I'M BACK - DID YOU MISS ME??

HI Y'ALL, I am back from a mini vacation to go get some grandkids lovin'.  My daughter and family live in Utah and I don't get to see them enough.  So every chance I get, I JUMP ON IT.  It was so fun to spend time with them.  They are growing waaaay too fast.  9 and 11.

We even got some crafting time in at the end.  and GUESS WHAT??  My 11 yr old granddaughter taught me how to make jewelry!!  She is so talented and amazing.  I made some cute necklaces and some earrings (well, my daughter made the earrings for me - it was a bit harder and I wanted to watch how she twisted the wire).  Another thing to add to my list of FUN THINGS TO DO.  I can't wait to get to the store and get some more stones and beads and make MORE JEWELRY.  I will show you a few photos next time, ok?

This posting I wanted to share a scrapbooking workshop I held just a day or so before I left on my grands vacation. ha, get it? grands vs grand?  I know, kind of lame...

We made 6 x 6 flip and fold albums with the designer paper of their choice.  It was so fun to see their books come together and then they started having ideas about decorating them, etc.

Here they are working so diligently on their albums.  Each of their albums showed their own personality and special touch.  It was awesome.

 For the front of the album, we used my BIG SHOT and designer paper that matches their album to create a FUN FLOWER.  After cutting it out with the FUN FLOWER DIE, we crinkled and crumbled all the pieces up.  (Very hard for some of them!)  Then carefully unfolded them and using my mat pack and the "pokey tool" we put a hole in the middle of all layers to attach them together with a BRAD.

Here is one flower attached to the front of an album.  Cute, huh?

 My FAVORITE NEW DESIGNER PAPER is MOCHA MORNING.  It is very elegant and several sheets have velvety embossing.  LOVE IT.

One little SMARTIE ( I won't mention any names GRIN) figured out how to make all the pages inside to be the same pattern.  then as you open them up, they are again in matching different patterns.  I WAS VERY IMPRESSED!!

They PROMISED to show them to me once all the photos are attached.  I can't wait to see how cute they are all filled with memories.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A FLIP AND FOLD ALBUM with some yummy designer paper and card stock?  Email me and I can get a kit ready for you and mail it out.

Here is one of the albums nearly completed.  It is an album for a little one "LITTLE WONDER" is the stamp on the front.  Isn't it darling??!!  GREAT JOB EVERYONE.

OH MY GOODNESS, HAVE YOU SEEN IT??

Have YOU seen the NEW Specialty Designer Paper called Mocha Morning?  It is absolutely YUMMY and so elegant!!  Two of my club members ordered this paper for my FLIP FLOP PHOTO ALBUM class and it came out so wonderful!!  Here is a sample view of the paper and the catalog info so you can ORDER FROM ME ONLINE;

Mocha Morning Specialty Designer Series Paper (item #122366, p. 183).   

The last two papers on the right side are FLOCKED!!  They are so awesome!!  The flocked sheets are not double sided, but the rest are double sided.

Stay tuned for tomorrow for photos of stamp club and what we created with this designer paper and more.

Inky fingers, y'all.

FUN TIME AT THE NEW CATTY OPEN HOUSE

We had a fun time stamping and also drooling over the things we want from the NEW CATALOG that goes live this week on July 1st!!  We laughed so much--especially at Dee who kept dropping the caps to the markers!  Her long nails made it hard for her to put the caps back on and they would pop out of her hands and fly across the room.

WE MISSED YOU!! What happened that you couldn't make it??  Well, I hope you can make it to my next class - a FLIP-FLOP album class.  What is that?  It is a 6 x 6 album you create out of cardstock and the sides flip open and then flop over to show several pages.  It is then decorated with the DSP pack of your choice and stamped and embellished on the cover - all in one class!!  Then you can take your time to lovingly enter your photos into your album and add embellishments of your choice and journal those special memories.  What a wonderful gift this would make for anyone in your life.  I have made mine a grandchild album and am almost finished with all my photos and journaling, embellishments, etc.

The deadline to sign up for this class is July 3rd.  Then  I will order your paper and ribbon for the closing and will get the card stock all cut and scored and ready for you at the class on July 12th.  What could be better than THAT!!  Well, I will tell you what - this class is FREEEEE.  Yep, it is.  All you need to do is order the DSP and ribbon from me and pay for that and I will do all the rest.  Then you arrive fresh and ready to get down to the fun of creating this cute album.  In case you forgot what it looks like I am including some photos below of it. 

Tell next time, inky fingers y'all.

PAPER BAG ALBUM

I made a paperbag scrapbook album from those tall thin paper bags that the grocery store gives out for wine bottles.  I put them all together every other one facing to the right with the opening.  Then I sewed them together with a small zigzag stitch down the middle.  After I then folded them, I used my crop-a-dile to make two holes and threaded my ribbon through and tied a bow.

Then I used a SU scrapping kit to decorate the pages.
 I would love to know what you think of this cute little book.  I used some of those craft letters made from foam to put MY .....BOOK.  I will provide more letters to the one who wins this at my next workshop so they can complete the title as to what kind of book they want this to be.

This is the front cover with the foam letters.

This is the back cover with the same DSP as the front cover. 

Here are two facing pages using the paper and card stock from the scrap kit. 

Two more pages and a die cut fabric flower. 

You can see one of the pockets for memorabilia in this photo. 

More fun paper and cardstock that coordinates. 

I decorated the right page a little differently with the die cuts from the kit.  This is a pocket page. 

So the colors in the scrapkit are red, garden green, more mustard and bliss blue.

There are several pages of borders, die cuts and decos all ready to stick on your pages included in each scrap kit. If you don't have a Stampin Up Demo, I would love to be yours and help you with your papercrafting such as scrapbooking, card making, etc.

Hope you enjoyed seeing this paperbag scrapbook.  I also have worked on 6 x 6 scrapbook pages
for my workshop this weekend.  I used ink and stamps as well as the sticky die cuts included.  I will post that next.

Inky fingers y'all.  And happy crafting.