Wednesday, November 9, 2022

It's been a year!!

 It's been a year!!

That statement can be taken in so many ways, can't it?

If you notice the date of my last post and then this one - you'll get one of the ways.   

I have been crafting - I'm still enjoying Mystery Stamping Hour.  It's now happening EVERY week and I would love for you to join in when you are able to.   We've been making lots of fun and some fancy card folds lately.

These are from the most recent Mystery Stamping Hour from November 3, 2022.  This Six-Fold Card was inspired by Lisa Curcio of Lisa's Stamp Studio. 

                     

The week of October 27th had us CASEing (CopyAndShareEverything) an Easy W Fun Fold Card from StampHappy NZ. It looks complicated but it really wasn't.  

  


          


That's my time for today.  I'll try to drop back soon to share more with you.

The next Mystery Stamping Hour will be on Thursday, November 10th - don't wait for an invite -- come out and join us on the ZOOM call at 7:30pm Atlantic time:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83660797823?pwd=TEVMZDE0UEwxc0ZoOUpEdHhVRGxwUT09

The supply list is posted ahead of time in the FB event:  https://fb.me/e/1Na9eJ1gz  

Until next time
I hope you get to enjoy lots of crafty moments.

Cathy




Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Mystery Stamping Hours continue

I really am enjoying the Mystery Stamping Hours that we have every second Thursday evening.  It's a great chance to get together with other crafty friends and make cards.

There have been lots of events since the last time I posted.  I'll try to post more of these over the next few weeks.

The cards below were from the last get-together on November 4th.  Quick and simple cards in a variety of styles but all using the basic products from the supply list.



I really liked the cards from the CASEing Tuesday FB group so used their sketch to come up with the supplies needed.  Why don't you give it a try yourself?

Supply List:

Card Base - cardstock 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Coordinating Cardstock - 5 1/4" x4"
Coordinating Designer Series Paper (DSP) - 5 1/8" x 3 7/8" OR 5" x 3 3/4"
Neutral Cardstock (for large size sentiment) 2" x 3 1/2" and
(for inside sentiment) - 4" x 5 1/4"
Ribbon - 3"
Embellishments (like sequins, rhinestones, etc), colouring tools (optional)
Stamp Set and coordinating ink pads of your choice
Adhesives - eg Tombow or snail, dimensionals & glue dots
optional - embossing folder and Cut & Emboss Machine
optional - Cardstock scraps, punches, and/or dies for sentiment and for accent pieces

The next Mystery Stamping Hour will be on Thursday, November 18th -- come out and join us on the ZOOM call at 7:30pm Atlantic: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83660797823?pwd=TEVMZDE0UEwxc0ZoOUpEdHhVRGxwUT09


Until next time,
I hope you get to enjoy lots of crafty moments!

Cathy







 

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Staying busy and Mystery Stamping Hour events

 You would think that with COVID restrictions and the fact that we are trying to stay home as much as possible that life would be dull and boring.  NOPE not my LIFE!!

Although it was a bit quieter since my extended family couldn't come over from PEI, Christmas was a wonderful FAMILY time.  We got to spend a lot of quality time and enjoyed it sooo much!!  I managed to decorate the house and outside a bit more this year than I usually have time for which was fun.  The not so fun part is trying to find the time to take it all down and put it away.  LOL  I'm sure some of you can feel my pain.  

Our grandson was born on January 1st -- that was exciting!  He's adorable and whereas our granddaughter was premature and small, our grandson is a strapping young boy - sturdy and strong!! 

Did you know my Mother-In-Law lives with us?  well, she likes to give us a bit of excitement too apparently.  She fell recently :( and landed herself in hospital to recuperate.  We have managed daily visits to the hospital for the last week and will try to keep that up until she comes back home -- except for snow days, of course.

And then, there's my STAMPING ... I've really been enjoying getting back into my stamping - a BINGO in November, Mystery Card Classes every second Thursday evening lately and a Catalogue Launch with some of my demo friends in early January.   Have you been following along on the Anything Goes Crafts FaceBook page?  

I'm really enjoying the Mystery Card Making that I was telling you about on my last blog post back in November.   Did you know that the steps/clues are posted in the FB event and that you could follow along after the fact too? 

Let's get you caught up on some of the creativity that has been happening since then:

My card from the Dec 3 Mystery Card Hour -- check out the event discussion tab for those created by my friends who attended.

            


The Dec 17 Mystery Card Hour  -- again check out that event's discussion tab for my friends' creations.

   

        


We even got together on New Year's Eve!!!  oh what fun we had for an hour of crafting... check out the creations of those who joined me that evening under that event's discussion tab.

   

I'm going to save the last couple of Mystery Card nights for another blog post.  I would love to see you join me next time at the Mystery Stampin Hour event - you get to use the craft supplies you have on hand AND I would really enjoy seeing your creations!  The next one is on Thursday, February 11, 2021

I hope you enjoyed your visit today and that you'll come back another time to see what I've managed to put together to show you.   In the meantime, join us in the Anything Goes Crafts Community FB group for some fun and perhaps you'd like to share what you've created with us.

Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time,
I hope you enjoy lots of crafty moments!
Cathy

Friday, November 13, 2020

Mystery Stamping Hour

 I've been having great fun coming up with Mystery Stamping Hour events.  We've held three so far in the last couple of months.  I hope to make them a regular event.  To date, I have borrowed the card ideas from other Stampin' Up! demonstrators - Tina Zinck, Joanne B Perry, and Sharon Armstrong.   Big kudos to these ladies for sharing their ideas with others.

Mystery Stamping Hour events can take many different forms -- I do mine two-fold.  The "clues" or instruction steps are posted in the FB event (scheduled) for anyone to follow along with.  PLUS I hold a ZOOM meeting where those who want to craft with others can follow along with the posted steps - I share my screen.    It is SO much fun to see everyone's card at the end - no two are alike and I just LOVE that about this process.   And the BEST part of these stamping events, you actually get to USE UP those craft supplies you have in your craft room!  :D     These events have allowed me to ink up some stamp sets that I had not had a chance to use yet, papers that I hadn't opened.  It's been great!!!

Let's get you caught up on all the creativity that has been happening!
October 1st was the EARLY World Cardmaking Day Mystery Stamping event - 
These were the cards that I made from Tina Zinck's card design:


   

     

you can see other friend's creations here under the "discussion" tab:
        World Cardmaking Day Mystery Stamping Hour


THEN, we held another Mystery Stamping Event on Oct 22 and we followed along with Joanne B Perry's card idea.  These are the cards I made:


       
   

you can see other friend's creations here under the "discussion" tab: 
    Oct 22 Mystery Stamping Hour w AGC


And yesterday's Mystery Stamping Hour.  This card idea was shared by Sharon Armstrong.
Here are the cards that I came up with using this layout:

          


          

Hop on over to the FaceBook Party Link to see our friends' creations.  Just click on the discussion tab:
       Nov 12 Mystery Stamping Hour


And then today, I attended Tina Zinck's Mystery Hour -- it was fun to follow along!   This is the card that I made at her event:

 


As you can see, I'm having a whale of a good time with these Mystery Stamping Events!!  I hope that you will join in for the next one.  I'd love to "see" you!!!

I hope you enjoyed your visit today and that you'll come back another time to see what I've managed to put together to show you.   In the meantime, join us in the Anything Goes Crafts Community FB group for some fun and perhaps you'd like to share what you've created with us.

Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time,
I hope you enjoy lots of crafty moments!
Cathy


Monday, June 22, 2020

Forever Greenery

What do you do when your training group wants you to post your blog address and you're embarrassed because you haven't posted anything lately?  You do a blog post so there is something current to look at!!

𝒲𝐸𝐿𝒞𝒪𝑀𝐸 (back) to the 𝓐𝓷𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓖𝓸𝓮𝓼 𝓒𝓻𝓪𝓯𝓽𝓼 blog. :D 

I haven't been very active lately in my craft room.  Have you had a chance to be creative?

The whole Covid-19 pandemic had me concentrating more on my full-time job than my side-gig with Anything Goes Crafts - I just didn't have the mental energy for much more. 

I did create some cards with some of our Anything Goes Crafts team a few weeks ago.  Under the tutelage of our demo friend, Jen Z, we made 4 cards with various fun-folds over a zoom meeting.  It was a lot of fun.  I did realize though that, usually I'm the instructor in these class situations and I'm a very, very slow student.  I had to finish my cards after class was over. Maybe I was just out of practice? LOL

Using the Forever Fern and Tasteful Touches stamp sets along with the Forever Greenery DSP and the Forever Flourishing Dies, I was able to create these four cards.


I hope you enjoyed your visit today and that you'll come back another time to see what I've managed to put together to show you.   In the meantime, join us in the Anything Goes Crafts Community FB group for some fun and perhaps you'd like to share what you've created with us.

Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time,
I hope you enjoy lots of crafty moments!
Cathy

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

It was a great 2019 at Anything Goes Crafts with Cathy, let's continue on into 2020.











I hosted a New Year's Stampin' Style BINGO afternoon in late December.  Such a good time with lots of laughs.  And the prizes that were given away?  wow!  We had some happy winners.

Not only did we play 6 games of BINGO with prizes, but there are also door prizes including FREE registration for the next BINGO event AND the one that everyone wants to win:  The EXTRA Bingo prize draw.   I take all the money from the attendees purchasing additional bingo cards and draw a ticket from those that participated in the EXTRA Bingo activities.  Whoever's name gets drawn, they get to purchase that amount of Stampin' Up!® products with me as their Stampin' Up!® demonstrator.  This past event we had $125 worth of extra tickets sold.  WooHoo!  Our stamping friend Ann was very happy indeed that her name was chosen.

Ann's money went even further, as we waited until Sale-A-Bration (SAB) started to place the order so that she could get TWO Free products to go along with her prize winnings.  She did end up paying the shipping and HST to get the extra products but that was her choice and I think it was a very wise one. 

Have you seen the latest offerings for the 2020 Sale-A-Bration event?  If not, contact me today for your copy of the MINI catalogue and the SAB brochure.   Or check them out online:

MINI - click here.

SAB - click here.



No surprise but we also make paper-craft projects (cards and 3-D items) at each BINGO event.
This time, we made a calendar with a spot for a note pad and pen.


It was a great chance to celebrate the New Year with this cute card that used the now-retired Mercury Glass Designer Acetate Sheets and both the Sip Sip Hooray and the Cheers to That stamp sets and dies -- CHEERS! I truly hope that your 2020 is a great year!!

 


Every attendee also gets a goody bag.  This time it included this awesome Distressed Red Tin -- perfect for keeping all sorts of goodies in.  It's big enough to put cards in, just sayin'.   So we decorated it with some ribbon and made a magnet decoration to go with it. 




And of course, since I wanted to use some of the new products from the NEW Mini Catalogue and SAB brochure, I decided to make a Valentine's Day Card.   It's a fun fold card.



I hope that you'll be able to join us for the next Stampin' Style Bingo.  Rumour has it that it's being planned for March 22 but the hall has not been finalized yet.  That's the tail end of March break here in Nova Scotia.

Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time,
I hope you enjoy lots of crafty moments.
Cathy





Tuesday, June 25, 2019

June 2019 Monthly Card Class cards

I had a wonderful time creating with my stamping friends at this month's Monthly Card Class last night.

These are the cards we made: 

We did a lot of fun and different techniques that we haven't been doing lately.  AND we had a chance to play with the NEW Pigment Sprinkles.



A closer look:

We used the pigment sprinkles on Watercolour paper for our background and spritzed with water using the Stampin' Spritzer - some of us did rainbow stripes like this one. 
All were different, all were great looking.   
The fancy cut out card front is a card from the Bird Ballad Laser-Cut Cards & Tin.


The Daisy Lane stamp set has wonderful images in it.  I saw a card using the leaves from another demonstrator so thought we should try it.  We used the clear embossing technique on this one.
This is one of those cards that you need to see it in real life to realize how beautiful it is.
What do you think of this NEW In-Color - Pretty Peacock? 


I couldn't wait to try the NEW 3-D Brick & Mortar Embossing Folder.  With a little added ink, it looks just like a real brick wall.  So cool.  We paired it with the Free as a Bird stamp set and did just a tiny bit of fussy cutting along with some punched out accessories.  Colouring with watercolour pencils and the blender pen can give such a soft look to your card.

I designed this next card for a card-making event that I attended last weekend put on by my friend Maree - the Inky Moose, up in Fredericton, NB.  She puts on the most wonderful Extravaganza's.
This was my Swap Card.
I liked it so much that I thought my class attendees would like to make it too.  A bit of water-colouring with ink and a bit of "colouring" with the Wink of Stella pen on the Shimmery White paper made for a soft look.   I'm NOT a pink person but this NEW In-Color Rococo Rose is really pretty.



Thanks for dropping by to visit.
Until next time,
Happy Stamping!!

Cathy
Anything Goes Crafts