Holiday Card Class

I finally had some time to start creating the cards and boxes for this years holiday card class on October 9th.

Today was crafting day and I made the origami box, gift card holder and one of the cards.

I finally had a chance to take photos of the finished projects.  I've added the vintage card, match box and diaroma card.   

Origami boxes

Close up of the size we will be making in class

Gift card holder

Close up of outside of gift card holder

Postcard stamp holiday card

Close up of postcard holiday card.  It is difficult to see the iridescent shimmer over the image

Photo of all the projects

Diaroma card

3 match boxes

vintage tag holiday card

I have one more card, the shaker card to take a photo of I can't believe I forgot too!

Enjoy your week...

Belly Dance Bra Cards

I finally had a chance to create a new line of belly dance cards.  My friend Rachel came over on Saturday and we started making both cabaret and tribal bra cards.

Also on Saturday Kyla, Kelley and Debbie were over working on their altered books; Kyla is almost done with her Vampire book it's looking really cool.

We were only able to get 6 of the bra cards done on Saturday since we took a break and went to have Thai food and then we needed to get ready to go see the USA Belly Dance Queen competition held that night.

I finished up the bra cards yesterday making more tribal than cabaret although I did make one cabaret card :-)

Below are photos of our creations.

Cards from Saturday and Sunday

Close up of my cards

Rachel's cards are on the right column; my favorite is her tribal card top right corner!

First cards that Rachel made; thanks Rachel for the help I couldn't have done it without you.

I have 10 corset cards folded and ready to be embellished I will post them as soon as I get them finished.

Enjoy your week...

Mesa Art Center Box Class

Wow what a fun and very stressful class at the Mesa Art Center!  The week started with being interviewed by Jessica Testa a reporter from the Arizona Republic.  You can read the article online at Azcentral.com.

This is the first class I have taught for 17 students!  It took me all day Sunday and all day Monday to prepare for this class cutting, scoring and designing all the boxes. 

Thank goodness I had help from Rachel the night of the class I know I wouldn't have been able to do it without her.  Rachel, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!  You rock girl :-)

It was so worth it the students were wonderful and so much fun!  The puffy box is not an easy box to grasp when making the template and I was so pleased the entire class had no problem with this box at all; ladies you were awesome!!!

Thank you for such a fun time I hope you enjoyed the class and are making lots and lots of boxes.

Below are the projects we made.

Group shot of all boxes

Starting to the left the bright pink boxes are the explosion boxes then the triangle box with one of the puffy boxes at the bottom right corner 

Box in a bag is top center with triangle box in the center and puffy boxes at the bottom

Mini pizza box with the small window treat boxes at the bottom of photo

Puffy boxes and window treat boxes

The next paper craft class at the Mesa Art Center will be on Monday August 20th with more card techniques.

Have a great week...

Lots and Lots of Flowers - August Craft Class

We did something different for the August craft class we made 6 different style flowers and 3 projects.

This was a fun class although there was a little bit of whining about having to do a little sewing :-) The class loved the project and flowers that involved a needle and thread; thank goodness I was a little worried about these flowers.

Below are photos of the flowers and projects we made. 

Group shot of all the flowers and projects

Carnations using tissue paper

Sewing project and flowers.  A cute vintage look using felt to create a gift card holder with gathered lace to create the flower

Two different style flowers one using ribbon with news print flower and scalloped news print flowers

Roses made with scallop flower punch

Paper rosettes with envelope gift holder

My favorite project was the felt gift card holders and I see making lots of these for Christmas.

Next craft class will be on Sept. 11th.

Altered Book is Finished; almost :0)

My altered book is finished inside now I just need to finish up the cover!!!

Below are photos of the rest of my book. 

Key page with turning wheel displaying 4 different images

Pop up page with side pockets holding postcards

Bubble wrap painted page with tags

Painted edge page with bottle caps

Filmstrip page

String art page

My next altered book will be of our new puppies Nitro and Blue.  I'm taking lots of photos and I can't believe how fast they are growing; they are almost 4 months old now.

More Altered Book Pages

Last week has been a really busy week and I haven't had any time to work on my altered book.  Below are a few more pages and I will be spending a lot of time this week on getting it finished in time for our class.

frame page

envelope door page

shadow box behind envelope

weaving

folded pages with sewing

Mosaic

See you on Saturday...

Altered Book Class

I have started my altered book for the July 17th altered book class.  I'm having a lot of fun with this creating my masterpiece.

Below are photos of what I have done so far.  My goal is creating a page per day and so far I am on track.

pocket pages

window tag

collage page

4 pocket page

window page

next page of window

frame page

sewn in envelope

back of envelope

round doors revealing photos

tag page

back of tag page

Enjoy the photos I will be posting more photos soon.