Crafting With Friends

This past Saturday myself and Donna put on another crop, we call ourselves "Creative Cuts".  Donna came up with the catchy name last year.  One of my biggest dilemmas when attending a crop is what to bring.  I never have gotten this down to a science, I always bring too much.  Some stuff I end up never opening the bag, you would think I would learn.

I aim to have a plan, this time around I knew I would be working on a banner for Donna's daughters first birthday.  She had picked out some great pink and orange paper she wanted to use.  Between the set up and just greeting everyone I don't think I actually sat down at my seat until 11:30, meanwhile I was there since 8:30 to get ready but that is a whole other story.

I asked Donna lots of questions about what her expectations were because well after all this was for a special occasion.  She wanted the borders to be scalloped, I love that too.  I had a little panic at first though because I couldn't find the scalloped square on the Cricut, shout-out to Heidi for locating it and making me feel better.  Phew.

Once everything was cut out, assembly began.  One of the final decisions was to bling or not to bling.  Bling it was and I am so happy with how it came out.

Wet Embossing

Well today I took a class at Scrap-a-Doodle-Doo in Ramsey, NJ on wet embossing. I had no idea how many types of embossing there were. I had done the wet embossing before but that was years ago and quite frankly I just couldn't quite remember what to do. During the class we made three different cards, none of which were really my style, but it was what we were making.

I do think it is necessary to make a few cards at a time, I can't see breaking out stamps, paper, inks, embossing powder, heat gun, etc...to make one card. I have a cute cupcake stamp that I do want to make a bunch of birthday cards, I keep saying I am going to get up off the couch today to make them, but I still am in recovering from vacation mode. Long ride from Myrtle Beach to NY.