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.

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.

Seashell and Travel Cards

I love seashell cards because they can be used for almost any occasion so I like to have a few on hand at all times.  Travel cards are great for bon voyage wishes or to send to people who just like to dream!

Detail gold embossing powder on black paper makes a quick card!

Alcohol inks with vintage mahogany embossing powder and Frantage mix on top of Graphic 45 paper and a brown card base.

Alcohol inks used with a stencil and a stamp, with detail gold embossing powder.

Alcohol inks - tricky part is that you paint with them on the paper, and then stamp, so it is not exact!

Stamped on water color paper and colored with distress markers and a water color brush. 

June Tim Holtz Challenge

The Tim tag looks pretty close to the original that you can find here.  For the Christmas tag, I used the green ink pad we make to ink the Christmas background stamp - ran it horizontally across the words.  It was a good fast way to ink the stamp in multiple colors.

Vintage Card Class in May

Thursday night, May 19th 6:00-8:30 pm
Sunday afternoon, May 22nd 1-3:30 pm



OK, a little steam punky, a little odd...the inside is my current fav Wendy Vecchi stamp....
¨She was a stylish, with a little bit of attitude¨


A new technique, easy, but adds a lot of depth to a project



When you cannot find the right old vintage photo...make your own!

This is my graduation card this year....could be used for many occasions or ¨just because!¨



OK, Jessica is going to yell at me for this one.....cute ATC...BAD, BAD photo!

you get the idea though....

hope you can join us!!

Vintage Card Class

with a touch of Steam Punk tossed in!

4 cards and a tag....




First the SteamPunk! I couldn´t resist - somehow the new Graphic 45 and the Ten Seconds Studio just called for a little humor. Don´t like the heart? You could put a bird in your cage...no problemo!


Little hard to see, but the tag uses the large Book Cover stamp as well as the new fleur de lis movers and shapers. I am often asked ¨why tags?¨ ¨what am I supposed to do with it?¨ ok, here is my why...it is a nice surface to work on, it is a good size, there is a lot of freedom in working on them ...you do not have a big investment in them so it is easy to experiment and see what you come up with! what do yo do with them? lots of different things....use them as bookmarks, use them as an element on a scrapbook page - put journaling on them if you wish, make them the focal point of a card, swap them with other tag fans, use them as a gift tag, mount a themed group on a canvas, just collect them....you get the idea...whatever you want to do!




Needless to say, when I say this stamp set i fell head over heels for it. He had me at Paris. Or perhaps the butterflies....there are lots of color ways you could go here, but I love the warmth of the wild honey....




Dusty Concord remains one of my favs and I love the backwards script stamps....we will do the embossing folder trick with these cool stamps and make the fluffy flower. I will admit to being addicted to the tissue flower. Ever since I learned how to make them about a month ago, they are showing up on everything I make!


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And always it seems, a little sewing theme. We will make the little needle book and you can write secret messages in it! The ric rac is Vintage...the spool is from the 40´s or the 50´s and I have so much I can share! Good chance to try the resist and glassine papers if you haven´t had the chance yet.

Hoping you can join us for the inky goodness....

Sunday, April 17th from 12:30-3:00 or Tuesday, April 19th from 6:00-8:30 pm.

Vintage Card Class - April

Here is one of the cards....2 new stamps, 1 new die and 1 old die, and a pair of fun techniques!

Alcohol Inks with a Twist of Easter

OK, you need to use your imagination a little on this one.....imagine the pink printed piece is adhered to a square yellow card base! Paper by We ´r Memory and stamps by Stampendous.




Sorry the glare is a little bright, but it was tricky catching the shred in the basket....and guess which Tim Holtz Sizzix die this is! Punch by Martha, Stamps by Stampendous and paper by We ´r memory.



A new Sizzix embossing folder...some liquid pearls...and a lot of purple ink....




polka dots are always fun....stamps by Stampendous, paper by We ´r Memory



Tim Holtz stamps....and an unknown egg stamp...

Class on Thursday night, April 6th from 6:00-8:00 and Sunday, April 3rd from 12:30-2:30.

Vintage Card Class

A few new techniques, a valentine or two, and some inky goodness....2 of them based on Mr. Holtz´s 2010 12 Tags of Christmas....but now with a non Christmas theme! The printed paper is Cosmo Cricket - just love this line! I hope you can join me on Thursday, January 27th or Sunday January 30th at Scrapbooks Too or on Sunday, January 23rd at VIP Scrapbooks in Rochester!



This design based on one of the 2010 Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas and tweaked just a bit, makes a nice card....or mount it on a piece of chipboard for a little decor...



Valentine goodness....hard to see, but the pocket holds about 6 little valentines which we will stamp and or emboss....then you could write notes to your sweetie on the back of them....or not...next time maybe I will remember to take photos of ALL the pieces....LOL.



I did remember the inside of that card...gold embossed with a Tim Holtz Valentine stamp.



Based on a tag, but a love twist....simple, but a card a guy might like...and the inside has a little more stamping:



And finally, the bird design from Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas modified to fit a card and a mini rosette...just love those!

Alcohol Inks with a Twist of Christmas

A few new techniques, some gorgeous colors....Thursday, December 2nd, at both 10:30 am-12:30 and 6:30-8:30 pm and Saturday morning, December 4th from 10:30 to 12:30. And I will be teaching this class at VIP in Rochester on Wednesday, December 8th!



Poinsettia....




a little Christmas joy using the new Tim Holtz die cut



a little stamping and coloring with Alcohol Inks....



AI and paint....on acryllic....



and finally, a little Christmas plaid....using Tim Holtz Christmas stamps!

Join us for some fun, some new techniques and 5 more Holiday cards for your stash!

Crafty Secrets Halloween Card Class

A little stamping + new Sizzix dies + vintage Crafty Secrets images + the brand new Girls Paperie Toil and Trouble Paper = Halloween Fun!

Class on Monday, October 18th, 1-3 and 6:30-8:30 for just $20!

Halloween Tray Class

I am not sure the photo does this justice, but you get the idea! The tray has lots of dimension, is all in black, orange and white - with a touch of copper! Fun home decor or a great gift. Easy places to add a couple of photos if you want to highlight your own trick or treaters! The class is next Sunday, October 10th and is also being offered on Monday the 11th. It is 3 hours - Sunday 12:30-3:30 and Monday 10:30-1:30 or 6:30-9:30. Don´t forget to bring your adhesive!!

Simon Says Challenge #2: Wendy Vecchi Style

OK, famous Wendy rose, Wendy Happiness stamp, Wendy details: black glaze pen dots, copper paint on the edges, script stamp on the flower and leaves...on Lost and Found paper with a couple of Tim embellishments and stamps thrown in for good measure...just my mood today....have fun everybody....

Simon Says Challenge #1: Wings

This tag is called ¨The Birds and the Bees¨. OK, they both have wings. The bee is a Tim Holtz stamp and the bird is of course from the TH cage sizzix die. The background is Gold Smooch Spritz, the ink is jet black archival and the birds are cut from a cosmetic package - lovely, thick glossy black paper. I hand cut a little necktie for Mr. Bird and Ms. Bird is wearing pearls from Kaisercraft. Thatś it - sort of off in a different direction but that is where my mind was wandering on this hot August day...

ATC Class

My bad. Sorry I haven´t updated the blog for a while - ok, a month. I get busy creating and forget the tech side. The picture is of an ATC I made for the ATC class next week. It was a little hard to make samples because the point of this class is to be very freewheeling. ATC stands for Artist Trading Card and they are meant to be traded, never sold. They are always 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches and they can be done in any media you want. I will show you how to work with the little Inkssentials metal frames and Idea-ology fragments but the real point is just to make ATCś. I will have lots of papers, some trim, eyelets, brads, buttosns and of course lots of stamps. And inks, paints, glitter and embossing powders. The stamps in the picture are from the new Tim Holtz Halloween stamps. Bring along any fun embellishments or papers you want to use. Looking forward to some inky goodness....

The Return of Alcohol Inks 101!

There have been many requests to repeat this class so it will be offered again in June - twice! It will be taught on Thursday, June 10th at 6pm and again on Sunday, June 13th at noon. On Sunday afternoon I will teach it from 12 to 2 and follow it with Alcohol Inks 202 from 3 to 5 so you could take both in one day if you missed them in the first go around. We will do 3 different techniques (with different inks which give you widely different results) and make 4 cards. The four cards are pictured below.




The stamp is a Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 stamp.



The stamps are also by Wendy Vecchi, Studio 490.




The blue and green card has Tim Holtz stamps.



The black and metallic card, which is more beautiful in real life, features a finely detailed stamp by Stampers Anonymous.

I hope you can join us for the inky fun!

Tag Tuesday Challenge #49: Glitter

LOL - I must have read this on Tuesday and subconsciously had it in my brain when I started working on an entirely different project yesterday making tags for a class. Then this morning I stopped by Louise´ s blog to see who had posted and realized that I had made a glitter tag yesterday. So here it is...color is a little off, but you get the idea. The background is 3 blue and 3 distress inks, the glitter is art insitute (blue on the top and green in the background), the wings are actually silver embossing powder then stamped with the scroll and embossed again with blue glass embossing powder, the purple crown is UTE and for some reason it called out for ball fringe on the bottom. And oh yes, it is a Sizzix die. It reminded me of my daughter so the ¨Drama Queen¨ got added on the bottom.

Tag- Tuesday Challenge #47

is Inspire Me! I was working on making some samples for a card class and this stamp summed it up the best for me: ¨Dance for yourself, if someone understands good. If not, then no matter, go right on doing what you love.¨ It is stamped on the ticket, although that is a little hard to see in the picture. This is my first post for Tag Tuesday Challenge, ok, my first post for any challenge, but I´ve been reading Kard Krazy by Lousie for quite a while now and enjoy it tremendously. Decided it was time to jump in the pool instead of just sitting on the edge watching....


The edge is misted with Rusty Hinge and Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls and is much blingier than appears in the photo. The inspiration quote is stamped on the back of a ticket.