Monday, November 25, 2013

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

So there are officially only 30 more sleeps left till Christmas!
The reason I know this so specifically is I have a Christmas countdown app on my phone!
I am slightly obsessed with this time of the year, and I literally wait all year for it!
Saying that, I have already taught three Christmas classes in the past month.
Usually, I only teach one as we have a couple of teachers who do different classes, but last year I designed a Christmas printers tray and everyone kept asking me to teach it!
I cant believe so many ladies love it so much, but its really flattering and I've had so much fun teaching them. They have done some absolutely beautiful printers trays and I must say that I'm super impressed with everyone who attended! We had traditional colours, white and silver, music themed, handmade nativity scenes, countdowns and so much more!
Its been so inspirational to see all of this! I am busy working on a second one for myself, a white and silver, with a touch of gold printers tray, but I am definitely the slowest scrapper, I take so much time as it has to be perfect! Can you tell that I'm a bit obsessed???

Here is my printers tray that I have been teaching this year, I hope it inspires you to give it a try:)

The finished tray is 11x11 inches so its the perfect size to display on your mantle or side board. I forgot to switch them on for the picture, but the lights on the tree work! Super cute!

Have a fabulously crafty day!
Love Cas

Monday, November 11, 2013

My first BIG class!

A couple of months ago I was asked if I would like to be a guest teacher at Jenny Spicer's I-Scrap convention. I was very nervous about this as there would be 50 ladies attending the event and I had never taught so many ladies at once. After some thought and careful consideration I decided to just go for it. I am so glad that I did! It was fantastic! I had such a great time teaching the ladies and they seemed to have a great time doing their layouts.
It was a super fast paced class as I had designed THREE layouts to do in the three hours!
I was very impressed with what the ladies all did!
I used the Teresa Collins Memorabilia range which is absolutely stunning!

Here are the three layouts that I designed.


Explore was the first one I taught. It included a flap on the left side of the page and was all about my time in Paris.


Love the Moment was the second layout I did, it was more of a free flowing, collage style layout.


The last layout I did was a single page using lots of the die cuts that I had left over.

It was super fun teaching my first BIG class!

Have a wonderful week everyone!

Love Cas