Christmas Cookbook and Tag Class

Join me for my next class Saturday, December 1st at 2:00 PM.

This is a cookbook you will make from scratch using brown paper bags.

It is full of pockets so you have plenty of space for lots of recipes.

It would make a wonderful gift.

And we will make 12 tags getting you ready for wrapping in style!

 

 

 

 

2 of the tags are special gift card holders:

  

The class is selling out fast so please call The Crafty Scrapper at 972.923.3151 to book.

Hope to see you these!

Santa's Holiday Cookbook

Come join me for my next class at a wonderful all day event at The Crafty Scrapper - The Christmas Carousel - Saturday, November 17th.   You will take 5 different 1 hour classes, enjoy a catered lunch and have time for shopping.  My ride on the carousel is a great class in which you will create an amazing cookbook from scratch with lots of room for all your favorite holiday recipes. 

What a great keepsake for you or fabulous gift! 

The album uses paper lunch bags as the base - yep there back! 

We will decorate your album with the Carta Bella "Santa's Workshop" paper line along with embellishments, pearl accents, ribbon, decorated recipe cards and more.

Hope to see you riding the carousel!

Falling For Cards Class

Fall is in the air, the leaves are beginning to change as is the weather.  Join us for a card class celebrating fall. 

Saturday, October 13th 2:00 Pm

The Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie, TX

You can sign up in-line at The Crafty Scrapper

We will be making 4 fall cards with coordinating envelopes while learning a new technique with paper napkins and clear gesso, inking, fussy cutting, and coloring with your favorite coloring medium. Supplies needed are regular kit, fussy cut scissors, wet and dry adhesive, brown ink, Copics or your favorite coloring medium.

 

This card has a hand inked background on a fall leaf embossed card stock.  We will also learn how to ink the edges of  a plain paper to make the leave look right in season.

This card we will be coloring this pumpkin mandala with copics or your favorite medium and placing it on a wood grain embossed card stock.

And these two cards utilize a great technique that employs fancy paper napkins and clear gesso to create backgrounds and fabulous focal points.

Hope to see you in class!

Annette

Sweet Cupcake Album

Birthdays are always a reason to celebrate and in honor of my Mom and my son, this September is a special birthday month.  

Come join me for a fun filled class on Saturday, September 22nd at 10:00 AM at the Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie. You can sign up on-line at: http://www.thecraftyscrapper.com/events/ 

We will create an 8”x 8” Sweet Cupcake chipboard album from scratch using an altered pocket binding technique. If you have ever wanted to learn how to make mini chipboard albums from scratch but were intimidated - don’t be!  Come learn step by step with this Sweet Cupcake Album.

We will be using the beautiful Echo Park Birthday Celebration Paper collection.

There are lots of fun techniques, flips, folds, shakers and pockets to help you commemorate someone’s special day.

 Supplies needed: basic kit, paper trimmer, score tape, dimensional tape, wet and dry adhesive, and your favorite ink if you like to ink edges.

I hope to see you in class!

Happy crafting,
Annette Love

Summertime Fun Mini Album

Come join me for a fun filled class on Saturday, July 14th at 2:00 PM at the Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie http://www.thecraftyscrapper.com/events/ where we will be making a mini album from scratch that is filled with flamingo fun!

During this class you will learn mini album construction, how to make 3D flowers from paper, how to make a waterfall page, make a memento pocket, and much much more.

This album is made from Heartfelt Creations Flip and fold page inserts and the great new Hello Summertime paper collection from Simple Stories.

There are tons of pockets, tags and pages to hold lots of pictures and mementos from a summer trip or special celebration.

A special Velcro closure pocket to hold all kinds of special mementos!

I hope you can join us Saturday for this great class!  Call the store or go on-line to the link above to register for class.

Happy scrapping,

Annette

Nursery Shadow Box Project

"How do you get started on a new project?"  I hear this question quite a bit and many times, for me, it starts with a sketch.  I like to scratch down on paper some of the rough thoughts swirling around in my brain to see what they will actually look like when put all together.  That is exactly how this baby shower project started - with a sketch!

When I felt confident that some of my ideas might work, I went out and sourced some of the specific things I knew I wanted to incorporate in the project, like the shadow box.

 

This beauty actually opened from the front so it will be so easy for the new parents to add their pictures and mementos after the baby's arrival rather than having to take the back off and wrestle with all those staples, etc.  The bard wood exterior and burlap background fit right into the theme of the nursery of "Outdoors All Boy".

Next I found the papers and some 3D elements that would look great in this theme.   Time to ink all the edges to distress them.

The finished product has multiple levels of depth in the shadow box and lots of space for pictures and ephemera from the big event.  Here are some close ups.

I think the finished project turned out super cute.  Next time try a sketch!  Hope the new parents to be LOVE IT too!

Happy Crafting!

It's All about the Thank You's Card Class

This month we are doing a card class that focuses on Thank you's.  I always find myself digging into my card stash for thank you cards so I thought you might be the same.  In this class we are making some fun cards.  Take a look:

The card on the far left is a gate fold card made from a fabulous foil accented paper line from Reccollections.  The card in the middle is a tri-fold out card with lacy die cut accents from Heartfelt Creations,  The card on the far right is one of the new stamp and die pairs called "Waterlily"  from Stamplistic that is encrusted with Swarovski Crystals and the super cut tag in the foreground is made on a manilla tag base from The Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie, TX.

Come join us for this fun class on Saturday, May 19th at 2:00 PM.  Call the store to register at 972-923-3151.  Hope to see you there!

Happy Crafting,

Annette