Shop Hop at Collective Journey...... Gift Card Make & Take directions

Collective Journey, this is where my Copic Teaching World started. Although I had been teaching card making for well over 10 years, this is where I taught my first Copic Card class and I have never looked back... It was an awesome stepping stone to a great career. I was teaching a make and take at Collective Journey (CJ) on Sunday. Here are a few of my bestest friends and students Debbie & Leslie who joined in the fun. These two have been with me since my very first Copic class....Love you guys! Of course they wanted to meet Bugsie, so this was the day she got to meet all my CJ friends. Leslie has asked me to bring her to all classes so she can babysit... well, we will see.... puppy sitting would cut into her coloring time! lol.

This make and take is amazing easy and allows newbies to experience several different techniques and Copic products. Although the Stamp set by Our Craft Lounge includes a darling leaf in the set, we chose to draw our own to practice using the multi-liner.... great fun. The dots in the background are done using the brush tips of the Copic markers.

details listed below.

Stamp Set: Our Craft Lounge "Whispy Blooms" (avail here)

Leaves: hand drawn with multi-liner

Dots: made with Copic markers (same col

ors as image)

Copic: RV00, RV09, RV23, YG21, YG17, YG21, YG17, Y15, Y38 (random color choices on this card... LOL).

Directions for card base: Cut cardstock 5 1/2" x 8 1/2 (half sheet), fold. then on the fold mark your card in one inch from each side. Align the card into your pa

per trimmer from the mark to the bottom of your card and cut. Repeat on each side of your purse. Add a top by cutting a separate piece of cardstock (black) into a 5" x 2" strip. Fold making it 5" x 1" slip over the folded edge of white card and adhere to both sides. punch holes add ribbon and then use corner chomper to round lower corners. Easy peasy and fun! Great for a gift card.

A Stampendous Thank you to my friends!

I am a very lucky girl to have all of you as my friends. Here is a card dedicated to YOU... It was a simple fold but gives a WOW every time I use it... Just fold your half sheet of cardstock (11" x 5 1/2") card in half, then fold the front in half again flipping towards you... the inside greeting is normally cut the same size as the top image so that when the card is closed you cannot see it.. then when you open it - it's all three D like... Too fun. I added a little bit of Ranger Glossy Accents to the tiny red flowers to add a bit of Pizazz.

I am so into this spring paper!

Have a sunshining day!

Jennie

Stamp: Stampendous Birthday Bouquet STM-SSC-1097

Copics:

Blues: B91, B93, B95

Reds: R27, R29, R59

Yellows: Y32, Y35, Y38

Green: YG01, YG13, YG17

Background: Y000

CC Designs & more! (Blog candy reminder)

Here are the cards we will be doing at Collective Journey in August. Hope to see you there! Two images are by CC Designs --- they have the cutest little girl stamps! LOVE them! The watering can is a beautiful image by Impression Obsession - their images are so easy to color! Last but not least is the cute little mouse by Stampavie another of my favorite stamp companies. Isn't he cute (never knew rodents could be so cute!) I added Our Craft Lounge Sparkle Fluff to his hat and it really finished him off.. Can't believe my classes are begging for Christmas already!

I am counting down the days till CHA... I leave Sunday! Whew Hew.

PS.. DONT FORGET THERE IS BLOG CANDY ON EARLIER POST!

More Christmas Cards

These are the projects we will be doing at Collective Journey TODAY! Sunday November 15th at 1:00 pm. The class is sold out but is repeating on December 2nd at 5:00 pm.

I don't have a photo of the cute little fry box with a Gingerbread man on it and a goodie inside.... that will have to be a surprise for those who visit the store or attend class. Here are the cards we will be doing!

The little penquin project can be a tree ornament or tag... you can play with it and add as many penquins as you want... very fun project!