Glittered Roses Artisan Week

This week I am the featured ARTISAN on Glittered Roses Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Glittered-Roses/278487808854550

Glittered Roses creates and supports handmade. When you know the creator, you know the passion. When you know the passion you know the care it took. Promoting partners in such a diverse community rather it be a retailer that provides products or an individual who does the construction, highlighting the unique aspect of handmade businesses through social media is a great way to bring information forward. This week you will have an opportunity to take a look at my business and the crafts the I create by hand. Be sure and stop by Deirdre’s page and let her know I sent you.

I do have to say I am more of a crafter for giving than for financial gain.  I have yet to figure out how to make it all work to make money doing what I love.  But, I am here today to show you some of the past thing’s I’ve recently done.  I am mainly a paper crafter, and oh boy do I love paper!!

These are some Sugar Plum Fairy Baby’s First Birthday card I did .

Cards are easy to personalize for people, even over the internet.

Here is what the insides of all the cards looked like.

I am lucky enough to work a craft store in the area  live in.   It is called Ben Franklin Crafts and Frames.  It has been owned by the same family since their opening, 40 years ago.

You should visit our Facebook Page.  Ben Franklin Crafts and Frames-Grass Valley

These are some Washi Tape Cards I am going to teach a class on after the 1st of the year.

Washi tape, it might me another addiction for me.

This card here, the little girls are made out of popsicle sticks, wrapped in Washi Tape.

There you have it.  My handmade post for today.  I hope you will go to the Glittered Roses Page and check out all the fabulous crafters who have shared their talent over the past weeks.

Have a great day!

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So many things….

Ooh I have been so busy!  I work 3 days a week at the best store in the world.  If I haven’t bragged in a while, I work at the local craft store in our area, Ben Franklin Crafts and Frames-Grass Valley. I work in the Paper Arts department and I have recently started teaching classes. We have free classes during the week and on Saturdays.  I teach the Saturday classes.

Head on over to our Facebook page and LIKE us!!  Be sure and let them know Jeannie sent you over while you are there!!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ben-Franklin-Crafts-and-Frames-Grass-Valley/109294332432249?fref=ts

But, I also teach classes that you can sign up for(that you have a fee for) and I have been getting some great feedback from the ladies taking the classes so far. HOORAY!!

Today I taught my Mad about Mary Card Class.  Here were the main cards..

The cards you see here are my samples and what is so awesome about them is each one has a handwritten sentiment on it.  For my class the sentiments were computer generated, but they turned out just as cute.  It seems I have a lot of bosses at my job, but my direct boss, is the MOST AMAZING ARTIST,….well, outside of Mary….Linsdsay about takes the cake!  Go take a look at her blog to see what I’m talking about.  Her name is Lindsay Ostrom.  She is the one who has handwritten all my sentiments, how lucky am I???

Also this month….Clear Scraps has revealed their new Kit…and let me tell you…WOW is it a good one!

You can be part of our little Kit Club family by going to our Facebook page and liking it.  Creating Made Easy Kit Club Facebook Page. Let them know Jeannie from The Polka Cabana sent you over!

That way you can keep up with our kit reveals and what we are up to.

Here is our May 2013 Main Kit

May Main Kit 2013

Click HERE... to see what all is included in this kit.

My Mind’s Eye Papers….LOVE IT!!

If you head on over to the Clear Scraps Kit Club blog, you can see what our Design Team has been up to with this kit.  Here is a sneak peek at what I made…

You will have to head on over to the blog post to see my completed project and I’d love to have you leave a comment and let them know I sent you over.

Here is the link to see my completed project!

http://clearscraps.typepad.com/clear_scraps_kit_club/2013/05/you-make-me-smile-scrapbook-page.html

I will be back later with more Clear Scraps projects.

Next up at Ben Franklin’s:

Mary inspired Scrapbook Pages

Washi Tape Cards

Father’s Day Cards

Wednesday Valentine Wowzer

Hello Crafty Ones!

I am here to show you my I Heart Ippity project, hooray:)

I have used a lot of different stamp sets for this;)

The polka dot gift bag, I picked up over at Deena Ziegler.com.

I made a heart shrinky dink with some Grafix Arts Red Shrink Film.

Inside my gift bag is a candy filled tube of M & M’s.

Plastic tube and papers are from my workplace, Ben Franklin Crafts in Grass Valley, CA.

Now to let you know all the stamps I used, get ready….

Born in my Heart

Washi this Love

Let your heart take Flight

A little bit of Washi

Devoted

What do you think?  Wouldn’t you love to get a Valentine like this?

I hope I have “WOW”ed you today!  Thank for stopping by and visiting.

This has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana with today’s I Heart Ippity‘s post.

Thankful Thursday

Today’s post, you will not read any complaints from me.

I have made some Thank-you cards to hand out to some dear friends who have touched my heart.

For that reason, this will be a thankful post and I hope to get through this with no complaining whatsoever.

I made 4 cards, they are all somewhat similar, with slight variations.

They all have this sentiment inside.

The first part is a stamps from the Unity May 2012 Love in an Instant set.

The 2nd part is just words I printed out from my computer.

It was my birthday on Sunday and I had some friends who went over and above their call of duty in recognizing that it was my birthday. So these cards are for those friends who I wanted to say thank you to.

Each card is different, in the way the borders are done.

Some have patterned paper,

some have washi tape and some have border stickers.

Here they are all lined up.

I love making a group of cards together

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Its a great way to get a lot of people takes care of at one time, and by just mixing your embellishments, you can easily make each card unique so they do not end up looking exactly the same.

So did I make it with out complaining?  I hope so!!

The set I used to were

Love in an Instant – KOM May 2012

Imagine, Create, Inspire 

This has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana with today’s I Heart {ippity’s} post.

A fun little blog, a very fun product!

Have you tried WASHI tape yet? I ordered some from ETSY not to long ago and I love it. It is very fun to use. Check out LITTLE HAPPY THINGS for a really great give away!  Check out the ETSY store too.  They have so many cute items!!  That is it for today.

Here is my favorite set that is being offered in the GIVEAWAY!

I have almost finished my “MANTEL PROJECT.”  I will post pictures next week!