Layout of the Month

I've been tinkering with this layout for weeks. Then I said to myself, "enough already, post the stinkin' layout!" So here's our latest layout of the month, featuring the Mix & Mend collection from Sassafras Lass.

I wanted to focus on working with paper that is already super detailed. How can you make the most of the detail, add your own texture and twist and still add pictures? We'll I never made it to the pictures part...but there is space for them on this layout...one 5x7" & two 4x6". Here are more details of the project.

Learn how to make this layout on Sunday, March 27th or Tuesday, March 29th.
Drop - In, Anytime, All day; $20

Please bring your basic tool kit!

Customer Creations #4

Melet Horne stops by the shop almost every week and is begging me to open an online shop so she can continue shopping when she and her family move out of the area in a couple months. She says she hasn't been happy with the quality of things she finds on other online stores, but knows my things will worth it!

Here are some of her creations.

These two layouts feature paper from MME Breaking Free Collection.

I love what she did with the Glitz products!

Here she combines Chic Bebe from GCD Studios with Bungle Jungle from Sassafras Lass...very nice!

and last but not least here's a great one featuring Sassafras Lass...see you can scrapbook with busy paper!

Great job Melet! And we'll see about that online store!

Bungle Jungle Mini Album

I simply adore the Bungle Jungle from Sassafras Lass and when my mini album arrived from American Crafts I knew they would make a perfect duo. I'll teach the Bungle Jungle Mini Album class on June 16th & June 20th for $35. The class kit includes one sheet of each Bungle Jungle Print, a set of their Monogram Stickers, Journal Stickers & Paper Whimsies plus Dotted Swiss cardstock from Bazzill and Ribbon & a Mini Album from American Crafts.

Reservations are highly recommended because

some class supplies will be ordered based on demand!

For the class please bring your basic tool kit including:

Trimmer, Zip Dry, Pop-Dots, Distress Ink (Walnut or Vintage Photo) & Scissors.

I might just have to plan a trip to the LA Zoo!
Sonja

Spring Card Collection

Creativity is a funny, funny thing. I find myself going through moments where I don't feel even slightly inspired. Then, when you least expect it, creativity dawns and you just can't stop it.

That's how I felt yesterday. It was really slow at the shop and I was doing a lot of busy work. At the end of the day, literaly 6:45, I picked up the new magazine that arrived Card Trends and started to thumb through it.

Some paper caught my eye and I thought...I have that design...I could do that card. So I whipped one out, then another and then I went home. Enough of this...Dinner and Ugly Betty is calling. But I woke up at 3am with more ideas and dove in again when I arrived at the shop.

Here are the results....

So I hadn't planned on doing any spring card classes, but creativity has spoken. So here's the deal. Call me and make an appointment to come in and make any or all of these cards.

Each design is $10 each. You'll have enough supplies to make 3 cards of the same design. Please no subsitutions.

Spring Scrapbook Fling

It's Spring - time to break out of that winter hibernation and create something beautiful!.

Here's what I've been working on...

Basic Grey Page of the Month

March & April

"A Day in my Life"

March 15th & 19th; Anytime, All Day, $25.

Kits available after March 19th for $25.

" The Things I Do"

April 26th & 30th; Anytime, All Day, $25

Kits available after April 30th for $25.00

Spring Mini Album

from American Crafts

Featuring paper from American Crafts' Backyard Collection...

...paper punch outs from Limited Ed. Fiskars Spring Squeeze Punches...

...and I repeated a variation of this pattern through out the book for a super easy gift book!

Sample Layouts from some

of the new Spring Collections

"Best of Friends" featuring Maggie May from Penny Lane (My Mind's Eye)

"Imagine" featuring Canta from GCD Studios

"Girly Girl" featuring Vintage Yummy & Paper Whimsies from Sassafras Lass.

Bloom Flip Album
March 25th & 28th

Anytime All Day

$20 Half Kit / $30 Full Kit

I knew these Layer by Layer chipboard albums from Karen Foster were HOT when I sold out of them in a week, before I had even done the sample for the class! But more are in stock now, the sample is done, and I'm taking sign-ups for the class.

The class will featuring your choice between the My Mind's Eye collection "Bloom" which is featured and "Grow"

Full Class Kits will receive

1 layer by layer book

1 full pack of Thickers

1 full bottle of Itsy Glitzy

9 full sheets of paper (MME Bloom & Grow set)

1 full Die cut sheet (MME Bloom & Grow set)

cost $30.00

Partial* Class kits will receive

1 layer by layer book

no thickers or alphas

1/2 bottle of Itzy Glitzy

1/2 sheets of paper (MME Bloom & Grow set)

1 full die cut sheet (MME Bloom & Grow set)

cost $20.00

*Partial Kits still have enough supplies to complete the project except for the titling and there will be very little "extras" to play with...

Glimpses from CHA #2...Feelin' a bit Sassy

I just love Sassafras Lass. It's modern and vintage all at the same time. So ecclectic and so fun to work with. Don't let the bold prints dissuade you. You can make really lovely layout with their prints!

Vintage Yummy is Shipping in mid February.

This annimated display was part of the booth. Isn't if fun?!?

Bungle Jungle is shipping in mid March & is a lovely zoo print but versatile enough for boys!

Check out the Sassafras Lass blog for up close photos of the papers and the embellishments. I've also ordered coordinating brads & paper whimsies. And I reordered the dear and owl prints from our last collections.

Also, do me a favor...check out the Anthem Collection and let me know what you think. I couldn't decide at the show. Post your reaction to it and let me know if we should get it or not...

Basic Grey sneak peeks tomorrow...

Sonja