September 9, 2012 Monthly Card Class

Shown above are the 2 card styles we will be making for the September 9 class.  One is a split side step card and that is the Happy Fall card.  This card style adds all sorts of dimension to your card and will be fun for the recipient too.  I decorated this card using my Cricut and the following cartridges: Simply Charmed, Paper Doll Dress Up (for the fence only) and County Life.  Oh, yes, you can see I had some fun with the honeycomb paper on this card.   The second card style is a slider card.  We will use our paper trimmer to create the slider window.  I had some of the new K & Co Brenda Walton  fun dimensional Halloween stickers and small mat pad which was perfect for this project.  As always, you can use stamps, stickers, Cricut, Spellbinders, Sizzix, etc to create the images for your card styles.  Hope you are able to join me for this class.
PS There is a wonderful You Tube video on creating the split side step card base on Card Creations by Lorriane's blog.

September 9, 2012 Monthly Cricut Project

As they say, better late than never.  Shown above is the 1 page layout for the September 9 Monthly Project class.  We are using the cartridge, Country Life.  If you are a person who is not a fan of cutesy images than this cartridge is for you.  You can certainly make the animals more whimsical but there are plenty of opportunities to just have them be realistic.  As requested we will also do a glass etching item.  I will post a sample of the etching later but if you look at some of my previous posts there are pictures of the glass etching.  I did use Create a Critter for the clouds and sun in the layout but you are welcome to substitute with the sun from County Life or other cartridge.  I hope you are all having a wonderful summer. 

August 12, 2012 Monthly Cricut Project

 

No picture to publish yet, but the scrapbook page is well the way.  We will be using the Paisley Cachemire cartridge and perhaps one other.  As far as a craft goes, I will check with students this Sunday to gather some areas of interest.  Hope everyone is having a good summer.  Happy Cricuting, Susan
Update June 4, 2012
I'm going to repeat the project I had in September 2011 since the store no longer carries the Paisley cartridge and I was advised it has been retired too.  There was a suggestion to do glass etching as the craft for this session.  I will confirm with the July 8 Project session attendees and then update the blog accordingly.

For those of you with an Expression 2, I will work to create instructions which use the built in cartridges and then advise what additional cartridges may be needed.

Update on July 8, 2012

We are going to create the 3D sunflowers, embellish with seed beads, and add a vinyl applique to our sunflower vase as the second project for the August 12th class.  I will add a glass etching project in the September 9th class.  I really enjoyed our class today.  Hope everyone had fun creating their projects and learned some new techniques. 

August 12, 2012 Monthly Card Class

Posted above are the 2 card styles for August Monthly Card Class.  The owl is a surprise pull up birthday card and the raccoon is an easel birthday card.  I used Birthday Bash and Create a Critter Cricut cartridges to create the embellishments for these card styles.  Hope you are able to come to class since these are really fun card styles.

July 1 or 8, 2012 Monthly Card Class

In July we start the first monthly card class.  It will precede the Monthly Cricut Project class and can be moved or additional sessions added as needed.  The purpose of this class is to explore a variety of card styles, typically 2 styles each 2 hour session.  I will be using my Cricut to create the images to embellish these cards, but it is not necessary.  Students are welcome to use purchased images, (Jolees, stickers, etc) or other die cut embellishments - Spellbinders, Sizzix, etc to create your unique cards.  For the double fold graduation card I used Birthday Bash and Everyday Paperdolls.  For the z fold card with belly band I used Accent Essentials, Elegant Cakes, and Elegant Edges.  Hope everyone is having a good summer.  Looking forward to seeing you in class or in store.

July 8, 2012 Project Class

As promised I will be adding a craft along with a scrapbook page, starting this July.  Shown above are the July projects.  We are making a fabric applique for a beach bag and a 1 page beach layout and using our Cricut markers to highlight titles and images on the  scrapbook page.  Hope everyone is having a good week.   Update on June 27, 2012:  I see I failed to say we are using the cartridge " Life is a Beach", which has many awesome travel and summer time images.  Looking foward to seeing everyone on July 8.

June 3, 2012 Project Class

Ok, this never happens but I am actually preparing to start creating the June and July project today, March 18??!  Well it has been a bizzaro year so far, with the winter that wasn't, and therefore I shouldn't be so surprised.  I even took pictures today of my house with the windows open and tulips ready to bloom just so I can say yes it really happened on March 18, 2012.  Well, I'm ready to get started.  I think we will be using Pack Your Bags  and Plantin Schoolbook cartridges for June 3 monthly class.  We will work with the "end caps" creative feature on Plantin Schoolbook which should be fun.  Hope to post pictures of the projects later this week.  Hope everyone is having a fantastic Sunday!!

Update on March 19, 2012: posted the scrapbook page.  The photo seems kinda fuzzy so I will take another photo later this week and hopefully it will be better.  I will try to have the card posted by the end of this week.  Just a note -- I am continually impressed by how much content/variety there is on the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge.  Have a great week everyone.

Update on June 1, 2012: Posted the updated scrapbook page and the card.  Please note the card design is by Lisa at Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons blog.  Looking forward to seeing everyone in class this week.