Roar! Everything is Awesome | Kids Card Class

18 Sunday Oct 2015

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This coming weekend I’m teaching a Birthday Card Class for kids of all ages! We’ll be making ten cards and getting messy in the process – my favourite way to create!

Although I’ll be teaching a bunch of different techniques, all the cards can be decorated in almost any way. I’ll have some stamps available but they can be mixed and matched as people want.

We’ll be playing with Distress Stains, Crazy Birds stamps, Inktense watercolour pencils, embossing powders, alcohol inks, Ranger Shrink plastic, and more!

Plus, we’ll be making fun and crazy monsters:

And a few space alien monsters with crazy eyes!

If you’re in need of some creative time and/or some birthday cards (or just fun How are you? cards) then come and play on Sunday at The Paperie. You can even bring your favourite little or big person to join you!

Cheers!

Yer Best Kind, b’ys!

18 Wednesday Feb 2015

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Hahaha! Are all the non-Newfoundlanders confused yet? Roughly translated, that means, “You are all the finest of people!” Want to know some more traditional Newfoundland phrases and words? Check this out!

There’s actually a reason I started this post like that and it all has to do with Valentine’s. A local company here, Newfoundland Chocolate Company, made special Love Bars this year and they were hugely popular. As in couldn’t keep them in stock and they have been sent all around the world popular. And they’re delicious – milk chocolate (normally not my thing) filled with salted caramel. Seriously yummy!

They made several different labels – Luvs Ya, Kiss me Luh, Me Trout, and of course, Best Kind (side note: the most popular was Arse on Dat, hahaha!). I grabbed a bunch of Best Kind bars and made cards for the parents of the kids I look after.

I had some watercolour paper I had painted and embossed and demoed on so I used that for my punched green hearts. Then I used old glitter wrap for the other hearts:\

And inside, a sweet treat!

I love how they turned out – they still make me giggle, lol!

Cheers!

The Paperie | January Card Kit (part 2)

09 Friday Jan 2015

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Apparently, I loved the January Card kit:

Yup. That and two envelopes are all I have left. Garbage scraps, nothing more.

Gabe and I sat down because he wanted to make something for The Paperie. I hadn’t used the wood veneer ribbons or the envelopes so I snagged a pink envelope and I gave him what I had left. Gabe wanted to make an envelope and bookmark for some one special. 🙂

He had fun with the stamps – the flower he coloured in with markers and he fell in love with the Gold Delicata ink when he stamped the chevrons. Which meant he needed to use it again for the speech balloon:

He insisted on a pretty bookmark so used the small Prima Valentine’s girl from my stash for it:

And he signed and stamped the back:

My creation is completely boring in comparison:

I plan to pop a special note in here for Molly and maybe a gift card for us to go do something together. I added a speech balloon to the flap for easy opening:

And that’s it, no more January card kit shares – there simply isn’t enough product left to play with! I think there are more at the store to buy so make sure you give them a call and snag one while you can!

Cheers!

Sara

P.S. The other projects I made from the kit can be found here and here!

Let’s Hear it for the Girls!

22 Monday Sep 2014

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A while back I posted a class I taught at The Paperie, Let’s Hear it for the Boys! Well, I’m finally getting around to sharing the second class, Let’s Hear it for the Girls!

As a bonus, we also made this one a LO kit and I think there might be a couple left at the store! You get everything you need to complete the LO’s and cards, plus full colour, step by step instructions – go grab one while you can!

This first one is pretty simple but the background paper was so gorgeous I couldn’t cover up much of it!

I added some fun shimmer mist droplets and sequins for sparkle:

And the Thickers in the kit are an awesome colour:

The second LO is a little more involved with some fussy cutting of elements:

I couldn’t resist cutting out one of the cute foxes and the chevron arrows were just asking to be used!

There’s also a great geotag clip in the kit and I got it to stand out by backing the heart with a scrap of patterned paper:

Finally, I made two cards – one was a birthday theme of course, because you can never have enough birthday cards!

And the second is a pretty generic one using those cute foxes again!

Once the LO’s and cards were made, there was still a ton of stuff left over for more cards or Project Life inserts – awesome value! The only thing not included in the kit were the mists that I used for droplets and the adhesive. It’s the perfect thing to take to a friend’s house for a night of scrapping or when you just want to do something but don’t want to think too hard about it! 😉

If you like this type of kit you’re in luck – I’m going to be doing more for The Paperie! We released a Back 2 School kit this past weekend at the Sunshine Foundation Crop and Silent Auction fundraiser and there are more in the works! I’ll post the School kit here on Wednesday so stop back then to check it out.

Cheers!

Let’s Hear it for the Boys!

12 Thursday Jun 2014

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I taught a super fun class a week or so ago, one that I loved designing as it was a little out of my wheelhouse – it was all about boys!

If you’re a scrapper or cardmaker I know that you know what I’m talking about – boy stuff is hard! We love our embellishments and flowers and hearts and glitter and… Yeah, not so masculine!

So I decided to have a class that centered all around boy LO’s and cards. Here’s what we made!

A bunch of arrows and a bright and colourful grounding line made of banners:

The arrows are attached to the photo which is mounted on an envelope to add more space for extra pictures or journaling:

The second LO has a fun line of squares:

And we kept the embellies simple with mist, enamel dots, and skinny striped washi tape:

The cards had a big focus on the alpha stickers:

and arrows:

I’m starting to think towards to second class in this mini series: Let’s Hear it for the Girls! I have some awesome paper pulled and can’t wait to start getting glittery! 🙂

Paperie Card Kit | March 2014: Part 2 – Cards

20 Thursday Mar 2014

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Sorry for the delay but I’m finally back with more of the Paperie’s March Card Kit and today it’s all about the cards!

I don’t consider myself a card maker and generally I don’t make many of them but the Avery Elle stamp set that was included in the kit made me want to make some.

First up, a fun one:

It’s a little deceptive though because the funnest surprise is on the inside:

It’s a great way to use up scraps of patterned paper that you can’t bring yourself to throw out!

I also made a little gift box:

And filled it with easy cards:

I used a lot of repetitive stamping for these:

And added fabulous Studio Calico gold star rub-ons:

Finally, my favourite go-to card for kids birthdays – they always love it and it’s so easy to change up for a boy or girl or you can make a bunch a unisex ones:

To see the rest of the cards in the gift box, or to check out the layouts I made, you can go view my Paperie set at Flickr or head into the Paperie itself to see them all in person!

Back tomorrow with the final project from the kit – my personal fave!

Paperie Card Kit | November 2013: Part 2

06 Wednesday Nov 2013

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Yesterday I shared some of my work from the Paperie Card Kit and today you get to see the rest!

I did one more LO, as usual:

I had fun punching and adding circles:

and playing with embellishments:

For once I actually made cards with the Card Kit – go figure! I had run out of cardstock so I cut up a piece of white woodgrain from my stash for the card bases.

They’re super simple but they make use of the fun Lawn Fawn birthday stamp set that’s included. Perfect for kiddies birthdays and we always have lots of those to go to!

I also made one card that will probably go to my dad, who owns his own sailboat:

Finally, I made a wreath. This actually caused me some stress because I had planned to make a wreath thinking that the November kit would of course be full of fall-like colours. Ummm, not so much. The pale pinks, blues, and yellows threw for a bit but that wreath was stuck in my head so onward I went:

Not bad, hey? I used some of the 6×6 patterned papers, as well as one of the kraft and one of the white envelopes included. A bit of distress ink and I think it turned out rather fall-like after all!

The wreath base was wrapped with burlap ribbon, then I pinned the leaves in place and the acorns were handcut and glued. Easy but I love how it turned out!

I’ll be back tomorrow with some Halloween pics – I been meaning to post them but time has gotten away from me!

Birthday Card on the fly!

19 Tuesday Feb 2013

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My kiddies had a party to go to this past Sunday and at the last minute I realized that I didn’t have a card made – of course!

So I went looking through my stash and found…. nothing. Zip. Zilch. I was plum cleaned out. Of course.

But, I found a couple of great card fronts I had made months, maybe years, ago and forgotten about. And there was a perfect one for a party. I stuck it to a premade base and called it good.

For the life of me I can’t quite remember exactly how I made it but I believe it was Distress Ink pressed on a craft sheet, misted with Perfect Pearls (back before they made it in a mist form and we had to make our own – hard times!) and then the paper was swiped through the puddles.

I think I was testing out the different colours of the powder and seeing how everything reacted. The background is super shimmery blue, which I couldn’t get a decent picture of, and the flowers are all punched circles from scrap pieces that have a variation of Distress colours and mist. All the stamps are from a Papertrey Ink set.

I really like the end result so I’m thinking I may have to try it all out again and see what happens – at least I’ll have some cards ready for the next time I need them!

The Everlasting Card Organizer

07 Thursday Feb 2013

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I have a new class this Saturday based on another of the Bazzill classes I took while I was in Orlando this past fall.

I’ve changed up the paper – we’ll be using the Carta Bella Traditions line – and the size is very slightly different, but the concept is the same. Plus, we’ll be making some cards to put inside and get you off on the right foot!

The whole point of this organizer is to make sure you remember all those birthdays, anniversaries, special occasions that recur yearly and require cards.

Every page has a calendar where can write in the events on the date they occurred, like a wedding, for example.

Also, every page is folded so you have a pocket to store the cards you need for that month.

And we’ll make 4 super simple, easy to replicate cards so you can go home with your stash already started and have some ideas to make more!

Last I heard, there was only one spot left in the class so if you’re interested, give the Paperie a call to see if you can still get in – can’t wait to see some of you on Saturday, you know we’re going to have fun!

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:

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.

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!