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...

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.

New Belly Dance Art

I've been busy creating new belly dance art.  Some of the items are old favorites like my magnets and some new creations, candles!

I took some photos of all the new things I've been making and will hopefully get these posted on my Shimmy Bliss website for purchase soon.

Enjoy...

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...