My Five for August...

Can you get any closer to the end of the month than this?  I've been working on these images, off and on, for most of the month and finally finished them at Jeanne's house this morning.  The moose is an image she loaned me to color, made by Stampendous.  I stamped seven images and spent SOOOO much time getting them perfect...



I could not have been more pleased with the outcome!  I LOVED the coloring.  The paper is from My Favorite Things, bling from Pretty Pink Posh, ribbon from Michaels, sentiment from Lawn Fawn, stitched die-cuts from Simon Says Stamp.  ALL of the above belonging to Jeanne and at my disposal when I stayed the night.  LOVE having crafty friends!!  Thanks Jeanne... :)

Kiwi Lane Class at Scrapbook Expo...

 At Scrapbook Expo last week, I took four classes.  I love learning and making new things and stepping out of my "norm".  These cards definitely fit the bill.  Of the four classes I took though, this was my least favorite.  And it has nothing to do with the cards we made.  It was the instruction...

 

  I had no idea what "Kiwi Lane" was and if I hadn't WON the door prize, I would still not know what they were.  They are apparently, different hard plastic "Designer Templates" that you use to trace on designer papers and put together to create a card.  Our "kit" had ALL the paper already traced and we just cut.  That's it!  Just cut...

 

SO, paying $23 to ASSEMBLE five cards was pretty disheartening.  Like I said, if I hadn't won the door prize, I'd be pretty unhappy...

 

These are the "Designer Templates" I won.  I put mine on a ring and have them handy...

 

I hope I create more cards like this with my winnings because

they are VERY different from my norm... :)



Last year's Scrapbook Expo class...

 Scrapbook Expo will be back in town this coming weekend and I thought it would be prudent to finish LAST year's class cards.  These were from a class that I no longer remember the name of BUT, it was where I was first introduced to the ZIG Clean Color Brushes.  I took the class with Susan and although she LOVED the markers, she gave me her card kit... yay for me!!  After completing the cards, I made some matching envelopes with my Gelli-plate, stencils and acrylic paints...

 

 Today, these cards were kicking my butt!  Fussy cutting the butterflies was beyond aggravating!  IF ONLY I had a Scan 'N Cut.  Insert cheesy grin here... :)  ROFLMAO

 

Now, they are all completed and I can get ready for the NEXT set of classes I'm going to take... AND I'm going to enter this card in the SSS Wednesday Challenge, Let's Go Wild.

 



My Jeanne inspired blog post...

 All these cards were done either with Jeanne OR with Jeanne's stuff... :)

 

Jeanne came to my house for a play date in mid-July.  She brought lots of her "stuff" for us to play with.  I cut several of her Simon Says Stamp Daisy dies for future cards.  We played with her BRUSHO Color Burst and made backgrounds.  The card on the left was put together AFTER Jeanne went home.  I cut down the backgrounds we made and did some faux stitching around the edges.  She accidently left a box of Christmas stamps behind so I found a sentiment in there that would work... then I sent the card to her. 

 

The card on the right was part of yesterday's endeavor...

 

While visiting at her house this week, we did some Copic coloring together.  I colored three of the APPLE HARVEST stamp by Deep Red then we cut the images on her Scan 'n Cut.  OMG!!!  I'm SOOOO sold on the Scan 'n Cut!  Although it seems it took me HOURS yesterday to find all the right papers for this from my stash, I was quite happy with the result.  The sentiment is again, from that box of Christmas stamps she left behind when visiting me...

Finally, we followed an Art Impressions video to color this.  Using the AI Clay Pot and my Marvy markers, I colored two of these images at her house.  Once home, I realized that I HAVE this set from a class I took last year with Sandy Allnock up in Massachusetts.  I don't know why I haven't used it since that class because this was so fun and relaxing to do.

 

So, there you have it... my Jeanne inspired cards!  :)