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Plantastic! (NEW Class)

Join Elisabeth for this 3-card Birthday Card class, featuring Dare 2 B Artzy stamps and papers.  If you love to color, and colored pencils are your thing, then this class is for you, as Elisabeth is rolling out her favorite Polychromos pencils for this one!  Some heat embossing, glossy accents and pretty sparkly jewels finish it off.  Please bring your basic class kit!

Dates available: Thursday, January 26th from 6-9pm; Saturday, February 4th from 12-3pm; Friday, February 10th from 6-9pm. Cost is $24. Please email elisabeth@paperanthology.com to reserve your spot!

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New Class: Here Comes the Sun(Flowers)

Join Elisabeth for this “One Stamp Set, Three Ways” class, featuring Avery Elle’s Sunflowers Clear Stamps and coordinating dies. We’ll be playing with Polychromos pencils, Karin Markers and a fun technique using Archival reinkers. Dates available are: Thursday, June 9th from 6-9pm; Friday, June 17th from 6-9pm; or Saturday, July 9th from 12-3pm. Cost is $22. Please bring your basic class kit, as listed on the Class List page. Email elisabeth@paperanthology.com to reserve your spot.

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Driving Home for the Holidays

Leave it to Lawn Fawn: not only did they make an adorable set called Car Critters, which features bears who drive; they also configured it to work with the Reveal Wheel system courtesy of a windshield-shaped Reveal Wheel Add-On Die. And then… they made a Christmas Add-On Stamp Set with super-cute reindeer at the wheel!

Lauren used the MISTI to position and stamp all of the images on one layer of card stock. First the car, then the deer, then the antlers. Each element was given a “basecoat” of its lightest color with Tombow Dual Brush Pens, and shading added with colored pencils. There are, of course, coordinating Christmas Car Critter Dies, but in this case the image was fussycut right at the outlines.

Lauren used older dies, punches and patterned paper to make a landscape, but there are lots of options for making a scene, like Dare 2B Artzy’s Curve Slimline Border Dies which has several styles of hills, plus clouds and more; Sunny Studios’ Comic Strip Everyday Die Set, Taylored Expressions’ Grassy Hills or Hero Arts’ Winter Pines. Or pair up with other Lawn Fawn sets, such as All the Clouds, Snow Globe Scenes, Meadow Backdrop. Alternatively, you could choose the low-maintenance option of landscape-inspired pattered paper like Dare 2B Artzy’s Snow Much Fun or Ciao Bella’s Northern Lights.

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Yeti or Not

Taylored Expressions’ Mythical Grumplings are not yet the official mascot of 2020, but maybe they should be? Somewhat improbable, distinctly irritable, and it’s hard not to be just a tiny bit worried about what they might be planning next. On the other hand LOOK. HOW. CUTE! This card by Lauren Bergold is stamped in Ranger Archival Ink, colored with Tombow Dual Brush Pens and shaded with Polychromos Pencils from Faber-Castell.

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So Thankful

Sharing a card from the anniversary party make and take that’s just perfect for the current challenge at Shopping our stash – something related to Thanksgiving, being grateful or a thank you somewhere on the project.  The image and sentiment is from Taylored Expressions – colored in with Polychromos pencils.  The gingham background stamp is from Studio 490, stamped with fern green archival ink.  The letters are die cut using my old school Quick Kutz squeeze (I LOVE this tool) and stamped with a woodgrain background stamp from Stampers Anonymous.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

~elisabeth

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My Favorite Snowman!

This month for Christmas Card Club I turned to an old favorite – an adorable snowman image from Serendipity Stamps (now owned by Impression Obsession)  I paired him up with a beautiful embossing folder from Taylored Expressions and a glitter paper bow using a Sizzix die.  He’s colored in with Polychromos pencils and adorned with loose glitter, stickles and glossy accents – I love this happy fellow!  This card is perfect for the current challenge at Jingle Belles   – Baby it’s Cold Outside; cards featuring things you wear when it’s cold outside …