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Please join us for our last friday of the month make and take!
Friday, June 26th 11:30-1:30pm and receive 10% off your entire purchase.
In honor of cherry season.. we will be making one of these fun french fry boxes!
Wouldn't this be a fun gift for the kids at summer camp or for the summer camp leaders? Even friends and co workers. We'll give you the pattern for this fun project with a cherry on top! see you friday!
Please join us for another fun and yummy cupcake card class this
Friday, June 26th, 10am-12pm and 6pm-8pm Cost: $35
Here's 4 of the 6 cards we'll be making.
This first card is made with just one cupcake stamp by Hero Arts. I stamped it once and kept masking the bottom of the plate off so they would stack on top of each other. The circular stamp says "it's your day" by Hero arts and it would certainly be anyone's day to get this mouthful of yummy sweets!
This next card is fun with all of the pink and brown colors. The stamps are by A Muse and Stampendous.
These last two cards are my favorites because i've always liked mary englebreit with her fun colors. So these are two mary knock offs! i used the cherry stamp for the side panel by Kodomo and the cupcake stamp is by Karen Lockhart. Cardstocks are by A Muse.
This last card is also a mary knock off! So fun with the gingham and bright colors. Stamps are by A Muse and Impression obsession. We'll post the last two card later this week!
Here are the cards we recently made in our June Asian cardmaking class.
This first card is made with washi paper background.. i then took a bamboo stamp by judikins and stamped it all over the cream paper and vellum and hand tore the vellum. I then took another judikins kimono stamps and embossed it in gold and cut it out. The double happiness symbol is by kodomo inc.
This next card is made using a zigen stamp design by Kodomo. I stamped it on cream paper and again on gold stardream and cut out the sand areas to give the card some dimension.
This card uses sukashi handmade papers from Japan. I stamped a Japanese poem by Judikin on the front and also punched out two flowers. The hot pink color makes the black pop!
This cherry blossom tree by Hero arts is so functional. I punched out a fun square and stamped the edge of the blossom and randomly matched it up with the blossoms i already stamped on the bottom layer of white cardstock.
I love this baby.. it's sooo cute! i saw a similary card on splitcoast stampers. The baby is made using oval and circular punches. The round asian ball stamp is by Hero. It makes a fun background as well.
This last card is my favorite. It would make a wonderful invitation! I stamped a Kimono background by Judikins for the top part of the card and embossed it in black diamond by judikins. i then used this cool tapestry ribbon we have from france to make a border for the cranes. i embossed the cranes in pastel embossing powder. The card will fit into a #10 envelope.
Come join us this Friday, from 11:30-1:30pm and make this fun 4th of July lifesaver sparkler.
This sparker is made with the yellow marvy star punch and I used the red polka dot A Muse cardstock. The ribbon is gold wire ribbon. So fun to give the kids for the 4th of July!
You could see that I used two different lifesavers. The front one is from Trader Joe's and the back one is lifesavers.. both work just fun. I used glue dots to secore the gold wire ribbon. Please come by this friday for some candy sparkler fun!
We had our first invitation class and here are some of the fun projects we did.
the first is a movie night invitation. I attached two tickets to the outside of the popcorn box. I just used white paper bags and the A Muse polka dot papers. I then filled the bag with fun movie snacks like microwave popcorn, licorice and the matchbook includes the tickets.
The tickets were printed on the new A Muse gingham cardstock and I punched it out of the mint green scallop rectangle punch.
The next invite idea is a baby shower. This is a pocket fold and it's held together by ribbon. Just cut a sheet of 8.5 X 11 cardstock at 4.25 X 11 and score at 5.5 and 1.5 inches.
This invite is very fast, you can even write in the information.
This bridal shower invite is also a very fast way to put on a party. Take an 8.5 X 11 sheet of cardstock cut it in half at 4.25 X 11 and score it at 5.5 inches. Then using your paper cutter cut both pieces angle to angle at the score line. Double stick tape the two pieces together and at the bottom of the cardstock I cut a piece of foam tape and cut it once again in half to close the two triangles.
This last invitation is made with the mint green scallop square punch. i punched it twice and cut a piece of cream cardstock at 2.25" X 11" and scored at 2.25" to make perfect squares.
The cupcake tier is by Impress rubber stamps... i used brown liquid applique to get that glazey chocolate ganache look.
I masked off the A Muse Date, time, place, and RSVP and used tiny little party icon stamps on the bottom.
Please join us for our Second Saturday make and take!
Saturday, June 13th, 2009 11:30am-1:30pm ~ and receive 10% off your entire purchase.
we'll make this fun desk set!
I used the pink Marvy flower punch to make these paper clips. I used a pop dot to raise the center which is the yellow scallop circle punch.
I then used a copic markers to make a polka dot background. Stamps are by A Muse.
You will also go home with a fun tape dispenser! Anyone would love this gift! Come by and make one this weekend!
This weekend, Ken had another full class! Everyone had a great time designing these projects.
First up these cool 3m post it note holder with pencil holder on the side.
inside there's a stack of 3 X 3 post it notes.
My husband has a weakness for coffee and love it. He loves Starbucks and luckily there's one just a 5 doors down from our boutique! This is a gift card holder when you open it.
This next card is a fun animal card made with punches.
It's a fast card that will fit into an a2 envelope. It would be so cute to make an invite with this as well!
This next card is a fun pop up card.
When you open it up you can see all of the spring action! Ken used a circle punch and cut in a spiral to make a coil-ing affect to get all of the bees to pop up. Pretty cool!
This last card is a frame look. Ken thought it would be a good idea to make a father's day card.. so it's only fitting we put Miles in the pix too! Take a peak in our Fall newsletter.. Ken will be teaching two more classes!
Wednesday will mark the last day of preschool 3 for my son miles who will soon turn 4! I am the room mother for his class and bring whatever make and take projects we do at the store into his class for their art projects... but i gear them towards the kiddies with fun and youthful stamp images.
Anyway, i was inspired to put on a picnic using the new a muse papers inspired by Linda from A Muse-- check out her blogsite for more ideas... www.amusenews.typepad.com
Miles' teacher eagerly accepted.
I got some fun scented bubbles at the dollar store and wrapped them with the new gingham papers.
I then took water bottles and wrapped them and hooked on hawaiian punch mix.
The picnic also included a placemat (not shown) -- i just corner rounded the 8.5 X 11 cardstock to make a nice setting.
On to Miles' 4th birthday party with his classmates. We had a fun train ride in Old Sacramento... with Miles' classmates and cousin... all 39 of us!
then we drove to The Old Spaghetti factory for lunch... and we had a magician who made balloon hats for all of the kiddies.
We had fruit basket cake from Freeport bakery..yum!
and my girlfriend Luanne Hansen made these beautiful cookies that no one wanted to eat because they were so beautiful! a work of art!
so now with school almost out.. i made these binders for the pre kindergarten teachers using the a muse cardstocks. i love how they turned out. I also made matching clipboards.
I got the binders at office depot for 1.99 and the clipboards.. 5 in a pack for 5.00 at sam's club.
i wanted to keep them for myself -- just to hoard! hahahaha.
By the way.. our shopping center.. the town and country village mall will be having an art festival this weekend! Come by for a fun make and take and also see all of our stamps that are only a buck and some 50-cents! these are gently used stamps that we made our samples with. these stamps are no longer carried by our boutique or they have been discontinued so i am putting them on sale.. there are hundreds!!