Memory Flip Album

From Adriel:

Here's another new item in our shop and what a great way to show off some pictures and memories!

Chipboard panels have been covered with beautiful designer paper from Stampin' Up! There are 6 beautiful pages completed and ready for pictures. The back of each page has a special journaling spot.

The whole album is put together with file rings at the top with cute ribbon tied around the rings. The album stands upright on its own. Cute!

Today we're teaching our Christmas Treasures class in the afternoon and evening. I'm looking forward to spending some time with our stamping/crafting friends. We get to make some cute stuff and it will be enjoyable. =)

*Hope you're having a great day! Stop by again soon! =)*

Don't Leave Your Bread Bare!

From Adriel:

Check out these cute mini bread loaf sleeves that we recently added in our Etsy shop! So cute, right? =)

We made a bunch of these for last weekend's craft show that didn't go so well... oh well! Our Etsy shop always has room for more! =)

We used high quality cardstock from Stampin' Up!. We had some holiday printed paper that we had bought last year in a stack and the prints worked great for these sleeves. The tags we included on each of these sleeves features stamped images from the Hostess set "Snow Buddies" that's available right now in the Holiday Mini Catalog. I watercolored the snowflakes by hand and they're also stamped on the back with a "to / from" stamp.

This set of 6 mini loaf sleeves is available right now in our Etsy shop HERE! Don't leave your bread bare this coming season of giving! Your bread is begging to be cute! =)

Last Composition Book to share

From Heidi...Here's our last Altered Composition Journal to share with you. This paper is also retired, it's such cute paper! Hope that you're all enjoying the start to your week.

Another Altered Composition Book

From Heidi...Hope you all had a great weekend. We participated in a craft fair this weekend at Vertuccio Farms. We didn't sell much, but the kids had a great time in the corn maze, jumping castle and the tractor train ride. So, it was worth it!
Today we're sharing another one of the three Altered Composition Books we created. We used the same layout on all three, but different designer papers. I forget the name of the SU Designer paper used here, it's retired...but I loved the color combo in it, though.On another note, I'm looking forward to this Thursday. We're holding our Christmas Treasures class. It's so nice to get together and create with everyone again...especially the projects we're making, they're all so much fun. Have a great Monday!

Altered Composition Books

From Heidi...I love journaling...and I love journaling in cute journals!! Back in July when Walmart was having their Back-to-School specials, we picked up a bunch of these Composition Books for 50 cents/piece...quite a bargain! These make great journals because of their size and lined notebook pages, but as they are, they're pretty boring on the outside, so we decided to make them cute! We altered this book with SU's Rockabilly designer paper (you'd never know that the other side of this designer paper is decorated with skulls, huh? I'm just not into the skulls and death look, this side looks much happier and cheerier). Once again, I really wish I could use My Digital Studio (did I mention that yesterday, too?), but since I can't I resorted to using Word for my colored oval and "Notes" title. I used the Tart and Tangy stampset to stamp the cherries. We'll be taking these with us to the craft fair we're doing tomorrow at Vertuccio Farms...they've got a bunch of fun happening tomorrow from 10 AM to 10 PM. If you don't have any plans, come on out with your family. They've got a lot of family fun planned.

Recipe Binder

From Heidi...I wanted to post this Recipe Binder that Adriel has been working on. These smaller view binders are the perfect size for a cookbook and the vinyl sleeves protect the designer covers. We made the covers for one of these binders using all My Digital Studio, but when we found out that MDS is only for personal use and can't be used for business purposes, we were kind of bummed. MDS offers so many fun possibilities! So, we resorted back to Designer Papers, but we've incorporated the computer into this project. Using Word, we were able to create the oval border to fit into our Cuttlebug cutter, and then matched the color of the border with SU's coordinating papers (BTW, I love this paper, too bad it's retired!) and then played around with different fonts and font sizes to fill the oval with. Thanks for looking!

How about some pictures?

From Heidi...I'm finally able to post some new pictures on our blog...YAY! Today I'm sharing some pictures of a Nature Journal Class we'll be teaching at the Veteran's Oasis Park next month. I've kept a nature journal throughout the years and it's fun to look back through the sketches I've drawn and observations I've made about the world around me. This class will be for 8-16 year olds, so we had to keep the journal simple enough for the younger ones, yet interesting enough for the older students. I hope we achieved our goal. We used chipboard for the covers, held together with notebook rings. It includes 6 category tabbed dividers, 2 pocket envelope pages and 4 photo pages along with embellished journal pages.

November Newsletter has been Published

From Heidi and Adriel...
We're still here and are alive and well. We've just been busy. We finished our November Newsletter, if you'd like to view it you can Click Here. We'll be posting some new cards and paper craft items hopefully this week, so check back soon! Thanks for visiting us!

My Digital Studio Hybrd

From Heidi...Here's a set of 10 cards I created the other day for a friend whose mother died. In lieu of flowers, I thought that she could use these "thank you" cards instead. I used My Digital Studio for the flourish and sentiment "a note of thanks," and then created the dimensionaled embellishment using the stampset Circle Circus and the the Scallop Circle punch. I was able to create these 10 cards in 45 minutes! What a time saver and I love how they turned out. I printed the flourish in Old Olive and the sentiment in Chocolate Chip. The stamped Circle Circus is Ruby Red and the Scalloped Circle backgroudn is Chocolate Chip. Thanks for looking and I hope you all have a great weekend.I'm going to go trim some hedges out in the frontyard! The weather is so beautiful right now... I love it:-)

My Digital Studio Share

From Heidi...We're sharing our first published My Digital Studio creation...It's a digitally designed cover for a cookbook binder we're putting together. Adriel and I sat down yesterday and within a half-hour had designed this together. (I don't know what it is about the times that we design together, but we definitely get a lot done in a short amount of time...I guess it's true that two heads are better than one). All I can say is that it was fun! And for our first attempt at something like this, I was very pleased with the results. I can't wait to try it out on other projects.Hope this cheery recipe cover brightens your day. Thanks for looking!

Apple Picking

From Adriel:

It has been AGES since I posted on our blog! I've been MIA for a couple of weeks... took a bunch of pictures today of new stuff! Will share that soon... today I wanted to share pictures with you of our apple picking last weekend. =)

We went down to Willcox to pick apples!

We picked Granny Smith apples.

Some of us sampled them while in the orchard (with permission).

Did I mention we picked apples? Yup! 100 pounds of them! =)

Afterward, some of us had homemade Pumpkin Pie ice cream.

Others in our party chose the homemade apple pie.

We also ate apple-smoked burgers under the apple trees, but I have no picture of that. ;-)

The next day we washed all of our apples and cooked a bunch to make applesauce (which went into containers and into the freezer), kept a few for caramel apples and baked apples, and the rest we used our handy dandy apple corer, peeler, slicer tool. It's an amazing invention and we wouldn't have done all that apple discecting if we didn't have one! Our sliced apples when into ziploc bags (8 apples in each) with a little bit of sugar and some absorbic acid (to prevent browning) and into the freezer. We were able to crank out 24 bags of apples... long enough to last us for awhile! Now, when we want to make an apple pie or an apple crisp (or something apple-y), we have the apples all ready to go! All sliced and peeled! =)

BTW, if you are into apples, you really should have one of these. It's a wonder! Watch it in action HERE. =D

Christmas Card Number 5

From Heidi...Here's another Christmas card. I used the Merry Moments designer paper which gives this card a very cheer look. CS: Very Vanilla, Read Red, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip; Stampset: Holiday Best; Ink: Old Olive, Real Red; Punches: 2" Circle punch, Wide Oval Punch, Scallop Edge; Accessories: 5/8" Real Red Grosgrain ribbon, Red button, brad.

Christmas Card Number 4

From Heidi...Here's another Christmas card. I used the Big Shot Lots of Tags to punch the red background for the Wide Oval stamped Vanilla piece. It gives the card a festive look. The patterns from the Merry Moments designer paper really looks nice with the Real Red contrast. CS: Real Red, Very Vanilla; Ink: Chocolate Chip; Punches: BS Lots of Tags, Wide Oval; Stampset: Hostess Set - Christmas Punch.
Happy Monday!!

Thanksgiving Table and Stamp-A-Technique Classes

Here are the pictures of our upcoming classes.
Thanksgiving Table, Thursday, October 15
12:30-3 PM and 7-9:30 PMStamp-A-Technique with Watercoloring

Tuesday, October 20
1-3 PM and 7-9 PM
Thursday, October 22
7-9 PM

Christmas Card Number 3

From Heidi...I love this Merry Moments designer paper...it makes a simple card look special! I punched a couple of 5-petal flowers in Real Red and staggered them to create a Poinsetta-looking flower and dimensionaled it onto the Wedding Sweet stampset's small bouquet. Stampset: All Holidays, Wedding Sweet; Ink: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, So Saffron; CS: Very Vanilla, Real Red, Old Olive. Thanks for looking! Hope you all have a great weekend.

Another Christmas Card Share

From Heidi...
Here's another Christmas Card from our upcoming November SAS. The Medallion stampset is so versatile. It makes a great wreath. Ink: Old Olive, Real Red; Stampset: Medallion, Holiday Best; Punches: 2" Circle, 1-3/4" Circle.

Five Christmas Cards

From Heidi...I'm sharing Card 1 from our upcoming Christmas Stamp-A-Stack next month. I started creating these cards based on Sharon Field's One Sheet Wonder Christmas Card class she shared, but once I got into designing, I had some other ideas for the cards. So Sharon became my jump board for these cards. I used Stampin' Up's "Merry Moments" Designer paper...I love all the paper designs. This card uses: Real Red, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip CS; All Holidays, Circle Circus stamp sets; 1" and 1-1/4" Circle Punches. Thanks for taking time to visit us!

Cute Idea

From Heidi...I saw this idea for Gift Card Holder Ornament on Jenni Diercks blog. This is such a fun way to give a gift card at Christmas...Hang it on the tree! Just wanted to share this idea with all of you. We'll be making a couple of these in our upcoming Christmas Treasures class in November, along with other fun gift-giving ideas.

October Tumbleweed Classes

We'll be keeping this post at the top for the next few weeks. Check below for any new posts.

We're including pictures and information on our upcoming October classes at Tumbleweed Recreation Center. Online registration information is at the end of this post.

Card Making: In the Mist (324TW.139) Tuesday, 10/6, 10-11:30 AM
Tumbleweed Fee: $3 Instructor Fee: $8 Supply Fee: $2

Cardmaking: All Cracked Up (325TW.139)

Tuesday, 10/13, 10-11:30 AM
Tumbleweed Fee: $3 Instructor Fee: $8 Supply Fee: $3

Papercrafting: A Thankful Table (328TW.139) Tuesday, 10/13, 12:30-2:30 PM
Tumbleweed Fee: $3 Instructor Fee: $10 Supply Fee: $2

If you'd like to join us for any of these classes at Tumbleweed Recreation Center, 745 E. Germann Rd., Chandler, AZ (Germann/McQueen Rds., just 1 block south of the 202):
1. Go to: http://www.chandleraz.gov/default.aspx?pageid=182
2. Click on "Register Now" which takes you to the Activity Page
3. Enter the Activity Code on the right side of page, click "Go"
4. Class details appear, click on "Add to My Cart" which will lead you through the registration process.

View Our October Newsletter

We've just posted our October Newsletter. You can Click Here to view it, or scroll down to our newsletter button. We've got lots of fun pictures, news, and a tutorial inside. Enjoy!