October 15 - Class Projects - Redlands CA

Hello Everyone!

Boy oh boy I have been creating like crazy! I have over 10 classes scheduled over the next month or so. I am trying to do different cards for each class!

Yikes! Here are the ones we will be doing at Collective Journey on October 15th from 5:00 - 7:00 pm. If you want to come and cant make it, we will probably open a duplicate session! Hope to see you there.

Check out all of the CUTE designer paper that I found at CJ. The colors and images match the images perfect! Most of the new paper is by My Minds Eye... Never heard of it before... but you can bet I will be looking for it in the future... It is wonderful and high quality two sided dec. paper. LOVE IT.

Copic Airbrush System has arrived! Whew Hew

My first two projects made with my new Copic Air brush system... more later! I hope to do the sunset image at my upcoming techniques classes.

Sunset set is Our Craft Lounge Sandy Sketches, the Yorkie is by rubber hedgehog. if you know me you already that I love the beach and love my yorkie.... Jazzie!

Turtle Spinner Card - Lexi's Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEXI


August first is Tom's niece's 12th birthday. Lexi is a sweetie and loves soccer & sports of all sorts. I couldn't resist the idea of these two cute turtles playing water soccer! I hope she likes her card.

I added a bit of crystal effects to the shells and some gel pen to the turtles eyes to help his eyes pop a bit. The spinner is on pennies and some dimensional tape that I puched out with a hole punch for nice round rollers. I have not done a spinner card in YEARS.

The soccer ball rolls back & forth! How fun! Stamps are of course Our Craft Lounge and the soccer balls is from an old Stampin Up set that I kept because it is timeless.

Happy Birthday Lexi..... looking forward to our shopping day together for your birthday. See you Wednesday!

Jennie

Our Craft Lounge Monthly Sketch Challenge

Free Stamps! Did you know Our Craft Lounge has a sketch challenge every month. One lucky winner will get to pick a OCL stamp set of their choice as their prize...

If you don't have a blog to post it to.. no problem, post it to Splitcoast stampers. SO FUN. I won a few months ago and won the OCL Coastal Wishes set.. I love it!

Each month the challenge card is based on a card made by the last months winner. This month we are doing a challenge done by Etha... oh dear this was by far the hardest for me yet. As you all know I tend to use tons of layers on my cards. Well, this one only had three! Yikes, I tried and tried to go by her sketch and ended up adding a few layers and a ribbon. Sorry Etha, you can do the simple beauty better than me! All in all it was based on Etha's card and that was the idea in the first place. To make my own card, based on Etha's layout! Everyone should try it... who knows you might win a free stamp set.

go here for the instructions & August sketch! Good luck everyone!

http://forum.ourcraftlounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=396

Family Friday (a bit early)

I have promised my family to post some photos of summer each friday. Well, it has been pointed out to me that I have not done that in a few weeks... OOPS.. Hope this makes up for it... I love you all.

Summer went by so fast. Austin visited twice each time for two weeks. I loved every minute of our time together. Of course we had cousins galore especially my sweet niece Amanda. Mom came for 10 days which was wonderful. It was too long since we last saw each other.

Tom's boys raced in several motorcycle races with Wesley getting hurt twice. Ouch. Of course we did the water things like a million trips to the beach and ended summer with a trip to the waterpark.

So here are a few photos of our summer. More next week...

Mom, me and Austin... Doesn't mom look little next to Austin. Austin at Laguna Beach... brrr the water was cold that day. I refused to snorkel in that cold water, but we had to do a bit of boogie boarding (until our skin turned pink from the cold water). Steve at the race track where he won second place (on bike). Wesley at the racetrack between races.

Penquin Parkas! & Class Samples

Here is a cute card I made for one of my next month's card classes. I just love these little Penquins from Our Craft Lounge. The set is called Penquin Parkas... The punch is a Martha Stewart edge punch - it is sooo fun. Of course I added some sparkle fluff to the penquins hats and some glitter for snow! I love Christmas & Winter cards. Come back later in the week for more!

I want to say thanks to everyone who attended one of my classes last week. It feels sooooo good to be be stampin again. As promised I am finally getting a few of the sample cards that we made posted to my blog. Please note that I taught several classes and by the end of the last one, my samples became a bit tattered (some even dissappeared). Next month I will provide a xerox copy of the projects for you to take home incase you dont complete your project. Please also check out my Splitcoaststampers gallery where you will find several other samples.http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=2876

I am currently booking a begining Copic Techniques classes at your several local stamp stores. Instead of completing 4-5 cards, we will work on a Technique book. I have made a 15-20 page booklet with instructions on several different techniques. On each page we will practice coloring images selected specifically for that technique. We will also learn a bit about the Copic colorwheel and how to pick color combinations.

There are lots of extra little tables & goodies included in this booklet. A great reference tool for doing projects later. Dates have not been finalized at all stores, so please ask at the counter or check my postings later next week. (Chino is already scheduled for Sept).

Samples for my September Classes

SETEMBER SAMPLES

FALL CLASS AT COLLECTIVE JOURNEY - Redlands, CA

Call Store for details & registration