Monthly Archives: January 2013

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31 Thursday Jan 2013

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To supplement my usual Yearlong Album, I’m also taking Krista’s Keeping Track of Life class – she’s doing this list each month for that so I’m playing along with her today!

Story Time

Story Time

listening: Still playing Row upon Row of the People They Know by The Once – probably too much if M singing the line, “At the front of the bar but at the back of the line” over and over is any indication!

eating: ice cream bars, carrots, and as a treat today, Sugar Mama’s cinnamon rolls!

drinking: water and very cold Pinot Grigio

wearing: still into my jeans and tall boots. And not the most fashionable but super warm hoodies when I’m home.

Kitchen Dancing Queen

Kitchen Dancing Queen

feeling: excited about my February classes and KP coming to The Paperie in March!

weather: rainy and windy, but at least it has warmed up a little

watching: not much! Too busy in January but am planning to catch up on my guilty pleasure of American Idol this evening. 🙂

reading: blogs and twitter – again, too busy but have to fit in The Sweetness of Forgetting very soon for a book club

Still loving being upside down

Still loving being upside down

waiting: for product to come in so I can play! Designs for two classes are ground to a halt until I get some supplies (darn winter weather)!

wanting: warm donuts

needing: a girl’s night of scrapping, laughing, and food

thinking: about old, old friends and how much I miss them

backseat buddies

backseat buddies

enjoying: hot baths and cold wine

wondering: if we’ll actually get the storm that’s forecast for Saturday. I really am certain we’ve had enough snow this winter, Mother Nature!

wishing: I could hop on a plane and have a Newfoundland/Manitoba reunion (Karen, Dawn, Val, Julia, Jeff? I’ll make it happen if we decide to do it!)

S.

Final Yearlong Class 2012 – Part 2 (and some awesome news!)

30 Wednesday Jan 2013

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So, yesterday got away from me and I didn’t post the LO’s I promised – oops! And there was a big exciting announcement made by The Paperie which caused a Twitter frenzy among the local scrapping crowd. I’ll get to that bit later!

First, here’s how I added my own personal twist to the final bonus pages of the Yearlong 2012 album. (You can see the original LO’s here).

The  things I use the most lately are wood veneer shapes and stitching and on these two LO’s, I loaded up!

choose to shine

For the first one, I added little birds (for my two chickies!), a bunch of stars (because they are the best wood veneer pieces ever), and a few other random pieces.

choose to shine - stickers closeup

I loaded up on the stickles and the Metallic Gold Mister Huey so there’s lots of bling. I also stitched over the sticker letters so they would stay put – I hate letters that end up floating around your LO!

choose to shine - bird closeup

The second LO also has a ton of wood veneer, stickles, and stitching, but I matted it on a 12×12 background too. Normally I place all different sized LO’s in the same album but my wedding album is all 12×12 so I decided to stick with that.

every picture

All I did to make the original LO flow into a 12×12 is spray the background with coordinating mist and add stitching to the top left corner. This is my go-to quick and easy way to switch a letter size LO in a larger square – simple add a couple of elements like mist or embellishments that tie the two together and no one will ever know it’s a mashup!

I added the wood veneer doilies to tie in with the stamped doily border:

every picture - doily closeupAnd of course, since it’s a wedding LO, I had to add the potty people and a heart!

every picture - potty people closeupNow, onto the exciting Paperie news….

Kelly Purkey is coming! And Krista and I get to share the teaching stage with her over the weekend! My class, naturally, is technique based so we’ll be making 4 cards with Ranger products and I’m going to try and fit in as many different products as I can – including the new Distress Paints!

If you’re in NL or are looking for a super fun weekend full of classes, cropping, and good times, sign up now and join us! Plus, it’s over St. Patrick’s Day weekend and since we do boast about George Street having the most bars and pubs per square foot in North America, you can bet there will be a party happening!

I do have to curb my excitement about Kelly a little and design and teach a few other classes before then – lots of fun and awesome things are coming your way!

S.

I’ve been AWOL… (and the final Yearlong Album 2012 Class)

28 Monday Jan 2013

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Yes, I vanished sometime last week, totally without notice.

Sorry. 🙂

Let’s just say that a week of prep work and then two very full days of teaching, followed up by a couple of “undone but deadlines looming” projects led to me taking an unscheduled blog break.

But I have the assignments finished, photos taken, edited, and uploaded. And I have instructions written and about to be sent, along with photos, for the final January class and, more importantly, the final Yearlong 2012 class.

For the first time ever I put pictures on the pages for the Yearlong Album. My goal with this class has always been to give a base that each student’s monthly pictures  could work with so I’ve never put my own photos on. This past year has been a little different since I’ve made several Bonus Pages that aren’t part of the core album. So, for the final two bonus pages I designed, I added pictures!

The first one is an oldie from my wedding day. Love the series this shot came from since it’s on the newly built deck of the family cabin. This cabin has been in my dad’s family for a very long time and although other family members have gotten married in Salmon Cove, I was the first to get married on the Sands (the beach), and, as far as I know, the first to have the cabin factor into the wedding at all. So my dad built a new deck and freshened the place up with a new coat of paint and we had a bunch of pictures there. I like these of only me at a cabin I loved coming to as a kid.

every picture...

The next one features M & G having a fun time and insisting I take a pic while they hug – sometimes, they really are cute! 🙂

choose to shine

My idea is to take these base LO’s and add my own extras to them – planning to have them done tomorrow so stop back for the reveal!

S.

 

Everlasting Card Organizer – a new class!

23 Wednesday Jan 2013

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I have another new class coming up at The Paperie on February 9 and have been asked to post some pictures.

Unfortunately, the papers for the project haven’t arrived yet so I can’t show you exactly what we’ll be making but I can show you the inspiration!

This is another Orlando class, and another mini album from the daylong Bazzill class I took. When we presented all our projects in a sneak peek night at the store, all the customers loved this idea but wanted brighter colours, hence, the wait on papers!

Also, the store owns a Bind-it-All so the binding will be another style but essentially, the book itself will be the same – it will just look completely different! 🙂

The cover:card organizer1 - cover

This will be the biggest change since we’ll have a brighter element sheet to work from with varied stickers. And what’s the fun of a new class if I don’t change it up a little? The size will be the same though, 6″x 8″ so not too big but large enough for your cards.

The inside will have 6 pocket pages with monthly calendars and lots of storage for the cards you’ll need over the year.

carrd organizer1 - pages

We’ll also be making 4 cards in this class to put in your book and start you off on the right track. All you need to do when you go home is write in your dates!

There will be a limited number of spots in this class due to product availability so call The Paperie ASAP if you’re interested and hopefully, I’ll see you there!

S.

Yes, it’s true. I’m a superhero.

22 Tuesday Jan 2013

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On a daily basis I hear, “Mama! How did you do that?!?!”

And I always answer, “Superpowers. I have superpowers.”

Today, I finally have the shirt to prove it:

Sara aka Supergirl

Superpower people of the world, unite!

On another note, we finally finished our bathroom reno and I bought a cheap shower curtain to hang until I could find something I actually liked. Apparently, the cats really, really hate it:

shower curtain

S.

Weekend of Fun | Dylusions Technique Tag Album

18 Friday Jan 2013

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Well here it is, the last sneak peek into this weekend’s classes!

And this might be the class I’m most excited to teach – the tag mini album! I made a similar one in Orlando but amped it up and added a few more techniques especially for this class – I hope people are ready to get inky and messy!

I stuck with red, pink, orange, and yellow for mine, and added one of my favourite Dylusions sentiment stamps to the front:

Dylusions - cover

Along with the main manilla Jumbo #12 tags, we are also using kraft:

Dylusions - kraft page

and black:

Dylusions - black page

And just for fun, here’s some little sneaks of a couple more pages!

We’ll be stamping, with my favourite waterproof ink, Archival:

Dylusions - stamped page

And colouring with Ink Sprays:

Dylusions - misted and coloured page

Have you signed up for any (or all!) of the classes yet? You should, we’re going to have a blast! And, as a bonus, you get to go home with some great product, especially in this class! 😉

I’ll try to find time to tweet and instagram some pics over the weekend so if you’re too far away to attend or have to work all weekend (we’ll miss you Lori!) then check out my feeds to see some of the fun!

S.

Weekend of Fun | Ranger Metallic Stain Cards

17 Thursday Jan 2013

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The only class I’m teaching this weekend that is exactly as I did it in Orlando are the Ranger Cards using Metallic Distress Stains – they’re so great, why would I mess with them?

The main part of the cards are, of course, tags, which are then layered on a card base. There’s the Fired Brick one:

Ranger - reindeer

The fabulous poinsettia die is the star here, and the shimmer from both the Metallic Stain and the Rock Candy Stickles is awesome!

Ranger - reindeer closeup

And then the Broken China one:

Ranger - snowman

This has the Snowman from the Christmas Blueprints set as the hero, along with the mirror sheets:

Ranger - snowman closeup

Since I loved that stamp set so much, I made a few other tags just as samples!

I went with a darker blue, Chipped Sapphire, for the Tin Soldier:

Ranger - soldier

And with a brighter Barn Door red for the Tree:

Ranger - tree

But my favourite has to be the Snowflake, layered over Picked Raspberry Pink with a combo of Tarnished Brass and Brushed Pewter Metallic Stains:

Ranger - snowflake

I hope the Paperie has lots of these Stains in stock because I think everyone in class is going to want all three colours. And since you get to go home with one, you only have to buy two more! 🙂

See you tomorrow with the last class sneak – the day long Dylusions Tag album!

S.

Weekend of Fun | Ranger Mini Canvases

16 Wednesday Jan 2013

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I’m back again with a look at another one of the classes this coming weekend – Ranger Mini Canvases!

The ones in Orlando were Hallowe’en themed and since we’re well past that now I redid them in a love theme. These can be used as Valentine’s decorations, or as Valentine’s to give, but they can also just be pretty pieces to hang in your craft space, or a nice friendship “just because” gift.

I went a bit grungy with this first one, making the canvas and rosette a bit distressed, and then added word flags:

love

love

Lots of fun layers and dimension too:

Ranger canvas - love closeup

The second one I decided to keep a bit cleaner and brighter:

flirt

flirt

And added to the sparkle of the tinsel twine with a glittery heart!

Ranger canvas - flirt closeup

We still have some space available in these classes so be sure to check out the class descriptions and then call The Paperie to sign up for any or all – we really are going to have a great Weekend of Fun!

S.

12 on Twelve | January 2013

15 Tuesday Jan 2013

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I had the beginnings of a head cold and taught a Designer Duo Mixed Media Class with Cathie on Saturday, so I had a hard time keeping track and taking pictures. I did get 12 though, with some help from friends on Instagram!

January

January

1. Cuddles with daddy in the morning.

2. Cathie teaching her LO during our class.

3. My supplies for teaching my canvas.

4. Lunch! Sourdough and smoked meat sandwich from Manna, always the best!

5. My row of canvases at class.

6. Cathie and I – almost done for the day!

7. My traditional selfie in the porch mirror.

8. Bathroom reno – the tile is finished!

9. Birthday card for a special 1st birthday – Eugene, the dog!

10. Eugene about to get his cake – carrot, peanut butter, cream cheese frosting, and bacon!

11. The gift bag and tissue I brought – the toy inside didn’t last much longer!

12. Krista (Eugene’s mama) and I.

Another one in the bag – see you next month!

And tomorrow, more Weekend of Fun peeks!

S.

Weekend of Fun | Impression Obsession Cards

14 Monday Jan 2013

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If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, you’ll have seen some sneak peeks of this weekend’s Weekend Of Fun at the Paperie! I’ll be teaching 4 classes inspired by the trip I took to Orlando this fall and it’s going to be a great couple of days! There’s still time to sign up so call the Paperie to reserve your spot ASAP!

Today I’m showing you the 4 cards we’ll be making in the Impression Obsession class.

I love Impression Obsession stamps – their Cover a Card backgrounds are fabulous – but in this class we’re focusing on their dies, the wreath die to be exact.

This is a super intricate die and it cuts the most beautiful twiggy wreath perfect for Fall:

Fall

Fall

Inside the sentiment continues to say, “…For You.”

IO - Fall closeup

Winter:

IO - Winter

Winter

I love the bit of sparkle that Rock Candy Distress Stickles add!

IO - Winter closeup

Spring:

Spring

Spring

This one is my favourite but I can’t take credit for that awesome nest idea!

IO - Spring closeup

and Summer:

Summer

Summer

IO - Summer closeup

I’ll be back tomorrow with my first 12 on Twelve pics of the year, and I’ll be showing you more class samples throughout the week. Going to be a fun and crafty one around here!

S.