OPERATION WRITE HOME AND WOW WEDNESDAY

Only ONE day until the Retreat! Are you going? Do you make cards? Allison will have a box to collect cards for Operation Write Home (www.operationwritehome.org). We are already past the Christmas deadline, so any holiday cards should be Love/Valentine's. We also need plenty of thank you, miss you, and thinking of you cards as well! Visit the OWH website  for the guidelines. The most important are: 4.25 x 5.5" cards, NO glitter, be sure that dark card bases are lined with white paper. Allison will take care of the rest by providing white card bases if you just make the card fronts as well as the OWH labels and the envelopes. Bring cards with you or make them there - you never know if Cat is going to provide a prize/incentive for cards you make! Let's see if we can fill TWO large flat rate boxes - wouldn't that be awesome to send to our deployed troops to write home on?!

The winner from last weeks' blog hop, chosen by random.org, was #24- Karen Hacknay, from Valerie's blog. Congratulations...contact Cat at the store to claim your prize!

We love seeing the work of our wonderful friends and customers and there is always inspiration to be found while visiting their projects. Would you like to participate, but do not have a blog? You do not have to have a blog to participate. You can find the directions on how to link up your creations that you have in a gallery here.

To be considered for the blog candy, you must post a project that you have created. WOW Wednesday must also be mentioned in your post and be sure to let your blog readers know that there is blog candy being given away to a random participant or commenter. .

I hope you will share your fabulous creations with us. If you didn't have time to create anything, I hope you will share some love on everyone else's creations--we all love that positive reinforcement

Just a reminder that I am not considered for the blog candy, but anyone who comments on my blog IS in the running. Thank you to everyone who participated last week, either by posting some work or commenting on the blogs.

ELECTION DAY TAG FUN!

This beautiful tag is one of Nanci's inspiration tags.  It definitely inspired us!

This is another of her inspiration tags.  Love the angel!

This is a beautiful tag that someone was working on.  LOVE it!

This is Nanci's tag and it has the pinecones on it that she taught us how to make using the Tim Holtz die.

Look at this amazing Tag that Sandy made for homework.  Simply BEAUTIFUL!

DID YOU REMEMBER TO CAST YOUR VOTE? 

 

 

IT IS A MARVELOUSLY TAG-TASTIC MONDAY

I want to share the beautiful snowy tags that were created at our second tag class on Saturday.  Even though the predominant theme is snow and snowmen or reindeer, each tag is still very unique.

This is Valerie's snowy creation.  I love how she antiqued the edges of the tag and the trees are shaded with brown.  Love those tattered banners!

This is Cat's creation.  She was excited to get to create a tag on Saturday.  She used the "blueprint" snowman stamp and colored the snowflakes on her tag with the new Faber Castell crayons, then inked over them.  They resist the ink, so the background is inked and the snowflakes stayed light blue.  LOVE those things....and yes, I had to buy some.

This is Sandy Trefger's glittery snowman tag.  He is so very sparkly and I love that he is textured.  This is one of the combo die/embossing folder sets that Sizzix has. 

This is the tag I made using the snow embossing folder and a reindeer from a grungeboard set.  On the collage stamped image, I colored the reindeer and the snowflakes with those Faber Castell crayons and then inked over it.  The snowflakes stayed white and the reindeer stayed brown--FUN!

This was Nanci's inspiration tag.  She stickled the snowflakes and used the blueprint snowman on her tag.  BEAUTIFUL!

Going along with the snow theme, this is Sandy Trefger's spectacular homework tag.  So beautiful!  The snowflakes at the bottom slide a piece out--AMAZING!

 

Come back tomorrow to see the last of the fabulous tags that were created Saturday.  We had lots of fun and there were lots of wonderful creations.

 

 





TAG-TASTIC CLASS

Nanci had a room full of attentive students as she explained the cool techniques she was going to teach us at our second tag class.

Everyone was so impressed with the use of shipping tape to transfer images to facets and then putting the metal behind them to give them the look of mercury glass.

These are the facets that Nanci made for the sample tag.  All done with an image you select, shipping tape, water, and then applying metal tape behind.  AMAZING!

A completed tag and it even has the pine cones that we learned how to make in the second part of our class.  That was another cool technique using Tim Holtz's pine cone die.

These are Shaunery's tags "in progress".  She used rectangular facets on her tag.  I fell in love with the songbook dimensional Christmas tree she made.

This is the tag Sandy Trefger made and embellished with the facet she made.

This is the tag I made and embellished with my facets. 

 

Look at this beautiful tag that Kelly Maddux is working on.  I love the blues and whites on this!

 

Check back tomorrow for more tags from our tag class.  Nanci did a great job of teaching us some wonderful techniques.  So much creativity in the room!







IT''S CATURDAY

It's time for the second tag class today.  I wonder what fabulous tags will be created today!  Nanci shared a sneak peek with us:

Looks like we are going to be using some facets on our tags.  I see the pinecone...so we will learn how to make the pinecone using Tim Holtz's die. 

I understand that hurricane Sandy prevented one of the orders from arriving, so we will improvise (aka be creative).  Look what DID come in:

Paper Crafter's Crayons by Faber Castell.  Cat was going to play with these on some tags.  It will be fun to see what she dreamed up using these cool things!

 

I hope you are able to spend some time being creative this weekend.  Stop by the store and pick up your supplies.

See you there!

 



IT'S FRIDAY!

Happy Friday!  What do you have planned for this weekend?  I hope some creating is in your plans.  A lot of us will be at Cat's for the second tag class.  We had so much fun creating beautiful tags with Nanci.  Even though our order from Ranger has been delayed by hurricane Sandy, it will just force us to be more creative by using what is available.  I think that is even more fun!

In addition to the tag class, some will be getting things ready for the retreat that begins on Thursday, November 8th.  While you are packing for the retreat, don't forget your chair! 

Don't want this to happen to you!

Pack your bags...don't forget the important things!

Pack a flashlight...haven't seen any bears, but we know there are snakes.

Might need to pack some depends....there will be lots of laughing!

When you get to the retreat, all you have to worry about is eating, sleeping, and creating.

Load up your car and head for Mitchell's Resort in Perrin.

then.....

Get ready to have a blast creating, laughing, eating, and relaxing.

THANKFUL THURSDAY SALE

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas,

Everywhere you go.......

As the song goes, it is looking a lot like Christmas. Christmas is in the stores and the weather is getting cooler. I know, it isn't cold, but it isn't 100 degrees either!

To help you get in the Christmas spirit, all Christmas products are 15% off today only if you show this blog post to Cat or Valerie. There are so many beautiful Christmas products in the store, just waiting for you to come pick them up.

Have you seen the latest?
This just arrived yesterday.

This is City Sidewalks by Pink Paislee. I love the catalog page, the vintage prints up at the top of the photo. WOW. This is quite beautiful.

Check out the embellishments. These would really dress up a page!

There is so much Christmas goodness in the store right now.

This is a great time to pick up some of the beautiful Christmas products that Cat has stocked the store with.  Don't delay...the sale is good only today.  15% off all Christmas!
And...we are open until 8:00 p.m. tonight so you have plenty of time to shop.

Now all you have to do is decide what to buy!