New Class: Haunted Cabinet Card Minibook

In this class we will create a unique cabinet card minibook with a hidden gatefold feature, perfect for displaying all of your most eerie fall photographs. Class features the latest classic Halloween products from the Martha Stewarts crafts line, as well as working with layered paper embellishments, painted transparencies, and paper tape. Students are requested to bring their favorite detail scissors or paper trimmer and adhesive. Photos may be added during class or at a later time.

This is planned as a live workshop for Paper Zone SoDo (Seattle). I am still actually working out the details as far as price, time and date-- more details to come as soon as I can confirm with the store.

Any extra kits will be going in the Etsy as soon as I run a supply check after kitting this weekend. ;)

Questions, comments, feedback? Love to hear it. 

Happy Friday!

New Class: Spooky Halloween Rosettes

In this hands-on workshop, we will create a colorful multi-layered Halloween garland and six festive seasonal cupcake toppers using the hottest trend in the papercraft industry: paper rosettes! In this class you will have a frightfully fun time learning how to create easy and adorable party decorations using basic papercrafting tools and supplies. All materials included.  

This is planned as a live workshop for Paper Zone SoDo (Seattle). I am still actually working out the details as far as price, time and date-- more details to come as soon as I can confirm with the store.

I have a special treat planned for this blog on October 31st that will involve this banner, a hot glue gun, and a video. And that's all I'm saying for now. 

Any extra kits will be going in the Etsy as soon as I run a supply check after kitting this weekend. ;)

Questions, comments, feedback? Love to hear it. 

Happy Friday!

Spring Curiosities: First Class

A few weekends ago I taught my very first live in-person class at Paper Zone Seattle.

I was so nervous and sleep deprived and excited. I forgot to bring my SLR. And I mixed a few things up. But it ended up being amazing anyway, because I had four incredibly lovely and talented students. We had a good time getting crafty.

Despite my silliness, people were really concentrating!

I was completely blown away by how talented these ladies were. Look at that crafty goodness!

 

I know. Totally adorable. I am SO proud of these ladies. They were so brave about misting and having imperfection! And dealing with my rambling. ;)

And look at the extremely cool book Christina posted on the PZ blog. I love how she customized it with the little touches of purple. Isn't her daughter adorable?

And the good news is that I'm going to be teaching the class again at the store on April 10th. Here are the details. Also, if you take the class, you get a 15% off coupon for Paper Zone. Pretty sweet.

And if you're not local, don't worry. Online options will be available shortly (need to film a few videos first), and any leftover kits will be sold in the Etsy. I'll put up an announcement when they're available. (But if you really can't wait, let me know and I'll get a wait list put together.)  ;)

Spring Curiosities Class

I am so excited to announce that I will be teaching a mini album class at Seattle Paper Zone this month.

Here's the description from the PZ site:

1pm-3:30pm Sunday, March 13

Celebrate Spring with a mini scrapbook album! Create a playful mini album that focuses on the delights of every day life in the springtime. We'll cover quite a few techniques including: using transparencies to add dimension, adding texture with spray ink, learning to stretch your supplies by creating embellishments made from cardstock, design principles for small projects and tips for minibook photo management. 

Project: Create a 20 page 3"x4" mini album 

Supplies Needed: Students should bring a journaling pen and about selection of about 20 spring themed wallet sized photographs (be prepared to crop to 2"x3") 

We'll provide all of the following supplies for you. However, if you'd like to bring your own, you may also bring your favorite pair of straight-edge micro-tip scissors, a paper trimmer, your favorite adhesives, a regular hole punch, black and brown ink, and a corner rounder. 

Skill Level: Beginning to Intermediate, but all levels of experience welcome 

Since we will be working with spray ink it is also recommended that you wear a craft apron and/or clothing that is friendly to stains.

COST: $25.00


PaperZone
Seattle - Washington
1911 First Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134
(206) 682-8644

The class sign up information is also posted here.
Depending on how it goes, I'm hoping to do multiple sessions.

I am also planning to offer this class in blog form, and any extra kits will also be placed in the Etsy shop, after all the classes are over.

It's going to be so fun. I've been saving up some of my best tricks for this.

I'll do a few other sneaks as I get the content up. Let me know by comment or email if you have questions!

Hope your day is going well!

Bits and Pieces

Hello my lovelies.

I have quite a big post to share with you today.

You may recall that last fall, I put a papercrafting kit together using many of my favorite things... and then I also put a class together that focused on making a mini-book out of all these things (if you don't remember, that's cool, we're going to do a little refresher right now.)

Here it is:

More detail on the contents can be found in my Etsy shop. And the FAQ has some info as well. You can always email me with questions too. :)

I have just re-stocked the shop with the kits and a few other goodies, and you, my dear readers (and my twitter peeps), will probably be the first ones to notice that I have put everything on sale.

I know times are hard, but I really want these kits to find some nice homes, and I really think they do need to move on, so that I can move on too. ;)

To celebrate the re-launch, I wanted to share a few scrapbook pages that I made, using mainly things from the kit to show that you don't have to make a minibook out of it if you don't want to. I think it makes a mighty fine addition to any scrapper's stash.

Here's the first one:

That one is my current favorite, but here's another one that I also like very much:

But wait, there's more!

And one more... just for y'all.

I had a lot of fun making these pages. It helps that those Amy Butler papers basically go with everything. 

And that's all for today! Hope you have a fantastic weekend. :)