Inkspiration for Stamping and Scrapbooking

Still Room for Saturday's Christmas Card Class

Well, the cardstock is cut and in the drawers along with the ink and stamp. I'm ready for Saturday's class. I showed you the cards in a group setting last week, but here they are individually. As I said in last week's post, most of these have their starting point in other stamper's cards. A couple are complete CASEs. I know that Saturday's stampers are going to love these cards - how do I know that? Because I had to add a second private class when a few stamping enthusiasts saw these cards. They are unable to come on Saturday, but there are enough of them that they deserve a date of their own. If you are unable to attend on Saturday, gather up some of your friends and we'll book in a private class for you, too!

If you are thinking of joining us, the class is this Saturday afternoon, starting at 1 pm. The cost is $19.99, or free with a $75 order. Email me to reserve your place, or ask for the class to go if you live beyond driving distance of Elmira.

Here they are (By the way, if you can see a numbered post it hanging off the side of the card, that is to indicate which bin all the supplies for that card are in - I lack organization in some aspects of my life and my business, but my classes do not fall into that category!):

 

Woo Hoo I Got Some Time to Scrapbook

My friend Christa and I put it on the calendar and made time to scrapbook this past weekend. I got two layouts of the travel album done - I am so happy! Now there's just one page left, I think...

Here are the layouts I completed on the weekend:

  Wow - sorry about the glare on some of those photos... I'll try again on a sunnier day when I don't need the lights on - good luck to me on that, this is November in Ontario ba ha ha ha!

Anyway, I chose Real Red to draw the red out of the uniforms of the Horse Guards and the Beefeater.

The Cerise designer paper looks fab with it, and I tied in some Basic Black and Brushed Gold cardstock to enhance the regal setting of the photos.

The title: The "B" is a chipboard silhouette from the On Board Letters. I dragged it through the Real Red Craft ink and once it dried, stamped it with the Baroque Motifs medallion stamp in black. I adhered a small scrap of Cerise under the silhouette, and tied some black grosgrain and gold cord on one side. The "P" is black cardstock onto which I traced a chipboard p from the same packet of On Board Letters. There are 3 different fonts of chipboard letters in that package, offering tons of options. The rest of the lettering I did by hand. I stamped the Baroque Motifs filigree in gold ink.

Here's the second layout:

These photos feature our visit to the London Eye, so I really wanted to play on the circle shape. I used the Uptown designer paper and that dictated the colours I used. The layout starts with So Saffron paper and the Uptown paper. The other colours are Almost Amethyst, Wild Wasabi and Basic Gray. The circles are cut out using the coluzzle. The hollow circles are stamped with the doodled circle stamp in the So Much set. For the title, I traced the letters from the chipboard set onto designer paper and cut them out.

There are also a few jumbo eyelets to continue the circular theme, as well as some smaller circles created with 1 1/4 and 1 3/8 circle punches. 

It felt so great to get a few more pages of this album done!

Let me know what you think of them by leaving me a comment. Thanks!

Happy stampin' - Ann

Glitter and Embossing - It Must be Christmas!

I've been planning for the next Christmas Card stamp camp on Saturday, November 17th, from 1 - 4pm. For just $19.95, you get to make 8 cards from this selection. You can make 1 of each, 8 of 1, or something in between, and envelopes are included. And of course, our designs feature a lot of glitter and embossing, because Christmas cards just seem to demand that! Come on out and join the fun!

Can't make it? You can still get in on the fun by ordering the to-go version. You will receive instructions/photo, and all pre-stamped materials, ready for you to assemble. Ask me for more information, or to reserve your kit/class spot.

Many of these cards have been inspired by other demonstrators, either through their online galleries or websites, or through swaps. I've tweaked them to make them my own, but appreciate that I get that starting place sometimes. 

I have purposely not posted individual photos of them yet so that those coming can enjoy a bit of an element of surprise. But if you really really want to see them up close, let me know and I'll post a photo of each one!

Fall Frenzy Promotion

Fall is a beautiful time of year, but it gets a bit busy, doesn't it? Stampin' Up! has given you a great reason to carve out some time for yourself by presenting this Fall Frenzy special. It's stamps on sale, and who doesn't love a sale on stamps?

With a $40 purchase from our Fall/Winter Collection and/or the gorgeous Holiday Mini, you may also purchase any set(s) from this list at 30%off:
Item   Page # Description           Discounted Price 
105355  26    Bitty Boos Too        $17.47
109284  29    Haunting Halloween    $18.17
110211  29    Halloween Hantee      $18.17
107383  30    Thoroughly Thankful   $22.37
109373 108    Autumn Fest           $23.07 
109421  91    Elementary Essentials $27.27
110366  17    Stem Silhouettes*     $30.77
110388  17    A la Tige*            $30.77 

And have you seen the Holiday mini yet? It's rich and elegant and has you covered this upcoming fall and Christmas season - from tags to gift cards, wrapping and garlands to cards and scrapbook pages, there are ideas galore in sets that range from cute to fun to versatile to religious to elegant to practical. If you don't have your own copy yet, look at it online here, or email me for your own paper edition.