October's Class

We had such a blast on Wednesday. It was only the four of us, Donna and Arlyne and Nadine, Me. We did 3 greeting cards and a challenge project. I'm sure you are thinking why such a small group thonight? Sandy and Nola and Nellie were under the weather. Everyone is getting sick now that school is back and the days are getting colder around here.

This did not stop us. I had not seen Arlyne in almost 2 months, she missed last month because she was on vacation visiting her daughter Kelly. She had a blast. We were all so happy to hear about her trip. Where were her pictures though??? Let's scrap them Arlyne?

The first card shown is a card that Nadine had been working on. It is really lovely in person. She will be bringing us the instructions next month. The other pictures show the 3 cards we had done. The "theme" for October was "not so traditional". We had used colors not typically associated with the holidays...except our halloween hard. We kept the cards simple and added a little BLING. Do you see the cute rhinestone eyes in the skeleton???, we colored the the ribbon using OLD OLIVE.

For our 2 holiday cards...we used the new In Colors. Very non-traditional colors for the holidays. For the challenge the girls made a card box to store there cards in.. All I did is score the pattern for them and they had to come up with a way to close the box and then they can take the box home and duplicate it. It is a great holiday gift idea. Giving a few greeting cards in a box designed by you. How personal is that. Just a thought.

Next month I will be doing a design using the Sweet Treat Cups from the new mini catalog.

If you like any of the ideas that we did. I do have the recipies for you. Just send me an email.

I'm going to attach some more pictures of the halloween card and some other cards I've been working on. I'll try to show how we added the "bling" to the cards. I did capture some of the bling. These are the first 2 pictures.

Next month we will meet on November 4th at 6PM. Stampin Up has some great specials on punches for the month of October. To check them out go to: http://www.stampingandscrapbooking.stampinup.net