Bella Makes Beautiful Cards

Wednesday night I held a card workshop. Four friends and cusomters came over and made 20 cards (2 each of 10 designs) using the "Just Becuase" workshop from the new Wishes Card Confidence book and the Bella paper packet.

Here are 8 of the cards we made that night... I've left out two because they're not finished yet...

Supplies Used:

• Bella Paper Pack
• I Am Stamp Set from Tickled Pink Promo
• Cottage Floral Stamp Set
• Playful Flourishes Stamp Set
• Playful Petals Stamp Set
• Hollyhock Dash ribbon
• Sparkles
• Creme Brule Ink
• Smokey Plum Ink
• Olive Ink
• Vanilla Cream Ink
• Hollyhock Ink

Cards from a Level 1 kit

I saw this on the Close To My Heart consultants bulletin board and I thought I'd give it a try. I have had a level one kit hanging around for months... I bought it back in May at the CTMH Warehouse sale at the Women's Expo and have since decided that its not quite going to work for me. I'm just not much of a level 1 user for my scrapbook pages. Besides... the Stickease that came with it weren't great... all borders, frames and tags... no alphabet, no little icons.

Anyway, here's what I came up with this afternoon/evening...

All 11 Cards

Close ups: 8x3 and two 4x5.5

Close up: four 4x4s

Close up: 5x7 and two 4x5.5

These cards all used pieces of the pre-printed layouts and the "My Stickease" cardstock stickers that came with the kit. I added brads and papers flowers to some of them and stamped the sentiments. The ribbon is not CTMH... just something I had in my stash and didn't already have a purpose in life. I'm not crazy about all of them, but I did start to like them better when I remembered Tresa Black's advice on using stickers and started altering them and inking them as I felt necessary.

There is not template, so if you want to give it a try make up some card bases and start figuring out what parts of your pre-printed layouts you like best for each card. You should have plenty of paper... I only used 3 out of the 4 layouts on mine. Happy scrapping!

Supplies Used:

• Fairy Tales Level 1 Kit (retired)
• From Me To You stamp set
• Whooo Loves You stamp set
• Thoughtful Seasons stamp set
• Card Commentary stamp set
• Doodle Alphabet stamp set
• Playful Petals stamp set
Garden Green Brads
Garden Green Ink
Desert Sand Ink
Big Pinks paper flowers

Christmas Card Workshop

Here's a sneak peek at my upcoming Christmas card workshop! You'll make 50 beautiful, hand-stamped card in just 3 hours. You can choose from "Evensong" (red & green) or "Aspen" (blue & cream) papers and a variey of winter and holiday themed stamps. Workshop is the morning of November 1st... leave a comment or contact me if you'd like to do the workshop. Cost is $25, prepaid no later than October 24th.

New Gathering Card

This came to me Friday morning as I was laying bed, trying to wake up between "snoozes" of my alarm clock. My mind must have been thinking about my sister's gathering, which was schedule for Friday evening. I tought about it all morning at work. When I got home was was please to find Allison down for a nap, so I grabbed my stamps and supplies and started working. Here is what I ended up with:




Please ignore the smudged sentiment and the spot on the owl that I could not, for the life of me, get to ink up. This came out pretty close to my vision. I also love this card for gatherings becuase its a little more in-depth in stamping than others I've come up with, which gives a better introduction to the product for gathering guests. It also gives me a chance to teach some techniques... hopefully that will make people want to learn MORE techniques and think about signing up for my monthly hostess clubs. =) Techniques here are second generation stamping and sponging with a little bit of paper piecing and use of liquid glass.

This card would also be so cute using the bigger owl from the Whooo Loves You stamp set, but the card would have to be at least 4" x 5.5"... I didn't want to do ones that big for a gathering. It would also be ADORABLE to either use brads for the owl's eyes or dye liquid glass with re-inker to color the eyes in.

Supply List

White Daisy Cardstock (cardbase and stamp surface)

Smokey Plum Cardstock (mat)

Ink Colors: Cocoa, Topiary, Sunflower, Purple Pansy, Lilac Mist. Black

Stamp Sets: Whooo Loves You, From Me To You

Accessories: Liquid glass

Gathering Cards

Here are a few cards that I've made with my new kit materials. The notebook papers are pretty cute, and I'm finidng that the Perfect Day pack is cuter than it looks in the idea book. I LOVE the cute "Shining Star" stamp set, as well as "Whooo Loves You". So cute. I'm thinking these will be the gathering projects I make for my first few gatherings.