A Fun-Filled Fabulous Friday!!!

....It's another gorgeous day here, a bit cooler than our record-breaking 80's yesterday, but still much like a Summer Day.  I'm wearing one of my favorite Summer sun-dresses and flip-flops, which is how I Love to dress!!  So casual, comfy and I've also started to 'self tan' to get the nice Summer Glow.  Oh, how I LOVE Summer and wish this weather was here to stay.  Unfortunately, Spring and more seasonable temps are coming back soon, but this week has truly been wonderful!!

   I'm totally enjoying Day 5 - of Creative Chemistry and today I have some new tags to share.   These are some of my favorites and I totally enjoyed what Tim shared with us today.  One of my all time favorite new products are the Dylusion Sprays and I feel in love after seeing Dyan's demo in a video I had admired on Your Tube.  I'm especially excited because she will be coming to my LSS (Absolutely Everything) in July to teach for a full weekend and I can't wit to sing up for her class.  Oh and for those of you who LOVE Tim and love this class, he is also coming to AE to teach a weekend of classes the Weekend of May 19-20th!!  You can sign up for the AE Newsletter to keep up with the workshop plans and that way you'll know when you can call or visit the store to sign up for the classes.  Go HERE for to subscribe!!   I will be away that weekend attending another awesome craft event, so that's kind of a bummer, but I'm really thrilled that I have had this class and also took a class with Tim when he was here the last time!!

  Today in class we working with variety of Distress Stains, Spray Mists (Dylusions/Color Wash) and also with Kraft Resist cardstock, all products I know and love.  The best part is that I was able to create my own takes on each of the techniques we learned and I'm here to share my tags with you know.  As I mentioned previously, I am sharing only my projects as all the classroom PDF's, Projects, Galleries, Student Discounts and Videos are copyright protected and are for use by those who take the class only!!   I totally respect all artists and would NEVER share and protected data, stamps or images etc.

   These first two tags were very fun and super easy to color.  I simply broke out my new Dylusion Sprays and misted the manila tags until I have them all colored in a these awesome Vibrant color.  One of the thing I love most about these is how gorgeous and bright the colors are!   I have to admit, that I bought the entire set, when they first came in at AE.  I knew they would be a huge hit and I wanted to be sure I got them all!  If you LOVE bright colors, you'll LOVE these!   NOTE:   I also combined in some Perfect Pearls mist and basically used that as my bottom layer to get the tag really wet and add the extra bit of shimmer!!

   My next tag was created by using a variety of Distress Inks and Stains along with Kraft Resist cardstock, which is a product that Ranger makes, if you have never heard of it.

 And the next tag is one of my favorites and this was created with Distress Stains on a Kraft Colored Tag.   I really love this technique and it's one I have learned before from taking technique classes at AE.  This time I used totally different colors and Stamps that I had not used in ages, many are from Fancy Pants.

   And last is this fun tag which features another really cool technique again using Distress Stains, this time adding in a lot of the White Picket Fence, for it's own unique look.   The stamps I used on this card are also from Fancy Pants.  I added on some buttons, a flower, butterfly and some baker's twine to make this more of a embellished tag.  I really had fun with this one!!

   This is one last photo of the three tags I put together today and each of them were inspired by things we learned in today's class!

  And now I am off to work on more Wedding plans and very happy to think I have my Rehearsal Dinner Restaurant picked out and the basic details are very close to being completed.   The restaurant I've been talking with most, has been really great to deal with and they are very willing to work with whatever we all want and to make it a special night for all!  Right now, I'm 99% sure, I'll be hosting it with them and it looks like we'll have 30 people at the Dinner!!  I think it'll be a fun night and I'm very excited!!    My next task with be to start to look for my dress and I'm sure that will take me awhile and I'm not even sure of what color I want to look for.  Luckily, Meghan will be getting together shortly with her bridesmaids and hopefully make their color choice, and I do hope to try and tie in with them and Colleen, Meg's Mom!!

  Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!  I know I will and I'm also looking forward to working on more projects with all the inspiration from this awesome class!!   Yippee!!