Treasured Memories

"I Believe in Angels" canvas by Ann Kerr

Please bring to class: Mod Podge matt medium, gesso, texture paste, water color crayons, gel pens – gold etc., water brushes or a fine 1” brush, Tim Holtz brown distress ink and pen, black archival ink, scissors, exacto knife, palette knife, glue (Ann used Fabri-Tac and tacky glue), brayer or squeegee, background stencils (Ann used, Diamond Pattern & Flourish by Memory Box, these will be available for use but bring some of your own), background stamps (Ann used script, small butterfly & cross hatch), Inka Gold in gold. Bring any other inks and embellishments you may want to use and a heat gun if you have one.

Supplied: the canvas, hand made papers, metal embellishments, stamped angels, doilies, corners, cheesecloth, flowers, sprays, dimensional magic, lace & bling.

 

 

 

4 New lines from My Mind's Eye

Yes, Please

 

 

 

Hooray

 

 

 

Comfort and Joy

 

 

 

Sugar Plum

 

 

Beautiful new chipboard shapes & layouts from Glenda Drake

There are page kits available for each of these layouts, or new individual chipboard shapes, from Glenda, for many of the elements you see here.

 

Art Journal Classes with Kassandra LePage

Dragon Repeat 

Sunday, August 14th

12:00 - 3:00pm

$24.00

By request Kassandra is redoing this popular page. In this class you’ll be playing with: stencils, stamps, modeling paste, Inka-Gold, color burst & matt medium.

Please bring to class: a palette knife, modeling paste, matt medium & brush, black marker, white china marker and a heat gun if you have one.

 

 

 

Under the Waves

Sunday, August 21st

12:00 - 3:00pm

$24.00

In this class you’ll be playing with: water colour paints, modeling paste, mica flakes, matt medium, stamps & salt!

Please bring to class: a 1” paint brush, water cup, scissors, modeling paste, black pen, matt medium, tape runner & a heat gun if you have one.

 

Redneck Crop- you don't want to miss this

We hosted our first of two Redneck themed crops this past weekend and it was a great success. The ladies who chose to participate in the costume portion on the Friday night nailed it and did the theme proud. There were laughs & more laughs and then even more ruckus when we rounded them up for a photo shoot with Milkshake- our sweet hen / photo booth prop (do not fear, no chickens were harmed in the making of great photos). 

Bubba & Bobby Sue

Congratulations on your marriage and the pending birth of your love child.

We had (root)beer pong! 

Karen- her form is spot on.

The weekend was full and the ladies went home with laughs, conversation, full bellies and perhaps even got a little work done in the process.

Do you have a burning desire to attend a crop and even better- a crop with a redneck theme? We still have space in each day for this weekend's crop.

Call the store at 780-414-1540 to sign up for all the days or  just one of the days.

The Coles Notes of what do you get....

Friday:

Goodie Bag

Dinner: burgers, scallop potatoes & salad

Photo booth

Door Prizes

Costume Prizes

Beer Pong

Plenty of snacks!

Saturday:

Goodie Bag

Brunch Buffet

Make n' takes

Challenges with prizes

Dinner: Rib dinner catered by Montana's

Door Prizes

Snacks, Snack, Snacks

Sunday:

Goodie Bag

Brunch Buffet

Make n' takes

Door Prizes

 

Month Kit Inspiration with Jennifer

We're sharing two more of Jennifer's layouts from Flip Flop Season- The July month kit.

Jennifer's work is as always, gorgeous!  You can pop into the store to see her full collection of layouts from this kit. To see more of Jennifer's work you can pop by her personal blog: On a Tanget- here.

 

Gelli Plate Madness with Dooreen Rousseau

 

 

The next Mixed Media Kit - August/September - is due to release August 1^st. We are excited to announce that a  5” x 5” gelli plate and a brayer will be included in the Kit. Classes have been scheduled to assist you in learning all about mono-printing using the fabulous gelli plate.

 

Basic Mono-printing skills

Sunday, August 7,  12:30 – 3:30pm

OR

Thursday, August 11, 6:30 – 9:30 pm

Cost: $22 (no member discount)

 

 

Advanced mono-printing

Sunday, August 28,   12:30 – 3:30pm

(must have basic experience with a plate)

Cost: $22 (no member discount)

see details for Advance Class further below.

 

 

The Basic Mono-printing skills workshop will be a lot of fun, and very creative! Using a gelli plate to pull art prints is very addictive, and it’s so versatile! You’ll learn the basics and see how easy it is to create wonderful one-of-a-kind prints to enhance any project you have on the go, or simply bind the prints into an album or book to use in journaling.

Learn how to:

* use and care for the gelli plate

*use stencils and basic layering

*add visual texture and interest

*create intentional layers

*build compositions

What to bring:

Gelli Plate (5” x 5” or larger)

4” rubber brayer

Acrylic paint – various colors you like to use

(Choose vibrant colors – eg. yellow, pink, orange, red, green, blue, purple)

(Brands - Liquitex, Golden, Dylusions, Dina Wakely, craft paint, etc.)

Black and white acrylic paint

Background stamps (to add texture)

5 empty cardboard toilet tissue tubes

Stencils – bring what you have!

Apron

Paint brushes

Old towel for cleaning stencils

Plenty of paper towels and a pack of baby wipes

Paper trimmer, scissors

Everything else is supplied!

For those of you with experience and want to go a little further

and build on your skills, we have an advanced class for you.

 

 

Advanced mono-printing

Sunday, August 28,   12:30 – 3:30pm

(must have basic experience with a plate)

Cost: $22 (no member discount)

This workshop continues to build on basic mono-printing skills. You will use the prints you pull to complete a small project.

Learn how to:

*add visual texture and interest

*create intentional layers

*build compositions

*using the prints in projects

What to bring:

Gelli Plate (5” x 5” or larger)

4” rubber brayer

Acrylic paint – various colors you like to use

(Choose vibrant colors – eg. yellow, pink, orange, red, green, blue, purple)

(Brands - Liquitex, Golden, Dylusions, Dina Wakely, craft paint, etc.)

Black and white acrylic paint

Background stamps (to add texture)

5 empty cardboard toilet tissue rolls

Stencils – bring what you have!

Apron

Paint brushes

Old towel for cleaning stencils

Plenty of paper towels and a pack of baby wipes

Paper trimmer, scissors

Everything else is supplied!

 

Redneck Party Crop Weekends

We've scored sum fresh vittles & fixins for the upcoming crops! There is still some room in both party weekends so if yer interested let us know (780-414-1540), and we'll have the relatives scan the backroads fur more possum. 

If yer in either of the weekend crops feel free to start as soon as we open on Friday at 10:00am, both Friday & Saturday go till midnight. Sunday is 10:00 to 5:00. There are prizes for best dressed & most redneck on Friday night so "git yer Redneck on!"

The weekend is fully catered, there are door prizes, themed goodie bags, make-n-takes & challenge kits. Friday is $40.00, Saturday $60.00, Sunday $30.00 or $120.00 for the full weekend.

 

His & Hers Baby Card Kit

We have new baby card kits available from Nadine.

This kit contains 10! cards: 6 cards, and 4 bonus cards created with the extra papers.

This is not a class.

Month Kit Inspiration with Jennifer

We're sharing two more of Jennifer's layouts from Flip Flop Season- The July month kit.

Jennifer's work is beautiful, her use of layers upon layers and her attention to detail are top shelf! 

Thank you's to Jennifer for sharing her work with us today. Pop into the store to see her full collection from this kit and to see more of Jennifer's work you can pop by her personal blog here.

Farmhouse Kitchen Cookbook by Jasmine Kuebel

Saturday, August 27th

10:00 - 5:00

$120.00

This amazing cookbook would be a lovely present for someone dear to you or a useful treat for yourself. It is also never too early to begin working on one-of-a-kind holiday gifts. For those of you who wish to share one of your favourite recipes feel free to bring in a copy so that we can all have a few new “Scrumpdillyicious” recipes to try (15 copies please, one for each participant).

Supplies Included: Heartfelt Creation album and 3 sets of the flip/folds, assorted Farmhouse kitchen papers, rolling pin, whisk, Tim Holtz clipboard, swivel clasp and silverware, plus many special embellishments to make this project a one-of-a-kind treasure.

Supplies to bring:  Paper trimmer, ruler, paper adhesive, foam squares, LOTS of score tape (in all sizes is always helpful), ink and blending tool should you wish to ink the paper. I recommend Tim Holtz’s Vintage Photo colour. Clear Silicon caulking (the kind used for bathtubs/etc.) or a hot glue gun with glue, and sandpaper

 

 

June-July Mixed Media Kit Inspiration

This week we feature Dooreen’s take on a travel journal.

The Tim Holtz worn book cover was sprayed with a liberal amount of Lindy’s Silhouette Silver, and inked with Walnut Distress ink. Then random splatters of water removed some of the color, giving a delightful mottled appearance. The front panel was altered using the cardboard backing from packaging, with molding paste through a stencil and coordinating color added (blues and greens). Various bits were used to finish off the front cover: washi tape, word die cut ‘explore’, die cut globe, film strip, stamped images, metal star and a mini plaquette. The back-cover has a road trip car image stamped onto glassine paper which was grunged up and adhered.

Dooreen elected to use the binder insert with page pockets to hold tags and trimmed designer papers. The smaller pieces can be further decorated or used as journaling spots. Details of your travels or pictures can be added to the tags to complete the journal. Each of the tags received a spray and ink treatment to grunge them up, and a stamped travel image to finish it off.

The journal is now ready for your next trip!

Kit products used: Worn book cover, film strip, metal bits, ink and spray, designer paper, die cuts.