Tuesday, January 31, 2012

CHA is over, and I'm so excited about all the new stuff! I am ordering new product, and hopefully it should be arriving soon! Newsletter should go out today with all the upcoming classes for February! You can also click the calendar link for all the information. This coming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday is the card class. We will be making 2 cards and a tag. Oh so cute!!

We are also doing a Bag Buffet. We made these cute Valentine bags, perfect for friends, co-workers, kids, or just anyone. We will have the supplies on hand for you to make them. The first bag, which includes candy and instruction, will be only $5. You can then pick up more supplies for to make more. The extra bags will be $3 and will not include candy, or you can pick your own paper to make more. The Bag Buffet will start Friday, Feb 3rd and run through Valentine's Day!! You can stop in anytime during regular store hours.

We will be posting sneak peeks of the classes and the bags shortly, so be watching.

See you all soon!

Monday, January 9, 2012

Quick and Easy Valentine Card



We recently visited with a local PEO group about several of the store offerings and classes. It was such a nice group of woman and a wonderful lunch. We gave a quick and easy Valentine card as a goodie bag for them to make. Everything was precut, but if you would like to make your own card it's easy to do.


Take a 12x12 sheet of hot pink Bazzill cardstock and cut 3 - 4x12 sections

Take one 4x12 section and from the left score at 4.5 and 10

The front love paper is 3.75x4.25 cut and adhear using a tape runner

The inside solid light pink is 3.75x5.25 cut and adhear using a tape runner

Small rectangle piece of hot pink 2x2.75 cut

Small printed rectangle 1.75x2.5 cut

Using foam tape near the edges adhear the two small rectangles together

Run fun fur fiber around the edge between the two rectangles and tie

Use foam tape on the left side of the back rectangle to leave room for the flap to tuck under and adhear to the front of your card

Add some bling to your design

Tuck the right side 2" flap under the rectangle piece and your done