Hello Again Kitty

Another easel card but with a different Hello Kitty. I used kraft for the base. Pumpkin Pie next, and topped that with paper from the sweet pea pack. Hello Kitty and her balloons were made from old olive, basic black, whisper white, the sweet pea pack and so saffron. The scallop trim punch was also used.

March 2010 Stampers Ten

These are the cards we made this month with Stampers 10.

A CASE of Fifth Ave Floral

I CASEd this card http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1317003 from Splitcoaststampers. I changed it by making it A2 size card, only used Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set, removed all embellishments and used the new Extra Large Two-Step Bird punch from the mini occasions catalogue.

Winter Wonderland Swap

These are the cards I received from Christyne's WInter Wonderland Swap. Don't you love 'em?!

Hello Kitty

My friend SuzieQ brought me her Sizzix and all her dies to play with for awhile. This is the first thing I made. There is about 5 layers of paper here. These were easy to make but time consuming. 5 cards took me the length of 2 movies.

Piano Hinge Bookbinding @ The Paper Place

On Tuesday February 16, 2010 I took a book binding workshop at The Paper Place. www. thepaperplace.ca The workshop was to teach us the piano hinge technique. Our instructor was Cherryl Moote author of Book With Girth. The picture below is of our supplies. We first did a mock up using computer paper and bamboo skewers. It's best to use inexpensive supplies to first get the feel of this binding then to go on to expensive or exotic items such as good paper and porcupine quills.
Here is Karen weaving in her doweling.
It is best to use an odd number of tabs for the spine. My mock up had 5 but I quickly went to 7 for my photo album. You can see in the upper right hand corner my template (purple paper with notches cut out). This ensures even that all signatures will be cut the same size and pattern.

I've already cut some dogwood yesterday for the spine and am ready to make a book at home.

Season Of Friendship

Here are 2 different frames I made using the Season of Friendship. I started this project at my friend Diana's house using my friend Christyne's stamp set. I like this set so much that I finally ordered it myself. I was going to put one season in each picture slot but realized I could put 2 seasons in each so that all 4 seasons could go in each frame. The second one I will open up again and add a sentiment along the bottom since I mounted then a little high.