Page class on August 20 - 9am

 Page class

 $20

August 20th    9 am - 10:00 am 

Contact Nonnie at link in the right column if you want to join the class

All you need is

• a craft mat, 
• tea dye or vintage photo distress ink, 
• a scissors and 
• adhesive.  

The little cameo frame will hold a photo and has a clear dome sticker that tops your picture.  I haven't picked my big picture yet so I need to wait on the little pic too!

Directions Location:  Quality Inn & Suites 1950 Rahncliff Court Eagan, MN  55122 Phone is 651-681-9266 Take 35E to the Cliff Road exit.  Go west; the first stoplight is Rahncliff Road.  Turn left there and turn left onto Rahncliff Court.  Circle around until you see the hotel. OR Take Cedar Avenue to the Cliff Road exit.  Go east.  The 1st stoplight is Nicols Road.  The second or third stoplight is Rahncliff Road.  Turn right there and turn left onto Rahncliff Court.  Circle around until you see the hotel. We will be meeting in the Cedar Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, just to the right after you enter the front door.

Tag Class on August 20 at 10:00am

Tag class 

$20 

August 20th 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Contact Nonnie at link at the right if you want to join the class

Please bring to class:

• craft mat, 
• scissors, 
• heat gun, 
• adhesive (including pop dots), 
• craft pick, 
• rub on applicator, 
• sanding tool, 
• sprayer, 
• edge distressor, 
• brown distress ink and 
• blending tool,   

In addition to that list, I used the following that you can bring if you have them - I will provide them if you do not.

Distress Stains:  

• Stormy Sky or Iced Spruce and 
• Tumbled Glass and 
• Mowed Lawn or Shabby Shutters.  

Distress Inks: 

• Walnut Stain and Brushed Corduroy 

Distress Paints

• Peeled Paint and 
• Antique Ivory and 
• Candied Apple 

Directions Location:  Quality Inn & Suites 1950 Rahncliff Court Eagan, MN  55122 Phone is 651-681-9266 Take 35E to the Cliff Road exit.  Go west; the first stoplight is Rahncliff Road.  Turn left there and turn left onto Rahncliff Court.  Circle around until you see the hotel. OR Take Cedar Avenue to the Cliff Road exit.  Go east.  The 1st stoplight is Nicols Road.  The second or third stoplight is Rahncliff Road.  Turn right there and turn left onto Rahncliff Court.  Circle around until you see the hotel. We will be meeting in the Cedar Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, just to the right after you enter the front door.

Color Burst Card Class on July 30 at 1:00pm

Color Burst  Card Class

$30
July 30th 12:45-3:00 pm

Contact Nonnie at link in the right column if you want to join the class

More Ken Oliver Colorburst fun - including the Metallic colors!  You can stamp the dragonfly on the stencil card in whatever color you like.  A blue dragonfly is beautiful and makes the care more masculine.

Please bring to class:  

• craft mat, 
• heat gun, 
• scissors, 
• adhesive (including pop dots), 
• craft pick, 
• water mister 
• and several small paintbrushes and a 1/2" to 1" flat brush.  
• PLEASE BRING WHITE EMBOSSING PASTE - ANY BRAND - RANGER - GOLDEN - TSUKINENKO - DREAMWEAVER - WHATEVER YOU HAVE ON HAND.  

We will change the color using Colorbursts.  
If you own the Ken Oliver Cat Stencil, please bring it. 

I also used black archival ink, versamark and stamping blocks.  I will have a number of stencils but if you have a favorite you want to try - bring it along.  The clean up of the stencil will blow you away. 

If you have your own Color Bursts (or similar product, bring them too!  Each bottle is different in application and you may as well get used to your own!   Don't worry if you don't own them - this is a great place to try them.  You might want to bring some extra watercolor paper; in the same manner that we have extra ink in the alcohol ink class, we will have extra dye here, and occasional ghost prints.

Please note - you can stamp any greetings you want on these - I will have the sayings sets there!

Directions Location:  Quality Inn & Suites 1950 Rahncliff Court Eagan, MN  55122 Phone is 651-681-9266 Take 35E to the Cliff Road exit.  Go west; the first stoplight is Rahncliff Road.  Turn left there and turn left onto Rahncliff Court.  Circle around until you see the hotel. OR Take Cedar Avenue to the Cliff Road exit.  Go east.  The 1st stoplight is Nicols Road.  The second or third stoplight is Rahncliff Road.  Turn right there and turn left onto Rahncliff Court.  Circle around until you see the hotel. We will be meeting in the Cedar Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, just to the right after you enter the front door.

Tag Class on July 30 at 10:30am

Tag class 

$20 

July 30th 10:15 am - 12:15 pm

Contact Nonnie at link at the right if you want to join the class

Please bring to class:

• design ruler, 
• craft knife, 
• craft pick, 
• scissors, 
• paper distresser, 
• waterbrushes:  detailer and flat, 
• distress marker spritzer, 
• mini ink blending tool, 
• craft sheet, heat tool, 
• water mister 
• and adhesive.

I used the following distress products which you might want to bring if you have them.  

distress markers: 

• peeled paint, 
• pine needles, 
• black soot, 
• fired brick, 
• festive berries, 
• pumice stone, 
• hickory smoke, 
• broken china, 
• tumbled glass, 
• wild honey, 
• squeezed lemonade, 
• vintage photo, 
• tea dye, 
• faded jeans, 
• salty ocean, 
• mowed lawn, 

distress ink:  

• walnut stain or vintage photo, 
• mermaid lagoon or broken china, 
• distress micro glaze or collage glaze.

Directions Location:  Quality Inn & Suites 1950 Rahncliff Court Eagan, MN  55122 Phone is 651-681-9266 Take 35E to the Cliff Road exit.  Go west; the first stoplight is Rahncliff Road.  Turn left there and turn left onto Rahncliff Court.  Circle around until you see the hotel. OR Take Cedar Avenue to the Cliff Road exit.  Go east.  The 1st stoplight is Nicols Road.  The second or third stoplight is Rahncliff Road.  Turn right there and turn left onto Rahncliff Court.  Circle around until you see the hotel. We will be meeting in the Cedar Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, just to the right after you enter the front door.

Page class on July 30 - 9am

 Page class using Ken Oliver Color Burst colors

 $20

July 30th    9 am - 10:00 am 

Contact Nonnie at link in the right column if you want to join the class

This page uses the Ken Oliver Color burst colors You can do any color combo you want – I will have all colors there.  
All you need to bring is 

• a water mister, 
• adhesive, 
• something to put paste through a stencil 
• and a flat 1/2 or 1" brush.  

If you want to stencil a different word than love, please bring your own stencil.  I will have the love one there, as well as some other words if you don't want to do a heart.  
Feel free to bring your own colorbrust, brusho, magenta or paper artsy powders.

Directions Location:  Quality Inn & Suites 1950 Rahncliff Court Eagan, MN  55122 Phone is 651-681-9266 Take 35E to the Cliff Road exit.  Go west; the first stoplight is Rahncliff Road.  Turn left there and turn left onto Rahncliff Court.  Circle around until you see the hotel. OR Take Cedar Avenue to the Cliff Road exit.  Go east.  The 1st stoplight is Nicols Road.  The second or third stoplight is Rahncliff Road.  Turn right there and turn left onto Rahncliff Court.  Circle around until you see the hotel. We will be meeting in the Cedar Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, just to the right after you enter the front door.

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2015 December challenge

Don't have the punches, nor is there any place around here to buy them so I used Tim's Idea-ology mini garland - stacked the pine one first and then the boxwood one on top.  Also don't have the bow die or holiday chit chats, so used real ribbon and stamped a saying with the phrase from the new Christmas tree set.  I always do a second tag in a Christmas theme - so for the second one this month I did a blue and white theme.  I used white felt and sprayed it with Blueprint Sketch Distress Spray using Tim's snowflake stencil.  The deer is cut with a Sizzix die and embossed with Tim's snowflake embossing folder.   A few gems for sparkle and an embroidery floss bow and he is good to go....or prance as the case may be.  Merry Christmas one and all...

November 21st class - Christmas cards with alcohol inks

Christmas cards with alcohol inks 

class makes 5 cards for $25

November 21st 1 pm - 3:30 pm

Please bring:  craft mat, scissors, blending solution if you have it, adhesive, including pop dots, and whatever you use to put on gems.  It is messy, so you might want to bring rubber gloves if you don't like your hands inky!  If you sign up for the class and would like to know what ink colors I am using I will send you a list of the colors for each card.  You may bring the colors if you want or you may use mine.  It will also give you a list so you don't need to take so many notes.  I must tell you that the little red bird card is much cuter in person than in this photo!

Directions Location:  GrandStay Hotel & Conference Center 7083 153rd Street West Apple Valley, MN  55124 Phone is 952-953-6111 It is 1.5 miles from the Silver Bullet Studios.  Take County Rd 42 to Galaxie (between Cedar and Johnny Cake Ridge Road) and go south on Galaxie 4 blocks to 153rd, turn right (west) and there is the hotel. We will be meeting in the Hotel's Board Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, not the Conference Center.  Enter the hotel, walk past the breakfast area towards the check-in lobby and turn right down the hallway.  We are in a room on the left, just past the ice and vending machines.

November 21st Page class

Page class, $20
November 21st 9 am - 11 am

I have space for a 5x7 photo from Thanksgiving, 2015. The supply list is the same as the tag class list without the markers, and with two additions: Tarnished Brass Distress Paint and Black Soot Distress Spray (or Dylusions black spray) .

Please bring to class: craft mat, scissors, heat gun, adhesives (including pop dots, a glue stick and something to adhere the believe word- glue pen, micro dots, xyron?), craft pick, water mister, dark brown distress ink and a blending tool, purple distress ink and a blending tool, white paint, watercolor brush (fine tip), remnant rub tool or a stylus, and if you want, your marker spritzer and a dark brown distress marker. Probably gloves. Part of it is very messy. Even I wore gloves.

I used the following distress spray colors: Iced Spruce and Vintage Photo (or any brown) and Blueprint Sketch and Wilted Violet. Also Tarnished Brass Distress Paint and Black Soot Distress Spray (or Dylusions black spray) .

Directions

Location: 

GrandStay Hotel & Conference Center

7083 153rd Street West
Apple Valley, MN  55124
Phone is 952-953-6111

It is 1.5 miles from the Silver Bullet Studios.  Take County Rd 42 to Galaxie (between Cedar and Johnny Cake Ridge Road) and go south on Galaxie 4 blocks to 153rd, turn right (west) and there is the hotel.

We will be meeting in the Hotel's Board Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, not the Conference Center.  Enter the hotel, walk past the breakfast area towards the check-in lobby and turn right down the hallway.  We are in a room on the left, just past the ice and vending machines.

November 21 Tag class

November 21st 11 am -1 pm

Tag class, $20

Please bring to class:  craft mat, scissors, heat gun, adhesives (including pop dots, a glue stick and something to adhere the believe word- glue pen, micro dots, xyron?), craft pick, water mister, dark brown distress ink and a blending tool, purple distress ink and a blending tool, white paint, watercolor brush (fine tip), remnant rub tool or a stylus, and if you want, your marker spritzer and a dark brown distress marker.  Probably gloves.  Part of it is very messy.  Even I wore gloves.
 

I used the following distress spray colors:   Iced Spruce and Vintage Photo (or any brown) and Blueprint Sketch and Wilted Violet.  On to the marker list!  I will name the Distress marker colors I used, but you can use Tombow or Stampin' Up markers too.  Spiced marmalade, ripe persimmon, rusty hinge, wild honey, mustard seed, crushed olive (or shabby shutters), peeled paint, forest moss, gathered twigs (or any of the dark browns), vintage photo, hickory smoke, pumice stone, festive berries, blueprint sketch, wilted violet, tumbled glass and pine needles.  

Directions

Location: 

GrandStay Hotel & Conference Center

7083 153rd Street West
Apple Valley, MN  55124
Phone is 952-953-6111

It is 1.5 miles from the Silver Bullet Studios.  Take County Rd 42 to Galaxie (between Cedar and Johnny Cake Ridge Road) and go south on Galaxie 4 blocks to 153rd, turn right (west) and there is the hotel.

We will be meeting in the Hotel's Board Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, not the Conference Center.  Enter the hotel, walk past the breakfast area towards the check-in lobby and turn right down the hallway.  We are in a room on the left, just past the ice and vending machines.

November 2015 Tim Holtz Tag Challenge

So, so fun!  Used a grid stamp in place of the linen stamp and the word Beautiful from a Tim Holtz die set, but otherwise pretty close to the original.  Loved the pumpkin technique.  For the Christmas tag I used the snowman stamp and blues and purples.  His puffiness from the debossing technique is really cute in real life.  Sometimes photos just don't capture the dimension!

Tim Holtz October tag challenge

  Used a stamp to make the Christmas tree and just added little tabs to the edges to give it some nice dimension!

October 24th Tag class

Tag class, $20

October 24th,   11 am -1 pm

Please bring to class: craft mat, scissors, heat gun, adhesive including pop dots, craft pick, water mister and white paint. One of your adhesives needs to be a wet glue like glossy accents.

Here are the ink colors he used: fired brick, festive berries, crushed olive, peeled paint, forest moss, scattered straw, tattered rose, pumice stone, walnut stain and black soot. Because that wasn't enough, I added: mowed lawn, pine needles, evergreen bough and iced spruce.

Directions Location:  GrandStay Hotel & Conference Center 7083 153rd Street West Apple Valley, MN  55124 Phone is 952-953-6111 It is 1.5 miles from the Silver Bullet Studios.  Take County Rd 42 to Galaxie (between Cedar and Johnny Cake Ridge Road) and go south on Galaxie 4 blocks to 153rd, turn right (west) and there is the hotel. We will be meeting in the Hotel's Board Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, not the Conference Center.  Enter the hotel, walk past the breakfast area towards the check-in lobby and turn right down the hallway.  We are in a room on the left, just past the ice and vending machines.

Check out my blog post here for my Fall challenge!  Upload a piece of art you have made with stamping and be entered in a drawing for a Prima stamp, Prima stencil and a 6x6 Prima paper pad.

October 24th Page class

Page class, $20
October 24th,   9 am - 11 am


Please bring to class: craft mat, scissors, heat gun, adhesive including pop dots, craft pick, water mister. One of your adhesives needs to be a wet glue like glossy accents. 

You have a choice of sayings to stamp for the sentiment or bring your own stamp or write a headline. I realize mine is pretty specific to me. There is a photo of the stamp options below. The photo mat is 5 x7, but lots of sizes would work. I realize the page doesn't match the tag, but the tag was not inspiring me this month. In this page, I used a Crafters Workshop stencil, TCW 188 and the following Distress sprays: Wild Honey, Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon, Tea Dye, Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo, Aged Mahogany and Peeled Paint. If you wanted to bring your own sprays, you can substitute colors - like Spiced Marmalade for RP or Squeezed Lemonade for MS. I also used Wild Honey Distress Stain.

Directions

Location: 

GrandStay Hotel & Conference Center

7083 153rd Street West
Apple Valley, MN  55124
Phone is 952-953-6111

It is 1.5 miles from the Silver Bullet Studios.  Take County Rd 42 to Galaxie (between Cedar and Johnny Cake Ridge Road) and go south on Galaxie 4 blocks to 153rd, turn right (west) and there is the hotel.

We will be meeting in the Hotel's Board Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, not the Conference Center.  Enter the hotel, walk past the breakfast area towards the check-in lobby and turn right down the hallway.  We are in a room on the left, just past the ice and vending machines.

Check out my blog post here for my Fall challenge!  Upload a piece of art you have made with stamping and be entered in a drawing for a Prima stamp, Prima stencil and a 6x6 Prima paper pad.

Vacation Page

Don't forget classes tomorrow, September 26! See previous blog posts for details.

Enter the September stamping challenge on this blog!  See this blog post for details.  Winners picked randomly.

Now, onto the art...

This page has a background of acrylic paints that are mixed and blended with water.  The final layer is Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist applied through a stencil to give a slight watery shimmer to the page.  The starfish, sand dollar and seahorses were covered with distress embossing powder and real sand to get a great, rough texture.  The netting comes from Michael's, sold in a bag near the sea shells and glass baubles used for home decor.  The whole page is a nummy mixture of different textures and complimentary color!

September 26 Halloween cards class

Halloween Alcohol Ink Card Class
September 26th, 1:30p - 3:30p
5 cards for $25

We will make 5 cards in the alcohol ink card class, including one using the trendy Yupo paper and a new technique. Colors as you might guess, tend toward the fall/Halloween pallet. Here is what I used, in no particular order: Peach Bellini, Butterscotch, Sunshine Yellow, Sunset Orange, Purple Twilight, Sail Boat Blue, Ginger, Espresso, Botanical Green, and Copper, in case you would like to bring your own to class.

Please bring: craft mat, scissors, blending solution if you have it, adhesive, including pop dots, and whatever you use to put on gems. It is messy, so you might want to bring rubber gloves if you don't like your hands inky!

Directions

Location: 

GrandStay Hotel & Conference Center

7083 153rd Street West
Apple Valley, MN  55124
Phone is 952-953-6111

It is 1.5 miles from the Silver Bullet Studios.  Take County Rd 42 to Galaxie (between Cedar and Johnny Cake Ridge Road) and go south on Galaxie 4 blocks to 153rd, turn right (west) and there is the hotel.

We will be meeting in the Hotel's Board Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, not the Conference Center.  Enter the hotel, walk past the breakfast area towards the check-in lobby and turn right down the hallway.  We are in a room on the left, just past the ice and vending machines.

September 26 Tag class

Tag class, $20
September 26th 11 am -1 pm

Please bring to class: craft mat, scissors, heat gun, adhesive, craft pick, water mister, mini blending tool with a clean pad, jet black archival ink, palette knife, and if you want, your marker spritzer and a black soot marker.


I used the following distress spray colors: Hickory Smoke and Milled Lavender (or Pumice Stone).

I used Broken China and Chipped Sapphire Distress Stain. 

Lastly, I used the following alcohol inks: Wild Plum, Sunset Orange, Sunshine Yellow, Citrus, Lettuce, Mermaid, Purple Twilight, Sailboat Blue, Pool, Clover and Gold.

I used Tim's flourish stencil (THS032), and transparent gloss paste. Well, I didn't really have the Ranger paste, so I used Extra Heavy Gel Medium by Golden. A good thing to buy with your 50% off coupon at Michael's this week. You will like it but it is expensive!

Directions

Location: 

GrandStay Hotel & Conference Center

7083 153rd Street West
Apple Valley, MN  55124
Phone is 952-953-6111

It is 1.5 miles from the Silver Bullet Studios.  Take County Rd 42 to Galaxie (between Cedar and Johnny Cake Ridge Road) and go south on Galaxie 4 blocks to 153rd, turn right (west) and there is the hotel.

We will be meeting in the Hotel's Board Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, not the Conference Center.  Enter the hotel, walk past the breakfast area towards the check-in lobby and turn right down the hallway.  We are in a room on the left, just past the ice and vending machines.

September 26 Page class

Page class, $20
September 26th   9 am - 11 am

I used two 4 x 6 photos, although an 8 x 6 would work too. The supply list is the same as the tag class list, with three additions: Red Pepper and Raspberry Alcohol Ink and Black Soot distress ink and a blending tool. I think it's a great page when you have lots of different colors going on and no particular theme. It would be cute with a dog or cat photo too!

Tag class supply list:

Please bring to class: craft mat, scissors, heat gun, adhesive, craft pick, water mister, mini blending tool with a clean pad, jet black archival ink, palette knife, and if you want, your marker spritzer and a black soot marker.

I used the following distress spray colors: Hickory Smoke and Milled Lavender (or Pumice Stone).

I used Broken China and Chipped Sapphire Distress Stain.

Lastly, I used the following alcohol inks: Wild Plum, Sunset Orange, Sunshine Yellow, Citrus, Lettuce, Mermaid, Purple Twilight, Sailboat Blue, Pool, Clover and Gold.

I used Tim's flourish stencil (THS032), and transparent gloss paste. Well, I didn't really have the Ranger paste, so I used Extra Heavy Gel Medium by Golden. A good thing to buy with your 50% off coupon at Michael's this week. You will like it but it is expensive!

Directions

Location: 

GrandStay Hotel & Conference Center

7083 153rd Street West
Apple Valley, MN  55124
Phone is 952-953-6111

It is 1.5 miles from the Silver Bullet Studios.  Take County Rd 42 to Galaxie (between Cedar and Johnny Cake Ridge Road) and go south on Galaxie 4 blocks to 153rd, turn right (west) and there is the hotel.

We will be meeting in the Hotel's Board Room which is on the first floor of the Hotel, not the Conference Center.  Enter the hotel, walk past the breakfast area towards the check-in lobby and turn right down the hallway.  We are in a room on the left, just past the ice and vending machines.

Eileen Hull is coming to Mpls. on September 29!

I firmly believe that we need to support teachers from around the country that come to Minnesota to teach so we can continue to learn in person from talented people. There is a great opportunity later this month: The Paper Trail is coming to Crafters Haven on Tuesday September 29. Join Eileen Hull for one of her fantastic classes and see her Trailer Scotty which she has fixed up as her craft room on the road. The first class will be this great Metal Book Journal. Class time is 1-4, non-refundable fee is $55.00. Please bring your basic craft kit, paint brush, and water spritzer. The second project (below) is a great train case and mini album using the ever popular Graphic 45 Worlds Fair paper. Class time is 5-8, all you need to bring is your basic craft kit. The non-refundable fee is $55.00. Need I tell you this is the one I have signed up for?? Please call Crafter's Haven at (612) 729-9035 to reserve your spot for either or class.