AC Moore: Festive Fiskars Fun Forthcoming!

Want a preview of the Fiskars Holiday Card Class coming up on Friday, Nov. 7? We'll be making 6 cards using the ultra easy to use brand new texture plates! They're an easy, inexpensive, yet beautiful way to create fabulous cards for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukkah, Yule, or make sets of notecards for friends and family on your gift list.

Wanna come? Sign up at A.C. Moore on Capital Blvd. in Raleigh anytime between now and the start of class on the 7th. :) If you let me know you're planning to come, that not only helps me make sure I have enough kits put together ahead of time, but also makes me think you're extra super nice. Awwww!

The class fee is $15, and that includes all supplies plus your very own Fiskars embossing stylus to take home so you can start making more cards asap!

P.S. Are you a Fiskateer yet? Want to be one? Just go to http://www.fiskateers.com/ and contact any lead Fiskateer you want. Tell them Veronica (Fiskateer #1135) sent you. It's free and it's fun. I love the online crops, challenges, chats, and project ideas. It's a fun little community and it must be cool--I hang out there! ;)

Fiskars Fun Part 2: All of the Projects

Hi Everyone!

I am posting all of the projects we worked on last night in case you didn't have time to finish. I know some of these are in the previous post, but I wanted to put them all together so you don't have to sort through other posts. I hope you had a great time and that you'll come to my next Fiskars class on Oct. 3. We'll be making a fall-themed layout (great for Thanksgiving pics or for those playing in the leaves photos) and a bunch of animal themed cards (see the froggie card, previous post), including a pet themed one (choice of dog or cat) since I know you guys love your little critters!

For those who couldn't make the class, I'd love to see you at the next one. Sure, we had a few learning experiences (I think we had too many projects in too little time and everyone seemed to want more cards, fewer layouts) but that's ok--that just means our next class will be even better! I also had a request for a class using some of the cool clear stamps by Heidi Grace or Lil' Davis, so keep an eye out for a stamping class soon. To be honest, I kind of shied away from stamping in this first class simply because I teach so many stamping classes already (I'm a Stampin' Up rep), but I'm always up for more stamping! I'm thinking perhaps a holiday card class in November. Anyone interested?

On to the pics. If you have any questions, just let me know!

Sneak Peek: Fiskars Fun Class this Thursday at AC Moore, Raleigh

Shhhhhhh! Don't tell the grownups, but I found these supersecret pictures under the couch along with some change and a lot of dusty loose glitter. Rumor has it, they're samples you'll be seeing at the A.C. Moore class I'm teaching this week. To avoid ruining all the fun, I'll just let you see a few samples...we might even be making some of them in class on Thursday. You'll have to come to class to find out which ones (and to see the projects I'm not divulging here!) Details below...
So, here's the scoop. Stop by AC Moore on Capital Blvd. and sign up at register one. We'll be making a couple of beautiful layouts and some neat cards while we learn how to use Fiskars tools. And as if that wasn't enough, AC Moore is having a 50% off sale on Fiskars tools, so if you like what you see, you have a great excuse to pick 'em up. The class fee is $15 (plus a few basic supplies) for the class and a heap o' fiskars goodies I'll have ready for you when you arrive! Don't miss this one!

More layouts from the CM crop...

This layout would probably embarass my poor brother (Nicky of Scars and Stripes) to death. I'm proud of his keyboard work in their punky rock-n-roll band ("they" including my other brother Mikey, the bassist/frontman last I heard though it seems like they switch around all the time so I could be wrong.) Anyway, a bit of Nicky's musical foundation is exhibited in this die cut sprinkled page. Yeah, it's a bit on the dorky side, but I wanted to reflect the rather dorky feeling one always has posing for their mom before a high school choral concert circa 1990. I used the blue flowers to pick up that colonial blue in the decor in the background--a color oh so very popular at the time, and of course, I had to match it with duty rose to complete the 90's ish "decorator" style. Notice the other artifact of the period style? Yep. There's a painting of geese in the background. You'll be glad to know that yes, mom has updated the look of the house. To prove that I'm decendent of a craftygirl, check out the little blue stuffed cat by Nick's rented shoes...she made that!


Hooray for a snowy layout! I hate summer. I hate the heat. So why not escape into some paper flurries. I used the brand spankin new snow-blossom punch from Stampin Up to make the flakes, then punched some brads (from the Fiskateers again...Heidi Grace, I think--the soft blues went very nicely with the Stampin Up cardstock cutouts), then added some nifty Creative Memories stickers and a journal box I got at the crop. I really like the icy look and the way the stickers ended up looking like they were falling. If you can see the pics at all, that's my little dog Usagi enjoying the snow.


Okay, I made an effort to turn this rightside up and yet...it was probably better off sideways. Sigh. Well, it was a very cute rat layout using some lovely products I received via a Fiskateers contest (Whoo hoo!) I loved the paper, loved the stickers, the tissue paper that said it was good for backing photos...looks good, but was a total pain to work with. I'll keep the rest for fluffing up gifts or possibly for decopaging stuff. Cool designs though. I think we need more gift wrapping stuff to go with altered gift bags, the tags we work so hard on, etc. So, it's a good product, just don't try to mat photos with it.