The holidays are in full swing and our calendar is full! Join us for any of these events:
Christmas Card Workshop November 10th 10 am - 3 pm at Garden City Library
Mini-Kit $25 for 20 cards using my workshop guide and stamp set
Full Kit $35 for 20 cards plus your own workshop guide and stamp set
Due to high demand, if you'd like to create these cards at the November 16th crop, please let me know and I will put a mini-kit together for you.
Monthly Crop Night November 16th 1 pm - 11 pm at My Happy Place (my craft room)
No fee to join in the fun! Just bring a snack to share and be ready for a good time! Bring your projects or buy a kit when you get here. All of my tools, stamps, inks and Cricut are available for your use. Supplies are available for purchase. Please RSVP here or comment below so we have enough work space for everyone.
Day After Thanksgiving Sale
Receive a free gift with a minimum order of $50 placed on November 23rd at www.aprilnourse.ctmh.com. No need to click anything, this gift will automatically be shipped!
November 30th is the deadline to order the Pear & Partridge Workshop on the Go Kit for December's featured project! Place your order under the December 1st gathering tab at www.aprilnourse.ctmh.com.
Christmas Project December 3rd 5:30 pm at Garden City Library
Create a sweet treat for Christmas! $5
Pear & Partridge Scrapbooking December 19th 5:30 pm at Garden City Library
Create a 2 page layout using the Pear & Partridge papers. Perfect for your Christmas photos but will work for any wintery layout.
Monthly Crop Night December 21st 6 pm - 11 pm at My Happy Place (my craft room)
No fee to join in the fun! Just bring a snack to share and be ready for a good time! Bring your projects or buy a kit when you get here. Our featured kit will be the Pear & Partridge Scrapbooking Workshop on the Go. This kit must be pre-ordered by November 30th at www.aprilnourse.ctmh.com (scroll down to the gatherings tab and click on the December 1st order). All of my tools, stamps, inks and Cricut are available for your use. Supplies are available for purchase. Please comment below so we have enough work space for everyone.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Cornucopia of Leaves
For my November calendar page, I created this lovely cornucopia of leaves.
The background paper is from my Close to my Heart stash. The cornucopia was cut with the Paper Doll Cricut cartridge. I cut it from Desert Sand cardstock and sponged the lines with Desert Sand ink. The leaves were cut using the Artiste Cricut cartridge.
To make the leaves more realistic, I first crumpled them up. Next I used clear embossing to create the veins in the leaves. Then I sponge daubed the leaves using brown and orange inks. Voila! Leaves!
Thanks for visiting! Have a great day!
The background paper is from my Close to my Heart stash. The cornucopia was cut with the Paper Doll Cricut cartridge. I cut it from Desert Sand cardstock and sponged the lines with Desert Sand ink. The leaves were cut using the Artiste Cricut cartridge.
To make the leaves more realistic, I first crumpled them up. Next I used clear embossing to create the veins in the leaves. Then I sponge daubed the leaves using brown and orange inks. Voila! Leaves!
Thanks for visiting! Have a great day!
Monday, October 8, 2012
Preserving Stories
Here are some creative ways to preserve your stories:
Make a meal together using family recipes. Write or print the recipes on 4x6 cards and place them in a photo album. Give a recipe book to family members as Christmas gifts. As space allows, include the stories behind the recipes.
Interview someone in your family. Here is a great list of questions to start asking. Take a voice recorder to make sure you don't miss the details. If you can't visit in person, mail or email the questions to the person you'd like to interview. Use the answers in a scrapbook or journal. If you create a digital scrapbook, you can email the jpegs or print multiple copies.
If scrapbooking is not what you want to do, sit down with a box of photos and label away. It may not sound exciting, but my heart breaks every time I see a stack of unlabeled photos. They hold countless stories that may never be told.
Make a memory box. Cover the outside with pieces cut from wrapping paper, cards, fabric, etc. The inside can be filled with special items. Our daughter has a small box with items from her great grandma.
Get a journal or calendar to keep in your purse. Write down a sentence or two when something happens. Every night I write a couple of sentences on my calendar about what happened that day or something memorable that was said. Our family also keeps a thankful journal. Each night we all write something in the book. One of our kids loves to read it over and over.
Make a meal together using family recipes. Write or print the recipes on 4x6 cards and place them in a photo album. Give a recipe book to family members as Christmas gifts. As space allows, include the stories behind the recipes.
Interview someone in your family. Here is a great list of questions to start asking. Take a voice recorder to make sure you don't miss the details. If you can't visit in person, mail or email the questions to the person you'd like to interview. Use the answers in a scrapbook or journal. If you create a digital scrapbook, you can email the jpegs or print multiple copies.
If scrapbooking is not what you want to do, sit down with a box of photos and label away. It may not sound exciting, but my heart breaks every time I see a stack of unlabeled photos. They hold countless stories that may never be told.
Make a memory box. Cover the outside with pieces cut from wrapping paper, cards, fabric, etc. The inside can be filled with special items. Our daughter has a small box with items from her great grandma.
Get a journal or calendar to keep in your purse. Write down a sentence or two when something happens. Every night I write a couple of sentences on my calendar about what happened that day or something memorable that was said. Our family also keeps a thankful journal. Each night we all write something in the book. One of our kids loves to read it over and over.
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| This photo was taken of my grandma and daughter shortly before we moved out of state. It was a very special day and one of my favorite pictures of Less than a year later, she passed away. |
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