November Tea Swap - Open Call

This spooky tea card was created by my October partner, Kim who lives in Ware, MA. I just love the Magenta Tea Party Stamp she used! Never seen one like that before.


Open call for our November Tea Swap. If you are interested in joining, please let me know!!!

Requirements: You will mail 2 tea bags to your partner in a handmade card by November 10.
Optional Theme: Fall Colors, i.e. orange, green, red, yellow. Card can be blank OR you can write a note in it. Your choice!

If you are interested, contact me no later than October 25. Include the following information privately to me:

1) your name
2) mailing address
3) email address
4) likes/dislikes/allergies (re tea type)
5) Loose tea okay? Y/N
6) blog (if any)
7) If you are willing to swap outside of the US or US ONLY

I will send a group email with the partner list by 10/27. Teas must be mailed out by November 10.

Drop me a line today if you are interested!

A Year of Cards (10/28 and 11/11)

A YEAR OF CARDS - CHRISTMAS CARDS AND TAGS

It's up! It's up!! Last project for 2010!! 2 tags, 2 cards and a gift card holder.
Lots of paper piecing in these projects.
Same project, 2 different dates:

A Place in Time, Kailua
October 28 and November 11, 2010
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
$25

Sign up early because I'm sure it'll go fast.

These will be the last classes that I teach for 2010. I need to switch gears for craft fair season. Thank you to all that signed up for a Year of Cards 2010. It's been wonderful to see you each month. We'll start another Year of Cards in January 2011.

So, I couldn't stop with Santa . . . .

She was much harder to do.
First try: She looked too young and glamorous;
Second Try: She looked too... chubby? Need to resize her nose!
Third try and very pleased.
Presenting . . . .

Mrs. Claus!

Ho, Ho, Ho!

More Christmas tags for Kyoko's tag swap. These are going to Myra from Kailua (hey, in my neighborhood!). Doesn't he look .... dreamy! Love those bedroom eyes (LOL!). This Santa came together rather quickly. It just took a LONG time getting my thoughts onto paper. Hope she likes them!!

Very Spidey Halloween Tea Card

The color of our tea swap this month is orange and black and here's my card going to Debbie in Vine Grove, Kentucky. I hope she likes it!


This is the second card I made for APT uses very similar supplies, all leftovers from my card class last month.

Supplies: Tim Holtz Die, gold brads, Bazzil cs, Gold ribbon, Prima PP, Nesties, Tattered Angels Glitter Mist, APT Spider Stamp

Moth Orchid Card

Here's the punch:

. . . and here's the card!

The card is a demo for the store, A Place in Time, and uses the Moth Orchid Punch Bunch, Nestabilities, Bazzil cs, Quickutz Die, Vellum, Chalk, and Crystal Effects

An image, a stamped image . . .

For our next Scrapbook Club meeting, we are having a stamped image swap. Here's what's involved. We stamp and/or emboss our stamps on a plain piece of cardstock and swap these out. Above is an example above which I got from my friend Sherri.

I love it when the image is already embossed because that's just not my forte. Well, taking the image, I color and create a card. Wa-laaa,

. . . a Birthday Card!

This type of swap is a great idea for getting more for those stamps that are collecting dust (you know we have LOTS of them!) and "transforming" them into new ones.

Have a great evening!

My Christmas tags

This is for Kyoko's tag swap. I made three of these for my partner this month, Jodi Lee. Hope she likes them. I can't wait to see what she came up with.

Swap card share

This is my swap card for my 3x3 Christmas swap that is due early next month. All products are CTMH except the googly eyes. Used Nestabilities for the circles/scalloped circles and an old QK die for the reindeer.

Tia's Christmas Tags

My tag partner this month for Kyoko's tag swap is Tia Iida. Look what she sent me. Aren't they the cutest!! I believe the diecuts are Quickutz. I just love them!! Thank you so much, Tia, for these cute tags!!

Spooky Omiyage

These are samples for the next class at A Place in Time, Kailua, on October 14, 2010, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Cost: $20

Omiyage gifts for co-workers, friends and family. Just little things to let the recipient know that you are thinking of them.

Here we have a (1) Trick or Treat bag to hold candy and other items (This bag fits those 3x3 PLUS 3 1/4 envelopes perfectly); (2) Spider Candy Wrapper; (3) Another peek-a-boo candy wrapper that shows the candy bar when the ribbon is pulled; (4) Little girl witch tag with candy tube (ok, so there really are beads in the sample tube); and 5) 2 eyeballs