Holiday Cards. A woman at the store suggested I create a Holiday Card workshop. It seemed like a good idea. Over the summer I began to think of cartridges and structure for the class. I thought it might be fun to have everyone just bring their machine and then we would pass the cartridge to create the cards. Since the maximum number of students for the class was 8, I thought we would have 8 cards. Did I mention I "overfill" class content. There were a few neat holiday cartridges out in the summer, but the Thanksgiving and Christmas Cards were not released. As with all the classes, I began the process to create the card designs and new cartridges and new ideas began to ferment. I realized that everyone works at their own pace so to make the ability to create a card dependent on another seemed a bad idea. I ended up developing 10 different Holiday cards, 2 of them for Thanksgiving and 8 for the Holiday Season. In November we created the 2 Thanksgiving cards and 4 different Holiday Cards using the following cartridges: Thanksgiving, Christmas Cards, Winter Woodland, Joys of the Season, and Create a Critter. Boy the elves were busy making Holiday Cards in the workshop. Everyone completed their cuts and some sent me pictures of their completed cards. I loved how each one personalize the card to reflect themselves. We will be completing the remaining 4 cards in the December workshop plus making an etched glass vase.
I was tuckered out for planning a December class. It seemed like it took forever to plan each card, and then forever to select the papers, and then forever to rework paper selections if those papers were no longer offered in the store. Thank goodness I had completed the 10 cards in November and just needed to write up the instructions - huh? Ok writing instructions is not a fun task but it is very important because it is the only way someone can complete a project once the class has concluded. Tonight I am updating/revising the class instructions for tomorrow's class. Fingers crossed all will go well. I thought developing January and February class content might be an issue but I am pleased to say that the projects for both are completed. I do need to write up the instructions but that is a job for later this week. Now that I have this blog updated I can share with each student to help them complete their projects. It hasn't quite been a year since I began creating these workshops but I am satisfied that I have done my best to keep the content varied and feature new and different techniques. 
