Updates - Some Changes, Classes, Upcoming Sale, and Online Store

New Year and New Beginnings.  Ok, so it’s not the beginning of the year anymore lol.  But life and things happen.  So I just wanted to give you a little update with some changes and maybe some new and different things that you will be seeing here on the blog.  So let’s go back a few months—back to last November (2014).

As most of you know I design for ButterBeeScraps and I am the Lead Designer.  Over the past year or so I have been helping Monique, the owner of BBS, with some of the Design Team things.  Back in November she asked me if I would possibly be able to take on some new rolls with the company.  I am still the DT Lead and now in addition to that I also do the company blog, Facebook and Pinterest.   Monique is wonderful and we have a fantastic team so I am enjoying this new position.

Also, this past November I made the decision to step down from the Spellbinders Blog Team.  I had been with Spellbinders since 2007.  I met and worked with so many wonderful people along the way and had great opportunities over the years.  I love the products and will continue to use them but I knew for myself it was time to step down and move on to the next chapter in my creative journey.

Now on to the New Year and New Beginnings.  In January I joined Ken Oliver’s Design Team as one of the Style Contributor.  Ken is fabulous and so are all of his new products—which by the way have taken off like wildfire!  Beautiful paper, inks, Color Burst, stamps, and Stick It adhesive sheets.  We have a great team with a wonderful mix of designers.

In March I started designing for Pink Ink Stamp Company.  Peggy who is the owner, is an amazing artist and designs the stamps.  Do you remember Karen Lockhart stamps?—if you loved them you will love the Pink Ink Stamps—one because the design style is very similar and two because Peggy purchased Lockhart stamps and also carries them in her collection.  So I was thrilled when Peggy asked me to join the design team.

Starting this month (April) I will be teaching stamping classes twice a month.  If you follow my blog you know I live in a smaller town and unfortunately we no longer have any local stamping or scrapbooking stores.  I will be teaching at the Senior Center out at the Skyline Mall.  Since we don’t have any local stores we are making the classes open to the public as well as members.  They have a large fantastic craft room with great lighting, large tables and lots of storage space.  I am really excited and looking forward to getting back to teaching!  If you are in the local area and are interested in the classes all of the information will be at the end of this post. 

For all the local people I am planning on having another sale this year.  Last year we had a fire in our garage so most of the spring and summer was spent on clean up and redoing the garage so I didn't have a sale last year.  But I have had sales the past several years.  So I have been going through all of my paper crafting supplies and products and pulling out a lot of supplies to make room for newer supplies.  I will have a large selections of papers, inks, stamps, dies, die cutting machines (manual and electric), ribbon and embellishments.  This year I will also be setting up an area with handmade cards, jewelry and some small home decor pieces that will be for sale.  I haven’t set a date as of yet but as soon as I have the date I will be posting here on my blog and on Facebook.  

Lastly, in case you missed the post I now have an online Zibbet store.  I right now I have some jewelry pieces listed and I will be adding more very soon.  You can click HERE if you would like to check out my store.  The image that is above is also in my sidebar and you can click there to visit the store too.

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If you are local and interested here is the information for the classes.  

Please feel free to share this with your friends.

Stamping 101

Classes will begin on April 16

1:45 pm in the Craft Room.

You must register for the class.

In this class you will learn the basics of 

rubber stamping. You’ll create five 

handmade greeting cards using inks, 

stamps, paper and die cut shapes.

All supplies will be provided

for the this class.

Advanced Stamping

This Class will begin on April 30

6:45 pm in the Craft Room.

You must register for the class.

In this class you will make three cards

and learn some new fun techniques.

Please bring your basic 

stamping kit with you.

Open to the public!

The cost for stamping classes;

$15.00 Members $20.00 NM

April 2015

Albert Lea Senior Center

1739 W Main, Albert Lea, MN 56007

(507) 373-0704

STAMPING CLASSES: 2nd and 4th Thursdays

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Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I have a few other things in the works but I can’t share about them just yet.  Thank you so much for your support and I am looking forward to all of the great things the future holds. 

Hugs & Smiles,

Heidi

CHA Sneak Peek from Ken Oliver Crafts! 8 x 8 Canvas

Hello everyone!  I have to say I am excited to share this post with all of you.  With a New Year comes new beginnings and new opportunities--and CHA with lots of new products.  

So I have a CHA Sneak Peek from Ken Oliver Crafts to share with you.

This is a 8 x 8 canvas that I designed using papers from Ken Oliver Crafts Watercolor Memories Collection.  This canvas will be at CHA with all of the other beautiful projects created by some amazing designers.  This is such a beautiful watercolor floral collections.  One of the things I really love is that one side of the paper has soft muted colors and the other side is bright and bold.  For the canvas I used the 12 x 12 and 6 x 6 Watercolor Rose paper.  For the background of the canvas I used 12 x 12 paper with the softer colors and for the focal point I used the 6 x 6 paper with the brighter colors.

I also used a Prima stencil and applied Liquitex Modeling Paste to create the flourishes.  Then I used  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stains-Spun Sugar and Tarnished Brass to highlight the textured areas.  

Here is a side view so you can see some of the dimension.  For the focal point in the canter I used some fun foam to pop up the center part.  Then I used a whole sheet of the 6 x 6 size paper and applied that to the fun foam and used more of the modeling past to cover up the foam.  Then I used a second 6 x 6 piece and fussy cut the roses.  I used a stylus to make the paper more pliable and shape it.  Then I more foam to the back to also pop up the image.

I applied Golden Glass Bead Gel to the image of the roses.  Doing this adds more texture and dimension to the roses.  The Glass Bead Gel is white but as it dries it becomes clear and it is filled with clear micro beads.  You can leave it as is or add color to it.  I used a paint brush and added Tarnished Brass Distress Spray Stain on the Glass bead Gel once it was dry.

I printed out the sentiment with the computer and cut them in to word blocks.  I used another fantastic new product from Ken and that is his new inks.  I used the Walnut ink on the word blocks.

Now I know this isn't the prettiest picture but I just wanted you to see the dimension. 

I had so much fun just playing and creating this canvas!  

I also wanted to let you know I am excited to announce that I am one of the Style Contributor for 

Ken Oliver Crafts!  I am so honored and excited to be working with Ken--he is simply amazing and a great friend!  I am also excited to be working alongside several other amazing Style Contributors.  Are you wondering who they might be?  Well, you will have to check out Ken's Blog as he has been sharing lots of CHA Sneak Peeks and projects from some very talented crafty peeps.  :)

Ok, I guess that's it for today.  Don't forget you can click on all of the pictures to enlarge them and see all the details.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope your New Year is off to a great start!

Hugs & Smiles,

Heidi

Supplies
Paper:  Ken Oliver Crafts 12 x 12 and 6 x 6 Watercolor Rose-Watercolor Memories Collection
Ink:  Ken Oliver Crafts Walnut Ink
Accessories:  8 x 8 Canvas, Gesso, Liquitex Modeling Paste, Golden Glass Bead Gel, Mod Podge Matte, Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stains-Spun Sugar, Tarnished Brass, Fun Foam, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Squares, Hot Glue, Prima Flourish Stencil