Technique Camp starting this SAT!

I am starting a technique camp that will be held the first Saturday of every month. We will be learning 3 new techniques and do 3 cards with these techniques. The directions will go on the back of your cards. I am going to be putting all my technique cards into a 4x6 chipboard album The Angel Company sells for $4.95. I can order one for anyone that would like or you can find your own option to store your tech cards. The cost for each camp is $7 and you are welcome to bring a lunch item to share with the group since it will be over the lunch hours from 10am-1pm. This will be a great way to learn some more challenging techniques that produce beautiful results. These kinds of techniques I do not do in any of my general stamp camps or funshops as they are more advanced and intimidating. So for anyone that wants to see what other fun things you can do with inks, colorants, papers, etc. this is the camp to come to. The first three techniques for October are: Split Negative, Crinkled Paper and Fossil techniques. The photos on the right will show each one of them. Call or email me to RSVP for this event!

Teacher Gift in the midst of scary search by cops

Wow, it has been one of those days you won't easily forget, if ever. We were awakend early this morning with a reverse 9-1-1 call about a man who had kidnapped a women in New Mexico drove north and ran out of gas at the Gleneagle Exit in COS. That's my exit! We were watchful this morning getting the kids off to school but didn't hear much else except that the kidnapped lady had gotten away and the man was still out there somewhere. He apparently broke into someone's house at about 7:30am and assaulted a women and took some jewelry and went out the back door. Another lady on the street behind us reported she saw a man in her backyard this morning at 9:30. She lives on the street right behind us. So, as I casually go out this morning at 10:30am to drop some mail into the mailbox. I see police 2 doors down at the stop sign. They see me and yell at me to get back into the house. I RAN! Slamed the door, set the alarm and looked out my back window to see the swat team with dogs in the backyard behind us. I called me hubbie and he came home to stay with me. I had to call everyone in crop club to tell them not to come. Found out later that the schools my kids are in are locked down. The swat team and dogs eventually came over and sweeped our backyard. I was a bit leary about being down in my basement studio where I felt the most vulnerable in the whole house but once the swat team went through our yard I made my way down here to start and finish a teacher gift card/bookmark pocket card that I will teach at the Crop-a-Latte in Castle Rock on Sept 27th. I am feeling a little spent. They still haven't found the bad guy and I am waiting to hear how we are going to get our kids? So, I have been crafting away keeping my mind away from the horrible possibilities that could happen. I think I am going to just go and veg for a while now in front of the TV.

All Occasion Card Camp on Sept 14th!

It's coming up! Here are a couple of cards we will be making. I am having so much fun just thinking up designs and prepping these cards. I could do this forever!