Introducing Sheila and Claudine!

Here's round three of our introductions!!

Sheila Bartlett
Hi my name is Sheila Bartlett and I live in Southern Ontario, Canada. I have been married to the love of my life for 40 years. He is supportive of all my crafts which help me keep my sanity. I have tried quite a few in my day. The ones I have stuck with are creating greeting cards with rubber stamps and all that is associated with that, stained glass, knitting, and crocheting. I have been creating greeting cards for 25 years or there about. I find it so relaxing at the end of a busy day since i am a secretary in a fast pace medical office. I hope you enjoy my cards.

Sheila's Card!
She used the England World Doll Set.

Claudine Poch

My name is Claudine Poch. I live in Ohio in the United States with my husband, son, and cats. I have been doing crafts almost my whole life, and paper crafts for about five years. I enjoy making cards, particularly those that contain “critters”, such as cats and dogs. Most of my cards are sold to benefit the no-kill animal shelter where I volunteer. I am currently serving on a few other design teams and am excited to be a part of the new Class Act Design Team.

Claudine's Card!

She also used the Class Act England World Doll Set.

Great job, ladies!!

Introducing Dawn and Donna!

Here is round 2 of our Design Team Introductions!

Dawn Bennett
Hi, my name is Dawn and I live in York, PA with my wonderful husband of 19 years and three wonderful children - my son is 18 and my two daughters 16 and 12 and our furry zoo!

My crafting started when my neighbor dragged me to a scrapbooking weekend about 4 1/2 years ago. After that I was hooked. I still work on my scrapbooks, but stamping and card making seems to be my thing right now. I only use Copics to bring my images to life and I hope my creations will inspire people and I hope to make many new friends along the way. I am thrilled to have been asked to join Class Act's Design Team! Thanks so much for this opportunity.

This is a sample of Dawn's Work!

I used the Japanese doll and embossed her in black on some gold lustre bazzill cardstock and then I took the accessories, mainly the hair pieces and stamped them randomly onto black cardstock and embossed them with gold embossing powder.

Then used my spellbinders label14 to cut out the doll and used spellbinder fancy tags to cut out the sentiment which was also stamped onto the gold bazzill and embossed in black

Then just used some of my ribbon for a bow.

Donna Duquette

Hi, my name is Donna Duquette and I'm thrilled to be a part of the Class Act design team. I live in the U.S. in a quiet little town in northern Connecticut. When my husband, Dave, decided to retire last year, we decided that I would take an early retirement so that we could both retirement together. I'm still pinching myself!

I've been involved with all sorts of art and crafts for as long as I can remember. I started stamping about 12 years ago so it's actually one of my newer hobbies. At first, I found stamping enjoyable because I could create little works of art without knowing how to draw. A couple of years ago, though, I decided to finally learn to draw. Today, I love to draw and paint, but I still enjoy rubber stamping. My own artwork is usually detailed and realistic, but with rubber stamps, I can work with images of any style and experiment with new techniques.

Here is a sample of Donna's Work!

Welcome to the team, gals!!

Introducing Suzanne and Barbara!

Hi everyone!
It's getting that that time where we want to formally introduce our design team members!

Suzanne Czosek

Suzanne Czosek currently lives in Northern Illinois with her husband, three children and two dogs. She works full time as a project manager. Suzanne has been stamping for the last 5 to 6 years and currently designs for several teams and teaches classes at her local stamp store.
You'll find Suzanne's work published in Carts N Things, Just Cards and Stampington Publications.






This is a sample of Suzanne's work!

These are the instructions to make the card:
Stamped two times using StaZon on acetate.

Cut frame from 5 x 7 white cardstock.

Stamp sentiment using StaZon on frame.

Cut out second set of butterflies. Pop Dot and fold. Accent with gems.







Barbara Washington

My name is Barbara Washington, but you often see me signed as Barbara W.

I'm the mother of two wonderful grown daughters and the grandmother of two delightful grandchildren. I've lived in the windy city, ie Chicago all of my life.

I'm a retired College librarian.

Crafting has always been a part of my life, but I discovered stamping about fifteen years ago. Since then this fun activity has turned into a real passion. My style is somewhat eclectic. I love trying new techniques, trying new color combinations and love using texture. Cards are my usual creations, but I also love tags, atc's, 4x4's, dimensional projects, making books, and so on.

The beautiful thing about this art world is that we can share and learn from each other.


This is a sample of Barbara's Work!

These are the instructions to make the card:

The background uses the Butterfly Background stamp.

It was stamped using the Tissued Color technique from the latest issue of Technique Junkies.

Apply the ink to the stamp using tissue paper, the stamped image has a softer, distressed look to it.

I used Adirondack inks in salmon, stonewashed, and eggplant.

The focal image and its background were stamped with stamps from the Angle Butterfly set.

First stamp the butterfly and masked it.

Then stamp the butterfly words at an angle (so they were straight behind the butterfly) over the masked image.

The butterfly was colored with a yellow ochre Copic marker and the words were stamped with cloudy blue.

The center was die cut with Spellbinders label nine.

The sentiment was a stamp from Butterfly Square.

Welcome to the Class Act/Chapel Road Team, Ladies! :)

Winter Contest Winner!

Hi All!
I was meaning to post this yesterday...but I had some very uncool things happen over the weekend. If any of you remember our Remembrance Day contest, I had my chinchilla, Kiki, choose our winner...well, she died very tragically on Saturday after I had her at the vet's office for 2 hours. So, needless to say, I have been a very upset blogger. R.I.P. Sweet Kiki: Mommy misses you!

But, better late than never!
We had three entries this month:




This card was created by Cindy Baker! She used the Class Act tree (I can't find it on the site right now...figures!) and the Class Act Chickadees! I can't get enough of the paper tearing technique :)











Next up is Sue Allen! Since she sent me a little "how-to" I'm going to paste it here for you!
"The technique is called dryer sheet. Stamps by Class Act [Each Snowflake; Splat Snowflake; Small Snowflake], border punch by Martha Stewart. The snowflakes and greeting are stamped first. Then the entire piece is covered with glue stick and a used dryer sheet is placed on the top and pressed well down. While still wet glitter (also Class Act) is sprinkles over the top then left to dry. Once dry put the card together and add embellishments."
Thanks for that, Sue! Makes my job easier hehe! I also LOVE those stamps!








Last but not least is Pat Moore, a first-time contest participant! Wahoooo! Here, Pat used a very pretty photo, and stamped the Class Act Polar Bear on it! hehe...cute! Just adds that finishing touch :)








Now, now, now...for this contest I just put names on a piece of paper and put them in a box! 33.33333333333% chance ladies!!!
Soooo...the picked paper saysssss....Pat Moore!! Congrats, Pat! Please send us your mailing address and we'll be sending some prize rubber your way!

For future reference, anyone on the Chapel Road or Class Act Design Team is more than welcome to submit cards, however they will not be entered to win prizes! I leave prizes to my Bloggers :-)

Has anyone checked out the World Dolls? What do you think? We're considering bringing out more!

Thanks everyone! I will be posting a new contest in the next little while!

Yours Truly,
Raychel

hehehe...

While the cat is away, the mice will play!

Since Carol has abandoned me, again, to go on a oh-so-wonderful cruise...my form of payback is to have a large amount of orders for when she gets back that she has to ship out. Those sun-soaking, dolphin playing, margarita drinking days will be LONG gone when she gets her tanned butt back to all the snow!

SO! Here's the deal. 10% off of any orders that come in between today and Saturday night at 9pm! Let's make her wish she never left me here at home, unmanned at the computer with all of the admin stuff to do...hehehe *evil grin*

The promo code is "cruise"

I want her to WORK when she gets home!!! muahahaha

Remember to get those cards for the contest in!!

Announcing Our Design Team!

After all of the anticipation we are going to release the names of those who were chosen to be part of the Class Act and Chapel Road Design Team! Thank you to all of those who applied; the decisions were not easy by any means!

So, after much deliberation...

Chapel Road Design Team
Barbara Washington
Gini Williams
Holly Brown
Suzanne Czosek
and Chelsea Barnes, who is also our DT coordinator!

Class Act Design Team
Claudine Poch
Dawn Bennett
Donna Duquette
Sheila Bartlett
and Chelsea Barnes

Sue Allen has also been promoted to being my own personal Blog Assistant! Yay!! She'll help me keep this blog hoppin' with fun ideas and crafty creations!

One of the tasks of the Design Team is to send in a biography along with a picture so that we get a glimpse into the life of each and every individual, along with their artistic flare!

Congratulations, Ladies! And special thanks to Chelsea who helped Carol put all of this together in a short period of time!

Thanks so much everyone!
Your Class Act Insider

P.S. DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE CONTEST THAT CLOSES NEXT WEEKEND! Get your projects in! :-)

Call Out for a Design Team!

Hi everyone!

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
I'm at it again, since work has calmed down and I'm not working 14 days straight! Woohoo, life, I missed you!

I have some very exciting news for all of you! And since you're my fabulous bloggers, like always, you get the scoop before anyone else! Class Act and Chapel Road is now accepting applications for a design team! There will be a seperate design team for each company. If you are interested, please contact Carol directly at sales@classact.ca with a Subject Heading of "Design Team" for more information and she'll tell you everything you need to know about expectations and the application process! We are looking for 4 designers per company! The deadline for the completed application is January 17th, 2011. Members who are chosen to be on the team will be notified no later than January 20th, 2011.

On another note, it's a new year, so let's get a fresh start on this contest-thang!
The current theme is going to be "Winter," so pull out all of your blues, whites, snowflakes, and whatever else you have and let's see what you got! Remember, you must use either a Class Act or Chapel Road stamp. Contest deadline is January 30th, 2011. There are many stamps available on our website at http://classact.ca that you could get crafty with. Winner will receive a free stamp!

Speaking of which, we have put up some new stamps and accessories on the site! Personally, and I am a little biased here since I picked it out, but we have some kick-butt cardstock now! The website pictures don't really do it justice...but the glitter paper is fabulous! Each 8 1/2" x 11" piece is only $0.49! Find it here.

We're also working on putting a bunch of cute embellishments on the site for awesome prices :-) None of this Michael's need-a-40%-off-coupon business.

Anyways, I think that is all to update on now! Hope all is well with everyone and to hear from you soon!

Raychel