have a merry and *foxy* christmas.

A little teaser for this Friday's card class:



I stamped the tag onto the white cardstock piece, and then again onto the "merry" die-cut.  (I cut the word "merry" out of white cardstock using the cameo silhouette and then used a green marker to add color... I love how it looks like more of a "watery" green - as opposed to if I had cut it out of green cardstock.  It almost looks stamped!)

I colored and fussy-cut the fox and the hole-reinforcer and added them on top.



I hope you like it (especially if you're scheduled to come over on Friday evening!)

♥.

Card class kits.

It's Friday, baby! And every Friday evening from now until early December will be giggly and crafty and christmas-y.  I am running Christmas card-making classes out of my home (since the cute eight year old with the walker can't make it out to the Awana clubs at church with the other two.)

I had all the card pieces cut for our class tonight when I spied the new challenge over at CAS-ual fridays.

Sooo, I decided to fancy-pants the kits for tonight's class.  I can't promise the same treatment for future classes, by the way.  haha.

I popped everything that my crafters will need to complete 4 cards into 4 separate envelopes (because, organization is my sanity-saver during class time) and into a brown lunch bag.  Each bag got its own handles and a coordinating tag.

When I'm making duplicates, I don't fuss with tiny alphabet stamps.  The words "card kit" were printed out and I stamped that Mama Elephant critter so I wouldn't even have to mask anything.

If you want to see a sneak peek of how everything looks all set up on the table for tonight's class, visit my facebook page (click!)  I'm always excited to teach a little of what I know and enjoy the company of old and new friends alike!

♥.

holidays tags... in 10 minutes!

I'm thrilled to be joining the fun over at Pretty Pink Posh for a special edition of the 10 minutes craft dash!

You have from now until December 15th, to create a fabulous project, and all you have to do is make it in under (or around) 10 minutes, and feature a red element in your project (a no-brainer, so close to Christmas!)

There is a great prize up for grabs: check out Pretty Pink Posh for all of the details.

For my project, I created a set of 3 Christmas tags, using the adorable "no peeking" set by Mama Elephant.  The only thing I did ahead of time was to create a slightly larger cut file of the tag image, and set it to cut in my cameo silhouette while I was crafting.  I ended up with an entire sheet of white tags that I could layer my quick & easy tags onto...

First thing:

 

Stamp the tag images and the little critters, as well as the hole-reinforcer image.  Took barely a minute.  Then, place masks onto the critters (I ALWAYS create masks when I first receive a stamp set, especially if it involves adorable critter images.  I store them with the stamp set for future use.  It's part of my before-I-play-with-the-set rituals.)

Once the masks are in place, grab a sponge and some juicy red ink (I used Fresh Ink, but you could use Distress Ink) and start building up the red color.  I love that this gave me all kinds of shadows and variations of color.  I took my time here - this step took me about 3 minutes.



Now, slowly unmask the images.  Perfection!  Stamp the "no peeking" sentiment on each tag, color in the scarves, cut each tag out and adhere to the larger white tags.  Three holiday tags created in 9 mins, 35 seconds...

Then, with the time run out, make some more tags because this was too much fun:




If you'd like to see more of me today, I have a card up on the CSS app today:

Click on the image to be whisked away to the app store.

Thanks for stopping by!