Afternoon Daydream Scrap-A-Stack

This is a class I'm offering in March.  I love that Stampin’ Up! has come out with divided page protectors!  And I’ve always loved our Simply Scrappin’ Kits.   In this class, you’ll get to use the Afternoon Daydream Simply Scrappin’ kit with our page protectors to make these 10 double-sided 12 x 12 layouts (so, really you get 20 pages).

 

Here's a look at the individual pages:

 

 I know it's a lot of photos!  Contact me if you'd like more information about the class.

Blessings to you,

Spring Stamp-A-Stack

The final class in my Spring Break Class Blitz will be a stamp-a-stack! You'll get to make 20 cards (5 each of 4 designs).  Here are the cards we'll be making.  Details about the class follow the card photos.

Love the Elementary Elegance Sale-A-Bration stamp set and the Twitterpated designer series paper!

I CASEd and slightly modified this card by Mary Fish (LOVE her!).

I LOVE this card by Jennifer Picard.  I had to CASE it!

Another card by Mary Fish that I CASEd.

Date: Saturday, March 31
Time: anytime between 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.  This class will take at least 2 hours, so please arrive with enough time to complete your cards.
Place: my house
Cost: $35 for 20 cards OR $20 with a qualifying Sale-A-Bration order ($60 plus tax & shipping), plus you'll get a FREE Sale-A-Bration item with your purchase!

All you need to bring is adhesive.  Please RSVP by Saturday, March 17 to give me time to order and prep supplies.

Blessings to you,

Blossom Builders Kit Class

If you’re like me, you’ve been drooling over the Blossom Builders designer printed kit in the Occasions Mini Catalogue, but you may be wondering what you would do with it!  Well, now you can make these seven cards, which use all the elements from one sheet of the kit, plus several of the cute pink rhinestones that come with it.  This is a drop-in class, so feel free to stop in at any time during the day of the class.  I will have greeting stamps at the class, so you can customize your cards with whatever sentiments you’d like!

These cards were created by Donna Wizniuk, a talented member of the Big Ideas Ink group that I'm also in. She shared this class with us at our last group meeting, and I'm excited to be able to offer it as well.

Date: Thursday, March 29

Time: anytime between 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.  The class should take about an hour.
Where: my house

Cost: $15 OR FREE with a qualifying Sale-A-Bration order ($60 plus tax & shipping), plus you'll also get a free Sale-A-Bration item with your order!

All you need to bring is adhesive.  Please RSVP by Saturday, March 17 so I know how many people to prepare for.

Blessings to you,

Punch Art Class

Over Spring Break, I will be offering three Blitz Classes where people can drop in anytime on the day of each class to make the cards for that class.  The first class is a punch art card class, where we will be making the following five cards.  More details about the class are following the card images.

I found the tutorials for the Angry Birds charactersby Niki Toll here.

I wanted to find a punch art bunny that didn't use the small oval punch (since it's been discontinued).  I thought this heart punch bunny by Carol Dunstan was super cute!

This tulip card is by a talented lady in my stamp club and my downline, Paula Dunbar.  I had to use it for my punch art class!

This adorable chick was created by Kay Sha.   I made him into an Easter card by adding some hand-snipped grass.

 This sunflower card was created by Ellen Kemper.

Here are the details for the class:
Date: Monday, March 26
Time: anytime between 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.  The class should take about an hour.
Place: my house
Cost: $10 for five cards OR FREE with a Sale-A-Bration order ($60 plus tax & shipping), plus you'll get a free Sale-A-Bration item with your order!

All you need to bring is adhesive.  Please register by Saturday, March 17.

Thanks, and I hope to see you there!

Blessings to you,

Button Buddies Card Class

My upline, Winona Semler, came up with this great idea for a class.  Please contact me to register (if you live in my area, of course!). 

The adorable Button Buddies stamp set (p.71) is one of my favourites, and it is so versatile.  For this class, you will be making eight different all-occasion cards with matching envelopes, all using the Button Buddies set.  And you get to make all the cards for FREE when you purchase the class kit!  The kit includes the following:

• Button Buddies stamp set (wood mount) or Button Buddies stamp set (clear mount) & clear block C
• Package of Brights Buttons 
• Package of Brights Assorted 8 ½ x 11 Cardstock 
• Package of White Baker’s Twine 
• FREE Sale-a-Bration item of your choice

You will have tons of supplies left over to make more cards on your own!

If you already own the stamp set, and you want to make the cards, you will need to purchase the mini kit, which includes a package of Brights Buttons and a package of White Baker’s Twine, along with the fee for the class.

There are 10 spots available, so sign up now to reserve your place! Please also bring scissors and adhesive.

Date: Saturday, February 18

Time: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Place: my house

Cost: $70 for kit (cards are free!) or $25 for the mini kit (includes class fee)

Hope to see you there!

Blessings,

Christmas Advent Calendar

I was so thrilled to see the Christmas Cocoa designer series paper in the Holiday Mini catalogue this year! I've been wanting to make this advent calendar (Beate's tutorial is fantastic!) for a few years now, and the Christmas Cocoa goes so well with my house!

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. My boys are so excited and can't wait until December when they get to find out what goodies I will be hiding in the tins for them!

I will be offering this as a class in November, so stay tuned for more information about that. Until then, here's the recipe:

Stamps: Lovely Letters, Numbers (retired set - can't remember the name off-hand!)
Paper: Christmas Cocoa dsp, Real Red, Soft Suede, Whisper White
Ink: Soft Suede, VersaMark
Accessories: White embossing powder, Square Scallop punch, Scallop Circle punch, 1 1/4" Circle punch, Clear Rhinestone brads, Merry Details Sizzlits die, Sticky Strip (tons of this!)
Non Stampin' Up!: wedding favour tins, velcro dots

Thanks for reading!

Blessings to you,

Christmas Recipe Tin Kit

Need a great gift idea or a place to store your holiday recipes? How about a Christmas Recipe tin! This tin is made using the Merry Moments designer series paper and the Snow Swirled and From the Kitchen of stamp sets.

I am offering a kit with everything you need to make this tin, which includes the following:

• Lunch Tin
• Precut Merry Moments or Holiday Lounge designer series paper (your choice)
• Precut cardstock for stamped image
• Six divider cards in coordinating cardstock (to match designer series paper)
• Six 1 1/4" circles for divider labels
• Six 1 3/8" circles for matting labels
• 12 recipe cards
• 3 feet of coordinating ribbon
• Template for tin notch
• Instructions for Recipe Tin
  

The kit costs $22.50 (CAD) plus shipping (if applicable), and includes a free class on Saturday, September 26 (for those of you in my area) where you can use my stamps, ink and adhesive to assemble your recipe tin! Plus, if you register for the class, you can purchase the From the Kitchen of stamp set for 20% off.

Contact me to order your kit and/or register for the class. Or you can make your own! The tutorial is found here on Splitcoast Stampers.

A Couple of Journals

Whew! I'm finally resting a bit from my New Catalogue Open House last week. What a fun time! Thank you to everyone who came. I really appreciate your support. A big congratulations to Susan K. who won my grand door prize draw! Susan won the Level 3 Holiday Happenings Bundle, along with some Chocolate Chip and Kiwi Kiss cardstock and ink pads and a one-inch circle punch. And congratulations to Jackie T., who won the Questionnaire prize draw of an embellishment kit and to Kirsten S., who won the Catalogue Scavenger Hunt prize draw of a Scallop Notes Stationery Pack!

I've been madly planning some fall classes, and I decided to do things a bit differently this year. My brilliant SIL, Wendy, came up with the idea of doing a class where you can make some little Christmas gifts for people, so I've come up with a create-your-own class where people can choose four of nine different projects, invite some friends over and everyone will get to make the four items.

The journal and pen set is a classic that I've been making since I started with Stampin' Up!, and I've tried to improve it over time. This is one of the projects you can choose from for the class.

I found a tutorial (I'm afraid I forget where - it was months ago) about how to remove the coils so you can adhere the paper at the edge of the notebook, which looks a lot neater than lining it up by the coils! This is a notebook that I CASEd from sluman on Splitcoast Stampers. I think it was made at Convention. It uses the new Bella Rose designer paper (LOVE IT!) with some Pink Pirouette cardstock, Pretty in Pink grosgrain and a flower from the Pretties kit. I used the new scallop edge punch on the centre strip and poked holes in the scallops with my paper piercer.

For the second notebook, I went with Summer Picnic dsp and added some Bashful Blue grosgrain, a strip of Real Red cardstock and an Old Olive scallop circle punch.

Memory Match Game in a Tin

Here's another little craft I made for my fall classes. It's a children's Memory Match card game in a tin. I did not come up with this idea - it was shared at our large downline meeting by Winona Semler (an amazing stamper!).

There are six pairs of cards that I stamped with the animals from Pun Fun and coloured using my Stampin' Write markers. I decorated the tin with Summer Picnic designer series paper. The band that goes around the tin is also decorated with Summer Picnic and coordinating cardstock, and stamped with Schoolbook Serif Alphabet and Define Your Life. I thought it would make a cute stocking stuffer or travel game. You could also make magnet games like Tic Tac Toe since they would stick to the tin!

Well, my New Catalogue Open House is tomorrow and I still have tons to do to get ready for it! I'm very excited - I hope people show up for it! Wish me luck!

Blessings to you,

Baby Mini Photo Book

Another quick post today! DH was away for the weekend on a manly canoe trip, so I've been busy again with kids and my mom visiting and family birthday parties and church! I love it all, but there just aren't enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do. I'm so in awe of you ladies who stamp and post and visit all your blog friends every day! How do you do it? Where do you find the time!? (Seriously, I need to know! LOL!)

Anyway, this is one of the projects I'm planning for my fall classes. It's a mini photo book (I posted a tutorial previously here). For this one, I used Bashful Blue, Almost Amethyst and Barely Banana cardstock with some Bashful Blue Prints paper (I know it's retired, but I figure it's close enough to the new Patterns paper). The stamp sets are Nursery Necessities and Taffy Alphabet.
Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings to you,

Snowflakes Softly Falling

Here's another card I made for the class I did at the Dutch Canadian Association last weekend. I used embossing resist technique for this one. I thought it ended up looking pretty cool - like snow falling with Christmas lights in the background (maybe it's just me, though!).

I stamped the snowflakes and the greeting from Frosty in white craft ink on Whisper White cardstock. I embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I sponged Real Red, Glorious Green, Brilliant Blue and So Saffron ink all over it.

To finish it off, I knotted some Real Red grosgrain and stuck that on. I then matted the page onto Glorious Green before adhering the whole thing to the Real Red card base.

There you go, quick and simple!

Thanks for reading, and remember to enter my blog candy draw here!

Fifty Cards from a Simply Scrappin' Kit!

About a month ago, Corie sent me a CD in the mail that Teri had made with 50 cards she had designed using the Winter Bright Simply Scrappin' Kit. Well, I finally had time to finish all the cards, and here they are! (Actually, there are 25 here, but I made two of each.) I had to improvise a few since I didn't have the same stamp sets as Teri, but they are basically the same. I just love them! I'm so glad there are creative people out there to borrow ideas from! Thank you so much, Teri and Corie!

I will be offering this as a class in November, so if you're in my area, let me know if you'd like to attend. You will get to make all fifty cards, plus you will have supplies left over to make even more cards if you'd like (or save it for your scrapbooking)! If you receive my monthly email newsletter, the date and cost will be listed on that. If you'd like to receive my email newsletter, just email me at shannon.mcgann@shaw.ca and let me know!

Remember to enter my blog candy draw here.

Stamp-a-Stack Cards

Well, I did lots of stamping last night, but most of it was planning for upcoming classes I'm having! Here are the cards I'll be doing at my stamp-a-stacks this month. It's not too late to sign up if you're in my area!

I made the pomegranate Season of Joy card using one of Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenges from awhile back. The blue Wondrous Gift card uses popping pastels technique. The Peaceful Wishes and Big on Christmas cards were based on cards I've seen on other blogs and on Splitcoast Stampers, but I'm afraid I can't find the original designers, so if it's you, thank you for the inspiration, and please let me know who you are so I can give you credit!

Flower for You Notebook

This is a notebook that I decorated as a practice for a Stationery Stamp Camp I'm holding on Monday (I still have room for a couple more people if anyone's interested!).

I found an awesome tutorial on Nancy's blog (Inkcicles). When I've made notebooks before, I always just coloured the part under the coil with a black sharpie so that the notebook colour wouldn't clash with the designer paper, but it always looked messy and incomplete. Nancy shows how to get the paper to cover the complete front of the notebook by removing the coils before decorating.

I used a spray adhesive to attach the paper to the notebook cover. It takes a lot longer (you have to let it sit for an hour after you spray before you can adhere it), but it is PERMANENTLY on there! Nothing is going to get that sucker off of there!

Anyway, for this particular notebook, I used Flowers for You designer paper, then layered on some Lovely Lilac, Certainly Celery and Whisper White. I stamped with my Simply Said set in Tempting Turquoise, Lovely Lilac and Pixie Pink to match the paper. The "Celebrate" is from Wonderful Words. The flower is a white fabric flower that I dyed in Lovely Lilac ink by rubbing it on the ink pad. I wish I could say it was from the Pretties kit, but that hasn't arrived yet (it's on the way - I'm so excited!). This is just a generic one I have - not sure who made it, sorry. I attached it to the paper with a rose red brad from my Rich Regals brads. After I decorated, I punched holes up the sides with my 1/8-inch circle punch and threaded the coil through again.

Make sure you enter my blog candy draw here. The draw is open until Friday.

Countdown to Christmas Clipboard

How cute is this?! Kathryn had an awesome tutorial on her blog for these Countdown to Christmas clipboards, so I had to try one for myself.

This is my take on the clipboard, and I will be doing a class on these in November for anyone who's interested!

I started by painting a clipboard with acrylic paint, then adhering designer paper on it. I used the Wintergreen designer series paper with Bravo Burgundy, Always Artichoke and Soft Sky cardstock. For the Christmas tree, I just cut out a triangle of Artichoke, punched some circles out of the paper I used (for decorations), then stuck some buttons on with glue dots. The star is Yoyo Yellow cs punched out with the star punch, then I put VersaMark on the whole thing and embossed it with Iridescent Ice ep. The snowflakes are from the Frosty stamp set.

I made the number tags with the small and regular tag punches and the Best Friends Numbers set. The number tags have magnets on the back that stick to two washers that I've glued to the paper. That way, you can change the numbers as Christmas gets closer! There's also an envelope glued to the back of the clipboard to hold the extra numbers.

And there it is! I wouldn't say quick and simple because it took awhile, but it is a lot of fun!