I pre-cut all the materials, I supply all the stamps and tools needed, leaving you to just bring yourself for an educating and normally entertaining 2 and a bit hours. Classes are from my home in Old Mt Druitt every Tuesday & Friday night at 7:30pm, Wednesday at 10 am and Saturdays at 1pm or you can book another time,  I will bring the class to your home, min of 6 people for all classes. Bookings are essential

“Set Match” Class: Elementary Elegance

Cost: $20

Set Match? What a does that mean! You will be making a set of cards that match and in most cases they go in pretty packaging that we also make.

In this class we will be using the Sale-a-bration set Elementary Elegance to create a set of 4 mini cards that will fit inside the cutest little box.

Times:

 

Contact Teneale by phone: 0416 000 955 or email: mail@tenealewilliams.com.au

Can you feel the love in the air, “that” day has now pasted but some are still on a buzz with love and others are wishing they had a little love! My Valentines day was filled with love… Stamping love that is! I stamped all day and the evening with spend doing a card class.

Part of the day was spend making this weeks CASE Study card, we have  Karola Witczak as our February Muse who has a very interesting style for cardmaking. To the left you will see her card for this week.

I was inspired by the layout, the layers of squares and scallops. The String that wrapped twice around the card, I have used with Very Vanilla Seam Binding which is my favouite kind of ribbon. I noticed that on that top piece of paper it had a boxed/check design which I have carried over to my card by doing faux tiles which is a very simple technique of scoring lines on card stock then lightly stamping images on to card stock.

Inside the card:

 This post is dedicated to my business manager, Jennifer {wink} 

It was brought to my attention over the weekend I have not updated my blog my almost a month! {opps} On Friday I had a customer and a team member question why, Saturday I was asked by a few of the ladies, that night I had 2 emails asked what was happening then Sunday at a market it was asked why I have no new cards posted…. I never realised so many people read my blog LOL I must get better at posting the cards I am making.  I have spend the afternoon taking photos and cropping them so I do have lots of cards to share, I have used some of the new sets from the Summer Mini and Sale-a-bration, a mix of quick and simple cards and my normal lots of layers creations. The card I have for today is a perfect male card {well I think anyway} We made this card is class a few weeks ago and a few of the ladies used a different greetings, with Valentines Day just around the corner a few ladies used “You mean the World 2 me” from Word Play which is the same set I used for my greeting “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams” it is a great set a little costly yes but a set that covers so many bases and I always say a good verse set is a wise investment for a cardmaker, it is on page 104 of the AU Catalogue but it is the perfect time to make the investment in this set as it is Sale-a-bration when you spend $100 you get a free Stamp set or Accessory from the Sale-a-bration range which you can check out here. The other set I have used is from the Summer Mini, it is on page 18 called The Open Sea and over the coming posts you will see more cards using this set. You can view the Summer mini here.

Inside the card…. Very simple!

Fabulous! Would have to be one of my favouite words, I use it all the time and I even have friends pick me up on saying it, they will repeat me they mock me when I say it or knowing me so well they say it before I can even say it is a cheeky way… I say it with such enthusiasm! I have a dear friend who will be 40 soon and she is very fabulous so I will pop this one away for the big event.

It is CASE Study time again, we are just over the half way mark with the January muse  Jen Rzasa, you can see to the left her card for this week, I am very excited to see what everyone comes up with this week, the card has lots of options to case and inspire exciting projects, so if you have the time come and play with us at CASE Study.  I am wondering can you see what inspired me? It’s pretty clear this week, it was all the squares I just thought they created such a wonderful feature on the simple card plus it is a good way to use up scraps of paper because lets face it most of us all have scraps that we have saved for some project down the track when you just need a little bit! Am I right? Great way to use them.  I sponged the edges of my squares then added a little stitching and you may notice I have randomly stamped a light script over the squares.

Inside… I made a little mistake stamping the greeting and I inked up the edge of the stamp and did not look at the image before stamping it down… which I almost always do and the edge never has ink on it the one time I do not look grrrr! So I stamped the greeting on scrap Very Vanilla, punched out the greeting, added a few extra layers  in a poor attempt to cover the unwanted ink. Normally I say we make no “mistakes” only creative opportunities but it would of looked so much better with the greeting just stamped straight on the cardstock.

I am playing a little catch up with this post, I should be sent to the naughty corner as this is a CASE Study card from December, the card was posted on CASE Study blog with the other DT samples at the correct time but I did not post it here on my blog, the amazing  Amy Sheffer was the December Muse {I love Amy’s work, if you have been living under a rock and not seen her work before then you better go and check her out….it’s dazzling} below is Amy’s card that was our inspiration for week 71.

 I am going to be totally honest, even though I think Amy’s card was awesome it scared me a little, I think it was that the design was so far away from my comfort zone and normally boring layer on layer style I don’t normally cluster my elements, now as I type I wonder if it was that I wanted to do a good job because Amy is one of my stamping hero’s, this was our last week with Amy as the muse and I wanted to do her card justice. Can you tell that I over think things and get myself all worked up sometimes, I liked my card at first but now I am not so much a fan but I do like the verse. I think it is pretty clear what inspired me, the layout played a huge part like Amy I have cluster the elements, I have used a paper doilies, a heart and Amy created pleats with ribbon, I have used that idea but used paper pleats.

Inside….

Oh my, this is not a good sign for 2012 I was late with this weeks CASE Study I think I am stuck in relax mode after Christmas /New Year break and I am just little under the weather at the moment. I ended the year so strong with my Christmas Create Down then nothing! But I am relaxed and positive starting 2012, I had a great break with lovely sleep in’s, potting around, time with my family and waiting hours and hours on Pinterest. I did receive the best type of Christmas presents…. Yeah you guessed it Stampin’ Up! Product, I love having my Mum as a demo because I just told everyone to get me anything SU! and I would be happy, having mum order means it’s a surprise! In the past years I would order the items, therefore knowing what I was getting…but don’t get me wrong I still loved what I got. I was happy to play with new products, one thing that always gets me excited is new printed papers! I can never wait to rip the plastic back and look at both sides of the paper. The paper I have used today is a upcoming paper that is part of Sale-A-Bration starting on January 24th….I like it a lot!

To the left is the Muse card for CASE Study this week by Jen Rzasa she has a very clean and simple style which I am sure you can tell from this weeks sample. I just loved her sample, yes it is not my style but it has lots of inspiration…. This is what I was inspired by?

•  Butterfly Silhouette, they are the star of Jan’s card so I just had to include this element on my card.
• Three, Jen’s  card had 3 of three….. 3 Butterflies, 3 pearls and used 3 colours, I may be over thinking things at this point but I had to use 3 somehow so I have 3 images on my main image the butterfly silhouette, crown and greeting, I have stamped the script over 3 layers and finally I added stitching to 3 of the layers.
• The v point flag, Jen has used this element to stamp her greeting I have used this idea for for a greeting but to add a layer and interest to my card.

 Inside…

That was badly planned that I end my Christmas Create Down day 13! I hope I do not bring bad luck to Christmas… No I am sure it will be fine. I love Christmas eve we have so many little traditions that have formed over the years and my beautiful little niece who I just love and adore more then anything are so excited for Santa to come. Tonight we are building and decorating our ginger bread houses, we also have late dinner which is just the adults which is so nice because tomorrow is all about the kids, after dinner my sister and I will wrap all the kids gifts and set up the room where the gifts are for the kids to go crazy in the morning. We normally did not get much sleep but it is such fun.

It is only fitting to show you what I have made to go on my Christmas table this year, I always like to have a little sweet gift at each place setting, inside is 4 Hershey Nuggets, I love the little bell hanging off the bow.

Now I do have more Christmas project’s and simple cards that I made through the year, I will pop them in a folder in my facebook to help with Christmas inspiration next year. I will not wish you Merry Christmas yet I will pop back tomorrow and say that but happy Christmas Eve.

Christmas is only days away, today I have my last market and class for the year then I have a few weeks off to relax, create and get organised for 2012. I have only a few projects left in my Christmas Create Down, this time around I have this cute stocking cash wallet, I have heat embossed all the stamping in Cherry Cobbler EP and I added glass glitter which I am a little in love with. I am SO happy SU! now have a 1″ square punch and it works perfect with the new postage stamp punch, such a cute couple.

Open the flap and I have the cash…

That’s right I talk myself up on day 10 about how good I have been posting then completely forget to post on day 11! Sorry, but I got all court up in Christmas preparations, baking which did not go as planned and making items for our last market of the year.  As I mentioned in day 10 I was baking sugar cookies, well I did have a little helper my niece Bailey, the plan was to bake these cookies and put them in boxes I had made to give to some of our close family friends and I also made boxes that different images from “Creatively Yours” and give to some of my neigbours BUT baking is SO not my thing, my sister is amazing at it and everything she bakes is yummy… ME normally always fail! Long story short after3 batches I had no cookies I was happy to give away or feed to a human so that mission was cancelled now I have lots of these boxes below to store until next year when I try this baking thing again.

Side view.

Wow I am in a little shock I have made it to double digits in my Christmas Create Down YAY 10 days straight of posting that must be a PB {Personal Best}. Anyway I will keep that chatter short, my to do list is longer then my arm  with things to do before Christmas and having Bailey {6} off school means I don’t get as much as I hoped achieved, you know what I mean as you shake your head. I have sugar cookies in the fridge chilling and I am about to pop the first batch in the oven but you will hear more about them tomorrow… for now I have a card I make in a Stamp-A-Stack in December…