Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Blossoms

Spring has sprung in Washington DC. My hubbie and I took the boys to the Tidal Basin on Good Friday to see the beautiful showing of the cherry blossoms.

It was a gorgeous day, and a bit crowded, but we got there early and left  the city before the crowds became too maddening.

I have already started a book using Basic Grey's Kioshi papers, Prima cherry blossoms and the chop sticks I kept from lunch at the Cherry Blossom festival.
Stay tuned!

Thursday, April 1, 2010

New Photo Journal Class in May - Turtle Dreams

It's a go!  I will be teaching a class at Scrapbooks-Plus on how to make this very special "Turtle Journal".  Class is scheduled for Saturday May 15 from 10am til 4pm. The journal includes 4 signatures and holds over 50 photos.  For the front cover you will get a reproduction of my turtle watercolor and a gilded shell that I brought back from the BVI.  Inside are more than a dozen pages, pockets and tags for photo and memories,.
 You'll receive flocked yellow letters to personalize your book any way you'd like. 

I've included some very cute ephemra that I brought back with me to make some very cool pages like these beautiful hibiscus stamps and a card-map of the Carribean islands that can be used as a mat for a photo or for journaling.
We'll stitch some flowers and also hand make this very cool cloth fish that will cover a plastic CD case that will hold two CDs of movies or pictures from your trip.

Trust me - there is a CD case behind this that opens up within the book.
This is one of my favorite pages.  I found this shell on the beach - you'll have to replace it with one of your own since I only found one!

I am pricing the class at $50.  Again, I will be donating all my instructor fees to a good cause - this time it is the Carribean Conservation Corporation - which is 100% dedicated to the protection of Sea Turtles.  What better cause for a Turtle Journal!