More is More

I wanted to take a minute to share the rest of my class projects from Friday night since my Club members like to have them up on my blog for reference.  I often CASE (Copy And Share Everything) projects for class – almost always tweaking them somewhat.  I so appreciate everyone that takes the time to share projects and I try to ackowledge the people who inspire me as often as I can.

Resources for the following projects came from:

Cambria Turnbow (her awesome box in a bag tutorial was a huge help!) via Diana Gibbs, Judy Miller and her friend Jeannie (everything is a chain in stamping!  LOL! Always hard to find the first origin!)

Valerie Stangle (so cool that she took the time to figure out the measurements for a smaller version)

Jodi Collins/Kharmagirl (I loved her card when I saw it and knew I could adapt it for class!)

So the larger bag (5.5″ tall) is the one my club members made in class – using different papers from the SU Ghostly Greetings Collection.  I did switch out Basic Gray cs for the black you see in the photo as I decided I liked it better with most of the paper patterns. This is a fun and easy class project and could work for any season or holiday.  It would actually make a great gift card holder with some shred and candy tucked in with the GC.  The tiny bag was stuffed full of ribbon samples and was part of a drawing prize I gave during class.  It’s really teensy-tiny and oh so CUTE!

And here’s the card I adapted from Jodi’s card linked above.  I simplified it to make it very do-able in class.  Of course her version is my fave – ’cause after all More IS More!  But I think this one is quite darling as well.  I just love Humor in High Heels and that Georgia Peach paper!

So here’s my challenge to you.  Go find a really WOW! card.  One that looks perhaps too detailed or complicated or intimidating to you and analyze what elements are totally necessary to keep the design and what elements might be changed to simplify and make the simple version.  You might go looking in the new Dirty Dozen gallery for example.  I think especially those of us who are Demonstrators get too caught up sometimes in trying to find *simple* ideas we can use for classes when we can often take a *complicated” card we love and make it do-able.

Thanks for stopping by.  I have a super busy week ahead, how about you?  I have lots to share though so I hope to get the time to post several times this week.  See you again soon.