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Make and Take Friday!

Come to our make and take -- Friday 11:30am-1:30pm and make something sweet and fun!

We had a spring card class today and here's some of the cards that we did.  This card is made with ric rac ribbon and lots of punches.  I used the circle scallop punch by Marvy, ek success leaf punch and small daisy punch by Marvy.  The inside of the flower is by A Muse and the sentiment is by savvy stamps.  Tip:  If you roll your punches in your ink pads, you can get a really cool dimension of color on your cardstock.  I tend to roll a lot of pieces in ink!

This card was made with light blue stardream paper cut at 4" X 9"... and folded.

The flower stamps are impress, memory box and rubber soul and sentiment by A Muse.  The ink pads are paper salon spa, color box chalk ice blue and versafine green. I then used white liquid pearls to embellish the card.  It's so springy!

This next card is made with stamps from Hero arts.  The cherry blossom is stamped in dark peony color box chalk and then I stamped it again on another piece of white cardstock in tangerine and punched out the cented and put foam tape to raise it.  I then stamped the butterfly in lime pastel and stamped it again on white cardstock and just cut out the butterfly and stuck it on top.  The sentiment is by A Muse and the flower stem is a flourish by memory box.  I put a gemstone in the center of the flower to make it shimmer.

This last card is really simple.  I used the memory box leaf stamp and flowers and stamped randomly.  Sentiment is by A Muse and I used our new scalloped corner rounder to make a tag like sentiment.  I love this new corner rounder.  If you ever feel like your card is too plain.. just add ribbon, glitter, gemstones or a small splash of another piece of cardstock and you'll see a big difference!

  Hope to see you this Friday for our make and take.  And don't forget Lind'a visit is April 13th and 14th.  We'll have all details in our new newsletter.  You can get a hardcopy this Tuesday at our store or go on our website after Tuesday to download the April-May-June newsletter.  It's filled with lots of wonderful classes.

  A Muse designer and local Sacramentan Missy Ballance will be teaching classes, we'll have three new asian card classes, a free make and take for brides every Saturday in April and three new cupcake card classes.. whooooo hoooo!!!!  Lots of fun!

For our newsletter go to:  www.papergardenboutique.com

Linda's Classes --Guest instructor

Wow!!  We have confirmation... owner and lead designer for A Muse art stamps Linda Carnell will be visiting our store for "6" wonderful classes!!!  Be the first to sign up before our newsletter is out for April, May, and June.. it's on a first come, first served basis, so call your girlfriends and take a class together!  We're so excited and honored that Linda will be coming to the store once again.  We carry every stamp from A Muse and we know you have a nice collection of them!  Call the store or come in to sign up.  Note:  classes are non-refundable, once you've signed up, you're guaranteed a space!  We promise fun, fun, fun!

***GUEST INSTRUCTOR****

Join owner and principal designer of A Muse art stamps Linda Carnell for 6 special two hour classes.  Learn how to create the cards and A muse look and you'll see why she has such a huge following. Take two of her classes and receive 10-dollars off, plus a special 15% off your entire purchase.

Sunday, April 13th  10-12pm  cost:  $45.00

Linda’s favorites

We’ll make 6 cards using Linda’s favorites… favorite stamps, punches, inks, ribbons, markers and more!

Sunday, April 13th  1pm-3pm  cost:  $45.00

Think Simple.  Think A Muse.

In this class we will make *8* cards!  Learn tips and tricks to on how to make your simple cards POP!

Sunday, April 13th  4pm-6pm  cost:  $45.00

Creative Clear stamping

Join Linda to learn the secrets of working with clear stamps.  We’ll make 6 cards using a mix of both A Muse Clear and wood-mounted stamps.

Monday, April 14th  10am-12pm  cost:  $45.00

Between Friends

We’ll make 6 adorable cards using fun friendship images by A Muse.

Monday,  April 14th  1pm-3pm  cost:  $45.00

Wonderful Women

Celebrate them women in your life.  We will create 6 cards using the newest A Muse stamps, papers, ribbons and more!

Monday, April 14th 6pm-8pm  cost:  $45.00 (same class as Sunday's)

Think Simple.  Think A Muse.

In this class we will make *8* cards!  Learn tips and tricks to on how to make your simple cards POP!

Easter Inspiration

Today was the first day I noticed the days are getting longer!!  I love it!  It felt like spring today and so here's a little Easter inspiration.  Come to the Paper Garden from 11:30am-1:30pm this Friday (every last Friday of the month, we have a free make and take) and create this for free.  I got the box template from this website: http://artfulavocations.typepad.com/artful_avocations/2008/02/pretty-little-1.html

I filled it with jelly beans and also chocolate eggs

I decorated the boxes with stamps from A muse and the ribbons are also from A muse.

This is the backside...

This is the frontside.  My husband forgot to take a pix of the frontside of the far right box.. oh well.. there's a cute bunny on it.  But here's the new spring elzybells stamp on the second box.  I punched out two oval shapes and attached them onto the sides of the box.  So fun!  Please come Tuesday for a template and a free take home box!

OK...So on the second Saturday of each month, we have another make and take from 11:30am-1:30pm.. here's what you can make March 8th!

I created this one myself!  Hope you like it.  It's a 4.25 X 4.25 square patterned notecard from A muse and just added some green cardstock and fringed it to look like grass.  I then attached two strips of puffy tape to the sides and dropped in a clear bag of jellybeans.  The topper was made from the Giga scallop oval marvy punch and I scored it in half and tied ribbon to it.

   All stamps and ribbon are from A muse, Jellybeans are the Starburst jellybeans.. have you ever had those?  yummy!!!!!!

Here's a picture of the candy outside of the pouch

I punched our new Rabbit punch and put a black dot for the bunny's eye and stuck a glue dot to seal it on the bag.  This is so easy!  Hope you can join us for our second Saturday as well...

Don't forget, there's yet another make and take on Tueseday, March 4th from 11:30am-1:30pm..I'll post what we'll be doing as soon as I come up with something tasty.  Easter is all about chocolate bunnies and jelly beans.. so we'll do something sweet and fun!  Stay tuned.....

Spring Cards

We have a spring card class on Thursday, February 28th from 10am -12pm.  We hope you can join us.  We'll make six cards, however, so far.. I only made two!!  I will get on it!

This first card is made with ek success flower punches.  There are three sizes and I just stacked them up and then put a pink gemstone in the middle.  I used two separate flourish stamps by memory box and the sentiment happy spring is by a muse art stamps.

We got a new tool in our store it's a marvy paper trimmer and you can use 8 different blades to make a pinking shear look, a wave, scallop.. it's so fun.  I can't use those scissors with the funky edge blades.. my cards will look like rejects. 

This next card is one of my favorites.  I used the scallop edge blade from our new paper trimmer and just did some layering and stamped a floral cluster by rubbermoon all over and the pots of flowers by memory box.

I then used white liquid pearls on the top of the card.  Also, look closely at the polka dots all over the flowers and the table.  I used the uniball white pen.  We have a ton of them in stock right now at the store.  It's the best ever pen and looks even better on chocolate or black papers.  If you ever wanted a nice writing pen in white..it's this one.  In fact, they don't even manufacture it in the U.S...it comes all the way from Japan.

Anyway.. there's nothing like this pen.. really!!  Come by and try it out.

My cousin Laurie and I spent most of the day changing out our windows from Valentine's to Spring.  I will have to have my husband take pix.  We have two big windows at the store and we did a birthday party window (Laurie's idea.. so cute!) and I made some cute party hats from our papers on the wall.  In the other window, it's like a egg hunt.. I made about 30 giant pinwheels from the papers on our wall..it's soooooo cute.  Very spring.. I am just waiting for the sun to shine!

CHA!

I just got back from the Craft Hobby Association convention in Anaheim and I burned another hole in my credit card!  There was so much to see and buy I was a kid in a candy store!  Lots of cool stuff.  Can't wait to show you all when it arrives.

I have some pix that I hope to post this week.  We'll have our exciting and much talked about asian card classes this week... and I finally have the last of the cards to show you that we'll be making.

This card was made using a twig (a reed) and I punched a hole and tied some string to hold it.

  I then stamped a Judikins bamboo image all over in olive pastel and cut some mustard and yellow paper in squares.  Finally, I used pewter brads to give the design some texture.

It would make a nice invitation as well!

This next card I used brads as well and I stamped an asian saying (uhhhhhh.. not sure what it says....you won a million dollars?)

I then stamped B-line designs in black on robin's egg blue cardstock and then again on some vellum and I tore it.  Pretty cool huh?

It's a really quick card and I put a celebration symbol by Hanko on the bottom of the card.

This next card is another laying technique, I just cut out some squares and edged the corners in black and then stamped several asian designs onto the cards and raised them.

And of course, using ribbon, it really makes your card look classy!

All stamps are by Hanko, Judikins and Savvy stamps.

This last card is one of my favorites.  It's a gate fold and you can use it as an invitation as well.  With spring in the air (well, right now in California it's spring.. I love it!!) I thought of butterflys and used Hanko's butterfly background and then stamped it again and punched out a small circle.  I lined the gate fold with Washi decorative paper and

when you open the doors.

I used my scrap from the same washi paper and punched out a butterfly with the ek success butterfly punch.  It's a fun and easy card!  hope you can join us for our fun asian 2 class!!!

 

Valentine treats

We have a make and take on Saturday from 11:30am-1:30pm!!  Please come and have fun decorating chocolate heart shaped candies and decorating heart shaped suckers!  We also had a make and take on Tuesday and this is what we made.

It's a pencil holder.  Using the purple, pink and blue scallop circle punches, I used glue dots to secure the pencils onto the cardstock.  My girlfriend Snowda told me it would be a great chopstick holder too!  What an awesome idea!

It's perfect for Valentine's day to give to students especially if parent's don't want to give sugar to their friends.

I used a muse art stamps little dolly girl, a heart background and in this picture a muse art stamps heart gift.  This is what the pencil holder looks on the backside.

You can stamp any sentiment you'd like.  This is by savvy stamps.