Another "Perfect" Scrapbook Class

Leisa, a super paper-crafts teacher, is doing a series of "Perfect" classes at one of our local stores, Whim-So-Doodle. The first was The Perfect Brew (a beer journal and tasting), and then yesterday we did The Perfect Crush. We made this cute wine journal, then after a break for lunch did a wine tasting at Bella Brava. The bartender rocked - she is very knowledgeable and had us try 6 different Italian wines (with generous-sized samples). I generally don't care for reds - but I loved one we had. Naturally it's pricey at $55 a bottle lol (

Here are some pics of the book I made (mostly Leisa's design).




Here's our group AFTER all that wine!

This and the very first pic are ones I took just playing around.
The yummy, expensive wine!Jenn

Coolest Scrapbooking Class EVER

Saturday I took a scrapbook class at one of my local stores, Whim-So-Doodle. We made a beer journal then went to a local watering hole, World of Beer, for samples!


Here's the book. Design is copyright Leisa Rice, but I put it together and smashed those bottlecaps myself lol. There are supposed to be several pages for rating beers, but I chose to leave them blank for more pics and stuff since I already have a beer rating database on my iPhone that I created.


The coolest thing about the day was that I made three new beer-drinking friends! (Sorry no pics of them, waiting for Leisa to send them to me HINT HINT).


Jenn

Simply Inspired Event - Classes and Goodies

I just showed you the project from Jenni Bowlin's class, now here are some more.

Charm bracelet and Necklace using Tim Holtz products and Graphic 45 papers, taught by Teri Davis who is on the DT of the store who sponsored the event, Simply Scrappin'.

Debby Schuh taught us some cool things using a composition book - I had never thought about cutting the front cover to use it as a frame! The second pic is the flap we made for the back cover. The subject of the class was "What's in Your Bucket", and the idea is to keep a journal about things you are good at - i.e. things you have in your bucket. I most likely won't use it for that, but haven't determined what I'll use it for yet.

Here's everything that was passed out over the weekend to everyone.

These are almost all my prizes - Jill and I each gave up one since we kept winning! The Halloween stuff is a project that was selling for $25, although there are only a few sheets of paper, a pack of stickers, and some ribbon. (Glad I didn't pay for it!)

These next two are from one of Margie Romney-Aslet's classes, "Flower Frenzy". Totally not my style! The first I pretty much followed, the second is a hybrid of both the other two layouts and still isn't my style, but at least I might have a chance of using it ;)

The next two are the left and right pages of Layle Koncar's layout class. Love this!

Here are some of the make-and-takes from the Sample Frenzy night - love them all! The first was supposed to be on polka-dotted paper, but I couldn't do it. Might move it over to a solid since this background is so busy.
This one will have a pic of me and Jill - notice the title says "Whoo let them loose?" lol.
Ornament with chandelier crystal and tag inside, and a plastic ring with a crown paper glued inside!
Cards.

Here are all the teachers except Teri: Jenni Bowlin, Rebecca Cross (owner of Pink Paislee), Margie Romney-Aslet, Debby Schuh, Layle Koncar, and Elizabeth Achvin who put on the event.

Still have 3 more class projects to show - gotta finish them first :)
Jenn

Simply Inspired Event - Jenni Bowlin's Class

Jenni Bowlin's class at the Simply Inspired Event was a 2009 Year-in-Review journal. I finished the base of the project in class, and did the rest at home last week. I of course don't have pics for Nov/Dec yet, but other than those, I'm done. I'm happy with how it turned out! I followed directions for part, but went my own way with decorating.

Cover

The front of each page is half a calendar month, and I wrote the highlight on the top. I will journal at the end of the year on the blank page you see; that's the back of the cover.

Jan/Feb/Mar. Each page is misted using various items as masks.

Apr/May/June

July/Aug/Sept

Oct/Nov/Dec

Thanks for looking!
Jenn

Last ProvoCraft Make-and-Take from CHA

There actually were a few I didn't do - but here's the last one I did. Was supposed to be a brown inky butterfly, and the "Life Is A Journey" was supposed to be repeated several times on the page - forget that lol! I inked the butterfly black and sprayed Pearl Glimmer Mist on it. Frame was pre-painted black for us, and we used the Yudu silkscreen machine to decorate the corners. This is going in my closet since it really doesn't match anything in my house lol! (Hung up in the closet - don't worry, I'll be able to enjoy it, I have empty wall space in there!)
Jenn

More ProvoCraft CHA Make-and-Takes

This is from the ProvoCraft booth. We used the Yudu screenprinting machine to make the main image, etched in the bottom left corner (hard to see), applied vinyl HOPE, and did the corners using the Cuttlebug. We inked up the embossing folder(!) itself with a similar shade of brown, stuck the paper in, and ran it through the machine - so cool! Gotta figure out where to hang this - doesn't match anything in my house lol!
Here's a close up of the corner - you can see a bit of the etching on the blue (glass needs to be cleaned lol).
Here is another ProvoCraft make-and-take that we didn't get to do there because it passed 5:00 (show end - they turn out the overhead lights at 5!!) and there were two painfully slow women in front of us. So the nice people gave them to those of us who endured the torture once the show ended. Not sure if I'll end up doing it or not - I have an altered recipe box already, and goodness knows I sure don't cook enough to have one just for Summer lol! (Ok, and there are too many dots on it, that's another reason. But not the ONLY reason! I swear!)
I have one more PC make-and-take to finish, hopefully in the next day or so, then I'll post it. I also have to take a pic of all the goodies we got from a big giant multi-sponsor make-and-take!
Jenn

More CHA - Make & Takes

****1/16/10 - sorry, had to remove the album from Flickr since I'm only allowed 200 pics! If you want to see the pics that were here, comment and I'll do a new post with them****

I added pics of most of the make-and-takes I did to the Flickr album. Still have a couple more to finish and photograph! E-mail me or comment if you need the links to any of the companies I mentioned!

Stamp Club Cards

This month's stamp club project at Violette's lss was playing with alcohol inks on acetate! So much fun!

Jenn

CHA Happiness!

****1/16/10 - sorry, had to remove the album from Flickr since I'm only allowed 200 pics! If you want to see the pics that were here, comment and I'll do a new post with them****


Jill, Cheryl, and I spent the week in Orlando at CHA. We had an awesome time! I learned so much and enjoyed almost every minute. Took 7 classes and all but one were awesome (one stunk!). Won a pink Slice and new card, a Scrap Caddy for my Cricut carts, and at the Supershow I won an OTT Light! Tons of freebies too. I haven't taken a pic of the make-and-takes, that will come later - still trying to put everything else away! Here's a slide show of some pics from the week - believe it or not, I didn't even take 50 photos! Enjoy!
Jenn

CTMH Convention Mini-Album

I finally scrapped the Close to My Heart convention pics from last July/August. I used a DCWV 8x8 mini album, but everything else is CTMH. Silhouette Level 2 paper pack, Friendship large and small alphas, Extreme Caps alpha, and Circle Around stamp set. Some of the pages are boring, but I put everything here so you could see the whole album.
Jenn


Ribbon is from our nametags. The pin in the middle was given to us, and I took the back off and glue-dotted it on.

Stamped stars as background.

The only lumpy thing in the book - my nametag.

Huge banner hung to welcome us - convention was at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando.

The night before everything started us newbies had an orientation - complete with cute furry purple tiara!

I had three awesome room-mates!



It's dark, but in these pics are the goodies our unit leader, Adeline, gave us. She's now my upline because Adriane moved :(

Anita Renfroe is freakin' hilarious! We were crying we laughed so hard!

Can't remember his name, but this guy is a great magician who performed for us Friday night.


We each chose a button featuring a word that represented us. I chose "Happy" because I had just quit a bad job and was really happy.

I stamped the background - something I hadn't done before this book! See the pic on the bottom? Those are the 15 stamp sets I WON!


Top is part of our goodie bags, and the bottom is a cool project we did.



Love how the title of this turned out! I stamped "agenda" in Bamboo twice and then in Black. The next several pages are boring, but if you want to see how I used the program scroll through them.