August QuicKutz club project ... and a CSN giveaway!!!

It's Thursday. It's late Thursday, I know.. but you tell Regan he needs to let me type on the computer. You tell Regan that I can't rub and type. And you tell Regan that the whirring of the scanner is okay. Whew! Regan is the new almost house kitty. He's adorable. Well acclimated, but he is certainly taking up a bunch of time. And I love each minute of it.

Supply list:
5 Basic Grey designer papers as shown. You may or may not have the stripe - I do.
3 faux leaves - Prima flowers 'Autumn Leaves'
paper or cotton floss in off white and orange - scrappers floss orange and tan
Crewel or tapestry needle to fit floss (floss has to go through the eye)
Paper piercer and old mouse pad
adhesives and glue dots
Color Boss cat's eye inkpad Mango Tango and an almost dk brown.
basic scrapbooking supplies

Basil Paper jewel templates - mystical flourish
QuicKutz - Special Delivery Limited Edition Gift set

See you Saturday at 10!

Now for the giveaway: CSN contacted me to host this giveaway. Wow, I was excited. Me. I love CSN! A $40 gift certificate!!! You can find your new dutch oven, you can find some new dishes (I've got my eye on a few), scrapbooking and sewing supplies or the perfect accessory for your home, office or self.

So how do you enter to win that great $40 gift certificate?? It's pretty easy. And you can earn up to three entries!
1. Go to the CSN stores and come back and leave me a comment as to what item you would love to have. Notice that many items have free shipping! - one entry.
2. Become a follower (subscribe to posts) and let me know by leaving another comment - entry #2.
3. Link back to this blog post on your blog - leaving me another comment - entry #3.

If you don't have a blog, be sure to leave me your email address on your entries so that CSN can contact the winner with their gift certificate!

But in order to enter the giveaway - you must click here to go the original post!!! Posting here will NOT enter you in the giveaway - I've got my heart set on a fabulous set of dishes!! oh but it's not about me.. it's all about YOU!!!

July QuicKutz Club project

Welcome! I'm so glad that you are here. It's that time again, time to come to club and have a bit of fun. As promised this time it's quite an easy page. On that note...how are you coming with filling your album so far? I myself am missing about 3 months, oops I was doing so well too. Oh well, I'll catch up as you will too. Although I used a metal plaque in the upper corner, should you not have this - I have a nice piece that will fit into that space perfectly! It's a club die.. I know you'll love it. Be sure to pick yours up before club as you probably want to use your die!

I know, I know, I'm missing one brad in the center. Oh but that is on purpose, it's easier to see that there really is a flower behind the brads if I left it blank. Isn't that bottom piece fun... It came that way, but you can easily make one of your own.. The butterflies are all cut out of a designer paper and popped up with foam pop dots! Same for the birds.

Supplies:
Melody Ross for GCD designer papers as shown
black brush pen
foam pop dots
black ink
3 Melody Ross brads
Basic scrapbooking supplies

QuicKutz dies:
flower KS-922
leaves KS-917
Cookie cutter 3 dimensional pop up flower die set
your club die!!

June QK Club project - club date has changed!! June 12th now.

It's the rick-rack season! QuicKutz came out with a new 6" die set consisting of zigzag outlines, circles and zigzag edged circles. I fell in love with this set when I spotted it hanging on the shelf in the store Love it. Can you spell L O V E??
So I paired with with rick-rack and voila! a pretty cool combo if I say so myself. We are going to lean to make some NO SEW rick-rack flowers. Why do I emphasize the no-sew??? Because traditionally these are made with a needle and thread. But I figured out how to make them without those two little tools.. wooo hooo.

Supplies:
Designer Paper as shown (My Mind's Eye)
1 yd mini green rick-rack
1 yd blue rick-rack
1 yd pink rick-rack
1" circle punch
1/2" circle punch
Tweezers
2 straight pins
Baby Blue Liquid Pearls
Color box cats eye ink pads: robins egg, lime pastel and olive
4 mini brads and brad setting tools
1/4" Terrifically Tacky tape (this is a must this time!!)
Glue dots
Adhesive of choice
removable tape

QuicKutz dies:
Nesting rick rack circles
popup leaves

See you June 12th, 10am!

Hey there is a giveaway going on till the 11th - you need to leave a post on this blog post - click here! It's a lovely hand embroidery book... I'll be drawing on Friday!

May QuicKutz Club project & supply list

Right page embellished with ribbons and a flower.
Left page.. 10 things I love about everyday life uses 4 different fonts that are die cut and then a quick 'about' stamp.
And the ten little inserts onto which you can record your ten "things".

Supply list:

Little Yellow Bicycle papers as shown plus 1 sheet white cardstock
5 ribbons
1 ric-rack
Cat's eye Smoke Blue ink pad
Distress Ink Broken China inkpad
1" circle punch
corner rounder
"notebook" edge punch
1 brad
sheer glitter glue (Stickles - Icycle)
Glue dots
Adhesive
Basic scrapbooking supplies

QuicKutz:
Chicken Noodle font
Lemonade font
Phoebe font
Flirt font
Studio font
Nesting Flowers
Flowers


See you Saturday at 10am! I've got the buttons ;-) thanks to Dallas.

April QuicKutz Club Project

Wavy scissors + some stamps + dimensional die cuts = a winning combination!Wavy scissors + fringe scissors = perfection! Dimensional die cuts, brads, glitter and a photo corner punch finish out this month.
Supply list:
Basic Grey Sugar Rush designer paper (4)
5 x 3.5" chipboard
Large Wave decorative scissors
Fringe Scissors
Faded Jeans Distress Ink
Color Box pigment brush pad in Smoke Blue
Color Box Chalk inkpad in Charcoal
PostCard stamp
The Daily Grind stamp by Fancy Pants
Photo insert corner punch
QuicKutz dies:
2" Postcard die
4" Postcard die (stamp)
Cookie Cutter Nesting Flowers
Revolution Branches
Revolution 0016 Flowers
2" KS0413 Butterfly
Removable tape
Pop dots
Adhesive of choice
Glitter Adhesive
Diamond Dust glitter
Brad setting supplies
Basic scrapbooking supplies

See you April 17, 10am!

March QuicKutz Club - Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

There's a "magic" pocket on the first page. It prevents the smaller tags from slipping all the way down behind the larger journaling tag. We'll learn how to make this in club. Be sure to be there.Ribbon ruching is a very simple no-sew technique. You'll master it the first time you try it!

Supplies:
Life's Stories by My Mind's Eye designer cardstock - as shown
measuring tape ribbon
solid-edge cotton lace
mini cord/yarn
QuicKutz die: mini club tag die
t!m Holtz mini attacher
Chestnut Roan cat's eye inkpad
Corner rounder
Adhesive runner
Glue dots

May you have:
A world of wishes at your command
God and his angels close at hand
Friends and family their love impart,
And Irish blessings in you heart.

Quickutz Club January 2010

It's the start of a new year. It's the start of a new album. It's the start of a new theme.
Pick your day (date) take a picture. That's all you have to do other than show up for club with your supplies. At the end of the year you'll have an album of the simple things in life that make it wonderful. Come join us for the fun.
Once again we see the Christmas QuicKutz die set put to use. Add a few embellishments and the first page is ready to go.
Some repeated elements, a few layers snowflakes, some punched snowflakes and another piece of the Christmas gift set - I'd say a winning combination for the new year!

Supplies: (we are making 3 pages!)
QuicKuts: Deck the Halls font
Santa's Workshop Wintergreen folder
Santa's Workshop Sugarplum scalloped/curved page

Pearl embellishments (cover)
Wooden scrolls (January pages)
4- 1/4" brads (these came from my stash)
brown/beige mini check ribbon
two of different sizes- snowflake punches
Chestnut Roan cat's eye ink pad
Brown journaling pen
Frosted lace Stickles
Versamark watermark ink pad
Embossing pen
Distress Powder embossing powder weathered wood
Seafoam White embossing powder
Embossing heat gun
Snowflake stamp (Tim Holtz used in sample)
JustRite rectangular stamper - horizontal
JustRite Time New Roman .50pt font
Tim Holtz mini attacher
paper to match album color
ribbon to match album color
off white paper
Brown paper of choice
Snowflakes, brown scroll both from the Winter Wishes collection - DML
Snowflake dies - I will bring
pencil for tracing
paper cutting scissors
4" Cheetah adhesive runner
various adhesives to fit the job
Basic supplies

See you January 16th; 10:00am at DML!

Enabler alert - February QuicKutz club...

I was going to stay away from Valentine's paper. I was going to stay away from sweet. I was going to stay away from hearts. I was. But then I saw the cute new paper. And I found some lace. And some black and beige mini check ribbon. And some Maya Road clear journaling 'cards'. I was going to stay away from Valentine's paper. But that didn't happen!

And there are hearts, but those are surprise.. But he page isn't a Valentine page!!! However, enabler alert.. run to the store and pick up the paper you see above.. I know it's in the store now.

Be Creative!

January QuicKutz teaser!

It's the theme for the year. It's the cover page for your 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" We R Memory Keepers album. The reason I'm sharing this now.. well we needed a cover for the album and that wasn't planned at our last meeting in December. So to give yourself a head start, you'll need:

brown decorative paper (if you picked up the brown/blue paper combo - you can get the cover from the brown sheet if you cut carefully)
paper in a color to match your album cover
ribbon in a color to match your album cover
Stick on pearls - these are two toned but there are several varieties available at DML now.

The January pages are done! But wont' be posting those until the Wednesday before January club.

QuicKutz club December - it's looking a lot like Christmas

It's time for QuicKutz club. The last meeting of the year. It sure has been fun to create these different pages each month. How are your albums coming along? I am planning on putting some pictures in the last half of the year :(. I'm ending up with two rather simple pages, we are all busy enough and I don't want to add one more UFO (unfinished object) to the pile!!
The next page is optional. It's made from a page protector. A bit of sewing, a few inserts, some glitter and a glitter globe and the page is finished..

Supplies!

3 pieces assorted Christmas paper (coordinating)

1 piece green embossed with holly leaves cardstock

1 piece white paper

1 ft-1/4" black beige check ribbon

1 yd-1/8" brown satin ribbon

QK: mini accordian album round die

Small snowflake die

Deep edge MS punch - lacy scallop

brown cat's eye ink pad

inverted scallop MS corner and edge punch

MS pine bough punch

Red Stickles

Scattered Straw Distress ink pad

Peeled Paint Distress ink pad

adhesives:

Cheetah adhesive runner

Mono-Aqua glut

glue dots

Optional project (depends on IF there is time)

page protector for their album size

K&Company Christmas shaker box

K&Company Adhesive Chipboard - Evergreen words

red glitter or micro beads - could be white too.

Come prepared to have a good time.. we are going to be using the new Martha Stewart coordinating corner and straight punches. And if we get to the optional page, we'll be glittering, sewing and sticking all on a page protector.. See you Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 10am!

QuicKutz club November!!

We are going to be making 3 pages front and back this month! Paper used is Basic Grey's Indian Summer.

Banner is from the QuicKutz Heritage set released in November.
The Gingerbread spine with a die cut opening!

Supplies:
6 different Decorative Papers
1 sheet brown lace (if not available, stamping is an option)
1 pkg Indian Summer floral embellishments
3 black brads
brown ink pad
black edging pen
black journaling pen
red gel pen
Cheetah 4" adhesive runner
Adhesive as desired for the additional elements
Paper Trimmer
paper scissors
QuicKutz dies:
Santa's Workshop
Gingerbread Spines
Heritage die set


Be Creative!

Why are there no pecans? and QK Nov club teaser

Could this be the reason I have no pecans this year? How can one cute little thing clean out 4 huge trees? I don't think so, maybe it was the frost. No other pecan tree in the neighborhood is fruit laden this year either. mmmm.
Here's a preview of the papers for QK November club all from Basic Grey Indian Summer Collecction:
autumn glaze
apple butter
maize
cordovan
acorn
maple sugar
brown doily

I'll add a bit of brown to this mix - using a bit left over from last month's pumpkin pages!

Be Creative!

Creative Paper Concepts October QK CLub

Welcome to the October edition of Quickutz Club. This month you'll have the option of making either of the two layouts. Because of time constraints, the complexity of the project and because we all want a bit of lunch - unfortunatelyI'll have to limit you to making one project in class.

The first layout - Halloween inspired: Halloween inspired brad, orange trick or treat ribbon, orange/black check ribbon, boo ribbon, QK Haunted alphabet, QK 2x2 ghost die, QK scallop cookie cutter die set, JustRite stampers Witch Way to the Treats stamp set with appropriate stamper, black cat's eye ink pad for edgings, spider web paper for front, orange flocked dot paper for back, gooey drips green paper for both sides,
Front......

Back.......
The second layout - Fall Festival inspired: fall leaf brads brown/beige check ribbon, orange/brown mini plaid ribbon, QK Oval cookie cutter dies, QK 4x4 scarecrow die, scallop border punch, JustRite Autumn Blessings oval stamp set with appropriate stamper, one brown leaf embossed paper for front, one pumpkin row paper for back, one coordinating paper with strips of coordinating paper, 1 sheet green coordinating dot paper, one piece of yellow-ish paper for scarecrow, chestnut roan cat's eye ink pad for edgings, colored pencils to color in the stamped image.
Front...


Back...

Supplies for each page:
1 12" white paper (this will be added between the two designer papers to beef up the page)
Cheetah adhesive runner for construction
Sharp paper scissors
pencil for tracing pattern
glue dots
Mono Aqua glue
brad setting supplies (foam mat and paper piercer)

See you Saturday October 17th, at 10am!


Be creative!

October QK club teaser..

I've actually finished both project for October's QuicKutz club! So I can make you squirm with a few teaser shots. During club, you can make one of your choice - either fall or halloween. IF you finish the first one or get far enough along, you are welcome to start the second page sould you desire. I just don't think you can finish two pieces during our time together.
The page has two sides and a full sheet of paper was used for each side. So sharing background paper probably won't work. The fall page used the Little Yellow Bicycle Pumpkin Patch on one side and the Imaginations signature collection brown leather looking embossed with fall leaves on the other. I augmented with a strip from the Little Yellow Bicycle Autumn Binge strip and a dk green dot. You will want to bring some coordinating ribbon and I added the metal leaf brads that are at DML! I also used the Autumn Blessings oval stamps and stamper from JustRite!
The Halloween layout turned out so 'happy'! Backgrounds are Imaginations Signature Collection Spiderwebs and the orange flocked polka dot for the other. Augment with green gooey drops and your pages will be complete.
I added the orange trick or treat ribbon from DML, a boo ribbon from the "resource center" (aka stash) and some of the cute halloween brads in stock at DML. Also used the Treats stamp Set (Halloween) from JustRite Stampers. Just fyi - this is a limited edition set and is already sold out with JustRite - so get yours while it's available!

See you October 17th, 10am at DML!

Be Creative!

Creative Paper Concepts - September QK Club

This month we will be creating a folder that can either be sewn (as pictured) or simply adhered with faux stitching on the outsides. We are using a new QK tree border die and another smaller leaf die. There will be multiple inked accents, a few brads, some ribbon and a bit more real or faux stitching.

There is an insert to the folder which holds additional photos and journaling. Titles are up to you, but I would strongly suggest using the new QK harvest font. It's scrumptious!
Supplies:
6 sheets Designer Paper;I used 6 different sheets of the Basic Grey Scarlet Letter collection for the sample
corner rounder
2" circle punch
Chestnut Roan Colorbox cat's eye ink pad
Frayed Burlap Distress Ink
sponge dauber
Distress flourish stamp
Black brush pen for outlining
Optional: pale gray marking pen for highlighting leaf veins
American Crafts premium rayon zigzag ribbon
QK scroll tree border die
QK maple leaf from Canada set or the revolution leaves die
QK revolution or epic
adhesive runner
Mono Aqua Adhesive