Halloween Cards

 I love the 4 girls and 4 boys stamps and thin cuts that are Halloween!  I was playing with the Distress Dioxide inks for backgrounds and got carried away.  It was fun to just play and make 18 cards in combinations of all the stamps/thin cuts.  If anyone is interested in making these cards, let me know and we can Zoom or get in person.

I am having great fun with the Distress Dioxide inks.  They are fun to blend and get wonderful backgrounds for all sorts of cards.

Card groups for September, October and November

 Card groups are starting up again.  There will be Zoom and in person.  If you are vaccinated we can use my house or yours for a small group.  You can sign up for the group you have time for.  We will make 4 cards per month and in late November early December we will have a Christmas Card buffet where you can make your Christmas cards. 

If you choose to sign up for just 1 month,  is $15 if you are new or $13 if you have done cards before.  If you sign up and pay or 3 months it is $36.  If you bring a paying friend each of you will get $1 off  per month so $1 for 1 paying month or $3 for paying for 3 months.  

The cards on Zoom classes will not be exactly as the cards in person.  You can see Septembers ideas and some of October.  There has been a delay in getting materials and my times have been full.  

These are the Zoom classes.  The Gnomes are birthday cards. The flower cards can be any sentiment. You can ask for the stamped sentiment you need: thank you, thinking of you, sympathy etc. 

The cards for the in person classes will be shaker cards. You will have choices what to put in the shaker cards and the sentiments you stamp.

The fourth card has other sentiments to stamp in the middle if you are in person.  I also have different color stickles that you can use.  For those who will be on Zoom and stay on Zoom, I suggest you go to my website: barbarapagekell.ctmh.com and choose a stickle gold or silver color.  I have found that the embellishments can make you pay extra for a card to be sent in the mail.  Stickles are not that bumpy but make a card look elegant.  I have used water colors for this months cards.  You can use markers or colored pencils as well.

The Zoom October cards will be a choice of one of these 2, two other slimline cards that are for the September special.  I will also be making some Halloween cards you can choose to make.  There will also be a "waterfall" birthday card option.

The in person classes will be using Distressing Dioxide inks.  You can choose what color you wish to make things.

Call me 608-370-0156 and lets get you signed up for classes.  

National Stamping Month - Slimline Collection

 I have fallen in love with the Slimline cards!  This collection is amazing.  You can get the stamps, stamp and thin cuts, background thin cuts separately or as a bundle and you have the workshop guidelines you can download.

The bundle of stamps and thin cuts and papers can be found on my site.  Here are just the stamps and thin cuts.

Each of the cards can be full of sparkles.  The directions tell you how to put the cards together.  If you look at the cards, each of the images are thin cut.  When I do this over again, I am going to just get 2 sheets of  4 x 12 Daisy White and cut them all at once by looking at the cards and doing the double sets a second time.  I did mark zip lock bags and put the thin cuts in their appropriate numbered bag.  There is a good amount of work to cut, stamp outline and then color each of the thin cuts.  This is however the National Stamping Month collection.  You will get your stamping muscles a good work out. 

I love that they give you both vertical and horizontal sayings to stamp on the inside.  These can be used on a variety of cards past this collection.

You also have a variety of saying on each stamp set.  The workshop guidelines gives you a suggestion but you can really make these your own by choosing a variety of things.

 

After I follow the directions, I always decide to play and see what I can do.  The following are the cards I made.  The guidelines gives you 2 cards per design which is how I have the saying next to the front.  I only did 1 of each design I came up with.

You can make a variety of cards using a variety of paper.  Share your creations and see what joy you have working with this great National Stamping Month collection.