Seminar Trades

Good Morning and Happy Friday! Do you have a wonderful 4th of July planned? I'm so excited as this is our first year celebrating the 4th in our house and we can actually shoot off fire works, we have a neighborhood parade that Abby is so excited about, and we live right near the lake where they have a huge firework show. My family is coming over to celebrate with us which means Mom will be bring items from the garden and her famous macaroni salad - yumO!

Today I thought I'd show you my seminar trades that I gave out.

This one is a favorite of mine and what is funny is it uses Kraft paper which I used to HATE - what's up with that? Do you ever do that - have something you can't stand and then all of a sudden you're like ummm that's not so bad after all. Not sure if you can tell but I stamped the swirls with Versamark. I then pierced part of the swirl using the stamp as the guideline. It really added to the card.

Details:

Stamps - All from The Angel Company: Curls n Swirls, Glitter Goblins (circle); You are (sentiment); Linear Sentiments (star)

Ink - VersaMark, Burnt Umber, L'Amore Red, Prussian Blue

Other - Mega Scallop Circle Punch, Super Jumbo Circle Punch, Brown Scrappers Floss, Red Button, piercer

This next card uses new sets from the catalog.

This one was a fun one to make and I just love the saying...so me! And doesn't that pig just look as though she could have an attitude?

Details:

Stamps - all from The Angel Company: Funny Farm (pig), Funny Farm Phrases (saying) and Enjoy Nature (flowers)

Ink - Noir Black, VersaMark

Other - Colored pencils & OMS, Extra Jumbo Flower Punch, 1/2" circle punch, pop dot

My last share is my special trade. For my special I made little note pads. I so love how they turned out. I got the idea when I was blog surfing and saw someone doing something similar with post it pads and pens. I stamped the image & colored her in with pencils & OMS as well as Copics. I used the Cha Cha SWIC line to paper piece her top and to put a circle in the center of the sunflower. The image is from Fall Harvest and is one of my favorites.

This is the inside of the pad - I got the little paper pads at my Dollar Tree. They came 5 "little" pads to a pack. One of my trades used 2 of those "little" pads. I then combine the left over pad with another one by using double stick tape. The pencils I got a year or so ago for another project I did - I got like 100 to a box so I have just a few of those laying around, lol!I used 8.5x11 paper and could get two covers per sheet. Because my pads were a little long I had to had a strip of black cardstock to the bottom which I just cut using my decorative scissors. It took me awhile to get my dimensions right but once I FINALLY figured that out these went together rather quickly. Coloring took the longest by far oh and maybe cutting out the tops :o)

Well I hope you've enjoyed my creations today. Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful weekend and a glorious 4th of July - stay safe!!

I am a Demonstrator for The Angel Company. If you are interested in purchasing these sets or have any questions, feel free to email me!