New Veranda Papers!!!

Created by Bren Yule...I love this new paper!

Holiday Recipe Album

Designed by my own upline, Cindy Baker for her team consultant club! Isn't this cute???
Created by Bren Yule

Mini Pizza Box

Inside, a set of 4 holiday stamps in it’s own little storage envelope!

Made with our new Jingle paper kit!

created by Bren Yule

Christmas is Coming!

Here is a cute card I made using our new Jingle Creative Basics Papers!

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August Stamp of the Month

Happy Birthday to Me! (Me, Bren Yule, at age 11)

August 2009 SOTM

It's your day is a delightful stamp set to work with. Here I've used Animal Cookies (Dutch blue, Sunflower, Tulip, Clover Meadow, and Desert Sand) paper to create the 8"x3.5" Top Band (from Wishes) card. The ricrac is stamped on in black. The cake was stamped and cut out, applied with mounting foam.

Another sample I made used colors from Jeanette Lynton's Color Me Monday. The colors used was Key Lime, Baby Pink, Hollyhock, and Grey Wool. I also used Grey Flannel to make Wishes' Inner Circle card (4.5" circle). Flourishes helped make this card, well, flourish. And clear sparkles made it shine. The edges around the "Party" were edge distressed and then inked with Key Lime.

Future Consultant in Training

Kennedy Rose is a great little helper. She helped me prepare my May newsletter by volunteering to be the display model for the catalog kickoff notice. She's 2 weeks old here.

World's Best Dad

April's Stamp of the Month!

I stamped the images of the fish on the backside of the Moonstruck CS, dry embossed them, and then sanded the front side. I liked the subtle look of the fish in the background. Then, like a crazy gal, I cut out the fishing pole, basket, and lure. The lure is hooked on the sign and attached to the fishing pole with fishing wire. The paper is Stardust.

Special Cards Memory Keeper

This box was inspired by Jeanette Lynton. Her blog entry showing a similar memory keeper had me drooling! This is my workshop for April but toned down so that my customers can afford it and complete it in two hours.

Unforgettable paper, Fancy Cuts (TM) Botanicals, dimensional elements, Just Bloom(TM) Big Pinks, and of course the My Creations(TM) memory keeper are part of the box.

Cupcake and Stardust

Cupcakes are rather popular right now, so I incorporated them into birthday cards that were a little more masculine.

The single swirl is stamped in the background of "Celebrate" in Moonstruck, Bamboo, and Honey. The stamp is also used on the cupcake icing.

Stars in Honey were stamped on the Honey cardstock. Colonial White Ricrac separated the CS and B&T. The cupcake wrapper was stamped on the back of the Moonstruck Stars and cut out. The icing was cut out and adhered with half-height 3-D Foam Squares.

The lower card uses Liquid Applique for the icing. After it was heated, I stamped on it.

Scalloped stamp was used with Honey on the Honey CS on the left card. Sprinkles were colored with marker and huffed before stamping on the icing. Direct to Paper distressed the Topiary, Honey, and White Daisy CS. Topiary Marker filled in the white part of the wrapper.

Happy Birthday with multiple candles utilizes the flexiblity of the stamps. The image was curved before stamping. The candles were then glued behind and in front of the icing.

Simplicity says the last card. The dotted border was stamped on the backside of the Moonstruck strip and dry embossed. The strip was then turned over and sanded before stamping. The cherry on top was made with a Cranberry Bigger Brad and Cranberry Waxy Flax.

Stardust March workshop

These are from my March workshop. We used Stardust papers, honey and moonstruck cs and inks, along with the colonial white rickrack. The cards were all made (including 90% of the bases) from the scraps left over from the layout. My customers were thrilled when they saw how much you still do with what's left over. That had been a concern of some of them about using the how to books, but I definately had a few more believers after this workshop. I will for sure be using my scraps for a display each month now to show what can be done.

You can't see it very well in the pictures but I used our markers to show how easy it is to quickly highlight the stamped images (some of mine don't like full coloring) and also used liquid glass on the glass bubbles of the space ships which turned out really well.

magnet board

This magnet board was from my Feb. workshop and my customers loved how quick, easy, and inexpensive they were to make. I bought the black cookie sheets from the $ Tree. We used tape runner to adhere the paper to the cookie sheet.

The magnets I used Glass bobbles from Walmart, and using liquid glass we adhered b&t, then the magnet to the pebbles. You can't see from the picture but we also glued ribbon around the sides of the magnet as they were thicker magnets. It worked perfect the thicker magnets are stronger and the ribbon gave such a finished look.

"Butterfly Wings" March Stamp of the Month

Earn this Close to my Heart Stamp of the Month FREE!

Cupcake Giftcard Holder!

Are these not the cutest little cupcakes you’ve ever seen??? Just pull up on the cherries to reveal the hidden gift card. WARNING: Do not eat (the hot glue is a gagger). Karen, Caroline and I had such a fun late night moment…here are the fruits of our labor…
Cupcakes created with our new Daydream papers, Just Blooms Big Pinks, Chocolate Cardstock and assorted Ribbons. The Cherry is a painted and glittered bead topped with a REAL cherry stem. Good enought to eat! (but don’t go there)
Inspired by kindred spirits, Linda Albrecht and Tresa Black

Feb SOTM card

I used daydreamer paper for the background, white cs, creme brule cs for the larger scalloped square and to stamp the egg onto, and a different piece of daydreamer b&t for the smaller scalloped square. The egg was stamped with versa mark ink and embossed with white powder. I also used our legacy pens to dot the white cs and draw around the other images to tie them all to the main b&t paper. The antique white rick rac was sponged with creme brule ink. The different layers are raised using pop up foam squares.

Imagine layout - Monologue w/Aspen

This is the layout my class did this month. We're doing a layout a month using the monthly word puzzles and simple layouts. The purpose for them is to have a finished album at the end of the year. I kept embellishments to a minimum because I wanted to show them that you can make pretty pages simply and quickly and that not every layout needs to be lavishly decorated.

We used Aspen paper, Colonial White CS for the bases, and Creme Brule CS . We stamped the 2009 onto the reverse side of the plaid paper with Twilight ink, and they loved the textured effect it gave.

Clear buttons were decorated with Liquid glass and coordinating B & T papers, then tied with Black Hemp.

I printed my photos in black and white to show them what a simple change to pictures can really add a big punch to the layout.

Eggs can be Strawberries! Feb Stamp of the Month!

Strawberry Card by Bren Yule
February Stamp of the Month D1340 Easter Eggs
D1303 Classmate Alphabet
X7108B Daydream Paper Pack
Z2106 Blush Ink Pad
Z2105 Black Ink Pad
Z679 Liquid Glass
Z1293 Delta Ceramcoat Magnolia White Paint
(It’s in the distressing kit)
Mix Liquid Glass & Paint together for “Chocolate”
Z1299 Distressing Kit (Paint tray, mixing sticks and paint)
Z1304 Just Blooms Autumn Leaves (Cut for stems)
Z1148 Pretty Pins
Z1138 Blush Collection Ribbon Rounds
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Little mailbox using Whoops a Daisy and March 09 SOTM

I bought these mailboxes at the Target dollar bin and am using them for an upcoming workshop.

On the textured cardstock I random stamped with the March SOTM butterflies. I also stamped with pencil erasers to make the circles match the Whoops a Daisy polkadots from the front of the box.

I used our write and rub pen along with prisma glitter on the front and back doors of the box, as well as on the little butterfly on the flag arm.