Halloween Card Class & winner to RAK

I just love Halloween. I love all the colors and seeing the excitement in my kido's eyes when they get to dress up for school and to go trick or treating. They also love giving there teachers a little card with a treat bag of candy...

If your local to me I have an upcoming Halloween card class at Lila's Scrapbooking and more on Wednesday October 6th from 3-4 or 5-6 You will create 5 different cards for $15.00 Here are a few cards that you will make at the class.

If you can't make it on the 6th. I also have the same class on October 15th from 1-2

Ok so lets get on to the RAK winner... This weekend I put up a card I created in honor of World Card Making day and asked ya to leave a comment for an awesome card kit RAK. That lucky winner is....

Melissa said...

This is really pretty!

Melissa
http://www.burstsofcreativity.blogspot.com/

October 02, 2010 5:48 PM

Melissa please e-mail me at ElisaK12 at gmail dot com

Thanks for looking and I will be back tomorrow with another project. If you aren't a follower of my blog yet please sign up as there will be more RAK's, contest announcements and the list goes on.

Today is National Card making day

In honor of National Card making day I created this card. It's filled with lots of great items from Clear Scraps.

Products used:

Clear Scraps 12x12 Acrylic Sheets

Clear Scraps Decorative Frames

Clear Scraps Bird shapes

Staz-on Ink (teal and black cherry)

Embossing folder

The girls Paperie pattern paper

Vintage music paper

Mellissa Frances Mica Flakes

Gems

Vintage flowers

bazzill bling (snowflakes)

Here is a close up of the bird

Are you planning on making any cards today? If you do please leave me a comment so I can hop to your blog. Plus one lucky person will win this special card kit from me.

Thanks for looking and I will be back Monday to announce the winner of the kit and post some cards that I make today.

Happy Halloween Banner

With Halloween just a few short weeks away it's never to early to start on some decorations to get into the spirit of Halloween. Today I am featuring the small banner from Clear Scraps. It has 5 pieces to a package for $5.99. I used two packages to create the Happy Halloween Banner. Click on photos for a larger view.

Products used:

Clear Scraps Small Banner

Hambly Grid Transparency

Graphic 45 Pattern Paper

Accents Black Butterflies

Hot off the Press bat brads

Vintage black lace

Black tulle

Recollections alphas and black rose brad

Staz-on Black ink

Black Bat ribbon (michaels)

Glossy Accents (for adhesive)

Here are a few close up photos.

Tips:

Don't forget to take off protective coating.

I applied all the Staz-on to my pieces first

I applied the Hambly to the back of my pieces and only put adhesive where my papers were on the front.

Thanks for looking

Back on Schedule...

Wow the past couple weeks just zoomed on by. School started on the 8th of September here and things are finally falling back into a nice schedule. With school starting Isaiah also started back on his Taekwondo journey. He is loving the new studio and can't wait to get his 2nd degree black belt. Miranda started Hot Yoga at the studio. She totally loves it. Joshua loves to tag along and spends his time at the studio playing his Nintendo DS. Hubby's schedule is always busy at work and we never know when he will be home.

I have been busy scrapping away and teaching classes at Lila's Scrapbooking and More. I always love doing Christmas Cards and love that all the ladies from last year have signed up for my Christmas Classes once again. It's always a fun time.

Here are a couple cards from my last card class. I always make up extra kits that we put up for sale in the store for those that aren't able to make the class or haven't had a chance to get in the store for a few weeks.
My next Christmas card class is on October 27th from 3-4 or 5-6 but on October 13th you can join me for my 1 and only Halloween class this year time is 3-4 or 5-6. Hope to see ya there.

Now that things are finally back on a schedule I will be blogging more and more.

Till next time.
Happy Crafting

I adore the XL shapes from Clear Scraps

I love working with all of the XL shapes from Clear Scraps. Today I am sharing a layout that I did with the XL Deco Squares. They come 2 to a package with 2 different shapes. If you are wondering or looking for a different XL shape then Clear Scraps has got you covered. There are several different shape combinations for you to choose from. See XL SHAPES on the Clear Scraps Site for more choices.

Products used:

Clear Scraps XL Deco Squares

Melissa Frances Pattern paper

Making Memories Pattern paper

Prima flowers & bling swirl

Petaloo flowers

My Little Shoebox mini purple alphas

Zig Paint Marker

Brown ink

Jenni Bowlin bingo card (I cut the top off and used it as my title)

MS butterfly punches

Here are a few Tips that I wrote down while I was doing this layout.

1. Using the Zig Paint Marker shake it up very well and just follow your edge. Go slow if you don't have a steady hand. It dries pretty quick which is nice.

2. While it's drying get your papers cut and trim your edges with your favorite decorative edge punch.

3. Ink all the edges of your papers.

4. Find some of your favorite embellishments that you have in your stash that will work with your papers. A lot of times I will just use what is left on my desk from a previous layout or project. A great way to use up those stragglers.

5. Build your layout on the XL Deco Acrylic shape with a strong adhesive. Remember the laws of gravity. A few of my favorites are Zip Dry and 3-in-1 which are both made by Beacon and are a wet adhesive. If you are a dry adhesive user Glue Arts High Tac works great.

6. The little black polka dot butterflies where punched from the package that the bling came in.

Thanks for looking,

Clear Scraps blog hop featuring Unity Stamps...

This past year, we had an awesome opportunity to team up with Unity Stamps and we'd love to show you some of the projects we were able to create pairing a crisp, clean rubber stamp image and the acrylic and chipboard products from Clear Scraps. Starting at the Clear Scraps blog and follow each link to a Clear Scraps designer blog. Be sure to comment on everyone's blog and then go back to the Clear Scraps blog and let us know that you did. Everyone who completes this blog hop will be entered for a really nice prize package from Clear Scraps.

I choose to feature a layout using the XL Deco shape and a few of my favorite Unity stamps from the June, July and August "kit of the month" sets.


Using Staz-on Teal ink I stamped an image several times to create a pattern for the background of my layout. I then added my photo and stamped the word Love using black Staz-on ink. I then stamped a few other items on Kraft paper and added them as embellishments to my page along with a button. I then turned my layout over and painted on the back so my stamped images would pop on the front. I finished off the layout with some alphas for my title and some simple sweet journaling.

After you leave a comment please hop on over to Cathy's blog as she has a fab project to share with you. Remember to leave a comment on all the blogs and then on Clear Scraps blog to be entered in for an awesome Clear Scraps prize.

If you happened to get to my blog other then the hop here is the order of the designers blog to hop along to.

Grace's blog

Pinky's blog

Rita's blog

Hilde's blog

Irene's blog

My Blog

Cathy's blog

Tonya's blog

end here: Clear Scraps blog

See you back here Monday when I give you a little peek into the inside of my card sketch book. If your not a follower yet of my blog yet I would love you to be. Click on follow on the right side bar.

My card sketch book....

Wow I can't believe it's been that long since I posted on my blog... Time sure does fly... I wish I could say it's because of all the fun I have been having but sometimes life likes to get up in your face and say hello here I am.... That is exactly what happened. So now things seem to be back to normal... A while back I promised a peek at my card sketch book. So better late then never.

My Card sketch book.

It is filled with 4x6 graph index cards. The covers are just a nice thick chipboard... I love the kraft look so I choose to not cover the entire front cover. Some 1" circles cut out from several of my favorite papers, some amazing ribbon and my most favorite things buttons and butterflies with a little bling. I punched and bound it with my bind it all. Simple easy and way affordable. The pack of graph index cards I separated in half and it made 2 of these 4x6 sketch books. I always draw out my sketches of cards, layouts etc with little notes here and there of embellishments I think I may use on them etc. The graph paper is great because it makes it easy to draw a perfect square. hehe I use to use those cheep spiral bound graph notebooks that cost an arm and a leg but they are getting harder and harder to find so I started making my own when I purchased my bind it all when it first came out... This cost me less then $3.00 to make.

This weekend I will share a few pages from the inside along with the cards that came from those sketches.

Also be sure to check back tomorrow (Friday) when Unity meets Clear Scraps... It's gonna be quite the pair. Oh and lets not forget about the prize at the end of the rainbow...

Clear Scraps at CHA...

We're at CHA - booth 1707 if you happen to be around - come check it out!!

Here's a peek of the booth:

We have so much to show - our design team has amazing work in there and besides all the previous stock, we have NEW shapes in the Clear & Chip line (12x12 sheets of both acrylic and chipboard shapes for an album or cards or whatever your heart desires). Our new C&C lines are both holiday theme: Believe and Holiday Treats. Here's a peek of what Rita did with one of them:

Our Mixable albums that were so popular over the past few shows have some new additions as well, with a twist. Our previous Mixable albums have been 12x6 and their new friend, Sassy and Lacey are 8x8! We love them. You can fit more pictures on them for one thing. Here's what Hilde did with one:

Our ever-popular XL shapes which are perfect for layouts, but also can be made into any number of altered art items (because they're easily cut, embossed, bound, scored, etc, etc) have a new shape addition too - the scalloped square and circle set. Pinky did this scalloped square layout:

AND, we have banners! We have had the cutest banners for awhile now - and this year we've added a GREAT new banner for the holiday season called Gingerbread. It's got a house in the middle, gingerbread men and snowflakes - perfect for decorating your house for Christmas, or holiday classes at your LSS....in fact one person at the show suggested that it would be a fun class to teach in 3 stages - first just the snowflakes, a week later the gingerbread men, and then a final class to teach the house and put it all together. Wouldn't that be fun?

Here's what Cathy did with just the house section of the banner.

Clear Scraps Sassy album

One of the new albums from Clear Scraps is called Sassy and I just adore it. It's a new 8x8 mixable album. I just love all the mixable albums as they are always so fun to create with. Here is what I created with it.

Family how sweet it is...

Products used:
Clear Scraps Sassy 8x8 Mixable album
My Minds Eye Pattern paper, labels, journaling boxes, stickers and die cuts
Hambly Clear Stickers & rub-ons
Jenni Bowlin Banner stickers
Paper Trey Ink buttons
Accents flower (which I made into a butterfly)
Kaiser bling and pearls
Vintage lace
Glittered butterflies

Thanks for looking.

Butterflies and bling...

Butterflies and bling are 2 of my favorite things and when I seen this weeks sketch at 2 sketches 4 you I new what I wanted to do right away. Although being sick most of this week put a little damper on creating I got a chance to sit down today and play with all things paper, glitter, ribbon and bling.

Here is this weeks sketch at 2 sketches 4 you. I just love the sketch Laura put together.
Here is my take on the sketch.

Products used:
Kraft cardstock
7 Gypsies pattern paper
The Girls Paperie pattern paper
Glittered paper
Kaiser Krafts bling
Paper Trey Ink button
Twine & Ribbon
(Most of the items on this card were made from The little shabby box June Paperie Kit.)

Thanks for looking

A sketch and a card...

This week I found some time to work with this weeks sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You. I know I always say this but it's totally true. I just adore their sketches and the fab inspiration that the designers layout there as well as checking out all the other cards.

Here is this weeks sketch from Kazan...


Here is my take on the sketch...

Products used:
Kraft Cardstock
DCWV pattern paper
Clear Scraps 1" Acrylic circle
Fancy Pants Heart pin

We have a new neighbor moving in a few houses away and I thought this would be a great card to give her. You open up the flap which has Velcro on it and the card is like an envelope. So I thought I would put in a gift card to one of the fab restaurants we have here.

Thanks for looking.

Homemade Popsicles.. yum

With it finally summer and the weather feeling somewhat like summer the kids love eating popsicles. I hate buying the sugar loaded popsicles so this year I thought that making our own would be healthier and maybe a bit cheaper. So when I was at Michaels a few weeks ago I spotted some decent popsicle containers in the $1 bin... Awesome score So I picked up 6 with different color ends. What's cool is they even have a straw attached to the part you hold it at so the kids can easily suck up any juice. hehe

Here are some photos of the kids enjoying the popsicles they made.

These are made out of Strawberry Yogurt. Just spoon it in your popsicle containers and freeze for a few hours. They taste smooth and creamy and they are healthy...

I love this one... Joshua didn't even notice Rocky going in for a taste. LOL

These were made out strawberries and mango cut up and put into the popsicle containers then filled with white cranberry peach juice. Let freeze for a few hours and enjoy. The kids love these and love that the fruit isn't totally frozen and easy to eat.

Summertime summertime...

It's finally Summertime Summertime... hehe You know that song "Summertime Summertime" by Nocera??? man it brings back memories plus I'm sure I just showed my age as that song came out in 1986.. I was just a teenager... hehe Anyway I heard that song today on the radio as I sat on the back deck talking to Miranda and her boyfriend. ahhh the memories. lol Ok so enough about that, but I do have to talk about summer a bit more. I simply adore all the colors of summer. Teal, pink, green, orange and so much more... ahhh color is awesome. What is your favorite color combo of summer so far???

I love teal and pink but then again I love Orange and green.. Oh and you can mix in yellow with both of those. lol
The June Paperie kit from The little shabby box is filled with great summer color papers. Here is a card that I created from the kit that shows off some awesome summer combos.

Products used:
Kraft paper
7Gypsies & The Girls Paperie Pattern papers
Paper Trey Ink buttons
Ribbon
All items are from the June "Paperie" Kit from The little shabby box

Thanks for looking and I will be back tomorrow to show you my sketch book... hehe If you love the colors on my card you will love the colors on my sketch book. hehe Plus a little peek inside. hehe

Welcome Scavengers...

Start of Summer Scavenger Hunt

Clear Scraps is kicking off summer with a scavenger hunt that will take you through our design team members blogs. On your way, you'll find out something interesting about each of us and if you make it all the way to the end and collect all your clues, you'll get entered in a draw for a nice prize package from Clear Scraps!


Start here at Clear Scraps Blog


You don't have to necessarily go in order...but when you're done, you should have answers to 9 questions that are posted on the Clear Scraps blog. We'll run the scavenger hunt from Monday June 21 (First Day of Summer!!) until Friday, June 25. Winner will be announced the following Monday.


Good luck everybody!

Happy Fathers Day...

Today is Fathers Day and I so miss my dad. I miss being home as I don't get to see my dad often enough. Maybe for a week every 3-5 years. This photo was taken the last time I was back home visiting 3 years ago.

It's funny to look at my dad next to Noah (my son) whom in this photo was only 14 and he was already taller then him.. See that is one of many things my father and I have in common. We are both short although I am not quite 5' my dad is only 5'2 ... hehe We both need a step stool to reach the top of the fridge, the top shelf in the cupboard, A little boost to get into the truck. However we never had a problem seeing eye to eye. hehe We both love seafood, hot things, an ice cold peach soda. No one else in the house liked it but we loved it. hehe I remember him making Horchata, hot coco and orange tea for us in the winter time before school and when we got home from school to warm us up. I loved his hot rice cereal in the morning as well (kind of like oatmeal but with rice.) yum The best was listening to him tell stories of his childhood. They were always a great laugh and I find my self telling my kids these stories. hehe Dad I love you and miss you and look forward to seeing you this Christmas if everything works out.

Today my children got to tell this amazing man Happy Fathers Day. He is my hubby, my best friend, the father of my children and my soul mate.


This morning the boys came in early in the morning whispering to each other whom is gonna wake him up first or how they should wake him up etc. As hubby lays there pretending to be asleep with a little grin on his face. They jumped into bed with lots of snuggles and tickles. lol I love listening to all of them laugh. There were gifts given and lots of talk about summer. New bed times are officially in place. New chores and so much more. Plus hubby got some great coupons from the kids which I know he will be using. lol

A few simple cards

This month I have been playing with the June "Paperie" card kit from The little shabby box. I simply adore all the papers, embellishments and the kraft paper is my favorite. This kit is packed full of great things that any card maker will use.


Here are a few of my cards. Aren't the colors great? I simply love teal and pink together. hehe


Thinking of you card I added some gems that I had laying on my desk. It's simple but I love how the kraft paper makes the teal and pink pop.


Thinking of you card I added a few Kaiser crafts pearls to the center of the butterfly and a couple gems..


Thanks card I wrapped the rose stem around a pencil to spiral it as I didn't like it just straight.


To get your hands on this kit jump on over to The little shabby box. Check out the blog to see more cards from the fabulous design team.

I hope you have a great weekend.

Butterflies and Cards oh my...

Right now I am just loving using butterflies as embellishments especially on cards. They are just that something that changes a card and gives it character. If that makes sense. I just adore them and I love putting embellishments on them as well. Like pearls, gems, buttons and so much more. So after punching lots of butterflies with my handy dandy Martha Stewart butterfly punch I got busy working on this weeks sketch at 2 sketches 4 you. I simply love all of the sketches they put together.

Here is this weeks sketch
Here is my take on the sketch.

Products used:
Kraft cardstock
DCWV Linen Closet pattern paper
Kaiser Crafts Pearls
Pebbles rub-on sentiments
MS punch
Ribbon

Thanks for looking... I'll be back tomorrow with more cards using the fabulous card kit from The little shabby box.