Mega Update - Part 1

Oh yes, it has been a while!  So I'll keep it to showing you pictures of anything I've made over the last few months! There is so much to show, that I'm going to break it down into at least two posts!

Ist Project of the Year!

My friend Marie Laurence told me that there is a belief out that if you create something on the first day of the year you have a good year. Who doesn't want a good year? Since I still had my Christmas stuff out, this was an easy project to make quickly on January 1st!

My Most Time Consuming Project Ever

You will see  more of this project created using the Time to Flourish collection from Graphic 45 in a separate post. It's been going on since late December and I'm hoping to finally finish it off this week or more likely early next week,  by mailing off the final kit to my dear friend Marielba.

Ist Layout Class of the Year

I created 3 two page layouts for this class. Apparently I only took pictures of one of the three sets!

Happy Valentines Day - Cards for 3 of my Nieces/nephew

I have a wide range of nieces and nephews and even some great nephews and nieces now. These cards seemed to be perfect for my the 6 to 10 year olds. What I love is that they actually fit in a standard card envelope.

Frozen Themed Box Card

When my friend Marielba's daughter Lianne turned 15 it was a big deal as they are from Puerto Rico. This box card was based of the Frozen theme she picked for her  Quineanera festivities.

Tiny Gift Box

I had something my hubby made that we wanted to give to my dear friend Erica. I made this box to put the gift in. It's probably 4"x4"x1.5". It was fun to work on!

Not Just Scrapbooks FB Group March Challenge

On my Facebook Creative Group, we usually have a challenge. This is the card I made for our March challenge. If you are interested in joining us, please feel free to contact me!

May Card Class

These are the cards we made in my May card class. We made two easel cards, two using the Heartfelt Creations using the Everyday Hero collection and one using the BoBunny Garden Journal collection.

Altered Box and Mini - Graphic 45 Secret Garden Collection

I took a wood box from Hobby Lobby and alered it using the G45 Secret Garden collection and a graphic of swallows I bought onE tsy from a shop called graphicals. The legs on the box are also from G45. The lace bow is from an antique shop in Waynesville, OH.  It was beige and I used my Spectrum Noir alcohol ink markers to color it. You can see more by watching my YouTube video. 

Well that's it for part 1. Stay tuned for part 2!

Catch Up Post

Life has bee hectic and full all at once!  Sometimes that has been awesome and sometimes it's been dog gone awful! But I'm grateful for both! I've completed a lot of projects for my classes and some just for my pleasure. I'll quickly share some of these here with you, before I create my next blog post, which in some ways is a kind of anniversary.

Steampunk Tags

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glass Jar with Pins

 

 

 





 

 

Cards



 

 



Layouts
I've also made a bunch of layouts, but darn if I can find the pictures as I sit here in Atlanta!

Mini Books
I'm afraid that I'll have to share these separately!

Hope you enjoyed and please stay tuned!

Have a happy scrappy day,
M-C

It's Really Been that Long???

I can't believe I've been away from my blog and YouTube channel for so long! What can I say but the obvious! I've neglected the sharing part of my craft!  I have created a lot of stuff since my last post, I've just not blogged or made videos!  I would promise to do better, but I'm not sure how well I'll keep the promise, so I'll just tell you that I aim to do better!

I've taught two card classes this year with 5 cards each. Here is the first batch:

 

 

Here are some of the fun things I used on the cards! I used the Tim Holtz decorative strip "Spring Greenery" to create the "Thinking of You" card. I must tell you that I'm not a fan of these dies!  Maybe it's me, but I can never get them to cut right!  Very disappointing!

 

I used Diemond Dies to make the Happy Birthday Banner card.  I can't remember exactly how many there are in the set, but it is something in the order of 8 or 9 dies that nest together.

 

 For the Christmas card I used one of the Graphic 45 papers from the 12 Days of Christmas collection.

 

I used the cloud dies from My Favorite things to make the Baby shower card.

 

Lastly and I used multi-colored polka dotted washi tape on the top and bottom of the Cupcake card to enhance it.

 



Here is a picture of the cards for my second class:

 

The Christmas card was made using the Sizzix Tim Holts Die and Stamp set and was colored using my Spectrum Noir pens.

The chicks and the bunny in a cupcake used on the Easter cards is from Cottage Cutz.

The banners on the baby card are from My Favorite Things.

I got everything to make the masculine birthday card at JoAnns, corrugated cardboard and plus paper and embellishments from My Minds Eye.

I just posted a You tube video showing a bunch of Easter cards including the two shown in the picture above!

Hope you enjoyed!  Happy Easter! And expect to see me post another article in the next couple of days!

M-C





 

Busy Bee Buzzes In - Yup Catching Up Again

I'm not sure how my life manages to get so busy!  I honestly don't do it on purpose!  I think part of it is just that I'm not as fast as I used to be.  It's been a few years since I've passed the threshold from time moving too slowly, to time moving too fast!  Personally I'd love to have found time at just the right pace in time, but I think I zoomed right past that moment, assuming it even exists, LOL!

Over the last few weeks, I've taught card and layout classes, some using the Place in Time with which I created a 12 month calendar. It's been a lot of fun.  I've also gotten my colorist certification from Spectrum Noir and am working on becoming one of their instructors!  I do love my Spectrum Noirs!  Speaking of which, here are a couple of projects I made using them.

Don't forget to click on the pictures to get a bigger view!

Here is a card that I made and sent to my friend Janie in florida,

Then there is this card that I made for my friend, Angie. 

Everyone is raving about the Prima mixed Media Doll stamps by Julie Nutting! I just could not resist these large stamps (they are 7.5 inches tall).  i really enjoyed coloring them with my Spectrum Noir pens, paper piecing their clothes and decorating a tag to feature one of them. 

For some reason I got the following image in my head and just could not get it out of my head until I agreed to get a 7x10 canvas and just have a mixed media blast!  I'm pretty sure I'll be sharing some more projects with these beauties!

Of course not all the cards or projects I've made has a colored girl on it. Here is a card that I'm giving to the daughter-in-law of a friend of mine.  I've made a couple of modifications to it and added a gift card in the blue mini card in the front. I hope that it will make things just a tad easier on her DIL as she starts a brand new phase of her life.

It stands to reason that I've also made a few layouts.  If you follow this blog you probably already know that I am not a one company crafter, but I do have my favorites.  Amongst them and need I say it right at the top is Graphic 45.  Here are a few pages from the reusable Calendar I made and that I'm teaching.

I'll post some of the other layouts in a couple of weeks!

I have been teaching card classes at my LSS, (local scrapbook store), Scraps Etc. So much fun!  Here are a few cards...

Trifold card

Here is another view of the same trifold card.

I'm always being asked for guy cards!

Well that's a little bit of what I've been up to!  Hope you enjoyed this quick tour inside my creative mind. 

Have a great and creative time,

M-C