Strawberry Box Flowers

I'm making strawberry boxes for my friend Kyla who's trying to raise money for her dog Durango's medical bills.

I taught how to make these cute little boxes in one of my box classes and Kyla called me with her idea of selling the strawberries to raise funds for people who have large medical bills for their pets.  She is calling it "Strawberry Sweets Forever". 

Kyla owns Kyla's Keepsakes and makes beautiful hair pieces, jewelry and more and will be selling these strawberries when she is vending.  Here next event in town will be at Downtown Mesa's 2nd Friday Night Out on April 8, 2011.  Stop by her booth and pick up some strawberries.

Today I created something new and I call them strawberry flowers.  It's the strawberry box with a candy kiss inside that I put on a bamboo skewer with paper leaves to be placed in a vase.  A great little gift to give to that someone special for a birthday, anniversary, a thank you or just because.

Below is a photo of my new creation.  I will be giving Kyla lots of these flowers for her to sell.  If you would like some of these flowers you can contact me and I'll get them to you.

Have a great weekend...

Buttons, buttons who's got the buttons!

I've been having so much fun creating jewelry and other goodies with buttons and I have more items to make still to create.  I can't stop it's so addicting!!!

Below are photos of some of the items we will be making on June 18th for the button class.

Using some of my Grandmothers buttons to create this necklace pendant

I used new buttons to create this cute flower pendant

Love this button from my Grandmothers collection.  I added a silver button at the bottom

Button bracelets

Buttons on large paper clips

Button key chain in the center surrounded by flower pins

I need to order more buttons so I can make the button flowers on stems, button rings, more bracelets and whatever else I can think of :0)

Have a great weekend...

Mini Album March Workshop

Tomorrow's class we will be making albums to show case those special moments in life. 

We will be creating 4 albums using every day items.  The first one is a pair of dominoes as the covers of the mini album.  The theme I used for this cute little album was dance.  I used alcohol inks for the background on the covers and applied cut outs of vintage dancers.  Inside is accordion fold designer paper that I put dance quotes both front and back with more vintage dancers and stamped images throughout. 

The next mini album I used playing cards.  For the outside covers I used dies cuts or punches to create a design.  I created 3 different inside pages for these albums.  I stabled pages together and used clear tape to bind the cover to the pages.  I punched holes and used ribbon to bind the pages and covers together and the last design was accordion fold album.

The square around album was fun to create it's all in the folding.  I used 8" square designer paper to create these albums.  Each section has a pocket to put your tags with photos or whatever you like. 

The last album is using an old album!  Behind each photo is a pull out page to journal on.  My album is of my two puppies Nitro and Blue.  Loved creating this one and it was pretty quick ones I decided on the photos
:-)

Below are photos of all the projects.

In two weeks I will be teaching a workshop using buttons.  We will be making jewelry, magnets and more.  I'll post photos once I get everything made.

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...

2011 Calendar Craft Class

This is the calendar that we will be making on January 22nd.  It's made with die cuts and I can't wait to see what you all create.  The base will look like mine but your months will be totally different; ladies it's time to be creative!!

Check out my other craft classes on my website for the first part of this year in both my home studio and at the Mesa Art Center.  Several specialty classes coming up in March and April.  March will be a button class making jewelry, cards and more with buttons and April we will make a purse using a book.  Hope to see you in one of my classes.

December Card Class

December is turning out to be a very busy month hence the late post on this month's card class.

It was my annual holiday party card class so it was filled with games, food and crafting; a very fun class.  Thanks to everyone that brought their favorite holiday treat.

This month was a technique class and due to every one's busy schedule we only made 4 projects.  The techniques were Retiform, Serigraph, Smooch Spritz Resist, and a waterfall card.

Below are photos from the class.

Group shot of all cards

Retiform

Smooch Spritz Resist

Serigraph

Waterfall Card

Check out my website to see my craft schedule for both my home studio and the Mesa Art Center.

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

Cabaret Belly Dance Bra Cards

I've been busy making 18 cabaret belly dance bra cards for a customer in VA.  It's been awhile since I've created anything flashy :-)

I hope this weekend to create some new bracelets and pendants I'll post them when they are done.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving...