Seasonal Tower Class

My friend Dirk and I have been busy creating a wonderful all day workshop for you!  This Seasonal Tower is perfect to leave out year round and will make a wonderful gift during the holidays. Here's a quick peek at one side.

We used Tim Holtz die cuts and Distress productto create this fun project. Each side of the tower features a different season, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn.

Seasonal Tower Class

Saturday, July 14, 2012

(see alternate dates below)

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Comfort Inn & Suites Meeting Room

1555 East Fabyan Parkway

Geneva IL 60134

Cost $125.00 per student

including a box lunch from Panera and water

We will provide all the materials to complete the project, you just need to provide a craft mat (we do have a couple of extra), scissors, a craft pick (alias pokey tool), and pencil. To reserve your spot email me for payment information at louisehealy@sbcglobal.net .

We'll also be teaching this on

Saturday, August 11th

Creative Cuts and Crafts

486 S Spring Road

Elmhurst IL 60126

630 279-4444

call the store to register

We hope you can join us for a relaxing, fun-filled day of crafting,
Happy Creating,
Louise

The Golden Years

This month's challenge with Dreamweaver Stencils and Art Glitter has been "esparlkly" fun! This is our last posting for this challenge, but don't miss next months challenge that starts July 5th.

Our challenge has been to create wedding themed cards using the Double-Glitter Technique.  We should never stop celebrating a marriage, so my card this week would be a lovely anniversary card, especially for those "Golden Year" marriages.



LL3023 - Retro Poppy with
Art Glitter Fool's Gold and Crystal

Glitter cards can be quite challenging to capture in photographs, so you'll have to trust me when I say this photo does not do this card justice.

 

Visit the Art Glitter blog and the Dream It Up! blog for fabulous inspiration from both talented design teams. We are encouraging all of you to play along with the challenge of creating with Dreamweaver Stencils and Art Glitter*, preferably using the Double-Glitter Technique with a wedding theme. Just link your creation to the Mr. Linky on the Dream It Up! blog, or email pics to lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com, for an opportunity to win one of four fabulous glitter and stencil prize packages. One winner will be chosen each week. (US and Canada only, please).

For more inspiration from the Art Glitter design team, please visit their blog for a complete list of players throughout the month.
For more inspiration from the Dream Team, here's the blog list for this week:

Dream It Up! blog
Pam Hornschu
Laura Drahozal
Wendy Jordan
Terrece Siddoway
Kristi Van Doren
Georgia Sommers
Lee Kellogg
Jessie Hurley
Liz Martin
Cyndi Bundy
Cherylynn Moser

 

Happy Creating,

Louise

Glitter Challenge

Week three of our Dreamweaver Stencils and Art Glitter combined June challenge brings more great ideas of how to combine these wonderful products. Our challenge is to create wedding themed cards using the Double-Glitter Technique. Here's my version of a "Summer Wedding" card:

The stencil is Dreamweaver's Long stem rose (LL375)  and the glitters are Ultra Fine Pink Smoothie and Microfine Rock Moss with Crystal in the background. Because the colors are transparent they are very subtle, so after glittering I laid the stencil back over the glitter and used a small stencil brush to add some Brilliance Pearlescent Coral to the rose just to bring it out a little more. A small black soot mat makes the glitter layer really stand out, and the pink layer ties everything to the beautiful Graphic 45 background paper. Of course, a nice bow always adds a wonderful finishing touch. I thinks this would make the perfect card for a summer wedding (especially if it is a garden wedding).
 

Visit the Art Glitter blog and the Dream It Up! blog for fabulous inspiration from both talented design teams. We are encouraging all of you to play along with the challenge of creating with Dreamweaver Stencils and Art Glitter*, preferably using the Double-Glitter Technique with a wedding theme. Just link your creation to the Mr. Linky on the Dream It Up! blog, or email pics to lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com, for an opportunity to win one of four fabulous glitter and stencil prize packages. One winner will be chosen each week. (US and Canada only, please).

For more inspiration from the Art Glitter design team, please visit their blog for a complete list of players throughout the month.
For more inspiration from the Dream Team, here's the blog list for this week:

Dream It Up! blog
Pam Hornschu
Laura Drahozal
Wendy Jordan
Terrece Siddoway
Kristi Van Doren
Georgia Sommers
Lee Kellogg
Jessie Hurley
Liz Martin
Cyndi Bundy
Cherylynn Moser

Have a "sparkly" good week!
Happy Creating,
Louise

Dreamweaver Challenge

The Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Team and the Art Glitter Design Team are back for week two of our joint challenge of using stencils and glitter to create beautiful, sparkly wedding themed cards.

This week I used Dreamweaver's beautiful Open bells stencil (LJ866) along with Art Glitter's gorgeous glitters (Twig and Pewter on the bells, Forget Me Not in the background) to create my card.
Here it is:

I adhered the double sided mounting paper to a dark blue shimmer paper that was cut slightly larger than the mounting paper. Did my double glitter technique, then put the bell layer on a piece of shimmery white paper then another layer of the blue. This would be a fabulous card for a winter wedding, but would be great no matter when! I used the Forget Me Not (very pale blue) in the background instead of Crystal to soften the look a little. The Pewter has a bluish look to it so it went with the blue shimmer paper very well.

Visit the Art Glitter blog and the Dream It Up! blog for fabulous inspiration from both talented design teams. We are encouraging all of you to play along with the challenge of creating with Dreamweaver Stencils and Art Glitter*, preferably using the Double-Glitter Technique with a wedding theme. Just link your creation to the Mr. Linky on the Dream It Up! blog, or email pics to lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com, for an opportunity to win one of four fabulous glitter and stencil prize packages. One winner will be chosen each week. (US and Canada only, please).

For more inspiration from the Art Glitter design team, please visit their blog for a complete list of players throughout the month.
For more inspiration from the Dream Team, here's the blog list for this week:

Dream It Up! blog
Pam Hornschu
Laura Drahozal 
Wendy Jordan
Terrece Siddoway
Kristi Van Doren
Georgia Sommers
Lee Kellogg
Jessie Hurley
Liz Martin
Cyndi Bundy
Cherylynn Moser

Have a "sparkly" good week!
Happy Creating,
Louise

UPCOMING CLASS

Here are the three cards we'll be creating in my upcoming class on June 19 at Memories and Beyond in Downers Grove, IL.  There are still a couple of spots left, so give them call to reserve yours! We'll use the beautiful new Stylized Dahlia stencil (LG743) from Dreamweaver Stencils and learn three techniques, the stencil is yours to take home.

LG743 - Crackle Paste technique

LG743 - Distress Powder technique

LG743 - Molten Lava technique

Hope to see you there.
Happy Creating,
Louise

The June Challenge has begun!

AND

ARE TEAMING UP THE ENTIRE MONTH OF JUNE TO BRING YOU AN AMAZING CREATIVE COLLABORATION MIXING DREAMWEAVER STENCILS AND ART GLITTER. COME ALONG FOR THE RIDE...WE PROMISE IT WILL BE A SPARKLING ONE!

Visit the Art Glitter blog and the Dream It Up! blog for fabulous inspiration from both talented design teams. We are encouraging all of you to play along with the challenge of creating with Dreamweaver Stencils and Art Glitter*, preferably using the Double-Glitter Technique with a wedding theme. Just link your creation to the Mr. Linky on the Dream It Up! blog, or email pics to lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com, for an opportunity to win one of four fabulous glitter and stencil prize packages. One winner will be chosen each week. (US and Canada only, please).

 

For more inspiration from the Art Glitter design team, please visit their blog for a complete list of players throughout the month.

Here's my first glittered wedding card creation for the month:

LL567 - Heart swirls
Art Glitter Old World Pee Wee Kit - Dubonnet

The wonderful thing about this is with so many beautiful colors of glitter to choose from, you can make your card match the color scheme of any wedding!
For more inspiration from the Dream Team, here's the blog list for this week:

Dream It Up! blog
Pam Hornschu
Laura Drahozal 
Louise Healy
Wendy Jordan  
Terrece Siddoway
Kristi Van Doren
Georgia Sommers
Lee Kellogg
Jessie Hurley
Liz Martin
Cyndi Bundy
Cherylynn Moser

*For the month of June Art Glitter is selling 1 oz jars of glitter for $5.98 (regular price $7.32)! Get the deets HERE!

Hope the shining examples have inspired you to join our challenge this month.
Happy Creating,
Louise