November 2011 Box Class

Finally finished the boxes for tomorrow's class.  I still need to make the baby carriage and tote bag samples for Monday night's box class at the MAC.

The boxes for this class are coffee cup, pyramid, butterfly, treat box card, cupcake and mini milk carton.  Since Thanksgiving is a little over a week away and Christmas is just around the corner I Incorporated these holidays into the mix.

Below are photos of all the boxes.  The one pyramid box I started with a white piece of card board and went crazy with distress inks and a set of steampunk stamps.  It was a lot of fun to create and it turned out pretty well I must say.

Group shot of all the boxes

Butterfly Box - the pansies were made from a butterfly punch

Treat box card - it's a treat box and card all in one!

Coffee cup

Cupcake box

Mini milk carton

Pyramid box

Side 1 of pyramid box

Side 2 of pyramid box

Size 3 of pyramid box

Side 4 of pyramid box

top of the pyramid

bottom of pyramid

Next craft class will be December 10th and we will be making lots of flowers.

February Box Class

I love making boxes!  They are so easy to make they just take forever to decorate :-)

I'm ahead of schedule and have made all the boxes for my two craft classes in February.  The first class is on February 12th at my home studio and the class is almost full already.  The box classes are so popular and so much fun.
The second class is at the Mesa Art Center (MAC) on Monday February 28th.  The only box that will not be included in the MAC class will be the heart box since Valentine's Day will be over with.

The boxes we will be create are the cake box, scallop box, bon bon box, icicle box, button box, take out box and a surprise for both classes the strawberry boxes.

Below are pictures of all the projects for both classes plus photos of the cute heart boxes.

Photo of all the boxes

Bon bon boxes

Button boxes (I still need to finish the red one)

Cake box (love how these turned out)

Side view of the cake box.  We will be making the paper roses also, bonus!

Showing the embossing on the top part of the box

Cute heart shape boxes using Nestabilities heart die cuts both plan and scallop

Boxes can hold several Ghirardelli squares; yum!

Icicle treat box

Top of icicle treat box showing the felt flowers

Scallop box with flowers made from pages of a book

Strawberry boxes, perfect to hold a candy Kiss 

Take out box, sorry no decoration yet

For registration information for both classes please see my website with all the details.

Take care and hope to see you in class...

November Card Class

Our unusual card class is tomorrow, boy were does time fly???? 

We will be making 4 unusual shaped cards and 1 cute little box!  This month's class will include an apron to hold a recipe card or what ever you'd like, cute little onesie card perfect for a new arrival or a shower, a purse with a surprise inside that will also hold a small gift like a gift card, a hexagon petal card and a cute little box.

Below are photos of all our projects.

Group shot of all our projects

Apron card to hold recipes, invitation to a barbecue, place over a bottle of wine with a note and so much more

Purse card open

Cute onesie card

Hexagon petal card closed and open view

Great little box to hold those small gifts

Enjoy and next month we will be learning new techniques and having our holiday party.

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...