Workshop Samples

I'm just preparing for a workshop this week, and I find it so difficult to choose card designs that will be best for a workshop.  This design is one that I will demo, just to familiarize people with stamping and with the catalogue.  It has a little bit of everything, but isn't so complex that it will take forever.  It features a stamp set that I am promoting with a Get Started Stamping package that will help people purchase what they need to create some cute cards without being overwhelmed by the catalogue choices.  The features of this stamp set, Kindness Matters, are that it has both images and sentiments and it is attractive and inexpensive - a good value.  Here's the card:

 



The colour palette is from an old Pals Paper Arts challenge using Calypso Coral, So Saffron and Baja Breeze - so pretty together.  The DSP is, unfortunately, discontinued, but I have so much Attic Boutique left, and it's the only one I could find that had some So Saffron in it.  Have I mentioned how much I LOVE Attic Boutique.  I can't believe SU didn't carry it over.  Do you think they would if we started a petition???  The ribbon is Baja Breeze seam binding ribbon and I tied a faux bow on it.  The sentiment is a clear mount stamp (so I can explain the difference between clear mount and wood mount) from the retiring Hostess Set, Happiest Birthday Wishes. 

So there it is....

Do you have any favourite demo designs you use?  Please share them with me.

VIPs

Wow!  An absolutely stunning day today - shorts weather, really, although I don't think I have any that fit. So with the weather so much more spring-like than this time last year, I'm not too sad about the Canucks being out of the play-offs.  Who wants to watch hockey now any way? (Oops, was that blasphemy to some of you? Sorry!)

These next cards I made are for some Very Important People in my world - my Workshop Hostesses!    I want them to know how much I appreciate their support, so I work especially hard on their thank-you cards.  Here are the latest:

The Framelits Label Collection makes such elegant looking cards and that particular piece of Attic Boutique DSP from the Occasions Mini is one I've been itching to use ever since I saw it - so soft and pretty.  Don't forget that if you want to order something from the Occasions Mini, you have until April 30 to do so.  Follow the links on this blog to my website to shop 24/7!  The stamp set I used, Apothecary Art, is also from the Occasions Mini Catalogue, but I'm hoping it makes the cut to the new catalogue along with the Framelits.  They are so versatile.  I coloured the image in using Pool Party and Daffodil Delight Stampin' Write Markers. 

Here's another view:

 

Isn't Pool Party and Early Espresso a delicious combination?  The little butterflies adorning the front of the cards is made using the Beautiful Wings Embosslit and the Big Shot machine. I am entering this in the Our Creative Corner challenge: Butterflies.

I hope that Monday is kind to you! 

Apothecary Art Stamp Set

Attic Boutique DSP

 

Framelits Labels Collection

Laundry!

As much as I love visits from all my family,  I do NOT love the laundry I do after everyone has left for home.  Bedding from 4 beds, towels galore plus my regular laundry made for a busy day yesterday, but it's done, and now all I have left is good memories of a wonderful Easter weekend! 

That being said, the laundry took precedence over MOJO Monday. (I know, where are my priorities??)
So today I will show you the card I created for this layout:

and also for The Paper Player's Challenge #90.  This was a colour challenge using the following colours:

Here's how mine turned out:

I really like this colour combination.  This was the first time I used my Stampin' Up Simply Scored tool to make the rosette.  I'm still not quite sure how long my paper strip has to be to make the rosette evenly spread.  I started with two 12" strips, scored and joined together, but that seemed like too much paper and I couldn't make the rosette close properly, so I cut off about 4" and that may have been too much.  Does anyone know the right proportions?? 

I absolutely love that Attic Boutique Designer Series paper from the Occasions Mini-Catalogue!  It's in Pool Party, which is my favourite 2011-13 In Colour.  The sentiment is stamped in Island Indigo Ink on Whisper White cardstock and the end of the flag, I manipulated until the layers separated and then curled each layer separately.  I sponged the edges in Island Indigo to give it some definition.  A little snippet of Certainly Celery 1/4" grosgrain ribbon with a faux bow, and some brads finish off the look.

But, speaking of laundry, do you iron??  When I was teaching and my kids were at home, I mastered something I like to call the "Chest Press".  I would take the clothes warm out of the dryer and fold and smooth on my chest until they were relatively wrinkle free.  Worked well until the fabrics went back to more natural fibres instead of permanent press.  Now that I'm retired, I have more time, but, strangely enough, I really don't like to spend it ironing, except when it is unavoidable.  I know that some people actually enjoy ironing, but I'm not one of them.  I've thought about starting up a Polyester Revival, but then I remember how we looked in the Seventies, and I think we'd better stick with cotton.  Have a great day!