Smiles with a Chance of More Smiles

Happy Wednesday!  Just thought I'd share another page I did for a class with Heather Summers.  I love classes!  They are a really great way to force yourself to do things....like these pics from two years ago! Nothing like doing a scrapbooking class to get your bum in gear--now, after doing 12 pages in two weeks, I admit, I've now done ZERO in the last 6!  Time to get a move on!!  Thanks for popping by!

These were fun little tea holders that I made for a team meeting.  I have never done shading straight onto the patterned paper before, but I really like how they turned out!  

Rolled Candles

Saw a card on Pinterest with 6 rolled candles a couple of weeks ago, and just KNEW I had to make one!  My hubby turned 37 today, so I was able to make this.  I told my girls that they were all totally getting cards like this for their birthdays!  I cut all the pieces first--I used 2"x1" pieces of patterned paper and cardstock for the candles.  Even though the patterned paper was patterned cardstock, the regular Stampin' Up! cardstock was harder to roll.  I suppose it might have been easier if I would have curled it like curling ribbon before I cut it, but I think I might just try to stick with patterned paper.  After that,  I used some Tombo glue to attach the 1/2" pieces of Baker's Twine.  Then I took a strip of Sticky Strip tape and applied it to the closing part of the roll(I did this prior to rolling, so I could just close it easily).  To apply all of the candles to the card, I applied 3 long strips of Sticky Strip across the whole card, and placed them.  Some work, but WELL worth it!  Thanks for looking!

27 Dresses(eventually!)

These cards were extremely fun, and beautiful!  Please don't ask me for the template....I looked everywhere, and every link I found had been removed--maybe from a copyright issue.  Anyway, I just free hand drew the bodice, and then just played with the skirt part on computer paper(bottom of the skirt part is rounded).  Once I got it to be doable, I just marked my fold lines on the template. I then traced onto the back of some patterned paper, and cut.  I then used my Simply Scoring tool to just score on top of the template stacked on top of the patterned paper.  I had to cut another template after making a few of these!  LOVE them!

Elegant Place Cards

These were place cards that I made for a girlfriend's birthday brunch.  I made them with MDS(My Digital Studio)--testing the placement of the name with the images to make sure the frame embossing die would be right.  I started with the largest name, then once I test printed, I could just copy and paste the whole thing across the page(4/page).  I then cut, folded, embossed, then sponge inked the edges.  And for the final touch, the teeniest pearls from our Basic Pearl accents.

I did the same thing for these food labels(8/page since I was mounting them).  I then added butterflies from the Beautiful Wings embosslit die.

Mother

This was a really stunning card to make...You could make this for so many occasions, really.  It uses the Labels Collection Framelits Dies, and embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper folder.  It was then lightly brayered with Soft Suede ink(as well as all of the edges--sponged), then adhered with Dimensionals, and a delicate touch of pearls to complete it.  I will definitely be making more of these!

These pages are two that I have done for a class with Heather Summers.  There is still time to join, even though the class is coming to a close soon.  There are hundreds of photos, and tons of videos if you would like to learn more about using My Digital Studio.  You can download it free for 30 days to give it a try!