My CHA Adventures

Hi -

I just returned home from CHA last night and will be sharing some of my adventures with you this week. 

 

I'm so excited to tell you about a brand new E-Book that was released the first day of the show by Karen Burniston of  Elizabeth Craft Designs.  I'm so proud to say that I'm featured in it along with Karen and the entire Pop it Ups Designer Challenge Team.  Each of us made a project focusing on the new release along with complete

 photo and written instructions.  

 

 

You can peruse the book easily on a computer, phone or tablet at this link: Pop it Ups Cardmaking Winter 2016 If you'd like to download the book so you can print it, choose the "Share" button and then choose "Download". Issuu also has a free mobile app if you prefer.

 

 

Here I am with Karen at the Elizabeth Craft Designs booth where my

Barrel of Monkeys card was on display.

 

Hope to see you tomorrow when I will be sharing more photos from the show.

S@ndy

 

Card #2 for January 28, 2016

Hi again,

I'm back today to share the second card we will be making at The Paper Collage on January 28th.  This time we will be using the Oval Pull Card designed by Karen Burniston and the Hot Air Balloon designed by Joset de van Burgt.  All part of the new release from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

 

 

 

 

The design of the card makes the balloon appear to be flying through the air.  Please contact the store for details by clicking here.

 

Come join us to see how it's done,

S@ndy

Class card for January 28, 2016

Hi all,

I am currently away having a great time at CHA but thought I would share this cute card that I am teaching at The Paper Collage on January 28th.  For details on the class, contact the store by

clicking here.

 

The front of the card and the verse on the inside features a great new set of dies, Stitched Ovals, designed by Els de van Burgt - owner of Elizabeth Craft Designs.  The fun Pop Up Cake on the inside, designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs, is being released this week at CHA.   Both die sets are available for purchase starting next week. 

 

Hope to see you at The Paper Collage,

S@ndy

2016 The Year of the Monkey

Hi my friends-

I hope you will join me at Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog today for a full tutorial on how I made this cute little décor item featuring Jinks the Monkey.  Jinks is one of the new character dies from
Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

 

Hope to see you there,
S@ndy 

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR - I'm stopping by today to wish everyone a happy & healthy new year and to share a tag for the first day of 2016.

I've been playing with some of the fabulous new papers from Elizabeth Craft Designs called "Through the Lens" designed by Els van de Burgt.  I feel in love with these papers at first sight and couldn't wait to start using them. There are three categories, Wood, Metal & Stone and they are all just beautiful.  They will be available soon.  Today I'm using Metal for the background and Stone for the brick mortar.

 

 The paper and dies I used are linked below.

 

OK, I see that the theme for Mixed Media Monthly Challenge is "Time Flies", this tag will fit that theme perfectly.

 

 

I had no idea when I made this that it would fit so many other challenges out there in blogland but I will also be adding it to Crazy 4 Challenges. They want "Z", for zipper of course.

 

 

Hope this is your best year yet!!!

S@ndy

Vintage Travel & Luggage

Hi everyone, today is the start of a brand new challenge at A Vintage Journey.  I hope you will join the creative fun and post a project.  This month we are talking about Vintage Travel and Luggage and the Creative guides have made some amazing samples for you.  Hopefully you will be inspired to play along.

Mac and I are going on a big trip later this year so I made a fun little valise to store our tickets, photos and souvenirs.  The inside is filled with little pockets, tags and stamped images where we can tuck away those fond memories.

 

 

I started with a chipboard kit that I found at my local craft store from Pine Cone Press.  You will notice all kinds of Tim's goodies as well as some of my favorite Graphic 45 paper.

 

Below are some photos of the inside, I'm looking forward to putting this to use.

 

Get some ink on those fingers and make something vintage,

S@ndy

 

 

 

More fun than -----

Hi -

Today I'm working on some things for CHA and want to share one of my cards with you.   Elizabeth Craft Designs is showing their new release that will be available in January 2016. 
You can see it all right here.
 Karen Burniston has 2 new characters, Baker the Beaver, who I introduced to you to a few days ago, and  Jinks the Monkey.  Jinks is one of my favorites and I have made a few cards and tags with him. 

 

This card would work great for those guys in your life as well as kids.  Everyone wants to have fun on their birthday and what is more fun than A BARREL OF MONKEYS?

This card was so much fun to make and I used several of Karen's great dies, all listed below.  There is Jinks of course, The Barrel Basket Die and the new Pull Card Edges.  No party is complete without party favors from the Props 2 set and a balloon from the Spiral Circle Pull Card - "Celebrate" comes from the Flourish Gift Frame and the streamers from the Rectangle Pull Card.

Stay tuned for more fun with Jinks and the rest of this great new collection coming to

your local craft store soon.

 

Have a great week,

S@ndy