Spellbinders BetterPress Society

 Not sure if you know that Spellbinders has a special BetterPress Society Club that is only available through your local retailers.  This is different than the monthly clubs directly from Spellbinders.

My local scrapbook store, Scrapmania, is luckily one of the participating brick and mortar locations.

I picked up my BetterPress February plate along with the add-on stencil yesterday and made a few cards to share.

BetterPress plates can also be used with the Glimmer Hot Foil system which really stretches their use.

I have a variety of plain, ink blended and glimmer images made into cards.

Now off to alcohol color some images.

Thanks for stopping by today

Nancy

Out of the Box Copic Coloring

I want to share a couple of cards from a recent Copic class I taught at 

Scrapmania in Cedar Rapids

The images were printed on Watercolor paper so that I could get a blending effect resembling the succulents.  Also, using unexpected marker colors help to achieve the effect that I wanted.  

Ken Oliver - Poppy Flower  KN-0025

Art Gone Wild - Succulents Bracket Frame AGC3-2829

The Copic Markers used on these cards were:
BV23-BV21-Y04-YG91-BG000-BG11-G20-G40

I hope these will encourage you to step out of the box and use Copic Markers that you normally would'nt think of putting together.

Hope you have a Great Day!!
I'm off to teach a class.

Nancy

Happy To Be Back and Sharing

I've taken some time away from the Blog world the past year and have realized how much I missed being out of the loop.  Although I have not been blogging that doesn't mean I've been laying around eating bonbons.  I have a new grandson, my daughter is engaged and getting married this August and I have been teaching classes at my local scrapbook store here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  Scrapmania is a fantastic store and Stacy keeps her inventory current with all the latest products, if she doesn't have what you want she will order it.

I teach Copic classes and lots and lots of card classes.  I absolutely love what I get to do and all the fantastic people I get to meet.

Today I'm starting a new series of beginning Copic classes that will run June through December.   Tomorrow I have 2 classes using tulle for shaker cards.  There is still space available if anyone is interested in attending, all you have to do is call the store to reserve your space.

Tulle shaker card, June 27th

Scrapmania 319-377-9999

Thanks for stopping by, more to come!

Nancy

Working on Transparent Objects

I had the pleasure of teaching a Copic Class last night at Scrapmania here in Cedar Rapids.

Our focus for the month of May has been techniques and coloring transparent objects.

After my little craftroom clean-up I uncovered this image that never made it into production.  I had colored it with Copics several months ago and decided now wold be a good time to put something together. I gathered up some scrap papers and her ya go.

This cute little fairy in the glass shows the shadow of the glass making it have that transparent look. 

Of course this image was screaming Shaker Card!

Just a reminder, I will be teaching one more class this month at Scrapmania,so if you're in Cedar Rapids and want to take a Copic Marker class just call sign up.

The class is Sunday, May 29th starting at 1:00

319-377-9999

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

It's Graduation Time

I decided to get a jump on the Graduation cards this week.  We only have 3 invites this year, but I have a birthday party this week and I'm teaching 2 Copic classes next week.  Not wanting the time to get away from me I decided to knock them out last night.  

You might see a theme with the acetate panels because I had the acetate out from another card and decided, why not?

Three cards needed, two girls, one boy and three different schools.  I'm so lucky to have a fabulous scrapbook store right here in Cedar Rapids that stock papers from most every school in our area.  Scrapmania has all your needs with papers, stickers and stamps for your graduation and sports needs.

So here are my three cards.

I made matching envelopes for each card including a fun belly-band.  

Fast and easy, include a gift card and we're ready to go.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Nancy