Thanksgiving Card Class

It feels so wonderful getting back in the groove of having my card classes planned out and next classes cards finished!!  This Saturday is the Halloween Card Class AND I will even have my Thanksgiving Cards there for all to see!   SO HAPPY!  Plus, now that I have my website up and running, you can even RSVP for the class online!

 RSVP for Thanksgiving Class!

This is my FAV!  I love the pumpkins!

Happy Stamping!
Suzanne

Cupcake Retreat

Well we made it!  7 months in the making, 6 and a half hours in the stamping and a whole slew of cupcakes to be eaten!  I would say we had a wonderful little success in our first stamp retreat.  We had 17 wonderful ladies show up and Kathy saved my batootie at the last minute when we out grew our original location for the Cupcake Retreat!  I even got to see an old costume I wore and my mom made 20 years ago!  (No, there is no way I could still fit in the Cinderella dress!  20 years and more than 20 pounds later doesn't crack it!)

Cupcake Bunkies

 These cute little bags were designed by my mom and she made one for everyone.  They are the perfect size to put your supplies in; tape, pearls, Dimensionals and finished cards.  Love, love, love them!  THANK YOU, MOM!

Cupcake Prizes

You can't have a party without give-a-ways, right?  We had a fun "grab bag" section for those people who brought cupcakes.  We had cupcake card sets, cupcake topper picks, an apron, cupcake tray, cupcake pins, so much fun!

Grandma and mom getting started early

The room all set up!

Then of course we had some of our finished products!

Crystal Effects sat out to dry

Absolutely love the tilted ones!

Thank you to all of the ladies who came out and have a fun time and all of the newbies!  Since we had a unanimous decision to do this again, we will definitely make some changes!!   Earlier and mid break were wonderful suggestions!!!

Happy Stamping!
Suzanne

3-D Ornament

My Christmas in July class is coming up next weekend and I still had to finish the last of the card series.  I totally wanted to wait until the pre-order for the new holiday catalog to come out so I could "wow" the ladies and I am so glad that I did!  I am LOVING the new ornament framelits with the coordinating stamps and who can't love the 3-D effects of the ornaments?

I also wanted to see if I could finagle my new ink favorites of Raspberry Ripple and Gumball Green into the card line-up.  Needless to say, I did AND I even threw in Midnight Muse for the fun of it!

Mother's Day and Ladies Birthday Cards

When I was designing the cards for the Mother's Day and Ladies Birthday Card Class this weekend I went with my new Gooseberry Cottage colors for my inspiration!  Tempting Turquoise, Lucky Limeade and Concord Crush made my day!  A couple of the cards were cased from other demonstrators and I really wish I remembered who, but let's face it they are all amazingly talented!

This one is MY FAVORITE!!!  And I totally cased the whole dang gone thing.  It was perfect, colors and all!

February Card Class

Every month I host a card class at my studio and the ladies make a handful of cards or cute gifts.  At least, we DID make cute gifts.  I had a bit of a mutiny with my ladies when I switched out the format of the classes and I am happy to announce we are back to cards ONLY!  =)

However, for this month's class we did have some yummy treats and some cute gifts.

This is my original ensemble of goodies!  We are making two desk calendars, two birthday cards, two gift bags and 5 candy tubes shaped like flowers.  The ladies all get to pick their own color scheme to make their goodies!

Here are some of the gorgeous sets that were made!  I didn't get pictures of everyone's and I am totally bummed that I didn't because there were some butes!