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MY NEXT PAPER CRAFTER'S TEA PARTY CLASS

20 IDEAS FOR $20!

My demo only TEA PARTY classes are a wonderful way to learn quick, clever and unique party/entertaining, culinary and paper craft ideas

all rolled into 90 minutes!

Each class includes a food tasting, a printed recipe, and a handout.

Bring your camera, pencil/pen and notepad to jot down

your favorite ideas from each class.

MY NEXT TEA PARTY CLASS WILL BE A FALL/HALLOWEEN/THANKSGIVING THEMED TEA PARTY ON Sunday, September 19th from 2 to 3:30 pm at SCRAPBOOK ISLAND.

(Located at 1375 Blossom Hill Road next to Walgreen's)

This holiday themed class will be jam-packed with LOADS of creative ideas! Some of the topics for this next TEA PARTY CLASS can be seen by visiting my new blog by clicking HERE. 

SAMPLES OF TEA PARTY CLASS HANDOUTS

List of Topics:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/28760360/Hand-Out-Topics

Recipe and Project Measurements:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/28760788/Sample-HO

I'm SOOOO Happy!

One of my CARD & CRAFT CLUB MEMBERS, Julie Cefalu --- sent these two pictures to me so I could see how she used the March Butterfly Origami Card Project to make a sympathy card. Such beautiful work and paper selections --- it's inspired me to use the butterfly for sympathy cards, too. Thank you, Julie --- you made my day! 

Birthday Card for a Special Person in My Life!

Here's a birthday card for my son's "Second Mom." He is so lucky to have her in his life --- wouldn't it be great to have 2 moms to spoil us, take good care of us and guide us through life?! 

These pictures show a quick way to give someone a gift card using SU's Word Window punch. I use this punch a lot and it works particularly well for words (as shown on the card front) and as a slot for gift cards. To make the gift card insert, score a 5 1/2" wide by 10" long piece of medium weight DSP. Score at 2, 5 and 8" and use a bone folder to create a valley fold at the 2" and 8" score line and a mountain fold at the 5" score line. Measure the width of your gift card as you hold it up to the center of the fold at the 5" fold --- add about 1/4" each beyond that on each side of the gift card and mark those points with a pencil. Start on one side and punch 3 times in a row - aligning the next punch point with the previous punch until you reach the other pencil mark. Punch in the center with a 1" punch to create a half circle and attach the entire piece to your card with red sticky tape. (I used a lace punch to add a border on each side before I attached the entire piece and also put red sticky tape between the 3" sections to prevent the gift card from sliding down too far inside the pocket.)

Butterfly and Lace Punches: Martha Stewart

Pearls: Creative Cafe

Paper: American Crafts I DO Gerber Daisies

Blue Paper for Lace: Lightweight light blue scraps I had from who knows where!

Ribbon: Celebrate It from Michael's

Easter Inspiration

            
After one of my Canadian card maker friends sent me a version of this card, I had to make it! Thank you, LA, for the inspiration! I used a 1 1/4" circle punch for the bunny's rear end and a 12mm pink pom pom from Michael's attached with a large glue dot. The feet are modified from the small SU oval punch (I shorted the oval slightly), and the pink pads on the feet are punched from a standard hole punch. The clouds were made with a SU scallop punched circle and a dauber sponge in Ballet Blue. The Easter saying on the front is from SU's Well Scripted set and the flowers are from SU's Flower Filled set, but any flower set will do just fine. For the inside, I used the Labels 3 Nesties --- a wonderful gift from a friend --- you gotta be thankful for friends like that!!...and the saying was done on my computer. Now, I've got to hop off to bed!...oh, and here's LA's card that she saw on Splitcoaststampers.com that gave me some Easter inspiration:

Happy St. Patty's Day

 

This card arrived from my SUPER talented paper crafting friend, Rachel! I love these waterfall cards, and Rachel's card made my day! So many layers and so much time went into this stunning card. I had to LOL when I opened it and saw the cute Irish man in his green suit holding up the flower. (I do have to admit...it took me saying the "Irish you luck!" out loud before the light bulb went on and I got it!) Thank you, Rachel! 

Check This Out!

One of my CARD & CRAFT CLUB members, Barbara Ernst, sent these sweet little angels to me after I sent out the February penguin project. Thank you, Barbara, for making my day with this wonderful surprise in the mail. These samples of your impressive crafting talents made this happy little crafter do quite a happy dance!