Easel Card

My son's girlfriend and I went to my favorite stamp/scrap store Mainely Stampin in Fairfield, CA.  We took some classes and this is a card from the Windows and Doors Class.    When you go to a class at Mainely Stampin, everything is prepared for you.  You just sit down and make your projects.  All the supplies are in a basket and all the paper is precut for you.  Awesome !   I thought this card was cute, check out the little chandelier behind the screen door.  Martha at the store taught us all day, when I say all day we were there from about 10:30 am and 8:30 pm.  We still had one class to go, but decided to do it the next time.  I signed us up for five classes, I guess I kinda over did it ;-)   We had fun though, now we have an excuse to go back real soon, so we can take that last class, not that I need an excuse.  

Stick Pin Swap at Minialbumscraps.ning.com

I am very active at minialbumscraps.ning.com   It is a great site for inspiration, friendly people and lots of swaps to join if you would like.   I am in the September stick pin swap, the theme was Halloween, and these are my three stick pins.  One of the rules at MAS is to have a nice presentation for your swap.  I struggle with this part, but I came up with the Window die from Memory Box that I recently purchased from my LSS.   I cut out two of the black windows, put the orange paper on each of them.  I put two strips of foam tape between the two windows for my pins to stick into so they would not poke anyone during transport ;-)   I hope the recipients like it.