches of challenges.  How do they do it?  My top score is 3 challenges in one.

Anyway, this card meets the challeges is both the Case this Sketch and the Fab Friday color challenge of the week.  I've used all 5 In Colors on this card! 

This picture is so dark, but it's what I have. 

Thanks for looking! 

Monochromatic Mash-up!

I finally got the chance to play along with the fine folks over on The Friday Mashup this week.  They gave us a monochromatic challenge.  The second half of the challenge was to use baker's twine.  I could have added that in, I guess, but I am designing a class using the pinwheel and the Wishes Your Way stamp set.  I am making 3 cards with 3 pinwheels and 3 cards with 1 pinwheel, and I am using each of the 6 sentiments from the stamp set, one on each card.  Since I am keeping each card fairly similar, I chose not to add twine on this one.

The base of this card is pink pirouette.  Then there is a white embossed layer (stamped using raspberry ripple before embossing).  Then I added three pinwheels in darkening shades of pink; one is Pretty-in-Pink (seriously... can anyone believe that THIS is one of the colors SU is choosing to retire?), Primrose Petals, and Raspberry Ripple.  Each one was stamped using the large polka dot background stamp and versa mark.    It's subtle but it's there.

It is making a fine addition to my class!

Thanks for looking!

Color Challenge for Dynamic Duos

It has been a ton of time since I've played along with the lovely ladies on Dynamic Duos.  This week they have a color challenge of Pacific Point and Basic Black.  They also gave a dessert challenge of using a kid theme.

I was working on designing a class using the pinwheel and the Wishes Your Way stamp set.  This challenge helped me add a card for my class.

What kid wouldn't love this pinwheel card?  It's so cute!

Inside, I added the sentiment, "wishing you a twirly-whirly birthday!"

I popped up the pacific layer, which doesn't really show on this picture, but it's pretty sweet in real life.

Thanks for looking!

May Birthday Class

 Do you need birthday cards as much as I do?  Then this class is for you!  It offers you 8, count 'em, 8 birthday cards!

There are cards for boys, cards for girls, and even a gift card holder card!

The one with the doily is a card set I got from Stampin' Up.  They designed the card, cut all the materials and sent them to me.  How awesome is that?  Plus, I really do love it!

These two are definitely manly cards.  The one with the fish uses one of my favorite new sets, By the Tide (you can expect a future class that exclusively uses this set!) Inside, the sentiment of the fish card reads, "That makes you one in a million!"  I just love that sentiment!

The bow ties are just perfect, too.  And, very trendy if I do say so myself.

I won't walk you through these card by card.  I'll just tell you that you really don't want to miss this class.

You'll be walking away with 8 beautiful birthday cards for your summer birthdays.

I am offering the class on Friday, May 31st at 4:00 pm or Saturday, June 1st at noon.

The cost is $20.00.

Please RSVP by May 29th.

 (I am not sure why the program didn't orient this card in the right way, but you can still see that these cards are cute!)

The smaller of the two is the gift card holder birthday card.  You can see the inside of the card below... can you find my mistake?  I promise, I won't let you do that to your card!

I hope to create with you soon!

May Class- Anytime Cards

 This is the first card class for May... anytime cards!

This is a small class: four anytime cards.

As always, I have sentiment options for each card, but it's a fun, versatile set that will guarantee you have a card for that special occasion.

The one card says "happy birthday" but there are several other options you can use if you don't want a birthday card

This class will be offered on Friday May 10th at 4:00 or Saturday May 11th at 10:00 am.  If these dates don't work for you and you'd like to do the class on the weekend of the 3rd or 4th, let me know.  We can make it work!

The price is $10.00 for the four cards and envelopes.

Please RSVP by  May 8th to give me enough time to have all the materials ready for you.

And stay tuned. There is a second class coming: it's all about the birthdays... 8 birthday cards for men and women.  I know you are going to love it!

Black and White Polka Dots

 In the effort to relocate my mojo, I decided to use the scraps of this flocked black and white polka dot paper.  I L.O.V.E. it!

I checked out some of my favorite blogs, and Fab Friday has a great sketch challenge this week that allowed me to use the paper and also the new brads that I picked up.

I turned the sketch on its side, and I am seriously in love wit the way these birthday cards turned out!

 I love everything about how this card turned out!

Check out the ribbon, the brads, the layers of black and white.

This one is a little more simple (no ribbon), but I attached that top layer with the brads in the wrong spot, and I could not move it.  There are no mistakes in my studio.  I turned that little "oops" into a "oohhh!"  I love the elegant simplicity.

I guess I am just full of love today!

Thanks for looking!